Overview of the INEX 2008 Book Track

Overview of the INEX 2009 Book Track

The goal of the INEX 2009 Book Track is to evaluate approaches for supporting users in reading, searching, and navigating the full texts of digitized books. The investigation is focused around four tasks: 1) the Book Retrieval task aims at comparing traditional and book-specific retrieval approaches, 2) the Focused Book Search task evaluates focused retrieval approaches for searching books, 3) ...

A Methodology for Social Book Search

A general overview of our methodology and results for the INEX 2014 Social Book Search Suggestion Task are presented in this paper. This is our first entry in the Social Book Search Track, which started in 2011. Our methodology and experiments are inspired by background research on the Social Book Search Track [5, 6, 7, 8, and 9]. We originally submitted six runs to the INEX 2014 competition an...

Overview of the INEX 2010 Book Track: Scaling Up the Evaluation Using Crowdsourcing

Overview of the INEX 2011 Book Track

The goal of the INEX 2011 Book Track is to evaluate approaches for supporting users in reading, searching, and navigating book metadata and full texts of digitized books. The investigation is focused around four tasks: 1) the Social Search for Best Books task aims at comparing traditional and user-generated book metadata for retrieval, 2) the Prove It task evaluates focused retrieval approaches...

Overview and Results of the INEX 2009 Interactive Track

We present results of the INEX 2009 Interactive Track which focussed on how users behave in interactive search systems. Three types of working tasks based on a collection of book metadata were regarded. The results show differences with respect to the task types and point out improvements and new research questions for the next track in 2010.