Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval

Contents

• Workshop Proceedings
• Workshop Pre Proceedings
• Presentations
• Track Proposals for INEX'04
• Workgroups Reports
• Workshop Schedule Final Version
• Workshop Attendees

Presentations

• Norbert Fuhr's opening presentation slides

Session 1: Australia

• XPath Inverted File for Information Retrieval. Shlomo Geva, Murray Leo-Spork (Queensland University of Technology). slides not available
• RMIT INEX experiments: XML Retrieval using Lucy/exist. Jovan Pehcevski, James Thom (RMIT University), Anne-Marie Vercoustre (CSIRO-ICT Centre).slides
• Distributed XML Information Retrieval. Wayne Kelly, Shlomo Geva, Tony Sahama, Wengkai Loke (Queensland University of Technology).slides

Session 2: Israel and The Netherlands

• Retrieving the most relevant XML Components. Yosi Mass, Matan Mandelbrod (IBM Research Lab). slides
• Searching in an XML corpus Using Content and Structure. Yiftah Ben-Aharon, Sara Cohen, Yael Grumbach, Yaron Kanza, Jonathan Mamou, Yehoshua Sagiv, Benjamin Sznajder, Efrat Twito (The Hebrew University).slides
• The TIJAH XML-IR System at INEX 2003 (draft). J.A. List (CWI), V.Mihajlovic (University of Twente), A.P. De Vries (CWI), G. Ramrez (CWI), D. Hiemstra (University of Twente). slides
• The University of Amsterdam at INEX 2003, Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson(University of Amsterdam) slides

Session 3: Japan and New Zealand

• Identifying and Ranking Relevant Document Elements. Andrew Trotman, Richard A. O'Keefe (University of Otago).slides
• An Evaluation of INEX 2003 Relevance Assessments. Kenji Hatano (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Hiroko Kinutani (Japan Science and Technology Agency), Masahiro Watanabe (The National Institute of Special Education), Yasuhiro Mori, Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Nogoya University),Shunsuke Uemura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology). slides
• The Simplest Query Language That Could Possibly Work. Richard A. O'Keefe, Andrew Trotman (University of Otago).slides

Session 4: France and USA

• Bayesian Networks at INEX'03. Benjamin Piwowarski, Huyen-Trang Vu, Patrick Gallinari (LIP6).slides
• IRIT at INEX 2003. Karen Sauvagnat, Gilles Hubert, Mohand Boughanem, Josiane Mothe (IRIT).slides
• Using language Models for flat text queries in XML Retrieval. Paul Ogilvie, Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University). slides not available
• Cheshire II at INEX'03: Component and Algorithm Fusion for XML Retrieval. Ray R. Larson (University of California, Berkeley). slides not available

Session 5: Germany

• XXL @ INEX 2003. Ralf Schenkel, Anja Theobald, Gerhard Weikum (Max-Planck Institüte für Informatik) slides not available
• Applying the IRStream Retrieval Engine to INEX 2003. Andreas Henrich, Günter Robbert (University of Bayreuth), Volker Lüdecke (University of Bamberg). slides not available
• HyREX at INEX 2003. Mohammad Abolhassani, Norbert Fuhr, Saadia Malik (University of Duisburg-Essen).slides
• The SearX-Engine at INEX?03: XML enabled probabilistic retrieval. Holger Flörke (doctronic GmbH).slides

Session 6: Scandinavia

• Helsinki's EXTIRP @ INEX. Antoine Doucet, Lili Aunimo, Miro Lehtonen, Renaud Petit (University of Helsinki) slides
• Using value-added document representations in INEX. Birger Larsen, Haakon Lund, Jacob K. Andresen and Peter Ingwersen (Royal School of Library and Information Science).slides

Track Proposals for INEX'04

• Track Proposals by Norbert Fuhr

Workgroups Reports

• Queries chaired by Börkur Sigurbjörnsson
• Relevance chaired by Jaana Kekalanen
• Online Assessment Tool chaired by Benjamin Piwowarski
• Metrics chaired by Gabriella Kazai

Working Group Discussion Presentations

• Evaluation Metrics Working Group by Gabrialla Kazai
• Metric: Evaluation without Predefined retrieval units by Arjen P. de Vries, Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas
• Metric: Expected Ration of Relevance Units by Benjamin Piwowarski