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Advances in Information Retrieval

40th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2018, Grenoble, France, March 26-29, 2018, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 10772)

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 2018.

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Table of contents (83 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXV
  2. Topic Modelling

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Predicting Topics in Scholarly Papers

      • Seyed Ali Bahrainian, Ida Mele, Fabio Crestani
      Pages 16-28
    3. Topic Lifecycle on Social Networks: Analyzing the Effects of Semantic Continuity and Social Communities

      • Kuntal Dey, Saroj Kaushik, Kritika Garg, Ritvik Shrivastava
      Pages 29-42
  3. Health Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
    2. Medical Forum Question Classification Using Deep Learning

      • Raksha Jalan, Manish Gupta, Vasudeva Varma
      Pages 45-58
    3. Multi-task Learning for Extraction of Adverse Drug Reaction Mentions from Tweets

      • Shashank Gupta, Manish Gupta, Vasudeva Varma, Sachin Pawar, Nitin Ramrakhiyani, Girish Keshav Palshikar
      Pages 59-71
    4. Choices in Knowledge-Base Retrieval for Consumer Health Search

      • Jimmy, Guido Zuccon, Bevan Koopman
      Pages 72-85
  4. Deep Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
    2. An Adversarial Joint Learning Model for Low-Resource Language Semantic Textual Similarity

      • Junfeng Tian, Man Lan, Yuanbin Wu, Jingang Wang, Long Qiu, Sheng Li et al.
      Pages 89-101
    3. A Hybrid Embedding Approach to Noisy Answer Passage Retrieval

      • Daniel Cohen, W. Bruce Croft
      Pages 127-140
    4. Affective Neural Response Generation

      • Nabiha Asghar, Pascal Poupart, Jesse Hoey, Xin Jiang, Lili Mou
      Pages 154-166
    5. Web2Text: Deep Structured Boilerplate Removal

      • Thijs Vogels, Octavian-Eugen Ganea, Carsten Eickhoff
      Pages 167-179
    6. Attention-Based Neural Text Segmentation

      • Pinkesh Badjatiya, Litton J. Kurisinkel, Manish Gupta, Vasudeva Varma
      Pages 180-193
  5. Evaluations and User Behavior

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195
    2. Modelling Randomness in Relevance Judgments and Evaluation Measures

      • Marco Ferrante, Nicola Ferro, Silvia Pontarollo
      Pages 197-209

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 40th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2018, held in Grenoble, France, in March 2018. 

The 39 full papers and 39 short papers presented together with 6 demos, 5 workshops and 3 tutorials, were carefully reviewed and selected from 303 submissions. Accepted papers cover the state of the art in information retrieval including topics such as: topic modeling, deep learning, evaluation, user behavior, document representation, recommendation systems, retrieval methods, learning and classication, and micro-blogs.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Informatics, Systems, and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

    Gabriella Pasi

  • LIP6 – UPMC/CNRS, University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

    Benjamin Piwowarski

  • University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    Leif Azzopardi

  • Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Allan Hanbury

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