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From Natural Language to NEXI, an Interface for INEX 2005 Queries

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Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation (INEX 2005)

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Offering the possibility to query any XML retrieval system in natural language would be very helpful to a lot of users. In 2005, INEX proposed a framework to participants that wanted to implement a natural language interface for the retrieval of XML documents, independantly of the search engine. This paper describes our contribution to this project and presents some opinions concerning the task.

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  1. École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, 158 Cours Fauriel, F-42023, Saint-Etienne, France

    Xavier Tannier

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  1. University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

    Norbert Fuhr

  2. Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK

    Mounia Lalmas

  3. University Duisburg-Essen, Germany

    Saadia Malik

  4. Microsoft Research Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Gabriella Kazai

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Tannier, X. (2006). From Natural Language to NEXI, an Interface for INEX 2005 Queries. In: Fuhr, N., Lalmas, M., Malik, S., Kazai, G. (eds) Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation. INEX 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3977. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-34963-1_28

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