The ultimate goal of many information access systems (e.g., digital libraries, the Web, intranets) is to provide the right content to their end-users. This content is increasingly a mixture of text, multimedia, and metadata, and is formatted according to the adopted –W3C standard for information repositories, the so-called eXtensible Markup L- guage (XML). Whereas many of today’s information access systems still treat do- ments as single large (text) blocks, XML offers the opportunity to exploit the internal structure of documents in order to allow for more precise access thus providing more specific answers to user requests. Providing effective access to XML-based content is therefore a key issue for the success of these systems. The aim of the INEX campaign (Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval), which was set up at the beginning of 2002, is to establish infrastructures, XML test suites, and appropriate measurements for evaluating the performance of information retrieval systems that aim at giving effective access to XML content. More precisely, the goal of the INEX initiative is to provide means, in the form of a large XML test collection and appropriate scoring methods, for the evaluation of content-oriented XML retrieval systems.
Author(s): Saadia Malik, Mounia Lalmas, Norbert Fuhr (auth.), Norbert Fuhr, Mounia Lalmas, Saadia Malik, Zoltán Szlávik (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3493 : Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 440
Tags: Information Storage and Retrieval; Database Management; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
Front Matter....Pages -
Overview of INEX 2004....Pages 1-15
Narrowed Extended XPath I (NEXI)....Pages 16-40
NEXI, Now and Next....Pages 41-53
If INEX Is the Answer, What Is the Question?....Pages 54-59
Reliability Tests for the XCG and inex-2002 Metrics....Pages 60-72
Component Ranking and Automatic Query Refinement for XML Retrieval....Pages 73-84
MultiText Experiments for INEX 2004....Pages 85-87
Logic-Based XML Information Retrieval for Determining the Best Element to Retrieve....Pages 88-99
An Algebra for Structured Queries in Bayesian Networks....Pages 100-112
IR of XML Documents – A Collective Ranking Strategy....Pages 113-126
TRIX 2004 – Struggling with the Overlap....Pages 127-139
The Utrecht Blend: Basic Ingredients for an XML Retrieval System....Pages 140-152
Hybrid XML Retrieval Revisited....Pages 153-167
Analyzing the Properties of XML Fragments Decomposed from the INEX Document Collection....Pages 168-182
A Voting Method for XML Retrieval....Pages 183-195
Mixture Models, Overlap, and Structural Hints in XML Element Retrieval....Pages 196-210
GPX – Gardens Point XML Information Retrieval at INEX 2004....Pages 211-223
Hierarchical Language Models for XML Component Retrieval....Pages 224-237
Ranked Retrieval of Structured Documents with the S-Term Vector Space Model....Pages 238-252
Merging XML Indices....Pages 253-260
DocBase – The INEX Evaluation Experience....Pages 261-275
TIJAH at INEX 2004 Modeling Phrases and Relevance Feedback....Pages 276-291
Flexible Retrieval Based on the Vector Space Model....Pages 292-302
Relevance Feedback for XML Retrieval....Pages 303-310
A Universal Model for XML Information Retrieval....Pages 311-321
Cheshire II at INEX ’04: Fusion and Feedback for the Adhoc and Heterogeneous Tracks....Pages 322-336
Using a Relevance Propagation Method for Adhoc and Heterogeneous Tracks at INEX 2004....Pages 337-348
Building and Experimenting with a Heterogeneous Collection....Pages 349-357
A Test Platform for the INEX Heterogeneous Track....Pages 358-371
EXTIRP 2004: Towards Heterogeneity....Pages 372-381
NLPX at INEX 2004....Pages 382-394
Analysing Natural Language Queries at INEX 2004....Pages 395-409
The Interactive Track at INEX 2004....Pages 410-423
Interactive Searching Behavior with Structured XML Documents....Pages 424-436
Back Matter....Pages -
