Advances in Focused Retrieval

1. Front Matter

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2. Ad Hoc Track

   1. Overview of the INEX 2008 Ad Hoc Track

      • Jaap Kamps, Shlomo Geva, Andrew Trotman, Alan Woodley, Marijn Koolen

      Pages 1-28

   2. Experiments with Proximity-Aware Scoring for XML Retrieval at INEX 2008

      • Andreas Broschart, Ralf Schenkel, Martin Theobald

      Pages 29-32

   3. Finding Good Elements for Focused Retrieval

      • Carolyn J. Crouch, Donald B. Crouch, Salil Bapat, Sarika Mehta, Darshan Paranjape

      Pages 33-38

   4. New Utility Models for the Garnata Information Retrieval System at INEX’08

      • Luis M. de Campos, Juan M. Fernández-Luna, Juan F. Huete, Carlos Martín-Dancausa, Alfonso E. Romero

      Pages 39-45

   5. UJM at INEX 2008: Pre-impacting of Tags Weights

      • Mathias Géry, Christine Largeron, Franck Thollard

      Pages 46-53

   6. Use of Multiword Terms and Query Expansion for Interactive Information Retrieval

      • Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, Eric SanJuan

      Pages 54-64

   7. Enhancing Keyword Search with a Keyphrase Index

      • Miro Lehtonen, Antoine Doucet

      Pages 65-70

   8. CADIAL Search Engine at INEX

      • Jure Mijić, Marie-Francine Moens, Bojana Dalbelo Bašić

      Pages 71-78

   9. Indian Statistical Institute at INEX 2008 Adhoc Track

      • Sukomal Pal, Mandar Mitra, Debasis Ganguly, Samaresh Maiti, Ayan Bandyopadhyay, Aparajita Sen et al.

      Pages 79-86

   10. Using Collectionlinks and Documents as Context for INEX 2008

       • Delphine Verbyst, Philippe Mulhem

       Pages 87-96

   11. SPIRIX: A Peer-to-Peer Search Engine for XML-Retrieval

       • Judith Winter, Oswald Drobnik

       Pages 97-105

3. Book Track

   1. Overview of the INEX 2008 Book Track

      • Gabriella Kazai, Antoine Doucet, Monica Landoni

      Pages 106-123

   2. XRCE Participation to the Book Structure Task

      • Hervé Déjean, Jean-Luc Meunier

      Pages 124-131

   3. University of Waterloo at INEX 2008: Adhoc, Book, and Link-the-Wiki Tracks

      • Kelly Y. Itakura, Charles L. A. Clarke

      Pages 132-139

   4. The Impact of Document Level Ranking on Focused Retrieval

      • Jaap Kamps, Marijn Koolen

      Pages 140-151

   5. Adhoc and Book XML Retrieval with Cheshire

      • Ray R. Larson

      Pages 152-163

   6. Book Layout Analysis: TOC Structure Extraction Engine

      • Bodin Dresevic, Aleksandar Uzelac, Bogdan Radakovic, Nikola Todic

      Pages 164-171

   7. The Impact of Query Length and Document Length on Book Search Effectiveness

      • Mingfang Wu, Falk Scholer, James A. Thom

      Pages 172-178

4. Efficiency Track

   1. Overview of the INEX 2008 Efficiency Track

      • Martin Theobald, Ralf Schenkel

      Pages 179-191

I write with pleasurethis forewordto the proceedings of the 7th workshopof the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX). The increased adoption of XML as the standard for representing a document structure has led to the development of retrieval systems that are aimed at e?ectively accessing XML documents. Providing e?ective access to large collections of XML documents is therefore a key issue for the success of these systems. INEX aims to provide the necessary methodological means and worldwide infrastructures for evaluating how good XML retrieval systems are. Since its launch in 2002, INEX has grown both in terms of number of p- ticipants and its coverage of the investigated retrieval tasks and scenarios. In 2002, INEX started with 49 registered participating organizations, whereas this number was more than 100 for 2008. In 2002, there was one main track, c- cerned with the ad hoc retrieval task, whereas in 2008, seven tracks in addition to the main ad hoc track were investigated, looking at various aspects of XML retrieval, from book search to entity ranking, including interaction aspects.

• Proximity
• Suchmaschinen
• XML mining
• XML-Retrieval
• classification
• data mining
• information retrieval
• knowledge discovery
• large sets
• p2p search
• performance evaluation
• similarity detection
• solf organizing
• xml retrieval
• data structures

• Faculty of Science and Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Brisband, Australia

  Shlomo Geva

• Archives and Information Studies/Humanities, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Jaap Kamps

• Department of Computer Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

  Andrew Trotman

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