This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings
of the 8th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation
of XML Retrieval, INEX 2009, held in Brisbane, Australia, in December
2009.
The aim of the INEX 2009 workshop was to bring together researchers in
the field of XML IR who participated in the INEX 2009 campaign. During
the past year, participating organizations contributed to the building
of large-scale XML test collections by creating topics, performing
retrieval runs and providing relevance assessments. The workshop
concluded the results of this effort, summarized and addressed issues
encountered, and devised a work plan for the future evaluation of XML
retrieval systems. The 42 full papers presented together with 3 invited
papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. They
have been divided into sections according to the eight tracks of the
workshop, investigating various aspects of XML retrieval, from book
search to entity
