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Advances in Information Retrieval

26th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2004, Sunderland, UK, April 5-7, 2004, Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Sharon McDonald

    1. School of Computing and Technology, David Goldman Informatics Centre, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK

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  2. John Tait

    1. School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, United Kingdom

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 2997)

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Table of contents (30 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  3. User Studies

    1. A User-Centered Approach to Evaluating Topic Models

      • Diane Kelly, Fernando Diaz, Nicholas J. Belkin, James Allan
      Pages 27-41

    2. A Study of User Interaction with a Concept-Based Interactive Query Expansion Support Tool

      • Hideo Joho, Mark Sanderson, Micheline Beaulieu
      Pages 42-56

    3. Searcher’s Assessments of Task Complexity for Web Searching

      • David J. Bell, Ian Ruthven
      Pages 57-71

  4. Question Answering

    1. Evaluating Passage Retrieval Approaches for Question Answering

      • Ian Roberts, Robert Gaizauskas
      Pages 72-84

    2. Identification of Relevant and Novel Sentences Using Reference Corpus

      • Hsin-Hsi Chen, Ming-Feng Tsai, Ming-Hung Hsu
      Pages 85-98

    3. Answer Selection in a Multi-stream Open Domain Question Answering System

      • Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke
      Pages 99-111

  5. Information Models

    1. A Bidimensional View of Documents for Text Categorisation

      • Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio
      Pages 112-126

    2. Query Difficulty, Robustness, and Selective Application of Query Expansion

      • Giambattista Amati, Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Romano
      Pages 127-137

    3. Combining CORI and the Decision-Theoretic Approach for Advanced Resource Selection

      • Henrik Nottelmann, Norbert Fuhr
      Pages 138-153

    4. Predictive Top-Down Knowledge Improves Neural Exploratory Bottom-Up Clustering

      • Chihli Hung, Stefan Wermter, Peter Smith
      Pages 154-166

  6. Classification

    1. Contextual Document Clustering

      • Vladimir Dobrynin, David Patterson, Niall Rooney
      Pages 167-180

    2. Complex Linguistic Features for Text Classification: A Comprehensive Study

      • Alessandro Moschitti, Roberto Basili
      Pages 181-196

    3. Eliminating High-Degree Biased Character Bigrams for Dimensionality Reduction in Chinese Text Categorization

      • Dejun Xue, Maosong Sun
      Pages 197-208

  7. Summarization

    1. Broadcast News Gisting Using Lexical Cohesion Analysis

      • Nicola Stokes, Eamonn Newman, Joe Carthy, Alan F. Smeaton
      Pages 209-222

    2. From Text Summarisation to Style-Specific Summarisation for Broadcast News

      • Heidi Christensen, BalaKrishna Kolluru, Yoshihiko Gotoh, Steve Renals
      Pages 223-237

  8. Image Retrieval

    1. Relevance Feedback for Cross Language Image Retrieval

      • Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson
      Pages 238-252

    2. NNk Networks for Content-Based Image Retrieval

      • Daniel Heesch, Stefan Rüger
      Pages 253-266
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Theseproceedingscontaintherefereedfulltechnicalpaperspresentedatthe26th Annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2004). ECIR is theannualconferenceoftheBritishComputerSociety’sspecialistgroupinInf- mation Retrieval. This year the conference was held at the School of Computing and Technology at the University of Sunderland. ECIR began life as the - nual Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research. The colloquium was held in the UK each year until 1998 when the event was held in Grenoble, France. Since then the conference venue has alternated between the United Kingdom and Continental Europe, and the event was renamed the European Conference on Information Retrieval. In recent years, ECIR has continued to grow and has become the major European forum for the discussion of research in the ?eld of Information Retrieval. To mark this metamorphosis from a small informal c- loquium to a major event in the IR research calendar, the BCS-IRSG decided to rename the event to the European Conference on Information Retrieval. ECIR2004received88fullpapersubmissions,fromacrossEuropeandfurther a?eldincludingNorthAmerica,ChinaandAustralia,atestamenttothegrowing popularity and reputation of the conference. Out of the 88 submitted papers, 28 were accepted for presentation. All papers were reviewed by at least three reviewers. Among the accepted papers 11 have a student as the primary author, illustrating that the traditional student focus of the original colloquium is alive today.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Computing and Technology, David Goldman Informatics Centre, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK

    Sharon McDonald

  • School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, United Kingdom

    John Tait

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