Information Retrieval, Volume 8

Volume 8, Number 1, January 2005

• Diomidis Spinellis:
  Index-Based Persistent Document Identifiers. 5-24
  
• Maayan Geffet, Yair Wiseman, Dror G. Feitelson:
  Automatic Alphabet Recognition. 25-40
  
• Yunjie Xu, Michel Benaroch:
  Information Retrieval with a Hybrid Automatic Query Expansion and Data Fusion Procedure. 41-65
  
• Paul N. Bennett, Susan T. Dumais, Eric Horvitz:
  The Combination of Text Classifiers Using Reliability Indicators. 67-100
  
• Walter Liggett, Chris Buckley:
  System Performance and Natural Language Expression of Information Needs. 101-128
  
• Daniel Lemire:
  Scale and Translation Invariant Collaborative Filtering Systems. 129-150
  
• Vo Ngoc Anh, Alistair Moffat:
  Inverted Index Compression Using Word-Aligned Binary Codes. 151-166
  

Volume 8, Number 2, April 2005

• Sándor Dominich, Mounia Lalmas, Keith van Rijsbergen:
  Guest Editorial: Spaces, Logic, and Link Analysis in IR: Recent Advances From A Mathematical and Logical Perspective. 175-179
  
• Thorsten Brants:
  Test Data Likelihood for PLSA Models. 181-196
  
• Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis:
  Dempster-Shafer Theory for a Query-Biased Combination of Evidence on the Web. 197-218
  
• Maristella Agosti, Luca Pretto:
  A Theoretical Study of a Generalized Version of Kleinberg's HITS Algorithm. 219-243
  
• Ronny Lempel, Shlomo Moran:
  Rank-Stability and Rank-Similarity of Link-Based Web Ranking Algorithms in Authority-Connected Graphs. 245-264
  
• Júlia Góth, Adrienn Skrop:
  Varying Retrieval Categoricity Using Hyperbolic Geometry. 265-283
  
• Karen S. K. Cheung, Douglas R. Vogel:
  Complexity Reduction in Lattice-Based Information Retrieval. 285-299
  
• Gloria Bordogna, Gabriella Pasi:
  Personalised Indexing and Retrieval of Heterogeneous Structured Documents. 301-318
  
• Stephen E. Robertson:
  On Event Spaces and Probabilistic Models in Information Retrieval. 319-329
  
• Jacob Kogan, Marc Teboulle, Charles K. Nicholas:
  Data Driven Similarity Measures for k-Means Like Clustering Algorithms. 331-349
  

Volume 8, Number 3, 2005

• Andrew Trotman:
  Learning to Rank. 359-381
  
• Subrata Kumar Das, Kurt Shuster, Curt Wu, Igor Levit:
  Mobile Agents for Distributed and Heterogeneous Information Retrieval. 383-416
  
• Padmini Srinivasan, Filippo Menczer, Gautam Pant:
  A General Evaluation Framework for Topical Crawlers. 417-447
  
• D. Frank Hsu, Isak Taksa:
  Comparing Rank and Score Combination Methods for Data Fusion in Information Retrieval. 449-480
  
• Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft:
  Analysis of Statistical Question Classification for Fact-Based Questions. 481-504
  
• Melody Y. Ivory:
  Mapping Scientific Frontiers: The Quest for Knowledge Visualization by Chaomei Chen. New York: Springer Verlag; 2003, 256 pps, (ISBN: 0-85233-494-0). 505-507
  

Volume 8, Number 4, December 2005

• Norbert Fuhr, Mounia Lalmas:
  Introduction to the Special Issue on INEX. 515-519
  
• Ralf Schenkel, Anja Theobald, Gerhard Weikum:
  Semantic Similarity Search on Semistructured Data with the XXL Search Engine. 521-545
  
• Johan A. List, Vojkan Mihajlovic, Georgina Ramírez, Arjen P. de Vries, Djoerd Hiemstra, Henk Ernst Blok:
  TIJAH: Embracing IR Methods in XML Databases. 547-570
  
• Jovan Pehcevski, James A. Thom, Anne-Marie Vercoustre:
  Hybrid XML Retrieval: Combining Information Retrieval and a Native XML Database. 571-600
  
• Ray R. Larson:
  A Fusion Approach to XML Structured Document Retrieval. 601-629
  
• Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson:
  The Importance of Length Normalization for XML Retrieval. 631-654
  
• Benjamin Piwowarski, Patrick Gallinari:
  A Bayesian Framework for XML Information Retrieval: Searching and Learning with the INEX Collection. 655-681