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Advances in Information Retrieval Theory

Third International Conference, ICTIR 2011, Bertinoro, Italy, September 12-14, 2011, Proceedings

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  1. Giambattista Amati

    1. Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy

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  2. Fabio Crestani

    1. Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 6931)

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

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Table of contents (40 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Invited Talks

    1. Axiomatic Analysis and Optimization of Information Retrieval Models

      • ChengXiang Zhai
      Pages 1-1

    2. What Is Quantum Information Retrieval?

      • C. J. Keith van Rijsbergen
      Pages 2-2

  3. Predicting Query Performance

    1. User Perspectives on Query Difficulty

      • Christina Lioma, Birger Larsen, Hinrich Schutze
      Pages 3-14

    2. A Unified Framework for Post-Retrieval Query-Performance Prediction

      • Oren Kurland, Anna Shtok, David Carmel, Shay Hummel
      Pages 15-26

    3. Predicting the Performance of Recommender Systems: An Information Theoretic Approach

      • Alejandro Bellogín, Pablo Castells, Iván Cantador
      Pages 27-39

  4. Latent Semantic Analysis and Word Co-occurrence Analysis

    1. Trading Spaces: On the Lore and Limitations of Latent Semantic Analysis

      • Eduard Hoenkamp
      Pages 40-51

    2. Quantum Latent Semantic Analysis

      • Fabio A. González, Juan C. Caicedo
      Pages 52-63

    3. Pure High-Order Word Dependence Mining via Information Geometry

      • Yuexian Hou, Liang He, Xiaozhao Zhao, Dawei Song
      Pages 64-76

  5. Query Expansion and Re-ranking

    1. Promoting Divergent Terms in the Estimation of Relevance Models

      • Javier Parapar, Álvaro Barreiro
      Pages 77-88

    2. Is Document Frequency Important for PRF?

      • Stéphane Clinchant, Eric Gaussier
      Pages 89-100

  6. Comparison of Information Retrieval Systems and Approximate Search

    1. Model-Based Inference about IR Systems

      • Ben Carterette
      Pages 101-112

    2. Selecting a Subset of Queries for Acquisition of Further Relevance Judgements

      • Mehdi Hosseini, Ingemar J. Cox, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Vishwa Vinay, Trevor Sweeting
      Pages 113-124

    3. On the Feasibility of Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval

      • H. Asthana, Ruoxun Fu, Ingemar J. Cox
      Pages 125-138

  7. Probability Ranking Principle and Alternatives

    1. Can Information Retrieval Systems Be Improved Using Quantum Probability?

      • Massimo Melucci
      Pages 139-150

    2. An Analysis of Ranking Principles and Retrieval Strategies

      • Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, C. J. Keith Van Rijsbergen
      Pages 151-163

    3. Towards a Better Understanding of the Relationship between Probabilistic Models in IR

      • Robin Aly, Thomas Demeester
      Pages 164-175

  8. Interdisciplinary Approaches

    1. Cognitive Processes in Query Generation

      • Claudia Hauff, Geert-Jan Houben
      Pages 176-187

    2. Protocol-Driven Searches for Medical and Health-Sciences Systematic Reviews

      • Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, Frances Mair
      Pages 188-200

    3. Enhanced Information Retrieval Using Domain-Specific Recommender Models

      • Wei Li, Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J. F. Jones
      Pages 201-212
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2011, held in Bertinoro, Italy, in September 2011. The 25 revised full papers and 13 short papers presented together with the abstracts of two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers cover topics ranging from query expansion, co-occurence analysis, user and interactive modelling, system performance prediction and comparison, and probabilistic approaches for ranking and modelling IR to topics related to interdisciplinary approaches or applications. They are organized into the following topical sections: predicting query performance; latent semantic analysis and word co-occurrence analysis; query expansion and re-ranking; comparison of information retrieval systems and approximate search; probability ranking principle and alternatives; interdisciplinary approaches; user and relevance; result diversification and query disambiguation; and logical operators and descriptive approaches.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy

    Giambattista Amati

  • Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland

    Fabio Crestani

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