Information Retrieval Technology

1. Front Matter

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2. Information Retrieval Models and Theories

   1. Query-Dependent Rank Aggregation with Local Models

      • Hsuan-Yu Lin, Chi-Hsin Yu, Hsin-Hsi Chen

      Pages 1-12

   2. On Modeling Rank-Independent Risk in Estimating Probability of Relevance

      • Peng Zhang, Dawei Song, Jun Wang, Xiaozhao Zhao, Yuexian Hou

      Pages 13-24

   3. Measuring the Ability of Score Distributions to Model Relevance

      • Ronan Cummins

      Pages 25-36

   4. Cross-Language Information Retrieval with Latent Topic Models Trained on a Comparable Corpus

      • Ivan Vulić, Wim De Smet, Marie-Francine Moens

      Pages 37-48

   5. Construct Weak Ranking Functions for Learning Linear Ranking Function

      • Guichun Hua, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma, Hang Yin

      Pages 49-60

   6. Is Simhash Achilles?

      • Qixia Jiang, Yan Zhang, Liner Yang, Maosong Sun

      Pages 61-72

   7. XML Information Retrieval through Tree Edit Distance and Structural Summaries

      • Cyril Laitang, Mohand Boughanem, Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat

      Pages 73-83

   8. An Empirical Study of SLDA for Information Retrieval

      • Dashun Ma, Lan Rao, Ting Wang

      Pages 84-92

   9. Learning to Rank by Optimizing Expected Reciprocal Rank

      • Ping Zhang, Hongfei Lin, Yuan Lin, Jiajin Wu

      Pages 93-102

3. Information Retrieval Applications and Multimedia Information Retrieval

   1. Information Retrieval Strategies for Digitized Handwritten Medieval Documents

      • Nada Naji, Jacques Savoy

      Pages 103-114

   2. Query Phrase Expansion Using Wikipedia in Patent Class Search

      • Bashar Al-Shboul, Sung-Hyon Myaeng

      Pages 115-126

   3. Increasing Broadband Subscriptions for Telecom Carriers through Mobile Advertising

      • Chia-Hui Chang, Kaun-Hua Huo

      Pages 127-136

   4. Query Recommendation by Modelling the Query-Flow Graph

      • Lu Bai, Jiafeng Guo, Xueqi Cheng

      Pages 137-146

   5. Ranking Content-Based Social Images Search Results with Social Tags

      • Jiyi Li, Qiang Ma, Yasuhito Asano, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

      Pages 147-156

4. User Study, Information Retrieval Evaluation and Interactive Information Retrieval

   1. Profiling a Non-medical Professional Searcher on a Medical Domain: What Do Search Patterns and Demographic Details Reveal?

      • Anushia Inthiran, Saadat M. Alhashmi, Pervaiz K. Ahmed

      Pages 157-168

   2. Prioritized Aggregation of Multiple Context Dimensions in Mobile IR

      • Ourdia Bouidghaghen, Lynda Tamine-Lechani, Gabriella Pasi, Guillaume Cabanac, Mohand Boughanem, Célia da Costa Pereira

      Pages 169-180

   3. Searching for Islamic and Qur’anic Information on the Web: A Mixed-Methods Approach

      • Rita Wan-Chik, Paul Clough, Nigel Ford

      Pages 181-192

   4. Enriching Query Flow Graphs with Click Information

      • M-Dyaa Albakour, Udo Kruschwitz, Ibrahim Adeyanju, Dawei Song, Maria Fasli, Anne De Roeck

      Pages 193-204

   5. Effect of Explicit Roles on Collaborative Search in Travel Planning Task

      • Marika Imazu, Shin’ichi Nakayama, Hideo Joho

      Pages 205-214

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference AIRS 2011, held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in December 2011.
The 31 revised full papers and 25 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 132 submissions. All current aspects of information retrieval - in theory and practice - are addressed; the papers are organized in topical sections on information retrieval models and theories; information retrieval applications and multimedia information retrieval; user study, information retrieval evaluation and interactive information retrieval; Web information retrieval, scalability and adversarial information retrieval; machine learning for information retrieval; natural language processing for information retrieval; arabic script text processing and retrieval.

• digital libraries
• fuzzy neural network
• ontology
• probability of relevance
• semantic-based opinion retrieval
• algorithm analysis and problem complexity
• data structures

• Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Wollongong, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  Mohamed Vall Mohamed Salem, Farhad Oroumchian, Halim Khelalfa

• Faculty of Engineering and IT, Dubai International Academic City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  Khaled Shaalan

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Faculty of Engineering, Tehran, Iran

  Azadeh Shakery

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