Publications

2006

eXtended Cumulated Gain Measures for the Evaluation of Content-oriented XML Retrieval
G. Kazai and M. Lalmas
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (To Appear), 2006

Report on the ad-hoc track of the INEX 2005 workshop
M. Lalmas and G. Kazai
ACM SIGIR Forum, Vol.40 No. 1, June 2006.

INEX 2005 evaluation metrics
G. Kazai and M. Lalmas
Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation: Fourth Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2005), Schloss Dagstuhl, 28-30 November 2005, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 3977, pp. 16-29, 2006.

Overview of INEX 2005
S. Malik, G. Kazai, M. Lalmas and N. Fuhr
Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation: Fourth Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2005), Schloss Dagstuhl, 28-30 November 2005, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 3977, pp. 1-15, 2006.

INEX 2005 Multimedia Track
R. van Zwol, G. Kazai and M. Lalmas
Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation: Fourth Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2005), Schloss Dagstuhl, 28-30 November 2005, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 3977, 2006.

Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation: Poceedings of the Fourth Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2005)
N. Fuhr, M. Lalmas, S. Malik and G. Kazai (eds)
Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 3977, 2006.

2005

Notes on what to measure in INEX
G. Kazai and M. Lalmas
Proceedings of the INEX 2005 Workshop on Element Retrieval Methodology, Glasgow, July 2005.

Reliability Tests for the XCG and inex-2002 Metrics
G. Kazai, M. Lalmas and A. de Vries
Advances in XML Information Retrieval. Third Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval INEX 2004, Schloss Dagstuhl, 6-8 December 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3493, pp. 60-72. 2005.

A General Matrix Framework for Modelling Information Retrieval
T. Rölleke, T. Tsikrika, G Kazai
Information Processing and Management, Special Issue on Theory in Information Retrieval. Vol 42(1), pp. 4-30. 2005.

A metadata model supporting scalable interactive TV services
G. Durand, G. Kazai, U. Rauschenbach, P. Wolf, M. Hemmje, M. Lalmas
International Conference on Multimedia Modelling (MMM'05), Melbourne, Australia, pp. 386-391. Jan 2005

2004

The Overlap Problem in Content-Oriented XML Retrieval Evaluation
G. Kazai, M. Lalmas, A.P. de Vries
Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Sheffield, UK. pp. 72-79. July 2004.

A report on the first year of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX'02)
G. Kazai, M. Lalmas, N. Fuhr, N. Gövert
European Research Letter, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol 55(6), pp. 551-556. April 2004.

Tolerance to Irrelevance: A User-effort Oriented Evaluation of Retrieval Systems without Predefined Retrieval Unit
A.P. de Vries, G. Kazai, M. Lalmas
Proceedings of Recherche d'Information Assistée par Ordinateur (RIAO) (Computer Assisted Information Retrieval), Avignon, France, pp. 463-473. April 2004.

Report of the INEX 2003 metrics working group
G. Kazai
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML retrieval (INEX), Dagstuhl, Germany, December 2003, pp. 184-190. March 2004.

A study of the assessment of relevance for the INEX'02 test collection
G. Kazai, S. Masood and M. Lalmas
Advances in Information Retrieval, Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on IR Research (ECIR), Sunderland, UK, pp. 296-310. April 2004.

Scalable and Personalised Broadcast Services
J. Bywater, M-L. Bourguet, G. Kazai, M. Lalmas and A. Pearmain
Proceedings of the European Conference on Interactive Television (ECIT): Enhancing the Experience, Brighton, UK, March 2004.

Searching annotated broadcast content on mobile and stationary devices
G. Kazai, M. Lalmas, Pearmain A and M-L. Bourguet
Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference Applied Computing, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. II: 249-252. March 2004.

2003

The INEX Evaluation Initiative
G. Kazai, N. Gövert, M. Lalmas, and N. Fuhr
Book Chapter in Intelligent XML Retrieval, H.M. Blanken, T. Grabs, H.-J. Schek, R. Schenkel and G. Weikum (eds), Springer, Berlin, pp. 279-293. 2003.

A General Matrix Framework for Modelling Information Retrieval
T. Rölleke, T. Tsikrika, G Kazai
ACM SIGIR 2003, Mathematical/Formal Methods in IR Workshop, Toronto, Canada, August 2003.

Evaluating the effectiveness of content-oriented XML retrieval
N. Gövert, G. Kazai, N. Fuhr and M. Lalmas
Technical Report. University of Dortmund, Department of Computer Science, 2003.

Using Metadata to Provide Scalable Broadcast and Internet Content and Services
G. Kazai, M. Lalmas, M-L. Bourguet and A. Pearmain
Proceedings of the 4th European Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2003), London, pp. 487-492. April 2003.

Construction of a Test Collection for the Focussed Retrieval of Structured Documents
G. Kazai, M. Lalmas, J. Reid
25th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research (ECIR), Pisa, pp. 88-103. April 2003.

Proceedings of the First Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX)
N. Fuhr, N. Gövert, G. Kazai, and M. Lalmas (eds)
Dagstuhl, Germany, December 8-11, 2002. ERCIM Workshop Proceedings, Sophia Antipolis, France, ERCIM, 2003. (Also available at: http://www.ercim.org/publication/workshop_reports.html

Overview of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML retrieval (INEX) 2002
N. Gövert and G. Kazai
In Proceedings of the 1st INEX Workshop. ERCIM Workshop Proceedings, pp. 1-17. ERCIM, Sophia Antipolis, France, 2003.

A scalable architecture for XML retrieval
G. Kazai, T Rölleke
In Proceedings of the 1st INEX Workshop, ERCIM Workshop Proceedings, pp. 49-56. ERCIM, Sophia Antipolis, France, 2003.

2002

SAVANT: Synchronised and Scalable AV content Across NeTworks
G. Kazai, A. Pearmain, M-L. Bourguet and M. Lalmas
Position Paper in Usability and Evaluation Issues for Interactive Television: Developing a Research Agenda, Workshop at HCI2002, Southbank University, London, September 2002.

Focussed Structured Document Retrieval
G. Kazai, M. Lalmas and T. Rölleke
9th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE), Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 241-247. Sept 2002.

INEX: INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval
N. Fuhr, N. Gövert, G. Kazai and M. Lalmas
ACM SIGIR Workshop on XML and Information Retrieval, Tampere, Finland, August 2002.

The Accessibility Dimension for Structured Document Retrieval
T. Rölleke, M. Lalmas, G. Kazai, I. Ruthven and S. Quicker
24th European Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research, (ECIR), Glasgow, Scotland, pp. 284-302. March 2002.

2001

A Model for the Representation and Focussed Retrieval of Structured Documents based on Fuzzy Aggregation
G. Kazai, M. Lalmas, T. Rölleke
String Processing and Information retrieval (SPIRE) Conference, Laguna De San Rafael, Chile, pp. 123-135. November 2001.

Aggregated Representation for the Focussed Retrieval of Structured Documents
G. Kazai, M. Lalmas, T. Rölleke
ACM SIGIR 2001 Workshop, Mathematical/Formal Methods in IR, August 2001.

The HySpirit Retrieval Platform
T Rölleke, R. Lübeck and G. Kazai
ACM SIGIR Demonstration, pp. 454. Sept 2001.

1992

Project Management by Configuration Interface
E. Knuth, Gy. Karakas, G. Kazai
Proceedings of the IFAC/IFIC Working Conference on Managing Software Projects, Seggau, Austria, 1992, Pergamon Press.