Information Retrieval Special Issue: Conceptual, Linguistic and Task-Based IR: Research at the University of Tampere Jaana Kekäläinen OriginalPaper Pages: 191 - 194
From Plain Character Strings to Meaningful Words: Producing Better Full Text Databases for Inflectional and Compounding Languages with Morphological Analysis Software Riitta Alkula OriginalPaper Pages: 195 - 208
Dictionary-Based Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Problems, Methods, and Research Findings Ari PirkolaTurid HedlundKalervo Järvelin OriginalPaper Pages: 209 - 230
ExpansionTool: Concept-Based Query Expansion and Construction Kalervo JärvelinJaana KekäläinenTimo Niemi OriginalPaper Pages: 231 - 255
Extensions to the STAIRS Study—Empirical Evidence for the Hypothesised Ineffectiveness of Boolean Queries in Large Full-Text Databases Eero Sormunen OriginalPaper Pages: 257 - 273
A Test Collection for the Evaluation of Content-Based Image Retrieval Algorithms—A User and Task-Based Approach Marjo MarkkulaMarius TicoEero Sormunen OriginalPaper Pages: 275 - 293
Changes in Search Tactics and Relevance Judgements when Preparing a Research Proposal A Summary of the Findings of a Longitudinal Study Pertti Vakkari OriginalPaper Pages: 295 - 310