Comparative Evaluation of Focused Retrieval

Comparative Evaluation of Focused Retrieval
Author: Shlomo Geva
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2011-08-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642235778

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 9th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2009, held in Vught, The Netherlands, in December 2009. The aim of the INEX 2010 workshop was to bring together researchers in the field of XML IR who participated in the INEX 2010 campaign. During the past year, participating organizations contributed to the building of large-scale XML test collections by creating topics, performing retrieval runs and providing relevance assessments. The workshop concluded the results of this large-scale effort, summarized and addressed issues encountered, and devised a work plan for the future evaluation of XML retrieval systems. The 37 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions; they are organized into sections corresponding to the nine tracks of the workshop, investigating various aspects of XML retrieval, from book search to entity.

Focused Retrieval and Evaluation

Focused Retrieval and Evaluation
Author: Shlomo Geva
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2010-07-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642145558

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 8th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2009, held in Brisbane, Australia, in December 2009. The aim of the INEX 2009 workshop was to bring together researchers in the field of XML IR who participated in the INEX 2009 campaign. During the past year, participating organizations contributed to the building of large-scale XML test collections by creating topics, performing retrieval runs and providing relevance assessments. The workshop concluded the results of this effort, summarized and addressed issues encountered, and devised a work plan for the future evaluation of XML retrieval systems. The 42 full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. They have been divided into sections according to the eight tracks of the workshop, investigating various aspects of XML retrieval, from book search to entity

XML Retrieval

XML Retrieval
Author: Mounia Lalmas
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2009
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1598297864

Documents usually have a content and a structure. The content refers to the text of the document, whereas the structure refers to how a document is logically organized. An increasingly common way to encode the structure is through the use of a mark-up language. Nowadays, the most widely used mark-up language for representing structure is the eXtensible Mark-up Language (XML). XML can be used to provide a focused access to documents, i.e. returning XML elements, such as sections and paragraphs, instead of whole documents in response to a query. Such focused strategies are of particular benefit for information repositories containing long documents, or documents covering a wide variety of topics, where users are directed to the most relevant content within a document. The increased adoption of XML to represent a document structure requires the development of tools to effectively access documents marked-up in XML. This book provides a detailed description of query languages, indexing strategies, ranking algorithms, presentation scenarios developed to access XML documents. Major advances in XML retrival were seen from 2002 as a result of INEX, the Initiative for Evaluation of XML Retrieval. INEX, also described in this book, provided test sets for evaluating XML retrieval effectiveness. Many of the developments and results described in this book were investigated within INEX. Table of Contents: Introduction / Basic XML Concepts / Historical Perspectives / Query Languages / Indexing Strategies / Ranking Strategies / Presentation strategies / Evaluating XML Retrieval Effectiveness / Conclusions

Comparative Evaluation of XML Information Retrieval Systems

Comparative Evaluation of XML Information Retrieval Systems
Author: Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (Project). International Workshop
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2007-08-22
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540738878

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2006, held at Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in December 2006. The papers are organized in topical sections on methodology and seven additional tracks on ad-hoc, natural language processing, heterogeneous collection, multimedia, interactive, use case, as well as document mining.

Focused Retrieval of Content and Structure

Focused Retrieval of Content and Structure
Author: Shlomo Geva
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2012-12-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642357342

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 10th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2011, held in Saarbrücken, Germany, in December 2011. The 33 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation at the workshop from 36 submissions. The papers are organized in 5 research tracks on book and social search, Xdata centric, question answering, relevance feedback, and snippet retrieval.

Focused Access to XML Documents

Focused Access to XML Documents
Author: Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (Project). International Workshop
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2008-08-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540859012

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2007, held at Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in December 2007. The 37 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation at the workshop from 50 initial submissions. The papers are organized in an ad hoc track and 6 topical sections on book search, XML-mining, entity ranking, interactive, link-the-wiki, and multimedia.

Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation

Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation
Author: Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (Project). International Workshop
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 567
Release: 2006-06-27
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540349626

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2005, held at Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in November 2005. The book presents 41 revised full papers, organized in topical sections on methodology, multiple retrieval, ad-hoc retrieval, relevance feedback, natural language queries, and more heterogeneous retrieval, interactive retrieval, document mining, and multimedia retrieval.

Introduction to Information Retrieval

Introduction to Information Retrieval
Author: Christopher D. Manning
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2008-07-07
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1139472100

Class-tested and coherent, this textbook teaches classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering from basic concepts. It gives an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering, indexing, and searching documents; methods for evaluating systems; and an introduction to the use of machine learning methods on text collections. All the important ideas are explained using examples and figures, making it perfect for introductory courses in information retrieval for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in computer science. Based on feedback from extensive classroom experience, the book has been carefully structured in order to make teaching more natural and effective. Slides and additional exercises (with solutions for lecturers) are also available through the book's supporting website to help course instructors prepare their lectures.

Advances in Focused Retrieval

Advances in Focused Retrieval
Author: Shlomo Geva
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2009-09-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642037615

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.