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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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, ...