Ebook: Advances in Information Retrieval: 30th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2008, Glasgow, UK, March 30-April 3, 2008. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2008, held in Glasgow, UK, in March/April 2008.

The 33 revised full papers and 19 revised short papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited lectures and 32 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 full article submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluation, Web IR, social media, cross-lingual information retrieval, theory, video, representation, wikipedia and e-books, as well as expert search.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2008, held in Glasgow, UK, in March/April 2008.

The 33 revised full papers and 19 revised short papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited lectures and 32 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 full article submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluation, Web IR, social media, cross-lingual information retrieval, theory, video, representation, wikipedia and e-books, as well as expert search.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2008, held in Glasgow, UK, in March/April 2008.

The 33 revised full papers and 19 revised short papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited lectures and 32 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 full article submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluation, Web IR, social media, cross-lingual information retrieval, theory, video, representation, wikipedia and e-books, as well as expert search.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Some(What) Grand Challenges for Information Retrieval....Pages 1-1
Web Search: Challenges and Directions....Pages 2-2
You Are a Document Too: Web Mining and IR for Next-Generation Information Literacy....Pages 3-3
Discounted Cumulated Gain Based Evaluation of Multiple-Query IR Sessions....Pages 4-15
Here or There....Pages 16-27
Using Clicks as Implicit Judgments: Expectations Versus Observations....Pages 28-39
Clustering Template Based Web Documents....Pages 40-51
Effective Pre-retrieval Query Performance Prediction Using Similarity and Variability Evidence....Pages 52-64
iCluster: A Self-organizing Overlay Network for P2P Information Retrieval....Pages 65-76
Labeling Categories and Relationships in an Evolving Social Network....Pages 77-88
Automatic Construction of an Opinion-Term Vocabulary for Ad Hoc Retrieval....Pages 89-100
A Comparison of Social Bookmarking with Traditional Search....Pages 101-113
Effects of Aligned Corpus Quality and Size in Corpus-Based CLIR....Pages 114-125
Exploring the Effects of Language Skills on Multilingual Web Search....Pages 126-137
A Novel Implementation of the FITE-TRT Translation Method....Pages 138-149
The BNB Distribution for Text Modeling....Pages 150-161
Utilizing Passage-Based Language Models for Document Retrieval....Pages 162-174
A Statistical View of Binned Retrieval Models....Pages 175-186
Video Corpus Annotation Using Active Learning....Pages 187-198
Use of Implicit Graph for Recommending Relevant Videos: A Simulated Evaluation....Pages 199-210
Using Terms from Citations for IR: Some First Results....Pages 211-221
Automatic Extraction of Domain-Specific Stopwords from Labeled Documents....Pages 222-233
Book Search Experiments: Investigating IR Methods for the Indexing and Retrieval of Books....Pages 234-245
Using a Task-Based Approach in Evaluating the Usability of BoBIs in an E-book Environment....Pages 246-257
Exploiting Locality of Wikipedia Links in Entity Ranking....Pages 258-269
The Importance of Link Evidence in Wikipedia....Pages 270-282
High Quality Expertise Evidence for Expert Search....Pages 283-295
Associating People and Documents....Pages 296-308
Modeling Documents as Mixtures of Persons for Expert Finding....Pages 309-320
Ranking Users for Intelligent Message Addressing....Pages 321-333
Facilitating Query Decomposition in Query Language Modeling by Association Rule Mining Using Multiple Sliding Windows....Pages 334-345
Viewing Term Proximity from a Different Perspective....Pages 346-357
Extending Probabilistic Data Fusion Using Sliding Windows....Pages 358-369
Semi-supervised Document Classification with a Mislabeling Error Model....Pages 370-381
Improving Term Frequency Normalization for Multi-topical Documents and Application to Language Modeling Approaches....Pages 382-393
Probabilistic Document Length Priors for Language Models....Pages 394-405
Applying Maximum Entropy to Known-Item Email Retrieval....Pages 406-413
Computing Information Retrieval Performance Measures Efficiently in the Presence of Tied Scores....Pages 414-421
Towards Characterization of Actor Evolution and Interactions in News Corpora....Pages 422-429
The Impact of Semantic Class Identification and Semantic Role Labeling on Natural Language Answer Extraction....Pages 430-437
Improving Complex Interactive Question Answering with Wikipedia Anchor Text....Pages 438-445
A Cluster-Sensitive Graph Model for Query-Oriented Multi-document Summarization....Pages 446-453
Evaluating Text Representations for Retrieval of the Best Group of Documents....Pages 454-462
Enhancing Relevance Models with Adaptive Passage Retrieval....Pages 463-471
Ontology Matching Using Vector Space....Pages 472-481
Accessibility in Information Retrieval....Pages 482-489
Semantic Relationships in Multi-modal Graphs for Automatic Image Annotation....Pages 490-497
Conversation Detection in Email Systems....Pages 498-505
Efficient Multimedia Time Series Data Retrieval Under Uniform Scaling and Normalisation....Pages 506-513
Integrating Structure and Meaning: A New Method for Encoding Structure for Text Classification....Pages 514-521
A Wikipedia-Based Multilingual Retrieval Model....Pages 522-530
Filaments of Meaning in Word Space....Pages 531-538
Finding the Best Picture: Cross-Media Retrieval of Content....Pages 539-546
Robust Query-Specific Pseudo Feedback Document Selection for Query Expansion....Pages 547-554
Expert Search Evaluation by Supporting Documents....Pages 555-563
Ranking Categories for Web Search....Pages 564-569
Key Design Issues with Visualising Images Using Google Earth....Pages 570-574
Methods for Augmenting Semantic Models with Structural Information for Text Classification....Pages 575-579
Use of Temporal Expressions in Web Search....Pages 580-584
Towards an Automatically Generated Music Information System Via Web Content Mining....Pages 585-590
Investigating the Effectiveness of Clickthrough Data for Document Reordering....Pages 591-595
Analysis of Link Graph Compression Techniques....Pages 596-601
An Evaluation and Analysis of Incorporating Term Dependency for Ad-Hoc Retrieval....Pages 602-606
An Evaluation Measure for Distributed Information Retrieval Systems....Pages 607-611
Optimizing Language Models for Polarity Classification....Pages 612-616
Improving Web Image Retrieval Using Image Annotations and Inference Network....Pages 617-621
Slide-Film Interface: Overcoming Small Screen Limitations in Mobile Web Search....Pages 622-626
A Document-Centered Approach to a Natural Language Music Search Engine....Pages 627-631
Collaborative Topic Tracking in an Enterprise Environment....Pages 632-636
Graph-Based Profile Similarity Calculation Method and Evaluation....Pages 637-641
The Good, the Bad, the Difficult, and the Easy: Something Wrong with Information Retrieval Evaluation?....Pages 642-646
Hybrid Method for Personalized Search in Digital Libraries....Pages 647-651
Exploiting Session Context for Information Retrieval - A Comparative Study....Pages 652-657
Structural Re-ranking with Cluster-Based Retrieval....Pages 658-662
Automatic Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia....Pages 663-668
Evaluating Paragraph Retrieval for why-QA....Pages 669-673
Revisit of Nearest Neighbor Test for Direct Evaluation of Inter-document Similarities....Pages 674-678
A Comparison of Named Entity Patterns from a User Analysis and a System Analysis....Pages 679-683
Query-Based Inter-document Similarity Using Probabilistic Co-relevance Model....Pages 684-688
Using Coherence-Based Measures to Predict Query Difficulty....Pages 689-694
Efficient Processing of Category-Restricted Queries for Web Directories....Pages 695-699
Focused Browsing: Providing Topical Feedback for Link Selection in Hypertext Browsing....Pages 700-704
The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering....Pages 705-710
Efficiency Issues in Information Retrieval Workshop....Pages 711-711
Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval....Pages 712-712
Workshop on Novel Methodologies for Evaluation in Information Retrieval....Pages 713-713
ECIR 2008 Tutorials....Pages 714-715
Back Matter....Pages -

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2008, held in Glasgow, UK, in March/April 2008.

The 33 revised full papers and 19 revised short papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited lectures and 32 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 full article submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluation, Web IR, social media, cross-lingual information retrieval, theory, video, representation, wikipedia and e-books, as well as expert search.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Some(What) Grand Challenges for Information Retrieval....Pages 1-1
Web Search: Challenges and Directions....Pages 2-2
You Are a Document Too: Web Mining and IR for Next-Generation Information Literacy....Pages 3-3
Discounted Cumulated Gain Based Evaluation of Multiple-Query IR Sessions....Pages 4-15
Here or There....Pages 16-27
Using Clicks as Implicit Judgments: Expectations Versus Observations....Pages 28-39
Clustering Template Based Web Documents....Pages 40-51
Effective Pre-retrieval Query Performance Prediction Using Similarity and Variability Evidence....Pages 52-64
iCluster: A Self-organizing Overlay Network for P2P Information Retrieval....Pages 65-76
Labeling Categories and Relationships in an Evolving Social Network....Pages 77-88
Automatic Construction of an Opinion-Term Vocabulary for Ad Hoc Retrieval....Pages 89-100
A Comparison of Social Bookmarking with Traditional Search....Pages 101-113
Effects of Aligned Corpus Quality and Size in Corpus-Based CLIR....Pages 114-125
Exploring the Effects of Language Skills on Multilingual Web Search....Pages 126-137
A Novel Implementation of the FITE-TRT Translation Method....Pages 138-149
The BNB Distribution for Text Modeling....Pages 150-161
Utilizing Passage-Based Language Models for Document Retrieval....Pages 162-174
A Statistical View of Binned Retrieval Models....Pages 175-186
Video Corpus Annotation Using Active Learning....Pages 187-198
Use of Implicit Graph for Recommending Relevant Videos: A Simulated Evaluation....Pages 199-210
Using Terms from Citations for IR: Some First Results....Pages 211-221
Automatic Extraction of Domain-Specific Stopwords from Labeled Documents....Pages 222-233
Book Search Experiments: Investigating IR Methods for the Indexing and Retrieval of Books....Pages 234-245
Using a Task-Based Approach in Evaluating the Usability of BoBIs in an E-book Environment....Pages 246-257
Exploiting Locality of Wikipedia Links in Entity Ranking....Pages 258-269
The Importance of Link Evidence in Wikipedia....Pages 270-282
High Quality Expertise Evidence for Expert Search....Pages 283-295
Associating People and Documents....Pages 296-308
Modeling Documents as Mixtures of Persons for Expert Finding....Pages 309-320
Ranking Users for Intelligent Message Addressing....Pages 321-333
Facilitating Query Decomposition in Query Language Modeling by Association Rule Mining Using Multiple Sliding Windows....Pages 334-345
Viewing Term Proximity from a Different Perspective....Pages 346-357
Extending Probabilistic Data Fusion Using Sliding Windows....Pages 358-369
Semi-supervised Document Classification with a Mislabeling Error Model....Pages 370-381
Improving Term Frequency Normalization for Multi-topical Documents and Application to Language Modeling Approaches....Pages 382-393
Probabilistic Document Length Priors for Language Models....Pages 394-405
Applying Maximum Entropy to Known-Item Email Retrieval....Pages 406-413
Computing Information Retrieval Performance Measures Efficiently in the Presence of Tied Scores....Pages 414-421
Towards Characterization of Actor Evolution and Interactions in News Corpora....Pages 422-429
The Impact of Semantic Class Identification and Semantic Role Labeling on Natural Language Answer Extraction....Pages 430-437
Improving Complex Interactive Question Answering with Wikipedia Anchor Text....Pages 438-445
A Cluster-Sensitive Graph Model for Query-Oriented Multi-document Summarization....Pages 446-453
Evaluating Text Representations for Retrieval of the Best Group of Documents....Pages 454-462
Enhancing Relevance Models with Adaptive Passage Retrieval....Pages 463-471
Ontology Matching Using Vector Space....Pages 472-481
Accessibility in Information Retrieval....Pages 482-489
Semantic Relationships in Multi-modal Graphs for Automatic Image Annotation....Pages 490-497
Conversation Detection in Email Systems....Pages 498-505
Efficient Multimedia Time Series Data Retrieval Under Uniform Scaling and Normalisation....Pages 506-513
Integrating Structure and Meaning: A New Method for Encoding Structure for Text Classification....Pages 514-521
A Wikipedia-Based Multilingual Retrieval Model....Pages 522-530
Filaments of Meaning in Word Space....Pages 531-538
Finding the Best Picture: Cross-Media Retrieval of Content....Pages 539-546
Robust Query-Specific Pseudo Feedback Document Selection for Query Expansion....Pages 547-554
Expert Search Evaluation by Supporting Documents....Pages 555-563
Ranking Categories for Web Search....Pages 564-569
Key Design Issues with Visualising Images Using Google Earth....Pages 570-574
Methods for Augmenting Semantic Models with Structural Information for Text Classification....Pages 575-579
Use of Temporal Expressions in Web Search....Pages 580-584
Towards an Automatically Generated Music Information System Via Web Content Mining....Pages 585-590
Investigating the Effectiveness of Clickthrough Data for Document Reordering....Pages 591-595
Analysis of Link Graph Compression Techniques....Pages 596-601
An Evaluation and Analysis of Incorporating Term Dependency for Ad-Hoc Retrieval....Pages 602-606
An Evaluation Measure for Distributed Information Retrieval Systems....Pages 607-611
Optimizing Language Models for Polarity Classification....Pages 612-616
Improving Web Image Retrieval Using Image Annotations and Inference Network....Pages 617-621
Slide-Film Interface: Overcoming Small Screen Limitations in Mobile Web Search....Pages 622-626
A Document-Centered Approach to a Natural Language Music Search Engine....Pages 627-631
Collaborative Topic Tracking in an Enterprise Environment....Pages 632-636
Graph-Based Profile Similarity Calculation Method and Evaluation....Pages 637-641
The Good, the Bad, the Difficult, and the Easy: Something Wrong with Information Retrieval Evaluation?....Pages 642-646
Hybrid Method for Personalized Search in Digital Libraries....Pages 647-651
Exploiting Session Context for Information Retrieval - A Comparative Study....Pages 652-657
Structural Re-ranking with Cluster-Based Retrieval....Pages 658-662
Automatic Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia....Pages 663-668
Evaluating Paragraph Retrieval for why-QA....Pages 669-673
Revisit of Nearest Neighbor Test for Direct Evaluation of Inter-document Similarities....Pages 674-678
A Comparison of Named Entity Patterns from a User Analysis and a System Analysis....Pages 679-683
Query-Based Inter-document Similarity Using Probabilistic Co-relevance Model....Pages 684-688
Using Coherence-Based Measures to Predict Query Difficulty....Pages 689-694
Efficient Processing of Category-Restricted Queries for Web Directories....Pages 695-699
Focused Browsing: Providing Topical Feedback for Link Selection in Hypertext Browsing....Pages 700-704
The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering....Pages 705-710
Efficiency Issues in Information Retrieval Workshop....Pages 711-711
Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval....Pages 712-712
Workshop on Novel Methodologies for Evaluation in Information Retrieval....Pages 713-713
ECIR 2008 Tutorials....Pages 714-715
Back Matter....Pages -
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