SIGIR 2007 Workshop on Focused Retrieval

(Question Answering, Passage Retrieval, Element Retrieval)

27 July 2007

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PROCEEDINGS

Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007 Workshop on Focused Retrieval
Andrew Trotman, Shlomo Geva, Jaap Kamps (editors)
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PAPERS

Structural Relevance in XML Retrieval Evaluation
S. Ali, M. Consens, M.Lalmas
[PDF, Slides]

Collaborative Knowledge Management: Evaluation of Automated Link Discovery in the Wikipedia
W.C. Huang, A. Trotman, S. Geva
[PDF, Slides]

From Passages into Elements in XML Retrieval
K. Itakura, C. Clarke
[PDF, Slides]

The Task First, Please
V. Jijkoun, M. de Rijke
[PDF, Slides]

On the Relation between Relevant Passages and XML Document Structure
J. Kamps, M. Koolen
[PDF, Slides]

Evaluating Focused Retrieval Tasks
J. Pehcevski, J.A. Thom
[PDF, Slides]

Chunking-based Question Type Identification for Multi-Sentence Queries
M. Takechi, T. Tokunaga, Y. Matsumoto
[PDF, Slides]

Can we at least agree on something?
A. Trotman, N. Pharo, D. Jenkinson
[PDF, Slides]

To Click or not to Click? The Role of Contextualized and User-Centric Web Snippets
N. Zotos, P. Tzekou, G. Tsatsaronis, L. Kozanidis, S. Stamou, I. Varlamis
[PDF, Slides]