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SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Locating relevant text within XML documents
Traditional document retrieval has shown to be a competitive approach in XML element retrieval, which is counter-intuitive since the element retrieval task requests all and only r...
Jaap Kamps, Marijn Koolen, Mounia Lalmas
INEX
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
The Interactive Track at INEX 2005
Abstract. In its second year, the Interactive Track at INEX focused on addressing some fundamental issues of interactive XML retrieval: is element retrieval useful for searchers, w...
Birger Larsen, Saadia Malik, Anastasios Tombros
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Why structural hints in queries do not help XML-retrieval
For many years it has been commonly held that a user who adds structural “hints” to a query will improve precision in an element retrieval search. At INEX 2005 we conducted an...
Andrew Trotman, Mounia Lalmas
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Is XML retrieval meaningful to users?: searcher preferences for full documents vs. elements
The aim of this study is to investigate whether element retrieval (as opposed to full-text retrieval) is meaningful and useful for searchers when carrying out information-seeking ...
Birger Larsen, Anastasios Tombros, Saadia Malik
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
User expectations from XML element retrieval
The primary aim of XML element retrieval is to return to users XML elements, rather than whole documents. This poster describes a small study, in which we elicited users’ expect...
Stamatina Betsi, Mounia Lalmas, Anastasios Tombros...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Visualizing the problems with the INEX topics
Topics form a crucial component of a test collection. We show, through visualization, that the INEX 2008 topics have shortcomings, which questions their validity for evaluating XM...
Andrew Trotman, Maria del Rocio Gomez Crisostomo, ...