Volume 43, Number 1, June 2009

Essays

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  Justin Zobel, Alistair Moffat, Laurence A. F. Park: Against recall: is it persistence, cardinality, density, coverage, or totality? 3-8
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  Giovanna Roda, Veronika Zenz, Mihai Lupu, Kalervo Järvelin, Mark Sanderson, Christa Womser-Hacker: So many topics, so little time. 9-16

Inex

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  Gianluca Demartini, Ludovic Denoyer, Antoine Doucet, Khairun Nisa Fachry, Patrick Gallinari, Shlomo Geva, Darren Wei Che Huang, Tereza Iofciu, Jaap Kamps, Gabriella Kazai, Marijn Koolen, Monica Landoni, Ragnar Nordlie, Nils Pharo, Ralf Schenkel, Martin Theobald, Andrew Trotman, Arjen P. de Vries, Alan Woodley, Jianhan Zhu: Report on INEX 2008. 17-36

CIKM workshop reports

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  Adam Jatowt, Katsumi Tanaka: The 2nd workshop on information credibility on the web (WICOW 2008). 37-41
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  Sebastian Michel, Gleb Skobeltsyn, Wai Gen Yee: Workshop on large-scale distributed systems for information retrieval. 42-48
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  Chee-Yong Chan, Neoklis Polyzotis: Report on the 10th international workshop on web information and data management (WIDM). 49-55

Workshop reports

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  Tetsuya Sakai, Mark Sanderson, Noriko Kando: EVIA 2008: the second international workshop on evaluating information access. 56-62
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  Mounia Lalmas, Anastasios Tombros, Pia Borlund, Jesper W. Schneider: Second international symposium on information interaction in context. 59-62
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  Hideo Joho, Frank Hopfgartner, Joemon M. Jose, C. J. van Rijsbergen: AIR 2008: second international workshop on adaptive information retrieval. 63-65
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  Mark Sanderson: Workshop on novel methodologies for evaluation in information retrieval: held at ECIR 2008, Glasgow, UK, 30th March, 2008. 66-69

Doctoral abstracts

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  Elham Ashoori: Using topic shifts in content-oriented XML retrieval. 70
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  Ingo Frommholz: A probabilistic framework for information modelling and retrieval based on user annotations on digital objects. 71-72
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  Craig Macdonald: The voting model for people search. 73
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  Zoltán Szlávik: Content and structure summarisation for accessing XML documents. 74

Volume 43, Number 2, December 2009

SIGIR workshop reports

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  Diane Kelly: SIGIR 2009 workshop program overview. 10-12
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  Jaap Kamps, Shlomo Geva, Carol Peters, Tetsuya Sakai, Andrew Trotman, Ellen M. Voorhees: Report on the SIGIR 2009 workshop on the future of IR evaluation. 13-23
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  Fredric C. Gey, Jussi Karlgren, Noriko Kando: Information access in a multilingual world: transitioning from research to real-world applications. 24-28
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  Mikhail Bilenko, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Matthew Richardson, Yi Zhang: Information retrieval and advertising. 29-33
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  Claudio Lucchese, Gleb Skobeltsyn, Wai Gen Yee: 7th workshop on large-scale distributed systems for information retrieval (LSDS-IR'09). 34-40
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  Hang Li, Tie-Yan Liu, ChengXiang Zhai: Learning to rank for information retrieval (LR4IR 2009). 41-45
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  Filip Radlinski, Paul N. Bennett, Ben Carterette, Thorsten Joachims: Redundancy, diversity and interdependent document relevance. 46-52
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  Eugene Agichtein, Marti A. Hearst, Ian Soboroff: The search and social media workshop at SIGIR 2009. 53-56
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  Georg Buscher, Jacek Gwizdka, Jaime Teevan, Nicholas J. Belkin, Ralf Bierig, Ludger van Elst, Joemon M. Jose: SIGIR 2009 workshop on understanding the user: logging and interpreting user interactions in information search and retrieval. 57-62

TREC workshop

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  Mihai Lupu, Jimmy Huang, Jianhan Zhu, John Tait: TREC-CHEM: large scale chemical information retrieval evaluation at TREC. 63-70

Other workshop reports

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  Paul Clough, Bettina Berendt: Report on the TrebleCLEF query log analysis workshop 2009. 71-77
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  Adam Jatowt, Katsumi Tanaka: The 3rd workshop on information credibility on the web (WICOW 2009). 78-82
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  Bill Kules, Daniel Tunkelang, Ryen W. White: HCIR 2009: the third international workshop on human-computer interaction and information retrieval. 83-87

Dissertation abstracts

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  Ying-Hsang Liu: The impact of MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) terms on information seeking effectiveness. 88