New Tasks on Collections of Digitized Books

Motivated by the plethora of book digitization projects around the world, the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX) launched a Book Search track in 2007. The track focused on Information Retrieval (IR) tasks, exploring the utility of traditional and structured document retrieval techniques to books. In this paper, we propose four new tasks to be investigated at the Book Search track. The tasks aim to promote research in a wider context across IR, Human Computer Interaction, Digital Libraries and eBooks. We identify novel problem areas, define tasks around these and propose possible evaluation methods.