Integrating content search with structure analysis for hypermedia retrieval and management

Hypertext and hypermedia have emerged as primary means for structuring docu ments and for accessing the Web. It has two aspects: content and structural information. It is believed that integration of content search with struct ure analysis can improve hypermedia document retrieval and management; cons equently increasing information utilization. This research topic has emerge d as a main focus of many recent conferences and research communities, incl uding 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 W eb documents retrieval and management.