ECIR 2004: Sunderland, UK

Sharon McDonald, John Tait (Eds.): Advances in Information Retrieval, 26th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2004, Sunderland, UK, April 5-7, 2004, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2997 Springer 2004, ISBN 3-540-21382-1

Keynote Papers

Gary Marchionini:
From Information Retrieval to Information Interaction. 1-11
Yorick Wilks:
IR and AI: Traditions of Representation and Anti-representation in Information Processing. 12-26

User Studies

Diane Kelly, Fernando Diaz, Nicholas J. Belkin, James Allan:
A User-Centered Approach to Evaluating Topic Models. 27-41
Hideo Joho, Mark Sanderson, Micheline Beaulieu:
A Study of User Interaction with a Concept-Based Interactive Query Expansion Support Tool. 42-56
David J. Bell, Ian Ruthven:
Searcher's Assessments of Task Complexity for Web Searching. 57-71

Question Answering

Ian Roberts, Robert J. Gaizauskas:
Evaluating Passage Retrieval Approaches for Question Answering. 72-84
Hsin-Hsi Chen, Ming-Feng Tsai, Ming-Hung Hsu:
Identification of Relevant and Novel Sentences Using Reference Corpus. 85-98
Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke:
Answer Selection in a Multi-stream Open Domain Question Answering System. 99-111

Information Models

Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio:
A Bidimensional View of Documents for Text Categorisation. 112-126
Giambattista Amati, Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Romano:
Query Difficulty, Robustness, and Selective Application of Query Expansion. 127-137
Henrik Nottelmann, Norbert Fuhr:
Combining CORI and the Decision-Theoretic Approach for Advanced Resource Selection. 138-153
Chihli Hung, Stefan Wermter, Peter Smith:
Predictive Top-Down Knowledge Improves Neural Exploratory Bottom-Up Clustering. 154-166

Classification

Vladimir Dobrynin, David W. Patterson, Niall Rooney:
Contextual Document Clustering. 167-180
Alessandro Moschitti, Roberto Basili:
Complex Linguistic Features for Text Classification: A Comprehensive Study. 181-196
Xue Dejun, Maosong Sun:
Eliminating High-Degree Biased Character Bigrams for Dimensionality Reduction in Chinese Text Categorization. 197-208

Summarization

Nicola Stokes, Eamonn Newman, Joe Carthy, Alan F. Smeaton:
Broadcast News Gisting Using Lexical Cohesion Analysis. 209-222
Heidi Christensen, BalaKrishna Kolluru, Yoshihiko Gotoh, Steve Renals:
From Text Summarisation to Style-Specific Summarisation for Broadcast News. 223-237

Image Retrieval

Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson:
Relevance Feedback for Cross Language Image Retrieval. 238-252
Daniel Heesch, Stefan M. Rüger:
NN^k Networks for Content-Based Image Retrieval. 253-266
Mohammed Belkhatir, Philippe Mulhem, Yves Chiaramella:
Integrating Perceptual Signal Features within a Multi-facetted Conceptual Model for Automatic Image Retrieval. 267-282

Evaluation Issues

Jaap Kamps:
Improving Retrieval Effectiveness by Reranking Documents Based on Controlled Vocabulary. 283-295
Gabriella Kazai, Sherezad Masood, Mounia Lalmas:
A Study of the Assessment of Relevance for the INEX'02 Test Collection. 296-310
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, C. J. van Rijsbergen, Ian Ruthven:
A Simulated Study of Implicit Feedback Models. 311-326

Cross Language IR

Paul Clough, Mark Stevenson:
Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using EuroWordNet and Word Sense Disambiguation. 327-337
Wolfram M. Esser:
Fault-Tolerant Fulltext Information Retrieval in Digital Multilingual Encyclopedias with Weighted Pattern Morphing. 338-352
Mark Sanderson, Paul Clough, Catherine Paterson, Wai Tung Lo:
Measuring a Cross Language Image Retrieval System. 353-363

Web-Based and XML IR

Fidel Cacheda, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates:
An Optimistic Model for Searching Web Directories. 364-377
Felix Weigel, Holger Meuss, François Bry, Klaus U. Schulz:
Content-Aware DataGuides: Interleaving IR and DB Indexing Techniques for Efficient Retrieval of Textual XML Data. 378-393
Fidel Cacheda, Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis:
Performance Analysis of Distributed Architectures to Index One Terabyte of Text. 394-408
Mohammad Abolhassani, Norbert Fuhr:
Applying the Divergence from Randomness Approach for Content-Only Search in XML Documents. 409-419

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