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Advances in Information Retrieval

39th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2017, Aberdeen, UK, April 8-13, 2017, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 10193)

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 2017.

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Table of contents (80 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXXI
  2. Entity Linking to One Thousand Knowledge Bases

    • Ning Gao, Silviu Cucerzan
    Pages 1-14
  3. Using Query Performance Predictors to Reduce Spoken Queries

    • Jaime Arguello, Sandeep Avula, Fernando Diaz
    Pages 27-39
  4. Entity Linking in Queries: Efficiency vs. Effectiveness

    • Faegheh Hasibi, Krisztian Balog, Svein Erik Bratsberg
    Pages 40-53
  5. Cross-Lingual Sentiment Relation Capturing for Cross-Lingual Sentiment Analysis

    • Qiang Chen, Wenjie Li, Yu Lei, Xule Liu, Chuwei Luo, Yanxiang He
    Pages 54-67
  6. Hierarchical Re-estimation of Topic Models for Measuring Topical Diversity

    • Hosein Azarbonyad, Mostafa Dehghani, Tom Kenter, Maarten Marx, Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke
    Pages 68-81
  7. Collective Entity Linking in Tweets Over Space and Time

    • Wen-Haw Chong, Ee-Peng Lim, William Cohen
    Pages 82-94
  8. Simple Personalized Search Based on Long-Term Behavioral Signals

    • Anna Sepliarskaia, Filip Radlinski, Maarten de Rijke
    Pages 95-107
  9. The Effects of Search Task Determinability on Search Behavior

    • Rob Capra, Jaime Arguello, Yinglong Zhang
    Pages 108-121
  10. Fusion of Bag-of-Words Models for Image Classification in the Medical Domain

    • Leonidas Valavanis, Spyridon Stathopoulos, Theodore Kalamboukis
    Pages 134-145
  11. Learning to Re-rank Medical Images Using a Bayesian Network-Based Thesaurus

    • Hajer Ayadi, Mouna Torjmen Khemakhem, Jimmy Xiangji Huang, Mariam Daoud, Maher Ben Jemaa
    Pages 160-172
  12. A Part-of-Speech Enhanced Neural Conversation Model

    • Chuwei Luo, Wenjie Li, Qiang Chen, Yanxiang He
    Pages 173-185
  13. “Are Machines Better Than Humans in Image Tagging?” - A User Study Adds to the Puzzle

    • Ralph Ewerth, Matthias Springstein, Lo An Phan-Vogtmann, Juliane Schütze
    Pages 186-198Open Access
  14. Utterance Retrieval Based on Recurrent Surface Text Patterns

    • Guillaume Dubuisson Duplessis, Franck Charras, Vincent Letard, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Sophie Rosset
    Pages 199-211
  15. How Do Order and Proximity Impact the Readability of Event Summaries?

    • Arunav Mishra, Klaus Berberich
    Pages 212-225
  16. Sentiment Propagation for Predicting Reputation Polarity

    • Anastasia Giachanou, Julio Gonzalo, Ida Mele, Fabio Crestani
    Pages 226-238

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 39th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2017, held in Aberdeen, UK, in April 2017. 

The 36 full papers and 47 poster papers presented together with 5 Abstracts, were carefully reviewed and selected from 248 submissions. Being the premier European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field of Information Retrieval, ECIR features a wide range of topics such as: IR Theory and Practice; Deep Learning and IR; Web and Social Media IR; User Aspects; IR System Architectures; Content Representation and Processing; Evaluation; Multimedia and Cross-Media IR; Applications.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Glasgow , Glasgow, United Kingdom

    Joemon M Jose

  • TU Delft - EWI/ST/WIS , Delft, The Netherlands

    Claudia Hauff

  • Middle East Technical University , Ankara, Turkey

    Ismail Sengor Altıngovde

  • Open University , Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

    Dawei Song

  • Signal Media , London, United Kingdom

    Dyaa Albakour

  • Toronto, Canada

    Stuart Watt

  • JohnTait.net Ltd. and BCS IRSG , Sunderland, United Kingdom

    John Tait

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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