27. SIGIR 2004: Sheffield, UK

• Gordon Bell, Jim Gemmell, Roger Lueder:
  Challenges in using lifetime personal information stores. 1
  

Opening session

• Chirag Shah, W. Bruce Croft:
  Evaluating high accuracy retrieval techniques. 2-9
  
• Einat Amitay, David Carmel, Ronny Lempel, Aya Soffer:
  Scaling IR-system evaluation using term relevance sets. 10-17
  
• Fernando Diaz, Rosie Jones:
  Using temporal profiles of queries for precision prediction. 18-24
  

Test collections

• Chris Buckley, Ellen M. Voorhees:
  Retrieval evaluation with incomplete information. 25-32
  
• Mark Sanderson, Hideo Joho:
  Forming test collections with no system pooling. 33-40
  
• Douglas W. Oard, Dagobert Soergel, David S. Doermann, Xiaoli Huang, G. Craig Murray, Jianqiang Wang, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Martin Franz, Samuel Gustman, James Mayfield, Liliya Kharevych, Stephanie Strassel:
  Building an information retrieval test collection for spontaneous conversational speech. 41-48
  

Formal models-1

• Hui Fang, Tao Tao, ChengXiang Zhai:
  A formal study of information retrieval heuristics. 49-56
  
• Ji-Rong Wen, Ni Lao, Wei-Ying Ma:
  Probabilistic model for contextual retrieval. 57-63
  
• Ramesh Nallapati:
  Discriminative models for information retrieval. 64-71
  

XML retrieval

• Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Arjen P. de Vries:
  The overlap problem in content-oriented XML retrieval evaluation. 72-79
  
• Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson:
  Length normalization in XML retrieval. 80-87
  
• Shaorong Liu, Qinghua Zou, Wesley W. Chu:
  Configurable indexing and ranking for XML information retrieval. 88-95
  

Dimensionality reduction

• Xiaofei He, Deng Cai, Haifeng Liu, Wei-Ying Ma:
  Locality preserving indexing for document representation. 96-103
  
• Effrosini Kokiopoulou, Yousef Saad:
  Polynomial filtering in latent semantic indexing for information retrieval. 104-111
  
• Chunqiang Tang, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Zhichen Xu:
  On scaling latent semantic indexing for large peer-to-peer systems. 112-121
  

Formal models-2

• John F. Canny:
  GaP: a factor model for discrete data. 122-129
  
• Raymond Y. K. Lau, Peter Bruza, Dawei Song:
  Belief revision for adaptive information retrieval. 130-137
  
• Weiguo Fan, Ming Luo, Li Wang, Wensi Xi, Edward A. Fox:
  Tuning before feedback: combining ranking discovery and blind feedback for robust retrieval. 138-145
  

Cross-language information retrieval

• Pu-Jen Cheng, Jei-Wen Teng, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Jenq-Haur Wang, Wen-Hsiang Lu, Lee-Feng Chien:
  Translating unknown queries with web corpora for cross-language information retrieval. 146-153
  
• Monica Rogati, Yiming Yang:
  Resource selection for domain-specific cross-lingual IR. 154-161
  
• Ying Zhang, Phil Vines:
  Using the web for automated translation extraction in cross-language information retrieval. 162-169
  

Language models

• Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Guangyuan Wu, Guihong Cao:
  Dependence language model for information retrieval. 170-177
  
• Djoerd Hiemstra, Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza:
  Parsimonious language models for information retrieval. 178-185
  
• Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft:
  Cluster-based retrieval using language models. 186-193
  
• Oren Kurland, Lillian Lee:
  Corpus structure, language models, and ad hoc information retrieval. 194-201
  

Clustering

• Wei Xu, Yihong Gong:
  Document clustering by concept factorization. 202-209
  
• Hua-Jun Zeng, Qi-Cai He, Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying Ma, Jinwen Ma:
  Learning to cluster web search results. 210-217
  
• Tao Li, Sheng Ma, Mitsunori Ogihara:
  Document clustering via adaptive subspace iteration. 218-225
  
• Stefan Siersdorfer, Sergej Sizov:
  Restrictive clustering and metaclustering for self-organizing document collections. 226-233
  

Text classification

• Dunja Mladenic, Janez Brank, Marko Grobelnik, Natasa Milic-Frayling:
  Feature selection using linear classifier weights: interaction with classification models. 234-241
  
• Dou Shen, Zheng Chen, Qiang Yang, Hua-Jun Zeng, Benyu Zhang, Yuchang Lu, Wei-Ying Ma:
  Web-page classification through summarization. 242-249
  
• Dmitry Davidov, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Shaul Markovitch:
  Parameterized generation of labeled datasets for text categorization based on a hierarchical directory. 250-257
  

Disambiguation

• Sang-Bum Kim, Hee-Cheol Seo, Hae-Chang Rim:
  Information retrieval using word senses: root sense tagging approach. 258-265
  
• Shuang Liu, Fang Liu, Clement T. Yu, Weiyi Meng:
  An effective approach to document retrieval via utilizing WordNet and recognizing phrases. 266-272
  
• Einat Amitay, Nadav Har'El, Ron Sivan, Aya Soffer:
  Web-a-where: geotagging web content. 273-280
  

Recognising and using named entities

• Li Zhang, Yue Pan, Tong Zhang:
  Focused named entity recognition using machine learning. 281-288
  
• Wai Lam, Ruizhang Huang, Pik-Shan Cheung:
  Learning phonetic similarity for matching named entity translations and mining new translations. 289-296
  
• Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan:
  Text classification and named entities for new event detection. 297-304
  

Efficiency and scaling

• Fabrizio Silvestri, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego:
  Assigning identifiers to documents to enhance the clustering property of fulltext indexes. 305-312
  
• Christos Tryfonopoulos, Manolis Koubarakis, Yannis Drougas:
  Filtering algorithms for information retrieval models with named attributes and proximity operators. 313-320
  
• Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury, David A. Grossman, Ophir Frieder:
  Hourly analysis of a very large topically categorized web query log. 321-328
  

Content-based filtering & collaborative filtering

• Matthew R. McLaughlin, Jonathan L. Herlocker:
  A collaborative filtering algorithm and evaluation metric that accurately model the user experience. 329-336
  
• Rong Jin, Joyce Y. Chai, Luo Si:
  An automatic weighting scheme for collaborative filtering. 337-344
  
• Yi Zhang:
  Using bayesian priors to combine classifiers for adaptive filtering. 345-352
  
• Kai Yu, Volker Tresp, Shipeng Yu:
  A nonparametric hierarchical bayesian framework for information filtering. 353-360
  

Image retrieval, users and usability

• Jianping Fan, Yuli Gao, Hangzai Luo, Guangyou Xu:
  Automatic image annotation by using concept-sensitive salient objects for image content representation. 361-368
  
• Toni M. Rath, R. Manmatha, Victor Lavrenko:
  A search engine for historical manuscript images. 369-376
  
• Diane Kelly, Nicholas J. Belkin:
  Display time as implicit feedback: understanding task effects. 377-384
  
• Mingfang Wu, Gheorghe Muresan, Alistair McLean, Muh-Chyun (Morris) Tang, Ross Wilkinson, Yuelin Li, Hyuk-Jin Lee, Nicholas J. Belkin:
  Human versus machine in the topic distillation task. 385-392
  
• Peter Willett:
  Chemoinformatics: an application domain for information retrieval techniques. 393
  

Machine learning for IR

• Wensi Xi, Jesper Lind, Eric Brill:
  Learning effective ranking functions for newsgroup search. 394-401
  
• Leah S. Larkey, Fangfang Feng, Margaret E. Connell, Victor Lavrenko:
  Language-specific models in multilingual topic tracking. 402-409
  
• Dell Zhang, Wee Sun Lee:
  Web taxonomy integration through co-bootstrapping. 410-417
  

Natural language processing

• Jinxi Xu, Ralph M. Weischedel, Ana Licuanan:
  Evaluation of an extraction-based approach to answering definitional questions. 418-424
  
• Hai Leong Chieu, Yoong Keok Lee:
  Query based event extraction along a timeline. 425-432
  
• Korinna Grabski, Tobias Scheffer:
  Sentence completion. 433-439
  

Web structure

• Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma:
  Block-level link analysis. 440-447
  
• Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis:
  Usefulness of hyperlink structure for query-biased topic distillation. 448-455
  
• Deng Cai, Shipeng Yu, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma:
  Block-based web search. 456-463
  

Posters

• William P. Doran, Nicola Stokes, Eamonn Newman, John Dunnion, Joe Carthy:
  A hybrid statistical/linguistic model for generating news story gists. 464-465
  
• Mark Sanderson, Robert Pasley:
  Image based gisting in CLIR. 466-467
  
• Edel Greevy, Alan F. Smeaton:
  Classifying racist texts using a support vector machine. 468-469
  
• Azreen Azman, Iadh Ounis:
  Discovery of aggregate usage profiles based on clustering information needs. 470-471
  
• Jie Lu, Jamie Callan:
  Merging retrieval results in hierarchical peer-to-peer networks. 472-473
  
• Tetsuya Sakai, Yoshimi Saito, Yumi Ichimura, Tomoharu Kokubu, Makoto Koyama:
  The effect of back-formulating questions in question answering evaluation. 474-475
  
• Jesse Montgomery, Luo Si, Jamie Callan, David A. Evans:
  Effect of varying number of documents in blind feedback: analysis of the 2003 NRRC RIA workshop "bf_numdocs" experiment suite. 476-477
  
• Laura A. Granka, Thorsten Joachims, Geri Gay:
  Eye-tracking analysis of user behavior in WWW search. 478-479
  
• Raman Chandrasekar, Harr Chen, Simon Corston-Oliver, Eric Brill:
  Subwebs for specialized search. 480-481
  
• Zhenmei Gu, Ming Luo:
  Comparison of using passages and documents for blind relevance feedback in information retrieval. 482-483
  
• Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson:
  Measuring pseudo relevance feedback & CLIR. 484-485
  
• Tao Tao, ChengXiang Zhai:
  A two-stage mixture model for pseudo feedback. 486-487
  
• Eric Crestan, Claude de Loupy:
  Natural language processing for browse help. 488-489
  
• James Mayfield, Paul McNamee:
  Triangulation without translation. 490-491
  
• Smitha Sriram, Xuehua Shen, ChengXiang Zhai:
  A session-based search engine. 492-493
  
• Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury, David A. Grossman, Ophir Frieder:
  Evaluation of filtering current news search results. 494-495
  
• Eduard Hoenkamp, Dawei Song:
  The document as an ergodic markov chain. 496-497
  
• Raymond J. D'Amore:
  Expertise community detection. 498-499
  
• Dmitri Roussinov, Jose Antonio Robles-Flores:
  Learning patterns to answer open domain questions on the web. 500-501
  
• Anton Leuski:
  Email is a stage: discovering people roles from email archives. 502-503
  
• Gauri Shah, Tanveer Fathima Syeda-Mahmood:
  Searching databases for sematically-related schemas. 504-505
  
• Chris Buckley:
  Topic prediction based on comparative retrieval rankings. 506-507
  
• Elizabeth D. Liddy, Anne Diekema, Ozgur Yilmazel:
  Context-based question-answering evaluation. 508-509
  
• Yixing Sun, David J. Harper, Stuart N. K. Watt:
  Design of an e-book user interface and visualizations to support reading for comprehension. 510-511
  
• David Hawking, Trystan Upstill, Nick Craswell:
  Toward better weighting of anchors. 512-513
  
• Jiamin Ye, Alan F. Smeaton:
  Aggregated feature retrieval for MPEG-7 via clustering. 514-515
  
• Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel, W. Bruce Croft:
  Answer models for question answering passage retrieval. 516-517
  
• Harris Wu, Michael D. Gordon:
  Collaborative filing in a document repository. 518-519
  
• Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose:
  A study of topic similarity measures. 520-521
  
• Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua:
  Effectiveness of web page classification on finding list answers. 522-523
  
• Ying Zhang, Phil Vines:
  Detection and translation of OOV terms prior to query time. 524-525
  
• Yael Nemeth, Bracha Shapira, Meirav Taieb-Maimon:
  Evaluation of the real and perceived value of automatic and interactive query expansion. 526-527
  
• Donna Harman, Chris Buckley:
  The NRRC reliable information access (RIA) workshop. 528-529
  
• Ian Soboroff:
  On evaluating web search with very few relevant documents. 530-531
  
• Qing Li, Byeong Man Kim, Donghai Guan, Duk whan Oh:
  A music recommender based on audio features. 532-533
  
• Liping Ma, John Shepherd:
  Information extraction using two-phase pattern discovery. 534-535
  
• Yue Lu, Li Zhang, Chew Lim Tan:
  A search engine for imaged documents in PDF files. 536-537
  
• Yan Liu, Jaime G. Carbonell, Judith Klein-Seetharaman, Vanathi Gopalakrishnan:
  Context sensitive vocabulary and its application in protein secondary structure prediction. 538-539
  
• Donald Metzler, Victor Lavrenko, W. Bruce Croft:
  Formal multiple-bernoulli models for language modeling. 540-541
  
• Leif Azzopardi, Mark Girolami, Cornelis Joost van Rijsbergen:
  User biased document language modelling. 542-543
  
• Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan:
  Information retrieval for language tutoring: an overview of the REAP project. 544-545
  
• Yinghui Xu, Kyoji Umemura:
  A unified model of literal mining and link analysis for ranking web resources. 546-547
  
• Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft, Paul Oh, David Hart:
  Automatic recognition of reading levels from user queries. 548-549
  
• Justin Basilico, Thomas Hofmann:
  A joint framework for collaborative and content filtering. 550-551
  
• Hee-Soo Kim, Ikkyu Choi, Minkoo Kim:
  Refining term weights of documents using term dependencies. 552-553
  
• Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke:
  Multiple sources of evidence for XML retrieval. 554-555
  
• Yuen-Hsien Tseng, William John Teahan:
  Verifying a Chinese collection for text categorization. 556-557
  
• Yih-Ling Hedley, Muhammad Younas, Anne E. James, Mark Sanderson:
  Query-related data extraction of hidden web documents. 558-559
  
• Atsushi Fujii, Makoto Iwayama, Noriko Kando:
  The patent retrieval task in the fourth NTCIR workshop. 560-561
  
• Ellen M. Voorhees:
  Measuring ineffectiveness. 562-563
  
• Philip J. Cowans:
  Information retrieval using hierarchical dirichlet processes. 564-565
  
• Abduelbaset Goweder, Massimo Poesio, Anne N. De Roeck:
  Broken plural detection for arabic information retrieval. 566-567
  
• Rong Jin, Luo Si:
  A study of methods for normalizing user ratings in collaborative filtering. 568-569
  
• Robert H. Warren, Ting Liu:
  A review of relevance feedback experiments at the 2003 reliable information access (RIA) workshop. 570-571
  
• Bicheng Liu, David J. Harper, Stuart N. K. Watt:
  Supporting federated information sharing communities. 572-573
  
• Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan, Egidio L. Terra, Charles L. A. Clarke:
  The effect of document retrieval quality on factoid question answering performance. 574-575
  
• Trystan Upstill, Stephen E. Robertson:
  Exploiting hyperlink recommendation evidence in navigational web search. 576-577
  
• D. S. Hunnisett, W. J. Teahan:
  Context-based methods for text categorisation. 578-579
  
• Manu Aery, Sharma Chakravarthy:
  eMailSift: mining-based approaches to email classification. 580-581
  
• Jack G. Conrad, Cindy P. Schriber:
  Constructing a text corpus for inexact duplicate detection. 582-583
  
• Chris Buckley:
  Why current IR engines fail. 584-585
  
• Manuel Zahariev:
  Automatic sense disambiguation for acronyms. 586-587
  
• Gabriel Somlo, Adele E. Howe:
  Filtering for personal web information agents. 588-589
  
• Michael G. Christel, Neema Moraveji, Chang Huang:
  Evaluating content-based filters for image and video retrieval. 590-591
  
• Jianping Fan, Hangzai Luo:
  Semantic video classification by integrating unlabeled samples for classifier training. 592-593
  
• Susan T. Dumais, Edward Cutrell, Raman Sarin, Eric Horvitz:
  Implicit queries (IQ) for contextualized search. 594
  
• Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose:
  An implicit system for predicting interests. 595
  
• Fredric C. Gey, Aitao Chen, Ray R. Larson, Kim Carl:
  Geotemporal querying of multilingual documents. 596
  
• Xuehua Shen, Smitha Sriram, ChengXiang Zhai:
  ACES: a contextual engine for search. 597
  
• Sam Chapman, Alexiei Dingli, Fabio Ciravegna:
  Armadillo: harvesting information for the semantic web. 598
  
• Udo Kruschwitz, Hala Al-Bakour:
  UKSearch: search with automatically acquired domain knowledge. 599
  
• Ray R. Larson, Patricia Frontiera:
  Geographic information retrieval (GIR): searching where and what. 600
  

Doctorial consortium

• Melanie Gnasa:
  Sharing knowledge online (abstract only): a dream or reality? 602
  
• Bicheng Liu:
  Supporting federated information sharing communities (abstract only). 602
  
• Razvan Stefan Bot:
  Improving document representation by accumulating relevance feedback (abstract only): the relevance feedback accumulation algorithm. 602
  
• Jochen L. Leidner:
  Toponym resolution in text (abstract only): "which sheffield is it?". 602
  
• Paul Ogilvie:
  Understanding combination of evidence using generative probabilistic models for information retrieval (abstract only). 603
  
• Yixing Sun:
  Discovering and representing the contextual and narrative structure of e-books to support reading and comprehension (abstract only). 603
  
• Melanie J. Martin:
  Reliability and verification of natural language text on the world wide web (abstract only). 603
  
• Andrew Trotman:
  An artificial intelligence approach to information retrieval (abstract only). 603
  
• Xiaojun Yuan:
  Supporting multiple information-seeking strategies in a single system framework (abstract only). 604
  

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