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

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Pub. Date: 2003-10-01
Publisher(s): Springer Verlag
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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