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Advances in Information Retrieval , 30th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2008, Glasgow, UK, March 30-April 3, 2008. Proceedings

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Some(What) Grand Challenges for Information Retrieval
Nicholas J. Belkin

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Web Search: Challenges and Directions
Amit Singhal

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You Are a Document Too: Web Mining and IR for Next-Generation Information Literacy
Bettina Berendt

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Discounted Cumulated Gain Based Evaluation of Multiple-Query IR Sessions
Kalervo Järvelin | Susan L. Price | Lois M. L. Delcambre | Marianne Lykke Nielsen

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Here or There
Ben Carterette | Paul N. Bennett | David Maxwell Chickering | Susan T. Dumais

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Using Clicks as Implicit Judgments: Expectations Versus Observations
Falk Scholer | Milad Shokouhi | Bodo Billerbeck | Andrew Turpin

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Clustering Template Based Web Documents
Thomas Gottron

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Effective Pre-retrieval Query Performance Prediction Using Similarity and Variability Evidence
Ying Zhao | Falk Scholer | Yohannes Tsegay

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iCluster: A Self-organizing Overlay Network for P2P Information Retrieval
Paraskevi Raftopoulou | Euripides G. M. Petrakis

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Labeling Categories and Relationships in an Evolving Social Network
Ming-Shun Lin | Hsin-Hsi Chen

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Automatic Construction of an Opinion-Term Vocabulary for Ad Hoc Retrieval
Giambattista Amati | Edgardo Ambrosi | Marco Bianchi | Carlo Gaibisso | Giorgio Gambosi

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A Comparison of Social Bookmarking with Traditional Search
Beate Krause | Andreas Hotho | Gerd Stumme

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Effects of Aligned Corpus Quality and Size in Corpus-Based CLIR
Tuomas Talvensaari

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Exploring the Effects of Language Skills on Multilingual Web Search
Jennifer Marlow | Paul D. Clough | Juan Miguel Cigarrán Recuero | Javier Artiles

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A Novel Implementation of the FITE-TRT Translation Method
Aki Loponen | Ari Pirkola | Kalervo Järvelin | Heikki Keskustalo

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The BNB Distribution for Text Modeling
Stéphane Clinchant | Éric Gaussier

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Utilizing Passage-Based Language Models for Document Retrieval
Michael Bendersky | Oren Kurland

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A Statistical View of Binned Retrieval Models
Donald Metzler | Trevor Strohman | W. Bruce Croft

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Video Corpus Annotation Using Active Learning
Stéphane Ayache | Georges Quénot

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Use of Implicit Graph for Recommending Relevant Videos: A Simulated Evaluation
David Vallet | Frank Hopfgartner | Joemon M. Jose

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Using Terms from Citations for IR: Some First Results
Anna Ritchie | Simone Teufel | Stephen Robertson

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Automatic Extraction of Domain-Specific Stopwords from Labeled Documents
Masoud Makrehchi | Mohamed S. Kamel

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Book Search Experiments: Investigating IR Methods for the Indexing and Retrieval of Books
Hengzhi Wu | Gabriella Kazai | Michael J. Taylor

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Using a Task-Based Approach in Evaluating the Usability of BoBIs in an E-book Environment
Noorhidawati Abdullah | Forbes Gibb

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Exploiting Locality of Wikipedia Links in Entity Ranking
Jovan Pehcevski | Anne-Marie Vercoustre | James A. Thom

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The Importance of Link Evidence in Wikipedia
Jaap Kamps | Marijn Koolen

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High Quality Expertise Evidence for Expert Search
Craig Macdonald | David Hannah | Iadh Ounis

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Associating People and Documents
Krisztian Balog | Maarten de Rijke

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Modeling Documents as Mixtures of Persons for Expert Finding
Pavel Serdyukov | Djoerd Hiemstra

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Ranking Users for Intelligent Message Addressing
Vitor R. Carvalho | William W. Cohen

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Facilitating Query Decomposition in Query Language Modeling by Association Rule Mining Using Multiple Sliding Windows
Dawei Song | Qiang Huang | Stefan M. Rüger | Peter Bruza

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Viewing Term Proximity from a Different Perspective
Ruihua Song | Michael J. Taylor | Ji-Rong Wen | Hsiao-Wuen Hon | Yong Yu

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Extending Probabilistic Data Fusion Using Sliding Windows
David Lillis | Fergus Toolan | Rem W. Collier | John Dunnion

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Semi-supervised Document Classification with a Mislabeling Error Model
Anastasia Krithara | Massih-Reza Amini | Jean-Michel Renders | Cyril Goutte

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Improving Term Frequency Normalization for Multi-topical Documents and Application to Language Modeling Approaches
Seung-Hoon Na | In-Su Kang | Jong-Hyeok Lee

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Probabilistic Document Length Priors for Language Models
Roi Blanco | Alvaro Barreiro

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Applying Maximum Entropy to Known-Item Email Retrieval
Sirvan Yahyaei | Christof Monz

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Computing Information Retrieval Performance Measures Efficiently in the Presence of Tied Scores
Frank McSherry | Marc Najork

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Towards Characterization of Actor Evolution and Interactions in News Corpora
Rohan Choudhary | Sameep Mehta | Amitabha Bagchi | Rahul Balakrishnan

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The Impact of Semantic Class Identification and Semantic Role Labeling on Natural Language Answer Extraction
Bahadorreza Ofoghi | John Yearwood | Liping Ma

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Improving Complex Interactive Question Answering with Wikipedia Anchor Text
Ian MacKinnon | Olga Vechtomova

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A Cluster-Sensitive Graph Model for Query-Oriented Multi-document Summarization
Furu Wei | Wenjie Li | Qin Lu | Yanxiang He

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Evaluating Text Representations for Retrieval of the Best Group of Documents
Xiaoyong Liu | W. Bruce Croft

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Enhancing Relevance Models with Adaptive Passage Retrieval
Xiaoyan Li | Zhigang Zhu

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Ontology Matching Using Vector Space
Zahra Eidoon | Nasser Yazdani | Farhad Oroumchian

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Accessibility in Information Retrieval
Leif Azzopardi | Vishwa Vinay

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Semantic Relationships in Multi-modal Graphs for Automatic Image Annotation
Vassilios Stathopoulos | Jana Urban | Joemon M. Jose

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Conversation Detection in Email Systems
Shai Erera | David Carmel

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Efficient Multimedia Time Series Data Retrieval Under Uniform Scaling and Normalisation
Waiyawuth Euachongprasit | Chotirat Ann Ratanamahatana

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Integrating Structure and Meaning: A New Method for Encoding Structure for Text Classification
Jonathan M. Fishbein | Chris Eliasmith

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A Wikipedia-Based Multilingual Retrieval Model
Martin Potthast | Benno Stein | Maik Anderka

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Filaments of Meaning in Word Space
Jussi Karlgren | Anders Holst | Magnus Sahlgren

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Finding the Best Picture: Cross-Media Retrieval of Content
Koen Deschacht | Marie-Francine Moens

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Robust Query-Specific Pseudo Feedback Document Selection for Query Expansion
Qiang Huang | Dawei Song | Stefan M. Rüger

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Expert Search Evaluation by Supporting Documents
Craig Macdonald | Iadh Ounis

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Ranking Categories for Web Search
Gianluca Demartini | Paul-Alexandru Chirita | Ingo Brunkhorst | Wolfgang Nejdl

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Key Design Issues with Visualising Images Using Google Earth
Paul D. Clough | Simon Read

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Methods for Augmenting Semantic Models with Structural Information for Text Classification
Jonathan M. Fishbein | Chris Eliasmith

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Use of Temporal Expressions in Web Search
Sérgio Nunes | Cristina Ribeiro | Gabriel David

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Towards an Automatically Generated Music Information System Via Web Content Mining
Markus Schedl | Peter Knees | Tim Pohle | Gerhard Widmer

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Investigating the Effectiveness of Clickthrough Data for Document Reordering
Milad Shokouhi | Falk Scholer | Andrew Turpin

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Analysis of Link Graph Compression Techniques
David Hannah | Craig Macdonald | Iadh Ounis

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An Evaluation and Analysis of Incorporating Term Dependency for Ad-Hoc Retrieval
Hao Lang | Bin Wang | Gareth J. F. Jones | Jintao Li | Yang Xu

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An Evaluation Measure for Distributed Information Retrieval Systems
Hans Friedrich Witschel | Florian Holz | Gregor Heinrich | Sven Teresniak

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Optimizing Language Models for Polarity Classification
Michael Wiegand | Dietrich Klakow

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Improving Web Image Retrieval Using Image Annotations and Inference Network
Peng Huang | Jiajun Bu | Chun Chen | Guang Qiu

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Slide-Film Interface: Overcoming Small Screen Limitations in Mobile Web Search
Roman Y. Shtykh | Jian Chen | Qun Jin

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A Document-Centered Approach to a Natural Language Music Search Engine
Peter Knees | Tim Pohle | Markus Schedl | Dominik Schnitzer | Klaus Seyerlehner

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Collaborative Topic Tracking in an Enterprise Environment
Conny Franke | Omar Alonso

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Graph-Based Profile Similarity Calculation Method and Evaluation
Hassan Naderi | Béatrice Rumpler

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The Good, the Bad, the Difficult, and the Easy: Something Wrong with Information Retrieval Evaluation?
Stefano Mizzaro

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Hybrid Method for Personalized Search in Digital Libraries
Thanh-Trung Van | Michel Beigbeder

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Exploiting Session Context for Information Retrieval - A Comparative Study
Gaurav Pandey | Julia Luxenburger

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Structural Re-ranking with Cluster-Based Retrieval
Seung-Hoon Na | In-Su Kang | Jong-Hyeok Lee

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Automatic Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia
Martin Potthast | Benno Stein | Robert Gerling

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Evaluating Paragraph Retrieval for
Suzan Verberne | Lou Boves | Nelleke Oostdijk | Peter-Arno Coppen

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Revisit of Nearest Neighbor Test for Direct Evaluation of Inter-document Similarities
Seung-Hoon Na | In-Su Kang | Jong-Hyeok Lee

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A Comparison of Named Entity Patterns from a User Analysis and a System Analysis
Masnizah Mohd | Fabio Crestani | Ian Ruthven

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Query-Based Inter-document Similarity Using Probabilistic Co-relevance Model
Seung-Hoon Na | In-Su Kang | Jong-Hyeok Lee

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Using Coherence-Based Measures to Predict Query Difficulty
Jiyin He | Martha A. Larson | Maarten de Rijke

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Efficient Processing of Category-Restricted Queries for Web Directories
Ismail Sengör Altingövde | Fazli Can | Özgür Ulusoy

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Focused Browsing: Providing Topical Feedback for Link Selection in Hypertext Browsing
Gareth J. F. Jones | Quixiang Li

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The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering
Mahboob Alam Khalid | Valentin Jijkoun | Maarten de Rijke

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Efficiency Issues in Information Retrieval Workshop
Roi Blanco | Fabrizio Silvestri

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Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval
Omar Alonso | Hugo Zaragoza

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Workshop on Novel Methodologies for Evaluation in Information Retrieval
Mark Sanderson | Martin Braschler | Nicola Ferro | Julio Gonzalo

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ECIR 2008 Tutorials
Djoerd Hiemstra