Progress in Information Retrieval

This paper summarises the scientific work presented at the 28th European Conference on Information Retrieval and demonstrates that the field has not only significantly progressed over the last year but has also continued to make inroads into areas such as Genomics, Multimedia, Peer-to-Peer and XML retrieval.

[1]  Meinard Müller,et al.  An Information Retrieval System for Motion Capture Data , 2006, ECIR.

[2]  Norbert Fuhr,et al.  Generating Search Term Variants for Text Collections with Historic Spellings , 2006, ECIR.

[3]  Éric Gaussier,et al.  Lexical Entailment for Information Retrieval , 2006, ECIR.

[4]  Joemon M. Jose,et al.  A Comparative Study of the Effectiveness of Search Result Presentation on the Web , 2006, ECIR.

[5]  Mohand Boughanem,et al.  Influence Diagrams for Contextual Information Retrieval , 2006, ECIR.

[6]  Thomas Roelleke,et al.  Context-Specific Frequencies and Discriminativeness for the Retrieval of Structured Documents , 2006, ECIR.

[7]  Armin B. Cremers,et al.  Beyond the Web: Retrieval in Social Information Spaces , 2006, ECIR.

[8]  Alan F. Smeaton,et al.  Object-Based Access to TV Rushes Video , 2006, ECIR.

[9]  Leif Azzopardi,et al.  An Efficient Computation of the Multiple-Bernoulli Language Model , 2006, ECIR.

[10]  Joemon M. Jose,et al.  Can a Workspace Help to Overcome the Query Formulation Problem in Image Retrieval? , 2006, ECIR.

[11]  Mohand Boughanem,et al.  Document Length Normalization Using Effective Level of Term Frequency in Large Collections , 2006, ECIR.

[12]  Weibei Dou,et al.  Combining Short and Long Term Audio Features for TV Sports Highlight Detection , 2006, ECIR.

[13]  Ying Zhang,et al.  Automatic Acquisition of Chinese-English Parallel Corpus from the Web , 2006, ECIR.

[14]  Norbert Fuhr,et al.  Comparing Different Architectures for Query Routing in Peer-to-Peer Networks , 2006, ECIR.

[15]  Stefano Mizzaro,et al.  A Classification of IR Effectiveness Metrics , 2006, ECIR.

[16]  Lei Wen,et al.  The Effects on Topic Familiarity on Online Search Behaviour and Use of Relevance Criteria , 2006, ECIR.

[17]  Chris Bowerman,et al.  PERC: A Personal Email Classifier , 2006, ECIR.

[18]  Gianni Amati,et al.  Frequentist and Bayesian Approach to Information Retrieval , 2006, ECIR.

[19]  Xiaohua Hu,et al.  Using Concept-Based Indexing to Improve Language Modeling Approach to Genomic IR , 2006, ECIR.

[20]  Kalervo Järvelin,et al.  The Effects of Relevance Feedback Quality and Quantity in Interactive Relevance Feedback: A Simulation Based on User Modeling , 2006, ECIR.

[21]  Ling Yin,et al.  Adapting the Naive Bayes Classifier to Rank Procedural Texts , 2006, ECIR.

[22]  Andreas Rauber,et al.  Web-Based Multiple Choice Question Answering for English and Arabic Questions , 2006, ECIR.

[23]  Wei-Ying Ma,et al.  Exploring URL Hit Priors for Web Search , 2006, ECIR.

[24]  Eduard Hoenkamp,et al.  A Fingerprinting Technique for Evaluating Semantics Based Indexing , 2006, ECIR.

[25]  Stanislaw Osinski.  Improving Quality of Search Results Clustering with Approximate Matrix Factorisations , 2006, ECIR.

[26]  Alan F. Smeaton,et al.  Investigating Biometric Response for Information Retrieval Applications , 2006, ECIR.

[27]  Chung Keung Poon,et al.  Efficient Phrase Querying with Common Phrase Index , 2006, ECIR.

[28]  Wolfgang Nejdl,et al.  Efficient Parallel Computation of PageRank , 2006, ECIR.

[29]  Ralf Schenkel,et al.  Structural Feedback for Keyword-Based XML Retrieval , 2006, ECIR.

[30]  John Tait,et al.  Browsing Personal Images Using Episodic Memory (Time + Location) , 2006, ECIR.

[31]  Hideo Joho,et al.  Judging the Spatial Relevance of Documents for GIR , 2006, ECIR.

[32]  M. de Rijke,et al.  A Cross-Language Approach to Historic Document Retrieval , 2006, ECIR.

[33]  Benno Stein,et al.  Intrinsic Plagiarism Detection , 2006, ECIR.

[34]  Pablo Castells,et al.  Probabilistic Score Normalization for Rank Aggregation , 2006, ECIR.

[35]  Claudio Carpineto,et al.  Mobile Clustering Engine , 2006, ECIR.

[36]  M. de Rijke,et al.  Generating and Retrieving Text Segments for Focused Access to Scientific Documents , 2006, ECIR.

[37]  Stefano Mizzaro,et al.  Experiments on Average Distance Measure , 2006, ECIR.

[38]  Djoerd Hiemstra,et al.  Using Query Profiles for Clarification , 2006, ECIR.

[39]  Eric SanJuan,et al.  Phrase Clustering Without Document Context , 2006, ECIR.

[40]  Dong Yang,et al.  Rapid Development of Web-Based Monolingual Question Answering Systems , 2006, ECIR.

[41]  John Tait,et al.  Relevance Feedback Using Weight Propagation , 2006, ECIR.

[42]  Mark Sanderson,et al.  Morphological Variation of Arabic Queries , 2006, ECIR.

[43]  Jun Wang,et al.  A User-Item Relevance Model for Log-Based Collaborative Filtering , 2006, ECIR.

[44]  Wei-Ying Ma,et al.  Ranking Web News Via Homepage Visual Layout and Cross-Site Voting , 2006, ECIR.

[45]  Ingemar J. Cox,et al.  Measuring the Complexity of a Collection of Documents , 2006, ECIR.

[46]  Nicholas Kushmerick,et al.  Clustering Sentences for Discovering Events in News Articles , 2006, ECIR.

[47]  Stefan Siersdorfer,et al.  Automatic Document Organization in a P2P Environment , 2006, ECIR.

[48]  Peter Knees,et al.  Towards Automatic Retrieval of Album Covers , 2006, ECIR.

[49]  Xiaojun Wan,et al.  Using Proportional Transportation Distances for Measuring Document Similarity , 2006, ECIR.

[50]  Alvaro Barreiro,et al.  Sentence Retrieval with LSI and Topic Identification , 2006, ECIR.

[51]  M. Andrea Rodríguez,et al.  Clustering-Based Searching and Navigation in an Online News Source , 2006, ECIR.

[52]  Elena Vildjiounaite,et al.  Learning Links Between a User's Calendar and Information Needs , 2006, ECIR.

[53]  Patrick Gallinari,et al.  Machine Learning Ranking for Structured Information Retrieval , 2006, ECIR.

[54]  John Dunnion,et al.  Readability Applied to Information Retrieval , 2006, ECIR.

[55]  Antal van den Bosch,et al.  Authoritative Re-ranking of Search Results , 2006, ECIR.

[56]  Charles L. A. Clarke,et al.  A Hybrid Approach to Index Maintenance in Dynamic Text Retrieval Systems , 2006, ECIR.

[57]  Sutanu Chakraborti,et al.  Sprinkling: Supervised Latent Semantic Indexing , 2006, ECIR.

[58]  Alan F. Smeaton,et al.  Automatic Determination of Feature Weights for Multi-feature CBIR , 2006, ECIR.

[59]  Maarten de Rijke,et al.  Specificity Helps Text Classification , 2006, ECIR.

[60]  Yaniv Bernstein,et al.  Fast Discovery of Similar Sequences in Large Genomic Collections , 2006, ECIR.

[61]  Shao Fen Liang,et al.  Evaluating Web Search Result Summaries , 2006, ECIR.

[62]  Gilad Mishne,et al.  A Study of Blog Search , 2006, ECIR.

[63]  Barry Smyth,et al.  Title and Snippet Based Result Re-ranking in Collaborative Web Search , 2006, ECIR.

[64]  Andrea Seraghiti,et al.  Filtering Obfuscated Email Spam by means of Phonetic String Matching , 2006, ECIR.

[65]  Roberto Cornacchia,et al.  A Declarative DB-Powered Approach to IR , 2006, ECIR.

[66]  Alan F. Smeaton,et al.  Supporting Relevance Feedback in Video Search , 2006, ECIR.

[67]  Frans Wiering,et al.  Bricks: The Building Blocks to Tackle Query Formulation in Structured Document Retrieval , 2006, ECIR.