SIGIR Forum, Volume 39

Volume 39, Number 1, June 2005

• Wray L. Buntine:
  Open source search: a data mining platform. 4-10
  

• Ellen M. Voorhees:
  The TREC robust retrieval track. 11-20
  
• William R. Hersh:
  Report on the TREC 2004 genomics track. 21-24
  
• Charles L. A. Clarke, Nick Craswell, Ian Soboroff:
  The TREC terabyte retrieval track. 25
  

• Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu:
  The second ACM international workshop on multimedia databases (MMDB 2004) held at ACM CIKM 2004. 26-30
  
• Alberto H. F. Laender, Dongwon Lee:
  Report on the 6th ACM international workshop on web information and data management (WIDM 2004) held at CIKM 2004. 31-33
  

• Thijs Westerveld, Arjen P. de Vries, Franciska M. G. de Jong:
  Workshop on the evaluation of multimedia retrieval. 34-36
  
• David E. Losada, Juan M. Fernández-Luna:
  Report on the 27th European conference on information retrieval research (ECIR 2005). 37-40
  

• Carolyn J. Crouch:
  Relevance feedback at the INEX 2004 workshop. 41-42
  
• Anastasios Tombros, Saadia Malik, Birger Larsen:
  Report on the INEX 2004 interactive track. 43-49
  
• Shlomo Geva, Tony Sahama:
  The NLP task at INEX 2004. 50-53
  

• Paul Browne:
  Video information retrieval using objects and ostensive relevance feedback. 54
  
• Carlos Castillo:
  Effective web crawling. 55-56
  
• Michael Chau:
  Searching and mining the web for personalized and specialized information. 57
  
• Shyamala Doraisamy:
  Polyphonic music retrieval: the n-gram approach. 58
  
• Kai Halttunen:
  Two information retrieval learning environments: their design and evaluation. 59-60
  
• Wessel Kraaij:
  Variations on language modeling for information retrieval. 61
  
• Jean Martinet:
  A relational vector-space model of information retrieval adapted to images. 62
  
• Jesper W. Schneider:
  Verification of bibliometric methods' applicability for thesaurus construction. 63-64
  
• Yohei Seki:
  Automatic summarization focusing on document genre and text structure. 65-67
  
• Christopher Stokoe:
  Automated word sense disambiguation for web information retrieval. 68
  
• Thijs Westerveld:
  Using generative probabilistic models for multimedia retrieval. 69
  
• Ryen W. White:
  Implicit feedback for interactive information retrieval. 70
  
• Jiamin Ye:
  Aggregated feature video retrieval for MPEG-7 via clustering. 71
  

Volume 39, Number 2, December 2005

• Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel:
  Recommended reading for IR research students. 3-14
  

• Douglas W. Oard:
  The SIGIR 2005 workshop program. 15-16
  
• Shlomo Argamon, Jussi Karlgren, James G. Shanahan:
  Future short term goals of research in computational analysis of stylistics in text. 17-18
  
• Ranieri Baraglia, Domenico Laforenza, Fabrizio Silvestri:
  SIGIR workshop report: the SIGIR heterogeneous and distributed information retrieval workshop. 19-24
  
• David Carmel, Elad Yom-Tov, Ian Soboroff:
  SIGIR workshop report: predicting query difficulty - methods and applications. 25-28
  
• Sándor Dominich, Iadh Ounis, Jian-Yun Nie:
  ACM SIGIR workshop on mathematical/formal methods in information retrieval MF/IR 2005. 29-30
  
• Peter Ingwersen, Kalervo Järvelin:
  Information retrieval in context: IRiX. 31-39
  
• Raghavan Manmatha, Stefan M. Rüger, Alexander G. Hauptmann:
  Multimedia information retrieval: workshop report. 40-41
  
• Olga Vechtomova, Rosie Jones, Gaël Dias:
  Report on the ACM International Workshop on Methodologies and Evaluation of Lexical Cohesion Techniques in Real-World Applications (ELECTRA 2005) held at SIGIR 2005. 42-45
  

• Andrew Trotman, Mounia Lalmas:
  Report on the INEX 2005 workshop on element retrieval methodology. 46-51
  
• Ryen W. White, Bill Kules, Benjamin B. Bederson:
  Exploratory search interfaces: categorization, clustering and beyond: report on the XSI 2005 workshop at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland. 52-56
  

• Yi Zhang:
  Bayesian graphical models for adaptive filtering. 57
  
• Panagiotis Petratos:
  A heuristic information retrieval study: an investigation of methods for enhanced searching of distributed data objects exploiting bidirectional relevance feedback. 58