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From: Andrew Trotman [andrew at cs.otago.ac.nz]
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Subject: Call for participation INEX 2010

Call for participation INEX 2010

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN AT http://www.inex.otago.ac.nz


OVERVIEW
INEX 2010 is examining focused (sub-document) retrieval using the
Wikipedia
Collection.  The collection size is over 50 Gigabyte with 2.5 million
articles in semantically marked-up XML format.  For the main ad hoc
retrieval track the collection is available in Plain Text as well as XML
so
that non-XML based passage retrieval systems can also be used. Other
tracks
are: Book Searching (using a collection of 50,000 full text books in
XML),
Interactive (iTrack, using data from Amazon and LibraryThing), Question
Answering (QA at INEX), Link-the-Wiki, XML-Mining, Web Service Discovery,
Relevance Feedback, and Data Centric (most probably using IMBD). All
INEX Participants are expected to participate in topic creation, and
assessment.



TASKS AND TRACKS
. Ad hoc Track - The main track of INEX 2010 will investigate the
effectiveness of XML-IR and Passage Retrieval for highly focused
retrieval
by restricting result length to "snippets" or discounting for reading
effort.
. Data Centric Track - Investigating Focused Retrieval over a strongly
structured collection of documents (most probably IMBD).
. Book Track - Investigating techniques to support users in reading,
searching, and navigating full texts of digitized books.
. Interactive Track (iTrack) - Investigating the behavior of users when
interacting with XML documents, as well as developing retrieval
approaches
which are effective in user-based environments.
. Question Answering (QA at INEX) Track - Investigating technology for
accessing semi-structured data can be used to address real-world focused
information needs formulated as natural language questions.
. Link-the-Wiki Track - Investigating link discovery in the Te Ara
encyclopedia.
. XML-Mining Track - Investigating structured document mining,
especially
the classification and clustering of semi-structured documents.
. Web Service Discovery - Investigate techniques for discovery of Web
services based on searching service descriptions provided in WSDL.
. Focused Relevance Feedback Track - Investigate the utility of XML
markup
and passage retrieval in Relevance Feedback evaluation.  An
unconventional
evaluation track where submissions are executable computer programs
rather
than search results, and a new evaluation approach.

A detailed description of each of the tracks can be found at
http://www.inex.otago.ac.nz/.

IMPORTANT DATES
The schedule of the main ad hoc track is as follows:

5/May/2010 Release of Topic Creation Guidelines
31/May/2010 Submission deadline for candidate topics
14/Jun/2010 Release of final set of topics
14/Jun/2010 Release of Result Submission Specification
1 Sep/2010 Submission deadline for ad hoc search results
15/Sep/2010 Release of assessment pools
15/Oct/2010 Submission deadline for relevance assessments
1/Nov/2010 Release of ad hoc evaluation results
22/Nov/2010 Submission deadline for papers for pre-proceedings (all
tracks)
29/Nov/2010 Release of workshop pre-proceedings
13-15/Dec/2010 INEX Workshop in the Netherlands

Other tracks will follow variants of this schedule.

RELEVANCE ASSESSMENTS
Relevance assessments will be provided by the participating groups using
the
INEX assessment system. Each participating organization will judge about
3
topics. Please note that the assessment of each topic may take
one-person 1
to 2 days to complete!

WORKSHOP AND PROCEEDINGS
Participants will be able to present their approaches and the final
results
at the INEX workshop to be held in December in Amsterdam. All
participants
will be able to publish their work in the workshop pre-proceedings.
Fully
peer-reviewed and revised papers will be published in the INEX
post-workshop
final proceedings. Since 2004 the final proceedings have been published
in
the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, and we
hope
to continue that tradition.