Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2008, Singapore, July 20-24, 2008

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Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2008, Singapore, July 20-24, 2008

Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Douglas W. Oard, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Tat-Seng Chua, Mun-Kew Leong (Editors)

Anthology ID:: 2008.sigirconf_conference-2008
Year:: 2008
Venue:: sigirconf_conference
Publisher:: ACM
URL:: https://doi.org/10.1145/1390334
DOI:: 10.1145/1390334
DBLP:: conf/sigir/2008
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Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2008, Singapore, July 20-24, 2008

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Delighting Chinese users: the Google China experience
Kai-Fu Lee

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Guilt by association as a search principle
Limsoon Wong

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On iterative intelligent medical search
Gang Luo | Chunqiang Tang

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Effective and efficient user interaction for long queries
Giridhar Kumaran | James Allan

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How do users find things with PubMed?: towards automatic utility evaluation with user simulations
Jimmy Lin | Mark D. Smucker

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Towards breaking the quality curse.: a web-querying approach to web people search
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov | Rabia Nuray-Turan | Sharad Mehrotra

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An unsupervised framework for extracting and normalizing product attributes from multiple web sites
Tak-Lam Wong | Wai Lam | Tik-Shun Wong

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Enhancing web search by promoting multiple search engine use
Ryen W. White | Matthew Richardson | Mikhail Bilenko | Allison P. Heath

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Score standardization for inter-collection comparison of retrieval systems
William Webber | Alistair Moffat | Justin Zobel

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The good and the bad system: does the test collection predict users' effectiveness?
Azzah Al-Maskari | Mark Sanderson | Paul D. Clough | Eija Airio

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Retrieval sensitivity under training using different measures
Ben He | Craig Macdonald | Iadh Ounis

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Attack resistant collaborative filtering
Bhaskar Mehta | Wolfgang Nejdl

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EigenRank: a ranking-oriented approach to collaborative filtering
Nathan Nan Liu | Qiang Yang

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Personalized active learning for collaborative filtering
Abhay Harpale | Yiming Yang

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A boosting algorithm for learning bipartite ranking functions with partially labeled data
Massih-Reza Amini | Tuong-Vinh Truong | Cyril Goutte

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Directly optimizing evaluation measures in learning to rank
Jun Xu | Tie-Yan Liu | Min Lu | Hang Li | Wei-Ying Ma

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Asymmetric distance estimation with sketches for similarity search in high-dimensional spaces
Wei Dong | Moses Charikar | Kai Li

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ResIn: a combination of results caching and index pruning for high-performance web search engines
Gleb Skobeltsyn | Flavio Junqueira | Vassilis Plachouras | Ricardo Baeza-Yates

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Reorganizing compressed text
Nieves R. Brisaboa | Antonio Fariña | Susana Ladra | Gonzalo Navarro

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User adaptation: good results from poor systems
Catherine L. Smith | Paul B. Kantor

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Exploring folksonomy for personalized search
Shengliang Xu | Shenghua Bao | Ben Fei | Zhong Su | Yong Yu

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To personalize or not to personalize: modeling queries with variation in user intent
Jaime Teevan | Susan T. Dumais | Daniel J. Liebling

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The opposite of smoothing: a language model approach to ranking query-specific document clusters
Oren Kurland

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Knowledge transformation from word space to document space
Tao Li | Chris H. Q. Ding | Yi Zhang | Bo Shao

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A study of learning a merge model for multilingual information retrieval
Ming-Feng Tsai | Yu-Ting Wang | Hsin-Hsi Chen

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Bilingual topic aspect classification with a few training examples
Yejun Wu | Douglas W. Oard

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A study of methods for negative relevance feedback
Xuanhui Wang | Hui Fang | ChengXiang Zhai

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A bayesian logistic regression model for active relevance feedback
Zuobing Xu | Ram Akella

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A cluster-based resampling method for pseudo-relevance feedback
Kyung-Soon Lee | W. Bruce Croft | James Allan

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Selecting good expansion terms for pseudo-relevance feedback
Guihong Cao | Jian-Yun Nie | Jianfeng Gao | Stephen Robertson

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Learning to rank with partially-labeled data
Kevin Duh | Katrin Kirchhoff

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Learning to rank with SoftRank and Gaussian processes
John Guiver | Edward Lloyd Snelson

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Learning to rank at query-time using association rules
Adriano Veloso | Humberto Mossri de Almeida | Marcos André Gonçalves | Wagner Meira Jr.

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Learning to rank with ties
Ke Zhou | Gui-Rong Xue | Hongyuan Zha | Yong Yu

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Query-sensitive mutual reinforcement chain and its application in query-oriented multi-document summarization
Furu Wei | Wenjie Li | Qin Lu | Yanxiang He

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Comments-oriented document summarization: understanding documents with readers' feedback
Meishan Hu | Aixin Sun | Ee-Peng Lim

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Multi-document summarization using cluster-based link analysis
Xiaojun Wan | Jianwu Yang

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Multi-document summarization via sentence-level semantic analysis and symmetric matrix factorization
Dingding Wang | Tao Li | Shenghuo Zhu | Chris H. Q. Ding

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Algorithmic mediation for collaborative exploratory search
Jeremy Pickens | Gene Golovchinsky | Chirag Shah | Pernilla Qvarfordt | Maribeth Back

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Exploiting correlated keywords to improve approximate information filtering
Christian Zimmer | Christos Tryfonopoulos | Gerhard Weikum

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A user browsing model to predict search engine click data from past observations
Georges Dupret | Benjamin Piwowarski

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Learning query intent from regularized click graphs
Xiao Li | Ye-Yi Wang | Alex Acero

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Retrieval and feedback models for blog feed search
Jonathan L. Elsas | Jaime Arguello | Jamie Callan | Jaime G. Carbonell

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Learning to reduce the semantic gap in web image retrieval and annotation
Changhu Wang | Lei Zhang | Hong-Jiang Zhang

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A lattice-based approach to query-by-example spoken document retrieval
Tee Kiah Chia | Khe Chai Sim | Haizhou Li | Hwee Tou Ng

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A few examples go a long way: constructing query models from elaborate query formulations
Krisztian Balog | Wouter Weerkamp | Maarten de Rijke

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A unified and discriminative model for query refinement
Jiafeng Guo | Gu Xu | Hang Li | Xueqi Cheng

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Query expansion using gaze-based feedback on the subdocument level
Georg Buscher | Andreas Dengel | Ludger van Elst

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Affective feedback: an investigation into the role of emotions in the information seeking process
Ioannis Arapakis | Joemon M. Jose | Philip D. Gray

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A generation model to unify topic relevance and lexicon-based sentiment for opinion retrieval
Min Zhang | Xingyao Ye

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Discriminative probabilistic models for passage based retrieval
Mengqiu Wang | Luo Si

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A new probabilistic retrieval model based on the dirichlet compound multinomial distribution
Zuobing Xu | Ram Akella

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TF-IDF uncovered: a study of theories and probabilities
Thomas Roelleke | Jun Wang

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Separate and inequal: preserving heterogeneity in topical authority flows
Lan Nie | Brian D. Davison

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Finding question-answer pairs from online forums
Gao Cong | Long Wang | Chin-Yew Lin | Young-In Song | Yueheng Sun

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Retrieval models for question and answer archives
Xiaobing Xue | Jiwoon Jeon | W. Bruce Croft

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Predicting information seeker satisfaction in community question answering
Yandong Liu | Jiang Bian | Eugene Agichtein

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Discovering key concepts in verbose queries
Michael Bendersky | W. Bruce Croft

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Ambiguous queries: test collections need more sense
Mark Sanderson

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Automatically identifying localizable queries
Michael J. Welch | Junghoo Cho

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Social tag prediction
Paul Heymann | Daniel Ramage | Hector Garcia-Molina

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Spectral geometry for simultaneously clustering and ranking query search results
Ying Liu | Wenyuan Li | Yongjing Lin | Liping Jing

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A rank-aggregation approach to searching for optimal query-specific clusters
Oren Kurland | Carmel Domshlak

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A comparative evaluation of different link types on enhancing document clustering
Xiaodan Zhang | Xiaohua Hu | Xiaohua Zhou

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SpotSigs: robust and efficient near duplicate detection in large web collections
Martin Theobald | Jonathan Siddharth | Andreas Paepcke

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Local text reuse detection
Jangwon Seo | W. Bruce Croft

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TSCAN: a novel method for topic summarization and content anatomy
Chien Chin Chen | Meng Chang Chen

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A new rank correlation coefficient for information retrieval
Emine Yilmaz | Javed A. Aslam | Stephen Robertson

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Learning from labeled features using generalized expectation criteria
Gregory Druck | Gideon S. Mann | Andrew McCallum

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A simple and efficient sampling method for estimating AP and NDCG
Emine Yilmaz | Evangelos Kanoulas | Javed A. Aslam

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A general optimization framework for smoothing language models on graph structures
Qiaozhu Mei | Duo Zhang | ChengXiang Zhai

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Deep classification in large-scale text hierarchies
Gui-Rong Xue | Dikan Xing | Qiang Yang | Yong Yu

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Topic-bridged PLSA for cross-domain text classification
Gui-Rong Xue | Wenyuan Dai | Qiang Yang | Yong Yu

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Non-greedy active learning for text categorization using convex transductive experimental design
Kai Yu | Shenghuo Zhu | Wei Xu | Yihong Gong

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Classifiers without borders: incorporating fielded text from neighboring web pages
Xiaoguang Qi | Brian D. Davison

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Evaluation over thousands of queries
Ben Carterette | Virgiliu Pavlu | Evangelos Kanoulas | Javed A. Aslam | James Allan

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Intuition-supporting visualization of user's performance based on explicit negative higher-order relevance
Heikki Keskustalo | Kalervo Järvelin | Ari Pirkola | Jaana Kekäläinen

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Relevance judgments between TREC and Non-TREC assessors
Azzah Al-Maskari | Mark Sanderson | Paul D. Clough

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Evaluation measures for preference judgments
Ben Carterette | Paul N. Bennett

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Exploring evaluation metrics: GMAP versus MAP
Sri Devi Ravana | Alistair Moffat

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A new interpretation of average precision
Stephen Robertson

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Comparing metrics across TREC and NTCIR: : the robustness to pool depth bias
Tetsuya Sakai

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Relevance thresholds in system evaluations
Falk Scholer | Andrew Turpin

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Precision-at-ten considered redundant
William Webber | Alistair Moffat | Justin Zobel | Tetsuya Sakai

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Structuring collections with Scatter/Gather extensions
Omar Alonso | Justin Talbot

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A longitudinal study of real-time search assistance adoption
Peter G. Anick | Raj Gopal Prasad Kantamneni

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TopicRank: bringing insight to users
Ivan Berlocher | Kyung-Il Lee | Kono Kim

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Talking the talk vs. walking the walk: salience of information needs in querying vs. browsing
Mikhail Bilenko | Ryen W. White | Matthew Richardson | G. Craig Murray

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Exploring mouse movements for inferring query intent
Qi Guo | Eugene Agichtein

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Emulating query-biased summaries using document titles
Hideo Joho | David Hannah | Joemon M. Jose

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Hierarchical naive bayes models for representing user profiles
Juan F. Huete | Luis M. de Campos | Juan M. Fernández-Luna | Miguel A. Rueda-Morales

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A topical PageRank based algorithm for recommender systems
Liyan Zhang | Kai Zhang | Chunping Li

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The impact of history length on personalized search
Yangbo Zhu | Jamie Callan | Jaime G. Carbonell

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User preference choices for complex question answering
Mingfang Wu | Falk Scholer | Andrew Turpin

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Towards personalized distributed information retrieval
Mark James Carman | Fabio Crestani

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Task-aware search personalization
Julia Luxenburger | Shady Elbassuoni | Gerhard Weikum

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Personal vs non-personal blogs: initial classification experiments
Erik Elgersma | Maarten de Rijke

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Exploiting subjectivity analysis in blogs to improve political leaning categorization
Maojin Jiang | Shlomo Argamon

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Ranking opinionated blog posts using OpinionFinder
Ben He | Craig Macdonald | Iadh Ounis

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Searching blogs and news: a study on popular queries
Aixin Sun | Meishan Hu | Ee-Peng Lim

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Aggregated click-through data in a homogeneous user community
Mingfang Wu | Andrew Turpin | Justin Zobel

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To tag or not to tag -: harvesting adjacent metadata in large-scale tagging systems
Adriana Budura | Sebastian Michel | Philippe Cudré-Mauroux | Karl Aberer

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Exploring question subjectivity prediction in community QA
Baoli Li | Yandong Liu | Ashwin Ram | Ernest V. Garcia | Eugene Agichtein

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On the evolution of the yahoo! answers QA community
Yandong Liu | Eugene Agichtein

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Detecting synonyms in social tagging systems to improve content retrieval
Maarten Clements | Arjen P. de Vries | Marcel J. T. Reinders

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Combining learn-based and lexicon-based techniques for sentiment detection without using labeled examples
Songbo Tan | Yuefen Wang | Xueqi Cheng

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Semi-supervised spam filtering: does it work?
Mona Mojdeh | Gordon V. Cormack

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Limits of opinion-finding baseline systems
Craig Macdonald | Ben He | Iadh Ounis | Ian Soboroff

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Analyzing web text association to disambiguate abbreviation in queries
Xing Wei | Fuchun Peng | Benoît Dumoulin

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Bloggers as experts: feed distillation using expert retrieval models
Krisztian Balog | Maarten de Rijke | Wouter Weerkamp

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Search effectiveness with a breadth-first crawl
Dennis Fetterly | Nick Craswell | Vishwa Vinay

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Guide focused crawler efficiently and effectively using on-line topical importance estimation
Ziyu Guan | Can Wang | Chun Chen | Jiajun Bu | Junfeng Wang

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Automatic document prior feature selection for web retrieval
Jie Peng | Craig Macdonald | Iadh Ounis

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Using parsimonious language models on web data
Rianne Kaptein | Rongmei Li | Djoerd Hiemstra | Jaap Kamps

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Query preprocessing: improving web search through a Vietnamese word tokenization approach
Doan Nguyen

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AdImage: video advertising by image matching and ad scheduling optimization
Wei-Shing Liao | Kuan-Ting Chen | Winston H. Hsu

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Bag-of-visual-words expansion using visual relatedness for video indexing
Yu-Gang Jiang | Chong-Wah Ngo

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A word shape coding method for camera-based document images
Linlin Li | Chew Lim Tan

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Term clouds as surrogates for user generated speech
Manos Tsagkias | Martha A. Larson | Maarten de Rijke

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A faceted interface for multimedia search
Robert Villa | Nicholas Gildea | Joemon M. Jose

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WISA: a novel web image semantic analysis system
Hongtao Xu | Xiangdong Zhou | Lan Lin

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One-button search extracts wider interests: an empirical study with video bookmarking search
Masayuki Okamoto | Masaaki Kikuchi | Tomohiro Yamasaki

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Product retrieval for grocery stores
Petteri Nurmi | Eemil Lagerspetz | Wray L. Buntine | Patrik Floréen | Joonas Kukkonen

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A reranking model for genomics aspect search
Qinmin Hu | Xiangji Huang

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Improving biomedical document retrieval using domain knowledge
Shuguang Wang | Milos Hauskrecht

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Enhancing keyword-based botanical information retrieval with information extraction
Xiaoya Tang

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How medical expertise influences web search interaction
Ryen W. White | Susan T. Dumais | Jaime Teevan

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Generating diverse katakana variants based on phonemic mapping
Kazuhiro Seki | Hiroyuki Hattori | Kuniaki Uehara

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Exploiting sequential dependencies for expert finding
Pavel Serdyukov | Henning Rode | Djoerd Hiemstra

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Modeling expert finding as an absorbing random walk
Pavel Serdyukov | Henning Rode | Djoerd Hiemstra

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A scalable assistant librarian: hierarchical subject classification of books
Steven P. Crain | Jian Huang | Hongyuan Zha

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Information retrieval on bug locations by learning co-located bug report clusters
Ing-Xiang Chen | Hojun Jaygarl | Cheng-Zen Yang | Ping-Jung Wu

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Summarization of compressed text images: an experience on Indic script documents
Utpal Garain

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A method for transferring retrieval scores between collections with non-overlapping vocabularies
Fernando D. Diaz

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Improving relevance feedback in language modeling with score regularization
Fernando D. Diaz

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Theoretical bounds on and empirical robustness of score regularization to different similarity measures
Fernando D. Diaz

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A study of query length
Avi Arampatzis | Jaap Kamps

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Don't have a stemmer?: be un+concern+ed
Paul McNamee | Charles K. Nicholas | James Mayfield

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Parsimonious concept modeling
Edgar Meij | Dolf Trieschnigg | Maarten de Rijke | Wessel Kraaij

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Parsimonious relevance models
Edgar Meij | Wouter Weerkamp | Krisztian Balog | Maarten de Rijke

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Author-topic evolution analysis using three-way non-negative Paratucker
Wei Peng | Tao Li

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Exploiting proximity feature in bigram language model for information retrieval
Seung-Hoon Na | Jungi Kim | In-Su Kang | Jong-Hyeok Lee

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Measuring concept relatedness using language models
Dolf Trieschnigg | Edgar Meij | Maarten de Rijke | Wessel Kraaij

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Query-drift prevention for robust query expansion
Liron Zighelnic | Oren Kurland

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Adaptive label-driven scaling for latent semantic indexing
Xiaojun Quan | Enhong Chen | Qiming Luo | Hui Xiong

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Fixed-threshold SMO for Joint Constraint Learning Algorithm of Structural SVM
Changki Lee | Hyunki Kim | Myung-Gil Jang

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Posterior probabilistic clustering using NMF
Chris H. Q. Ding | Tao Li | Dijun Luo | Wei Peng

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On document splitting in passage detection
Nazli Goharian | Saket S. R. Mengle

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Learning with support vector machines for query-by-multiple-examples
Dell Zhang | Wee Sun Lee

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Question classification with semantic tree kernel
Yan Pan | Yong Tang | Luxian Lin | Yemin Luo

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Generalising multiple capture-recapture to non-uniform sample sizes
Paul Thomas

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Predicting when browsing context is relevant to search
Mandar Rahurkar | Silviu Cucerzan

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XML-aided phrase indexing for hypertext documents
Miro Lehtonen | Antoine Doucet

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Proximity-aware scoring for XML retrieval
Andreas Broschart | Ralf Schenkel

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Locating relevant text within XML documents
Jaap Kamps | Marijn Koolen | Mounia Lalmas

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A flexible extension of XPath to improve XML querying
Ernesto Damiani | Stefania Marrara | Gabriella Pasi

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Combining document- and paragraph-based entity ranking
Henning Rode | Pavel Serdyukov | Djoerd Hiemstra

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Re-ranking search results using document-passage graphs
Michael Bendersky | Oren Kurland

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Utilizing phrase based semantic information for term dependency
Yang Xu | Fan Ding | Bin Wang

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Inferring the most important types of a query: a semantic approach
David Vallet | Hugo Zaragoza

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On multiword entity ranking in peer-to-peer search
Yuval Merhav | Ophir Frieder

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Site-based dynamic pruning for query processing in search engines
Ismail Sengör Altingövde | Engin Demir | Fazli Can | Özgür Ulusoy

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Exploiting MDS Projections for Cross-language IR
Rafael E. Banchs | Andreas Kaltenbrunner

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Local approximation of PageRank and reverse PageRank
Ziv Bar-Yossef | Li-Tal Mashiach

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Improving text classification accuracy using topic modeling over an additional corpus
Somnath Banerjee

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An algorithm for text categorization
Anestis Gkanogiannis | Theodore Kalamboukis

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Hypergraph partitioning for document clustering: a unified clique perspective
Tianming Hu | Hui Xiong | Wenjun Zhou | Sam Yuan Sung | Hangzai Luo

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Pagerank based clustering of hypertext document collections
Konstantin Avrachenkov | Vladimir Dobrynin | Danil Nemirovsky | Kim Son Pham | Elena Smirnova

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An alignment-based pattern representation model for information extraction
Seokhwan Kim | Minwoo Jeong | Gary Geunbae Lee

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Relational distance-based collaborative filtering
Wei Zhang

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Minexml: bridging unstructured query with structured resources via mediated query
Gan Keng Hoon | Keat Keong Phang | Saravadee Sae Tan | Tang Enya Kong

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Clustering search results for mobile terminals
Michiko Yasukawa | Hidetoshi Yokoo

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Refining search results with facet landscapes
Mark Sifer | Jian Lin

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Ice-tea: an interactive cross-language search engine with translation enhancement
Dan Wu | Daqing He

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Cross-lingual search over 22 european languages
Blaz Fortuna | Jan Rupnik | Bostjan Pajntar | Marko Grobelnik | Dunja Mladenic

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Geographic IR and visualization in time and space
Ray R. Larson

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Fine-grained relevance feedback for XML retrieval
Hanglin Pan | Ralf Schenkel | Gerhard Weikum

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Dynamic visualization of music classification systems
Kris West | J. Stephen Downie | Xiao Hu | M. Cameron Jones

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Exploiting XML structure to improve information retrieval in peer-to-peer systems
Judith Winter

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Affective feedback: an investigation into the role of emotions in the information seeking process
Ioannis Arapakis

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Exploring and measuring dependency trees for informationretrieval
Chang Liu

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The search for expertise: to the documents and beyond
Pavel Serdyukov

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Task detection for activity-based desktop search
Sergey Chernov

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Using a mediated query approach for matching unstructured query with structured resources
Keng Hoon Gan

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Understanding system implementation and user behavior in a collaborative information seeking environment
Chirag Shah

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Biomedical cross-language information retrieval
Dolf Trieschnigg

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Towards a combined model for search and navigation of annotated documents
Edgar Meij

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Context and linking in retrieval from personal digital archives
Liadh Kelly

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Extending language modeling techniques to models of search and browsing activity in a digital library
G. Craig Murray