Report on the SIGIR 2008 workshop on focused retrieval

Authors:
Jaap Kamps;Shlomo Geva;Andrew Trotman
Affiliations:
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam;Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia;University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Venue:
ACM SIGIR Forum
Year:
2008

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Abstract

On July 24, 2008 the SIGIR Workshop on Focused Retrieval was held as part of SIGIR in Singapore. Nine paper were presented in three sessions and in a fourth session--joint with the SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Aggregate Search--there was a panel discussion. The report outlines the events of the workshop and summarizes the major outcomes.