Advances in Information Retrieval

1. Front Matter

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2. Query Representation

   1. Explaining Query Modifications

      • Vera Hollink, Jiyin He, Arjen de Vries

      Pages 1-12

   2. Modeling Transactional Queries via Templates

      • Edward Bortnikov, Pinar Donmez, Amit Kagian, Ronny Lempel

      Pages 13-24

   3. Exploring Query Patterns in Email Search

      • Morgan Harvey, David Elsweiler

      Pages 25-36

   4. Interactive Search Support for Difficult Web Queries

      • Abdigani Diriye, Giridhar Kumaran, Jeff Huang

      Pages 37-49

3. Blog and Online-Community Search

   1. Predicting the Future Impact of News Events

      • Julien Gaugaz, Patrick Siehndel, Gianluca Demartini, Tereza Iofciu, Mihai Georgescu, Nicola Henze

      Pages 50-62

   2. Detection of News Feeds Items Appropriate for Children

      • Tamara Polajnar, Richard Glassey, Leif Azzopardi

      Pages 63-72

   3. Comparing Tweets and Tags for URLs

      • Morgan Harvey, Mark Carman, David Elsweiler

      Pages 73-84

   4. Geo-Location Estimation of Flickr Images: Social Web Based Enrichment

      • Claudia Hauff, Geert-Jan Houben

      Pages 85-96

4. Semi-structured Retrieval

   1. A Field Relevance Model for Structured Document Retrieval

      • Jin Young Kim, W. Bruce Croft

      Pages 97-108

   2. Relation Based Term Weighting Regularization

      • Hao Wu, Hui Fang

      Pages 109-120

   3. A New Approach to Answerer Recommendation in Community Question Answering Services

      • Zhenlei Yan, Jie Zhou

      Pages 121-132

   4. On the Modeling of Entities for Ad-Hoc Entity Search in the Web of Data

      • Robert Neumayer, Krisztian Balog, Kjetil Nørvåg

      Pages 133-145

   5. Result Disambiguation in Web People Search

      • Richard Berendsen, Bogomil Kovachev, Evangelia-Paraskevi Nastou, Maarten de Rijke, Wouter Weerkamp

      Pages 146-157

5. Evaluation

   1. On Smoothing Average Precision

      • Stephen Robertson

      Pages 158-169

   2. New Metrics for Meaningful Evaluation of Informally Structured Speech Retrieval

      • Maria Eskevich, Walid Magdy, Gareth J. F. Jones

      Pages 170-181

   3. On Aggregating Labels from Multiple Crowd Workers to Infer Relevance of Documents

      • Mehdi Hosseini, Ingemar J. Cox, Nataša Milić-Frayling, Gabriella Kazai, Vishwa Vinay

      Pages 182-194

6. Applications

   1. How Random Walks Can Help Tourism

      • Claudio Lucchese, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hossein Vahabi, Rossano Venturini

      Pages 195-206

   2. Retrieving Candidate Plagiarised Documents Using Query Expansion

      • Rao Muhammad Adeel Nawab, Mark Stevenson, Paul Clough

      Pages 207-218

   3. Reliability Prediction of Webpages in the Medical Domain

      • Parikshit Sondhi, V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran, ChengXiang Zhai

      Pages 219-231

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 34th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2012, held in Barcelona, Spain, in April 2012. The 37 full papers, 28 poster papers and 7 demonstrations presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 submissions. The contributions are organized in sections named: query representation; blogs and online-community search; semi-structured retrieval; evaluation; applications; retrieval models; image and video retrieval; text and content classification, categorisation, clustering; systems efficiency; industry track; and posters.

• collaborative search
• domain modeling
• latent semantic indexing
• search engines
• topic models

• Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain

  Ricardo Baeza-Yates, B. Barla Cambazoglu, Vanessa Murdock

• Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Arjen P. Vries

• Websays, Barcelona, Spain

  Hugo Zaragoza

• Yahoo! Labs, Haifa, Israel

  Ronny Lempel

• ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy

  Fabrizio Silvestri

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