Integrating Content Search with Structure Analysis for Hypermedia Retrieval and Management

Hypertext and hypermedia have emerged as primary means for structuring documents and for accessing the Web. It has two aspects: content and structural information. It is believed that integration of content search with structure analysis can improve hypermedia document retrieval and management; consequently increasing information utilization. This research topic has emerged as a main focus of many recent conferences and research communities, including computer-human interface, information retrieval, hypertext, databases, and Web. In this paper, we summarize the state-of-the-art techniques and functionalities of integrating content search with structure analysis for Web documents retrieval and management. Categories and Subject Descriptors: H.3.1 Information storage and retrieval Content Analysis and Indexing. [Abstracting methods] H.3.3 Information storage and retrieval Information Search and Retrieval [Information filtering].