Advances in Focused Retrieval 7th International Workshop of the Init

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2008, held at Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in December 2008. The aim of the INEX 2008 workshop was to

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Shlomo Geva Jaap Kamps Andrew Trotman (Eds.)

Advances in Focused Retrieval 7th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2008 Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, December 15-18, 2008 Revised and Selected Papers

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Volume Editors Shlomo Geva Queensland University of Technology Faculty of Science and Technology GPO Box 2434, Brisbane Qld 4001, Australia E-mail: [email protected] Jaap Kamps University of Amsterdam Archives and Information Studies/Humanities Turfdraagsterpad 9, 1012 XT Amsterdam, The Netherlands E-mail: [email protected] Andrew Trotman University of Otago Department of Computer Science P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand E-mail: [email protected]

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Foreword

I write with pleasure this foreword to the proceedings of the 7th workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX). The increased adoption of XML as the standard for representing a document structure has led to the development of retrieval systems that are aimed at effectively accessing XML documents. Providing effective ac