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Advances in Information Retrieval

30th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2008, Glasgow, UK, March 30 -- April 3, 2008

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 4956)

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 2008.

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Table of contents (87 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Evaluation

    1. Discounted Cumulated Gain Based Evaluation of Multiple-Query IR Sessions

      • Kalervo Järvelin, Susan L. Price, Lois M. L. Delcambre, Marianne Lykke Nielsen
      Pages 4-15
    2. Here or There

      • Ben Carterette, Paul N. Bennett, David Maxwell Chickering, Susan T. Dumais
      Pages 16-27
    3. Using Clicks as Implicit Judgments: Expectations Versus Observations

      • Falk Scholer, Milad Shokouhi, Bodo Billerbeck, Andrew Turpin
      Pages 28-39
  3. Web IR

    1. Clustering Template Based Web Documents

      • Thomas Gottron
      Pages 40-51
    2. iCluster: A Self-organizing Overlay Network for P2P Information Retrieval

      • Paraskevi Raftopoulou, Euripides G. M. Petrakis
      Pages 65-76
  4. Social Media

    1. Automatic Construction of an Opinion-Term Vocabulary for Ad Hoc Retrieval

      • Giambattista Amati, Edgardo Ambrosi, Marco Bianchi, Carlo Gaibisso, Giorgio Gambosi
      Pages 89-100
    2. A Comparison of Social Bookmarking with Traditional Search

      • Beate Krause, Andreas Hotho, Gerd Stumme
      Pages 101-113
  5. Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval

    1. Exploring the Effects of Language Skills on Multilingual Web Search

      • Jennifer Marlow, Paul Clough, Juan Cigarrán Recuero, Javier Artiles
      Pages 126-137
    2. A Novel Implementation of the FITE-TRT Translation Method

      • Aki Loponen, Ari Pirkola, Kalervo Järvelin, Heikki Keskustalo
      Pages 138-149
  6. Theory I

    1. The BNB Distribution for Text Modeling

      • Stéphane Clinchant, Eric Gaussier
      Pages 150-161
    2. Utilizing Passage-Based Language Models for Document Retrieval

      • Michael Bendersky, Oren Kurland
      Pages 162-174
    3. A Statistical View of Binned Retrieval Models

      • Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman, W. Bruce Croft
      Pages 175-186
  7. Video

    1. Video Corpus Annotation Using Active Learning

      • Stéphane Ayache, Georges Quénot
      Pages 187-198

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About this book


This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2008, held in Glasgow, UK, in March/April 2008.

The 33 revised full papers and 19 revised short papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited lectures and 32 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 full article submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluation, Web IR, social media, cross-lingual information retrieval, theory, video, representation, wikipedia and e-books, as well as expert search.

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