ECIR 2011: Dublin, Ireland

Keynote Talks

• Kalervo Järvelin:
  IR Research: Systems, Interaction, Evaluation and Theories. 1-3
  
• Evgeniy Gabrilovich:
  Ad Retrieval Systems in vitro and in vivo: Knowledge-Based Approaches to Computational Advertising. 4-5
  
• Thorsten Joachims:
  The Value of User Feedback. 6
  

Text Categorisation (I)

• Heung-Seon Oh, Yoonjung Choi, Sung-Hyon Myaeng:
  Text Classification for a Large-Scale Taxonomy Using Dynamically Mixed Local and Global Models for a Node. 7-18
  
• Peng Li, Bin Wang, Wei Jin, Yachao Cui:
  User-Related Tag Expansion for Web Document Clustering. 19-31
  
• Andrea Addis, Giuliano Armano, Eloisa Vargiu:
  A Comparative Experimental Assessment of a Threshold Selection Algorithm in Hierarchical Text Categorization. 32-42
  

Recommender Systems

• Christian Wartena, Martin Wibbels:
  Improving Tag-Based Recommendation by Topic Diversification. 43-54
  
• Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz, Laura Plaza, Pablo Gervás, Alberto Díaz:
  A Joint Model of Feature Mining and Sentiment Analysis for Product Review Rating. 55-66
  
• Qiaoling Liu, Eugene Agichtein:
  Modeling Answerer Behavior in Collaborative Question Answering Systems. 67-79
  

Web IR (I)

• Karl Gyllstrom, Marie-Francine Moens:
  Clash of the Typings - Finding Controversies and Children's Topics Within Queries. 80-91
  
• Marijn Koolen, Jaap Kamps:
  Are Semantically Related Links More Effective for Retrieval? 92-103
  
• Edward Bortnikov, Ronny Lempel, Kolman Vornovitsky:
  Caching for Realtime Search. 104-116
  
• Avi Arampatzis, Pavlos Efraimidis, George Drosatos:
  Enhancing Deniability against Query-Logs. 117-128
  

IR Evaluation

• Stephen Robertson:
  On the Contributions of Topics to System Evaluation. 129-140
  
• Jaime Arguello, Fernando Diaz, Jamie Callan, Ben Carterette:
  A Methodology for Evaluating Aggregated Search Results. 141-152
  
• Omar Alonso, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates:
  Design and Implementation of Relevance Assessments Using Crowdsourcing. 153-164
  
• Gabriella Kazai:
  In Search of Quality in Crowdsourcing for Search Engine Evaluation. 165-176
  

IR for Social Networks (I)

• Hiroya Takamura, Hikaru Yokono, Manabu Okumura:
  Summarizing a Document Stream. 177-188
  
• Nitin Chiluka, Nazareno Andrade, Johan A. Pouwelse:
  A Link Prediction Approach to Recommendations in Large-Scale User-Generated Content Systems. 189-200
  
• Sheila Kinsella, Alexandre Passant, John G. Breslin:
  Topic Classification in Social Media Using Metadata from Hyperlinked Objects. 201-206
  
• Ilija Subasic, Bettina Berendt:
  Peddling or Creating? Investigating the Role of Twitter in News Reporting. 207-213
  

Cross-Language IR

• Yulan He:
  Latent Sentiment Model for Weakly-Supervised Cross-Lingual Sentiment Classification. 214-225
  
• Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Paul N. Bennett:
  Fractional Similarity: Cross-Lingual Feature Selection for Search. 226-237
  
• Ahmed Hefny, Kareem Darwish, Ali Alkahky:
  Is a Query Worth Translating: Ask the Users! 238-250
  

IR Theory (I)

• Katja Hofmann, Shimon Whiteson, Maarten de Rijke:
  Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Learning to Rank Online. 251-263
  
• Tereza Iofciu, Gianluca Demartini, Nick Craswell, Arjen P. de Vries:
  ReFER: Effective Relevance Feedback for Entity Ranking. 264-276
  
• Ronan Cummins, Mounia Lalmas, Colm O'Riordan:
  The Limits of Retrieval Effectiveness. 277-282
  
• Deyu Zhou, Yulan He:
  Learning Conditional Random Fields from Unaligned Data for Natural Language Understanding. 283-288
  

Text Categorisation (II)

• Radim Rehurek:
  Subspace Tracking for Latent Semantic Analysis. 289-300
  
• Alejandro Bellogín, Jun Wang, Pablo Castells:
  Text Retrieval Methods for Item Ranking in Collaborative Filtering. 301-306
  
• Nedim Lipka, Benno Stein:
  Classifying with Co-stems - A New Representation for Information Filtering. 307-313
  

Multimedia IR

• Marçal Rusiñol, David Aldavert, Dimosthenis Karatzas, Ricardo Toledo, Josep Lladós:
  Interactive Trademark Image Retrieval by Fusing Semantic and Visual Content. 314-325
  
• Avi Arampatzis, Konstantinos Zagoris, Savvas A. Chatzichristofis:
  Dynamic Two-Stage Image Retrieval from Large Multimodal Databases. 326-337
  

IR for Social Networks (II)

• Wayne Xin Zhao, Jing Jiang, Jianshu Weng, Jing He, Ee-Peng Lim, Hongfei Yan, Xiaoming Li:
  Comparing Twitter and Traditional Media Using Topic Models. 338-349
  
• Huizhong Duan, Chengxiang Zhai:
  Exploiting Thread Structures to Improve Smoothing of Language Models for Forum Post Retrieval. 350-361
  
• Kamran Massoudi, Manos Tsagkias, Maarten de Rijke, Wouter Weerkamp:
  Incorporating Query Expansion and Quality Indicators in Searching Microblog Posts. 362-367
  
• Oscar Täckström, Ryan T. McDonald:
  Discovering Fine-Grained Sentiment with Latent Variable Structured Prediction Models. 368-374
  

IR Applications

• Duy Dinh, Lynda Tamine:
  Combining Global and Local Semantic Contexts for Improving Biomedical Information Retrieval. 375-386
  
• Jangwon Seo, W. Bruce Croft, Kwang Hyun Kim, Joon Ho Lee:
  Smoothing Click Counts for Aggregated Vertical Search. 387-398
  
• Pavel Serdyukov, Mike Taylor, Vishwa Vinay, Matthew Richardson, Ryen W. White:
  Automatic People Tagging for Expertise Profiling in the Enterprise. 399-410
  

Text Categorisation (III)

• Gabriel Dulac-Arnold, Ludovic Denoyer, Patrick Gallinari:
  Text Classification: A Sequential Reading Approach. 411-423
  
• Cristina Kadar, José Iria:
  Domain Adaptation for Text Categorization by Feature Labeling. 424-435
  

IR for Social Networks (III)

• Mostafa Keikha, Shima Gerani, Fabio Crestani:
  TEMPER: A Temporal Relevance Feedback Method. 436-447
  
• Owen Phelan, Kevin McCarthy, Mike Bennett, Barry Smyth:
  Terms of a Feather: Content-Based News Recommendation and Discovery Using Twitter. 448-459
  
• Kelly Y. Itakura, Charles L. A. Clarke, Shlomo Geva, Andrew Trotman, Wei Chi Huang:
  Topical and Structural Linkage in Wikipedia. 460-465
  

Web IR (II)

• Jinyoung Kim, Vitor R. Carvalho:
  An Analysis of Time-Instability in Web Search Results. 466-478
  
• Wolfgang Gatterbauer:
  Rules of Thumb for Information Acquisition from Large and Redundant Data. 479-490
  
• Suzan Verberne, Lou Boves, Wessel Kraaij:
  Bringing Why-QA to Web Search. 491-496
  
• Nick Craswell, Dennis Fetterly, Marc Najork:
  The Power of Peers. 497-502
  
• Benno Stein, Matthias Hagen:
  Introducing the User-over-Ranking Hypothesis. 503-509
  
• Ismail Sengör Altingövde, Rifat Ozcan, Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Özgür Ulusoy:
  Second Chance: A Hybrid Approach for Dynamic Result Caching in Search Engines. 510-516
  

IR Theory (II)

• Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis:
  Learning Models for Ranking Aggregates. 517-529
  
• Simon Jonassen, Svein Erik Bratsberg:
  Efficient Compressed Inverted Index Skipping for Disjunctive Text-Queries. 530-542
  
• Sree Lekha Thota, Ben Carterette:
  Within-Document Term-Based Index Pruning with Statistical Hypothesis Testing. 543-554
  
• Stéphane Campinas, Renaud Delbru, Giovanni Tummarello:
  SkipBlock: Self-indexing for Block-Based Inverted List. 555-561
  
• Peng Cai, Wei Gao, Kam-Fai Wong, Aoying Zhou:
  Weight-Based Boosting Model for Cross-Domain Relevance Ranking Adaptation. 562-567
  

Interactive IR

• David Elsweiler, Mark Baillie, Ian Ruthven:
  What Makes Re-finding Information Difficult? A Study of Email Re-finding. 568-579
  
• Elena Smirnova, Krisztian Balog:
  A User-Oriented Model for Expert Finding. 580-592
  
• Feza Baskaya, Heikki Keskustalo, Kalervo Järvelin:
  Simulating Simple and Fallible Relevance Feedback. 593-604
  
• M-Dyaa Albakour, Udo Kruschwitz, Nikolaos Nanas, Yunhyong Kim, Dawei Song, Maria Fasli, Anne N. De Roeck:
  AutoEval: An Evaluation Methodology for Evaluating Query Suggestions Using Query Logs. 605-610
  
• Christoph Kofler, Martha Larson, Alan Hanjalic:
  To Seek, Perchance to Fail: Expressions of User Needs in Internet Video Search. 611-616
  

Question Answering / NLP

• Elif Aktolga, James Allan, David A. Smith:
  Passage Reranking for Question Answering Using Syntactic Structures and Answer Types. 617-628
  
• Fei Song, William M. Darling, Adnan Duric, Fred W. Kroon:
  An Iterative Approach to Text Segmentation. 629-640
  
• Rama Badrinath, Suresh Venkatasubramaniyan, C. E. Veni Madhavan:
  Improving Query Focused Summarization Using Look-Ahead Strategy. 641-652
  
• Chenliang Li, Aixin Sun, Anwitaman Datta:
  A Generalized Method for Word Sense Disambiguation Based on Wikipedia. 653-664
  

Posters

• Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Nicola Tonellotto:
  Representing Document Lengths with Identifiers. 665-669
  
• Kien Tjin-Kam-Jet, Dolf Trieschnigg, Djoerd Hiemstra:
  Free-Text Search versus Complex Web Forms. 670-674
  
• Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Johannes Leveling, Thomas Mandl:
  Multilingual Log Analysis: LogCLEF. 675-678
  
• Jens Kürsten, Maximilian Eibl:
  A Large-Scale System Evaluation on Component-Level. 679-682
  
• Walid Magdy, Gareth J. F. Jones:
  Should MT Systems Be Used as Black Boxes in CLIR? 683-686
  
• Lei Wang, Dawei Song, Eyad Elyan:
  Video Retrieval Based on Words-of-Interest Selection. 687-690
  
• Dolf Trieschnigg, Claudia Hauff:
  Classic Children's Literature - Difficult to Read? 691-694
  
• David Leonard, David Lillis, Lusheng Zhang, Fergus Toolan, Rem W. Collier, John Dunnion:
  Applying Machine Learning Diversity Metrics to Data Fusion in Information Retrieval. 695-698
  
• Yue Shi, Martha Larson, Alan Hanjalic:
  Reranking Collaborative Filtering with Multiple Self-contained Modalities. 699-703
  
• Yue Shi, Martha Larson, Alan Hanjalic:
  How Far Are We in Trust-Aware Recommendation? 704-707
  
• Bahjat Safadi, Georges Quénot:
  Re-ranking for Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval. 708-711
  
• Benjamin Herbert, György Szarvas, Iryna Gurevych:
  Combining Query Translation Techniques to Improve Cross-Language Information Retrieval. 712-715
  
• Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen:
  Back to the Roots: Mean-Variance Analysis of Relevance Estimations. 716-720
  
• Xiaozhao Zhao, Peng Zhang, Dawei Song, Yuexian Hou:
  A Novel Re-ranking Approach Inspired by Quantum Measurement. 721-724
  
• Walid Magdy, Patrice Lopez, Gareth J. F. Jones:
  Simple vs. Sophisticated Approaches for Patent Prior-Art Search. 725-728
  
• David Zellhöfer, Ingo Frommholz, Ingo Schmitt, Mounia Lalmas, Keith van Rijsbergen:
  Towards Quantum-Based DB+IR Processing Based on the Principle of Polyrepresentation. 729-732
  
• Nasir Naveed, Sergej Sizov, Steffen Staab:
  ATTention: Understanding Authors and Topics in Context of Temporal Evolution. 733-737
  
• Yashar Moshfeghi, Joemon M. Jose:
  Role of Emotional Features in Collaborative Recommendation. 738-742
  
• David Buffoni, Sabrina Tollari, Patrick Gallinari:
  The Importance of the Depth for Text-Image Selection Strategy in Learning-To-Rank. 743-746
  
• Shima Gerani, Mostafa Keikha, Mark James Carman, Fabio Crestani:
  Personal Blog Retrieval Using Opinion Features. 747-750
  
• Ingo Frommholz, Benjamin Piwowarski, Mounia Lalmas, Keith van Rijsbergen:
  Processing Queries in Session in a Quantum-Inspired IR Framework. 751-754
  
• Emanuele Di Buccio, Massimo Melucci, Dawei Song:
  Towards Predicting Relevance Using a Quantum-Like Framework. 755-758
  
• Avi Arampatzis, Konstantinos Zagoris, Savvas A. Chatzichristofis:
  Fusion vs. Two-Stage for Multimodal Retrieval. 759-762
  
• Robert Neumayer, Rudolf Mayer, Kjetil Nørvåg:
  Combination of Feature Selection Methods for Text Categorisation. 763-766
  

Demonstrations

• Hector Llorens, Estela Saquete, Borja Navarro, Robert J. Gaizauskas:
  Time-Surfer: Time-Based Graphical Access to Document Content. 767-771
  
• Gianluca Demartini:
  ARES: A Retrieval Engine Based on Sentiments - Sentiment-Based Search Result Annotation and Diversification. 772-775
  
• Carsten Eickhoff, Tamara Polajnar, Karl Gyllstrom, Sergio Duarte Torres, Richard Glassey:
  Web Search Query Assistance Functionality for Young Audiences. 776-779
  
• Matteo Magnani, Danilo Montesi, Gabriele Nunziante, Luca Rossi:
  Conversation Retrieval from Twitter. 780-783
  
• John Hannon, Kevin McCarthy, Barry Smyth:
  Finding Useful Users on Twitter: Twittomender the Followee Recommender. 784-787
  
• Frans van der Sluis, Sergio Duarte Torres, Djoerd Hiemstra, Betsy van Dijk, Frea Kruisinga:
  Visual Exploration of Health Information for Children. 788-792
  

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