23. SIGIR 2000: Athens, Greece

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
  
• Chris Buckley, Ellen M. Voorhees:
  Evaluating evaluation measure stability. 33-40
  
• Kalervo Järvelin, Jaana Kekäläinen:
  IR evaluation methods for retrieving highly relevant documents. 41-48
  

Topic Detection and Tracking

• Russell C. Swan, James Allan:
  Automatic generation of overview timelines. 49-56
  
• Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshimi Suzuki:
  Event tracking based on domain dependency. 57-64
  
• 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
  
• Adam L. Berger, Vibhu O. Mittal:
  OCELOT: a system for summarizing Web pages. 144-151
  
• 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
  
• Ellen M. Voorhees, Dawn M. Tice:
  Building a question answering test collection. 200-207
  

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

• Susan T. Dumais, Hao Chen:
  Hierarchical classification of Web content. 256-263
  
• 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
  
• Atsuhiro Takasu, Kenro Aihara:
  Variance based classifier comparison in text categorization. 316-317
  
• Masumi Narita, Yasushi Ogawa:
  The use of phrases from query texts in information retrieval. 318-320
  
• 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
  
• J. Scott McCarley, Martin Franz:
  Influence of speech recognition errors on topic detection. 342-344
  
• Martin Franz, J. Scott McCarley:
  Word document density and relevance scoring. 345-347
  
• 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
  
• Nuno Maria, Mário J. Silva:
  Theme-based retrieval of Web news. 354-356
  
• Mark Kantrowitz, Behrang Mohit, Vibhu O. Mittal:
  Stemming and its effects on TFIDF ranking. 357-359
  
• 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
  
• Chen Ding, Chi-Hung Chi:
  Beyond the traditional query operators. 377-378
  
• Javed A. Aslam, Mark H. Montague:
  Bayes optimal metasearch: a probabilistic model for combining the results. 379-381
  
• Gareth J. F. Jones, Peter J. Brown:
  Information access for context-aware appliances. 382-384
  
• 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
  
• Timothy J. Mills, David Pye, David Sinclair, Kenneth R. Wood:
  Managing photos with ATT shoebox. 390
  
• Gheorghe Muresan, David J. Harper, Ayse Göker, Peter Lowit:
  ClusterBook, a tool for dual information access (panel session). 391
  
• Michael Preminger, Sandor Daranyi:
  Uexküll: an interactive visual user interface for document retrieval in vector space. 392
  
• Russell C. Swan, James Allan:
  TimeMine: visualizing automatically constructed timelines. 393
  
• A. Tuerk, Sue E. Johnson, P. Jourlin, Karen Sparck Jones, Philip C. Woodland:
  The Cambridge University multimedia document retrieval demo system. 394