Sigir, '98, Melbourne, Australia

by Croft, W. Bruce; Moffat, Alistair; Van Rijsbergen, C. J.; Wilkinson, Ross; Zobel, Justin

• ISBN13: 9781581130157
• ISBN10: 1581130155
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-11-01
• Publisher: Assn for Computing Machinery

Table of Contents

Keynote Address
The Future of Internet Search	1	(1)
Steve Kirsch
Session 1 --- Opening Session
Advantages of Query Biased Summaries in Information Retrieval	2	(9)
Anastasios Tombros
Mark Sanderson
A Theory of Term Weighting Based on Exploratory Data Analysis	11	(9)
Warren R. Greiff
New Techniques for Open-Vocabulary Spoken Document Retrieval	20	(8)
Martin Wechsler
Eugen Munteanu
Peter Schauble
Session 2 --- Event Detection and Clustering
A Study on Retrospective and On-Line Event Detection	28	(9)
Yiming Yang
Tom Pierce
Jaime Carbonell
On-Line New Event Detection and Tracking	37	(9)
James Allan
Ron Papka
Victor Lavrenko
Web Document Clustering: A Feasibility Demonstration	46	(9)
Oren Zamir
Oren Etzioni
Session 3A --- Cross-Language Retrieval
The Effects of Query Structure and Dictionary Setups in Dictionary-Based Cross-Language Information Retrieval	55	(9)
Ari Pirkola
Resolving Ambiguity for Cross-Language Retrieval	64	(8)
Lisa Ballesteros
W. Bruce Croft
Cross-Language Information Retrieval with the UMLS Metathesaurus	72	(9)
David Eichmann
Miguel E. Ruiz
Padmini Srinivasan
Session 3B --- Categorization
Using a Generalized Instance Set for Automatic Text Categorization	81	(9)
Wai Lam
Chao Yang Ho
Automatic Essay Grading using Text Categorization Techniques	90	(6)
Leah S. Larkey
Distributional Clustering of Words for Text Classification	96	(8)
L. Douglas Baker
Andrew Kachites McCallum
Session 4A --- Distributed Retrieval
Improved Algorithms for Topic Distillation in a Hyperlinked Environment	104	(8)
Krishna Bharat
Monika R. Henzinger
Effective Retrieval with Distributed Collections	112	(9)
Jinxi Xu
Jamie Callan
Evaluating Database Selection Techniques: A Testbed and Experiment	121	(9)
James C. French
Allison L. Powell
Charles L. Viles
Travis Emmitt
Kevin J. Prey
Session 4B --- Using Structure
The Impact of Query Structure and Query Expansion on Retrieval Performance	130	(8)
Jaana Kekalainen
Kalervo Jarvelin
A Flexible Model for Retrieval of SGML Documents	138	(8)
Sung Hyon Myaeng
Dong-Hyun Jang
Mun-Seok Kim
Zong-Cheol Zhoo
Discovering Typical Structures of Documents: A Road Map Approach	146	(9)
Ke Wang
Huiqing Liu
Session 5A --- Interactive Retrieval
A Cognitive Model for Searching for Ill-Defined Targets on the Web: The Relationship between Search Strategies and User Satisfaction	155	(9)
Mari Saito
Kazunori Ohmura
Comparing Interactive Information Retrieval Systems Across Sites: The TREC-6 Interactive Track Matrix Experiment	164	(9)
Eric Lagergren
Paul Over
Aspect Windows, 3-D Visualizations, and Indirect Comparisons of Information Retrieval Systems	173	(9)
Russell C. Swan
James Allan
Session 5B --- Combination of Evidence
Modeling and Combining Evidence Provided by Document Relationships Using Probabilistic Argumentation Systems	182	(8)
Justin Picard
Predicting the Performance of Linearly Combined IR Systems	190	(7)
Christopher C. Vogt
Garrison W. Cottrell
Experiments in Japanese Text Retrieval and Routing using the NEAT System	197	(9)
Gareth J.F. Jones
Tetsuya Sakai
Masahiro Kajiura
Kazuo Sumita
Session 6A --- Query and Profile Modification
Improving Automatic Query Expansion	206	(9)
Mandar Mitra
Amit Singhal
Chris Buckley
Boosting and Rocchio Applied to Text Filtering	215	(9)
Robert E. Schapire
Yoram Singer
Amit Singhal
Learning While Filtering Documents	224	(8)
Jamie Callan
Session 6B --- Information Retrieval Experiments
Spatial Querying for Image Retrieval: A User-Oriented Evaluation	232	(9)
Joemon M. Jose
Jonathan Furner
David J. Harper
Extracting Classification Knowledge of Internet Documents with Mining Term Associations: A Semantic Approach	241	(9)
Shian-Hua Lin
Chi-Sheng Shih
Meng Chang Chen
Jan-Ming Ho
Ming-Tat Ko
Yueh-Ming Huang
Improving Two-Stage Ad-Hoc Retrieval for Short Queries	250	(7)
K.L. Kwok
M. Chan
Session 7A --- Retrieval Models
Dolores: A system for Logic-Based Retrieval of Multimedia Objects	257	(9)
Norbert Fuhr
Norbert Govert
Thomas Rolleke
Relief: Combining Expressiveness and Rapidity into a Single System	266	(9)
Iadh Ounis
Marius Pasca
A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval	275	(7)
Jay M. Ponte
W. Bruce Croft
Session 7B --- Efficiency
Efficient Construction of Large Test Collections	282	(8)
Gordon V. Cormack
Christopher R. Palmer
Charles L.A. Clarke
Compressed Inverted Files with Reduced Decoding Overheads	290	(8)
Vo Ngoc Anh
Alistair Moffat
Fast Searching on Compressed Text Allowing Errors	298	(9)
Edleno Silva de Moura
Gonzalo Navarro
Nivio Ziviani
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Session 8 --- Information Retrieval Experiments
How Reliable are the Results of Large-Scale Information Retrieval Experiments?	307	(8)
Justin Zobel
Variations in Relevance Judgments and the Measurement of Retrieval Effectiveness	315	(9)
Ellen M. Voorhees
Measures of Relative Relevance and Ranked Half-Life: Performance Indicators for Interactive IR	324	(8)
Pia Borlund
Peter Ingwersen
Panel Session
Tools for Searching the Web	332	(1)
Donna Harman
Paul Over
Poster Abstracts
Modern Classical Document Indexing: A Linguistic Contribution to Knowledge-Based IR	333	(2)
Bas van Bakel
The Use of MMR, Diversity-Based Reranking for Reordering Documents and Producing Summaries	335	(2)
Jaime Carbonell
Jade Goldstein
A Method for Scoring Correlated Features in Query Expansion	337	(2)
Martin Franz
Salim Roukos
Using Maps as a User Interface to a Digital Library	339	(2)
Mountaz Hascoet
Xavier Soinard
Comparison between Proximity Operation and Dependency Operation in Japanese Full-Text Retrieval	341	(2)
Yasuaki Hyoudo
Kazuhiko Niimi
Takashi Ikeda
Term-Ordered Query Evaluation versus Document-Ordered Query Evaluation for Large Document Databases	343	(2)
Marcin Kaszkiel
Justin Zobel
Lessons From BMIR-J2: A Test Collection for Japanese IR Systems	345	(2)
Tsuyoshi Kitani
Yasushi Ogawa
Tetsuya Ishikawa
Haruo Kimoto
Ikuo Keshi
Jun Toyoura
Toshikazu Fukushima
Kunio Matsui
Yoshihiro Ueda
Tetsuya Sakai
Takenobu Tokunaga
Hiroshi Tsuruoka
Hidekazu Nakawatase
Teru Agata
Automatically Locating, Extracting and Analyzing Tabular Data	347	(2)
William Kornfeld
John Wattecamps
Using Global Colour Features for General Photographic Image Indexing and Retrieval	349	(2)
Ting-Sheng Lai
John Tait
Automatic Acquisition of Phrasal Knowledge for English-Chinese Billingual Information Retrieval	351	(2)
Ming-Jer Lee
Lee-Feng Chien
Visual Interactions with a Multidimensional Ranked List	353	(2)
Anton Leouski
James Allan
Predicting Query Times	355	(2)
Rodger McNab
Yong Wang
Ian H. Witten
Carl Gutwin
The WebCluster Project: Using Clustering for Mediating Access to the World Wide Web	357	(2)
Mourad Mechkour
David J. Harper
Gheorghe Muresan
Automatic Abstracting of Magazine Articles: The Creation of `Highlight' Abstracts	359	(2)
Marie-Francine Moens
Jos Dumortier
Optimizing Recall/Precision Scores in IR over the WWW	361	(2)
Matthew Montebello
Interactive Multidimensional Document Visualization	363	(2)
Josiane Mothe
Taoufiq Dkaki
Speech Retrieval using Phonemes with Error Correction	365	(2)
Corinna Ng
Justin Zobel
Optimizing Query Evaluation in n-Gram Indexing	367	(2)
Yasushi Ogawa
Toru Matsuda
Four Text Classification Algorithms Compared on a Dutch Corpus	369	(2)
Hein Ragas
Cornelis H.A. Koster
Automatic Acquisition of Terminological Relations from a Corpus for Query Expansion	371	(2)
Jean-David Sta
Keyword Extraction of Radio News using Term Weighting with an Encyclopedia and Newspaper Articles	373	(2)
Yoshimi Suzuki
Fumiyo Fukumoto
Yoshihiro Sekiguchi
Efficient Search Server Assignment in a Disproportionate System Environment	375	(2)
Toru Takaki
Tsuyoshi Kitani
Multilingual Keyword Extraction for Term Suggestion	377	(2)
Yuen-Hsien Tseng
Experiments of Collecting WWW Information using Distributed WWW Robots	379	(2)
Hayato Yamana
Kent Tamura
Hiroyuki Kawano
Satoshi Kamei
Masanori Harada
Hideki Nishimura
Isao Asai
Hiroyuki Kusumoto
Yoichi Shinoda
Yoichi Muraoka
Demonstration Abstracts
Presenting Web Site Search Results in Context: A Demonstration	381	(1)
Michael Chen
Marti A. Hearst
Personal Browser	382	(1)
Yi-Shiou Chen
Schy Chiou
Yuan-Kai Wang
Wen-Lian Hsu
Towards a Fast Precision-Oriented Image Retrieval System	383	(1)
Yves Chiaramella
Philippe Mulhem
Mourad Mechkour
Iadh Ounis
Marius Pasca
Teraphim: An Engine for Distributed Information Retrieval	384	(1)
Owen de Kretser
Alistair Moffat
Justin Zobel
Cheshire II: Combining Probabilistic and Boolean Retrieval	385	(1)
Ray R. Larson
A Research Prototype Image Retrieval System	386	(1)
S. Nepal
M.V. Ramakrishna
J.A. Thom
The Structured Information Manager (SIM)	387	(1)
Ron Sacks-Davis
Alan Kent
PWA: An Extended Probabilistic Web Algebra	388	(1)
Dan Smith
Rattasit Sukhahuta
Cafe: An Indexed Approach to Searching Genomic Databases	389	(1)
Hugh E. Williams
Fast Speculative Search Engine on the Highly Parallel Computer EM-X	390	(2)
Hayato Yamana
Hanpei Koike
Yuetsu Kodama
Hirofumi Sakane
Yoshinori Yamaguchi
Author Index	392