This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second Information Retrieval Facility Conference, IRFC 2011, held in Vienna, Austria, in June 2011. The 10 papers presented together with a keynote talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 high-quality submissions. IRF conferences wish to bring young researchers into contact with industry at an early stage. The second conference aimed to tackle four complementary research areas: information retrieval, semantic web technologies for IR, natural language processing for IR, and large-scale or distributed computing for the above areas. The papers are organized into topical sections on patents and multilinguality, interactive retrieval support, and IR and the Net.
Keynote
Adapting Rankers Online Katja Hofmann Shimon Whiteson Maarten de Rijke 1
Patents and Multilinguality
Building Queries for Prior-Art Search Parvaz Mahdabi Mostafa Keikha Shima Gerani Monica Landoni Fabio Crestani 3
Expanding Queries with Term and Phrase Translations in Patent Retrieval Charles Jochim Christina Lioma Hinrich Schütze 16
Supporting Arabic Cross-Lingual Retrieval Using Contextual Information Farag Ahmed Andreas Nürnberger Marcus Nitsche 30
Interactive Retrieval Support
Combining Interaction and Content for Feedback-Based Ranking Emanuele Di Buccio Massimo Melucci Dawei Song 46
Query Expansion for Language Modeling Using Sentence Similarities Debasis Ganguly Johannes Leveling Gareth J.F. Jones 62
Word Clouds of Multiple Search Results Rianne Kaptein Jaap Kamps 78
IR and the Net
Free-Text Search over Complex Web Forms Kien Tjin-Kam-Jet Dolf Trieschnigg Djoerd Hiemstra 94
Multilingual Document Clustering Using Wikipedia as External Knowledge Kiran Kumar N. Santosh G.S.K. Vasudeva Varma 108
Applying Web Usage Mining for Adaptive Intranet Navigation Sharhida Zawani Saad Udo Kruschwitz 118
Search Result Caching in Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval Networks Almer S. Tigelaar Djoerd Hiemstra Dolf Trieschnigg 134
Author Index 149
Overview
This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second Information Retrieval Facility Conference, IRFC 2011, held in Vienna, Austria, in June 2011. The 10 papers presented together with a keynote talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 high-quality submissions. IRF conferences wish to bring young researchers into contact with industry at an early stage. The second conference aimed to tackle four complementary research areas: information retrieval, semantic web technologies for IR, natural language ...