23. SIGIR 2000: Athens, Greece
Nicholas J. Belkin, Peter Ingwersen, Mun-Kew Leong (Eds.): SIGIR 2000: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 24-28, 2000, Athens, Greece. ACM 2000 ISBN 1-58113-226-3
Salton Award Lecture
Stephen E. Robertson: Salton Award Lecture: On theoretical argument in information retrieval. 1
Relevance
Pertti Vakkari: Relevance and contributing information types of searched documents in task performance. 2-9
Makoto Iwayama: Relevance reedback with a small number of relevance judgements: incremental relevance feedback vs. document clustering. 10-16
Evaluation
William R. Hersh, Andrew Turpin, Susan Price, Benjamin Chan, Dale Kraemer, Lynetta Sacherek, Daniel Olson: Do batch and user evaluation give the same results? 17-24
Eero Sormunen: A novel method for the evaluation of Boolean query effectiveness across a wide operational range. 25-32
Kalervo Järvelin, Jaana Kekäläinen: IR evaluation methods for retrieving highly relevant documents. 41-48
Topic Detection and Tracking


Yiming Yang, Tom Ault, Thomas Pierce, Charles W. Lattimer: Improving text categorization methods for event tracking. 65-72
Multimedia Information Retrieval
J. Stephen Downie, Michael Nelson: Evaluation of a simple and effective music information retrieval method. 73-80
Savitha Srinivasan, Dragutin Petkovic: Phonetic confusion matrix based spoken document retrieval. 81-87
Y. Alp Aslandogan, Clement T. Yu: Multiple evidence combination in image retrieval: diogenes searches for people on the Web. 88-95
Theory and Practice in Information Retrieval
Ilmério Silva, Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Pável Calado, Edleno Silva de Moura, Nivio Ziviani: Link-based and content-based evidential information in a belief network model. 96-103
Akiko N. Aizawa: The feature quantity: an information theoretic perspective of Tfidf-like measure. 104-111
Harald Reiterer, Gabriela Mußler, Thomas M. Mann, Siegfried Handschuh: INSYDER - an information assistant for business intelligence. 112-119
Ruth Sperer, Douglas W. Oard: Structured translation for cross-language information retrieval. 120-127
Natural Language Processing and Summarization for Information Retrieval
Georgios Petasis, Alessandro Cucchiarelli, Paola Velardi, Georgios Paliouras, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Constantine D. Spyropoulos: Automatic adaptation of proper noun dictionaries through cooperation of machine learning and probabilistic methods. 128-135
Andrei Mikheev: Document centered approach to text normalization. 136-143
Wesley T. Chuang, Jihoon Yang: Extracting sentence segments for text summarization: a machine learning approach. 152-159
Information Filtering
Ion Androutsopoulos, John Koutsias, Konstantinos Chandrinos, Constantine D. Spyropoulos: An experimental comparison of naive bayesian and keyword-based anti-spam filtering with personal e-mail messages. 160-167
Yu-Hwan Kim, Shang-Yoon Hahn, Byoung-Tak Zhang: Text filtering by boosting naive bayes classifiers. 168-175
Keiichiro Hoashi, Kazunori Matsumoto, Naomi Inoue, Kazuo Hashimoto: Document filtering method using non-relevant information profile. 176-183
Question Answering
John M. Prager, Eric W. Brown, Anni Coden, Dragomir R. Radev: Question-answering by predictive annotation. 184-191
Adam L. Berger, Rich Caruana, David Cohn, Dayne Freitag, Vibhu O. Mittal: Bridging the lexical chasm: statistical approaches to answer-finding. 192-199
Clustering
Noam Slonim, Naftali Tishby: Document clustering using word clusters via the information bottleneck method. 208-215
Rie Kubota Ando: Latent semantic-space: iterative scaling improves precision of inter-document similarity measurement. 216-223
Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Luis Gravano, Ankineedu Maganti: An investigation of linguistic features and clustering algorithms for topical document clustering. 224-231
Allison L. Powell, James C. French, James P. Callan, Margaret E. Connell, Charles L. Viles: The impact of database selection on distributed searching. 232-239
Efficiency
Dimitris Papadias: Hill climbing algorithms for content-based retrieval of similar configurations. 240-247
Zhihong Lu, Kathryn S. McKinley: Partial collection replication versus caching for information retrieval systems. 248-255
Hypertext Classification

Hyo-Jung Oh, Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Mann-Ho Lee: A practical hypertext categorization method using links and incrementally available class information. 264-271
World Wide Web Information Retrieval
Brian D. Davison: Topical locality in the Web. 272-279
Peter Bruza, Robert McArthur, Simon Dennis: Interactive Internet search: keyword, directory and query reformulation mechanisms compared. 280-287
Xiaolan Zhu, Susan Gauch: Incorporating quality metrics in centralized/distributed information retrieval on the World Wide Web. 288-295
Brian Amento, Loren G. Terveen, William C. Hill: Does ``authority'' mean quality? predicting expert quality ratings of Web documents. 296-303
Posters
Larry M. Manevitz, Malik Yousef: Document classification on neural networks using only positive examples. 304-306
Peter Au, Matthew Carey, Shalini Sewraz, Yike Guo, Stefan M. Rüger: New paradigms in information visualization. 307-309
Dae-Ho Baek, Heui-Seok Lim, Hae-Chang Rim: Latent semantic indexing model for boolean query formulation. 310-312
Tsvi Kuflik, Peretz Shoval: Generation of user profiles for information filtering - research agenda. 313-315

Yasushi Ogawa: Pseudo-frequency method: an efficient document ranking retrieval method for n-gram indexing. 321-323
Nicola Stokes, Paula Hatch, Joe Carthy: Lexical semantic relatedness and online new event detection. 324-325
Mark E. Rorvig: Modelling question-response patterns by scalling and visualization. 326-327
Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, Raya Fidel: The effect of query type on subject searching behavior of image databases: an exploratory study. 328-330
Mingfang Wu, Michael Fuller, Ross Wilkinson: The role of a judge in a user based retrieval experiment. 331-333
Shui-Lung Chuang, Hsiao-Tieh Pu, Wen-Hsiang Lu, Lee-Feng Chien: Auto-construction of a live thesaurus from search term logs for interactive Web search. 334-336
Amina Sayeb Belhassen, Nabil Ben Abdallah, Henda Hajjami Ben Ghézala: Captive approach for building user model in an information retrieval context. 337-338
Wolfgang Hürst, Rainer Müller, Christoph Mayer: Multimedia information retrieval from recorded presentations. 339-341

Iadh Ounis: Ranking digital images using combination if evidences. 348-350
Ian Soboroff, Charles K. Nicholas: Collaborative filtering and the generalized vector space model. 351-353

ChengXiang Zhai, Peter Jansen, David A. Evans: Exploration of a heuristic approach to threshold learning in adaptive filtering. 360-362
M. Catherine McCabe, Jinho Lee, Abdur Chowdhury, David A. Grossman, Ophir Frieder: On the design and evaluation of a multi-dimensional approach to information retrieval. 363-365
Danyel Fisher, Kris Hildrum, Jason I. Hong, Mark W. Newman, Megan Thomas, Rich Vuduc: SWAMI: a framework for collaborative filtering algorithm development and evaluation. 366-368
Thomas Hofmann: Learning probabilistic models of the Web. 369-371
Philip C. Woodland, Sue E. Johnson, P. Jourlin, Karen Sparck Jones: Effects of out of vocabulary words in spoken document retrieval. 372-374
Chen Ding, Chi-Hung Chi: Towards an adaptive and task-specific ranking mechanism in Web searching. 375-376
Javed A. Aslam, Mark H. Montague: Bayes optimal metasearch: a probabilistic model for combining the results. 379-381
Eduard Hoenkamp, Rob de Groot: Finding relevant passages using noun-noun compounds: coherence vs. proximity. 385-387
Demonstrations
Vadim Asadov, Serge Shumsky: Semantic Explorer - navigation in documents collections, Proxima Daily - learning personal newspaper. 388
S. L. Mantzaris, Basilios Gatos, N. Gouraros, P. Tzavelis: Integrated search tools for newspaper digital libraries. 389
Gheorghe Muresan, David J. Harper, Ayse Göker, Peter Lowit: ClusterBook, a tool for dual information access (panel session). 391
Michael Preminger, Sándor Darányi: Uexküll: an interactive visual user interface for document retrieval in vector space. 392
Andreas Tuerk, Sue E. Johnson, P. Jourlin, Karen Sparck Jones, Philip C. Woodland: The Cambridge University multimedia document retrieval demo system. 394



