CSIRO's participation in INEX 2006

Alexander Krumpholz*, David Hawking

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Abstract

In this year's INEX participation, CSIRO took part in the Ad-hoc Track, contributing to three of the four given tasks, namely the Thorough Task, the Focused Task and the Best in Context Task. We relied on our own text-and-metadata retrieval system PADRE for indexing the data and processing the queries. Since PADRE is designed to retrieve documents rather than XML elements we preprocessed the collection to enable retrieval of sub-elements. From the set of queries we identified all the element-types required to be retrieved. We then added new pseudo documents corresponding to all the retrievable elements from the originals. Finally, this expanded collection was indexed with PADRE. When processing queries, query elements were extracted from the INEX topics and pre-processed to generate queries in PADRE syntax. Results were post-processed to achieve the requirements of each particular task, such as elimination of super- and sub-elements of elements already retrieved. Results obtained from this simple-minded approach were not particularly competitive but serve as a good basis for identification of necessary future enhancements.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComparative Evaluation of XML Information Retrieval Systems - 5th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2006, Revised Selected Papers
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages73-81
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783540738879
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event5th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2006 - Dagstuhl Castle, Germany
Duration: 17 Dec 200620 Dec 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4518 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference5th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2006
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityDagstuhl Castle
Period17/12/0620/12/06

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