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26th SIGIR 2003: Toronto, Canada
- Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack, Jamie Callan, David Hawking, Alan F. Smeaton:
SIGIR 2003: Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 28 - August 1, 2003, Toronto, Canada. ACM 2003, ISBN 1-58113-646-3
Retrieval models
- Andrei Z. Broder:
Keynote Address - exploring, modeling, and using the web graph. 1 - W. Bruce Croft:
Salton Award Lecture - Information retrieval and computer science: an evolving relationship. 2-3
Retrieval models
- Hugo Zaragoza, Djoerd Hiemstra, Michael E. Tipping:
Bayesian extension to the language model for ad hoc information retrieval. 4-9 - ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John D. Lafferty:
Beyond independent relevance: methods and evaluation metrics for subtopic retrieval. 10-17 - Jaime Teevan, David R. Karger:
Empirical development of an exponential probabilistic model for text retrieval: using textual analysis to build a better model. 18-25
Question answering
- Dell Zhang, Wee Sun Lee:
Question classification using support vector machines. 26-32 - Hui Yang
, Tat-Seng Chua, Shuguang Wang, Chun-Keat Koh:
Structured use of external knowledge for event-based open domain question answering. 33-40 - Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, Aaron Fernandes, Gregory Marton:
Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering. 41-47
Web
- Zheng Chen, Shengping Liu, Liu Wenyin, Geguang Pu, Wei-Ying Ma:
Building a web thesaurus from web link structure. 48-55 - Gui-Rong Xue, Hua-Jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying Ma, HongJiang Zhang, Chao-Jun Lu:
Implicit link analysis for small web search. 56-63 - In-Ho Kang, Gil-Chang Kim:
Query type classification for web document retrieval. 64-71
Human interaction
- Susan T. Dumais, Edward Cutrell, Jonathan J. Cadiz, Gavin Jancke, Raman Sarin, Daniel C. Robbins:
Stuff I've seen: a system for personal information retrieval and re-use. 72-79 - Sharon McDonald, John Tait:
Search strategies in content-based image retrieval. 80-87 - Peter G. Anick:
Using terminological feedback for web search refinement: a log-based study. 88-95
Text categorization
- Yiming Yang, Jian Zhang, Bryan Kisiel:
A scalability analysis of classifiers in text categorization. 96-103 - Dmitry V. Khmelev, William John Teahan:
A repetition based measure for verification of text collections and for text categorization. 104-110 - Paul N. Bennett:
Using asymmetric distributions to improve text classifier probability estimates. 111-118
Multimedia information retrieval
- Jiwoon Jeon, Victor Lavrenko, R. Manmatha:
Automatic image annotation and retrieval using cross-media relevance models. 119-126 - David M. Blei, Michael I. Jordan:
Modeling annotated data. 127-134 - Thijs Westerveld, Arjen P. de Vries:
Experimental result analysis for a generative probabilistic image retrieval model. 135-142
Structured documents
- Paul Ogilvie, James P. Callan:
Combining document representations for known-item search. 143-150 - David Carmel, Yoëlle S. Maarek, Matan Mandelbrod, Yosi Mass, Aya Soffer:
Searching XML documents via XML fragments. 151-158
Text representation
- Christopher Stokoe, Michael P. Oakes
, John Tait:
Word sense disambiguation in information retrieval revisited. 159-166 - Yoshimasa Tsuruoka
, Jun'ichi Tsujii:
Probabilistic term variant generator for biomedical terms. 167-173
Text categorization
- Sheng Gao, Wen Wu, Chin-Hui Lee, Tat-Seng Chua:
A maximal figure-of-merit learning approach to text categorization. 174-181 - Lijuan Cai, Thomas Hofmann:
Text categorization by boosting automatically extracted concepts. 182-189 - Jian Zhang, Yiming Yang:
Robustness of regularized linear classification methods in text categorization. 190-197
Human interaction
- Nikolaos Nanas, Victoria S. Uren
, Anne N. De Roeck:
Building and applying a concept hierarchy representation of a user profile. 198-204 - Nicholas J. Belkin, Diane Kelly, Giyeong Kim
, Ja-Young Kim, Hyuk-Jin Lee, Gheorghe Muresan, Muh-Chyun (Morris) Tang, Xiaojun Yuan, Colleen Cool:
Query length in interactive information retrieval. 205-212 - Ian Ruthven:
Re-examining the potential effectiveness of interactive query expansion. 213-220
IR theory
- Georges Dupret:
Latent concepts and the number orthogonal factors in latent semantic analysis. 221-226 - Thomas Rölleke:
A frequency-based and a poisson-based definition of the probability of being informative. 227-234 - David Pinto, Andrew McCallum, Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft:
Table extraction using conditional random fields. 235-242
Filtering and retrieval models
- Ian Soboroff, Stephen E. Robertson:
Building a filtering test collection for TREC 2002. 243-250 - Makoto Iwayama, Atsushi Fujii, Noriko Kando, Yuzo Marukawa:
An empirical study on retrieval models for different document genres: patents and newspaper articles. 251-258 - Thomas Hofmann:
Collaborative filtering via gaussian probabilistic latent semantic analysis. 259-266
Clustering
- Wei Xu, Xin Liu, Yihong Gong:
Document clustering based on non-negative matrix factorization. 267-273 - Jidong Wang, Hua-Jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Hongjun Lu, Li Tao, Wei-Ying Ma:
ReCoM: reinforcement clustering of multi-type interrelated data objects. 274-281 - Tao Li, Mitsunori Ogihara, Qi Li:
A comparative study on content-based music genre classification. 282-289
Distributed information retrieval
- Henrik Nottelmann, Norbert Fuhr:
Evaluating different methods of estimating retrieval quality for resource selection. 290-297 - Luo Si, James P. Callan:
Relevant document distribution estimation method for resource selection. 298-305 - Mayank Bawa, Gurmeet Singh Manku, Prabhakar Raghavan:
SETS: search enhanced by topic segmentation. 306-313
Novelty and topic change
- James Allan, Courtney Wade, Alvaro Bolivar:
Retrieval and novelty detection at the sentence level. 314-321 - Xiang Ji, Hongyuan Zha:
Domain-independent text segmentation using anisotropic diffusion and dynamic programming. 322-329 - Thorsten Brants, Francine Chen:
A System for new event detection. 330-337
Cross-lingual information retrieval
- Kareem Darwish, Douglas W. Oard:
Probabilistic structured query methods. 338-344 - Ari Pirkola, Jarmo Toivonen, Heikki Keskustalo, Kari Visala, Kalervo Järvelin:
Fuzzy translation of cross-lingual spelling variants. 345-352 - Yan Qu, Gregory Grefenstette
, David A. Evans:
Automatic transliteration for Japanese-to-English text retrieval. 353-360
Posters
- Javed A. Aslam, Robert Savell:
On the effectiveness of evaluating retrieval systems in the absence of relevance judgments. 361-362 - James P. Callan, Fabio Crestani, Henrik Nottelmann, Pietro Pala, Xiao Mang Shou:
Resource selection and data fusion in multimedia distributed digital libraries. 363-364 - Paola Virga, Sanjeev Khudanpur:
Transliteration of proper names in cross-language applications. 365-366 - Brian D. Davison
:
Toward a unification of text and link analysis. 367-368 - Leif Azzopardi, Mark A. Girolami, Keith van Rijsbergen:
Investigating the relationship between language model perplexity and IR precision-recall measures. 369-370 - Ikkyu Choi, Minkoo Kim:
Topic distillation using hierarchy concept tree. 371-372 - Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury, David A. Grossman, Ophir Frieder:
Using manually-built web directories for automatic evaluation of known-item retrieval. 373-374 - Yazhong Feng, Yueting Zhuang, Yunhe Pan:
Popular music retrieval by detecting mood. 375-376 - Xuehua Shen, ChengXiang Zhai:
Exploiting query history for document ranking in interactive information retrieval. 377-378 - Rabia Nuray, Fazli Can:
Automatic ranking of retrieval systems in imperfect environments. 379-380 - Richard J. Edens, Helen L. Gaylard
, Gareth J. F. Jones, Adenike M. Lam-Adesina:
An investigation of broad coverage automatic pronoun resolution for information retrieval. 381-382 - Xiaoyan Li:
Syntactic features in question answering. 383-384 - Anastasios Tombros, Ian Ruthven, Joemon M. Jose:
Searchers' criteria For assessing web pages. 385-386 - Bodo Billerbeck, Justin Zobel:
When query expansion fails. 387-388 - Victor Lavrenko, Jeremy Pickens:
Music modeling with random fields. 389-390 - Christopher C. Yang, Fu Lee Wang:
Fractal summarization: summarization based on fractal theory. 391-392 - Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu, Robert Savell:
A unified model for metasearch and the efficient evaluation of retrieval systems via the hedge algorithm. 393-394 - Xiangming Mu, Gary Marchionini:
Statistical visual feature indexes in video retrieval. 395-396 - Fatiha Sadat, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Shunsuke Uemura:
Enhancing cross-language information retrieval by an automatic acquisition of bilingual terminology from comparable corpora. 397-398 - Yuen-Hsien Tseng, Da-Wei Juang:
Document-self expansion for text categorization. 399-400 - Iraklis A. Klampanos, Joemon M. Jose:
An architecture for peer-to-peer information retrieval. 401-402 - Ching-Yung Lin, Milind R. Naphade, Apostol Natsev, Chalapathy Neti, John R. Smith, Belle L. Tseng, Harriet J. Nock, W. H. Adams:
User-trainable video annotation using multimodal cues. 403-404 - Munirathnam Srikanth, Rohini K. Srihari:
Incorporating query term dependencies in language models for document retrieval. 405-406 - Xiao Hu, Sindhura Bandhakavi, ChengXiang Zhai:
Error analysis of difficult TREC topics. 407-408 - Jaap Kamps, Maarten Marx, Maarten de Rijke, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson:
XML retrieval: what to retrieve? 409-410 - Joan C. Bartlett, Elaine G. Toms:
Discovering and structuring information flow among bioinformatics resources. 411-412 - C. Lee Giles
, Yves Petinot, Pradeep B. Teregowda, Hui Han, Steve Lawrence, Arvind Rangaswamy, Nirmal Pal:
eBizSearch: a niche search engine for e-business. 413-414 - James Mayfield, Paul McNamee:
Single n-gram stemming. 415-416 - Tetsuya Sakai:
Average gain ratio: a simple retrieval performance measure for evaluation with multiple relevance levels. 417-418 - Peter Bruza, Dawei Song:
A comparison of various approaches for using probabilistic dependencies in language modeling. 419-420 - Tao Li, Shenghuo Zhu, Mitsunori Ogihara:
Topic hierarchy generation via linear discriminant projection. 421-422 - Innes Martin, Joemon M. Jose:
A personalised information retrieval tool. 423-424 - Robert Krovetz, Secil Ugurel, C. Lee Giles
:
Classification of source code archives. 425-426 - Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra:
Passage retrieval vs. document retrieval for factoid question answering. 427-428 - Tetsuya Sakai, Tomoharu Kokubu:
Evaluating retrieval performance for Japanese question answering: what are best passages? 429-430 - Chih-Fong Tsai, Kenneth McGarry
, John Tait:
Image classification using hybrid neural networks. 431-432 - Mark A. Girolami
, Ata Kabán:
On an equivalence between PLSI and LDA. 433-434 - Rosie Jones, Daniel C. Fain:
Query word deletion prediction. 435-436 - Stephen Levin, Paul D. Clough, Mark Sanderson:
Assessing the effectiveness of pen-based input queries. 437-438 - Jeffery Antoniuk, Mario A. Nascimento:
A light weight PDA-friendly collection fusion technique. 439-440 - Yoshihiko Hayashi, Katsutoshi Ohtsuki, Katsuji Bessho, Osamu Mizuno, Yoshihiro Matsuo, Shoichi Matsunaga, Minoru Hayashi, Takaaki Hasegawa, Naruhiro Ikeda:
Speech-based and video-supported indexing of multimedia broadcast news. 441-442 - Khurshid Ahmad, Bogdan Vrusias, Paulo C. F. de Oliveira:
Summary evaluation and text categorization. 443-444 - Hui Han, Eren Manavoglu, C. Lee Giles
, Hongyuan Zha:
Rule-based word clustering for text classification. 445-446 - S. Kagan Agun, Ophir Frieder:
HAT: a hardware assisted TOP-DOC inverted index component. 447-448 - Javed A. Aslam, Meredith Frost:
An information-theoretic measure for document similarity. 449-450 - David A. Evans, Jeffrey Bennett, David A. Hull:
Optimizing term vectors for efficient and robust filtering. 451-452 - J. Stephen Downie:
The TREC-like evaluation of music IR systems. 453-454 - James Allan, Giridhar Kumaran:
Stemming in the language modeling framework. 455-456 - Dawn J. Lawrie, W. Bruce Croft:
Generating hierarchical summaries for web searches. 457-458 - Nadav Eiron, Kevin S. McCurley
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Analysis of anchor text for web search. 459-460
Demos
- Daqing He
, Jianqiang Wang, Douglas W. Oard, Michael Nossal:
User-assisted query translation for interactive CLIR. 461 - Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Kathleen R. McKeown, Andrew Hazen Schlaikjer:
DefScriber: a hybrid system for definitional QA. 462 - Cong Yu, H. V. Jagadish, Dragomir R. Radev:
Querying XML using structures and keywords in timber. 463 - Zonghuan Wu, Vijay V. Raghavan, Chun Du, Komanduru Sai C, Weiyi Meng, Hai He, Clement T. Yu:
SE-LEGO: creating metasearch engines on demand. 464 - Stefano Berretti, James P. Callan, Henrik Nottelmann, Xiao Mang Shou, Shengli Wu:
MIND: resource selection and data fusion in multimedia distributed digital libraries. 465 - Cornelis H. A. Koster:
Head/modifier pairs for everyone. 466 - Ulrich Bohnacker, Ingrid Renz:
Document retrieval from user-selected web sites. 467 - Anton Leuski, Douglas W. Oard, Rahul Bhagat:
eArchivarius: accessing collections of electronic mail. 468

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