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Advances in Information Retrieval

33rd European Conference on IR Resarch, ECIR 2011, Dublin, Ireland, April 18-21, 2011, Proceedings

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  1. Paul Clough

    1. Information School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

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  2. Colum Foley

    1. CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

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  3. Cathal Gurrin

    1. CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

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  4. Gareth J. F. Jones

    1. Centre for Next Generation Localisation, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

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  5. Wessel Kraaij

    1. TNO Human Factors, Delft, The Netherlands

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  6. Hyowon Lee

    1. CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

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  7. Vanessa Mudoch

    1. Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 6611)

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 2011.

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Table of contents (95 papers)

  1. IR for Social Networks (I)

    1. Topic Classification in Social Media Using Metadata from Hyperlinked Objects

      • Sheila Kinsella, Alexandre Passant, John G. Breslin
      Pages 201-206

    2. Peddling or Creating? Investigating the Role of Twitter in News Reporting

      • Ilija SubaÅ¡ić, Bettina Berendt
      Pages 207-213

  2. Cross-Language IR

    2. Fractional Similarity: Cross-Lingual Feature Selection for Search

      • Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Paul N. Bennett
      Pages 226-237

    3. Is a Query Worth Translating: Ask the Users!

      • Ahmed Hefny, Kareem Darwish, Ali Alkahky
      Pages 238-250

  3. IR Theory (I)

    1. Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Learning to Rank Online

      • Katja Hofmann, Shimon Whiteson, Maarten de Rijke
      Pages 251-263

    2. ReFER: Effective Relevance Feedback for Entity Ranking

      • Tereza Iofciu, Gianluca Demartini, Nick Craswell, Arjen P. de Vries
      Pages 264-276

    3. The Limits of Retrieval Effectiveness

      • Ronan Cummins, Mounia Lalmas, Colm O’Riordan
      Pages 277-282

  4. Text Categorisation (II)

    1. Subspace Tracking for Latent Semantic Analysis

      • Radim Řehůřek
      Pages 289-300

    2. Text Retrieval Methods for Item Ranking in Collaborative Filtering

      • Alejandro Bellogín, Jun Wang, Pablo Castells
      Pages 301-306

    3. Classifying with Co-stems

      • Nedim Lipka, Benno Stein
      Pages 307-313

  5. Multimedia IR

    1. Interactive Trademark Image Retrieval by Fusing Semantic and Visual Content

      • Marçal Rusiñol, David Aldavert, Dimosthenis Karatzas, Ricardo Toledo, Josep Lladós
      Pages 314-325

    2. Dynamic Two-Stage Image Retrieval from Large Multimodal Databases

      • Avi Arampatzis, Konstantinos Zagoris, Savvas A. Chatzichristofis
      Pages 326-337

  6. IR for Social Networks (II)

    1. Comparing Twitter and Traditional Media Using Topic Models

      • Wayne Xin Zhao, Jing Jiang, Jianshu Weng, Jing He, Ee-Peng Lim, Hongfei Yan et al.
      Pages 338-349

    3. Incorporating Query Expansion and Quality Indicators in Searching Microblog Posts

      • Kamran Massoudi, Manos Tsagkias, Maarten de Rijke, Wouter Weerkamp
      Pages 362-367

  7. IR Applications

    2. Smoothing Click Counts for Aggregated Vertical Search

      • Jangwon Seo, W. Bruce Croft, Kwang Hyun Kim, Joon Ho Lee
      Pages 387-398
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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 33rd annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2011, held in Dublin, Ireland, in April 2010. The 45 revised full papers presented together with 24 poster papers, 17 short papers, and 6 tool demonstrations were carefully reviewed and selected from 223 full research paper submissions and 64 poster/demo submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on text categorization, recommender systems, Web IR, IR evaluation, IR for Social Networks, cross-language IR, IR theory, multimedia IR, IR applications, interactive IR, and question answering /NLP.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Information School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Paul Clough

  • CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

    Colum Foley, Cathal Gurrin, Hyowon Lee

  • Centre for Next Generation Localisation, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

    Gareth J. F. Jones

  • TNO Human Factors, Delft, The Netherlands

    Wessel Kraaij

  • Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain

    Vanessa Mudoch

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