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ECIR 2008: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, Vassilis Plachouras, Ian Ruthven, Ryen W. White:
Advances in Information Retrieval , 30th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2008, Glasgow, UK, March 30-April 3, 2008. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4956, Springer 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-78645-0
Invited Presentations
- Nicholas J. Belkin:
Some(What) Grand Challenges for Information Retrieval. 1 - Amit Singhal:
Web Search: Challenges and Directions. 2 - Bettina Berendt:
You Are a Document Too: Web Mining and IR for Next-Generation Information Literacy. 3
Evaluation
- Kalervo Järvelin, Susan L. Price, Lois M. L. Delcambre, Marianne Lykke Nielsen:
Discounted Cumulated Gain Based Evaluation of Multiple-Query IR Sessions. 4-15 - Ben Carterette, Paul N. Bennett, David Maxwell Chickering, Susan T. Dumais:
Here or There. 16-27 - Falk Scholer, Milad Shokouhi, Bodo Billerbeck, Andrew Turpin:
Using Clicks as Implicit Judgments: Expectations Versus Observations. 28-39
Web IR
- Thomas Gottron:
Clustering Template Based Web Documents. 40-51 - Ying Zhao, Falk Scholer, Yohannes Tsegay:
Effective Pre-retrieval Query Performance Prediction Using Similarity and Variability Evidence. 52-64 - Paraskevi Raftopoulou, Euripides G. M. Petrakis:
iCluster: A Self-organizing Overlay Network for P2P Information Retrieval. 65-76
Social Media
- Ming-Shun Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen:
Labeling Categories and Relationships in an Evolving Social Network. 77-88 - Giambattista Amati, Edgardo Ambrosi, Marco Bianchi, Carlo Gaibisso, Giorgio Gambosi:
Automatic Construction of an Opinion-Term Vocabulary for Ad Hoc Retrieval. 89-100 - Beate Krause, Andreas Hotho, Gerd Stumme:
A Comparison of Social Bookmarking with Traditional Search. 101-113
Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval
- Tuomas Talvensaari:
Effects of Aligned Corpus Quality and Size in Corpus-Based CLIR. 114-125 - Jennifer Marlow, Paul D. Clough, Juan Miguel Cigarrán Recuero, Javier Artiles:
Exploring the Effects of Language Skills on Multilingual Web Search. 126-137 - Aki Loponen, Ari Pirkola, Kalervo Järvelin, Heikki Keskustalo:
A Novel Implementation of the FITE-TRT Translation Method. 138-149
Theory I
- Stéphane Clinchant, Éric Gaussier:
The BNB Distribution for Text Modeling. 150-161 - Michael Bendersky, Oren Kurland:
Utilizing Passage-Based Language Models for Document Retrieval. 162-174 - Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman, W. Bruce Croft:
A Statistical View of Binned Retrieval Models. 175-186
Video
- Stéphane Ayache, Georges Quénot:
Video Corpus Annotation Using Active Learning. 187-198 - David Vallet, Frank Hopfgartner, Joemon M. Jose:
Use of Implicit Graph for Recommending Relevant Videos: A Simulated Evaluation. 199-210
Representation I
- Anna Ritchie, Simone Teufel, Stephen Robertson:
Using Terms from Citations for IR: Some First Results. 211-221 - Masoud Makrehchi, Mohamed S. Kamel:
Automatic Extraction of Domain-Specific Stopwords from Labeled Documents. 222-233
Wikipedia and E-Books
- Hengzhi Wu, Gabriella Kazai, Michael J. Taylor:
Book Search Experiments: Investigating IR Methods for the Indexing and Retrieval of Books. 234-245 - Noorhidawati Abdullah, Forbes Gibb:
Using a Task-Based Approach in Evaluating the Usability of BoBIs in an E-book Environment. 246-257 - Jovan Pehcevski, Anne-Marie Vercoustre, James A. Thom:
Exploiting Locality of Wikipedia Links in Entity Ranking. 258-269 - Jaap Kamps, Marijn Koolen:
The Importance of Link Evidence in Wikipedia. 270-282
Expert Search
- Craig Macdonald, David Hannah, Iadh Ounis:
High Quality Expertise Evidence for Expert Search. 283-295 - Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke:
Associating People and Documents. 296-308 - Pavel Serdyukov, Djoerd Hiemstra:
Modeling Documents as Mixtures of Persons for Expert Finding. 309-320 - Vitor R. Carvalho, William W. Cohen:
Ranking Users for Intelligent Message Addressing. 321-333
Representation II
- Dawei Song, Qiang Huang, Stefan M. Rüger, Peter Bruza:
Facilitating Query Decomposition in Query Language Modeling by Association Rule Mining Using Multiple Sliding Windows. 334-345 - Ruihua Song, Michael J. Taylor, Ji-Rong Wen, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Yong Yu:
Viewing Term Proximity from a Different Perspective. 346-357 - David Lillis, Fergus Toolan, Rem W. Collier, John Dunnion:
Extending Probabilistic Data Fusion Using Sliding Windows. 358-369
Theory II
- Anastasia Krithara, Massih-Reza Amini, Jean-Michel Renders, Cyril Goutte:
Semi-supervised Document Classification with a Mislabeling Error Model. 370-381 - Seung-Hoon Na, In-Su Kang, Jong-Hyeok Lee:
Improving Term Frequency Normalization for Multi-topical Documents and Application to Language Modeling Approaches. 382-393 - Roi Blanco, Alvaro Barreiro:
Probabilistic Document Length Priors for Language Models. 394-405
Short Papers
- Sirvan Yahyaei, Christof Monz:
Applying Maximum Entropy to Known-Item Email Retrieval. 406-413 - Frank McSherry, Marc Najork:
Computing Information Retrieval Performance Measures Efficiently in the Presence of Tied Scores. 414-421 - Rohan Choudhary, Sameep Mehta, Amitabha Bagchi, Rahul Balakrishnan:
Towards Characterization of Actor Evolution and Interactions in News Corpora. 422-429 - Bahadorreza Ofoghi, John Yearwood, Liping Ma:
The Impact of Semantic Class Identification and Semantic Role Labeling on Natural Language Answer Extraction. 430-437 - Ian MacKinnon, Olga Vechtomova:
Improving Complex Interactive Question Answering with Wikipedia Anchor Text. 438-445 - Furu Wei, Wenjie Li, Qin Lu, Yanxiang He:
A Cluster-Sensitive Graph Model for Query-Oriented Multi-document Summarization. 446-453 - Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft:
Evaluating Text Representations for Retrieval of the Best Group of Documents. 454-462 - Xiaoyan Li, Zhigang Zhu:
Enhancing Relevance Models with Adaptive Passage Retrieval. 463-471 - Zahra Eidoon, Nasser Yazdani, Farhad Oroumchian:
Ontology Matching Using Vector Space. 472-481 - Leif Azzopardi, Vishwa Vinay:
Accessibility in Information Retrieval. 482-489 - Vassilios Stathopoulos, Jana Urban, Joemon M. Jose:
Semantic Relationships in Multi-modal Graphs for Automatic Image Annotation. 490-497 - Shai Erera, David Carmel:
Conversation Detection in Email Systems. 498-505 - Waiyawuth Euachongprasit, Chotirat Ann Ratanamahatana:
Efficient Multimedia Time Series Data Retrieval Under Uniform Scaling and Normalisation. 506-513 - Jonathan M. Fishbein, Chris Eliasmith:
Integrating Structure and Meaning: A New Method for Encoding Structure for Text Classification. 514-521 - Martin Potthast, Benno Stein, Maik Anderka:
A Wikipedia-Based Multilingual Retrieval Model. 522-530 - Jussi Karlgren, Anders Holst, Magnus Sahlgren:
Filaments of Meaning in Word Space. 531-538 - Koen Deschacht, Marie-Francine Moens:
Finding the Best Picture: Cross-Media Retrieval of Content. 539-546 - Qiang Huang, Dawei Song, Stefan M. Rüger:
Robust Query-Specific Pseudo Feedback Document Selection for Query Expansion. 547-554 - Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis:
Expert Search Evaluation by Supporting Documents. 555-563
Posters
- Gianluca Demartini, Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Ingo Brunkhorst, Wolfgang Nejdl:
Ranking Categories for Web Search. 564-569 - Paul D. Clough, Simon Read:
Key Design Issues with Visualising Images Using Google Earth. 570-574 - Jonathan M. Fishbein, Chris Eliasmith:
Methods for Augmenting Semantic Models with Structural Information for Text Classification. 575-579 - Sérgio Nunes, Cristina Ribeiro, Gabriel David:
Use of Temporal Expressions in Web Search. 580-584 - Markus Schedl, Peter Knees, Tim Pohle, Gerhard Widmer:
Towards an Automatically Generated Music Information System Via Web Content Mining. 585-590 - Milad Shokouhi, Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin:
Investigating the Effectiveness of Clickthrough Data for Document Reordering. 591-595 - David Hannah, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis:
Analysis of Link Graph Compression Techniques. 596-601 - Hao Lang, Bin Wang, Gareth J. F. Jones, Jintao Li, Yang Xu:
An Evaluation and Analysis of Incorporating Term Dependency for Ad-Hoc Retrieval. 602-606 - Hans Friedrich Witschel, Florian Holz, Gregor Heinrich, Sven Teresniak:
An Evaluation Measure for Distributed Information Retrieval Systems. 607-611 - Michael Wiegand, Dietrich Klakow:
Optimizing Language Models for Polarity Classification. 612-616 - Peng Huang, Jiajun Bu, Chun Chen, Guang Qiu:
Improving Web Image Retrieval Using Image Annotations and Inference Network. 617-621 - Roman Y. Shtykh, Jian Chen, Qun Jin:
Slide-Film Interface: Overcoming Small Screen Limitations in Mobile Web Search. 622-626 - Peter Knees, Tim Pohle, Markus Schedl, Dominik Schnitzer, Klaus Seyerlehner:
A Document-Centered Approach to a Natural Language Music Search Engine. 627-631 - Conny Franke, Omar Alonso:
Collaborative Topic Tracking in an Enterprise Environment. 632-636 - Hassan Naderi, Béatrice Rumpler:
Graph-Based Profile Similarity Calculation Method and Evaluation. 637-641 - Stefano Mizzaro:
The Good, the Bad, the Difficult, and the Easy: Something Wrong with Information Retrieval Evaluation?. 642-646 - Thanh-Trung Van, Michel Beigbeder:
Hybrid Method for Personalized Search in Digital Libraries. 647-651 - Gaurav Pandey, Julia Luxenburger:
Exploiting Session Context for Information Retrieval - A Comparative Study. 652-657 - Seung-Hoon Na, In-Su Kang, Jong-Hyeok Lee:
Structural Re-ranking with Cluster-Based Retrieval. 658-662 - Martin Potthast, Benno Stein, Robert Gerling:
Automatic Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia. 663-668 - Suzan Verberne, Lou Boves, Nelleke Oostdijk, Peter-Arno Coppen:
Evaluating Paragraph Retrieval for . 669-673 - Seung-Hoon Na, In-Su Kang, Jong-Hyeok Lee:
Revisit of Nearest Neighbor Test for Direct Evaluation of Inter-document Similarities. 674-678 - Masnizah Mohd, Fabio Crestani, Ian Ruthven:
A Comparison of Named Entity Patterns from a User Analysis and a System Analysis. 679-683 - Seung-Hoon Na, In-Su Kang, Jong-Hyeok Lee:
Query-Based Inter-document Similarity Using Probabilistic Co-relevance Model. 684-688 - Jiyin He, Martha A. Larson, Maarten de Rijke:
Using Coherence-Based Measures to Predict Query Difficulty. 689-694 - Ismail Sengör Altingövde, Fazli Can, Özgür Ulusoy:
Efficient Processing of Category-Restricted Queries for Web Directories. 695-699 - Gareth J. F. Jones, Quixiang Li:
Focused Browsing: Providing Topical Feedback for Link Selection in Hypertext Browsing. 700-704 - Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke:
The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering. 705-710
Workshop Summaries
- Roi Blanco, Fabrizio Silvestri:
Efficiency Issues in Information Retrieval Workshop. 711 - Omar Alonso, Hugo Zaragoza:
Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval. 712 - Mark Sanderson, Martin Braschler, Nicola Ferro, Julio Gonzalo:
Workshop on Novel Methodologies for Evaluation in Information Retrieval. 713
Tutorials
- Djoerd Hiemstra:
ECIR 2008 Tutorials. 714-715
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