Andrew Trotman, Nils Pharo, Miro Lehtonen
We examine the
INEX ad hoc search tasks and ask if
(or not) it is possible to identify any existing commercial use of the task. In
each of the tasks: thorough, focused, relevant in context, and best in context,
such uses are found. Commercial use of CO and CAS queries are also found.
Finally we present abstract use cases of each ad hoc task. Our finding is that XML-IR, or at least parallels in
other semi-structured formats, is in use and has been for many years.