Advances in Information Retrieval

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Pub. Date: 2012-03-10
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Summary

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 34th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2012, held in Barcelona, Spain, in April 2012. The 37 full papers, 28 poster papers and 7 demonstrations presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 submissions. The contributions are organized in sections named: query representation; blogs and online-community search; semi-structured retrieval; evaluation; applications; retrieval models; image and video retrieval; text and content classification, categorisation, clustering; systems efficiency; industry track; and posters.

Table of Contents

Query Representation
Explaining Query Modifications: An Alternative Interpretation of Term Addition and Removalp. 1
Modeling Transactional Queries via Templatesp. 13
Exploring Query Patterns in Email Searchp. 25
Interactive Search Support for Difficult Web Queriesp. 37
Blog and Online-Community Search
Predicting the Future Impact of News Eventsp. 50
Detection of News Feeds Items Appropriate for Childrenp. 63
Comparing Tweets and Tags for URLsp. 73
Geo-Location Estimation of Flicker Images: Social Web Based Enrichmentp. 85
Semi-structured Retrieval
A Field Relevance Model for Structured Document Retrievalp. 97
Relation Based Term Weighting Regularizationp. 109
A New Approach to Answer Recommendation in Community Question Answering Servicesp. 121
On the Modeling of Entities for Ad-Hoc Entity Search in the Web of Datap. 133
Result Disambiguation in Web People Searchp. 146
Evaluation
On Smoothing Average Precisionp. 158
New Metrics for Meaningful Evaluation of Informally Structured Speech Retrievalp. 170
On Aggregating Labels from Multiple Crowd Workers to Infer Relevance of Documentsp. 182
Applications
How Random Walks Can Help Tourismp. 195
Retrieving Candidate Plagiarised Documents Using Query Expansionp. 207
Reliability Prediction of Webpages in the Medical Domainp. 219
Automatic Foldering of Email Messages: A Combinations Approachp. 232
Retrieval Models
A Log-Logistic Model-Based Interpretation of TF Normalization of BM25p. 244
Score Transformation in Linear Combination for Multi-criteria Relevance Rankingp. 256
Axiomatic Analysis of Translation Language Model for Information Retrievalp. 268
An Information-Based Cross-Language Information Retrieval Modelp. 281
Extended Expectation Maximization for Inferring Score Distributionsp. 293
Top-K Retrieval Using Facility Location Analysisp. 305
Image and Video Retrieval
An Interactive Paper and Digital Pen Interface for Query-by-Sketch Image Retrievalp. 317
Image Abstraction in Crossmedia Retrieval for Text Illustrationp. 329
A Latent Variable Ranking Model for Content-Based Retrievalp. 340
Text and Content Classification, Categorisation, Clustering
Language Modelling of Constraints for Text Clusteringp. 352
A Framework for Unsupervised Spam Detection in Social Networking Sitesp. 364
Classification of Short Texts by Deploying Topical Annotationsp. 376
Cluster Labeling for Multilingual Scatter/Gather Using Comparable Corporap. 388
Systems Efficiency
Adaptive Time-to-Live Strategies for Query Result Caching in Web Search Enginesp. 401
Intra-query Concurrent Pipelined Processing for Distributed Full-Text Retrievalp. 413
Industry Track
Usefulness of Sentiment Analysisp. 426
Modeling Static Caching in Web Search Enginesp. 436
Posters
Integrating Interactive Visualizations in the Search Process of Digital Libraries and IR Systemsp. 447
On Theoretically Valid Score Distributions in Information Retrievalp. 451
Adaptive Temporal Query Modelingp. 455
The Design of a Visual History Tool to Help Users Refind Information within a Websitep. 459
Analyzing the Polarity of Opinionated Queriesp. 463
Semi-automatic Document Classification: Exploiting Document Difficultyp. 468
Investigating Summarization Techniques for Geo-Tagged Image Indexingp. 472
Handling OOV Words in Indian-language - English CLIRp. 476
Using a Medical Thesaurus to Predict Query Difficultyp. 480
Studying a Personality Coreference Network in a News Stories Photo Collectionp. 485
Phrase Pair Classification for Identifying Subtopicsp. 489
Full and Mini-batch Clustering of News Articles with Star-Emp. 494
Assessing and Predicting Vertical Intent for Web Queriesp. 499
Predicting IMDB Movie Ratings Using Social Mediap. 503
Squeezing the Ensemble Pruning: Faster and More Accurate Categorization for News Portalsp. 508
A General Framework for People Retrieval in Social Media with Multiple Rolesp. 512
Analysis of Query Reformulations in a Search Engine of a Local Web Sitep. 517
Temporal Pseudo-relevance Feedback in Microblog Retrievalp. 522
Learning Adaptive Domain Models from Click Data to Bootstrap Interactive Web Searchp. 527
A Little Interaction Can Go a Long Way: Enriching the Query Formulation Processp. 531
Learning to Rank from Relevance Feedback for e-Discoveryp. 535
When Simple is (more than) Good Enough: Effective Semantic Search with (almost) no Semanticsp. 540
Evaluating Personal Information Retrievalp. 544
Applying Power Graph Analysis to Weighted Graphsp. 548
An Investigation of Term Weighting Approaches for Microblog Retrievalp. 552
On the Size of Full Element-Indexes for XML Keyword Search Retrievalp. 556
Combining Probabilistic Language Models for Aspect-Based Sentiment Retrievalp. 561
In Praise of Laziness: A Lazy Strategy for Web Information Extractionp. 565
Demos
LiveTweet: Monitoring and Predicting Interesting Microblog Postsp. 569
A User Interface for Query-by-Sketch Based Image Retrieval with Color Sketchesp. 571
Crisees: Real-Time Monitoring of Social Media Streams to Support Crisis Managementp. 573
A Mailbox Search Enging Using Query Multi-Model Expansion and Community-Based Smoothingp. 576
EmSe: Supporting Children's Information Needs within a Hospital Environmentp. 578
Retro: Time-Based Exploration of Product Reviewsp. 581
Querium: A Session-Based Collaborative Search Systemp. 583
Author Indexp. 585
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