Information Processing and Management, Volume 47
Volume 47, Number 1, January 2011

Georgios Paltoglou, Michail Salampasis, Maria Satratzemi: Modeling information sources as integrals for effective and efficient source selection. 18-36
Ruihua Song, Qingwei Guo, Ruochi Zhang, Guomao Xin, Ji-Rong Wen, Yong Yu, Hsiao-Wuen Hon: Select-the-Best-Ones: A new way to judge relative relevance. 37-52
Xiaoshi Yin, Jimmy Xiangji Huang, Zhoujun Li: Mining and modeling linkage information from citation context for improving biomedical literature retrieval. 53-67

Raymond K. Pon, Alfonso F. Cardenas, David Buttler, Terence Critchlow: Measuring the interestingness of articles in a limited user environment. 97-116
Massimo Franceschet: The skewness of computer science. 117-124
Jacques Wainer, Henrique Przibisczki de Oliveira, Ricardo Anido: Patterns of bibliographic references in the ACM published papers. 135-142
Randy Hinrichs, Valerie Hill, Daniel Patterson: Charles Wankel and Jan Kingsley, Editors, Higher education in Virtual Worlds: Teaching and Learning in Second Life, Emerald Grp Publ., England, UK (2009) ISBN-10: 8251923530; ISBN-13: 978-8251923538. 143-146
Volume 47, Number 2, March 2011
Wanpeng Song, Liu Wenyin, Naijie Gu, Xiaojun Quan, Tianyong Hao: Automatic categorization of questions for user-interactive question answering. 147-156
Sudatta Chowdhury, Forbes Gibb, Monica Landoni: Uncertainty in information seeking and retrieval: A study in an academic environment. 157-175
Kehong Yuan, Zhen Tian, Jiying Zou, Yanling Bai, Qingshan You: Brain CT image database building for computer-aided diagnosis using content-based image retrieval. 176-185
Mark Xu, Vincent Koon Ong, Yanqing Duan, Brian Mathews: Intelligent agent systems for executive information scanning, filtering and interpretation: Perceptions and challenges. 186-201
Enhong Chen, Yanggang Lin, Hui Xiong, Qiming Luo, Haiping Ma: Exploiting probabilistic topic models to improve text categorization under class imbalance. 202-214
Pablo Bermejo, Hideo Joho, Joemon M. Jose, Robert Villa: Study of context influence on classifiers trained under different video-document representations. 215-226
Ouyang You, Wenjie Li, Sujian Li, Qin Lu: Applying regression models to query-focused multi-document summarization. 227-237
Leo Egghe, Ludo Waltman: Relations between the shape of a size-frequency distribution and the shape of a rank-frequency distribution. 238-245
Jesús Vilares, Manuel Vilares Ferro, Juan Otero: Managing misspelled queries in IR applications. 263-286
Lin-Chih Chen: Using a new relational concept to improve the clustering performance of search engines. 287-299
Jonathan M. Levitt, Mike Thelwall: A combined bibliometric indicator to predict article impact. 300-308
Volume 47, Number 3, May 2011

Hiroshi Hanafusa, Kazuhiro Morita, Masao Fuketa, Jun-Ichi Aoe: A method of extracting malicious expressions in bulletin board systems by using context analysis. 323-335
Stephann Makri, Ann Blandford, Anna Louise Cox: This is what I'm doing and why: Methodological reflections on a naturalistic think-aloud study of interactive information behaviour. 336-348
Guodong Zhou, Junhui Li, Jianxi Fan, Qiaoming Zhu: Tree kernel-based semantic role labeling with enriched parse tree structure. 349-362
Ron Houston: CNI: Compelled Nonuse of Information. 363-375
Jean Martinet, Yves Chiaramella, Philippe Mulhem: A relational vector space model using an advanced weighting scheme for image retrieval. 391-414
Shouchun Chen, Fei Wang, Yangqiu Song, Changshui Zhang: Semi-supervised ranking aggregation. 415-425
Markus Schedl, Gerhard Widmer, Peter Knees, Tim Pohle: A music information system automatically generated via Web content mining techniques. 426-439
Masahiro Niitsuma, Masaki Matsubara, Masaki Oono, Hiroaki Saito: Development of a method for automatic basso continuo playing. 440-451
In-Su Kang, Pyung Kim, Seungwoo Lee, Hanmin Jung, Beom-Jong You: Construction of a large-scale test set for author disambiguation. 452-465
Volume 47, Number 4, July 2011
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis: Mimicking Web search engines for expert search. 467-481
Kun Chang Lee, Sangjae Lee: Interpreting the web-mining results by cognitive map and association rule approach. 482-490
Bernard J. Jansen, Zhe Liu, Courtney Weaver, Gerry Campbell, Matthew Gregg: Real time search on the web: Queries, topics, and economic value. 491-506
Yeongkil Song, Harksoo Kim: Automatic word spacing of erroneous sentences in mobile devices with limited hardware resources. 518-527
Hemant Misra, François Yvon, Olivier Cappé, Joemon M. Jose: Text segmentation: A topic modeling perspective. 528-544
Nieves R. Brisaboa, Antonio Fariña, Gonzalo Navarro, José R. Paramá: Improving semistatic compression via phrase-based modeling. 545-559
Li Wang, Masao Fuketa, Kazuhiro Morita, Jun-Ichi Aoe: Context constraint disambiguation of word semantics by field association schemes. 560-574
Irene Lopatovska, Ioannis Arapakis: Theories, methods and current research on emotions in library and information science, information retrieval and human-computer interaction. 575-592
Seokhwan Kim, Minwoo Jeong, Gary Geunbae Lee: A local tree alignment approach to relation extraction of multiple arguments. 593-605
Yang Liu, Xiaohui Yu, Jimmy Xiangji Huang, Aijun An: Combining integrated sampling with SVM ensembles for learning from imbalanced datasets. 617-631
Volume 47, Number 5, September 2011
Christopher C. Yang, Chih-Ping Wei, Lee-Feng Chien: Managing and mining multilingual documents: Introduction to the special topic issue of information processing management. 633-634
Ming-Feng Tsai, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Yu-Ting Wang: Learning a merge model for multilingual information retrieval. 635-646
Hsin-Chang Yang, Han-Wei Hsiao, Chung-Hong Lee: Multilingual document mining and navigation using self-organizing maps. 647-666
Yi Zhang, Flora S. Tsai, Agus Trisnajaya Kwee: Multilingual sentence categorization and novelty mining. 667-675
Md. Mahmudur Rahman, Sameer Antani, George R. Thoma: A query expansion framework in image retrieval domain based on local and global analysis. 676-691
Antonio Ferrández: Lexical and Syntactic knowledge for Information Retrieval. 692-705
Eduardo N. Borges, Moisés G. de Carvalho, Renata de Matos Galante, Marcos André Gonçalves, Alberto H. F. Laender: An unsupervised heuristic-based approach for bibliographic metadata deduplication. 706-718
Azzah Al-Maskari, Mark Sanderson: The effect of user characteristics on search effectiveness in information retrieval. 719-729
Xiubo Geng, Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xueqi Cheng, Hang Li: Selecting optimal training data for learning to rank. 730-741
Jukka Teuhola: Interpolative coding of integer sequences supporting log-time random access. 742-761

Chih-Ping Wei, Yen-Ting Lin, Christopher C. Yang: Cross-lingual text categorization: Conquering language boundaries in globalized environments. 786-804
Volume 47, Number 6, November 2011
Marie-Francine Moens, Patrick Saint-Dizier: Introduction to the special issue on question answering. 805-807
Hyo-Jung Oh, Ki-Youn Sung, Myung-Gil Jang, Sung-Hyon Myaeng: Compositional question answering: A divide and conquer approach. 808-824
Alessandro Moschitti, Silvia Quarteroni: Linguistic kernels for answer re-ranking in question answering systems. 825-842
Yllias Chali, Sadid A. Hasan, Shafiq R. Joty: Improving graph-based random walks for complex question answering using syntactic, shallow semantic and extended string subsequence kernels. 843-855
Alberto Téllez-Valero, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor Pineda, Anselmo Peñas Padilla: Learning to select the correct answer in multi-stream question answering. 856-869
Paloma Moreda, Hector Llorens, Estela Saquete, Manuel Palomar: Combining semantic information in question answering systems. 870-885
Yunbo Cao, Wen-Yun Yang, Chin-Yew Lin, Yong Yu: A structural support vector method for extracting contexts and answers of questions from online forums. 886-898
Patrick Saint-Dizier, Marie-Francine Moens: Knowledge and reasoning for question answering: Research perspectives. 899-906



