29. SIGIR 2006: Seattle, WA, USA

• C. J. van Rijsbergen:
  Quantum haystacks. 1-2
  

User behavior and modeling

• Eugene Agichtein, Eric Brill, Susan T. Dumais, Robert Ragno:
  Learning user interaction models for predicting web search result preferences. 3-10
  
• Andrew Turpin, Falk Scholer:
  User performance versus precision measures for simple search tasks. 11-18
  
• Eugene Agichtein, Eric Brill, Susan T. Dumais:
  Improving web search ranking by incorporating user behavior information. 19-26
  

Handling messages and finding experts

• Einat Minkov, William W. Cohen, Andrew Y. Ng:
  Contextual search and name disambiguation in email using graphs. 27-34
  
• Dou Shen, Qiang Yang, Jian-Tao Sun, Zheng Chen:
  Thread detection in dynamic text message streams. 35-42
  
• Krisztian Balog, Leif Azzopardi, Maarten de Rijke:
  Formal models for expert finding in enterprise corpora. 43-50
  

Speech and music

• Jonathan Mamou, David Carmel, Ron Hoory:
  Spoken document retrieval from call-center conversations. 51-58
  
• Jialie Shen, Bin Cui, John Shepherd, Kian-Lee Tan:
  Towards efficient automated singer identification in large music databases. 59-66
  
• Namunu Chinthaka Maddage, Haizhou Li, Mohan S. Kankanhalli:
  Music structure based vector space retrieval. 67-74
  

Web 1 - exploiting graph structure

• Guang Feng, Tie-Yan Liu, Ying Wang, Ying Bao, Zhiming Ma, Xu-Dong Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma:
  AggregateRank: bringing order to web sites. 75-82
  
• Oren Kurland, Lillian Lee:
  Respect my authority!: HITS without hyperlinks, utilizing cluster-based language models. 83-90
  
• Lan Nie, Brian D. Davison, Xiaoguang Qi:
  Topical link analysis for web search. 91-98
  

Semantics

• Jimmy J. Lin, Dina Demner-Fushman:
  The role of knowledge in conceptual retrieval: a study in the domain of clinical medicine. 99-106
  
• Thomas Rölleke, Jun Wang:
  A parallel derivation of probabilistic information retrieval models. 107-114
  
• Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai:
  Semantic term matching in axiomatic approaches to information retrieval. 115-122
  

Fusion and spam

• Thomas R. Lynam, Gordon V. Cormack, David R. Cheriton:
  On-line spam filter fusion. 123-130
  
• Dou Shen, Jian-Tao Sun, Qiang Yang, Zheng Chen:
  Building bridges for web query classification. 131-138
  
• David Lillis, Fergus Toolan, Rem W. Collier, John Dunnion:
  ProbFuse: a probabilistic approach to data fusion. 139-146
  

Relevance feedback

• Sergei Vassilvitskii, Eric Brill:
  Using web-graph distance for relevance feedback in web search. 147-153
  
• Fernando Diaz, Donald Metzler:
  Improving the estimation of relevance models using large external corpora. 154-161
  
• Tao Tao, ChengXiang Zhai:
  Regularized estimation of mixture models for robust pseudo-relevance feedback. 162-169
  

Formal models

• Xiaohua Zhou, Xiaohua Hu, Xiaodan Zhang, Xia Lin, Il-Yeol Song:
  Context-sensitive semantic smoothing for the language modeling approach to genomic IR. 170-177
  
• Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft:
  LDA-based document models for ad-hoc retrieval. 178-185
  
• Yunbo Cao, Jun Xu, Tie-Yan Liu, Hang Li, Yalou Huang, Hsiao-Wuen Hon:
  Adapting ranking SVM to document retrieval. 186-193
  

Cross language

• Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie:
  A study of statistical models for query translation: finding a good unit of translation. 194-201
  
• Jianqiang Wang, Douglas W. Oard:
  Combining bidirectional translation and synonymy for cross-language information retrieval. 202-209
  
• Jon M. Kleinberg:
  Social networks, incentives, and search. 210-211
  

Question and answering

• Kyoung-Soo Han, Young-In Song, Hae-Chang Rim:
  Probabilistic model for definitional question answering. 212-219
  
• Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hickl:
  Answering complex questions with random walk models. 220-227
  
• Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft, Joon Ho Lee, Soyeon Park:
  A framework to predict the quality of answers with non-textual features. 228-235
  

Machine learning

• Xuanhui Wang, Jian-Tao Sun, Zheng Chen, ChengXiang Zhai:
  Latent semantic analysis for multiple-type interrelated data objects. 236-243
  
• Nitin Jindal, Bing Liu:
  Identifying comparative sentences in text documents. 244-251
  
• George Forman:
  Tackling concept drift by temporal inductive transfer. 252-259
  

Evaluation 1 - user models and test collections

• Benjamin Piwowarski, Georges Dupret:
  Evaluation in (XML) information retrieval: expected precision-recall with user modelling (EPRUM). 260-267
  
• Ben Carterette, James Allan, Ramesh K. Sitaraman:
  Minimal test collections for retrieval evaluation. 268-275
  
• Ian Soboroff:
  Dynamic test collections: measuring search effectiveness on the live web. 276-283
  

Web 2

• Monika Rauch Henzinger:
  Finding near-duplicate web pages: a large-scale evaluation of algorithms. 284-291
  
• Márcio L. A. Vidal, Altigran Soares da Silva, Edleno Silva de Moura, João M. B. Cavalcanti:
  Structure-driven crawler generation by example. 292-299
  
• Gu Xu, Wei-Ying Ma:
  Building implicit links from content for forum search. 300-307
  
• Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Paolo Boldi, Carlos Castillo:
  Generalizing PageRank: damping functions for link-based ranking algorithms. 308-315
  

Distributed IR

• Milad Shokouhi, Justin Zobel, Falk Scholer, Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi:
  Capturing collection size for distributed non-cooperative retrieval. 316-323
  
• Rong Yan, Alexander G. Hauptmann:
  Probabilistic latent query analysis for combining multiple retrieval sources. 324-331
  
• Jie Lu, James P. Callan:
  User modeling for full-text federated search in peer-to-peer networks. 332-339
  
• James Caverlee, Ling Liu, Joonsoo Bae:
  Distributed query sampling: a quality-conscious approach. 340-347
  

Efficiency

• Alistair Moffat, William Webber, Justin Zobel:
  Load balancing for term-distributed parallel retrieval. 348-355
  
• Stefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, Brad Lushman:
  Hybrid index maintenance for growing text collections. 356-363
  
• Holger Bast, Ingmar Weber:
  Type less, find more: fast autocompletion search with a succinct index. 364-371
  
• Vo Ngoc Anh, Alistair Moffat:
  Pruned query evaluation using pre-computed impacts. 372-379
  
• Radha Radhakrishnan:
  Information retrieval at Boeing: plans and successes. 380-381
  

Queries

• Renxu Sun, Chai-Huat Ong, Tat-Seng Chua:
  Mining dependency relations for query expansion in passage retrieval. 382-389
  
• David Carmel, Elad Yom-Tov, Adam Darlow, Dan Pelleg:
  What makes a query difficult? 390-397
  
• Vishwa Vinay, Ingemar J. Cox, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Kenneth R. Wood:
  On ranking the effectiveness of searches. 398-404
  

Clustering

• Xiang Ji, Wei Xu:
  Document clustering with prior knowledge. 405-412
  
• Yifen Huang, Tom M. Mitchell:
  Text clustering with extended user feedback. 413-420
  
• Hui Yang, James P. Callan:
  Near-duplicate detection by instance-level constrained clustering. 421-428
  

The first page of results

• Harr Chen, David R. Karger:
  Less is more: probabilistic models for retrieving fewer relevant documents. 429-436
  
• Irina Matveeva, Chris Burges, Timo Burkard, Andy Laucius, Leon Wong:
  High accuracy retrieval with multiple nested ranker. 437-444
  
• Jennifer Chu-Carroll, John M. Prager, Krzysztof Czuba, David A. Ferrucci, Pablo Ariel Duboué:
  Semantic search via XML fragments: a high-precision approach to IR. 445-452
  

Users: clarification, feedback, and browsing

• Diane Kelly, Xin Fu:
  Elicitation of term relevance feedback: an investigation of term source and context. 453-460
  
• Mark D. Smucker, James Allan:
  Find-similar: similarity browsing as a search tool. 461-468
  
• Jimmy J. Lin, Philip Wu, Dina Demner-Fushman, Eileen G. Abels:
  Exploring the limits of single-iteration clarification dialogs. 469-476
  

Classification and machine learning

• Vikas Sindhwani, S. Sathiya Keerthi:
  Large scale semi-supervised linear SVMs. 477-484
  
• Ralitsa Angelova, Gerhard Weikum:
  Graph-based text classification: learn from your neighbors. 485-492
  
• Aynur A. Dayanik, David D. Lewis, David Madigan, Vladimir Menkov, Alexander Genkin:
  Constructing informative prior distributions from domain knowledge in text classification. 493-500
  

Recommendation: use and abuse

• Jun Wang, Arjen P. de Vries, Marcel J. T. Reinders:
  Unifying user-based and item-based collaborative filtering approaches by similarity fusion. 501-508
  
• Xiaodan Song, Belle L. Tseng, Ching-Yung Lin, Ming-Ting Sun:
  Personalized recommendation driven by information flow. 509-516
  
• Sheng Zhang, Yi Ouyang, James Ford, Fillia Makedon:
  Analysis of a low-dimensional linear model under recommendation attacks. 517-524
  

Evaluation 2

• Tetsuya Sakai:
  Evaluating evaluation metrics based on the bootstrap. 525-532
  
• Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam:
  Statistical precision of information retrieval evaluation. 533-540
  
• Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu, Emine Yilmaz:
  A statistical method for system evaluation using incomplete judgments. 541-548
  

Web IR: current topics

• Anísio Lacerda, Marco Cristo, Marcos André Gonçalves, Weiguo Fan, Nivio Ziviani, Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto:
  Learning to advertise. 549-556
  
• Yunyao Li, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, H. V. Jagadish:
  Getting work done on the web: supporting transactional queries. 557-564
  
• Dan Frankowski, Dan Cosley, Shilad Sen, Loren G. Terveen, John Riedl:
  You are what you say: privacy risks of public mentions. 565-572
  

Summarization: multidocuments and new applications

• Ani Nenkova, Lucy Vanderwende, Kathleen McKeown:
  A compositional context sensitive multi-document summarizer: exploring the factors that influence summarization. 573-580
  
• Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer, Seniz Demir:
  Information graphics: an untapped resource for digital libraries. 581-588
  
• Jahna Otterbacher, Dragomir R. Radev, Omer Kareem:
  News to go: hierarchical text summarization for mobile devices. 589-596
  

Posters

• Omar Alonso, Michael Gertz:
  Clustering of search results using temporal attributes. 597-598
  
• Shlomo Argamon, Gady Agam, Ophir Frieder, David A. Grossman, David D. Lewis, G. Sohn, Ellen M. Voorhees:
  A complex document information processing prototype. 599-600
  
• Javed A. Aslam, Emine Yilmaz:
  Inferring document relevance via average precision. 601-602
  
• Leif Azzopardi, Maarten de Rijke:
  Automatic construction of known-item finding test beds. 603-604
  
• Leif Azzopardi, Mark Baillie, Fabio Crestani:
  Adaptive query-based sampling for distributed IR. 605-606
  
• Mark Baillie, Fabio Crestani, Monica Landoni:
  PENG: integrated search of distributed news archives. 607-608
  
• Mark Baillie, Ian Ruthven:
  Examining assessor attributes at HARD 2005. 609-610
  
• Stamatina Betsi, Mounia Lalmas, Anastasios Tombros, Theodora Tsikrika:
  User expectations from XML element retrieval. 611-612
  
• Tobias Blanke, Mounia Lalmas:
  Theoretical benchmarks of XML retrieval. 613-614
  
• Phil Blunsom, Krystle Kocik, James R. Curran:
  Question classification with log-linear models. 615-616
  
• Oisín Boydell, Barry Smyth:
  Community-based snippet-indexes for pseudo-anonymous personalization in web search. 617-618
  
• Chris Buckley, Darrin Dimmick, Ian Soboroff, Ellen M. Voorhees:
  Bias and the limits of pooling. 619-620
  
• Stefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, Brad Lushman:
  Term proximity scoring for ad-hoc retrieval on very large text collections. 621-622
  
• Nikolai Buzikashvili:
  An exploratory web log study of multitasking. 623-624
  
• Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Jiawei Han:
  Tensor space model for document analysis. 625-626
  
• Fazli Can, Seyit Kocberber, Erman Balcik, Cihan Kaynak, Huseyin Cagdas Ocalan, Onur M. Vursavas:
  First large-scale information retrieval experiments on turkish texts. 627-628
  
• Ben Carterette, Desislava Petkova:
  Learning a ranking from pairwise preferences. 629-630
  
• Joyce Y. Chai, Tyler Baldwin, Chen Zhang:
  Automated performance assessment in interactive QA. 631-632
  
• Paul J. Chase, Shlomo Argamon:
  Stylistic text segmentation. 633-634
  
• Ing-Xiang Chen, Jui-Chi Ho, Cheng-Zen Yang:
  On hierarchical web catalog integration with conceptual relationships in thesaurus. 635-636
  
• Jan De Beer, Marie-Francine Moens:
  Rpref: a generalization of Bpref towards graded relevance judgments. 637-638
  
• Qian Diao, Jiulong Shan:
  A new web page summarization method. 639-640
  
• Chris H. Q. Ding, Tao Li, Wei Peng:
  NMF and PLSI: equivalence and a hybrid algorithm. 641-642
  
• Miriam Fernández, David Vallet, Pablo Castells:
  Using historical data to enhance rank aggregation. 643-644
  
• Luanne Freund, Elaine G. Toms:
  Enterprise search behaviour of software engineers. 645-646
  
• Xin Fu, Diane Kelly:
  Evaluating sources of query expansion terms. 647-648
  
• Daqing He, Yefei Peng:
  Comparing two blind relevance feedback techniques. 649-650
  
• Ming-Hung Hsu, Hsin-Hsi Chen:
  Information retrieval with commonsense knowledge. 651-652
  
• Ruizhang Huang, Zhigang Zhang, Wai Lam:
  Refining hierarchical taxonomy structure via semi-supervised learning. 653-654
  
• Xiangyu Jin, James C. French, Jonathan Michel:
  Quantative analysis of the impact of judging inconsistency on the performance of relevance feedback. 655-656
  
• Chris Jordan, John Healy, Vlado Keselj:
  Swordfish: an unsupervised Ngram based approach to morphological analysis. 657-658
  
• Moshe Koppel, Jonathan Schler, Shlomo Argamon, Eran Messeri:
  Authorship attribution with thousands of candidate authors. 659-660
  
• Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan:
  Simple questions to improve pseudo-relevance feedback results. 661-662
  
• Birger Larsen, Anastasios Tombros, Saadia Malik:
  Is XML retrieval meaningful to users?: searcher preferences for full documents vs. elements. 663-664
  
• David D. Lewis, Gady Agam, Shlomo Argamon, Ophir Frieder, David A. Grossman, Jefferson Heard:
  Building a test collection for complex document information processing. 665-666
  
• Baoli Li, Wenjie Li, Qin Lu:
  Enhancing topic tracking with temporal information. 667-668
  
• Yuelin Li, Xiangmin Zhang, Ying Zhang, Jingjing Liu:
  A comparative study of the effect of search feature design on user experience in digital libraries (DLs). 669-670
  
• Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft:
  Representing clusters for retrieval. 671-672
  
• Baolong Liu, Douglas W. Oard:
  One-sided measures for evaluating ranked retrieval effectiveness with spontaneous conversational speech. 673-674
  
• Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis:
  Combining fields in known-item email search. 675-676
  
• James Mayfield, Paul McNamee:
  Improving QA retrieval using document priors. 677-678
  
• Xiangming Mu:
  Content-based video retrieval: does video's semantic visual feature matter? 679-680
  
• G. Craig Murray, Jimmy J. Lin, Abdur Chowdhury:
  Action modeling: language models that predict query behavior. 681-682
  
• Ryosuke Nagura, Yohei Seki, Noriko Kando, Masaki Aono:
  A method of rating the credibility of news documents on the web. 683-684
  
• J. Scott Olsson:
  An analysis of the coupling between training set and neighborhood sizes for the kNN classifier. 685-686
  
• Jahna Otterbacher, Dragomir R. Radev:
  Fact-focused novelty detection: a feasibility study. 687-688
  
• Jignashu Parikh, Shyam Kapur:
  Unity: relevance feedback using user query logs. 689-690
  
• Filip Radlinski, Susan T. Dumais:
  Improving personalized web search using result diversification. 691-692
  
• Georgina Ramírez, Thijs Westerveld, Arjen P. de Vries:
  Using small XML elements to support relevance. 693-694
  
• Tetsuya Sakai:
  Give me just one highly relevant document: P-measure. 695-696
  
• Xavier Sevillano, Germán Cobo, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró:
  Feature diversity in cluster ensembles for robust document clustering. 697-698
  
• Mark D. Smucker, James Allan:
  Lightening the load of document smoothing for better language modeling retrieval. 699-700
  
• Sterling Stuart Stein, Shlomo Argamon, Ophir Frieder:
  The effect of OCR errors on stylistic text classification. 701-702
  
• Jaime Teevan, Eytan Adar, Rosie Jones, Michael A. S. Potts:
  History repeats itself: repeat queries in Yahoo's logs. 703-704
  
• Stephen Tomlinson:
  Early precision measures: implications from the downside of blind feedback. 705-706
  
• Pucktada Treeratpituk, James P. Callan:
  An experimental study on automatically labeling hierarchical clusters using statistical features. 707-708
  
• Andrew Trotman, Mounia Lalmas:
  Strict and vague interpretation of XML-retrieval queries. 709-710
  
• Andrew Trotman, Mounia Lalmas:
  Why structural hints in queries do not help XML-retrieval. 711-712
  
• Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Tao Li:
  Searching the web using composed pages. 713-714
  
• Ryen W. White, Gary Marchionini:
  A study of real-time query expansion effectiveness. 715-716
  
• Ming Wu, Rong Jin:
  A graph-based framework for relation propagation and its application to multi-label learning. 717-718
  
• Christopher C. Yang, Nan Liu:
  Measuring similarity of semi-structured documents with context weights. 719-720
  
• Hongyuan Zha, Zhaohui Zheng, Haoying Fu, Gordon Sun:
  Incorporating query difference for learning retrieval functions in information retrieval. 721-722
  
• Ming Zhong, Xiangji Huang:
  Concept-based biomedical text retrieval. 723-724
  

Demos

• Henk Ernst Blok, Vojkan Mihajlovic, Georgina Ramírez, Thijs Westerveld, Djoerd Hiemstra, Arjen P. de Vries:
  The TIJAH XML information retrieval system. 725
  
• Chufeng Chen, Michael P. Oakes, John Tait:
  A location annotation system for personal photos. 726
  
• Navendu Garg, Kenneth Bloom, Shlomo Argamon:
  Appraisal navigator. 727
  
• Xiangji Huang, Miao Wen, Aijun An, Yan Rui Huang:
  A platform for Okapi-based contextual information retrieval. 728
  
• William Jones, Harry Bruce, Austin Foxley:
  Project contexts to situate personal information. 729
  
• Ray R. Larson, Robert Sanderson:
  Cheshire3: retrieving from tera-scale grid-based digital libraries. 730
  
• Haobin Li, Davood Rafiei:
  DeWild: a tool for searching the web using wild cards. 731
  
• Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis:
  Searching for expertise using the terrier platform. 732
  
• Ming Mao, Yefei Peng, Daqing He:
  DiLight: an ontology-based information access system for e-learning environments. 733
  
• Xiangming Mu:
  Supporting semantic visual feature browsing in contentbased video retrieval. 734
  
• Rajesh Munavalli, Robert Miner:
  MathFind: a math-aware search engine. 735