Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval Conference (2003)

Workshops

Distributed Multimedia Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2003 Workshop on Distributed Information Retrieval, Toronto, Canada, August 1, 2003, Revised Selected and Invited Papers 13 papers

Distributed Multimedia Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2003 Workshop on Distributed Information Retrieval, Toronto, Canada, August 1, 2003, Revised Selected and Invited Papers

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Distributed Multimedia Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2003 Workshop on Distributed Information Retrieval, Toronto, Canada, August 1, 2003, Revised Selected and Invited Papers

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Using Query Probing to Identify Query Language Features on the Web
André Bergholz | Boris Chidlovskii

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The Effect of Database Size Distribution on Resource Selection Algorithms
Luo Si | Jamie Callan

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Decision-Theoretic Resource Selection for Different Data Types in MIND
Henrik Nottelmann | Norbert Fuhr

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Distributed Web Search as a Stochastic Game
Rinat Khoussainov | Nicholas Kushmerick

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Collection Fusion for Distributed Image Retrieval
Stefano Berretti | Alberto Del Bimbo | Pietro Pala

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New Methods of Results Merging for Distributed Information Retrieval
Shengli Wu | Fabio Crestani | Forbes Gibb

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The MIND Architecture for Heterogeneous Multimedia Federated Digital Libraries
Henrik Nottelmann | Norbert Fuhr

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Apoidea: A Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Architecture for Crawling the World Wide Web
Aameek Singh | Mudhakar Srivatsa | Ling Liu | Todd Miller

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Towards Virtual Knowledge Communities in Peer-to-Peer Networks
Melanie Gnasa | Sascha Alda | Jasmin Grigull | Armin B. Cremers

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The Personalized, Collaborative Digital Library Environment CYCLADES and Its Collections Management
Leonardo Candela | Umberto Straccia

SIGIR 2003: Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 28 - August 1, 2003, Toronto, Canada

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SIGIR 2003: Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 28 - August 1, 2003, Toronto, Canada

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Keynote Address - exploring, modeling, and using the web graph
Andrei Z. Broder

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Salton Award Lecture - Information retrieval and computer science: an evolving relationship
W. Bruce Croft

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Bayesian extension to the language model for ad hoc information retrieval
Hugo Zaragoza | Djoerd Hiemstra | Michael E. Tipping

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Beyond independent relevance: methods and evaluation metrics for subtopic retrieval
ChengXiang Zhai | William W. Cohen | John D. Lafferty

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Empirical development of an exponential probabilistic model for text retrieval: using textual analysis to build a better model
Jaime Teevan | David R. Karger

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Question classification using support vector machines
Dell Zhang | Wee Sun Lee

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Structured use of external knowledge for event-based open domain question answering
Hui Yang | Tat-Seng Chua | Shuguang Wang | Chun-Keat Koh

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Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering
Stefanie Tellex | Boris Katz | Jimmy Lin | Aaron Fernandes | Gregory Marton

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Building a web thesaurus from web link structure
Zheng Chen | Shengping Liu | Liu Wenyin | Geguang Pu | Wei-Ying Ma

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Query type classification for web document retrieval
In-Ho Kang | Gil-Chang Kim

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Search strategies in content-based image retrieval
Sharon McDonald | John Tait

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Using terminological feedback for web search refinement: a log-based study
Peter G. Anick

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A scalability analysis of classifiers in text categorization
Yiming Yang | Jian Zhang | Bryan Kisiel

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A repetition based measure for verification of text collections and for text categorization
Dmitry V. Khmelev | William John Teahan

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Using asymmetric distributions to improve text classifier probability estimates
Paul N. Bennett

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Automatic image annotation and retrieval using cross-media relevance models
Jiwoon Jeon | Victor Lavrenko | R. Manmatha

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Modeling annotated data
David M. Blei | Michael I. Jordan

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Experimental result analysis for a generative probabilistic image retrieval model
Thijs Westerveld | Arjen P. de Vries

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Combining document representations for known-item search
Paul Ogilvie | James P. Callan

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Searching XML documents via XML fragments
David Carmel | Yoëlle S. Maarek | Matan Mandelbrod | Yosi Mass | Aya Soffer

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Word sense disambiguation in information retrieval revisited
Christopher Stokoe | Michael P. Oakes | John Tait

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Probabilistic term variant generator for biomedical terms
Yoshimasa Tsuruoka | Jun'ichi Tsujii

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A maximal figure-of-merit learning approach to text categorization
Sheng Gao | Wen Wu | Chin-Hui Lee | Tat-Seng Chua

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Text categorization by boosting automatically extracted concepts
Lijuan Cai | Thomas Hofmann

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Robustness of regularized linear classification methods in text categorization
Jian Zhang | Yiming Yang

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Building and applying a concept hierarchy representation of a user profile
Nikolaos Nanas | Victoria S. Uren | Anne N. De Roeck

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Re-examining the potential effectiveness of interactive query expansion
Ian Ruthven

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Latent concepts and the number orthogonal factors in latent semantic analysis
Georges Dupret

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A frequency-based and a poisson-based definition of the probability of being informative
Thomas Rölleke

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Table extraction using conditional random fields
David Pinto | Andrew McCallum | Xing Wei | W. Bruce Croft

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Building a filtering test collection for TREC 2002
Ian Soboroff | Stephen E. Robertson

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An empirical study on retrieval models for different document genres: patents and newspaper articles
Makoto Iwayama | Atsushi Fujii | Noriko Kando | Yuzo Marukawa

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Collaborative filtering via gaussian probabilistic latent semantic analysis
Thomas Hofmann

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Document clustering based on non-negative matrix factorization
Wei Xu | Xin Liu | Yihong Gong

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A comparative study on content-based music genre classification
Tao Li | Mitsunori Ogihara | Qi Li

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Evaluating different methods of estimating retrieval quality for resource selection
Henrik Nottelmann | Norbert Fuhr

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Relevant document distribution estimation method for resource selection
Luo Si | James P. Callan

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SETS: search enhanced by topic segmentation
Mayank Bawa | Gurmeet Singh Manku | Prabhakar Raghavan

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Retrieval and novelty detection at the sentence level
James Allan | Courtney Wade | Alvaro Bolivar

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Domain-independent text segmentation using anisotropic diffusion and dynamic programming
Xiang Ji | Hongyuan Zha

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A System for new event detection
Thorsten Brants | Francine Chen

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Probabilistic structured query methods
Kareem Darwish | Douglas W. Oard

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Fuzzy translation of cross-lingual spelling variants
Ari Pirkola | Jarmo Toivonen | Heikki Keskustalo | Kari Visala | Kalervo Järvelin

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Automatic transliteration for Japanese-to-English text retrieval
Yan Qu | Gregory Grefenstette | David A. Evans

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On the effectiveness of evaluating retrieval systems in the absence of relevance judgments
Javed A. Aslam | Robert Savell

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Resource selection and data fusion in multimedia distributed digital libraries
James P. Callan | Fabio Crestani | Henrik Nottelmann | Pietro Pala | Xiao Mang Shou

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Transliteration of proper names in cross-language applications
Paola Virga | Sanjeev Khudanpur

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Toward a unification of text and link analysis
Brian D. Davison

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Investigating the relationship between language model perplexity and IR precision-recall measures
Leif Azzopardi | Mark A. Girolami | Keith van Rijsbergen

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Topic distillation using hierarchy concept tree
Ikkyu Choi | Minkoo Kim

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Using manually-built web directories for automatic evaluation of known-item retrieval
Steven M. Beitzel | Eric C. Jensen | Abdur Chowdhury | David A. Grossman | Ophir Frieder

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Popular music retrieval by detecting mood
Yazhong Feng | Yueting Zhuang | Yunhe Pan

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Exploiting query history for document ranking in interactive information retrieval
Xuehua Shen | ChengXiang Zhai

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Automatic ranking of retrieval systems in imperfect environments
Rabia Nuray | Fazli Can

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An investigation of broad coverage automatic pronoun resolution for information retrieval
Richard J. Edens | Helen L. Gaylard | Gareth J. F. Jones | Adenike M. Lam-Adesina

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Syntactic features in question answering
Xiaoyan Li

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Searchers' criteria For assessing web pages
Anastasios Tombros | Ian Ruthven | Joemon M. Jose

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When query expansion fails
Bodo Billerbeck | Justin Zobel

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Music modeling with random fields
Victor Lavrenko | Jeremy Pickens

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Fractal summarization: summarization based on fractal theory
Christopher C. Yang | Fu Lee Wang

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A unified model for metasearch and the efficient evaluation of retrieval systems via the hedge algorithm
Javed A. Aslam | Virgiliu Pavlu | Robert Savell

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Statistical visual feature indexes in video retrieval
Xiangming Mu | Gary Marchionini

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Enhancing cross-language information retrieval by an automatic acquisition of bilingual terminology from comparable corpora
Fatiha Sadat | Masatoshi Yoshikawa | Shunsuke Uemura

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Document-self expansion for text categorization
Yuen-Hsien Tseng | Da-Wei Juang

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An architecture for peer-to-peer information retrieval
Iraklis A. Klampanos | Joemon M. Jose

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Incorporating query term dependencies in language models for document retrieval
Munirathnam Srikanth | Rohini K. Srihari

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Error analysis of difficult TREC topics
Xiao Hu | Sindhura Bandhakavi | ChengXiang Zhai

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XML retrieval: what to retrieve?
Jaap Kamps | Maarten Marx | Maarten de Rijke | Börkur Sigurbjörnsson

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Discovering and structuring information flow among bioinformatics resources
Joan C. Bartlett | Elaine G. Toms

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Single n-gram stemming
James Mayfield | Paul McNamee

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Average gain ratio: a simple retrieval performance measure for evaluation with multiple relevance levels
Tetsuya Sakai

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A comparison of various approaches for using probabilistic dependencies in language modeling
Peter Bruza | Dawei Song

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Topic hierarchy generation via linear discriminant projection
Tao Li | Shenghuo Zhu | Mitsunori Ogihara

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A personalised information retrieval tool
Innes Martin | Joemon M. Jose

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Classification of source code archives
Robert Krovetz | Secil Ugurel | C. Lee Giles

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Passage retrieval vs. document retrieval for factoid question answering
Charles L. A. Clarke | Egidio L. Terra

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Evaluating retrieval performance for Japanese question answering: what are best passages?
Tetsuya Sakai | Tomoharu Kokubu

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Image classification using hybrid neural networks
Chih-Fong Tsai | Kenneth McGarry | John Tait

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On an equivalence between PLSI and LDA
Mark A. Girolami | Ata Kabán

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Query word deletion prediction
Rosie Jones | Daniel C. Fain

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Assessing the effectiveness of pen-based input queries
Stephen Levin | Paul D. Clough | Mark Sanderson

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A light weight PDA-friendly collection fusion technique
Jeffery Antoniuk | Mario A. Nascimento

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Summary evaluation and text categorization
Khurshid Ahmad | Bogdan Vrusias | Paulo C. F. de Oliveira

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Rule-based word clustering for text classification
Hui Han | Eren Manavoglu | C. Lee Giles | Hongyuan Zha

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HAT: a hardware assisted TOP-DOC inverted index component
S. Kagan Agun | Ophir Frieder

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An information-theoretic measure for document similarity
Javed A. Aslam | Meredith Frost

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Optimizing term vectors for efficient and robust filtering
David A. Evans | Jeffrey Bennett | David A. Hull

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The TREC-like evaluation of music IR systems
J. Stephen Downie

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Stemming in the language modeling framework
James Allan | Giridhar Kumaran

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Generating hierarchical summaries for web searches
Dawn J. Lawrie | W. Bruce Croft

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Analysis of anchor text for web search
Nadav Eiron | Kevin S. McCurley

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User-assisted query translation for interactive CLIR
Daqing He | Jianqiang Wang | Douglas W. Oard | Michael Nossal

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DefScriber: a hybrid system for definitional QA
Sasha Blair-Goldensohn | Kathleen R. McKeown | Andrew Hazen Schlaikjer

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Querying XML using structures and keywords in timber
Cong Yu | H. V. Jagadish | Dragomir R. Radev

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MIND: resource selection and data fusion in multimedia distributed digital libraries
Stefano Berretti | James P. Callan | Henrik Nottelmann | Xiao Mang Shou | Shengli Wu

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Head/modifier pairs for everyone
Cornelis H. A. Koster

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Document retrieval from user-selected web sites
Ulrich Bohnacker | Ingrid Renz

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eArchivarius: accessing collections of electronic mail
Anton Leuski | Douglas W. Oard | Rahul Bhagat