24. SIGIR 2001: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
W. Bruce Croft, David J. Harper, Donald H. Kraft, Justin Zobel (Eds.): SIGIR 2001: Proceedings of the 24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, September 9-13, 2001, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. ACM 2001 ISBN 1-58113-331-6

Session 1A: Summarization 1
Adenike M. Lam-Adesina, Gareth J. F. Jones: Applying Summarization Techniques for Term Selection in Relevance Feedback. 1-9
Yihong Gong, Xin Liu: Generic Text Summarization Using Relevance Measure and Latent Semantic Analysis. 19-25
Session 1B: Systems
Vo Ngoc Anh, Owen de Kretser, Alistair Moffat: Vector-Space Ranking with Effective Early Termination. 35-42
Aya Soffer, David Carmel, Doron Cohen, Ronald Fagin, Eitan Farchi, Michael Herscovici, Yoëlle S. Maarek: Static Index Pruning for Information Retrieval Systems. 43-50
Patricia Correia Saraiva, Edleno Silva de Moura, Rodrigo C. Fonseca, Wagner Meira Jr., Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Nivio Ziviani: Rank-Preserving Two-Level Caching for Scalable Search Engines. 51-58
Amanda Stent, Alexander C. Loui: Using Event Segmentation to Improve Indexing of Consumer Photographs. 59-65
Session 2A: Evaluation
Ian Soboroff, Charles K. Nicholas, Patrick Cahan: Ranking Retrieval Systems without Relevance Judgments. 66-73
Ellen M. Voorhees: Evaluation by Highly Relevant Documents. 74-82
Rong Jin, Christos Falusos, Alexander G. Hauptmann: Meta-scoring: Automatically Evaluating Term Weighting Schemes in IR without Precision-Recall. 83-89
Session 2B: Cross-Lingual
Tim Gollins, Mark Sanderson: Improving Cross Language Information Retrieval with Triangulated Translation. 90-95
Jianfeng Gao, Endong Xun, Ming Zhou, Changning Huang, Jian-Yun Nie, Jian Zhang: Improving Query Translation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using Statistical Models. 96-104
Jinxi Xu, Ralph M. Weischedel, Chanh Nguyen: Evaluating a Probabilistic Model for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval. 105-110
Session 3: Language Models 1
John D. Lafferty, ChengXiang Zhai: Document Language Models, Query Models, and Risk Minimization for Information Retrieval. 111-119
Session 4A: Categorization
Thorsten Joachims: A Statistical Learning Model of Text Classification for Support Vector Machines. 128-136
Yiming Yang: A Study on Thresholding Strategies for Text Categorization. 137-145
Ron Bekkerman, Ran El-Yaniv, Yoad Winter, Naftali Tishby: On Feature Distributional Clustering for Text Categorization. 146-153
Session 4B: Retrieval Models
Rie Kubota Ando, Lillian Lee: Iterative Residual Rescaling: An Analysis and Generalization of LSI. 154-162
Norbert Fuhr, Kai Großjohann: XIRQL: A Query Language for Information Retrieval in XML Documents. 172-180
Ian Ruthven, C. J. van Rijsbergen, Mounia Lalmas: Empirical Investigations on Query Modification Using Abductive Explanations. 181-189
Session 5A: Summarization 2

Klaus Zechner: Automatic Generation of Concise Summaries of Spoken Dialogues in Unrestricted Domains. 199-207
Soumen Chakrabarti, Mukul Joshi, Vivek Tawde: Enhanced Topic Distillation Using Text, Markup Tags, and Hyperlinks. 208-216
Session 5B: User Studies
Jack Muramatsu, Wanda Pratt: Transparent Queries: Investigating Users' Mental Models of Search Engines. 217-224
Andrew Turpin, William R. Hersh: Why Batch and User Evaluations Do Not Give the Same Results. 225-231
Sharon McDonald, John Tait, Ting-Sheng Lai: Evaluating a Content Based Image Retrieval System. 232-240
Session 6: The Web
Filippo Menczer, Gautam Pant, Padmini Srinivasan, Miguel E. Ruiz: Evaluating Topic-Driven Web Crawlers. 241-249
Nick Craswell, David Hawking, Stephen E. Robertson: Effective Site Finding Using Link Anchor Information. 250-257
Session 7A: Meta-Search
R. Manmatha, Toni M. Rath, Fangfang Feng: Modeling Score Distributions for Combining the Outputs of Search Engines. 267-275
Avi Arampatzis, André van Hameren: The Score-Distributional Threshold Optimization for Adaptive Binary Classification Tasks. 285-293
Session 7B: Learning

Martin Franz, J. Scott McCarley, Todd Ward, Wei-Jing Zhu: Unsupervised and Supervised Clustering for Topic Tracking. 310-317
Sofus A. Macskassy, Haym Hirsh, Foster J. Provost, Ramesh Sankaranarayanan, Vasant Dhar: Intelligent Information Triage. 318-326
Dawei Song, Peter Bruza: Discovering Information Flow Using a High Dimensional Conceptual Space. 327-333
Session 8A: Language Models 2
ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty: A Study of Smoothing Methods for Language Models Applied to Ad Hoc Information Retrieval. 334-342
Dawn Lawrie, W. Bruce Croft, Arnold L. Rosenberg: Finding Topic Words for Hierarchical Summarization. 349-357
Session 8B: Question Answering
Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam: Exploiting Redundancy in Question Answering. 358-365

Posters
Peter V. Henstock, Young-Suk Lee, Clifford J. Weinstein, Daniel J. Pack: Toward an Improved Concept-Based Information Retrieval System. 384-385
Wen-Hsiang Lu, Hsi-Jian Lee, Lee-Feng Chien: Anchor Text Mining for Translation Extraction of Query Terms. 388-389
Kenrick J. Mock: An Experimental Framework for Email Categorization and Management. 392-393
Abdur Chowdhury, Ophir Frieder, David A. Grossman, M. Catherine McCabe: Analyses of Multiple-Evidence Combinations for Retrieval Strategies. 394-395
Tetsuya Sakai, Stephen E. Robertson: Flexible Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Using Optimization Tables. 396-397
Martin Franz, J. Scott McCarley, Todd Ward, Wei-Jing Zhu: Quantifying the Utility of Parallel Corpora. 398-399
Eduard Hoenkamp: Unitary Operators for Fast Latent Semantic Indexing (FLSI). 400-401
Dulce B. Ponceleon, Savitha Srinivasan: Structure and Content-Based Segmentation of Speech Transcripts. 404-405
Diane Kelly, Nicholas J. Belkin: Reading Time, Scrolling and Interaction: Exploring Implicit Sources of User Preferences for Relevant Feedback. 408-409
Ryen White, Joemon M. Jose, Ian Ruthven: Query-Based Web Page Summarisation: A Task-Oriented Evaluation. 412-413
Keiichiro Hoashi, Kazunori Matsumoto, Naomi Inoue, Kazuo Hashimoto: Query Expansion Based on Predictive Algorithms for Collaborative Filtering. 414-415
Kazuo Goda, Masaru Kitsuregawa, Takayuki Tamura, Ophir Frieder, Abdur Chowdhury: Query Optimization for Vector Space Problems. 416-417
Fabio Crestani: Towards the use of Prosodic Information for Spoken Document Retrieval. 420-421
Nicola Stokes, Joe Carthy: Combining Semantic and Syntactic Document Classifiers to Improve First Story Detection. 424-425
Makoto Nakashima, Yanhua Qu, Keizo Sato, Tetsuro Ito: Browsing in a Digital Library Collecting Linearly Arranged Documents. 426-427
Jeremy Pickens: Feature Selection for Polyphonic Music Retrieval. 428-429
Rayid Ghani, Rosie Jones, Dunja Mladenic: Automatic Web Search Query Generation to Create Minority Language Corpora. 432-433
Kyoung-Mi Lee, W. Nick Street: Intelligent Object-based Image Retrieval Using Cluster-driven Personal Preference Learning. 436-437
Mark S. Drew, Cheng Lu: Construction of a Hierarchical Classifier Schema Using a Combination of Text-Based and Image-Based Approaches. 438-439
Michael P. Oakes, Robert J. Gaizauskas, Helene Fowkes: A Method Based on the Chi-Square Test for Document Classification. 440-441
Ji-Rong Wen, HongJiang Zhang, Jian-Yun Nie: Query Clustering Using Content Words and User Feedback. 442-443
Joel C. Miller, Gregory Rae, Fred Schaefer: Modifications of Kleinberg's HITS Algorithm Using Matrix Exponentiation and WebLog Records. 444-445
Elana Broch: Cite Me, Cite My References? (Scholarly Use of the ACM SIGIR Proceedings Based on Two Citation Indexes). 446-447
Demonstrations
Zheng Chen, Liu Wenyin, Chunhui Hu, Mingjing Li, HongJiang Zhang: IFind: A Web Image Search Engine. 450
Edward A. Fox, Robert K. France, Marcos André Gonçalves, Hussein Suleman: Building Interoperable Digital Library Services: MARIAN, Open Archives and NDLTD. 451
Daniel A. Kauwell, Jim Levin, Hwan Jo Yu, Young Jin Lee, Jeff Ellen, Arun Bahalla: Does Visualization Improve Our Ability to Find and Learn from Internet Based Information? 453-453
Ray R. Larson: Distributed Resource Discovery and Structured Data Searching with Cheshire II. 455
Valerie S. Allen, Abe Lederman: Searching the Deep Web - Distributed Explorit Directed Query Applications. 456
Kinshuman, Sudeshna Sarkar: CROWSE: A System for Organizing Repositories and Web Search Results. 457



