Bridging Between Information Retrieval and Databases

1. Front Matter

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2. Lectures

   1. An Introduction to the Novel Challenges in Information Retrieval for Social Media

      • Giacomo Inches, Fabio Crestani

      Pages 1-30

   2. Semantic Search over Documents and Ontologies

      • Kalina Bontcheva, Valentin Tablan, Hamish Cunningham

      Pages 31-53

   3. Keyword Search over Relational Databases: Issues, Approaches and Open Challenges

      • Sonia Bergamaschi, Francesco Guerra, Giovanni Simonini

      Pages 54-73

   4. Semistructured Data Search

      • Krisztian Balog

      Pages 74-96

   5. Bridging Information Retrieval and Databases

      • Norbert Fuhr

      Pages 97-115

   6. Metrics, Statistics, Tests

      • Tetsuya Sakai

      Pages 116-163

   7. Semistructured Data Search Evaluation

      • Ralf Schenkel

      Pages 164-181

   8. Evaluation with Respect to Usefulness

      • Omar Alonso

      Pages 182-191

   9. Black Box Evaluation for Operational Information Retrieval Applications

      • Martin Braschler, Melanie Imhof, Stefan Rietberger

      Pages 192-207

3. Best Student Posters

   1. Twinder: Enhancing Twitter Search

      • Ke Tao, Fabian Abel, Claudia Hauff, Geert-Jan Houben, Ujwal Gadiraju

      Pages 208-217

   2. Domain-Driven News Representation Using Conditional Attribute-Value Pairs

      • Mihail Minev, Christoph Schommer

      Pages 218-226

   3. Knowledge Graphs as Context Models: Improving the Detection of Cross-Language Plagiarism with Paraphrasing

      • Marc Franco-Salvador, Parth Gupta, Paolo Rosso

      Pages 227-236

4. Back Matter

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The research domains of information retrieval and databases have traditionally adopted different approaches to information management. However, in recent years, there has been an increasing cross-fertilization among the two fields and now many research challenges are transversal to them. With this in mind, a winter school was organized in Bressanone, Italy, in February 2013, within the context of the EU-funded research project PROMISE (Participative Research Laboratory for Multimedia and Multilingual Information Systems Evaluation). PROMISE aimed at advancing the experimental evaluation of complex multimedia and multilingual information systems in order to support individuals, commercial entities and communities, who design, develop, employ and improve such complex systems. The overall goal of PROMISE was to deliver a unified environment collecting data, knowledge, tools and methodologies and to help the user community involved in experimental evaluation. This book constitutes the outcome of the PROMISE Winter School 2013 and contains 9 invited lectures from the research domains of information retrieval and databases plus short papers of the best student poster awards. A large variety of topics are covered, including databases, information retrieval, experimental evaluation, metrics and statistics, semantic search, keyword search in databases, semi-structured search, evaluation both in information retrieval and databases, crowdsourcing and social media.

• Twitter
• black box evaluation
• databases
• evaluation of retrieval results
• information access
• information retrieval
• keyword search
• semantic search
• semi-structured information
• social media
• structured information
• unstructured information

• University of Padua, Italy

  Nicola Ferro

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