ECIR 2007: Rome, Italy

Keynote Talks

• Andrei Z. Broder:
  The Next Generation Web Search and the Demise of the Classic IR Model. 1
  
• Stephen Robertson:
  The Last Half-Century: A Perspective on Experimentation in Information Retrieval. 2
  
• Marco Gori:
  Learning in Hyperlinked Environments. 3
  

Theory and Design

• Roberto Cornacchia, Arjen P. de Vries:
  A Parameterised Search System. 4-15
  
• Donald Metzler, Susan T. Dumais, Christopher Meek:
  Similarity Measures for Short Segments of Text. 16-27
  
• Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis:
  Multinomial Randomness Models for Retrieval with Document Fields. 28-39
  
• Stephen Robertson:
  On Score Distributions and Relevance. 40-51
  
• Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft:
  Modeling Term Associations for Ad-Hoc Retrieval Performance Within Language Modeling Framework. 52-63
  

Effciency

• Roi Blanco, Alvaro Barreiro:
  Static Pruning of Terms in Inverted Files. 64-75
  
• Michael Herscovici, Ronny Lempel, Sivan Yogev:
  Efficient Indexing of Versioned Document Sequences. 76-87
  
• Christina Lioma, Iadh Ounis:
  Light Syntactically-Based Index Pruning for Information Retrieval. 88-100
  
• Fabrizio Silvestri:
  Sorting Out the Document Identifier Assignment Problem. 101-112
  
• Di Zhang, Yunquan Zhang, Jing Chen:
  Efficient Construction of FM-index Using Overlapping Block Processing for Large Scale Texts. 113-123
  

Peer-to-Peer Networks (In Memory of Henrik Nottelmann)

• Fidel Cacheda, Victor Carneiro, Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis:
  Performance Comparison of Clustered and Replicated Information Retrieval Systems. 124-135
  
• Massimo Melucci, Alberto Poggiani:
  A Study of a Weighting Scheme for Information Retrieval in Hierarchical Peer-to-Peer Networks. 136-147
  
• Henrik Nottelmann, Norbert Fuhr:
  A Decision-Theoretic Model for Decentralised Query Routing in Hierarchical Peer-to-Peer Networks. 148-159
  
• Milad Shokouhi:
  Central-Rank-Based Collection Selection in Uncooperative Distributed Information Retrieval. 160-172
  

Result Merging

• Georgios Paltoglou, Michail Salampasis, Maria Satratzemi:
  Results Merging Algorithm Using Multiple Regression Models. 173-184
  
• Milad Shokouhi:
  Segmentation of Search Engine Results for Effective Data-Fusion. 185-197
  

Queries

• Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu:
  Query Hardness Estimation Using Jensen-Shannon Divergence Among Multiple Scoring Functions. 198-209
  
• Frédéric Roulland, Aaron N. Kaplan, Stefania Castellani, Claude Roux, Antonietta Grasso, Karin Pettersson, Jacki O'Neill:
  Query Reformulation and Refinement Using NLP-Based Sentence Clustering. 210-221
  
• Fabienne Moreau, Vincent Claveau, Pascale Sébillot:
  Automatic Morphological Query Expansion Using Analogy-Based Machine Learning. 222-233
  
• Silvia Quarteroni, Alessandro Moschitti, Suresh Manandhar, Roberto Basili:
  Advanced Structural Representations for Question Classification and Answer Re-ranking. 234-245
  

Relevance Feedback

• Zuobing Xu, Ram Akella, Yi Zhang:
  Incorporating Diversity and Density in Active Learning for Relevance Feedback. 246-257
  
• Fadi Yamout, Michael P. Oakes, John Tait:
  Relevance Feedback Using Weight Propagation Compared with Information-Theoretic Query Expansion. 258-270
  

Evaluation

• Mark Baillie, Leif Azzopardi, Ian Ruthven:
  A Retrieval Evaluation Methodology for Incomplete Relevance Assessments. 271-282
  
• Andrés R. Masegosa, Hideo Joho, Joemon M. Jose:
  Evaluating Query-Independent Object Features for Relevancy Prediction. 283-294
  

Classification and Clustering

• Tom Betts, Maria Milosavljevic, Jon Oberlander:
  The Utility of Information Extraction in the Classification of Books. 295-306
  
• Stephan Bloehdorn, Alessandro Moschitti:
  Combined Syntactic and Semantic Kernels for Text Classification. 307-318
  
• Tie-Yan Liu, Huai-Yuan Yang, Xin Zheng, Tao Qin, Wei-Ying Ma:
  Fast Large-Scale Spectral Clustering by Sequential Shrinkage Optimization. 319-330
  
• Shanfeng Zhu, Ichigaku Takigawa, Shuqin Zhang, Hiroshi Mamitsuka:
  A Probabilistic Model for Clustering Text Documents with Multiple Fields. 331-342
  

Filtering

• Sylvain Castagnos, Anne Boyer:
  Personalized Communities in a Distributed Recommender System. 343-355
  
• Maurice Coyle, Barry Smyth:
  Information Recovery and Discovery in Collaborative Web Search. 356-367
  
• Alexandros Nanopoulos:
  Collaborative Filtering Based on Transitive Correlations Between Items. 368-380
  
• Ying Zhao, Justin Zobel:
  Entropy-Based Authorship Search in Large Document Collections. 381-392
  

Topic Identification

• Chirag Shah, Koji Eguchi:
  Use of Topicality and Information Measures to Improve Document Representation for Story Link Detection. 393-404
  
• Jason Skomorowski, Olga Vechtomova:
  Ad Hoc Retrieval of Documents with Topical Opinion. 405-417
  

Expert Finding

• Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai:
  Probabilistic Models for Expert Finding. 418-430
  
• Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis:
  Using Relevance Feedback in Expert Search. 431-443
  

XML IR

• Elham Ashoori, Mounia Lalmas:
  Using Topic Shifts for Focussed Access to XML Repositories. 444-455
  
• Zoltán Szlávik, Anastasios Tombros, Mounia Lalmas:
  Feature- and Query-Based Table of Contents Generation for XML Documents. 456-467
  

Web IR

• Ben He, Iadh Ounis:
  Setting Per-field Normalisation Hyper-parameters for the Named-Page Finding Search Task. 468-480
  
• Theodora Tsikrika, Mounia Lalmas:
  Combining Evidence for Relevance Criteria: A Framework and Experiments in Web Retrieval. 481-493
  

Multimedia IR

• Stéphane Ayache, Georges Quénot, Jérôme Gensel:
  Classifier Fusion for SVM-Based Multimedia Semantic Indexing. 494-504
  
• Mark Sanderson, Xiao Mang Shou:
  Search of Spoken Documents Retrieves Well Recognized Transcripts. 505-516
  

Short Papers

• Anne Boyer, Armelle Brun:
  Natural Language Processing for Usage Based Indexing of Web Resources. 517-524
  
• Peter Briggs, Barry Smyth:
  Harnessing Trust in Social Search. 525-532
  
• Franco Crivellari, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro:
  How to Compare Bilingual to Monolingual Cross-Language Information Retrieval. 533-540
  
• Gerard de Melo, Stefan Siersdorfer:
  Multilingual Text Classification Using Ontologies. 541-548
  
• Jean Martinet, Shin'ichi Satoh:
  Using Visual-Textual Mutual Information and Entropy for Inter-modal Document Indexing. 549-556
  
• Ryan T. McDonald:
  A Study of Global Inference Algorithms in Multi-document Summarization. 557-564
  
• José E. Medina-Pagola, Ansel Y. Rodríguez González, Abdel Hechavarría Díaz, José Hernández Palancar:
  Document Representation Using Global Association Distance Model. 565-572
  
• Arun Meena, T. V. Prabhakar:
  Sentence Level Sentiment Analysis in the Presence of Conjuncts Using Linguistic Analysis. 573-580
  
• Massimo Melucci, Luca Pretto:
  PageRank: When Order Changes. 581-588
  
• Christof Monz:
  Model Tree Learning for Query Term Weighting in Question Answering. 589-596
  
• Mark Sanderson, Susan T. Dumais:
  Examining Repetition in User Search Behavior. 597-604
  
• Yang Sun, C. Lee Giles:
  Popularity Weighted Ranking for Academic Digital Libraries. 605-612
  
• Yannis Tzitzikas, Yannis Theoharis:
  Naming Functions for the Vector Space Model. 613-620
  
• Roelof van Zwol, Tim van Loosbroek:
  Effective Use of Semantic Structure in XML Retrieval. 621-628
  
• Jun Xu, Yunbo Cao, Hang Li, Nick Craswell, Yalou Huang:
  Searching Documents Based on Relevance and Type. 629-636
  
• Murat Yakici, Fabio Crestani:
  Investigation of the Effectiveness of Cross-Media Indexing. 637-644
  
• Qing Yu, Shuming Shi, Zhiwei Li, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma:
  Improve Ranking by Using Image Information. 645-652
  
• Li Zhang, Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Ying Bao, Hang Li:
  N -Step PageRank for Web Search. 653-660
  
• Ying Zhao, Phil Vines:
  Authorship Attribution Via Combination of Evidence. 661-669
  

Posters

• Roxana Angheluta, Marie-Francine Moens:
  Cross-Document Entity Tracking. 670-673
  
• Jan Brunnert, Omar Alonso, Dirk Riehle:
  Enterprise People and Skill Discovery Using Tolerant Retrieval and Visualization. 674-677
  
• Marta Capdevila Dalmau, Óscar W. Márquez Flórez:
  Experimental Results of the Signal Processing Approach to Distributional Clustering of Terms on Reuters-21578 Collection. 678-681
  
• José M. Casanova, Manuel A. Presedo Quindimil, Alvaro Barreiro:
  Overall Comparison at the Standard Levels of Recall of Multiple Retrieval Methods with the Friedman Test. 682-685
  
• Sergey Chernov, Pavel Serdyukov, Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Gianluca Demartini, Wolfgang Nejdl:
  Building a Desktop Search Test-Bed. 686-690
  
• Gianluigi Ciocca, Raimondo Schettini:
  Hierarchical Browsing of Video Key Frames. 691-694
  
• Michael Davy, Saturnino Luz:
  Active Learning with History-Based Query Selection for Text Categorisation. 695-698
  
• Guanggang Geng, Chunheng Wang, Qiudan Li, Yuanping Zhu:
  Fighting Link Spam with a Two-Stage Ranking Strategy. 699-702
  
• Feng He, Xiaoqing Ding:
  Improving Naive Bayes Text Classifier Using Smoothing Methods. 703-707
  
• Bouke Huurnink, Maarten de Rijke:
  Term Selection and Query Operations for Video Retrieval. 708-711
  
• Taek-Hun Kim, Sung-Bong Yang:
  An Effective Threshold-Based Neighbor Selection in Collaborative Filtering. 712-715
  
• Zhigang Kong, Mounia Lalmas:
  Combining Multiple Sources of Evidence in XML Multimedia Documents: An Inference Network Incorporating Element Language Models. 716-719
  
• Andreas Merkel, Dietrich Klakow:
  Language Model Based Query Classification. 720-723
  
• Robert Neumayer, Andreas Rauber:
  Integration of Text and Audio Features for Genre Classification in Music Information Retrieval. 724-727
  
• Xuefeng Pan, Jintao Li, Yongdong Zhang, Sheng Tang, Juan Cao:
  Retrieval Method for Video Content in Different Format Based on Spatiotemporal Features. 728-731
  
• Jie Peng, Iadh Ounis:
  Combination of Document Priors in Web Information Retrieval. 732-736
  
• Pavel Serdyukov, Sergey Chernov, Wolfgang Nejdl:
  Enhancing Expert Search Through Query Modeling. 737-740
  
• Xavier Sevillano, Germán Cobo, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró:
  A Hierarchical Consensus Architecture for Robust Document Clustering. 741-744
  
• Simon O. Sweeney, Fabio Crestani, David E. Losada:
  Summarisation and Novelty: An Experimental Investigation. 745-748
  
• Elena Vildjiounaite, Sanna Kallio:
  A Layered Approach to Context-Dependent User Modelling. 749-752
  
• Peter C. K. Yeung, Stefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla:
  A Bayesian Approach for Learning Document Type Relevance. 753-756