INEX

INEX is an initiative that promotes the evaluation of XML Information Retrieval.

AKA: Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval.
Context:
- INEX Ad hoc Track: The main track of INEX 2008 will investigate the effectiveness of XML-IR and Passage Retrieval for three ad hoc retrieval tasks (Focused, Relevant in Context, Best in Context).
- INEX Book Track: Investigating information access to, and IR techniques for searching full texts of digitized books.
- INEX Efficiency Track: Investigating both the effectiveness and efficiency of XML ranked retrieval approaches on real data and real queries.
- INEX Entity Ranking Track: Track Investigating entity retrieval rather than text retrieval: 1) Entity Ranking, 2) Entity List Completion.
- INEX Interactive Track: Investigating the behavior of users when interacting with XML documents, as well as develop retrieval approaches which are effective in user-based environments.
- INEX Question Answering Track: Investigating technology for accessing structured documents that can be used to address real-world focused information needs formulated as natural language questions.
- INEX Link the Wiki Track: Investigating link discovery between Wikipedia documents, both at the file level and at the element level.
- INEX XML Mining Track: Investigating structured document mining, especially the classification and clustering of structured documents.
See: INEX Wikipedia Corpus, TREC, DUC.

References

http://www.inex.otago.ac.nz/about.html
http://www.inex.otago.ac.nz/tracks/efficiency/efficiency.asp
- INEX 2009 Efficiency Track
- The INEX Efficiency Track is intended to provide a common forum for the evaluation of both the effectiveness and efficiency of XML ranked retrieval approaches on real data and real queries. As opposed to the purely synthetic XMark or XBench settings still prevalent in this area, the Efficiency Track continues the INEX tradition using a rich pool of manually assessed relevance judgments for measuring retrieval effectiveness. One of the main goals is to attract more groups from the DB community to INEX, thus being able to study effectiveness/efficiency tradeoffs in XML ranked retrieval for a broad audience from both the DB and IR communities. The Efficiency Track significantly extends the Ad-Hoc Track by systematically investigating different types of queries and retrieval scenarios.