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Advances in Information Retrieval

42nd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2020, Lisbon, Portugal, April 14–17, 2020, Proceedings, Part I

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 12035)

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 2020.

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Table of contents (55 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xlv
  2. Deep Learning I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Seed-Guided Deep Document Clustering

      • Mazar Moradi Fard, Thibaut Thonet, Eric Gaussier
      Pages 3-16
    3. ReadNet: A Hierarchical Transformer Framework for Web Article Readability Analysis

      • Changping Meng, Muhao Chen, Jie Mao, Jennifer Neville
      Pages 33-49
    4. Variational Recurrent Sequence-to-Sequence Retrieval for Stepwise Illustration

      • Vishwash Batra, Aparajita Haldar, Yulan He, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, George Vogiatzis, Tanaya Guha
      Pages 50-64
    5. A Hierarchical Model for Data-to-Text Generation

      • Clément Rebuffel, Laure Soulier, Geoffrey Scoutheeten, Patrick Gallinari
      Pages 65-80
  3. Entities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
    2. Context-Guided Learning to Rank Entities

      • Makoto P. Kato, Wiradee Imrattanatrai, Takehiro Yamamoto, Hiroaki Ohshima, Katsumi Tanaka
      Pages 83-96
    3. Graph-Embedding Empowered Entity Retrieval

      • Emma J. Gerritse, Faegheh Hasibi, Arjen P. de Vries
      Pages 97-110
    4. Learning Advanced Similarities and Training Features for Toponym Interlinking

      • Giorgos Giannopoulos, Vassilis Kaffes, Georgios Kostoulas
      Pages 111-125
    5. Patch-Based Identification of Lexical Semantic Relations

      • Nesrine Bannour, Gaël Dias, Youssef Chahir, Houssam Akhmouch
      Pages 126-140
  4. Evaluation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
  5. Recommendation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
    2. Axiomatic Analysis of Contact Recommendation Methods in Social Networks: An IR Perspective

      • Javier Sanz-Cruzado, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, Pablo Castells
      Pages 175-190
    3. Recommending Music Curators: A Neural Style-Aware Approach

      • Jianling Wang, James Caverlee
      Pages 191-204
    4. Joint Geographical and Temporal Modeling Based on Matrix Factorization for Point-of-Interest Recommendation

      • Hossein A. Rahmani, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Mitra Baratchi, Fabio Crestani
      Pages 205-219

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About this book

This two-volume set LNCS 12035 and 12036 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 42nd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2020, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in April 2020.* 

The 55 full papers presented together with 8 reproducibility papers, 46 short papers, 10 demonstration papers, 12 invited CLEF papers, 7 doctoral consortium papers, 4 workshop papers, and 3 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 457 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named:

Part I: deep learning I; entities; evaluation; recommendation; information extraction; deep learning II; retrieval; multimedia; deep learning III; queries; IR – general; question answering, prediction, and bias; and deep learning IV.

Part II: reproducibility papers; short papers; demonstration papers; CLEF organizers lab track; doctoral consortium papers; workshops; and tutorials.

*Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this conference was held virtually.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

    Joemon M. Jose

  • University College London, London, UK

    Emine Yilmaz

  • Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    João Magalhães, Flávio Martins

  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Pablo Castells

  • University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Nicola Ferro

  • Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Mário J. Silva

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