Advances in Information Retrieval: 25th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2003, Pisa, Italy, April 14-16, 2003, Proceedings / Edition 1

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Overview

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2003, held in Pisa, Italy, in April 2003.

The 31 revised full papers and 16 short papers presented together with two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on IR and the Web; retrieval of structured documents; collaborative filtering and text mining; text representation and natural language processing; formal models and language models for IR; machine learning and IR; text categorization; usability, interactivity, and visualization; and architectural issues and efficiency.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9783540012740
  • Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
  • Publication date: 7/29/2003
  • Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series , #2633
  • Edition description: 2003
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 624
  • Product dimensions: 9.21 (w) x 6.14 (h) x 1.37 (d)

Table of Contents

Document Retrieval: Shallow Data, Deep Theories; Historical Reflections, Potential Directions 1
Annotation and Retrieval of Structured Video Documents 12
Improving the Evaluation of Web Search Systems 25
When Are Links Useful? Experiements in Text Classification 41
Hierarchical Classification of HTML Documents with WebClassII 57
Hierarchical Indexing and Flexible Element Retrieval for Structured Document 73
Construction of a Test Collection for the Focussed Retrieval of Structured Documents 88
User Behaviour in the Context of Structured Documents 104
Attaining Fast and Successful Searches in E-commerce Environments 120
Learning User Similarity and Rating Style for Collaborative Recommendation 135
Spoken Information Extraction from Italian Broadcast News 146
Taming Wild Phrases 161
Stemming and Decompounding for German Text Retrieval 177
Question Answering System for Incomplete and Noisy Data: Methods and Measures for Its Evaluation 193
Term Proximity Scoring for Keyword-Based Retrieval Systems 207
Propositional Logic Representations for Documents and Queries: A Large-Scale Evaluation 219
From Uncertain Inferecne to Probability of Relevance for Advanced IR Applications 235
Topic Detection and Tracking with Spatio-Temporal Evidence 251
Clustering and Visualization in a Multi-lingual Multi-document Summarization System 266
A Hybrid Relevance-Feedback Approach to Text Retrieval 281
Experiments with Document Archive Size Detection 294
Using Kullback-Leibler Distance for Text Categorization 305
Discretizing Continuous Attributes in AdaBoost for Text Categorization 320
Combining Naive Bayes and n-Gram Language Models for Text Classification 335
WebDocBall: A Graphical Visualization Tool for Web Search Results 351
Relevance Feedback for Content-Based Image Retrieval: What Can Three Mouse Clicks Achieve? 363
Query-Based Document Skimming: A User-Centred Evaluation of Relevance Profiling 377
Representative Sampling for Text Classification Using Support Vector Machines 393
Chinese Text Categorization Based on the Binary Weighting Model with Non-binary Smoothing 408
A Study on Optimal Parameter Tuning for Rocchio Text Classifier 420
Optimization of Restricted Searches in Web Directories Using Hybrid Data Structures 436
Similarity Join in Metric Spaces 452
An Efficient Compression Code for Text Databases 468
A Personalized Information Search Process Based on Dialoguing Agents and User Profiling 613
Author Index 623
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