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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
    4. Automatic Foldering of Email Messages:A Combination Approach
      Tony Tam, Artur Ferreira, André Lourenço
      Pages 232-243

  7. Retrieval Models

    1. A Log-Logistic Model-Based Interpretation of TF Normalization of BM25
      Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai
      Pages 244-255
    2. Score Transformation in Linear Combination for Multi-criteria Relevance Ranking
      Shima Gerani, ChengXiang Zhai, Fabio Crestani
      Pages 256-267
    3. Axiomatic Analysis of Translation Language Model for Information Retrieval
      Maryam Karimzadehgan, ChengXiang Zhai
      Pages 268-280
    4. An Information-Based Cross-Language Information Retrieval Model
      Bo Li, Eric Gaussier
      Pages 281-292
    5. Extended Expectation Maximization for Inferring Score Distributions
      Keshi Dai, Virgil Pavlu, Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam
      Pages 293-304
    6. Top-k Retrieval Using Facility Location Analysis
      Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Dell Zhang, Jun Wang
      Pages 305-316

  8. Image and Video Retrieval

    1. An Interactive Paper and Digital Pen Interface for Query-by-Sketch Image Retrieval
      Roman Kreuzer, Michael Springmann, Ihab Al Kabary, Heiko Schuldt
      Pages 317-328
    2. Image Abstraction in Crossmedia Retrieval for Text Illustration
      Filipe Coelho, Cristina Ribeiro
      Pages 329-339
    3. A Latent Variable Ranking Model for Content-Based Retrieval
      Ariadna Quattoni, Xavier Carreras, Antonio Torralba
      Pages 340-351

  9. Text and Content Classification, Categorisation, Clustering

    1. Language Modelling of Constraints for Text Clustering
      Javier Parapar, Álvaro Barreiro
      Pages 352-363
    2. A Framework for Unsupervised Spam Detection in Social Networking Sites
      Maarten Bosma, Edgar Meij, Wouter Weerkamp
      Pages 364-375
    3. Classification of Short Texts by Deploying Topical Annotations
      Daniele Vitale, Paolo Ferragina, Ugo Scaiella
      Pages 376-387
    4. Cluster Labeling for Multilingual Scatter/Gather Using Comparable Corpora
      Goutham Tholpadi, Mrinal Kanti Das, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, Shirish Shevade
      Pages 388-400

  10. Systems Efficiency

    1. Adaptive Time-to-Live Strategies for Query Result Caching in Web Search Engines
      Sadiye Alici, Ismail Sengor Altingovde, Rifat Ozcan, B. Barla Cambazoglu, Özgür Ulusoy
      Pages 401-412
    2. Intra-query Concurrent Pipelined Processing for Distributed Full-Text Retrieval
      Simon Jonassen, Svein Erik Bratsberg
      Pages 413-425

  11. Industry Track

    1. Usefulness of Sentiment Analysis
      Jussi Karlgren, Magnus Sahlgren, Fredrik Olsson, Fredrik Espinoza, Ola Hamfors
      Pages 426-435
    2. Modeling Static Caching in Web Search Engines
      Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Simon Jonassen
      Pages 436-446

  12. Posters

    1. Integrating Interactive Visualizations in the Search Process of Digital Libraries and IR Systems
      Daniel Hienert, Frank Sawitzki, Philipp Schaer, Philipp Mayr
      Pages 447-450
    2. On Theoretically Valid Score Distributions in Information Retrieval
      Ronan Cummins, Colm O’Riordan
      Pages 451-454
    3. Adaptive Temporal Query Modeling
      Maria-Hendrike Peetz, Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke, Wouter Weerkamp
      Pages 455-458
    4. The Design of a Visual History Tool to Help Users Refind Information within a Website
      Trien V. Do, Roy A. Ruddle
      Pages 459-462
    5. Analyzing the Polarity of Opinionated Queries
      Sergiu Chelaru, Ismail Sengor Altingovde, Stefan Siersdorfer
      Pages 463-467
    6. Semi-automatic Document Classification: Exploiting Document Difficulty
      Miguel Martinez-Alvarez, Sirvan Yahyaei, Thomas Roelleke
      Pages 468-471
    7. Investigating Summarization Techniques for Geo-Tagged Image Indexing
      Ahmet Aker, Xin Fan, Mark Sanderson, Robert Gaizauskas
      Pages 472-475
    8. Handling OOV Words in Indian-language – English CLIR
      Parin Chheda, Manaal Faruqui, Pabitra Mitra
      Pages 476-479
    9. Using a Medical Thesaurus to Predict Query Difficulty
      Florian Boudin, Jian-Yun Nie, Martin Dawes
      Pages 480-484
    10. Studying a Personality Coreference Network in a News Stories Photo Collection
      José Devezas, Filipe Coelho, Sérgio Nunes, Cristina Ribeiro
      Pages 485-488
    11. Phrase Pair Classification for Identifying Subtopics
      Sujatha Das, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles
      Pages 489-493
    12. Full and Mini-batch Clustering of News Articles with Star-EM
      Matthias Gallé, Jean-Michel Renders
      Pages 494-498

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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