SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Focused Retrieval

(Question Answering, Passage Retrieval, Element Retrieval)

24 July 2008

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PROCEEDINGS

Proceedings of the SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Focused Retrieval
Andrew Trotman, Shlomo Geva, Jaap Kamps (editors)
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PAPERS

Focused Retrieval over Richly-Annotated Collections
Matthew Bilotti, Le Zhao, Jamie Callan, Eric Nyberg
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Let's Phrase It: INEX Topics Need Keyphrases
Antoine Doucet, Miro Lehtonen
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Sound ranking algorithms for XML search
Djoerd Hiemstra, Stefan Klinger, Henning Rode, Jan Flokstra, Peter Apers
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Experiments and Evaluation of Link Discovery in the Wikipedia
Darren Huang, Andrew Trotman, Shlomo Geva
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An Analysis of Multi-Focus Questions
Chuan-Jie Lin, Ren-Rui Liu
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A study of statistical query expansion strategies for sentence retrieval
David Losada
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Text Snippets from the DomGraph
Jacob Ratkiewicz, Filippo Menczer
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Modelling Anchor Text Retrieval in Book Search based on Back-of-Book Index
Hengzhi Wu, Gabriella Kazai, Thomas Roelleke
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Link Detection in XML Documents: What about repeated links?
Junte Zhang, Jaap Kamps
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