17. SIGIR 1994: Dublin, Ireland

@proceedings{DBLP:conf/sigir/94,
  editor    = {W. Bruce Croft and
               C. J. van Rijsbergen},
  title     = {Proceedings of the 17th Annual International ACM-SIGIR Conference
               on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Dublin,
               Ireland, 3-6 July 1994 (Special Issue of the SIGIR Forum)},
  publisher = {ACM/Springer},
  year      = {1994},
  isbn      = {3-540-19889-X},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Text Categorisation

• David D. Lewis, William A. Gale:
  A Sequential Algorithm for Training Text Classifiers. 3-12
  
• Yiming Yang:
  Expert Network: Effective and Efficient Learning from Human Decisions in Text Categorization and Retrieval. 13-22
  
• Chidanand Apté, Fred Damerau, Sholom M. Weiss:
  Towards Language Independent Automated Learning of Text Categorisation Models. 23-30
  
• Rainer Hoch:
  Using IR Techniques for Text Classification in Document Analysis. 31-40
  

Indexing

• Chris D. Paice:
  An Evaluation Method for Stemming Algorithms. 42-50
  
• David Ellis, Jonathan Furner-Hines, Peter Willett:
  On the Measurement of Inter-Linker Consistency and Retrieval Effectiveness in Hypertext Databases. 51-60
  
• Ellen M. Voorhees:
  Query Expansion Using Lexical-Semantic Relations. 61-69
  

User Modelling

• Bryce Allen:
  Perceptual Speed, Learning and Information Retrieval Performance. 71-80
  
• Amanda Spink:
  Term Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion: Relation to Design. 81-90
  
• Brian Logan, Steven Reece, Karen Sparck Jones:
  Modelling Information Retrieval Agents with Belief Revision. 91-100
  
• Peter Ingwersen:
  Polyrepresentation of Information Needs and Semantic Entities: Elements of a Cognitive Theory for Information Retrieval Interaction. 101-110
  

Theory and Logic

• Peter Bruza, T. W. C. Huibers:
  Investigating Aboutness Axioms using Information Fields. 112-121
  
• Fabrizio Sebastiani:
  A Probabilistic Terminological Logic for Modelling Information Retrieval. 122-130
  

Natural Language Processing

• Christian Jacquemin, Jean Royauté:
  Retrieving Terms and their Variants in a Lexicalised Unification-Based Framework. 132-141
  
• Mark Sanderson:
  Word Sense Disambiguation and Information Retrieval. 142-151
  
• Seiji Miike, Etsuo Itoh, Kenji Ono, Kazuo Sumita:
  A Full-Text Retrieval System with a Dynamic Abstract Generation Function. 152-161
  

Statistical Models

• IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg:
  A Document Retrieval Model Based on Term Frequency Ranks. 163-172
  
• Brian T. Bartell, Garrison W. Cottrell, Richard K. Belew:
  Automatic Combination of Multiple Ranked Retrieval Systems. 173-181
  
• Joon Ho Lee:
  Properties of Extended Boolean Models in Information Retrieval. 182-190
  

Performance Evaluation

• William R. Hersh, Chris Buckley, T. J. Leone, David H. Hickam:
  OHSUMED: An Interactive Retrieval Evaluation and New Large Test Collection for Research. 192-201
  
• Kazem Taghva, Julie Borsack, Allen Condit:
  Results of Applying Probabilistic IR to OCR Text. 202-211
  
• Howard R. Turtle:
  Natural Language vs. Boolean Query Evaluation: A Comparison of Retrieval Performance. 212-220
  

Probabilistic Models

• Fredric C. Gey:
  Inferring Probability of Relevance Using the Method of Logistic Regression. 222-231
  
• Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker:
  Some Simple Effective Approximations to the 2-Poisson Model for Probabilistic Weighted Retrieval. 232-241
  
• William S. Cooper:
  The Formalism of Probability Theory in IR: A Foundation for An Encumbrance? 242-247
  

Interfaces

• Matthias Hemmje, Clemens Kunkel, Alexander Willett:
  LyberWorld - A Visualization User Interface Supporting Fulltext Retrieval. 249-259
  
• Jack G. Conrad, Mary Hunter Utt:
  A System for Discovering Relationships by Feature Extraction from Text Databases. 260-270
  

Routing

• Masahiro Morita, Yoichi Shinoda:
  Information Filtering Based on User Behaviour Analysis and Best Match Text Retrieval. 272-281
  
• David A. Hull:
  Improving Text Retrieval for the Routing Problem using Latent Semantic Indexing. 282-291
  
• Chris Buckley, Gerard Salton, James Allan:
  The Effect of Adding Relevance Information in a Relevance Feedback Environment. 292-300
  

Passage Retrieval

• James P. Callan:
  Passage-Level Evidence in Document Retrieval. 302-310
  
• Ross Wilkinson:
  Effective Retrieval of Structured Documents. 311-317
  
• Elke Mittendorf, Peter Schäuble:
  Document and Passage Retrieval Based on Hidden Markov Models. 318-327
  

Implementation

• Kurt A. Shoens, Anthony Tomasic, Hector Garcia-Molina:
  Synthetic Workload Performance Analysis of Incremental Updates. 329-338
  
• Michael Persin:
  Document Filtering for Fast Ranking. 339-348
  
• Peter G. Anick:
  Adapting a Full-text Information Retrieval System to the Computer Troubleshooting Domain. 349-358
  

Panel on Integration of Information Retrieval and Database Systems

Panel on Evaluating Interactive Retrieval Systems

• Nicholas J. Belkin, Christine L. Borgman, Susan T. Dumais, Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu:
  Evaluating Interactive Retrieval Systems. 361