Advances in Information Retrieval: 32nd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2010, Milton Keynes, UK, March 28-31, 2010. Proceedings / Edition 1

Recent Developments in Information Retrieval.- Recent Developments in Information Retrieval.- Invited Talks.- Web Search Futures: Personal, Collaborative, Social.- IR, NLP, and Visualization.- Image and Natural Language Processing for Multimedia Information Retrieval.- Regular Papers.- A Language Modeling Approach for Temporal Information Needs.- Analyzing Information Retrieval Methods to Recover Broken Web Links.- Between Bags and Trees – Constructional Patterns in Text Used for Attitude Identification.- Improving Medical Information Retrieval with PICO Element Detection.- The Role of Query Sessions in Extracting Instance Attributes from Web Search Queries.- Transliteration Equivalence Using Canonical Correlation Analysis.- Explicit Search Result Diversification through Sub-queries.- Interpreting User Inactivity on Search Results.- Learning to Select a Ranking Function.- Mining Anchor Text Trends for Retrieval.- Predicting Query Performance via Classification.- A Case for Automatic System Evaluation.- Aggregation of Multiple Judgments for Evaluating Ordered Lists.- Evaluation and User Preference Study on Spatial Diversity.- News Comments:Exploring, Modeling, and Online Prediction.- Query Performance Prediction: Evaluation Contrasted with Effectiveness.- A Framework for Evaluating Automatic Image Annotation Algorithms.- BASIL: Effective Near-Duplicate Image Detection Using Gene Sequence Alignment.- Beyond Shot Retrieval: Searching for Broadcast News Items Using Language Models of Concepts.- Ranking Fusion Methods Applied to On-Line Handwriting Information Retrieval.- Improving Query Correctness Using Centralized Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) Search.- Learning to Distribute Queries into Web Search Nodes.- Text Clustering for Peer-to-Peer Networks with Probabilistic Guarantees.- XML Retrieval Using Pruned Element-Index Files.- Category-Based Query Modeling for Entity Search.- Maximum Margin Ranking Algorithms for Information Retrieval.- Query Aspect Based Term Weighting Regularization in Information Retrieval.- Using the Quantum Probability Ranking Principle to Rank Interdependent Documents.- Wikipedia-Based Semantic Smoothing for the Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval.- A Performance Prediction Approach to Enhance Collaborative Filtering Performance.- Collaborative Filtering: The Aim of Recommender Systems and the Significance of User Ratings.- Goal-Driven Collaborative Filtering – A Directional Error Based Approach.- Personalizing Web Search with Folksonomy-Based User and Document Profiles.- Tripartite Hidden Topic Models for Personalised Tag Suggestion.- Extracting Multilingual Topics from Unaligned Comparable Corpora.- Improving Retrievability of Patents in Prior-Art Search.- Mining OOV Translations from Mixed-Language Web Pages for Cross Language Information Retrieval.- On Foreign Name Search.- Promoting Ranking Diversity for Biomedical Information Retrieval Using Wikipedia.- Temporal Shingling for Version Identification in Web Archives.- Biometric Response as a Source of Query Independent Scoring in Lifelog Retrieval.- Enabling Interactive Query Expansion through Eliciting the Potential Effect of Expansion Terms.- Evaluation of an Adaptive Search Suggestion System.- How Different Are Language Models andWord Clouds?.- Posters.- Colouring the Dimensions of Relevance.- On Improving Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Using Pseudo-Irrelevant Documents.- Laplacian Co-hashing of Terms and Documents.- Query Difficulty Prediction for Contextual Image Retrieval.- Estimating Translation Probabilities from the Web for Structured Queries on CLIR.- Using Weighted Tagging to Facilitate Enterprise Search.- An Empirical Study of Query Specificity.- Semantically Enhanced Term Frequency.- Crowdsourcing Assessments for XML Ranked Retrieval.- Evaluating Server Selection for Federated Search.- A Comparison of Language Identification Approaches on Short, Query-Style Texts.- Filtering Documents with Subspaces.- User’s Latent Interest-Based Collaborative Filtering.- Evaluating the Potential of Explicit Phrases for Retrieval Quality.- Developing a Test Collection for the Evaluation of Integrated Search.- Retrieving Customary Web Language to Assist Writers.- Enriching Peer-to-Peer File Descriptors Using Association Rules on Query Logs.- Cross-Language High Similarity Search: Why No Sub-linear Time Bound Can Be Expected.- Exploiting Result Consistency to Select Query Expansions for Spoken Content Retrieval.- Statistics of Online User-Generated Short Documents.- Mining Neighbors’ Topicality to Better Control Authority Flow.- Finding Wormholes with Flickr Geotags.- Enhancing N-Gram-Based Summary Evaluation Using Information Content and a Taxonomy.- Demos.- NEAT: News Exploration Along Time.- Opinion Summarization of Web Comments.- EUROGENE: Multilingual Retrieval and Machine Translation Applied to Human Genetics.- Netspeak—Assisting Writers in Choosing Words.- A Data Analysis and Modelling Framework for the Evaluation of Interactive Information Retrieval.