Advances in Focused Retrieval: 7th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2008, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, December 15-18, 2009. Revised and Selected Papers

Ad Hoc Track.- Overview of the INEX 2008 Ad Hoc Track.- Experiments with Proximity-Aware Scoring for XML Retrieval at INEX 2008.- Finding Good Elements for Focused Retrieval.- New Utility Models for the Garnata Information Retrieval System at INEX’08.- UJM at INEX 2008: Pre-impacting of Tags Weights.- Use of Multiword Terms and Query Expansion for Interactive Information Retrieval.- Enhancing Keyword Search with a Keyphrase Index.- CADIAL Search Engine at INEX.- Indian Statistical Institute at INEX 2008 Adhoc Track.- Using Collectionlinks and Documents as Context for INEX 2008.- SPIRIX: A Peer-to-Peer Search Engine for XML-Retrieval.- Book Track.- Overview of the INEX 2008 Book Track.- XRCE Participation to the Book Structure Task.- University of Waterloo at INEX 2008: Adhoc, Book, and Link-the-Wiki Tracks.- The Impact of Document Level Ranking on Focused Retrieval.- Adhoc and Book XML Retrieval with Cheshire.- Book Layout Analysis: TOC Structure Extraction Engine.- The Impact of Query Length and Document Length on Book Search Effectiveness.- Efficiency Track.- Overview of the INEX 2008 Efficiency Track.- Exploiting User Navigation to Improve Focused Retrieval.- Efficient XML and Entity Retrieval with PF/Tijah: CWI and University of Twente at INEX’08.- Pseudo Relevance Feedback Using Fast XML Retrieval.- TopX 2.0 at the INEX 2008 Efficiency Track.- Aiming for Efficiency by Detecting Structural Similarity.- Entity Ranking Track.- Overview of the INEX 2008 Entity Ranking Track.- L3S at INEX 2008: Retrieving Entities Using Structured Information.- Adapting Language Modeling Methods for Expert Search to Rank Wikipedia Entities.- Finding Entities in Wikipedia Using Links and Categories.- Topic Difficulty Prediction in Entity Ranking.- A Generative Language Modeling Approach for Ranking Entities.- Interactive Track.- Overview of the INEX 2008 Interactive Track.- Link the Wiki Track.- Overview of the INEX 2008 Link the Wiki Track.- Link-the-Wiki: Performance Evaluation Based on Frequent Phrases.- CMIC@INEX 2008: Link-the-Wiki Track.- Stealing Anchors to Link the Wiki.- Context Based Wikipedia Linking.- Link Detection with Wikipedia.- Wikisearching and Wikilinking.- CSIR at INEX 2008 Link-the-Wiki Track.- A Content-Based Link Detection Approach Using the Vector Space Model.- XML Mining Track.- Overview of the INEX 2008 XML Mining Track.- Semi-supervised Categorization of Wikipedia Collection by Label Expansion.- Document Clustering with K-tree.- Using Links to Classify Wikipedia Pages.- Clustering XML Documents Using Frequent Subtrees.- UJM at INEX 2008 XML Mining Track.- Probabilistic Methods for Link-Based Classification at INEX 2008.- Utilizing the Structure and Content Information for XML Document Clustering.- Self Organizing Maps for the Clustering of Large Sets of Labeled Graphs.