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This paper describes the official measures of retrieval effectiveness employed at the ad hoc track of INEX 2006.

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Lalmas, M., Kazai, G., Kamps, J., Pehcevski, J., Piwowarski, B., Robertson, S. (2007). INEX 2006 Evaluation Measures. In: Fuhr, N., Lalmas, M., Trotman, A. (eds) Comparative Evaluation of XML Information Retrieval Systems. INEX 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4518. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73888-6_3

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