ECIR 2005: Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Keynote Papers

• C. J. van Rijsbergen:
  A Probabilistic Logic for Information Retrieval. 1-6
  
• Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates:
  Applications of Web Query Mining. 7-22
  

Peer-to-Peer

• Yilei Shao, Randolph Y. Wang:
  BuddyNet: History-Based P2P Search. 23-37
  
• Iraklis A. Klampanos, Victor Poznanski, Joemon M. Jose, Peter Dickman:
  A Suite of Testbeds for the Realistic Evaluation of Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval Systems. 38-51
  
• Jie Lu, Jamie Callan:
  Federated Search of Text-Based Digital Libraries in Hierarchical Peer-to-Peer Networks. 52-66
  

Information Retrieval Models (I)

• Sándor Dominich, Júlia Góth, Mária Horváth, Tamás Kiezer:
  'Beauty' of the World Wide Web-Cause, Goal, or Principle. 67-80
  
• Henrik Nottelmann, Umberto Straccia:
  sPLMap: A Probabilistic Approach to Schema Matching. 81-95
  
• Vinay Kakade, Prabhakar Raghavan:
  Encoding XML in Vector Spaces. 96-111
  

Text Summarization

• Patrick Ruch, Laura Perret, Jacques Savoy:
  Features Combination for Extracting Gene Functions from MEDLINE. 112-126
  
• Sana Leila Châar, Olivier Ferret, Christian Fluhr:
  Filtering for Profile-Biased Multi-document Summarization. 127-141
  
• Massih-Reza Amini, Nicolas Usunier, Patrick Gallinari:
  Automatic Text Summarization Based on Word-Clusters and Ranking Algorithms. 142-156
  
• Ruichao Wang, Nicola Stokes, William P. Doran, Eamonn Newman, Joe Carthy, John Dunnion:
  Comparing Topiary-Style Approaches to Headline Generation. 157-168
  

Information Retrieval Methods (I)

• Lingpeng Yang, Dong-Hong Ji, Guodong Zhou, Nie Yu:
  Improving Retrieval Effectiveness by Using Key Terms in Top Retrieved Documents. 169-184
  
• Vishwa Vinay, Ingemar J. Cox, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Kenneth R. Wood:
  Evaluating Relevance Feedback Algorithms for Searching on Small Displays. 185-199
  
• Ben He, Iadh Ounis:
  Term Frequency Normalisation Tuning for BM25 and DFR Models. 200-214
  

Information Retrieval Models (II)

• Luis M. de Campos, Juan M. Fernández-Luna, Juan F. Huete:
  Improving the Context-Based Influence Diagram Model for Structured Document Retrieval: Removing Topological Restrictions and Adding New Evaluation Methods. 215-229
  
• Terence Clifton, William John Teahan:
  Knowing-Aboutness: Question-Answering Using a Logic-Based Framework. 230-244
  
• Tomás Skopal, Pavel Moravec:
  Modified LSI Model for Efficient Search by Metric Access Methods. 245-259
  
• Henrik Nottelmann:
  PIRE: An Extensible IR Engine Based on Probabilistic Datalog. 260-274
  

Text Classification and Fusion

• Shengli Wu, Sally I. McClean:
  Data Fusion with Correlation Weights. 275-286
  
• Stefan Siersdorfer, Gerhard Weikum:
  Using Restrictive Classification and Meta Classification for Junk Elimination. 287-299
  
• Yuval Marton, Ning Wu, Lisa Hellerstein:
  On Compression-Based Text Classification. 300-314
  

User Studies and Evaluation

• Sari Suomela, Jaana Kekäläinen:
  Ontology as a Search-Tool: A Study of Real Users' Query Formulation With and Without Conceptual Support. 315-329
  
• Evelyn Balfe, Barry Smyth:
  An Analysis of Query Similarity in Collaborative Web Search. 330-344
  
• Cyril Goutte, Éric Gaussier:
  A Probabilistic Interpretation of Precision, Recall and F-Score, with Implication for Evaluation. 345-359
  
• Kamal Ali, Chi-Chao Chang, Yun-Fang Juan:
  Exploring Cost-Effective Approaches to Human Evaluation of Search Engine Relevance. 360-374
  

Information Retrieval Methods (II)

• Roi Blanco, Alvaro Barreiro:
  Document Identifier Reassignment Through Dimensionality Reduction. 375-387
  
• Amélie Imafouo, Michel Beigbeder:
  Scalability Influence on Retrieval Models: An Experimental Methodology. 388-402
  
• Olga Vechtomova:
  The Role of Multi-word Units in Interactive Information Retrieval. 403-420
  
• Raija Lehtokangas, Heikki Keskustalo, Kalervo Järvelin:
  Dictionary-Based CLIR Loses Highly Relevant Documents. 421-432
  

Multimedia Retrieval

• Reede Ren, Joemon M. Jose:
  Football Video Segmentation Based on Video Production Strategy. 433-446
  
• Peter Howarth, Stefan M. Rüger:
  Fractional Distance Measures for Content-Based Image Retrieval. 447-456
  
• Mohammed Belkhatir:
  Combining Visual Semantics and Texture Characterizations for Precision-Oriented Automatic Image Retrieval. 457-474
  

Web Information Retrieval

• Xue-Mei Jiang, Wen-Guan Song, Hua-Jun Zeng:
  Applying Associative Relationship on the Clickthrough Data to Improve Web Search. 475-486
  
• Anastasios Tombros, Zeeshan Ali:
  Factors Affecting Web Page Similarity. 487-501
  
• Gilad Mishne, Maarten de Rijke:
  Boosting Web Retrieval Through Query Operations. 502-516
  

Posters

• Iadh Ounis, Gianni Amati, Vassilis Plachouras, Ben He, Craig Macdonald, Douglas Johnson:
  Terrier Information Retrieval Platform. 517-519
  
• Paul Ferguson, Cathal Gurrin, Peter Wilkins, Alan F. Smeaton:
  Físréal: A Low Cost Terabyte Search Engine. 520-522
  
• Gilad Mishne, Maarten de Rijke:
  Query Formulation for Answer Projection. 523-526
  
• Fidel Cacheda, Victor Carneiro, Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis:
  Network Analysis for Distributed Information Retrieval Architectures. 527-529
  
• Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Joo-Hwee Lim, Ramnath Vasudha:
  SnapToTell: A Singapore Image Test Bed for Ubiquitous Information Access from Camera. 530-532
  
• Takeshi Kutsumi, Takehiko Yoshimi, Katsunori Kotani, Ichiko Sata, Hitoshi Isahara:
  Acquisition of Translation Knowledge of Syntactically Ambiguous Named Entity. 533-535
  
• Juan Manuel Pérez, Torben Bach Pedersen, Rafael Berlanga Llavori, María José Aramburu:
  IR and OLAP in XML Document Warehouses. 536-539
  
• Oisín Boydell, Cathal Gurrin, Alan F. Smeaton, Barry Smyth:
  Manipulating the Relevance Models of Existing Search Engines. 540-542
  
• Maurice Coyle, Barry Smyth:
  Enhancing Web Search Result Lists Using Interaction Histories. 543-545
  
• Karen Church, Mark T. Keane, Barry Smyth:
  An Evaluation of Gisting in Mobile Search. 546-548
  
• Stéphane Ayache, Georges Quénot, Mbarek Charhad:
  Video Shot Classification Using Lexical Context. 549-551
  
• Claudia Hauff, Leif Azzopardi:
  Age Dependent Document Priors in Link Structure Analysis. 552-554
  
• Liudmila V. Boldareva:
  Improving Image Representation with Relevance Judgements from the Searchers. 555-557
  
• Dayong Ding, Le Chen, Bo Zhang:
  Temporal Shot Clustering Analysis for Video Concept Detection. 558-560
  
• Zia Syed, Fiona Walsh:
  IRMAN: Software Framework for IR in Mobile Social Cyberspaces. 561-563
  
• Bruno Martins, Marcirio Silveira Chaves, Mário J. Silva:
  Assigning Geographical Scopes To Web Pages. 564-567
  
• Le Chen, Dayong Ding, Dong Wang, Fuzong Lin, Bo Zhang:
  AP-Based Borda Voting Method for Feature Extraction in TRECVID-2004. 568-570