Advances in Information Retrieval

34th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2012, Barcelona, Spain, April 1-5, 2012. Proceedings

  • Ricardo Baeza-Yates
  • Arjen P. de Vries
  • Hugo Zaragoza
  • B. Barla Cambazoglu
  • Vanessa Murdock
  • Ronny Lempel
  • Fabrizio Silvestri
Conference proceedings ECIR 2012

Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 7224)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
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  2. Query Representation

    1. Explaining Query Modifications
      Vera Hollink, Jiyin He, Arjen de Vries
      Pages 1-12
    2. Modeling Transactional Queries via Templates
      Edward Bortnikov, Pinar Donmez, Amit Kagian, Ronny Lempel
      Pages 13-24
    3. Exploring Query Patterns in Email Search
      Morgan Harvey, David Elsweiler
      Pages 25-36
    4. Interactive Search Support for Difficult Web Queries
      Abdigani Diriye, Giridhar Kumaran, Jeff Huang
      Pages 37-49

  3. Blog and Online-Community Search

    1. Predicting the Future Impact of News Events
      Julien Gaugaz, Patrick Siehndel, Gianluca Demartini, Tereza Iofciu, Mihai Georgescu, Nicola Henze
      Pages 50-62
    2. Detection of News Feeds Items Appropriate for Children
      Tamara Polajnar, Richard Glassey, Leif Azzopardi
      Pages 63-72
    3. Comparing Tweets and Tags for URLs
      Morgan Harvey, Mark Carman, David Elsweiler
      Pages 73-84
    4. Geo-Location Estimation of Flickr Images: Social Web Based Enrichment
      Claudia Hauff, Geert-Jan Houben
      Pages 85-96

  4. Semi-structured Retrieval

    1. A Field Relevance Model for Structured Document Retrieval
      Jin Young Kim, W. Bruce Croft
      Pages 97-108
    2. Relation Based Term Weighting Regularization
      Hao Wu, Hui Fang
      Pages 109-120
    3. A New Approach to Answerer Recommendation in Community Question Answering Services
      Zhenlei Yan, Jie Zhou
      Pages 121-132
    4. On the Modeling of Entities for Ad-Hoc Entity Search in the Web of Data
      Robert Neumayer, Krisztian Balog, Kjetil Nørvåg
      Pages 133-145
    5. Result Disambiguation in Web People Search
      Richard Berendsen, Bogomil Kovachev, Evangelia-Paraskevi Nastou, Maarten de Rijke, Wouter Weerkamp
      Pages 146-157

  5. Evaluation

    1. On Smoothing Average Precision
      Stephen Robertson
      Pages 158-169
    2. New Metrics for Meaningful Evaluation of Informally Structured Speech Retrieval
      Maria Eskevich, Walid Magdy, Gareth J. F. Jones
      Pages 170-181
    3. On Aggregating Labels from Multiple Crowd Workers to Infer Relevance of Documents
      Mehdi Hosseini, Ingemar J. Cox, Nataša Milić-Frayling, Gabriella Kazai, Vishwa Vinay
      Pages 182-194

  6. Applications

    1. How Random Walks Can Help Tourism
      Claudio Lucchese, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hossein Vahabi, Rossano Venturini
      Pages 195-206
    2. Retrieving Candidate Plagiarised Documents Using Query Expansion
      Rao Muhammad Adeel Nawab, Mark Stevenson, Paul Clough
      Pages 207-218
    3. Reliability Prediction of Webpages in the Medical Domain
      Parikshit Sondhi, V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran, ChengXiang Zhai
      Pages 219-231

About these proceedings

Introduction

This book constitutes the proeedings of the 34th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2012, held in Barcelona, Spain, in April 2012.
The 37 full papers, 28 poster papers and 7 demonstrations presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 submissions. The contributions are organized in sections named: query representation; blogs and online-community search; semi-structured retrieval; evaluation; applications; retrieval models; image and video retrieval; text and content classification, categorisation, clustering; systems efficiency; industry track; and posters.

Keywords

collaborative search domain modeling latent semantic indexing search engines topic models

Editors and affiliations

  • Ricardo Baeza-Yates
    • 1
  • Arjen P. de Vries
    • 2
  • Hugo Zaragoza
    • 3
  • B. Barla Cambazoglu
    • 1
  • Vanessa Murdock
    • 4
  • Ronny Lempel
    • 5
  • Fabrizio Silvestri
    • 6
  1. 1.Yahoo! ResearchBarcelonaSpain
  2. 2.Centrum Wiskunde & InformaticaAmsterdamThe Netherlands
  3. 3.WebsaysBarcelonaSpain
  4. 4.Yahoo! ResearchBarcelonaSpain
  5. 5.Yahoo! LabsHaifaIsrael
  6. 6.ISTI-CNRPisaItaly

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28997-2
  • Copyright Information Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
  • Publisher Name Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
  • eBook Packages Computer Science
  • Print ISBN 978-3-642-28996-5
  • Online ISBN 978-3-642-28997-2
  • Series Print ISSN 0302-9743
  • Series Online ISSN 1611-3349
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