Overview of the INEX 2011 Books and Social Search Track

Marijn Koolen (1) , Gabriella Kazai (2) , Jaap Kamps (3) , Antoine Doucet (4) , Monica Landoni (5)

1 UvA - University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] = Universiteit van Amsterdam
2 Microsoft Research [Redmond]
3 Faculty of Humanities
4 Equipe Hultech - Laboratoire GREYC - UMR6072
5 University of Lugano

The goal of the INEX 2011 Books and Social Search 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 for searching books, 3) the Structure Extraction task tests automatic techniques for deriving structure from OCR and layout information, and 4) the Active Reading task aims to explore suitable user interfaces for eBooks enabling reading, annotation, review, and summary across multiple books. We report on the setup and the results of the track.

Mots clés: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Information Storage and Retrieval; Database Management; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Data Storage Representation; Data Structures

Domaines: Traitement du texte et du document

Marijn Koolen, Gabriella Kazai, Jaap Kamps, Antoine Doucet, Monica Landoni. Overview of the INEX 2011 Books and Social Search Track. Focused Retrieval of Content and Structure, Springer, pp.PP1-29, 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 978-3-642-35733-6. ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-35734-3_1⟩. ⟨hal-01071742⟩