This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2004, held in Sunderland, UK, in April 2004.
The 28 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on user studies, question answering, information models, classification, summarization, image retrieval, evaluation issues, cross-language IR, and web-based and XML IR.
Keynote Papers.- From Information Retrieval to Information Interaction.- IR and AI: Traditions of Representation and Anti-representation in Information Processing.- User Studies.- A User-Centered Approach to Evaluating Topic Models.- A Study of User Interaction with a Concept-Based Interactive Query Expansion Support Tool.- Searcher’s Assessments of Task Complexity for Web Searching.- Question Answering.- Evaluating Passage Retrieval Approaches for Question Answering.- Identification of Relevant and Novel Sentences Using Reference Corpus.- Answer Selection in a Multi-stream Open Domain Question Answering System.- Information Models.- A Bidimensional View of Documents for Text Categorisation.- Query Difficulty, Robustness, and Selective Application of Query Expansion.- Combining CORI and the Decision-Theoretic Approach for Advanced Resource Selection.- Predictive Top-Down Knowledge Improves Neural Exploratory Bottom-Up Clustering.- Classification.- Contextual Document Clustering.- Complex Linguistic Features for Text Classification: A Comprehensive Study.- Eliminating High-Degree Biased Character Bigrams for Dimensionality Reduction in Chinese Text Categorization.- Summarization.- Broadcast News Gisting Using Lexical Cohesion Analysis.- From Text Summarisation to Style-Specific Summarisation for Broadcast News.- Image Retrieval.- Relevance Feedback for Cross Language Image Retrieval.- NN k Networks for Content-Based Image Retrieval.- Integrating Perceptual Signal Features within a Multi-facetted Conceptual Model for Automatic Image Retrieval.- Evaluation Issues.- Improving Retrieval Effectiveness by Reranking Documents Based on Controlled Vocabulary.- A Study of the Assessment of Relevance for the INEX’02 Test Collection.- A Simulated Study of Implicit Feedback Models.- Cross Language IR.- Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using EuroWordNet and Word Sense Disambiguation.- Fault-Tolerant Fulltext Information Retrieval in Digital Multilingual Encyclopedias with Weighted Pattern Morphing.- Measuring a Cross Language Image Retrieval System.- Web-Based and XML IR.- An Optimistic Model for Searching Web Directories.- Content-Aware DataGuides: Interleaving IR and DB Indexing Techniques for Efficient Retrieval of Textual XML Data.- Performance Analysis of Distributed Architectures to Index One Terabyte of Text.- Applying the Divergence from Randomness Approach for Content-Only Search in XML Documents.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2004, held in Sunderland, UK, in April 2004.
The 28 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on user studies, question answering, information models, classification, summarization, image retrieval, ...