Volume 44, Number 1, June 2010

ECIR

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  Cathal Gurrin, Yulan He, Udo Kruschwitz, Suzanne Little, Stefan M. Rüger: ECIR 2010: 32nd european conference on information retrieval research. 2-18
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  Allan Hanbury, Veronika Zenz, Helmut Berger: 1st international workshop on advances in patent information retrieval (AsPIRe'10). 19-22
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  A. Kosmopoulos, Éric Gaussier, Georgios Paliouras, Sujeevan Aseervatham: The ECIR 2010 large scale hierarchical classification workshop. 23-32
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  Aiden R. Doherty, Cathal Gurrin, Gareth J. F. Jones, Alan F. Smeaton: Information access for personal media archives. 33-37

INEX

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  Thomas Beckers, Patrice Bellot, Gianluca Demartini, Ludovic Denoyer, Christopher M. De Vries, Antoine Doucet, Khairun Nisa Fachry, Norbert Fuhr, Patrick Gallinari, Shlomo Geva, Wei Chi Huang, Tereza Iofciu, Jaap Kamps, Gabriella Kazai, Marijn Koolen, Sangeetha Kutty, Monica Landoni, Miro Lehtonen, Véronique Moriceau, Richi Nayak, Ragnar Nordlie, Nils Pharo, Eric SanJuan, Ralf Schenkel, Xavier Tannier, Martin Theobald, James A. Thom, Andrew Trotman, Arjen P. de Vries: Report on INEX 2009. 38-57

TREC

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  Craig Macdonald, Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Iadh Ounis, Ian Soboroff: Blog track research at TREC. 58-75

Workshop report

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  Martha Larson, Roeland Ordelman, Franciska de Jong, Joachim Köhler, Wessel Kraaij: Multimedia with a speech track: searching spontaneous conversational speech. 76-81

Research note

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  Giovanna Roda: Connecting the dots. 82-86

Dissertation abstracts

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  Ralf Bierig: Event and map content personalisation in a mobile and context-aware-environment. 87
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  Claudia Hauff: Predicting the effectiveness of queries and retrieval systems. 88
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  Yan Zhang: The construction of mental models of information-rich web spaces: the development process and the impact of task complexity. 89

Volume 44, Number 2, December 2010

Conference reports

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  Maristella Agosti, Martin Braschler, Khalid Choukri, Nicola Ferro, Donna Harman, Carol Peters, Emanuele Pianta, Maarten de Rijke, Alan F. Smeaton: CLEF 2010 conference on multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation. 8-12
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  Diane Kelly, Nicholas J. Belkin: The third information interaction in context symposium (IIiX'10). 13-14

SIGIR workshop reports

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  Omar Alonso, Giambattista Amati: SIGIR 2010 workshop program overview. 15-16
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  Vitor R. Carvalho, Matthew Lease, Emine Yilmaz: Crowdsourcing for search evaluation. 17-22
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  Pavel Serdyukov, Djoerd Hiemstra, Ian Ruthven: Towards accessible search systems. 23-27
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  David Elsweiler, Gareth J. F. Jones, Liadh Kelly, Jaime Teevan: Workshop on desktop search. 28-34
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  Leif Azzopardi, Kalervo Järvelin, Jaap Kamps, Mark D. Smucker: Report on the SIGIR 2010 workshop on the simulation of interaction. 35-47
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  W. Bruce Croft, Michael Bendersky, Hang Li, Gu Xu: Query representation and understanding workshop. 48-53
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  Roi Blanco, Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Claudio Lucchese: The 8th workshop on large-scale distributed systems for information retrieval (LSDS-IR'10). 54-58
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  Chengxiang Zhai, Kuansan Wang, David Yarowsky, Stephan Vogel, Evelyne Viegas: Web N-gram workshop 2010. 59-63

Other workshop reports

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  Wessel Kraaij, Suzan Verberne, Max Hinne, Maarten van der Heijden, Theo P. van der Weide: DIR 2010: the tenth Dutch-Belgian information retrieval workshop. 64-66
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  William Webber, Tetsuya Sakai, Mark Sanderson: EVIA 2010: the third international workshop on evaluating information access. 67-72
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  Robert G. Capra, Bill Kules, Catherine L. Smith, Daniel Tunkelang, Ryen W. White: HCIR 2010: the fourth international workshop on human-computer interaction and information retrieval. 73-77
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  Adam Jatowt, Katsumi Tanaka: Report of the 4th workshop on information credibility on the web (WICOW 2010). 78-81

Dissertation abstracts

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  Robin Aly: Modeling representation uncertainty in concept-based multimedia retrieval. 82
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  Matthew W. Bilotti: Linguistic and semantic passage retrieval strategies for question answering. 83
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  Frank Hopfgartner: Personalised video retrieval: application of implicit feedback and semantic user profiles. 84-85
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  Weimao Ke: Scalability of findability: decentralized search and retrieval in large information networks. 86
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  Jingjing Liu: Personalizing information retrieval using task stage, topic knowledge, and task products. 87
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  Chirag Shah: A framework for supporting user-centric collaborative information seeking. 88
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  Dolf Trieschnigg: Proof of concept: concept-based biomedical information retrieval. 89
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  Suzan Verberne: In search of the Why: developing a system for answering why-questions. 90