Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval Conference (1998)

SIGIR '98: Proceedings of the 21st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, August 24-28 1998, Melbourne, Australia

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SIGIR '98: Proceedings of the 21st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, August 24-28 1998, Melbourne, Australia

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The Future of Internet Search (Keynote Address)
Steve Kirsch

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Advantages of Query Biased Summaries in Information Retrieval
Anastasios Tombros | Mark Sanderson

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A Theory of Term Weighting Based on Exploratory Data Analysis
Warren R. Greiff

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New Techniques for Open-Vocabulary Spoken Document Retrieval
Martin Wechsler | Eugen Munteanu | Peter Schäuble

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A Study of Retrospective and On-Line Event Detection
Yiming Yang | Thomas Pierce | Jaime G. Carbonell

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On-Line New Event Detection and Tracking
James Allan | Ron Papka | Victor Lavrenko

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Web Document Clustering: A Feasibility Demonstration
Oren Zamir | Oren Etzioni

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The Effects of Query Structure and Dictionary Setups in Dictionary-Based Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Ari Pirkola

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Resolving Ambiguity for Cross-Language Retrieval
Lisa Ballesteros | W. Bruce Croft

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Cross-Language Information Retrieval with the UMLS Metathesaurus
David Eichmann | Miguel E. Ruiz | Padmini Srinivasan

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Using a Generalized Instance Set for Automatic Text Categorization
Wai Lam | Chao Yang Ho

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Automatic Essay Grading Using Text Categorization Techniques
Leah S. Larkey

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Distributional Clustering of Words for Text Classification
L. Douglas Baker | Andrew McCallum

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Improved Algorithms for Topic Distillation in a Hyperlinked Environment
Krishna Bharat | Monika Rauch Henzinger

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Effective Retrieval with Distributed Collections
Jinxi Xu | James P. Callan

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Evaluating Database Selection Techniques: A Testbed and Experiment
James C. French | Allison L. Powell | Charles L. Viles | Travis Emmitt | Kevin J. Prey

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The Impact of Query Structure and Query Expansion on Retrieval Performance
Jaana Kekäläinen | Kalervo Järvelin

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A Flexible Model for Retrieval of SGML Documents
Sung-Hyon Myaeng | Don-Hyun Jang | Mun-Seok Kim | Zong-Cheol Zhoo

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Discovering Typical Structures of Documents: A Road Map Approach
Ke Wang | Huiqing Liu

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A Cognitive Model for Searching for Ill-Defined Targets on the Web: The Relationship Between Search Strategies and User Satisfaction
Mari Saito | Kazunori Ohmura

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Comparing Interactive Information Retrieval systems Across Sites: The TREC-6 Interactive Track Matrix Experiment
Eric Lagergren | Paul Over

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Aspect Windows, 3-D Visualizations, and Indirect Comparisons of Information Retrieval Systems
Russell C. Swan | James Allan

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Modeling and Combining Evidence Provided by Document Relationships Using Probabilistic Argumentation Systems
Justin Picard

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Predicting the Performance of Linearly Combined IR Systems
Christopher C. Vogt | Garrison W. Cottrell

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Experiments in Japanese Text Retrieval and Routing Using the NEAT System
Gareth J. F. Jones | Tetsuya Sakai | Masahiro Kajiura | Kazuo Sumita

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Improving Automatic Query Expansion
Mandar Mitra | Amit Singhal | Chris Buckley

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Boosting and Rocchio Applied to Text Filtering
Robert E. Schapire | Yoram Singer | Amit Singhal

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Learning While Filtering Focuments
James P. Callan

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Spatial Querying for Image Retrieval: A User-Oriented Evaluation
Joemon M. Jose | Jonathan Furner | David J. Harper

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Improving Two-Stage Ad-Hoc Retrieval for Short Queries
K. L. Kwok | M. Chan

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DOLORES: A System for Logic-Based Retrieval of Multimedia Objects
Norbert Fuhr | Norbert Gövert | Thomas Rölleke

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RELIEF: Combining Expressiveness and Rapidity into a Single System
Iadh Ounis | Marius Pasca

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A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval
Jay M. Ponte | W. Bruce Croft

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Efficient Construction of Large Test Collections
Gordon V. Cormack | Christopher R. Palmer | Charles L. A. Clarke

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Compressed Inverted Files with Reduced Decoding Overheads
Vo Ngoc Anh | Alistair Moffat

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Fast Searching on Compressed Text Allowing Errors
Edleno Silva de Moura | Gonzalo Navarro | Nivio Ziviani | Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates

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How Reliable Are the Results of Large-Scale Information Retrieval Experiments?
Justin Zobel

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Variations in Relevance Judgments and the Measurement of Retrieval Effectiveness
Ellen M. Voorhees

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Measures of Relative Relevance and Ranked Half-Life: Performance Indicators for Interactive IR
Pia Borlund | Peter Ingwersen

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Tools for Searching the Web (panel)
Donna Harman | Paul Over

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Modern Classical Document Indexing: A Linguistic Contribution to Knowledge-Based IR
Bas van Bakel

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The Use of MMR, Diversity-Based Reranking for Reordering Documents and Producing Summaries
Jaime G. Carbonell | Jade Goldstein

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A Method for Scoring Correlated Features in Query Expansion
Martin Franz | Salim Roukos

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Using Maps as a User Interface to a Digital Library
Mountaz Hascoët | Xavier Soinard

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Comparison Between Proximity Operation and Dependency Operation in Japanese Full-Text Retrieval
Yasuaki Hyoudo | Kazuhiko Niimi | Takashi Ikeda

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Term-Ordered Query Evaluation versus Document-Ordered Query Evaluation for Large Document Databases
Marcin Kaszkiel | Justin Zobel

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Automatically Locating, Extracting and Analyzing Tabular Data
William Kornfeld | John Wattecamps

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Using Global Colour Features for General Photographic Image Indexing and Retrieval
Ting-Sheng Lai | John Tait

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Automatic Acquisition of Phrasal Knowledge for English-Chinese Bilingual Information Retrieval
Ming-Jer Lee | Lee-Feng Chien

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Visual Interactions with a Multidimensional Ranked List
Anton Leuski | James Allan

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Predicting Query Times
Rodger J. McNab | Yong Wang | Ian H. Witten | Carl Gutwin

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The WebCluster Project: Using Clustering for Mediating Access to the World Wide Web
Mourad Mechkour | David J. Harper | Gheorghe Muresan

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Automatic Abstracting of Magazine Articles: The Creation of 'Highlight' Abstracts
Marie-Francine Moens | Jos Dumortier

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Optimizing Recall/Precision Scores in IR over the WWW
Matthew Montebello

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Interactive Multidimensional Document Visualization
Josiane Mothe | Taoufiq Dkaki

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Speech Retrieval Using Phonemes with Error Correction
Corinna Ng | Justin Zobel

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Optimizing Query Evaluation in n-gram Indexing
Yasushi Ogawa | Toru Matsuda

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Four Text Classification Algorithms Compared on a Dutch Corpus
Hein Ragas | Cornelis H. A. Koster

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Automatic Acquisition of Terminological Relations from a Corpus for Query Expansion
Jean-David Sta

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Keyword Extraction of Radio News Using Term Weighting with an Encyclopedia and Newspaper Articles
Yoshimi Suzuki | Fumiyo Fukumoto | Yoshihiro Sekiguchi

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Efficient Search Server Assignment in a Disproportionate System Environment
Toru Takaki | Tsuyoshi Kitani

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Multilingual Keyword Extraction for Term Suggestion
Yuen-Hsien Tseng

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Presenting Web Site Search Results in Context: A Demonstration
Michael Chen | Marti A. Hearst

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Personal Browser
Yi-Shiou Chen | Schy Chiou | Yuan-Kai Wang | Wen-Lian Hsu

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Towards a Fast Precision-Oriented Image Retrieval System
Yves Chiaramella | Philippe Mulhem | Mourad Mechkour | Iadh Ounis | Marius Pasca

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Teraphim: An Engine for Distributed Information Retrieval
Owen de Kretser | Alistair Moffat | Justin Zobel

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Cheshire II: Combining Probabilistic and Boolean Retrieval
Ray R. Larson

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A Research Prototype Image Retrieval System
Surya Nepal | M. V. Ramakrishna | James A. Thom

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The Structured Information Manager (SIM)
Ron Sacks-Davis | Alan J. Kent

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PWA: An Extended Probabilistic Web Algebra
Dan J. Smith | Rattasit Sukhahuta

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Cafe: An Indexed Approach to Searching Genomic Databases
Hugh E. Williams

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Fast Speculative Search Engine on the Highly Parallel Computer EM-X
Hayato Yamana | Hanpei Koike | Yuetsu Kodama | Hirofumi Sakane | Yoshinori Yamaguchi