26. SIGIR 2003: Toronto, Canada

@proceedings{DBLP:conf/sigir/2003,
  title     = {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},
  booktitle = {SIGIR},
  publisher = {ACM},
  year      = {2003},
  isbn      = {1-58113-646-3},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

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 J. 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, G. Kim, Ja-Young Kim, Hyuk-Jin Lee, Gheorghe Muresan, Muh-Chyun (Morris) Tang, Xiao-Jun 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 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. 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 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 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:
  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 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 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