Focused Retrieval and Evaluation 8th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2009, Brisbane, Australia, December 7-9, 2009, Revised and Selected Papers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Geva, Shlomo. (Editor), Kamps, Jaap. (Editor), Trotman, Andrew. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6203
• Subjects: Computer science.; Data structures (Computer science).; Database management.; Data mining.; Information storage and retrieval systems.; Information systems.; Computer Science.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Database Management.; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet).; Data Storage Representation.; Data Structures.
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 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