Advances in Information Retrieval

Invited Presentations.- Query Evolution.- Searching User Generated Content: What’s Next?.- Upcoming Industrial Needs for Search.- Retrieval Model I.- Mean-Variance Analysis: A New Document Ranking Theory in Information Retrieval.- Risk-Aware Information Retrieval.- A Comparative Study of Utilizing Topic Models for Information Retrieval.- Collaborative IR/Filtering.- Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval: Techniques and Evaluation.- Movie Recommender: Semantically Enriched Unified Relevance Model for Rating Prediction in Collaborative Filtering.- Revisiting IR Techniques for Collaborative Search Strategies.- Learning.- Active Sampling for Rank Learning via Optimizing the Area under the ROC Curve.- Regression Rank: Learning to Meet the Opportunity of Descriptive Queries.- Active Learning Strategies for Multi-Label Text Classification.- Joint Ranking for Multilingual Web Search.- Multimedia - Metadata.- Diversity, Assortment, Dissimilarity, Variety: A Study of Diversity Measures Using Low Level Features for Video Retrieval.- Bayesian Mixture Hierarchies for Automatic Image Annotation.- XML Multimedia Retrieval: From Relevant Textual Information to Relevant Multimedia Fragments.- Effectively Searching Maps in Web Documents.- Expert Search - Advertising.- Enhancing Expert Finding Using Organizational Hierarchies.- A Vector Space Model for Ranking Entities and Its Application to Expert Search.- Sentiment-Oriented Contextual Advertising.- Lexical Graphs for Improved Contextual Ad Recommendation.- Retrieval Model II.- A Probabilistic Retrieval Model for Semistructured Data.- Model Fusion in Conceptual Language Modeling.- Graded-Inclusion-Based Information Retrieval Systems.- Multidimensional Relevance: A New Aggregation Criterion.- Evaluation.- Using Multiple Query Aspects to Build Test Collections without Human Relevance Judgments.- If I Had a Million Queries.- The Combination and Evaluation of Query Performance Prediction Methods.- Opinion Detection.- Investigating Learning Approaches for Blog Post Opinion Retrieval.- Integrating Proximity to Subjective Sentences for Blog Opinion Retrieval.- Adapting Naive Bayes to Domain Adaptation for Sentiment Analysis.- Web IR.- PathRank: Web Page Retrieval with Navigation Path.- Query Expansion Using External Evidence.- Selective Application of Query-Independent Features in Web Information Retrieval.- Measuring the Search Effectiveness of a Breadth-First Crawl.- Representation.- Using Contextual Information to Improve Search in Email Archives.- of Speech Based Term Weighting for Information Retrieval.- Word Particles Applied to Information Retrieval.- “They Are Out There, If You Know Where to Look”: Mining Transliterations of OOV Query Terms for Cross-Language Information Retrieval.- Clustering / Categorization.- E-Mail Classification for Phishing Defense.- Multi-facet Rating of Product Reviews.- Exploiting Surface Features for the Prediction of Podcast Preference.- Distributed IR.- A Topic-Based Measure of Resource Description Quality for Distributed Information Retrieval.- Simple Adaptations of Data Fusion Algorithms for Source Selection.- Document Compaction for Efficient Query Biased Snippet Generation.- Short Papers.- Organizing Suggestions in Autocompletion Interfaces.- Building a Graph of Names and Contextual Patterns for Named Entity Classification.- Combination of Documents Features Based on Simulated Click-through Data.- Discovering Association Rules on Experiences from Large-Scale Blog Entries.- Extracting Geographic Context from the Web: GeoReferencing in MyMoSe.- What Else Is There? Search Diversity Examined.- Using Second Order Statistics to Enhance Automated Image Annotation.- Classifying and Characterizing Query Intent.- Design and Evaluation of a University-Wide Expert Search Engine.- A Study of the Impact of Index Updates on Distributed Query Processing for Web Search.- Generic and Spatial Approaches to Image Search Results Diversification.- Studying Query Expansion Effectiveness.- Correlation of Term Count and Document Frequency for Google N-Grams.- A Cost-Aware Strategy for Query Result Caching in Web Search Engines.- Quality-Oriented Search for Depression Portals.- Evaluation of Text Clustering Algorithms with N-Gram-Based Document Fingerprints.- Exploiting Flickr Tags and Groups for Finding Landmark Photos.- Refining Keyword Queries for XML Retrieval by Combining Content and Structure.- Posters.- Cover Coefficient-Based Multi-document Summarization.- A Practitioner’s Guide for Static Index Pruning.- Revisiting N-Gram Based Models for Retrieval in Degraded Large Collections.- A Simple Linear Ranking Algorithm Using Query Dependent Intercept Variables.- Measurement Techniques and Caching Effects.- On Automatic Plagiarism Detection Based on n-Grams Comparison.- Exploiting Visual Concepts to Improve Text-Based Image Retrieval.- Choosing the Best MT Programs for CLIR Purposes – Can MT Metrics Be Helpful?.- Entropy-Based Static Index Pruning.- Representing User Navigation in XML Retrieval with Structural Summaries.- ESUM: An Efficient System for Query-Specific Multi-document Summarization.- Using WordNet’s Semantic Relations for Opinion Detection in Blogs.- Improving Opinion Retrieval Based on Query-Specific Sentiment Lexicon.- Automatically Maintained Domain Knowledge: Initial Findings.- A Framework of Evaluation for Question-Answering Systems.- Combining Content and Context Similarities for Image Retrieval.- Investigating the Global Semantic Impact of Speech Recognition Error on Spoken Content Collections.- Supervised Semantic Indexing.- Split and Merge Based Story Segmentation in News Videos.- Encoding Ordinal Features into Binary Features for Text Classification.- Topic and Trend Detection in Text Collections Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation.- Measuring Similarity of Geographic Regions for Geographic Information Retrieval.- Towards the Selection of Induced Syntactic Relations.- DiffPost: Filtering Non-relevant Content Based on Content Difference between Two Consecutive Blog Posts.- An Unsupervised Approach to Product Attribute Extraction.- Workshops.- Workshop on Contextual Information Access, Seeking and Retrieval Evaluation.- Workshop on Information Retrieval over Social Networks.- Workshop on Geographic Information on the Internet Workshop (GIIW).- Tutorials.- Current Developments in Information Retrieval Evaluation.- Information Extraction and Linking in a Retrieval Context.- Mining Query Logs.