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SIGIR 2004: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Sheffield, UK, July 25-29, 2004

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SIGIR 2004: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Sheffield, UK, July 25-29, 2004

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Challenges in using lifetime personal information stores
Gordon Bell | Jim Gemmell | Roger Lueder

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Evaluating high accuracy retrieval techniques
Chirag Shah | W. Bruce Croft

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Scaling IR-system evaluation using term relevance sets
Einat Amitay | David Carmel | Ronny Lempel | Aya Soffer

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Using temporal profiles of queries for precision prediction
Fernando Diaz | Rosie Jones

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Retrieval evaluation with incomplete information
Chris Buckley | Ellen M. Voorhees

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Forming test collections with no system pooling
Mark Sanderson | Hideo Joho

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Building an information retrieval test collection for spontaneous conversational speech
Douglas W. Oard | Dagobert Soergel | David S. Doermann | Xiaoli Huang | G. Craig Murray | Jianqiang Wang | Bhuvana Ramabhadran | Martin Franz | Samuel Gustman | James Mayfield | Liliya Kharevych | Stephanie M. Strassel

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A formal study of information retrieval heuristics
Hui Fang | Tao Tao | ChengXiang Zhai

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Probabilistic model for contextual retrieval
Ji-Rong Wen | Ni Lao | Wei-Ying Ma

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Discriminative models for information retrieval
Ramesh Nallapati

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The overlap problem in content-oriented XML retrieval evaluation
Gabriella Kazai | Mounia Lalmas | Arjen P. de Vries

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Length normalization in XML retrieval
Jaap Kamps | Maarten de Rijke | Börkur Sigurbjörnsson

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Configurable indexing and ranking for XML information retrieval
Shaorong Liu | Qinghua Zou | Wesley W. Chu

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Locality preserving indexing for document representation
Xiaofei He | Deng Cai | Haifeng Liu | Wei-Ying Ma

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Polynomial filtering in latent semantic indexing for information retrieval
Effrosini Kokiopoulou | Yousef Saad

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On scaling latent semantic indexing for large peer-to-peer systems
Chunqiang Tang | Sandhya Dwarkadas | Zhichen Xu

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GaP: a factor model for discrete data
John F. Canny

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Belief revision for adaptive information retrieval
Raymond Y. K. Lau | Peter Bruza | Dawei Song

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Tuning before feedback: combining ranking discovery and blind feedback for robust retrieval
Weiguo Fan | Ming Luo | Li Wang | Wensi Xi | Edward A. Fox

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Translating unknown queries with web corpora for cross-language information retrieval
Pu-Jen Cheng | Jei-Wen Teng | Ruey-Cheng Chen | Jenq-Haur Wang | Wen-Hsiang Lu | Lee-Feng Chien

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Resource selection for domain-specific cross-lingual IR
Monica Rogati | Yiming Yang

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Using the web for automated translation extraction in cross-language information retrieval
Ying Zhang | Phil Vines

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Dependence language model for information retrieval
Jianfeng Gao | Jian-Yun Nie | Guangyuan Wu | Guihong Cao

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Parsimonious language models for information retrieval
Djoerd Hiemstra | Stephen E. Robertson | Hugo Zaragoza

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Cluster-based retrieval using language models
Xiaoyong Liu | W. Bruce Croft

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Corpus structure, language models, and ad hoc information retrieval
Oren Kurland | Lillian Lee

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Document clustering by concept factorization
Wei Xu | Yihong Gong

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Learning to cluster web search results
Hua-Jun Zeng | Qi-Cai He | Zheng Chen | Wei-Ying Ma | Jinwen Ma

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Document clustering via adaptive subspace iteration
Tao Li | Sheng Ma | Mitsunori Ogihara

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Restrictive clustering and metaclustering for self-organizing document collections
Stefan Siersdorfer | Sergej Sizov

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Feature selection using linear classifier weights: interaction with classification models
Dunja Mladenic | Janez Brank | Marko Grobelnik | Natasa Milic-Frayling

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Web-page classification through summarization
Dou Shen | Zheng Chen | Qiang Yang | Hua-Jun Zeng | Benyu Zhang | Yuchang Lu | Wei-Ying Ma

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Parameterized generation of labeled datasets for text categorization based on a hierarchical directory
Dmitry Davidov | Evgeniy Gabrilovich | Shaul Markovitch

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Information retrieval using word senses: root sense tagging approach
Sang-Bum Kim | Hee-Cheol Seo | Hae-Chang Rim

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An effective approach to document retrieval via utilizing WordNet and recognizing phrases
Shuang Liu | Fang Liu | Clement T. Yu | Weiyi Meng

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Web-a-where: geotagging web content
Einat Amitay | Nadav Har'El | Ron Sivan | Aya Soffer

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Focused named entity recognition using machine learning
Li Zhang | Yue Pan | Tong Zhang

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Learning phonetic similarity for matching named entity translations and mining new translations
Wai Lam | Ruizhang Huang | Pik-Shan Cheung

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Text classification and named entities for new event detection
Giridhar Kumaran | James Allan

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Assigning identifiers to documents to enhance the clustering property of fulltext indexes
Fabrizio Silvestri | Salvatore Orlando | Raffaele Perego

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Filtering algorithms for information retrieval models with named attributes and proximity operators
Christos Tryfonopoulos | Manolis Koubarakis | Yannis Drougas

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Hourly analysis of a very large topically categorized web query log
Steven M. Beitzel | Eric C. Jensen | Abdur Chowdhury | David A. Grossman | Ophir Frieder

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A collaborative filtering algorithm and evaluation metric that accurately model the user experience
Matthew R. McLaughlin | Jonathan L. Herlocker

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An automatic weighting scheme for collaborative filtering
Rong Jin | Joyce Y. Chai | Luo Si

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Using bayesian priors to combine classifiers for adaptive filtering
Yi Zhang

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A nonparametric hierarchical bayesian framework for information filtering
Kai Yu | Volker Tresp | Shipeng Yu

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Automatic image annotation by using concept-sensitive salient objects for image content representation
Jianping Fan | Yuli Gao | Hangzai Luo | Guangyou Xu

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A search engine for historical manuscript images
Toni M. Rath | R. Manmatha | Victor Lavrenko

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Display time as implicit feedback: understanding task effects
Diane Kelly | Nicholas J. Belkin

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Human versus machine in the topic distillation task
Mingfang Wu | Gheorghe Muresan | Alistair McLean | Muh-Chyun (Morris) Tang | Ross Wilkinson | Yuelin Li | Hyuk-Jin Lee | Nicholas J. Belkin

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Chemoinformatics: an application domain for information retrieval techniques
Peter Willett

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Learning effective ranking functions for newsgroup search
Wensi Xi | Jesper Lind | Eric Brill

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Language-specific models in multilingual topic tracking
Leah S. Larkey | Fangfang Feng | Margaret E. Connell | Victor Lavrenko

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Web taxonomy integration through co-bootstrapping
Dell Zhang | Wee Sun Lee

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Evaluation of an extraction-based approach to answering definitional questions
Jinxi Xu | Ralph M. Weischedel | Ana Licuanan

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Query based event extraction along a timeline
Hai Leong Chieu | Yoong Keok Lee

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Sentence completion
Korinna Grabski | Tobias Scheffer

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Block-level link analysis
Deng Cai | Xiaofei He | Ji-Rong Wen | Wei-Ying Ma

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Usefulness of hyperlink structure for query-biased topic distillation
Vassilis Plachouras | Iadh Ounis

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Block-based web search
Deng Cai | Shipeng Yu | Ji-Rong Wen | Wei-Ying Ma

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A hybrid statistical/linguistic model for generating news story gists
William P. Doran | Nicola Stokes | Eamonn Newman | John Dunnion | Joe Carthy

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Image based gisting in CLIR
Mark Sanderson | Robert C. Pasley

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Classifying racist texts using a support vector machine
Edel Greevy | Alan F. Smeaton

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Discovery of aggregate usage profiles based on clustering information needs
Azreen Azman | Iadh Ounis

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Merging retrieval results in hierarchical peer-to-peer networks
Jie Lu | Jamie Callan

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The effect of back-formulating questions in question answering evaluation
Tetsuya Sakai | Yoshimi Saito | Yumi Ichimura | Tomoharu Kokubu | Makoto Koyama

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Effect of varying number of documents in blind feedback: analysis of the 2003 NRRC RIA workshop "bf_numdocs" experiment suite
Jesse Montgomery | Luo Si | Jamie Callan | David A. Evans

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Eye-tracking analysis of user behavior in WWW search
Laura A. Granka | Thorsten Joachims | Geri Gay

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Subwebs for specialized search
Raman Chandrasekar | Harr Chen | Simon Corston-Oliver | Eric Brill

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Comparison of using passages and documents for blind relevance feedback in information retrieval
Zhenmei Gu | Ming Luo

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Measuring pseudo relevance feedback & CLIR
Paul D. Clough | Mark Sanderson

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A two-stage mixture model for pseudo feedback
Tao Tao | ChengXiang Zhai

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Natural language processing for browse help
Eric Crestan | Claude de Loupy

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Triangulation without translation
James Mayfield | Paul McNamee

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A session-based search engine
Smitha Sriram | Xuehua Shen | ChengXiang Zhai

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Evaluation of filtering current news search results
Steven M. Beitzel | Eric C. Jensen | Abdur Chowdhury | David A. Grossman | Ophir Frieder

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The document as an ergodic markov chain
Eduard Hoenkamp | Dawei Song

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Expertise community detection
Raymond J. D'Amore

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Learning patterns to answer open domain questions on the web
Dmitri Roussinov | Jose Antonio Robles-Flores

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Email is a stage: discovering people roles from email archives
Anton Leuski

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Searching databases for sematically-related schemas
Gauri Shah | Tanveer Fathima Syeda-Mahmood

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Topic prediction based on comparative retrieval rankings
Chris Buckley

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Context-based question-answering evaluation
Elizabeth D. Liddy | Anne Diekema | Özgür Yilmazel

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Design of an e-book user interface and visualizations to support reading for comprehension
Yixing Sun | David J. Harper | Stuart N. K. Watt

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Toward better weighting of anchors
David Hawking | Trystan Upstill | Nick Craswell

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Aggregated feature retrieval for MPEG-7 via clustering
Jiamin Ye | Alan F. Smeaton

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Answer models for question answering passage retrieval
Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel | W. Bruce Croft

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Collaborative filing in a document repository
Harris Wu | Michael D. Gordon

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A study of topic similarity measures
Ryen W. White | Joemon M. Jose

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Effectiveness of web page classification on finding list answers
Hui Yang | Tat-Seng Chua

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Detection and translation of OOV terms prior to query time
Ying Zhang | Phil Vines

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Evaluation of the real and perceived value of automatic and interactive query expansion
Yael Nemeth | Bracha Shapira | Meirav Taieb-Maimon

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The NRRC reliable information access (RIA) workshop
Donna Harman | Chris Buckley

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On evaluating web search with very few relevant documents
Ian Soboroff

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A music recommender based on audio features
Qing Li | Byeong Man Kim | Donghai Guan | Duk whan Oh

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Information extraction using two-phase pattern discovery
Liping Ma | John Shepherd

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A search engine for imaged documents in PDF files
Yue Lu | Li Zhang | Chew Lim Tan

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Context sensitive vocabulary and its application in protein secondary structure prediction
Yan Liu | Jaime G. Carbonell | Judith Klein-Seetharaman | Vanathi Gopalakrishnan

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Formal multiple-bernoulli models for language modeling
Donald Metzler | Victor Lavrenko | W. Bruce Croft

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User biased document language modelling
Leif Azzopardi | Mark A. Girolami | Cornelis Joost van Rijsbergen

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Information retrieval for language tutoring: an overview of the REAP project
Kevyn Collins-Thompson | Jamie Callan

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A unified model of literal mining and link analysis for ranking web resources
Yinghui Xu | Kyoji Umemura

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Automatic recognition of reading levels from user queries
Xiaoyong Liu | W. Bruce Croft | Paul Oh | David M. Hart

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A joint framework for collaborative and content filtering
Justin Basilico | Thomas Hofmann

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Refining term weights of documents using term dependencies
Hee-Soo Kim | Ikkyu Choi | Minkoo Kim

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Multiple sources of evidence for XML retrieval
Börkur Sigurbjörnsson | Jaap Kamps | Maarten de Rijke

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Verifying a Chinese collection for text categorization
Yuen-Hsien Tseng | William John Teahan

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Query-related data extraction of hidden web documents
Yih-Ling Hedley | Muhammad Younas | Anne E. James | Mark Sanderson

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The patent retrieval task in the fourth NTCIR workshop
Atsushi Fujii | Makoto Iwayama | Noriko Kando

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Measuring ineffectiveness
Ellen M. Voorhees

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Information retrieval using hierarchical dirichlet processes
Philip J. Cowans

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Broken plural detection for arabic information retrieval
Abduelbaset Goweder | Massimo Poesio | Anne N. De Roeck

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A study of methods for normalizing user ratings in collaborative filtering
Rong Jin | Luo Si

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A review of relevance feedback experiments at the 2003 reliable information access (RIA) workshop
Robert H. Warren | Ting Liu

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Supporting federated information sharing communities
Bicheng Liu | David J. Harper | Stuart N. K. Watt

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The effect of document retrieval quality on factoid question answering performance
Kevyn Collins-Thompson | Jamie Callan | Egidio L. Terra | Charles L. A. Clarke

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Exploiting hyperlink recommendation evidence in navigational web search
Trystan Upstill | Stephen E. Robertson

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Context-based methods for text categorisation
D. S. Hunnisett | W. J. Teahan

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eMailSift: mining-based approaches to email classification
Manu Aery | Sharma Chakravarthy

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Constructing a text corpus for inexact duplicate detection
Jack G. Conrad | Cindy P. Schriber

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Why current IR engines fail
Chris Buckley

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Automatic sense disambiguation for acronyms
Manuel Zahariev

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Filtering for personal web information agents
Gabriel Somlo | Adele E. Howe

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Evaluating content-based filters for image and video retrieval
Michael G. Christel | Neema Moraveji | Chang Huang

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Semantic video classification by integrating unlabeled samples for classifier training
Jianping Fan | Hangzai Luo

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Implicit queries (IQ) for contextualized search
Susan T. Dumais | Edward Cutrell | Raman Sarin | Eric Horvitz

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An implicit system for predicting interests
Ryen W. White | Joemon M. Jose

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Geotemporal querying of multilingual documents
Fredric C. Gey | Aitao Chen | Ray R. Larson | Kim Carl

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ACES: a contextual engine for search
Xuehua Shen | Smitha Sriram | ChengXiang Zhai

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Armadillo: harvesting information for the semantic web
Sam Chapman | Alexiei Dingli | Fabio Ciravegna

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UKSearch: search with automatically acquired domain knowledge
Udo Kruschwitz | Hala Al-Bakour

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Geographic information retrieval (GIR): searching where and what
Ray R. Larson | Patricia Frontiera

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Improving document representation by accumulating relevance feedback (abstract only): the relevance feedback accumulation algorithm
Razvan Stefan Bot

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Supporting federated information sharing communities (abstract only)
Bicheng Liu

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Sharing knowledge online (abstract only): a dream or reality?
Melanie Gnasa

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Toponym resolution in text (abstract only): "which sheffield is it?"
Jochen L. Leidner

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Reliability and verification of natural language text on the world wide web (abstract only)
Melanie J. Martin

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Discovering and representing the contextual and narrative structure of e-books to support reading and comprehension (abstract only)
Yixing Sun

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Understanding combination of evidence using generative probabilistic models for information retrieval (abstract only)
Paul Ogilvie

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An artificial intelligence approach to information retrieval (abstract only)
Andrew Trotman

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Supporting multiple information-seeking strategies in a single system framework (abstract only)
Xiaojun Yuan