SIGIR 2007 Workshop on Focused Retrieval(Question Answering, Passage Retrieval, Element Retrieval) |
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The purpose of this workshop was to raise issues and promote discussion on focused retrieval - that is, Question Answering (QA), Passage Retrieval, and Element Retrieval (XML-IR). At the workshop the selected papers were presented and discussed in an open forum.
• | Proceedings now available online (2 August 2007) |
• | Public announcement of workshop papers (26 June 2007) |
• | EasyChair chosen as paper sybmission system (14 May 2007) |
• | Website online (21 April 2007) |
• | Workshop proposal accepted by ACM SIGIR(16 April 2007) |
The workshop was part of SIGIR 2007 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
This workshop was held as part of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, 2007. Information on Amsterdam can be found in the Wikipedia.