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In some situations search engine users would prefer to retrieve entities instead of just documents. Example queries include “Italian Nobel prize winners”, “Formula 1 drivers that won the Monaco Grand Prix”, or “German spoken Swiss cantons”. The XML Entity Ranking (XER) track at INEX creates a discussion forum aimed at standardizing evaluation procedures for entity retrieval. This paper describes the XER tasks and the evaluation procedure used at the XER track in 2009, where a new version of Wikipedia was used as underlying collection; and summarizes the approaches adopted by the participants.
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Demartini, G., Iofciu, T., de Vries, A.P. (2010). Overview of the INEX 2009 Entity Ranking Track. In: Geva, S., Kamps, J., Trotman, A. (eds) Focused Retrieval and Evaluation. INEX 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6203. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14556-8_26
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