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Visualizing the problems with the INEX topics

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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 XML retrieval effectiveness.

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SIGIR '09: Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
July 2009
896 pages
ISBN:9781605584836
DOI:10.1145/1571941

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Published: 19 July 2009

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  1. INEX
  2. IR methodology
  3. XML-IR
  4. element retrieval

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