Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval Conference (2002)

SIGIR 2002: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, August 11-15, 2002, Tampere, Finland

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SIGIR 2002: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, August 11-15, 2002, Tampere, Finland

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Landmarks in information retrieval: the message out of the bottle
C. J. van Rijsbergen

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Impact transformation: effective and efficient web retrieval
Vo Ngoc Anh | Alistair Moffat

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Analysis of lexical signatures for finding lost or related documents
Seung-Taek Park | David M. Pennock | C. Lee Giles | Robert Krovetz

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Using sampled data and regression to merge search engine results
Luo Si | James P. Callan

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The Importance of Prior Probabilities for Entry Page Search
Wessel Kraaij | Thijs Westerveld | Djoerd Hiemstra

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Term-specific smoothing for the language modeling approach to information retrieval: the importance of a query term
Djoerd Hiemstra

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Title language model for information retrieval
Rong Jin | Alexander G. Hauptmann | ChengXiang Zhai

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Two-stage language models for information retrieval
ChengXiang Zhai | John D. Lafferty

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Finding relevant documents using top ranking sentences: an evaluation of two alternative schemes
Ryen White | Ian Ruthven | Joemon M. Jose

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Predicting category accesses for a user in a structured information space
Mao Chen | Andrea S. LaPaugh | Jaswinder Pal Singh

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Detecting and Browsing Events in Unstructured text
David A. Smith

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Novelty and redundancy detection in adaptive filtering
Yi Zhang | James P. Callan | Thomas P. Minka

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Improving realism of topic tracking evaluation
Anton Leuski | James Allan

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Bayesian online classifiers for text classification and filtering
Kian Ming Adam Chai | Hai Leong Chieu | Hwee Tou Ng

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The use of unlabeled data to improve supervised learning for text summarization
Massih-Reza Amini | Patrick Gallinari

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Generic summarization and keyphrase extraction using mutual reinforcement principle and sentence clustering
Hongyuan Zha

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Unsupervised document classification using sequential information maximization
Noam Slonim | Nir Friedman | Naftali Tishby

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Topic difference factor extraction between two document sets and its application to text categorization
Takahiko Kawatani

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Text genre classification with genre-revealing and subject-revealing features
Yong-Bae Lee | Sung-Hyon Myaeng

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A new family of online algorithms for category ranking
Koby Crammer | Yoram Singer

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Comparing cross-language query expansion techniques by degrading translation resources
Paul McNamee | James Mayfield

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Statistical cross-language information retrieval using n-best query translations
Marcello Federico | Nicola Bertoldi

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Cross-lingual relevance models
Victor Lavrenko | Martin Choquette | W. Bruce Croft

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Resolving query translation ambiguity using a decaying co-occurrence model and syntactic dependence relations
Jianfeng Gao | Ming Zhou | Jian-Yun Nie | Hongzhao He | Weijun Chen

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Document clustering with cluster refinement and model selection capabilities
Xin Liu | Yihong Gong | Wei Xu | Shenghuo Zhu

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Document clustering with committees
Patrick Pantel | Dekang Lin

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Probabilistic combination of text classifiers using reliability indicators: models and results
Paul N. Bennett | Susan T. Dumais | Eric Horvitz

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Efficient phrase querying with an auxiliary index
Dirk Bahle | Hugh E. Williams | Justin Zobel

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Compression of inverted indexes for fast query evaluation
Falk Scholer | Hugh E. Williams | John Yiannis | Justin Zobel

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Set-based model: a new approach for information retrieval
Bruno Pôssas | Nivio Ziviani | Wagner Meira Jr. | Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto

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Collaborative filtering with privacy via factor analysis
John F. Canny

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Inverted file search algorithms for collaborative filtering
Rickard Cöster | Martin Svensson

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Methods and metrics for cold-start recommendations
Andrew I. Schein | Alexandrin Popescul | Lyle H. Ungar | David M. Pennock

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Term selection for searching printed Arabic
Kareem Darwish | Douglas W. Oard

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Empirical studies in strategies for Arabic retrieval
Jinxi Xu | Alexander M. Fraser | Ralph M. Weischedel

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Improving stemming for Arabic information retrieval: light stemming and co-occurrence analysis
Leah S. Larkey | Lisa Ballesteros | Margaret E. Connell

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Automatic query refinement using lexical affinities with maximal information gain
David Carmel | Eitan Farchi | Yael Petruschka | Aya Soffer

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Web question answering: is more always better?
Susan T. Dumais | Michele Banko | Eric Brill | Jimmy Lin | Andrew Y. Ng

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Predicting query performance
Stephen Cronen-Townsend | Yun Zhou | W. Bruce Croft

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Using part-of-speech patterns to reduce query ambiguity
James Allan | Hema Raghavan

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Is natural language an inconvenience or an opportunity for IR?
Kimmo Koskenniemi

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The effect of topic set size on retrieval experiment error
Ellen M. Voorhees | Chris Buckley

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Liberal relevance criteria of TREC -: counting on negligible documents?
Eero Sormunen

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Robust temporal and spectral modeling for query By melody
Shai Shalev-Shwartz | Shlomo Dubnov | Nir Friedman | Yoram Singer

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Video retrieval using an MPEG-7 based inference network
Andrew Graves | Mounia Lalmas

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Using self-supervised word segmentation in Chinese information retrieval
Fuchun Peng | Xiangji Huang | Dale Schuurmans | Nick Cercone | Stephen E. Robertson

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Automatic classification in product catalogs
Ben Wolin

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PageRank, HITS and a unified framework for link analysis
Chris H. Q. Ding | Xiaofeng He | Parry Husbands | Hongyuan Zha | Horst D. Simon

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Task orientation in question answering
Vanessa Murdock | W. Bruce Croft

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Experiments in high-dimensional text categorization
Fred Damerau | Tong Zhang | Sholom M. Weiss | Nitin Indurkhya

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The relationship between ASK and relevance criteria
Xiaojun Yuan | Nicholas J. Belkin | Ja-Young Kim

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ICA and SOM in text document analysis
Ella Bingham | Jukka Kuusisto | Krista Lagus

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Improving hierarchical text classification using unlabeled data
Vijay Boyapati

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Do thumbnail previews help users make better relevance decisions about web search results?
Susan Dziadosz | Raman Chandrasekar

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Amilcare: adaptive information extraction for document annotation
Fabio Ciravegna | Alexiei Dingli | Yorick Wilks | Daniela Petrelli

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The impact of corpus size on question answering performance
Charles L. A. Clarke | Gordon V. Cormack | M. Laszlo | Thomas R. Lynam | Egidio L. Terra

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Effective collection metasearch in a hierarchical environment: global vs. localized retrieval performance
Jack G. Conrad | Changwen Yang | Joanne S. Claussen

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Experimenting with graphical user interfaces for structured document retrieval
Fabio Crestani | Pablo de la Fuente | Jesús Vegas

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The web retrieval task and its evaluation in the third NTCIR workshop
Koji Eguchi | Keizo Oyama | Emi Ishida | Kazuko Kuriyama | Noriko Kando

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How Many Bits are Needed to Store Term Frequencies?
Martin Franz | J. Scott McCarley

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Non-linear reading for a structured web indexation
Mathias Géry

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Document normalization revisited
Abdur Chowdhury | M. Catherine McCabe | David A. Grossman | Ophir Frieder

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User-centered interface design for cross-language information retrieval
Preben Hansen | Daniela Petrelli | Jussi Karlgren | Micheline Beaulieu | Mark Sanderson

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Implementation of relevance feedback for content-based music retrieval based on user prefences
Keiichiro Hoashi | Erik Zeitler | Naomi Inoue

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A visualisation tool for topic tracking analysis and development
Gareth J. F. Jones | Steven M. Gabb

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A new method of parameter estimation for multinomial naive bayes text classifiers
Sang-Bum Kim | Hae-Chang Rim | Heui-Seok Lim

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Study of category score algorithms for k-NN classifier
Huaizhong Kou | Georges Gardarin

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Higher precision for two-word queries
K. L. Kwok

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The boomerang effect: retrieving scientific documents via the network of references and citations
Birger Larsen | Peter Ingwersen

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A logistic regression approach to distributed IR
Ray R. Larson

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A critical examination of TDT's cost function
R. Manmatha | Ao Feng | James Allan

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Converting on-line bilingual dictionaries from human-readable to machine-readable form
James Mayfield | Paul McNamee

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Modeling (in)variability of human judgments for text summarization
Tadashi Nomoto | Yuji Matsumoto

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Content-based music indexing and organization
Andreas Rauber | Elias Pampalk | Dieter Merkl

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Relative and absolute term selection criteria: a comparative study for English and Japanese IR
Tetsuya Sakai | Stephen E. Robertson

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Experiments on data fusion using headline information
Xiao Mang Shou | Mark Sanderson

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Building thematic lexical resources by term categorization
Alberto Lavelli | Bernardo Magnini | Fabrizio Sebastiani

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Topic structure modeling
David A. Evans | James G. Shanahan | Victor Sheftel

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Language model for IR using collection information
Rong Jin | Luo Si | Alexander G. Hauptmann | James P. Callan

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Automatic evaluation of world wide web search services
Abdur Chowdhury | Ian Soboroff

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Does WT10g look like the web?
Ian Soboroff

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Biterm language models for document retrieval
Munirathnam Srikanth | Rohini K. Srihari

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Selecting indexing strings using adaptation
Yoshiyuki Takeda | Kyoji Umemura

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Error correction in a Chinese OCR test collection
Yuen-Hsien Tseng

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User interface effects in past batch versus user experiments
Andrew Turpin | William R. Hersh

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K-tree/forest: efficient indexes for boolean queries
Rakesh M. Verma | Sanjiv Behl

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Example-based phrase translation in Chinese-English CLIR
Bin Wang | Xueqi Cheng | Shuo Bai

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Probabilistic multimedia retrieval
Thijs Westerveld

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Chinese keyword extraction based on max-duplicated strings of the documents
Wenfeng Yang

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A hierarchical approach: query large music database by acoustic input
Yazhong Feng | Yueting Zhuang | Yunhe Pan

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Correlating multilingual documents via bipartite graph modeling
Hongyuan Zha | Xiang Ji

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A system using implicit feedback and top ranking sentences to help users find relevant web documents
Ryen White | Joemon M. Jose | Ian Ruthven

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Indexing, searching, and retrieving of recorded live presentations with the AOF (authoring on the fly) search engine
Wolfgang Hürst

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UTACLIR -: general query translation framework for several language pairs
Heikki Keskustalo | Turid Hedlund | Eija Airio

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HyREX: hyper-media retrieval engine for XML
Norbert Fuhr | Norbert Gövert | Kai Großjohann

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Query performance analyser: a web-based tool for IR research and instruction
Eero Sormunen | Sakari Hokkanen | Petteri Kangaslampi | Petri Pyy | Bemmu Sepponen

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Adaptive information extraction for document annotation in amilcare
Fabio Ciravegna | Alexiei Dingli | Yorick Wilks | Daniela Petrelli

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ExWrap: semi-automatic wrapper generation by example
Bethina Schmitt | Michael Christoffel | Jürgen Schneider

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Souvenir: flexible note-taking tool to pinpoint and share media highlights
Anselm Spoerri

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Hierarchical approach to term suggestion device
Hideo Joho | Mark Sanderson | Micheline Beaulieu

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Translingual vocabulary mappings for multilingual information access
Fredric C. Gey | Aitao Chen | Michael K. Buckland | Ray R. Larson

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GS textplorer -: adaptive framework for information retrieval
Jukka Honkela | Ville H. Tuulos

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CuTeX: a system for extracting data from text tables
Hasan Davulcu | Saikat Mukherjee | Arvind Seth | I. V. Ramakrishnan