ECIR 2008: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, Vassilis Plachouras, Ian Ruthven, Ryen W. White (Eds.): Advances in Information Retrieval , 30th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2008, Glasgow, UK, March 30-April 3, 2008. Proceedings. Springer 2008 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 978-3-540-78645-0
Invited Presentations
- Nicholas J. Belkin: Some(What) Grand Challenges for Information Retrieval. 1
- Amit Singhal: Web Search: Challenges and Directions. 2
- Bettina Berendt: You Are a Document Too: Web Mining and IR for Next-Generation Information Literacy. 3
Evaluation
- Kalervo Järvelin, Susan L. Price, Lois M. L. Delcambre, Marianne Lykke Nielsen: Discounted Cumulated Gain Based Evaluation of Multiple-Query IR Sessions. 4-15
- Falk Scholer, Milad Shokouhi, Bodo Billerbeck, Andrew Turpin: Using Clicks as Implicit Judgments: Expectations Versus Observations. 28-39
Web IR
- Thomas Gottron: Clustering Template Based Web Documents. 40-51
- Ying Zhao, Falk Scholer, Yohannes Tsegay: Effective Pre-retrieval Query Performance Prediction Using Similarity and Variability Evidence. 52-64
- Paraskevi Raftopoulou, Euripides G. M. Petrakis: iCluster: A Self-organizing Overlay Network for P2P Information Retrieval. 65-76
Social Media
- Ming-Shun Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen: Labeling Categories and Relationships in an Evolving Social Network. 77-88
- Giambattista Amati, Edgardo Ambrosi, Marco Bianchi, Carlo Gaibisso, Giorgio Gambosi: Automatic Construction of an Opinion-Term Vocabulary for Ad Hoc Retrieval. 89-100
- Beate Krause, Andreas Hotho, Gerd Stumme: A Comparison of Social Bookmarking with Traditional Search. 101-113
Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval
- Tuomas Talvensaari: Effects of Aligned Corpus Quality and Size in Corpus-Based CLIR. 114-125
- Jennifer Marlow, Paul Clough, Juan Miguel Cigarrán Recuero, Javier Artiles: Exploring the Effects of Language Skills on Multilingual Web Search. 126-137
- Aki Loponen, Ari Pirkola, Kalervo Järvelin, Heikki Keskustalo: A Novel Implementation of the FITE-TRT Translation Method. 138-149
Theory I
- Michael Bendersky, Oren Kurland: Utilizing Passage-Based Language Models for Document Retrieval. 162-174
- Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman, W. Bruce Croft: A Statistical View of Binned Retrieval Models. 175-186
Video
- David Vallet, Frank Hopfgartner, Joemon M. Jose: Use of Implicit Graph for Recommending Relevant Videos: A Simulated Evaluation. 199-210
Representation I
- Anna Ritchie, Simone Teufel, Stephen Robertson: Using Terms from Citations for IR: Some First Results. 211-221
- Masoud Makrehchi, Mohamed S. Kamel: Automatic Extraction of Domain-Specific Stopwords from Labeled Documents. 222-233
Wikipedia and E-Books
- Hengzhi Wu, Gabriella Kazai, Michael Taylor: Book Search Experiments: Investigating IR Methods for the Indexing and Retrieval of Books. 234-245
- Noorhidawati Abdullah, Forbes Gibb: Using a Task-Based Approach in Evaluating the Usability of BoBIs in an E-book Environment. 246-257
- Jovan Pehcevski, Anne-Marie Vercoustre, James A. Thom: Exploiting Locality of Wikipedia Links in Entity Ranking. 258-269
Expert Search
- Craig Macdonald, David Hannah, Iadh Ounis: High Quality Expertise Evidence for Expert Search. 283-295
- Pavel Serdyukov, Djoerd Hiemstra: Modeling Documents as Mixtures of Persons for Expert Finding. 309-320
Representation II
- Dawei Song, Qiang Huang, Stefan M. Rüger, Peter Bruza: Facilitating Query Decomposition in Query Language Modeling by Association Rule Mining Using Multiple Sliding Windows. 334-345
- Ruihua Song, Michael J. Taylor, Ji-Rong Wen, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Yong Yu: Viewing Term Proximity from a Different Perspective. 346-357
- David Lillis, Fergus Toolan, Rem W. Collier, John Dunnion: Extending Probabilistic Data Fusion Using Sliding Windows. 358-369
Theory II
- Anastasia Krithara, Massih-Reza Amini, Jean-Michel Renders, Cyril Goutte: Semi-supervised Document Classification with a Mislabeling Error Model. 370-381
- Seung-Hoon Na, In-Su Kang, Jong-Hyeok Lee: Improving Term Frequency Normalization for Multi-topical Documents and Application to Language Modeling Approaches. 382-393
Short Papers
- Frank McSherry, Marc Najork: Computing Information Retrieval Performance Measures Efficiently in the Presence of Tied Scores. 414-421
- Rohan Choudhary, Sameep Mehta, Amitabha Bagchi, Rahul Balakrishnan: Towards Characterization of Actor Evolution and Interactions in News Corpora. 422-429
- Bahadorreza Ofoghi, John Yearwood, Liping Ma: The Impact of Semantic Class Identification and Semantic Role Labeling on Natural Language Answer Extraction. 430-437
- Ian MacKinnon, Olga Vechtomova: Improving Complex Interactive Question Answering with Wikipedia Anchor Text. 438-445
- Furu Wei, Wenjie Li, Qin Lu, Yanxiang He: A Cluster-Sensitive Graph Model for Query-Oriented Multi-document Summarization. 446-453
- Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft: Evaluating Text Representations for Retrieval of the Best Group of Documents. 454-462
- Vassilios Stathopoulos, Jana Urban, Joemon M. Jose: Semantic Relationships in Multi-modal Graphs for Automatic Image Annotation. 490-497
- Waiyawuth Euachongprasit, Chotirat Ann Ratanamahatana: Efficient Multimedia Time Series Data Retrieval Under Uniform Scaling and Normalisation. 506-513
- Jonathan M. Fishbein, Chris Eliasmith: Integrating Structure and Meaning: A New Method for Encoding Structure for Text Classification. 514-521
- Koen Deschacht, Marie-Francine Moens: Finding the Best Picture: Cross-Media Retrieval of Content. 539-546
- Qiang Huang, Dawei Song, Stefan M. Rüger: Robust Query-Specific Pseudo Feedback Document Selection for Query Expansion. 547-554
Posters
- Gianluca Demartini, Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Ingo Brunkhorst, Wolfgang Nejdl: Ranking Categories for Web Search. 564-569
- Jonathan M. Fishbein, Chris Eliasmith: Methods for Augmenting Semantic Models with Structural Information for Text Classification. 575-579
- Markus Schedl, Peter Knees, Tim Pohle, Gerhard Widmer: Towards an Automatically Generated Music Information System Via Web Content Mining. 585-590
- Milad Shokouhi, Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin: Investigating the Effectiveness of Clickthrough Data for Document Reordering. 591-595
- Hao Lang, Bin Wang, Gareth J. F. Jones, Jintao Li, Yang Xu: An Evaluation and Analysis of Incorporating Term Dependency for Ad-Hoc Retrieval. 602-606
- Hans Friedrich Witschel, Florian Holz, Gregor Heinrich, Sven Teresniak: An Evaluation Measure for Distributed Information Retrieval Systems. 607-611
- Peng Huang, Jiajun Bu, Chun Chen, Guang Qiu: Improving Web Image Retrieval Using Image Annotations and Inference Network. 617-621
- Roman Y. Shtykh, Jian Chen, Qun Jin: Slide-Film Interface: Overcoming Small Screen Limitations in Mobile Web Search. 622-626
- Peter Knees, Tim Pohle, Markus Schedl, Dominik Schnitzer, Klaus Seyerlehner: A Document-Centered Approach to a Natural Language Music Search Engine. 627-631
- Hassan Naderi, Béatrice Rumpler: Graph-Based Profile Similarity Calculation Method and Evaluation. 637-641
- Stefano Mizzaro: The Good, the Bad, the Difficult, and the Easy: Something Wrong with Information Retrieval Evaluation?. 642-646
- Thanh-Trung Van, Michel Beigbeder: Hybrid Method for Personalized Search in Digital Libraries. 647-651
- Gaurav Pandey, Julia Luxenburger: Exploiting Session Context for Information Retrieval - A Comparative Study. 652-657
- Seung-Hoon Na, In-Su Kang, Jong-Hyeok Lee: Structural Re-ranking with Cluster-Based Retrieval. 658-662
- Suzan Verberne, Lou Boves, Nelleke Oostdijk, Peter-Arno Coppen: Evaluating Paragraph Retrieval for . 669-673
- Seung-Hoon Na, In-Su Kang, Jong-Hyeok Lee: Revisit of Nearest Neighbor Test for Direct Evaluation of Inter-document Similarities. 674-678
- Masnizah Mohd, Fabio Crestani, Ian Ruthven: A Comparison of Named Entity Patterns from a User Analysis and a System Analysis. 679-683
- Seung-Hoon Na, In-Su Kang, Jong-Hyeok Lee: Query-Based Inter-document Similarity Using Probabilistic Co-relevance Model. 684-688
- Jiyin He, Martha Larson, Maarten de Rijke: Using Coherence-Based Measures to Predict Query Difficulty. 689-694
- Ismail Sengör Altingövde, Fazli Can, Özgür Ulusoy: Efficient Processing of Category-Restricted Queries for Web Directories. 695-699
- Gareth J. F. Jones, Quixiang Li: Focused Browsing: Providing Topical Feedback for Link Selection in Hypertext Browsing. 700-704
- Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke: The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering. 705-710
Workshop Summaries
- Mark Sanderson, Martin Braschler, Nicola Ferro, Julio Gonzalo: Workshop on Novel Methodologies for Evaluation in Information Retrieval. 713
Tutorials
- Djoerd Hiemstra: ECIR 2008 Tutorials. 714-715
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