ECIR 2005: Santiago de Compostela, Spain
David E. Losada, Juan M. Fernández-Luna (Eds.): Advances in Information Retrieval, 27th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2005, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, March 21-23, 2005, Proceedings. Springer 2005 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 3-540-25295-9
Keynote Papers
C. J. van Rijsbergen: A Probabilistic Logic for Information Retrieval. 1-6
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates: Applications of Web Query Mining. 7-22
Peer-to-Peer

Iraklis A. Klampanos, Victor Poznanski, Joemon M. Jose, Peter Dickman: A Suite of Testbeds for the Realistic Evaluation of Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval Systems. 38-51
Jie Lu, Jamie Callan: Federated Search of Text-Based Digital Libraries in Hierarchical Peer-to-Peer Networks. 52-66
Information Retrieval Models (I)
Sándor Dominich, Júlia Góth, Mária Horváth, Tamás Kiezer: 'Beauty' of the World Wide Web-Cause, Goal, or Principle. 67-80

Text Summarization
Patrick Ruch, Laura Perret, Jacques Savoy: Features Combination for Extracting Gene Functions from MEDLINE. 112-126
Sana Leila Châar, Olivier Ferret, Christian Fluhr: Filtering for Profile-Biased Multi-document Summarization. 127-141
Massih-Reza Amini, Nicolas Usunier, Patrick Gallinari: Automatic Text Summarization Based on Word-Clusters and Ranking Algorithms. 142-156
Ruichao Wang, Nicola Stokes, William P. Doran, Eamonn Newman, Joe Carthy, John Dunnion: Comparing Topiary-Style Approaches to Headline Generation. 157-168
Information Retrieval Methods (I)
Lingpeng Yang, Dong-Hong Ji, Guodong Zhou, Nie Yu: Improving Retrieval Effectiveness by Using Key Terms in Top Retrieved Documents. 169-184
Vishwa Vinay, Ingemar J. Cox, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Kenneth R. Wood: Evaluating Relevance Feedback Algorithms for Searching on Small Displays. 185-199
Information Retrieval Models (II)
Luis M. de Campos, Juan M. Fernández-Luna, Juan F. Huete: Improving the Context-Based Influence Diagram Model for Structured Document Retrieval: Removing Topological Restrictions and Adding New Evaluation Methods. 215-229
Terence Clifton, William John Teahan: Knowing-Aboutness: Question-Answering Using a Logic-Based Framework. 230-244
Tomás Skopal, Pavel Moravec: Modified LSI Model for Efficient Search by Metric Access Methods. 245-259
Henrik Nottelmann: PIRE: An Extensible IR Engine Based on Probabilistic Datalog. 260-274
Text Classification and Fusion

Stefan Siersdorfer, Gerhard Weikum: Using Restrictive Classification and Meta Classification for Junk Elimination. 287-299
User Studies and Evaluation
Sari Suomela, Jaana Kekäläinen: Ontology as a Search-Tool: A Study of Real Users' Query Formulation With and Without Conceptual Support. 315-329
Cyril Goutte, Éric Gaussier: A Probabilistic Interpretation of Precision, Recall and F-Score, with Implication for Evaluation. 345-359
Kamal Ali, Chi-Chao Chang, Yun-Fang Juan: Exploring Cost-Effective Approaches to Human Evaluation of Search Engine Relevance. 360-374
Information Retrieval Methods (II)
Roi Blanco, Alvaro Barreiro: Document Identifier Reassignment Through Dimensionality Reduction. 375-387
Amélie Imafouo, Michel Beigbeder: Scalability Influence on Retrieval Models: An Experimental Methodology. 388-402
Olga Vechtomova: The Role of Multi-word Units in Interactive Information Retrieval. 403-420
Raija Lehtokangas, Heikki Keskustalo, Kalervo Järvelin: Dictionary-Based CLIR Loses Highly Relevant Documents. 421-432
Multimedia Retrieval

Peter Howarth, Stefan M. Rüger: Fractional Distance Measures for Content-Based Image Retrieval. 447-456
Mohammed Belkhatir: Combining Visual Semantics and Texture Characterizations for Precision-Oriented Automatic Image Retrieval. 457-474
Web Information Retrieval
Xue-Mei Jiang, Wen-Guan Song, Hua-Jun Zeng: Applying Associative Relationship on the Clickthrough Data to Improve Web Search. 475-486

Posters
Iadh Ounis, Gianni Amati, Vassilis Plachouras, Ben He, Craig Macdonald, Douglas Johnson: Terrier Information Retrieval Platform. 517-519
Paul Ferguson, Cathal Gurrin, Peter Wilkins, Alan F. Smeaton: Físréal: A Low Cost Terabyte Search Engine. 520-522
Fidel Cacheda, Victor Carneiro, Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis: Network Analysis for Distributed Information Retrieval Architectures. 527-529
Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Joo-Hwee Lim, Ramnath Vasudha: SnapToTell: A Singapore Image Test Bed for Ubiquitous Information Access from Camera. 530-532
Takeshi Kutsumi, Takehiko Yoshimi, Katsunori Kotani, Ichiko Sata, Hitoshi Isahara: Acquisition of Translation Knowledge of Syntactically Ambiguous Named Entity. 533-535
Juan Manuel Pérez, Torben Bach Pedersen, Rafael Berlanga Llavori, María José Aramburu: IR and OLAP in XML Document Warehouses. 536-539
Oisín Boydell, Cathal Gurrin, Alan F. Smeaton, Barry Smyth: Manipulating the Relevance Models of Existing Search Engines. 540-542

Stéphane Ayache, Georges Quénot, Mbarek Charhad: Video Shot Classification Using Lexical Context. 549-551
Liudmila V. Boldareva: Improving Image Representation with Relevance Judgements from the Searchers. 555-557
Dayong Ding, Le Chen, Bo Zhang: Temporal Shot Clustering Analysis for Video Concept Detection. 558-560
Bruno Martins, Marcirio Silveira Chaves, Mário J. Silva: Assigning Geographical Scopes To Web Pages. 564-567
Le Chen, Dayong Ding, Dong Wang, Fuzong Lin, Bo Zhang: AP-Based Borda Voting Method for Feature Extraction in TRECVID-2004. 568-570



