Advances in Information Retrieval: 24th Bcs-Irsg European Colloquim on Ir Research Glasgow, Uk, March 25-27, 2002 : Proceedings

by Crestani, Fabio; Girolami, Mark; Van Rijsbergen, Cornelis Joost

• ISBN13: 9783540433439
• ISBN10: 3540433430
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th European Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2002, held in Glasgow, UK, in March 2002. The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 52 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on multimedia, Web-information retrieval, query modification, soft computing, models, categorization, structured documents, cross-language issues, and interactive systems.

Table of Contents

Multimedia
Evaluating a Melody Extraction Engine	1	(21)
Thomas Sødring
Alan F. Smeaton
Organising and Searching Partially Indexed Image Databases	22	(19)
Gerald Duffing
Malika Smail
Combining Features for Content-Based Sketch Retrieval - A Comparative Evaluation of Retrieval Performance	41	(12)
Daniel Heesch
Stefan Ruger
The Web
Combining Web Document Representations in a Bayesian Inference Network Model Using Link and Content-Based Evidence	53	(20)
Theodora Tsikrika
Mounia Lalmas
An Improved Computation of the PageRank Algorithm	73	(13)
Sung Jin Kim
Sang Ho Lee
Serving Enhanced Hypermedia Information	86	(7)
George Lepouras
Costas Vassilakis
George R.S. Weir
Query Modification
The Use of Implicit Evidence for Relevance Feedback in Web Retrieval	93	(17)
Ryen W. White
Ian Ruthven
Joemon M. Jose
Subject Knowledge, Source of Terms, and Term Selection in Query Expansion: An Analytical Study	110	(14)
Pertti Vakkari
Automatic Profile Reformulation Using a Local Document Analysis	124	(11)
Anis Benammar
Gilles Hubert
Josiane Mothe
Soft Computing
A Study on Using Genetic Niching for Query Optimisation in Document Retrieval	135	(15)
Mohand Boughanem
Lynda Tamine
Concept Based Adaptive IR Model Using FCA-BAM Combination for Concept Representation and Encoding	150	(19)
R.K. Rajapakse
M. Denham
Models
A Layered Bayesian Network Model for Document Retrieval	169	(14)
Luis M. de Campos
Juan M. Fernandez-Luua
Juan F. Huete
Term Frequency Normalization via Pareto Distributions	183	(10)
Gianni Amati
Cornelis Joost van Rijsbergen
Optimal Mixture Models in IR	193	(20)
Victor Lavrenko
Categorization
Text Categorization: An Experiment Using Phrases	213	(16)
Madhusudhan Kongovi
Juan Carlos Guzman
Venu Dasigi
A Hierarchical Model for Clustering and Categorising Documents	229	(19)
E. Gaussier
C. Goutte
K. Popat
F. Chen
Uncertainty-Based Noise Reduction and Term Selection in Text Categorization	248	(20)
C. Peters
C.H.A. Koster
Structured Documents
A Graphical User Interface for Structured Document Retrieval	268	(16)
Jesus Vegas
Pablo de la Fuente
Fabio Crestani
The Accessibility Dimension for Structured Document Retrieval	284	(19)
Thomas Roelleke
Mounia Lalmas
Gabriella Kazai
Ian Ruthven
Stefan Quicker
Cross-Language
Building Bilingual Dictionaries from Parallel Web Documents	303	(21)
Craig J.A. McEwan
Iadh Ounis
Ian Ruthven
Translation-Based Indexing for Cross-Language Retrieval	324	(10)
Douglas W. Oard
Funda Ertunc
Interactive Systems
A Retrospective Evaluation Method for Exact-Match and Best-Match Queries Applying an Interactive Query Performance Analyser	334	(19)
Eero Sormunen
Genre Classification and Domain Transfer for Information Filtering	353	(10)
Aidan Finn
Nicholas Kushmerick
Barry Smyth
Author Index	363