Advances in Information Retrieval 26th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2004, Sunderland, UK, April 5-7, 2004, Proceedings / edited by Sharon McDonald, John Tait.

Theseproceedingscontaintherefereedfulltechnicalpaperspresentedatthe26th Annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2004). ECIR is theannualconferenceoftheBritishComputerSociety’sspecialistgroupinInf- mation Retrieval. This year the conference was held at the School of Computing and Te...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: McDonald, Sharon (Editor), Tait, John (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2004.
Edition:1st ed. 2004.
Series:Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2997
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Table of Contents:
  • Keynote Papers
  • From Information Retrieval to Information Interaction
  • IR and AI: Traditions of Representation and Anti-representation in Information Processing
  • User Studies
  • A User-Centered Approach to Evaluating Topic Models
  • A Study of User Interaction with a Concept-Based Interactive Query Expansion Support Tool
  • Searcher’s Assessments of Task Complexity for Web Searching
  • Question Answering
  • Evaluating Passage Retrieval Approaches for Question Answering
  • Identification of Relevant and Novel Sentences Using Reference Corpus
  • Answer Selection in a Multi-stream Open Domain Question Answering System
  • Information Models
  • A Bidimensional View of Documents for Text Categorisation
  • Query Difficulty, Robustness, and Selective Application of Query Expansion
  • Combining CORI and the Decision-Theoretic Approach for Advanced Resource Selection
  • Predictive Top-Down Knowledge Improves Neural Exploratory Bottom-Up Clustering
  • Classification
  • Contextual Document Clustering
  • Complex Linguistic Features for Text Classification: A Comprehensive Study
  • Eliminating High-Degree Biased Character Bigrams for Dimensionality Reduction in Chinese Text Categorization
  • Summarization
  • Broadcast News Gisting Using Lexical Cohesion Analysis
  • From Text Summarisation to Style-Specific Summarisation for Broadcast News
  • Image Retrieval
  • Relevance Feedback for Cross Language Image Retrieval
  • NN k Networks for Content-Based Image Retrieval
  • Integrating Perceptual Signal Features within a Multi-facetted Conceptual Model for Automatic Image Retrieval
  • Evaluation Issues
  • Improving Retrieval Effectiveness by Reranking Documents Based on Controlled Vocabulary
  • A Study of the Assessment of Relevance for the INEX’02 Test Collection
  • A Simulated Study of Implicit Feedback Models
  • Cross Language IR
  • Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using EuroWordNet and Word Sense Disambiguation
  • Fault-Tolerant Fulltext Information Retrieval in Digital Multilingual Encyclopedias with Weighted Pattern Morphing
  • Measuring a Cross Language Image Retrieval System
  • Web-Based and XML IR
  • An Optimistic Model for Searching Web Directories
  • Content-Aware DataGuides: Interleaving IR and DB Indexing Techniques for Efficient Retrieval of Textual XML Data
  • Performance Analysis of Distributed Architectures to Index One Terabyte of Text
  • Applying the Divergence from Randomness Approach for Content-Only Search in XML Documents.