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Advances in Information Retrieval

38th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2016, Padua, Italy, March 20-23, 2016. Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 9626)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

Conference series link(s): ECIR: European Conference on Information Retrieval

Conference proceedings info: ECIR 2016.

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Table of contents (89 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXXIX
  2. Social Context and News

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. A Graph-Based Approach to Topic Clustering for Online Comments to News

      • Ahmet Aker, Emina Kurtic, A. R. Balamurali, Monica Paramita, Emma Barker, Mark Hepple et al.
      Pages 15-29
    3. Leveraging Semantic Annotations to Link Wikipedia and News Archives

      • Arunav Mishra, Klaus Berberich
      Pages 30-42
  3. Machine Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
    2. Deep Learning over Multi-field Categorical Data

      • Weinan Zhang, Tianming Du, Jun Wang
      Pages 45-57
    3. Supervised Local Contexts Aggregation for Effective Session Search

      • Zhiwei Zhang, Jingang Wang, Tao Wu, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, Luo Si
      Pages 58-71
    4. An Empirical Study of Skip-Gram Features and Regularization for Learning on Sentiment Analysis

      • Cheng Li, Bingyu Wang, Virgil Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam
      Pages 72-87
    5. Multi-task Representation Learning for Demographic Prediction

      • Pengfei Wang, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, Xueqi Cheng
      Pages 88-99
  4. Question Answering

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
    2. Beyond Factoid QA: Effective Methods for Non-factoid Answer Sentence Retrieval

      • Liu Yang, Qingyao Ai, Damiano Spina, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Liang Pang, W. Bruce Croft et al.
      Pages 115-128
    3. Supporting Human Answers for Advice-Seeking Questions in CQA Sites

      • Liora Braunstain, Oren Kurland, David Carmel, Idan Szpektor, Anna Shtok
      Pages 129-141
  5. Ranking

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
    2. Does Selective Search Benefit from WAND Optimization?

      • Yubin Kim, Jamie Callan, J. Shane Culpepper, Alistair Moffat
      Pages 145-158
    3. Modeling User Interests for Zero-Query Ranking

      • Liu Yang, Qi Guo, Yang Song, Sha Meng, Milad Shokouhi, Kieran McDonald et al.
      Pages 171-184
  6. Evaluation Methodology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
    2. Adaptive Effort for Search Evaluation Metrics

      • Jiepu Jiang, James Allan
      Pages 187-199

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 38th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2016, held in Padua, Italy, in March 2016.

The 42 full papers and 28 poster papers presented together with 3 keynote talks and 6 demonstration papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 284 submissions. The volume contains the outcome of 4 workshops as well as 4 tutorial papers in addition. Being the premier European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field of Information Retrieval, ECIR features a wide range of topics such as: social context and news, machine learning, question answering, ranking, evaluation methodology, probalistic modeling, evaluation issues, multimedia and collaborative filtering, and many more.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padova, Italy

    Nicola Ferro, Giorgio Maria Nunzio, Gianmaria Silvello

  • Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano (USI), Lugano, Switzerland

    Fabio Crestani

  • Department of Computer Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium

    Marie-Francine Moens

  • Systèmes d’informations, Big Data et Recherche d’Information, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse IRIT/équipe SIG, Toulouse Cedex 04, France

    Josiane Mothe

  • Yahoo! Labs London, London, UK

    Fabrizio Silvestri

  • TU Delft - EWI/ST/WIS, Delft, The Netherlands

    Claudia Hauff

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