SIGIR Forum, Volume 42

Volume 42, Number 1, June 2008

INEX reports

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  Gabriella Kazai, Antoine Doucet:
  Overview of the INEX 2007 Book Search track: BookSearch '07. 2-15
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  Theodora Tsikrika, Thijs Westerveld:
  Multimedia retrieval at INEX 2007. 16-21
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  Ludovic Denoyer, Patrick Gallinari:
  Report on the XML mining track at INEX 2007 categorization and clustering of XML documents. 22-28

CIKM workshop reports

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  Aparna S. Varde, Jian Pei:
  Advances in information and knowledge management. 29-35
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  Irini Fundulaki, Neoklis Polyzotis:
  Report on the 9th International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2007). 36-43

ECIR reports

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  Iadh Ounis, Ian Ruthven, Vassilis Plachouras:
  30^th European Conference in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2008). 44-46
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  Nicholas J. Belkin:
  Some(what) grand challenges for information retrieval. 47-54
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  Omar Alonso, Hugo Zaragoza:
  Exploiting semantic annotations in information retrieval: ESAIR '08. 55-58
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  Roi Blanco, Fabrizio Silvestri:
  ECIR 2008 Workshop on Efficiency Issues on Information Retrieval. 59-62

Workshop reports

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  Hideo Joho, Jana Urban, Robert Villa, Joemon M. Jose, C. J. van Rijsbergen:
  AIR 2006: First International Workshop on Adaptive Information Retrieval. 63-66
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  John Tait:
  Information retrieval facility symposium in Vienna. 67
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  Carlos Castillo, Kumar Chellapilla, Brian D. Davison:
  Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb 2007). 68-72
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  Hang Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Jian-Yun Nie, Kam-Fai Wong:
  The Fourth Asian Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 08). 73-74

Dissertation abstracts

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  David Elsweiler:
  Supporting human memory in personal information management. 75-76
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  Donald Metzler:
  Beyond bags of words: effectively modeling dependence and features in information retrieval. 77

Volume 42, Number 2, December 2008

Papers

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  Omar Alonso, Daniel E. Rose, Benjamin Stewart:
  Crowdsourcing for relevance evaluation. 9-15
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  Donna Harman, Djoerd Hiemstra:
  Saving and accessing the old IR literature. 16-21
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  Yaoyong Li, Hamish Cunningham:
  Geometric and quantum methods for information retrieval. 22-32
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  Paolo Boldi, Massimo Santini, Sebastiano Vigna:
  A large time-aware web graph. 33-38
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  Alessio Orlandi, Sebastiano Vigna:
  Compressed collections for simulated crawling. 39-44

SIGIR workshop reports

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  Peter G. Anick, Hwee Tou Ng:
  The SIGIR 2008 workshop program. 45
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  Krisztian Balog:
  The SIGIR 2008 workshop on future challenges in expertise retrieval (fCHER). 46-52
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  Paul N. Bennett, Ben Carterette, Olivier Chapelle, Thorsten Joachims:
  Beyond binary relevance: preferences, diversity, and set-level judgments. 53-58
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  Jaap Kamps, Shlomo Geva, Andrew Trotman:
  Report on the SIGIR 2008 workshop on focused retrieval. 59-65
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  Joachim Köhler, Martha Larson, Franciska de Jong, Wessel Kraaij, Roeland Ordelman:
  Spoken content retrieval: Searching spontaneous conversational speech. 66-75
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  Hang Li, Tie-Yan Liu, ChengXiang Zhai:
  Learning to rank for information retrieval (LR4IR 2008). 76-79
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  Vanessa Murdock, Mounia Lalmas:
  Workshop on aggregated search. 80-83

Other workshop reports

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  Sihem Amer-Yahia, Djoerd Hiemstra, Thomas Roelleke, Divesh Srivastava, Gerhard Weikum:
  DB&IR integration: report on the dagstuhl seminar. 84-89
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  Martha Larson, Kate Fernie, Johan Oomen, Juan Miguel Cigarrán Recuero:
  Information access to cultural heritage. 90-95
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  Jaime Teevan, William Jones, Robert Capra:
  Personal information management (PIM) 2008. 96-103

Dissertation abstracts

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  Krisztian Balog:
  People search in the enterprise. 103
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  Benjamin A. Carterette:
  Low-cost and robust evaluation of information retrieval systems. 104
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  Andrea Esuli:
  Automatic generation of lexical resources for opinion mining: models, algorithms and applications. 105-106
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  Luanne Freund:
  Exploiting task-document relations in support of information retrieval in the workplace. 107
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  Paul Thomas:
  Server characterisation and selection for personal metasearch. 108-109