SIGIR 2007 Workshop on Focused Retrieval (Question Answering, Passage Retrieval, Element Retrieval)

This workshop took place during the SIGIR Annual Conference in Amsterdam on July 27, 2007 in Amsterdam.

The complete proceedings are available here as a single PDF file (70 pages) or one paper at a time.

Papers include:

+ To Click or not to Click? The Role of Contextualized and User-Centric Web Snippets

+ Collaborative Knowledge Management: Evaluation of Automated Link Discovery in the Wikipedia

+ From Passages into Elements in XML Retrieval

+ Structural Relevance in XML Retrieval Evaluation

+ The Task First, Please

+ On the Relation between Relevant Passages and XML Document Structure

+ Evaluating Focused Retrieval Tasks

+ Chunking-based Question Type Identification for Multi-Sentence Queries

+ Can we at least agree on something?

See Also: Papers from another SIGIR 2007 Workshop: Proceedings from the “Web Information Seeking and Interaction” Workshop

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