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Multidisciplinary Information Retrieval

Second Information Retrieval Facility Conference, IRFC 2011, Vienna, Austria, June 6, 2011, Proceedings

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 6653)

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

Conference series link(s): IRFC: Information Retrieval Facility Conference

Conference proceedings info: IRFC 2011.

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Table of contents (11 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Keynote

    1. Adapting Rankers Online

      • Katja Hofmann, Shimon Whiteson, Maarten de Rijke
      Pages 1-2
  3. Patents and Multilinguality

    1. Building Queries for Prior-Art Search

      • Parvaz Mahdabi, Mostafa Keikha, Shima Gerani, Monica Landoni, Fabio Crestani
      Pages 3-15
    2. Expanding Queries with Term and Phrase Translations in Patent Retrieval

      • Charles Jochim, Christina Lioma, Hinrich Schütze
      Pages 16-29
    3. Supporting Arabic Cross-Lingual Retrieval Using Contextual Information

      • Farag Ahmed, Andreas Nürnberger, Marcus Nitsche
      Pages 30-45
  4. Interactive Retrieval Support

    1. Combining Interaction and Content for Feedback-Based Ranking

      • Emanuele Di Buccio, Massimo Melucci, Dawei Song
      Pages 46-61
    2. Query Expansion for Language Modeling Using Sentence Similarities

      • Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, Gareth J. F. Jones
      Pages 62-77
    3. Word Clouds of Multiple Search Results

      • Rianne Kaptein, Jaap Kamps
      Pages 78-93
  5. IR and the Net

    1. Free-Text Search over Complex Web Forms

      • Kien Tjin-Kam-Jet, Dolf Trieschnigg, Djoerd Hiemstra
      Pages 94-107
    2. Multilingual Document Clustering Using Wikipedia as External Knowledge

      • Kiran Kumar N., Santosh G.S.K., Vasudeva Varma
      Pages 108-117
    3. Applying Web Usage Mining for Adaptive Intranet Navigation

      • Sharhida Zawani Saad, Udo Kruschwitz
      Pages 118-133
    4. Search Result Caching in Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval Networks

      • Almer S. Tigelaar, Djoerd Hiemstra, Dolf Trieschnigg
      Pages 134-148
  6. Back Matter

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About this book

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second Information Retrieval Facility Conference, IRFC 2011, held in Vienna, Austria, in June 2011. The 10 papers presented together with a keynote talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 high-quality submissions. IRF conferences wish to bring young researchers into contact with industry at an early stage. The second conference aimed to tackle four complementary research areas: information retrieval, semantic web technologies for IR, natural language processing for IR, and large-scale or distributed computing for the above areas. The papers are organized into topical sections on patents and multilinguality, interactive retrieval support, and IR and the Net.

Keywords

  • contextual information
  • cross-language retrieval
  • free-text search
  • information retrieval networks
  • multilingual retrieval
  • multiple searches
  • patent retrieval
  • query processing

Editors and Affiliations

  • Information Retrieval Facility, Vienna, Austria

    Allan Hanbury

  • Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Andreas Rauber

  • CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Arjen P. Vries

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