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Advances in Information Retrieval

30th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2008, Glasgow, UK, March 30 -- April 3, 2008

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  1. Craig Macdonald
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  2. Iadh Ounis
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  3. Vassilis Plachouras
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 4956)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

Conference series link(s): ECIR: European Conference on Information Retrieval

Conference proceedings info: ECIR 2008.

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Table of contents (87 papers)

  1. Video

    1. Use of Implicit Graph for Recommending Relevant Videos: A Simulated Evaluation

      • David Vallet, Frank Hopfgartner, Joemon Jose
      Pages 199-210

  2. Representation I

    1. Using Terms from Citations for IR: Some First Results

      • Anna Ritchie, Simone Teufel, Stephen Robertson
      Pages 211-221

    2. Automatic Extraction of Domain-Specific Stopwords from Labeled Documents

      • Masoud Makrehchi, Mohamed S. Kamel
      Pages 222-233

  3. Wikipedia and E-Books

    1. Book Search Experiments: Investigating IR Methods for the Indexing and Retrieval of Books

      • Hengzhi Wu, Gabriella Kazai, Michael Taylor
      Pages 234-245

    3. Exploiting Locality of Wikipedia Links in Entity Ranking

      • Jovan Pehcevski, Anne-Marie Vercoustre, James A. Thom
      Pages 258-269

    4. The Importance of Link Evidence in Wikipedia

      • Jaap Kamps, Marijn Koolen
      Pages 270-282

  4. Expert Search

    1. High Quality Expertise Evidence for Expert Search

      • Craig Macdonald, David Hannah, Iadh Ounis
      Pages 283-295

    2. Associating People and Documents

      • Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
      Pages 296-308

    3. Modeling Documents as Mixtures of Persons for Expert Finding

      • Pavel Serdyukov, Djoerd Hiemstra
      Pages 309-320

    4. Ranking Users for Intelligent Message Addressing

      • Vitor R. Carvalho, William W. Cohen
      Pages 321-333

  5. Representation II

    2. Viewing Term Proximity from a Different Perspective

      • Ruihua Song, Michael J. Taylor, Ji-Rong Wen, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Yong Yu
      Pages 346-357

    3. Extending Probabilistic Data Fusion Using Sliding Windows

      • David Lillis, Fergus Toolan, Rem Collier, John Dunnion
      Pages 358-369

  6. Theory II

    1. Semi-supervised Document Classification with a Mislabeling Error Model

      • Anastasia Krithara, Massih R. Amini, Jean-Michel Renders, Cyril Goutte
      Pages 370-381

    3. Probabilistic Document Length Priors for Language Models

      • Roi Blanco, Alvaro Barreiro
      Pages 394-405

  7. Short Papers

    1. Applying Maximum Entropy to Known-Item Email Retrieval

      • Sirvan Yahyaei, Christof Monz
      Pages 406-413

    3. Towards Characterization of Actor Evolution and Interactions in News Corpora

      • Rohan Choudhary, Sameep Mehta, Amitabha Bagchi, Rahul Balakrishnan
      Pages 422-429
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2008, held in Glasgow, UK, in March/April 2008.

The 33 revised full papers and 19 revised short papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited lectures and 32 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 full article submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluation, Web IR, social media, cross-lingual information retrieval, theory, video, representation, wikipedia and e-books, as well as expert search.

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