Information Retrieval, Volume 1

Volume 1, Numbers 1-2, April 1999

Paul B. Kantor, Stephen E. Robertson: Editorial. 5
David Banks, Paul Over, Nien-Fan Zhang: Blind Men and Elephants: Six Approaches to TREC Data. 7-34
Inderjeet Mani, Eric Bloedorn: Summarizing Similarities and Differences Among Related Documents. 35-67
Yiming Yang: An Evaluation of Statistical Approaches to Text Categorization. 69-90
Massimo Melucci: An Evaluation of Automatically Constructed Hypertexts for Information Retrieval. 91-114
David Hawking, Paul B. Thistlewaite, Donna Harman: Scaling Up the TREC Collection. 115-137

Christopher C. Vogt, Garrison W. Cottrell: Fusion Via a Linear Combination of Scores. 151-173
Mohand Boughanem, Claude Chrisment, Lynda Tamine: Genetic Approach to Query Space Exploration. 175-192
Andreas S. Weigend, Erik D. Wiener, Jan O. Pedersen: Exploiting Hierarchy in Text Categorization. 193-216
Ari Pirkola, Heikki Keskustalo, Kalervo Järvelin: The Effects of Conjunction, Facet Structure, and Dictionary Combinations in Concept-Based Cross-Language Retrieval. 217-250

Marjo Markkula, Eero Sormunen: End-User Searching Challenges Indexing Practices in the Digital Newspaper Photo Archive. 259-285
C. Olivia Frost, Bradley Taylor, Anna Noakes, Stephen Markel, Deborah Torres, Karen M. Drabenstott: Browse and Search Patterns in a Digital Image Database. 287-313
Abraham Bookstein, Shmuel T. Klein, Timo Raita: Simple Bayesian Model for Bitmap Compression. 315-328
Jaana Kekäläinen, Kalervo Järvelin: The Co-Effects of Query Structure and Expansion on Retrieval Performance in Probabilistic Text Retrieval. 329-344