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

by Macdonald, Craig; Ounis, Iadh; Plachouras, Vassilis; Ruthven, Ian; White, Ryan W.

• ISBN13: 9783540786450
• ISBN10: 3540786457
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-04
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Invited Presentations
Some(What) Grand Challenges for Information Retrieval	p. 1
Web Search: Challenges and Directions	p. 2
You Are a Document Too: Web Mining and IR for Next-Generation Information Literacy	p. 3
Evaluation
Discounted Cumulated Gain Based Evaluation of Multiple-Query IR Sessions	p. 4
Here or There: Preference Judgments for Relevance	p. 16
Using Clicks as Implicit Judgments: Expectations Versus Observations	p. 28
Web IR
Clustering Template Based Web Documents	p. 40
Effective Pre-retrieval Query Performance Prediction Using Similarity and Variability Evidence	p. 52
iCluster: A Self-organizing Overlay Network for P2P Information Retrieval	p. 65
Social Media
Labeling Categories and Relationships in an Evolving Social Network	p. 77
Automatic Construction of an Opinion-Term Vocabulary for Ad Hoc Retrieval	p. 89
A Comparison of Social Bookmarking with Traditional Search	p. 101
Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval
Effects of Aligned Corpus Quality and Size in Corpus-Based CLIR	p. 114
Exploring the Effects of Language Skills on Multilingual Web Search	p. 126
A Novel Implementation of the FITE-TRT Translation Method	p. 138
Theory I
The BNB Distribution for Text Modeling	p. 150
Utilizing Passage-Based Language Models for Document Retrieval	p. 162
A Statistical View of Binned Retrieval Models	p. 175
Video
Video Corpus Annotation Using Active Learning	p. 187
Use of Implicit Graph for Recommending Relevant Videos: A Simulated Evaluation	p. 199
Representation I
Using Terms from Citations for IR: Some First Results	p. 211
Automatic Extraction of Domain-Specific Stopwords from Labeled Documents	p. 222
Wikipedia and E-Books
Book Search Experiments: Investigating IR Methods for the Indexing and Retrieval of Books	p. 234
Using a Task-Based Approach in Evaluating the Usability of BoBIs in an E-book Environment	p. 246
Exploiting Locality of Wikipedia Links in Entity Ranking	p. 258
The Importance of Link Evidence in Wikipedia	p. 270
Expert Search
High Quality Expertise Evidence for Expert Search	p. 283
Associating People and Documents	p. 296
Modeling Documents as Mixtures of Persons for Expert Finding	p. 309
Ranking Users for Intelligent Message Addressing	p. 321
Representation II
Facilitating Query Decomposition in Query Language Modeling by Association Rule Mining Using Multiple Sliding Windows	p. 334
Viewing Term Proximity from a Different Perspective	p. 346
Extending Probabilistic Data Fusion Using Sliding Windows	p. 358
Theory II
Semi-supervised Document Classification with a Mislabeling Error Model	p. 370
Improving Term Frequency Normalization for Multi-topical Documents and Application to Language Modeling Approaches	p. 382
Probabilistic Document Length Priors for Language Models	p. 394
Short Papers
Applying Maximum Entropy to Known-Item Email Retrieval	p. 406
Computing Information Retrieval Performance Measures Efficiently in the Presence of Tied Scores	p. 414
Towards Characterization of Actor Evolution and Interactions in News Corpora	p. 422
The Impact of Semantic Class Identification and Semantic Role Labeling on Natural Language Answer Extraction	p. 430
Improving Complex Interactive Question Answering with Wikipedia Anchor Text	p. 438
A Cluster-Sensitive Graph Model for Query-Oriented Multi-document Summarization	p. 446
Evaluating Text Representations for Retrieval of the Best Group of Documents	p. 454
Enhancing Relevance Models with Adaptive Passage Retrieval	p. 463
Ontology Matching Using Vector Space	p. 472
Accessibility in Information Retrieval	p. 482
Semantic Relationships in Multi-modal Graphs for Automatic Image Annotation	p. 490
Conversation Detection in Email Systems	p. 498
Efficient Multimedia Time Series Data Retrieval Under Uniform Scaling and Normalisation	p. 506
Integrating Structure and Meaning: A New Method for Encoding Structure for Text Classification	p. 514
A Wikipedia-Based Multilingual Retrieval Model	p. 522
Filaments of Meaning in Word Space	p. 531
Finding the Best Picture: Cross-Media Retrieval of Content	p. 539
Robust Query-Specific Pseudo Feedback Document Selection for Query Expansion	p. 547
Expert Search Evaluation by Supporting Documents	p. 555
Posters
Ranking Categories for Web Search	p. 564
Key Design Issues with Visualising Images Using Google Earth	p. 570
Methods for Augmenting Semantic Models with Structural Information for Text Classification	p. 575
Use of Temporal Expressions in Web Search	p. 580
Towards an Automatically Generated Music Information System Via Web Content Mining	p. 585
Investigating the Effectiveness of Clickthrough Data for Document Reordering	p. 591
Analysis of Link Graph Compression Techniques	p. 596
An Evaluation and Analysis of Incorporating Term Dependency for Ad-Hoc Retrieval	p. 602
An Evaluation Measure for Distributed Information Retrieval Systems	p. 607
Optimizing Language Models for Polarity Classification	p. 612
Improving Web Image Retrieval Using Image Annotations and Inference Network	p. 617
Slide-Film Interface: Overcoming Small Screen Limitations in Mobile Web Search	p. 622
A Document-Centered Approach to a Natural Language Music Search Engine	p. 627
Collaborative Topic Tracking in an Enterprise Environment	p. 632
Graph-Based Profile Similarity Calculation Method and Evaluation	p. 637
The Good, the Bad, the Difficult, and the Easy: Something Wrong with Information Retrieval Evaluation?	p. 642
Hybrid Method for Personalized Search in Digital Libraries	p. 647
Exploiting Session Context for Information Retrieval - A Comparative Study	p. 652
Structural Re-ranking with Cluster-Based Retrieval	p. 658
Automatic Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia	p. 663
Evaluating Paragraph Retrieval for why-QA	p. 669
Revisit of Nearest Neighbor Test for Direct Evaluation of Inter-document Similarities	p. 674
A Comparison of Named Entity Patterns from a User Analysis and a System Analysis	p. 679
Query-Based Inter-document Similarity Using Probabilistic Co-relevance Model	p. 684
Using Coherence-Based Measures to Predict Query Difficulty	p. 689
Efficient Processing of Category-Restricted Queries for Web Directories	p. 695
Focused Browsing: Providing Topical Feedback for Link Selection in Hypertext Browsing	p. 700
The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering	p. 705
Workshop Summaries
Efficiency Issues in Information Retrieval Workshop	p. 711
Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval	p. 712
Workshop on Novel Methodologies for Evaluation in Information Retrieval	p. 713
Tutorials
ECIR 2008 Tutorials	p. 714
Author Index	p. . 717
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