The University of Amsterdam at INEX 2006

We describe the University of Amsterdam’s participation in the INEX 2006 Adhoc Track. We participated in all four Adhoc Track tasks, and report initial findings based on a single set of measure for all four tasks. Our main findings are the following. First, a complete element index outperforms a restricted index based on section-structure, albeit the differences are small. Second, grouping elements per article does not lead to performance degradation, but may improve scores. Third, all restrictions of the “pure” element runs (by removing overlap, by grouping elements per article, or by selecting a single element per article) lead to some but only moderate loss of precision.