Keynote Papers |
From Information Retrieval to Information Interaction / Gary Marchionini |
IR and AI: Traditions of Representation and Anti-representation in Information Processing / Yorick Wilks |
User Studies |
A User-Centered Approach to Evaluating Topic Models / Diane Kelly ; Fernando Diaz ; Nicholas J. Belkin ; James Allan |
A Study of User Interaction with a Concept-Based Interactive Query Expansion Support Tool / Hideo Joho ; Mark Sanderson ; Micheline Beaulieu |
Searcher's Assessments of Task Complexity for Web Searching / David J. Bell ; Ian Ruthven |
Question Answering |
Evaluating Passage Retrieval Approaches for Question Answering / Ian Roberts ; Robert Gaizauskas |
Identification of Relevant and Novel Sentences Using Reference Corpus / Hsin-Hsi Chen ; Ming-Feng Tsai ; Ming-Hung Hsu |
Answer Selection in a Multi-stream Open Domain Question Answering System / Valentin Jijkoun ; Maarten de Rijke |
Information Models |
A Bidimensional View of Documents for Text Categorisation / Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio |
Query Difficulty, Robustness, and Selective Application of Query Expansion / Giambattista Amati ; Claudio Carpineto ; Giovanni Romano |
Combining CORI and the Decision-Theoretic Approach for Advanced Resource Selection / Henrik Nottelmann ; Norbert Fuhr |
Predictive Top-Down Knowledge Improves Neural Exploratory Bottom-Up Clustering / Chihli Hung ; Stefan Wermter ; Peter Smith |
Classification |
Contextual Document Clustering / Vladimir Dobrynin ; David Patterson ; Niall Rooney |
Complex Linguistic Features for Text Classification: A Comprehensive Study / Alessandro Moschitti ; Roberto Basili |
Eliminating High-Degree Biased Character Bigrams for Dimensionality Reduction in Chinese Text Categorization / Dejun Xue ; Maosong Sun |
Summarization |
Broadcast News Gisting Using Lexical Cohesion Analysis / Nicola Stokes ; Eamonn Newman ; Joe Carthy ; Alan F. Smeaton |
From Text Summarisation to Style-Specific Summarisation for Broadcast News / Heidi Christensen ; BalaKrishna Kolluru ; Yoshihiko Gotoh ; Steve Renals |
Image Retrieval |
Relevance Feedback for Cross Language Image Retrieval / Paul Clough |
Integrating Perceptual Signal Features within a Multi-facetted Conceptual Model for Automatic Image Retrieval / Daniel Heesch ; Stefan Rüger ; Mohammed Belkhatir ; Philippe Mulhem ; Yves Chiaramella |
Evaluation Issues |
Improving Retrieval Effectiveness by Reranking Documents Based on Controlled Vocabulary / Jaap Kamps |
A Study of the Assessment of Relevance for the INEX'02 Test Collection / Gabriella Kazai ; Sherezad Masood ; Mounia Lalmas |
A Simulated Study of Implicit Feedback Models / Ryen W. White ; Joemon M. Jose ; C.J. van Rijsbergen |
Cross Language IR |
Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using EuroWordNet and Word Sense Disambiguation / Mark Stevenson |
Fault-Tolerant Fulltext Information Retrieval in Digital Multilingual Encyclopedias with Weighted Pattern Morphing / Wolfram M. Esser |
Measuring a Cross Language Image Retrieval System / Catherine Paterson ; Wai Tung Lo |
Web-Based and XML IR |
An Optimistic Model for Searching Web Directories / Fidel Cacheda ; Ricardo Baeza-Yates |
Content-Aware DataGuides: Interleaving IR and DB Indexing Techniques for Efficient Retrieval of Textual XML Data / Felix Weigel ; Holger Meuss ; François Bry ; Klaus U. Schulz |
Performance Analysis of Distributed Architectures to Index One Terabyte of Text / Vassilis Plachouras ; Iadh Ounis |
Applying the Divergence from Randomness Approach for Content-Only Search in XML Documents / Mohammad Abolhassani |
Author Index |
Keynote Papers |
From Information Retrieval to Information Interaction / Gary Marchionini |
IR and AI: Traditions of Representation and Anti-representation in Information Processing / Yorick Wilks |
User Studies |
A User-Centered Approach to Evaluating Topic Models / Diane Kelly ; Fernando Diaz ; Nicholas J. Belkin ; James Allan |
A Study of User Interaction with a Concept-Based Interactive Query Expansion Support Tool / Hideo Joho ; Mark Sanderson ; Micheline Beaulieu |