Information Retrieval Technology

1. Front Matter

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2. Session 1: IR Models

   1. Exploring and Exploiting Proximity Statistic for Information Retrieval Model

      • Yadong Zhu, Yuanhai Xue, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Xueqi Cheng, Xiaoming Yu

      Pages 1-13

   2. A Category-integrated Language Model for Question Retrieval in Community Question Answering

      • Zongcheng Ji, Fei Xu, Bin Wang

      Pages 14-25

3. Session 2: Evaluation and User Studies

   1. The Reusability of a Diversified Search Test Collection

      • Tetsuya Sakai, Zhicheng Dou, Ruihua Song, Noriko Kando

      Pages 26-38

   2. One Click One Revisited: Enhancing Evaluation Based on Information Units

      • Tetsuya Sakai, Makoto P. Kato

      Pages 39-51

   3. A Comparison of Action Transitions in Individual and Collaborative Exploratory Web Search

      • Zhen Yue, Shuguang Han, Daqing He

      Pages 52-63

4. Session 3: NLP for IR

   1. Query-Oriented Keyphrase Extraction

      • Minghui Qiu, Yaliang Li, Jing Jiang

      Pages 64-75

   2. Using Lexical and Thematic Knowledge for Name Disambiguation

      • Jinpeng Wang, Wayne Xin Zhao, Rui Yan, Haitian Wei, Jian-Yun Nie, Xiaoming Li

      Pages 76-88

   3. Sells Out or Piles Up? A Sentiment Autoregressive Model for Predicting Sales Performance

      • Xueni Li, Shaowu Zhang, Liang Yang, Hongfei Lin

      Pages 89-102

5. Session 4: Machine Learning and Data Mining

   1. Are Human-Input Seeds Good Enough for Entity Set Expansion? Seeds Rewriting by Leveraging Wikipedia Semantic Knowledge

      • Zhenyu Qi, Kang Liu, Jun Zhao

      Pages 103-113

   2. Combining Modifications to Multinomial Naive Bayes for Text Classification

      • Antti Puurula

      Pages 114-125

   3. Organizing Information on the Web through Agreement-Conflict Relation Classification

      • Junta Mizuno, Eric Nichols, Yotaro Watanabe, Kentaro Inui

      Pages 126-137

6. Session 5: Social Media

   1. Exploiting Twitter for Spiking Query Classification

      • Mitsuo Yoshida, Yuki Arase

      Pages 138-149

   2. Where Are You Settling Down: Geo-locating Twitter Users Based on Tweets and Social Networks

      • Kejiang Ren, Shaowu Zhang, Hongfei Lin

      Pages 150-161

   3. Detecting Informative Messages Based on User History in Twitter

      • Chang-Woo Chun, Jung-Tae Lee, Seung-Wook Lee, Hae-Chang Rim

      Pages 162-173

7. Session 6: IR Applications

   1. A Study on Potential Head Advertisers in Sponsored Search

      • Changhao Jiang, Min Zhang, Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu

      Pages 174-186

   2. Feature Transformation Method Enhanced Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia

      • Tianshu Chang, Hongfei Lin, Yuan Lin

      Pages 187-198

   3. PLIDMiner: A Quality Based Approach for Researcher’s Homepage Discovery

      • Junting Ye, Yanan Qian, Qinghua Zheng

      Pages 199-210

8. Session 7: Multimedia IR and Indexing

   1. Exploiting and Exploring Hierarchical Structure in Music Recommendation

      • Kai Lu, Guanyuan Zhang, Rui Li, Shuai Zhang, Bin Wang

      Pages 211-225

   2. Enhancing Music Information Retrieval by Incorporating Image-Based Local Features

      • Leszek Kaliciak, Ben Horsburgh, Dawei Song, Nirmalie Wiratunga, Jeff Pan

      Pages 226-237

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2012, held in Tianjin, China, in December 2012. The 22 full papers and 26 poster presentations included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: IR models; evaluation and user studies; NLP for IR; machine learning and data mining; social media; IR applications; multimedia IT and indexing; collaborative and federated search; and the poster session.

• collaborative Web search
• geo-location
• natural language processing
• semantic knowledge
• structured data extracting
• algorithm analysis and problem complexity
• data structures

• School of computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

  Yuexian Hou

• DIRO, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada

  Jian-Yun Nie

• Institute of Software, Storage & Information Retrieval Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  Le Sun

• School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

  Bo Wang

• School of Computing, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK

  Peng Zhang

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