Multimedia track

Objective

The main objective of the INEX 2005 multimedia track is to provide an evaluation platform/forum for structured document retrieval systems that do not only include text in the retrieval process. Many structured document collections today also contain other types of media, such as images, speech, and video. To include these media types into the retrieval process and to produce a meaningful ranking is far from trivial.

Using the structure of the document as a semantic/logical backbone for the retrieval of multimedia document fragments will allow us to investigate this problem from a new perspective.

In the first year of the multimedia track, we plan to provide an evaluation platform for the retrieval of multimedia structured document fragments, similar to the methodology used for the INEX Ad Hoc track. Besides that we want to open a discussion forum where the participating groups can exchange their ideas on different aspects of the multimedia XML retrieval task, so that in the coming years the multimedia track can evolve in a mature discipline of its own.

The main concern for the multimedia track is to find a suitable document collection, i.e. one that is based on XML and has a rich multimedia character . At current two candidates are being examined.

More information, including a preliminary schedule for the multimedia track will be published in the near future.

Schedule

Organisers