19. SIGIR 1996: Zurich, Switzerland

Keynote Address

• Andy Hopper:
  The Network Computer. 2
  

Experimental Studies

• Jinxi Xu, W. Bruce Croft:
  Query Expansion Using Local and Global Document Analysis. 4-11
  
• Timothy A. H. Bell, Alistair Moffat:
  The Design of a High Performance Information Filtering System. 12-20
  
• Amit Singhal, Chris Buckley, Mandar Mitra:
  Pivoted Document Length Normalization. 21-29
  
• Gareth J. F. Jones, J. T. Foote, Karen Sparck Jones, S. J. Young:
  Retrieving Spoken Documents by Combining Multiple Index Sources. 30-38
  

Language

• Wessel Kraaij, Renée Pohlmann:
  Viewing Stemming as Recall Enhancement. 40-48
  
• David A. Hull, Gregory Grefenstette:
  Querying Across Languages: A Dictionary-Based Approach to Multilingual Information Retrieval. 49-57
  
• Paraic Sheridan, Jean Paul Ballerini:
  Experiments in Multilingual Information Retrieval Using the SPIDER System. 58-65
  

Visualization

• Lucy T. Nowell, Robert K. France, Deborah Hix, Lenwood S. Heath, Edward A. Fox:
  Visualizing Search Results: Some Alternatives to Query-Document Similarity. 67-75
  
• Marti A. Hearst, Jan O. Pedersen:
  Reexamining the Cluster Hypothesis: Scatter/Gather on Retrieval Results. 76-84
  
• Aravindan Veerasamy, Nicholas J. Belkin:
  Evaluation of a Tool for Visualization of Information Retrieval Results. 85-92
  

Architecture

• David G. Hendry, David J. Harper:
  An Architecture for Implementing Extensible Information-Seeking Environments. 94-100
  
• Andreas Henrich:
  Document Retrieval Facilities for Repository-Based System Development Environments. 101-109
  
• Brendon Cahoon, Kathryn S. McKinley:
  Performance Evaluation of a Distributed Architecture for Information Retrieval. 110-118
  

User Studies

• Amanda Spink, Abby Goodrum, David Robins, Mei Mei Wu:
  Elicitations During Information Retrieval: Implications for IR System Design. 120-127
  
• Giorgio Brajnik, Stefano Mizzaro, Carlo Tasso:
  Evaluating User Interfaces to Information Retrieval Systems: A Case Study on User Support. 128-136
  

Efficiency

• King-Lup Liu, G. Jack Lipovski, Clement T. Yu, Naphtali Rishe:
  Efficient Processing of One and Two Dimensional Proximity Queries in Associative Memory. 138-146
  
• Mohan Kamath, Krithi Ramamritham:
  Efficient Transaction Support for Dynamic Information Retrieval Systems. 147-155
  

Multimedia IR

• Kyung-Ah Han, Sung-Hyon Myaeng:
  Image Organization and Retrieval with Automatically Constructed Feature Vectors. 157-165
  
• Justin Zobel, Philip W. Dart:
  Phonetic String Matching: Lessons from Information Retrieval. 166-172
  

Query Refinement

• Alan F. Smeaton, Ian Quigley:
  Experiments on Using Semantic Distances Between Words in Image Caption Retrieval. 174-180
  
• S. Amba, N. Narasimhamurthi, Kevin C. O'Kane, Philip M. Turner:
  Automatic Linking Of Thesauri. 181-186
  
• K. L. Kwok:
  A New Method of Weighting Query Terms for Ad-Hoc Retrieval. 187-195
  

Logic

• Carlo Meghini, Umberto Straccia:
  A Relevance Terminological Logic for Information Retrieval. 197-205
  
• Thomas Rölleke, Norbert Fuhr:
  Retrieval of Complex Objects Using a Four-Valued Logic. 206-214
  

Asian Languages

• Joon Ho Lee, Jeong Soo Ahn:
  Using n-Grams for Korean Text Retrieval. 216-224
  
• Jian-Yun Nie, Martin Brisebois, Xiaobo Ren:
  On Chinese Text Retrieval. 225-233
  

Modeling

• Kalervo Järvelin, Jaana Kristensen, Timo Niemi, Eero Sormunen, Heikki Keskustalo:
  A Deductive Data Model for Query Expansion. 235-243
  
• Farhad Oroumchian, Robert N. Oddy:
  An Application of Plausible Reasoning to Information Retrieval. 244-252
  
• Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Richard R. Muntz:
  A Belief Network Model for IR. 253-260
  

Filtering

• James P. Callan:
  Document Filtering With Inference Networks. 262-269
  
• James Allan:
  Incremental Relevance Feedback for Information Filtering. 270-278
  
• David A. Hull, Jan O. Pedersen, Hinrich Schütze:
  Method Combination For Document Filtering. 279-287
  

Categorization

• Leah S. Larkey, W. Bruce Croft:
  Combining Classifiers in Text Categorization. 289-297
  
• David D. Lewis, Robert E. Schapire, James P. Callan, Ron Papka:
  Training Algorithms for Linear Text Classifiers. 298-306
  
• William W. Cohen, Yoram Singer:
  Context-sensitive Learning Methods for Text Categorization. 307-315
  

User Studies

• Wai Lam, Snehasis Mukhopadhyay, Javed Mostafa, Mathew J. Palakal:
  Detection of Shifts in User Interests for Personalized Information Filtering. 317-325
  
• Philippe Mulhem, Laurence Nigay:
  Interactive Information Retrieval Systems: From User Centred Interface Design to Software Design. 326-334
  

Panel

• Donna Harman:
  Panel: Building and Using Test Collections. 335-337
  

System Demonstrations

• Marc Rittberger:
  System Demonstrations: Abstracts. 338-339
  

Posters

• Elizabeth D. Liddy:
  Posters: Abstracts. 340-342
  

Post-Conference Research Workshops

• Mark E. Rorvig, Matthias Hemmje:
  Foundations of Advanced Information Visualization for Information Retrieval Szstems (Workshop Abstract). 343
  
• Edward A. Fox:
  Courseware, Training and Curriculum in Information Retrieval (Workshop Abstract). 343
  
• Encarnacion Rancitelli:
  Research in Information Retrieval and the Practical Needs of Research and Cultural Libraries (Workshop Abstract). 344
  
• Gregory Grefenstette:
  Cross-linguistic Information Retrieval Workshop (Abstract). 344
  
• Norbert Fuhr:
  Network Information Retrieval (Workshop Abstract). 344