Advances in Information Retrieval: 30th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2008, Glasgow, UK, March 30-April 3, 2008, Proceedings
by Macdonald, Craig; Ounis, Iadh; Plachouras, Vassilis; Ruthven, Ian; White, Ryan W.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-05-04
Publisher(s): Springer-Verlag New York Inc
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Summary
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2008, held in Glasgow, UK, in March/April 2008.The 33 revised full papers and 19 revised short papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited lectures and 32 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 full article submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluation, Web IR, social media, cross-lingual information retrieval, theory, video, representation, wikipedia and e-books, as well as expert search.
Table of Contents
| Invited Presentations | |
| Some(What) Grand Challenges for Information Retrieval | p. 1 |
| Web Search: Challenges and Directions | p. 2 |
| You Are a Document Too: Web Mining and IR for Next-Generation Information Literacy | p. 3 |
| Evaluation | |
| Discounted Cumulated Gain Based Evaluation of Multiple-Query IR Sessions | p. 4 |
| Here or There: Preference Judgments for Relevance | p. 16 |
| Using Clicks as Implicit Judgments: Expectations Versus Observations | p. 28 |
| Web IR | |
| Clustering Template Based Web Documents | p. 40 |
| Effective Pre-retrieval Query Performance Prediction Using Similarity and Variability Evidence | p. 52 |
| iCluster: A Self-organizing Overlay Network for P2P Information Retrieval | p. 65 |
| Social Media | |
| Labeling Categories and Relationships in an Evolving Social Network | p. 77 |
| Automatic Construction of an Opinion-Term Vocabulary for Ad Hoc Retrieval | p. 89 |
| A Comparison of Social Bookmarking with Traditional Search | p. 101 |
| Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval | |
| Effects of Aligned Corpus Quality and Size in Corpus-Based CLIR | p. 114 |
| Exploring the Effects of Language Skills on Multilingual Web Search | p. 126 |
| A Novel Implementation of the FITE-TRT Translation Method | p. 138 |
| Theory I | |
| The BNB Distribution for Text Modeling | p. 150 |
| Utilizing Passage-Based Language Models for Document Retrieval | p. 162 |
| A Statistical View of Binned Retrieval Models | p. 175 |
| Video | |
| Video Corpus Annotation Using Active Learning | p. 187 |
| Use of Implicit Graph for Recommending Relevant Videos: A Simulated Evaluation | p. 199 |
| Representation I | |
| Using Terms from Citations for IR: Some First Results | p. 211 |
| Automatic Extraction of Domain-Specific Stopwords from Labeled Documents | p. 222 |
| Wikipedia and E-Books | |
| Book Search Experiments: Investigating IR Methods for the Indexing and Retrieval of Books | p. 234 |
| Using a Task-Based Approach in Evaluating the Usability of BoBIs in an E-book Environment | p. 246 |
| Exploiting Locality of Wikipedia Links in Entity Ranking | p. 258 |
| The Importance of Link Evidence in Wikipedia | p. 270 |
| Expert Search | |
| High Quality Expertise Evidence for Expert Search | p. 283 |
| Associating People and Documents | p. 296 |
| Modeling Documents as Mixtures of Persons for Expert Finding | p. 309 |
| Ranking Users for Intelligent Message Addressing | p. 321 |
| Representation II | |
| Facilitating Query Decomposition in Query Language Modeling by Association Rule Mining Using Multiple Sliding Windows | p. 334 |
| Viewing Term Proximity from a Different Perspective | p. 346 |
| Extending Probabilistic Data Fusion Using Sliding Windows | p. 358 |
| Theory II | |
| Semi-supervised Document Classification with a Mislabeling Error Model | p. 370 |
| Improving Term Frequency Normalization for Multi-topical Documents and Application to Language Modeling Approaches | p. 382 |
| Probabilistic Document Length Priors for Language Models | p. 394 |
| Short Papers | |
| Applying Maximum Entropy to Known-Item Email Retrieval | p. 406 |
| Computing Information Retrieval Performance Measures Efficiently in the Presence of Tied Scores | p. 414 |
| Towards Characterization of Actor Evolution and Interactions in News Corpora | p. 422 |
| The Impact of Semantic Class Identification and Semantic Role Labeling on Natural Language Answer Extraction | p. 430 |
| Improving Complex Interactive Question Answering with Wikipedia Anchor Text | p. 438 |
| A Cluster-Sensitive Graph Model for Query-Oriented Multi-document Summarization | p. 446 |
| Evaluating Text Representations for Retrieval of the Best Group of Documents | p. 454 |
| Enhancing Relevance Models with Adaptive Passage Retrieval | p. 463 |
| Ontology Matching Using Vector Space | p. 472 |
| Accessibility in Information Retrieval | p. 482 |
| Semantic Relationships in Multi-modal Graphs for Automatic Image Annotation | p. 490 |
| Conversation Detection in Email Systems | p. 498 |
| Efficient Multimedia Time Series Data Retrieval Under Uniform Scaling and Normalisation | p. 506 |
| Integrating Structure and Meaning: A New Method for Encoding Structure for Text Classification | p. 514 |
| A Wikipedia-Based Multilingual Retrieval Model | p. 522 |
| Filaments of Meaning in Word Space | p. 531 |
| Finding the Best Picture: Cross-Media Retrieval of Content | p. 539 |
| Robust Query-Specific Pseudo Feedback Document Selection for Query Expansion | p. 547 |
| Expert Search Evaluation by Supporting Documents | p. 555 |
| Posters | |
| Ranking Categories for Web Search | p. 564 |
| Key Design Issues with Visualising Images Using Google Earth | p. 570 |
| Methods for Augmenting Semantic Models with Structural Information for Text Classification | p. 575 |
| Use of Temporal Expressions in Web Search | p. 580 |
| Towards an Automatically Generated Music Information System Via Web Content Mining | p. 585 |
| Investigating the Effectiveness of Clickthrough Data for Document Reordering | p. 591 |
| Analysis of Link Graph Compression Techniques | p. 596 |
| An Evaluation and Analysis of Incorporating Term Dependency for Ad-Hoc Retrieval | p. 602 |
| An Evaluation Measure for Distributed Information Retrieval Systems | p. 607 |
| Optimizing Language Models for Polarity Classification | p. 612 |
| Improving Web Image Retrieval Using Image Annotations and Inference Network | p. 617 |
| Slide-Film Interface: Overcoming Small Screen Limitations in Mobile Web Search | p. 622 |
| A Document-Centered Approach to a Natural Language Music Search Engine | p. 627 |
| Collaborative Topic Tracking in an Enterprise Environment | p. 632 |
| Graph-Based Profile Similarity Calculation Method and Evaluation | p. 637 |
| The Good, the Bad, the Difficult, and the Easy: Something Wrong with Information Retrieval Evaluation? | p. 642 |
| Hybrid Method for Personalized Search in Digital Libraries | p. 647 |
| Exploiting Session Context for Information Retrieval - A Comparative Study | p. 652 |
| Structural Re-ranking with Cluster-Based Retrieval | p. 658 |
| Automatic Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia | p. 663 |
| Evaluating Paragraph Retrieval for why-QA | p. 669 |
| Revisit of Nearest Neighbor Test for Direct Evaluation of Inter-document Similarities | p. 674 |
| A Comparison of Named Entity Patterns from a User Analysis and a System Analysis | p. 679 |
| Query-Based Inter-document Similarity Using Probabilistic Co-relevance Model | p. 684 |
| Using Coherence-Based Measures to Predict Query Difficulty | p. 689 |
| Efficient Processing of Category-Restricted Queries for Web Directories | p. 695 |
| Focused Browsing: Providing Topical Feedback for Link Selection in Hypertext Browsing | p. 700 |
| The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering | p. 705 |
| Workshop Summaries | |
| Efficiency Issues in Information Retrieval Workshop | p. 711 |
| Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval | p. 712 |
| Workshop on Novel Methodologies for Evaluation in Information Retrieval | p. 713 |
| Tutorials | |
| ECIR 2008 Tutorials | p. 714 |
| Author Index | p. . 717 |
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