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Overview of the INEX 2007 Book Search Track (BookSearch’07)

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Focused Access to XML Documents (INEX 2007)

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This paper provides an overview of the newly launched Book Search Track at INEX 2007 (BookSearch’07), its participants, tasks, book corpus, test topics and relevance assessments, as well as some results.

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Norbert Fuhr Jaap Kamps Mounia Lalmas Andrew Trotman

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Kazai, G., Doucet, A. (2008). Overview of the INEX 2007 Book Search Track (BookSearch’07). In: Fuhr, N., Kamps, J., Lalmas, M., Trotman, A. (eds) Focused Access to XML Documents. INEX 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4862. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85902-4_14

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