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SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 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
13 years 10 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
13 years 10 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
13 years 10 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
13 years 10 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
13 years 11 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, ...