ECIR 2003: Pisa, Italy

@proceedings{DBLP:conf/ecir/2003,
  editor    = {Fabrizio Sebastiani},
  title     = {Advances in Information Retrieval, 25th European Conference on
               IR Research, ECIR 2003, Pisa, Italy, April 14-16, 2003, Proceedings},
  booktitle = {ECIR},
  publisher = {Springer},
  series    = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume    = {2633},
  year      = {2003},
  isbn      = {3-540-01274-5},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Invited Papers

• Karen Sparck Jones:
  Document Retrieval: Shallow Data, Deep Theories; Historical Reflections, Potential Directions. 1-11
  
• Marco Bertini, Alberto Del Bimbo, Walter Nunziati:
  Annotation and Retrieval of Structured Video Documents. 12-24
  

Papers

IR and the Web

• Cathal Gurrin, Alan F. Smeaton:
  Improving the Evaluation of Web Search Systems. 25-40
  
• Michelle Fisher, Richard M. Everson:
  When Are Links Useful? Experiments in Text Classification. 41-56
  
• Michelangelo Ceci, Donato Malerba:
  Hierarchical Classification of HTML Documents with WebClassII. 57-72
  

Retrieval of Structured Documents

• Hang Cui, Ji-Rong Wen, Tat-Seng Chua:
  Hierarchical Indexing and Flexible Element Retrieval for Structured Document. 73-87
  
• Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Jane Reid:
  Construction of a Test Collection for the Focussed Retrieval of Structured Documents. 88-103
  
• Karen Finesilver, Jane Reid:
  User Behaviour in the Context of Structured Documents. 104-119
  

Collaborative Filtering and Text Mining

• Raz Lin, Sarit Kraus, Jeffrey D. Tew:
  Attaining Fast and Successful Searches in E-commerce Environments. 120-134
  
• Lily F. Tian, Kwok-Wai Cheung:
  Learning User Similarity and Rating Style for Collaborative Recommendation. 135-145
  
• Vanessa Sandrini, Marcello Federico:
  Spoken Information Extraction from Italian Broadcast News. 146-160
  

Text Representation and Natural Language Processing

• Cornelis H. A. Koster, Marc Seutter:
  Taming Wild Phrases. 161-176
  
• Martin Braschler, Bärbel Ripplinger:
  Stemming and Decompounding for German Text Retrieval. 177-192
  
• Lili Aunimo, Oskari Heinonen, Reeta Kuuskoski, Juha Makkonen, Renaud Petit, Otso Virtanen:
  Question Answering System for Incomplete and Noisy Data. 193-206
  
• Yves Rasolofo, Jacques Savoy:
  Term Proximity Scoring for Keyword-Based Retrieval Systems. 207-218
  

Formal Models and Language Models for IR

• David E. Losada, Alvaro Barreiro:
  Propositional Logic Representations for Documents and Queries: A Large-Scale Evaluation. 219-234
  
• Henrik Nottelmann, Norbert Fuhr:
  From Uncertain Inference to Probability of Relevance for Advanced IR Applications. 235-250
  
• Juha Makkonen, Helena Ahonen-Myka, Marko Salmenkivi:
  Topic Detection and Tracking with Spatio-Temporal Evidence. 251-265
  

Machine Learning and IR

• Hsin-Hsi Chen, June-Jei Kuo, Tsei-Chun Su:
  Clustering and Visualization in a Multi-lingual Multi-document Summarization System. 266-280
  
• Zhao Xu, Xiaowei Xu, Kai Yu, Volker Tresp:
  A Hybrid Relevance-Feedback Approach to Text Retrieval. 281-293
  
• Shengli Wu, Forbes Gibb, Fabio Crestani:
  Experiments with Document Archive Size Detection. 294-304
  

Text Categorization 1

• Brigitte Bigi:
  Using Kullback-Leibler Distance for Text Categorization. 305-319
  
• Pio Nardiello, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Alessandro Sperduti:
  Discretizing Continuous Attributes in AdaBoost for Text Categorization. 320-334
  
• Fuchun Peng, Dale Schuurmans:
  Combining Naive Bayes and n-Gram Language Models for Text Classification. 335-350
  

Usability, Interactivity, and Visualization Issues in IR

• Jesús Vegas, Pablo de la Fuente, Fabio Crestani:
  WebDocBall: A Graphical Visualization Tool for Web Search Results. 351-362
  
• Daniel Heesch, Stefan M. Rüger:
  Relevance Feedback for Content-Based Image Retrieval: What Can Three Mouse Clicks Achieve? 363-376
  
• David J. Harper, Ivan Koychev, Sun Yixing:
  Query-Based Document Skimming: A User-Centred Evaluation of Relevance Profiling. 377-392
  

Text Categorization 2

• Zhao Xu, Kai Yu, Volker Tresp, Xiaowei Xu, Jizhi Wang:
  Representative Sampling for Text Classification Using Support Vector Machines. 393-407
  
• Xue Dejun, Sun Maosong:
  Chinese Text Categorization Based on the Binary Weighting Model with Non-binary Smoothing. 408-419
  
• Alessandro Moschitti:
  A Study on Optimal Parameter Tuning for Rocchio Text Classifier. 420-435
  

Architectural Issues and Efficiency Issues in IR

• Fidel Cacheda, Victor Carneiro, Carmen Guerrero, Ángel Viña:
  Optimization of Restricted Searches in Web Directories Using Hybrid Data Structures. 436-451
  
• Vlastislav Dohnal, Claudio Gennaro, Pasquale Savino, Pavel Zezula:
  Similarity Join in Metric Spaces. 452-467
  
• Nieves R. Brisaboa, Eva Lorenzo Iglesias, Gonzalo Navarro, José R. Paramá:
  An Efficient Compression Code for Text Databases. 468-481
  

Posters

• Joaquín Adiego, Gonzalo Navarro, Pablo de la Fuente:
  Compressing Semistructured Text Databases. 482-490
  
• Maria de Lourdes da Silveira, Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Rodrigo de Freitas Vale, Rodrigo Tôrres Assumpção:
  Vertical Searching in Juridical Digital Libraries. 491-501
  
• Khurshid Ahmad, Mariam Tariq, Bogdan Vrusias, Chris Handy:
  Corpus-Based Thesaurus Construction for Image Retrieval in Specialist Domains. 502-510
  
• Enrique Alfonseca, Pilar Rodríguez:
  Generating Extracts with Genetic Algorithms. 511-519
  
• Nicola Bertoldi, Fabio Brugnara, Mauro Cettolo, Marcello Federico, Diego Giuliani, Erwin Leeuwis, Vanessa Sandrini:
  The ITC-irst News on Demand Platform. 520-527
  
• Iraklis A. Klampanos, James J. Barnes, Joemon M. Jose:
  Evaluating Peer-to-Peer Networking for Information Retrieval within the Context of Meta-searching. 528-536
  
• Andy MacFarlane, Stephen E. Robertson, Julie A. McCann:
  Parallel Computing for Term Selection in Routing/Filtering. 537-545
  
• Jean Martinet, Iadh Ounis, Yves Chiaramella, Philippe Mulhem:
  A Weighting Scheme for Star-Graphs. 546-554
  
• Irmina Masowska:
  Phrase-Based Hierarchical Clustering of Web Search Results. 555-562
  
• Jiamin Ye, Alan F. Smeaton:
  Aggregated Feature Retrieval for MPEG-7. 563-570
  
• Christof Monz:
  Document Retrieval in the Context of Question Answering. 571-579
  
• Sándor Dominich, Júlia Góth, Adrienn Skrop:
  A Study of the Usefulness of Institutions' Acronyms as Web Queries. 580-587
  
• Aurora Pons-Porrata, Rafael Berlanga Llavori, José Ruiz-Shulcloper:
  Building a Hierarchy of Events and Topics for Newspaper Digital Libraries. 588-596
  
• Min Shi, David S. Edwin, Rakesh Menon, Lixiang Shen, Jonathan Y. K. Lim, Han Tong Loh, S. Sathiya Keerthi, Chong Jin Ong:
  A Machine Learning Approach for the Curation of Biomedical Literature. 597-604
  
• Chang-Hwan Shin, Kyong-I Ku, Ki-Chang Kim, Yoo-Sung Kim:
  Automatic Construction of Theme Melody Index from Music Database for Fast Content-Based Retrievals. 605-612
  
• Giovanni Semeraro, Marco Degemmis, Pasquale Lops, Ulrich Thiel, Marcello L'Abbate:
  A Personalized Information Search Process Based on Dialoguing Agents and User Profiling. 613-621