Overview of the INEX 2009 Book Track

  • Gabriella Kazai
  • Antoine Doucet
  • Marijn Koolen
  • Monica Landoni
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 6203)

Abstract

The goal of the INEX 2009 Book Track is to evaluate approaches for supporting users in reading, searching, and navigating the full texts of digitized books. The investigation is focused around four tasks: 1) the Book Retrieval task aims at comparing traditional and book-specific retrieval approaches, 2) the Focused Book Search task evaluates focused retrieval approaches for searching books, 3) the Structure Extraction task tests automatic techniques for deriving structure from OCR and layout information, and 4) the Active Reading task aims to explore suitable user interfaces for eBooks enabling reading, annotation, review, and summary across multiple books. We report on the setup and the results of the track.

Keywords

Relevance Assessment Structure Extraction Suitable User Interface Page Level Relevant Book 
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. 1.
    Coyle, K.: Mass digitization of books. Journal of Academic Librarianship 32(6), 641–645 (2006)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  2. 2.
    Doucet, A., Kazai, G., Dresevic, B., Uzelac, A., Radakovic, B., Todic, N.: ICDAR 2009 Book Structure Extraction Competition. In: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2009), Barcelona, Spain, July 2009, pp. 1408–1412 (2009)Google Scholar
  3. 3.
    Kantor, P., Kazai, G., Milic-Frayling, N., Wilkinson, R. (eds.): BooksOnline ’08: Proceeding of the 2008 ACM workshop on Research advances in large digital book repositories. ACM, New York (2008)Google Scholar
  4. 4.
    Kazai, G., Milic-Frayling, N., Costello, J.: Towards methods for the collective gathering and quality control of relevance assessments. In: SIGIR ’09: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. ACM Press, New York (2009)Google Scholar
  5. 5.
    Uzelac, A., Dresevic, B., Radakovic, B., Todic, N.: Book layout analysis: TOC structure extraction engine. In: Geva, S., Kamps, J., Trotman, A. (eds.) INEX 2008. LNCS, vol. 5631, pp. 164–171. Springer, Heidelberg (2009)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  6. 6.
    Wilson, R., Landoni, M., Gibb, F.: The web experiments in electronic textbook design. Journal of Documentation 59(4), 454–477 (2003)CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Copyright information

© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010

Authors and Affiliations

  • Gabriella Kazai
    • 1
  • Antoine Doucet
    • 2
  • Marijn Koolen
    • 3
  • Monica Landoni
    • 4
  1. 1.Microsoft ResearchUnited Kingdom
  2. 2.University of CaenFrance
  3. 3.University of AmsterdamNetherlands
  4. 4.University of LuganoSwitzerland

Personalised recommendations