OUC's participation in the 2010 INEX Book Track

In this article we describe the Oslo University College’s participation in the INEX 2010 Book track. The OUC has submitted retrieval results for the “prove it” task with traditional relevance detection combined with some rudimental detection of confirmation. We call for a broader discussion of a more meaning-oriented (semantics-aware) approach to retrieval in digitized books, with the “prove it” task (classifiable as a simple semantics- aware retrieval activity) providing the INEX milieu with a suitable context to start this discussion