Advances in Information Retrieval

Progress in Information Retrieval.- Progress in Information Retrieval.- Enterprise Search — The New Frontier?.- Formal Models.- Frequentist and Bayesian Approach to Information Retrieval.- Using Proportional Transportation Distances for Measuring Document Similarity.- A User-Item Relevance Model for Log-Based Collaborative Filtering.- Document and Query Representation and Text Understanding.- Generating Search Term Variants for Text Collections with Historic Spellings.- Efficient Phrase Querying with Common Phrase Index.- Document Length Normalization Using Effective Level of Term Frequency in Large Collections.- Design and Evaluation.- Beyond the Web: Retrieval in Social Information Spaces.- Evaluating Web Search Result Summaries.- Measuring the Complexity of a Collection of Documents.- Topic Identification and News Retrieval.- Sentence Retrieval with LSI and Topic Identification.- Ranking Web News Via Homepage Visual Layout and Cross-Site Voting.- Clustering-Based Searching and Navigation in an Online News Source.- Clustering and Classification.- Mobile Clustering Engine.- Improving Quality of Search Results Clustering with Approximate Matrix Factorisations.- Adapting the Naive Bayes Classifier to Rank Procedural Texts.- Refinement and Feedback.- The Effects of Relevance Feedback Quality and Quantity in Interactive Relevance Feedback: A Simulation Based on User Modeling.- Using Query Profiles for Clarification.- Lexical Entailment for Information Retrieval.- Performance and Peer-to-Peer Networks.- A Hybrid Approach to Index Maintenance in Dynamic Text Retrieval Systems.- Efficient Parallel Computation of PageRank.- Comparing Different Architectures for Query Routing in Peer-to-Peer Networks.- Automatic Document Organization in a P2P Environment.- Web Search.- Exploring URL Hit Priors for Web Search.- A Study of Blog Search.- A Comparative Study of the Effectiveness of Search Result Presentation on the Web.- Structure/XML.- Bricks: The Building Blocks to Tackle Query Formulation in Structured Document Retrieval.- Structural Feedback for Keyword-Based XML Retrieval.- Machine Learning Ranking for Structured Information Retrieval.- Generating and Retrieving Text Segments for Focused Access to Scientific Documents.- Multimedia.- Browsing Personal Images Using Episodic Memory (Time + Location).- An Information Retrieval System for Motion Capture Data.- Can a Workspace Help to Overcome the Query Formulation Problem in Image Retrieval?.- Cross-Language Retrieval.- A Fingerprinting Technique for Evaluating Semantics Based Indexing.- A Cross-Language Approach to Historic Document Retrieval.- Automatic Acquisition of Chinese–English Parallel Corpus from the Web.- Genomic IR.- Fast Discovery of Similar Sequences in Large Genomic Collections.- Using Concept-Based Indexing to Improve Language Modeling Approach to Genomic IR.- Posters.- The Effects on Topic Familiarity on Online Search Behaviour and Use of Relevance Criteria.- PERC: A Personal Email Classifier.- Influence Diagrams for Contextual Information Retrieval.- Morphological Variation of Arabic Queries.- Combining Short and Long Term Audio Features for TV Sports Highlight Detection.- Object-Based Access to TV Rushes Video.- An Efficient Computation of the Multiple-Bernoulli Language Model.- Title and Snippet Based Result Re-ranking in Collaborative Web Search.- A Classification of IR Effectiveness Metrics.- Experiments on Average Distance Measure.- Phrase Clustering Without Document Context.- Rapid Development of Web-Based Monolingual Question Answering Systems.- Filtering Obfuscated Email Spam by means of Phonetic String Matching.- Sprinkling: Supervised Latent Semantic Indexing.- Web-Based Multiple Choice Question Answering for English and Arabic Questions.- Authoritative Re-ranking of Search Results.- Readability Applied to Information Retrieval.- Automatic Determination of Feature Weights for Multi-feature CBIR.- Towards Automatic Retrieval of Album Covers.- Clustering Sentences for Discovering Events in News Articles.- Specificity Helps Text Classification.- A Declarative DB-Powered Approach to IR.- Judging the Spatial Relevance of Documents for GIR.- Probabilistic Score Normalization for Rank Aggregation.- Learning Links Between a User’s Calendar and Information Needs.- Supporting Relevance Feedback in Video Search.- Intrinsic Plagiarism Detection.- Investigating Biometric Response for Information Retrieval Applications.- Relevance Feedback Using Weight Propagation.- Context-Specific Frequencies and Discriminativeness for the Retrieval of Structured Documents.