25. SIGIR 2002: Tampere, Finland

• C. J. van Rijsbergen:
  Landmarks in information retrieval: the message out of the bottle. 1
  

Web Information Retrieval

• Vo Ngoc Anh, Alistair Moffat:
  Impact transformation: effective and efficient web retrieval. 3-10
  
• Seung-Taek Park, David M. Pennock, C. Lee Giles, Robert Krovetz:
  Analysis of lexical signatures for finding lost or related documents. 11-18
  
• Luo Si, James P. Callan:
  Using sampled data and regression to merge search engine results. 19-26
  
• Wessel Kraaij, Thijs Westerveld, Djoerd Hiemstra:
  The Importance of Prior Probabilities for Entry Page Search. 27-34
  

Information Retrieval Theory

• Djoerd Hiemstra:
  Term-specific smoothing for the language modeling approach to information retrieval: the importance of a query term. 35-41
  
• Rong Jin, Alexander G. Hauptmann, ChengXiang Zhai:
  Title language model for information retrieval. 42-48
  
• ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty:
  Two-stage language models for information retrieval. 49-56
  

User Studies

• Ryen White, Ian Ruthven, Joemon M. Jose:
  Finding relevant documents using top ranking sentences: an evaluation of two alternative schemes. 57-64
  
• Mao Chen, Andrea S. LaPaugh, Jaswinder Pal Singh:
  Predicting category accesses for a user in a structured information space. 65-72
  
• David A. Smith:
  Detecting and Browsing Events in Unstructured text. 73-80
  

Filtering

• Yi Zhang, James P. Callan, Thomas P. Minka:
  Novelty and redundancy detection in adaptive filtering. 81-88
  
• Anton Leuski, James Allan:
  Improving realism of topic tracking evaluation. 89-96
  
• Kian Ming Adam Chai, Hai Leong Chieu, Hwee Tou Ng:
  Bayesian online classifiers for text classification and filtering. 97-104
  

Summarization

• Massih-Reza Amini, Patrick Gallinari:
  The use of unlabeled data to improve supervised learning for text summarization. 105-112
  
• Hongyuan Zha:
  Generic summarization and keyphrase extraction using mutual reinforcement principle and sentence clustering. 113-120
  
• Hilda Hardy, Nobuyuki Shimizu, Tomek Strzalkowski, Ting Liu, Xinyang Zhang, G. Bowden Wise:
  Cross-document summarization by concept classification. 121-128
  

Text Categorization

• Noam Slonim, Nir Friedman, Naftali Tishby:
  Unsupervised document classification using sequential information maximization. 129-136
  
• Takahiko Kawatani:
  Topic difference factor extraction between two document sets and its application to text categorization. 137-144
  
• Yong-Bae Lee, Sung-Hyon Myaeng:
  Text genre classification with genre-revealing and subject-revealing features. 145-150
  
• Koby Crammer, Yoram Singer:
  A new family of online algorithms for category ranking. 151-158
  

Cross-language Information Retrieval

• Paul McNamee, James Mayfield:
  Comparing cross-language query expansion techniques by degrading translation resources. 159-166
  
• Marcello Federico, Nicola Bertoldi:
  Statistical cross-language information retrieval using n-best query translations. 167-174
  
• Victor Lavrenko, Martin Choquette, W. Bruce Croft:
  Cross-lingual relevance models. 175-182
  
• Jianfeng Gao, Ming Zhou, Jian-Yun Nie, Hongzhao He, Weijun Chen:
  Resolving query translation ambiguity using a decaying co-occurrence model and syntactic dependence relations. 183-190
  

Clustering

• Xin Liu, Yihong Gong, Wei Xu, Shenghuo Zhu:
  Document clustering with cluster refinement and model selection capabilities. 191-198
  
• Patrick Pantel, Dekang Lin:
  Document clustering with committees. 199-206
  
• Paul N. Bennett, Susan T. Dumais, Eric Horvitz:
  Probabilistic combination of text classifiers using reliability indicators: models and results. 207-214
  

Efficiency

• Dirk Bahle, Hugh E. Williams, Justin Zobel:
  Efficient phrase querying with an auxiliary index. 215-221
  
• Falk Scholer, Hugh E. Williams, John Yiannis, Justin Zobel:
  Compression of inverted indexes for fast query evaluation. 222-229
  
• Bruno Pôssas, Nivio Ziviani, Wagner Meira Jr., Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto:
  Set-based model: a new approach for information retrieval. 230-237
  

Collaborative Filtering

• John F. Canny:
  Collaborative filtering with privacy via factor analysis. 238-245
  
• Rickard Cöster, Martin Svensson:
  Inverted file search algorithms for collaborative filtering. 246-252
  
• Andrew I. Schein, Alexandrin Popescul, Lyle H. Ungar, David M. Pennock:
  Methods and metrics for cold-start recommendations. 253-260
  

Arabic Information Retrieval

• Kareem Darwish, Douglas W. Oard:
  Term selection for searching printed Arabic. 261-268
  
• Jinxi Xu, Alexander Fraser, Ralph M. Weischedel:
  Empirical studies in strategies for Arabic retrieval. 269-274
  
• Leah S. Larkey, Lisa Ballesteros, Margaret E. Connell:
  Improving stemming for Arabic information retrieval: light stemming and co-occurrence analysis. 275-282
  

Queries

• David Carmel, Eitan Farchi, Yael Petruschka, Aya Soffer:
  Automatic query refinement using lexical affinities with maximal information gain. 283-290
  
• Susan T. Dumais, Michele Banko, Eric Brill, Jimmy J. Lin, Andrew Y. Ng:
  Web question answering: is more always better?. 291-298
  
• Stephen Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft:
  Predicting query performance. 299-306
  
• James Allan, Hema Raghavan:
  Using part-of-speech patterns to reduce query ambiguity. 307-314
  
• Kimmo Koskenniemi:
  Is natural language an inconvenience or an opportunity for IR?. 315
  

Evaluation

• Ellen M. Voorhees, Chris Buckley:
  The effect of topic set size on retrieval experiment error. 316-323
  
• Eero Sormunen:
  Liberal relevance criteria of TREC -: counting on negligible documents?. 324-330
  

Multimedia

• Shai Shalev-Shwartz, Shlomo Dubnov, Nir Friedman, Yoram Singer:
  Robust temporal and spectral modeling for query By melody. 331-338
  
• Andrew Graves, Mounia Lalmas:
  Video retrieval using an MPEG-7 based inference network. 339-346
  

Poster session

• Fuchun Peng, Xiangji Huang, Dale Schuurmans, Nick Cercone, Stephen E. Robertson:
  Using self-supervised word segmentation in Chinese information retrieval. 349-350
  
• Ben Wolin:
  Automatic classification in product catalogs. 351-352
  
• Chris H. Q. Ding, Xiaofeng He, Parry Husbands, Hongyuan Zha, Horst D. Simon:
  PageRank, HITS and a unified framework for link analysis. 353-354
  
• Vanessa Murdock, W. Bruce Croft:
  Task orientation in question answering. 355-356
  
• Fred Damerau, Tong Zhang, Sholom M. Weiss, Nitin Indurkhya:
  Experiments in high-dimensional text categorization. 357-358
  
• Xiao-Jun Yuan, Nicholas J. Belkin, Ja-Young Kim:
  The relationship between ASK and relevance criteria. 359-360
  
• Ella Bingham, Jukka Kuusisto, Krista Lagus:
  ICA and SOM in text document analysis. 361-362
  
• Vijay Boyapati:
  Improving hierarchical text classification using unlabeled data. 363-364
  
• Susan Dziadosz, Raman Chandrasekar:
  Do thumbnail previews help users make better relevance decisions about web search results?. 365-366
  
• Fabio Ciravegna, Alexiei Dingli, Yorick Wilks, Daniela Petrelli:
  Amilcare: adaptive information extraction for document annotation. 367-368
  
• Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack, M. Laszlo, Thomas R. Lynam, Egidio L. Terra:
  The impact of corpus size on question answering performance. 369-370
  
• Jack G. Conrad, Changwen Yang, Joanne S. Claussen:
  Effective collection metasearch in a hierarchical environment: global vs. localized retrieval performance. 371-372
  
• Fabio Crestani, Pablo de la Fuente, Jesús Vegas:
  Experimenting with graphical user interfaces for structured document retrieval. 373-374
  
• Koji Eguchi, Keizo Oyama, Emi Ishida, Kazuko Kuriyama, Noriko Kando:
  The web retrieval task and its evaluation in the third NTCIR workshop. 375-376
  
• Martin Franz, J. Scott McCarley:
  How Many Bits are Needed to Store Term Frequencies?. 377-378
  
• Mathias Géry:
  Non-linear reading for a structured web indexation. 379-380
  
• Abdur Chowdhury, M. Catherine McCabe, David A. Grossman, Ophir Frieder:
  Document normalization revisited. 381-382
  
• Preben Hansen, Daniela Petrelli, Jussi Karlgren, Micheline Beaulieu, Mark Sanderson:
  User-centered interface design for cross-language information retrieval. 383-384
  
• Keiichiro Hoashi, Erik Zeitler, Naomi Inoue:
  Implementation of relevance feedback for content-based music retrieval based on user prefences. 385-386
  
• Christopher B. Jones, Ross Purves, Anne Ruas, Mark Sanderson, Monika Sester, Marc J. van Kreveld, Robert Weibel:
  Spatial information retrieval and geographical ontologies an overview of the SPIRIT project. 387-388
  
• Gareth J. F. Jones, Steven M. Gabb:
  A visualisation tool for topic tracking analysis and development. 389-390
  
• Sang-Bum Kim, Hae-Chang Rim, Heui-Seok Lim:
  A new method of parameter estimation for multinomial naive bayes text classifiers. 391-392
  
• Huaizhong Kou, Georges Gardarin:
  Study of category score algorithms for k-NN classifier. 393-394
  
• K. L. Kwok:
  Higher precision for two-word queries. 395-396
  
• Birger Larsen, Peter Ingwersen:
  The boomerang effect: retrieving scientific documents via the network of references and citations. 397-398
  
• Ray R. Larson:
  A logistic regression approach to distributed IR. 399-400
  
• Elizabeth D. Liddy, Eileen Allen, Sarah Harwell, Susan Corieri, Ozgur Yilmazel, Necati Ercan Ozgencil, Anne Diekema, Nancy J. McCracken, Joanne Silverstein, Stuart A. Sutton:
  Automatic metadata generation & evaluation. 401-402
  
• R. Manmatha, Ao Feng, James Allan:
  A critical examination of TDT's cost function. 403-404
  
• James Mayfield, Paul McNamee:
  Converting on-line bilingual dictionaries from human-readable to machine-readable form. 405-406
  
• Tadashi Nomoto, Yuji Matsumoto:
  Modeling (in)variability of human judgments for text summarization. 407-408
  
• Andreas Rauber, Elias Pampalk, Dieter Merkl:
  Content-based music indexing and organization. 409-410
  
• Tetsuya Sakai, Stephen E. Robertson:
  Relative and absolute term selection criteria: a comparative study for English and Japanese IR. 411-412
  
• Xiao Mang Shou, Mark Sanderson:
  Experiments on data fusion using headline information. 413-414
  
• Alberto Lavelli, Bernardo Magnini, Fabrizio Sebastiani:
  Building thematic lexical resources by term categorization. 415-416
  
• David A. Evans, James G. Shanahan, Victor Sheftel:
  Topic structure modeling. 417-418
  
• Rong Jin, Luo Si, Alexander G. Hauptmann, James P. Callan:
  Language model for IR using collection information. 419-420
  
• Abdur Chowdhury, Ian Soboroff:
  Automatic evaluation of world wide web search services. 421-422
  
• Ian Soboroff:
  Does WT10g look like the web?. 423-424
  
• Munirathnam Srikanth, Rohini K. Srihari:
  Biterm language models for document retrieval. 425-426
  
• Yoshiyuki Takeda, Kyoji Umemura:
  Selecting indexing strings using adaptation. 427-428
  
• Yuen-Hsien Tseng:
  Error correction in a Chinese OCR test collection. 429-430
  
• Andrew Turpin, William R. Hersh:
  User interface effects in past batch versus user experiments. 431-432
  
• Rakesh M. Verma, Sanjiv Behl:
  K-tree/forest: efficient indexes for boolean queries. 433-434
  
• Bin Wang, Xueqi Cheng, Shuo Bai:
  Example-based phrase translation in Chinese-English CLIR. 435-436
  
• Thijs Westerveld:
  Probabilistic multimedia retrieval. 437-438
  
• Wenfeng Yang:
  Chinese keyword extraction based on max-duplicated strings of the documents. 439-440
  
• Yazhong Feng, Yueting Zhuang, Yunhe Pan:
  A hierarchical approach: query large music database by acoustic input. 441-442
  
• Hongyuan Zha, Xiang Ji:
  Correlating multilingual documents via bipartite graph modeling. 443-444
  

Demo session

• Ryen White, Joemon M. Jose, Ian Ruthven:
  A system using implicit feedback and top ranking sentences to help users find relevant web documents. 446
  
• Wolfgang Hürst:
  Indexing, searching, and retrieving of recorded live presentations with the AOF (authoring on the fly) search engine. 447
  
• Heikki Keskustalo, Turid Hedlund, Eija Airio:
  UTACLIR -: general query translation framework for several language pairs. 448
  
• Norbert Fuhr, Norbert Gövert, Kai Großjohann:
  HyREX: hyper-media retrieval engine for XML. 449
  
• Eero Sormunen, Sakari Hokkanen, Petteri Kangaslampi, Petri Pyy, Bemmu Sepponen:
  Query performance analyser: a web-based tool for IR research and instruction. 450
  
• Fabio Ciravegna, Alexiei Dingli, Yorick Wilks, Daniela Petrelli:
  Adaptive information extraction for document annotation in amilcare. 451
  
• Bethina Schmitt, Michael Christoffel, Jürgen Schneider:
  ExWrap: semi-automatic wrapper generation by example. 452
  
• Anselm Spoerri:
  Souvenir: flexible note-taking tool to pinpoint and share media highlights. 453
  
• Hideo Joho, Mark Sanderson, Micheline Beaulieu:
  Hierarchical approach to term suggestion device. 454
  
• Fredric C. Gey, Aitao Chen, Michael K. Buckland, Ray R. Larson:
  Translingual vocabulary mappings for multilingual information access. 455-456
  
• Jukka Honkela, Ville H. Tuulos:
  GS textplorer -: adaptive framework for information retrieval. 456
  
• Hasan Davulcu, Saikat Mukherjee, Arvind Seth, I. V. Ramakrishnan:
  CuTeX: a system for extracting data from text tables. 457
  
• Prashant Choudhari, Hasan Davulcu, Abhishek Joglekar, Akshay More, Saikat Mukherjee, Supriya Patil, I. V. Ramakrishnan:
  YellowPager: a tool for ontology-based mining of service directories from web sources. 458