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1000-9825/2003/14(05)0976 ©2003 Journal of Software 软 件 学 报 Vol.14, No.5 ∗ 一种通过内容和结构查询文档数据库的方法 1+ 2 1 2 1 王晓玲 , 文继荣 , 栾金锋 , 马维英 , 董逸生 1(东南大学计算机科学与工程系,江苏 南京 210096) 2(微软亚洲研究院,北京 100080) A Method to Query Document Database by Content and Structure 1+ 2 1 2 1 WANG Xiao-Ling , WEN Ji-Rong , LUAN Jin-Feng , MA Wei-Ying , DONG Yi-Sheng 1(Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China) 2(Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing 100080, China) + Corresponding author: Phn: 86-25-6896725, E-mail: wxling@ Received 2002-04-04; Accepted 2002-10-17 Wang XL, Wen JR, Luan JF, Ma WY, Dong YS. A method to query document database by content and structure. Journal of Software, 2003,14(5):976~983. /1000-9825/14/976.htm Abstract: Structured documents are made up of a few logical components, such as title, sections, subsections and paragraphs. The components in each structured document can be represented by an ordered tree model, which can also be viewed as a hierarchical concept relationship. To meet the user ’s requirements for more precise and concentrated search results, the retrieval techniques should allow the user to retrieve document components with varying granularity. This paper presents a method to query document database by content and structure. The key idea is to construct a more comprehensive similarity function by taki