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Focused access to sparsely and densely relevant documents

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XML retrieval provides a focused access to the relevant content of documents. However, in evaluation, full document retrieval has appeared competitive to focused XML retrieval. We analyze the density of relevance in documents, and show that in sparsely relevant documents focused retrieval performs better, whereas in densely relevant documents the performance of focused and document retrieval is equal.

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  • (2011)The Potential Benefit of Focused Retrieval in Relevant-in-Context TaskComparative Evaluation of Focused Retrieval10.1007/978-3-642-23577-1_2(33-43)Online publication date: 2011
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  • (2010)The potential benefit of focused retrieval in relevant-in-context taskProceedings of the 9th international conference on Initiative for the evaluation of XML retrieval: comparative evaluation of focused retrieval10.5555/2040369.2040372(33-43)Online publication date: 13-Dec-2010

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    SIGIR '10: Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
    July 2010
    944 pages
    ISBN:9781450301534
    DOI:10.1145/1835449
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    1. XML retrieval
    2. focused retrieval
    3. tolerance to irrelevance

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    • (2011)The Potential Benefit of Focused Retrieval in Relevant-in-Context TaskComparative Evaluation of Focused Retrieval10.1007/978-3-642-23577-1_2(33-43)Online publication date: 2011
    • (2011)UPF at INEX 2010: Towards Query-Type Based Focused RetrievalComparative Evaluation of Focused Retrieval10.1007/978-3-642-23577-1_18(206-218)Online publication date: 2011
    • (2010)The potential benefit of focused retrieval in relevant-in-context taskProceedings of the 9th international conference on Initiative for the evaluation of XML retrieval: comparative evaluation of focused retrieval10.5555/2040369.2040372(33-43)Online publication date: 13-Dec-2010

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