Retrieving information from heterogeneous data sources in a flexible manner and within a single (database) framework is still a challenge. In this paper we present several extensi...
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, ...
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...
Offering the possibility to query any XML retrieval system in natural language would be very helpful to a lot of users. In 2005, INEX proposed a framework to partipants that wante...
Focussed XML component retrieval is one of the most important challenges in the XML IR field. The aim of the focussed retrieval strategy is to find the most exhaustive and specifi...