ECIR 2008: Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Invited Presentations

• Nicholas J. Belkin:
  Some(What) Grand Challenges for Information Retrieval. 1
  
• Amit Singhal:
  Web Search: Challenges and Directions. 2
  
• Bettina Berendt:
  You Are a Document Too: Web Mining and IR for Next-Generation Information Literacy. 3
  

Evaluation

• Kalervo Järvelin, Susan L. Price, Lois M. L. Delcambre, Marianne Lykke Nielsen:
  Discounted Cumulated Gain Based Evaluation of Multiple-Query IR Sessions. 4-15
  
• Ben Carterette, Paul N. Bennett, David Maxwell Chickering, Susan T. Dumais:
  Here or There. 16-27
  
• Falk Scholer, Milad Shokouhi, Bodo Billerbeck, Andrew Turpin:
  Using Clicks as Implicit Judgments: Expectations Versus Observations. 28-39
  

Web IR

• Thomas Gottron:
  Clustering Template Based Web Documents. 40-51
  
• Ying Zhao, Falk Scholer, Yohannes Tsegay:
  Effective Pre-retrieval Query Performance Prediction Using Similarity and Variability Evidence. 52-64
  
• Paraskevi Raftopoulou, Euripides G. M. Petrakis:
  iCluster: A Self-organizing Overlay Network for P2P Information Retrieval. 65-76
  

Social Media

• Ming-Shun Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen:
  Labeling Categories and Relationships in an Evolving Social Network. 77-88
  
• Giambattista Amati, Edgardo Ambrosi, Marco Bianchi, Carlo Gaibisso, Giorgio Gambosi:
  Automatic Construction of an Opinion-Term Vocabulary for Ad Hoc Retrieval. 89-100
  
• Beate Krause, Andreas Hotho, Gerd Stumme:
  A Comparison of Social Bookmarking with Traditional Search. 101-113
  

Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval

• Tuomas Talvensaari:
  Effects of Aligned Corpus Quality and Size in Corpus-Based CLIR. 114-125
  
• Jennifer Marlow, Paul Clough, Juan Miguel Cigarrán Recuero, Javier Artiles:
  Exploring the Effects of Language Skills on Multilingual Web Search. 126-137
  
• Aki Loponen, Ari Pirkola, Kalervo Järvelin, Heikki Keskustalo:
  A Novel Implementation of the FITE-TRT Translation Method. 138-149
  

Theory I

• Stéphane Clinchant, Éric Gaussier:
  The BNB Distribution for Text Modeling. 150-161
  
• Michael Bendersky, Oren Kurland:
  Utilizing Passage-Based Language Models for Document Retrieval. 162-174
  
• Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman, W. Bruce Croft:
  A Statistical View of Binned Retrieval Models. 175-186
  

Video

• Stéphane Ayache, Georges Quénot:
  Video Corpus Annotation Using Active Learning. 187-198
  
• David Vallet, Frank Hopfgartner, Joemon M. Jose:
  Use of Implicit Graph for Recommending Relevant Videos: A Simulated Evaluation. 199-210
  

Representation I

• Anna Ritchie, Simone Teufel, Stephen Robertson:
  Using Terms from Citations for IR: Some First Results. 211-221
  
• Masoud Makrehchi, Mohamed S. Kamel:
  Automatic Extraction of Domain-Specific Stopwords from Labeled Documents. 222-233
  

Wikipedia and E-Books

• Hengzhi Wu, Gabriella Kazai, Michael Taylor:
  Book Search Experiments: Investigating IR Methods for the Indexing and Retrieval of Books. 234-245
  
• Noorhidawati Abdullah, Forbes Gibb:
  Using a Task-Based Approach in Evaluating the Usability of BoBIs in an E-book Environment. 246-257
  
• Jovan Pehcevski, Anne-Marie Vercoustre, James A. Thom:
  Exploiting Locality of Wikipedia Links in Entity Ranking. 258-269
  
• Jaap Kamps, Marijn Koolen:
  The Importance of Link Evidence in Wikipedia. 270-282
  

Expert Search

• Craig Macdonald, David Hannah, Iadh Ounis:
  High Quality Expertise Evidence for Expert Search. 283-295
  
• Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke:
  Associating People and Documents. 296-308
  
• Pavel Serdyukov, Djoerd Hiemstra:
  Modeling Documents as Mixtures of Persons for Expert Finding. 309-320
  
• Vitor R. Carvalho, William W. Cohen:
  Ranking Users for Intelligent Message Addressing. 321-333
  

Representation II

• Dawei Song, Qiang Huang, Stefan M. Rüger, Peter Bruza:
  Facilitating Query Decomposition in Query Language Modeling by Association Rule Mining Using Multiple Sliding Windows. 334-345
  
• Ruihua Song, Michael J. Taylor, Ji-Rong Wen, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Yong Yu:
  Viewing Term Proximity from a Different Perspective. 346-357
  
• David Lillis, Fergus Toolan, Rem W. Collier, John Dunnion:
  Extending Probabilistic Data Fusion Using Sliding Windows. 358-369
  

Theory II

• Anastasia Krithara, Massih-Reza Amini, Jean-Michel Renders, Cyril Goutte:
  Semi-supervised Document Classification with a Mislabeling Error Model. 370-381
  
• Seung-Hoon Na, In-Su Kang, Jong-Hyeok Lee:
  Improving Term Frequency Normalization for Multi-topical Documents and Application to Language Modeling Approaches. 382-393
  
• Roi Blanco, Alvaro Barreiro:
  Probabilistic Document Length Priors for Language Models. 394-405
  

Short Papers

• Sirvan Yahyaei, Christof Monz:
  Applying Maximum Entropy to Known-Item Email Retrieval. 406-413
  
• Frank McSherry, Marc Najork:
  Computing Information Retrieval Performance Measures Efficiently in the Presence of Tied Scores. 414-421
  
• Rohan Choudhary, Sameep Mehta, Amitabha Bagchi, Rahul Balakrishnan:
  Towards Characterization of Actor Evolution and Interactions in News Corpora. 422-429
  
• Bahadorreza Ofoghi, John Yearwood, Liping Ma:
  The Impact of Semantic Class Identification and Semantic Role Labeling on Natural Language Answer Extraction. 430-437
  
• Ian MacKinnon, Olga Vechtomova:
  Improving Complex Interactive Question Answering with Wikipedia Anchor Text. 438-445
  
• Furu Wei, Wenjie Li, Qin Lu, Yanxiang He:
  A Cluster-Sensitive Graph Model for Query-Oriented Multi-document Summarization. 446-453
  
• Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft:
  Evaluating Text Representations for Retrieval of the Best Group of Documents. 454-462
  
• Xiaoyan Li, Zhigang Zhu:
  Enhancing Relevance Models with Adaptive Passage Retrieval. 463-471
  
• Zahra Eidoon, Nasser Yazdani, Farhad Oroumchian:
  Ontology Matching Using Vector Space. 472-481
  
• Leif Azzopardi, Vishwa Vinay:
  Accessibility in Information Retrieval. 482-489
  
• Vassilios Stathopoulos, Jana Urban, Joemon M. Jose:
  Semantic Relationships in Multi-modal Graphs for Automatic Image Annotation. 490-497
  
• Shai Erera, David Carmel:
  Conversation Detection in Email Systems. 498-505
  
• Waiyawuth Euachongprasit, Chotirat Ann Ratanamahatana:
  Efficient Multimedia Time Series Data Retrieval Under Uniform Scaling and Normalisation. 506-513
  
• Jonathan M. Fishbein, Chris Eliasmith:
  Integrating Structure and Meaning: A New Method for Encoding Structure for Text Classification. 514-521
  
• Martin Potthast, Benno Stein, Maik Anderka:
  A Wikipedia-Based Multilingual Retrieval Model. 522-530
  
• Jussi Karlgren, Anders Holst, Magnus Sahlgren:
  Filaments of Meaning in Word Space. 531-538
  
• Koen Deschacht, Marie-Francine Moens:
  Finding the Best Picture: Cross-Media Retrieval of Content. 539-546
  
• Qiang Huang, Dawei Song, Stefan M. Rüger:
  Robust Query-Specific Pseudo Feedback Document Selection for Query Expansion. 547-554
  
• Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis:
  Expert Search Evaluation by Supporting Documents. 555-563
  

Posters

• Gianluca Demartini, Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Ingo Brunkhorst, Wolfgang Nejdl:
  Ranking Categories for Web Search. 564-569
  
• Paul Clough, Simon Read:
  Key Design Issues with Visualising Images Using Google Earth. 570-574
  
• Jonathan M. Fishbein, Chris Eliasmith:
  Methods for Augmenting Semantic Models with Structural Information for Text Classification. 575-579
  
• Sérgio Nunes, Cristina Ribeiro, Gabriel David:
  Use of Temporal Expressions in Web Search. 580-584
  
• Markus Schedl, Peter Knees, Tim Pohle, Gerhard Widmer:
  Towards an Automatically Generated Music Information System Via Web Content Mining. 585-590
  
• Milad Shokouhi, Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin:
  Investigating the Effectiveness of Clickthrough Data for Document Reordering. 591-595
  
• David Hannah, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis:
  Analysis of Link Graph Compression Techniques. 596-601
  
• Hao Lang, Bin Wang, Gareth J. F. Jones, Jintao Li, Yang Xu:
  An Evaluation and Analysis of Incorporating Term Dependency for Ad-Hoc Retrieval. 602-606
  
• Hans Friedrich Witschel, Florian Holz, Gregor Heinrich, Sven Teresniak:
  An Evaluation Measure for Distributed Information Retrieval Systems. 607-611
  
• Michael Wiegand, Dietrich Klakow:
  Optimizing Language Models for Polarity Classification. 612-616
  
• Peng Huang, Jiajun Bu, Chun Chen, Guang Qiu:
  Improving Web Image Retrieval Using Image Annotations and Inference Network. 617-621
  
• Roman Y. Shtykh, Jian Chen, Qun Jin:
  Slide-Film Interface: Overcoming Small Screen Limitations in Mobile Web Search. 622-626
  
• Peter Knees, Tim Pohle, Markus Schedl, Dominik Schnitzer, Klaus Seyerlehner:
  A Document-Centered Approach to a Natural Language Music Search Engine. 627-631
  
• Conny Franke, Omar Alonso:
  Collaborative Topic Tracking in an Enterprise Environment. 632-636
  
• Hassan Naderi, Béatrice Rumpler:
  Graph-Based Profile Similarity Calculation Method and Evaluation. 637-641
  
• Stefano Mizzaro:
  The Good, the Bad, the Difficult, and the Easy: Something Wrong with Information Retrieval Evaluation?. 642-646
  
• Thanh-Trung Van, Michel Beigbeder:
  Hybrid Method for Personalized Search in Digital Libraries. 647-651
  
• Gaurav Pandey, Julia Luxenburger:
  Exploiting Session Context for Information Retrieval - A Comparative Study. 652-657
  
• Seung-Hoon Na, In-Su Kang, Jong-Hyeok Lee:
  Structural Re-ranking with Cluster-Based Retrieval. 658-662
  
• Martin Potthast, Benno Stein, Robert Gerling:
  Automatic Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia. 663-668
  
• Suzan Verberne, Lou Boves, Nelleke Oostdijk, Peter-Arno Coppen:
  Evaluating Paragraph Retrieval for . 669-673
  
• Seung-Hoon Na, In-Su Kang, Jong-Hyeok Lee:
  Revisit of Nearest Neighbor Test for Direct Evaluation of Inter-document Similarities. 674-678
  
• Masnizah Mohd, Fabio Crestani, Ian Ruthven:
  A Comparison of Named Entity Patterns from a User Analysis and a System Analysis. 679-683
  
• Seung-Hoon Na, In-Su Kang, Jong-Hyeok Lee:
  Query-Based Inter-document Similarity Using Probabilistic Co-relevance Model. 684-688
  
• Jiyin He, Martha Larson, Maarten de Rijke:
  Using Coherence-Based Measures to Predict Query Difficulty. 689-694
  
• Ismail Sengör Altingövde, Fazli Can, Özgür Ulusoy:
  Efficient Processing of Category-Restricted Queries for Web Directories. 695-699
  
• Gareth J. F. Jones, Quixiang Li:
  Focused Browsing: Providing Topical Feedback for Link Selection in Hypertext Browsing. 700-704
  
• Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke:
  The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering. 705-710
  

Workshop Summaries

• Roi Blanco, Fabrizio Silvestri:
  Efficiency Issues in Information Retrieval Workshop. 711
  
• Omar Alonso, Hugo Zaragoza:
  Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval. 712
  
• Mark Sanderson, Martin Braschler, Nicola Ferro, Julio Gonzalo:
  Workshop on Novel Methodologies for Evaluation in Information Retrieval. 713
  

Tutorials

• Djoerd Hiemstra:
  ECIR 2008 Tutorials. 714-715