ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Volume 27

Volume 27, Number 1, December 2008

Benjamin Piwowarski, Andrew Trotman, Mounia Lalmas:
Sound and complete relevance assessment for XML retrieval.
Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel:
Rank-biased precision for measurement of retrieval effectiveness.
Elena Zheleva, Aleksander Kolcz, Lise Getoor:
Trusting spam reporters: A reporter-based reputation system for email filtering.
Jui-Feng Yeh, Chung-Hsien Wu, Liang-Chih Yu, Yu-Sheng Lai:
Extended probabilistic HAL with close temporal association for psychiatric query document retrieval.
Andruid Kerne, Eunyee Koh, Steven M. Smith, Andrew Webb, Blake Dworaczyk:
combinFormation: Mixed-initiative composition of image and text surrogates promotes information discovery.
Jimmy J. Lin, Philip Wu, Eileen G. Abels:
Toward automatic facet analysis and need negotiation: Lessons from mediated search.

Marko A. Rodriguez, Johan Bollen, Herbert Van de Sompel:
Automatic metadata generation using associative networks.
Laurence A. F. Park, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao:
An analysis of latent semantic term self-correlation.
Chien Chin Chen, Meng Chang Chen, Ming-Syan Chen:
An adaptive threshold framework for event detection using HMM-based life profiles.
Christos Tryfonopoulos, Manolis Koubarakis, Yannis Drougas:
Information filtering and query indexing for an information retrieval model.
Gui-Rong Xue, Jie Han, Yong Yu, Qiang Yang:
User language model for collaborative personalized search.
Robert P. Schumaker, Hsinchun Chen:
Textual analysis of stock market prediction using breaking financial news: The AZFin text system.

Oren Kurland, Lillian Lee:
Clusters, language models, and ad hoc information retrieval.
Milad Shokouhi, Justin Zobel:
Robust result merging using sample-based score estimates.
K. Selçuk Candan, Mehmet Emin Dönderler, Terri Hedgpeth, Jong Wook Kim, Qing Li, Maria Luisa Sapino:
SEA: Segment-enrich-annotate paradigm for adapting dialog-based content for improved accessibility.
Steven C. H. Hoi, Rong Jin, Jianke Zhu, Michael R. Lyu:
Semisupervised SVM batch mode active learning with applications to image retrieval.
Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Jie Shao, Xiaofang Zhou, Bin Cui:
Bounded coordinate system indexing for real-time video clip search.
Jialie Shen, John Shepherd, Bin Cui, Kian-Lee Tan:
A novel framework for efficient automated singer identification in large music databases.

Paolo Boldi, Massimo Santini, Sebastiano Vigna:
PageRank: Functional dependencies.
Edward Kai Fung Dang, Ho Chung Wu, Robert Wing Pong Luk, Kam-Fai Wong:
Building a framework for the probability ranking principle by a family of expected weighted rank.
John Guiver, Stefano Mizzaro, Stephen Robertson:
A few good topics: Experiments in topic set reduction for retrieval evaluation.
David Dupplaw, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, Bo Hu, Paul H. Lewis, Nigel Shadbolt:
A distributed, service-based framework for knowledge applications with multimedia.
Ryen W. White, Eric Horvitz:
Cyberchondria: Studies of the escalation of medical concerns in Web search.
Domenico Rosaci, Giuseppe M. L. Sarnè, Salvatore Garruzzo:
MUADDIB: A distributed recommender system supporting device adaptivity.