Advances in Information Retrieval

31th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2009, Toulouse, France, April 6-9, 2009. Proceedings

  • Mohand Boughanem
  • Catherine Berrut
  • Josiane Mothe
  • Chantal Soule-Dupuy
Conference proceedings ECIR 2009

Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 5478)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
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  2. Invited Presentations

    1. Query Evolution
      W. Bruce Croft
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Searching User Generated Content: What’s Next?
      Maarten de Rijke
      Pages 2-2
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    3. Upcoming Industrial Needs for Search
      Gregory Grefenstette
      Pages 3-3
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  3. Retrieval Model I

    1. Mean-Variance Analysis: A New Document Ranking Theory in Information Retrieval
      Jun Wang
      Pages 4-16
    2. Risk-Aware Information Retrieval
      Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Michael Taylor, Ingemar J. Cox
      Pages 17-28
    3. A Comparative Study of Utilizing Topic Models for Information Retrieval
      Xing Yi, James Allan
      Pages 29-41

  4. Collaborative IR/Filtering

    1. Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval: Techniques and Evaluation
      Colum Foley, Alan F. Smeaton
      Pages 42-53
    2. Movie Recommender: Semantically Enriched Unified Relevance Model for Rating Prediction in Collaborative Filtering
      Yashar Moshfeghi, Deepak Agarwal, Benjamin Piwowarski, Joemon M. Jose
      Pages 54-65
    3. Revisiting IR Techniques for Collaborative Search Strategies
      Hideo Joho, David Hannah, Joemon M. Jose
      Pages 66-77

  5. Learning

    1. Active Sampling for Rank Learning via Optimizing the Area under the ROC Curve
      Pinar Donmez, Jaime G. Carbonell
      Pages 78-89
    2. Regression Rank: Learning to Meet the Opportunity of Descriptive Queries
      Matthew Lease, James Allan, W. Bruce Croft
      Pages 90-101
    3. Active Learning Strategies for Multi-Label Text Classification
      Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebastiani
      Pages 102-113
    4. Joint Ranking for Multilingual Web Search
      Wei Gao, Cheng Niu, Ming Zhou, Kam-Fai Wong
      Pages 114-125

  6. Multimedia - Metadata

    1. Diversity, Assortment, Dissimilarity, Variety: A Study of Diversity Measures Using Low Level Features for Video Retrieval
      Martin Halvey, P. Punitha, David Hannah, Robert Villa, Frank Hopfgartner, Anuj Goyal et al.
      Pages 126-137
    2. Bayesian Mixture Hierarchies for Automatic Image Annotation
      Vassilios Stathopoulos, Joemon M. Jose
      Pages 138-149
    3. XML Multimedia Retrieval: From Relevant Textual Information to Relevant Multimedia Fragments
      Mouna Torjmen, Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat, Mohand Boughanem
      Pages 150-161
    4. Effectively Searching Maps in Web Documents
      Qingzhao Tan, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles
      Pages 162-176

  7. Expert Search - Advertising

    1. Enhancing Expert Finding Using Organizational Hierarchies
      Maryam Karimzadehgan, Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson
      Pages 177-188
    2. A Vector Space Model for Ranking Entities and Its Application to Expert Search
      Gianluca Demartini, Julien Gaugaz, Wolfgang Nejdl
      Pages 189-201

About these proceedings

Introduction

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2009, held in Toulouse, France in April 2009.

The 42 revised full papers and 18 revised short papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited lectures and 25 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 188 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on retrieval model, collaborative IR / filtering, learning, multimedia - metadata, expert search - advertising, evaluation, opinion detection, web IR, representation, clustering / categorization as well as distributed IR.

Keywords

Clustering IR techniques autocompletion cross-language retrieval filtering geotagging image annotation learning multimedia phishing ranking searching maps semantic web spatial search web search

Editors and affiliations

  • Mohand Boughanem
    • 1
  • Catherine Berrut
    • 2
  • Josiane Mothe
    • 3
  • Chantal Soule-Dupuy
    • 3
  1. 1.Université de Toulouse - IRIT,Toulouse Cedex 4,France
  2. 2.Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble, BP 53,Université Joseph Fourier,Grenoble Cedex 9,France
  3. 3.Université de Toulouse - IRIT,Toulouse Cedex 4,France

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00958-7
  • Copyright Information Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
  • Publisher Name Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
  • eBook Packages Computer Science
  • Print ISBN 978-3-642-00957-0
  • Online ISBN 978-3-642-00958-7
  • Series Print ISSN 0302-9743
  • Series Online ISSN 1611-3349
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