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Information Retrieval Technology

7th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2011, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 18-20, 2011, Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Mohamed Vall Mohamed Salem

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

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  2. Khaled Shaalan

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

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  3. Farhad Oroumchian

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

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  4. Azadeh Shakery

    1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Faculty of Engineering, Tehran, Iran

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  5. Halim Khelalfa

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

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7097)

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

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Table of contents (56 papers)

  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
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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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