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This paper provides an overview of the INEX 2008 Book Track. Now in its second year, the track aimed at broadening its scope by investigating topics of interest in the fields of information retrieval, human computer interaction, digital libraries, and eBooks. The main topics of investigation were defined around challenges for supporting users in reading, searching, and navigating the full texts of digitized books. Based on these themes, four tasks were defined: 1) The Book Retrieval task aimed at comparing traditional and book-specific retrieval approaches, 2) the Page in Context task aimed at evaluating the value of focused retrieval approaches for searching books, 3) the Structure Extraction task aimed to test automatic techniques for deriving structure from OCR and layout information, and 4) the Active Reading task aimed to explore suitable user interfaces for eBooks enabling reading, annotation, review, and summary across multiple books. We report on the setup and results of each of these tasks.
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Kazai, G., Doucet, A., Landoni, M. (2009). Overview of the INEX 2008 Book Track. In: Geva, S., Kamps, J., Trotman, A. (eds) Advances in Focused Retrieval. INEX 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5631. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03761-0_12
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