Focused Access to XML Documents 6th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2007, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, December 17-19, 2007, Revised and Selected Papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2007, held at Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in December 2007. The 37 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation at the workshop from 50 initial submissions. The papers are organized in an ad hoc track and 6 topical sections on book search, XML-mining, entity ranking, interactive, link-the-wiki, and multimedia.

Ad Hoc Track.- Overview of the INEX 2007 Ad Hoc Track.- INEX 2007 Evaluation Measures.- XML Retrieval by Improving Structural Relevance Measures Obtained from Summary Models.- TopX @ INEX 2007.- The Garnata Information Retrieval System at INEX’07.- Dynamic Element Retrieval in the Wikipedia Collection.- The Simplest XML Retrieval Baseline That Could Possibly Work.- Using Language Models and Topic Models for XML Retrieval.- UJM at INEX 2007: Document Model Integrating XML Tags.- Phrase Detection in the Wikipedia.- Indian Statistical Institute at INEX 2007 Adhoc Track: VSM Approach.- A Fast Retrieval Algorithm for Large-Scale XML Data.- LIG at INEX 2007 Ad Hoc Track: Using Collectionlinks as Context.- Book Search Track.- Overview of the INEX 2007 Book Search Track (BookSearch’07).- Logistic Regression and EVIs for XML Books and the Heterogeneous Track.- CMIC at INEX 2007: Book Search Track.- XML-Mining Track.- Clustering XML Documents Using Closed Frequent Subtrees: A Structural Similarity Approach.- Probabilistic Methods for Structured Document Classification at INEX’07.- Efficient Clustering of Structured Documents Using Graph Self-Organizing Maps.- Document Clustering Using Incremental and Pairwise Approaches.- XML Document Classification Using Extended VSM.- Entity Ranking Track.- Overview of the INEX 2007 Entity Ranking Track.- L3S at INEX 2007: Query Expansion for Entity Ranking Using a Highly Accurate Ontology.- Entity Ranking Based on Category Expansion.- Entity Ranking from Annotated Text Collections Using Multitype Topic Models.- An n-Gram and Initial Description Based Approach for Entity Ranking Track.- Structured Document Retrieval, Multimedia Retrieval, and Entity Ranking Using PF/Tijah.- Using Wikipedia Categories and Links in Entity Ranking.- Integrating Document Features for Entity Ranking.- Interactive Track.- A Comparison of Interactive and Ad-Hoc Relevance Assessments.- Task Effects on Interactive Search: The Query Factor.- Link-the-Wiki Track.- Overview of INEX 2007 Link the Wiki Track.- Using and Detecting Links in Wikipedia.- GPX: Ad-Hoc Queries and Automated Link Discovery in the Wikipedia.- University of Waterloo at INEX2007: Adhoc and Link-the-Wiki Tracks.- Wikipedia Ad Hoc Passage Retrieval and Wikipedia Document Linking.- Multimedia Track.- The INEX 2007 Multimedia Track.