Table of Contents

• Applying Summarization Techniques for Term Selection in Relevance FeedbackAdenike M. Lam-Adesina, Gareth J. F. Jones. 1-9
• Temporal Summaries of News TopicsJames Allan, Rahul Gupta, Vikas Khandelwal. 10-18
• Generic Text Summarization Using Relevance Measure and Latent Semantic AnalysisYihong Gong, Xin Liu. 19-25
• A New Approach to Unsupervised Text SummarizationTadashi Nomoto, Yuji Matsumoto. 26-34
• Vector-Space Ranking with Effective Early TerminationVo Ngoc Anh, Owen de Kretser, Alistair Moffat. 35-42
• Static Index Pruning for Information Retrieval SystemsAya Soffer, David Carmel, Doron Cohen, Ronald Fagin, Eitan Farchi, Michael Herscovici, Yoëlle S. Maarek. 43-50
• Rank-Preserving Two-Level Caching for Scalable Search EnginesPatricia Correia Saraiva, Edleno Silva de Moura, Rodrigo C. Fonseca, Wagner Meira Jr., Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Nivio Ziviani. 51-58
• Using Event Segmentation to Improve Indexing of Consumer PhotographsAmanda Stent, Alexander C. Loui. 59-65
• Ranking Retrieval Systems without Relevance JudgmentsIan Soboroff, Charles K. Nicholas, Patrick Cahan. 66-73
• Evaluation by Highly Relevant DocumentsEllen M. Voorhees. 74-82
• Meta-scoring: Automatically Evaluating Term Weighting Schemes in IR without Precision-RecallRong Jin, Christos Falusos, Alexander G. Hauptmann. 83-89
• Improving Cross Language Information Retrieval with Triangulated TranslationTim Gollins, Mark Sanderson. 90-95
• Improving Query Translation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using Statistical ModelsJianfeng Gao, Endong Xun, Ming Zhou, Changning Huang, Jian-Yun Nie, Jian Zhang. 96-104
• Evaluating a Probabilistic Model for Cross-Lingual Information RetrievalJinxi Xu, Ralph M. Weischedel, Chanh Nguyen. 105-110
• Document Language Models, Query Models, and Risk Minimization for Information RetrievalJohn D. Lafferty, ChengXiang Zhai. 111-119
• Relevance-Based Language ModelsVictor Lavrenko, W. Bruce Croft. 120-127
• A Statistical Learning Model of Text Classification for Support Vector MachinesThorsten Joachims. 128-136
• A Study on Thresholding Strategies for Text CategorizationYiming Yang. 137-145
• On Feature Distributional Clustering for Text CategorizationRon Bekkerman, Ran El-Yaniv, Yoad Winter, Naftali Tishby. 146-153
• Iterative Residual Rescaling: An Analysis and Generalization of LSIRie Kubota Ando, Lillian Lee. 154-162
• Expressive Retrieval from XML DocumentsTaurai Tapiwa Chinenyanga, Nicholas Kushmerick. 163-171
• XIRQL: A Query Language for Information Retrieval in XML DocumentsNorbert Fuhr, Kai Großjohann. 172-180
• Empirical Investigations on Query Modification Using Abductive ExplanationsIan Ruthven, C. J. van Rijsbergen, Mounia Lalmas. 181-189
• Generic Summaries for Indexing in Information RetrievalTetsuya Sakai, Karen Sparck Jones. 190-198
• Automatic Generation of Concise Summaries of Spoken Dialogues in Unrestricted DomainsKlaus Zechner. 199-207
• Enhanced Topic Distillation Using Text, Markup Tags, and HyperlinksSoumen Chakrabarti, Mukul Joshi, Vivek Tawde. 208-216
• Transparent Queries: Investigating Users Mental Models of Search EnginesJack Muramatsu, Wanda Pratt. 217-224
• Why Batch and User Evaluations Do Not Give the Same ResultsAndrew Turpin, William R. Hersh. 225-231
• Evaluating a Content Based Image Retrieval SystemSharon McDonald, John Tait, Ting-Sheng Lai. 232-240
• Evaluating Topic-Driven Web CrawlersFilippo Menczer, Gautam Pant, Padmini Srinivasan, Miguel E. Ruiz. 241-249
• Effective Site Finding Using Link Anchor InformationNick Craswell, David Hawking, Stephen E. Robertson. 250-257
• Stable Algorithms for Link AnalysisAlice X. Zheng, Andrew Y. Ng, Michael I. Jordan. 258-266
• Modeling Score Distributions for Combining the Outputs of Search EnginesR. Manmatha, Toni M. Rath, Fangfang Feng. 267-275
• Models for MetasearchJaved A. Aslam, Mark H. Montague. 275-284
• The Score-Distributional Threshold Optimization for Adaptive Binary Classification TasksAvi T. Arampatzis, André van Hameren. 285-293
• Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Filtering ThresholdsYi Zhang, James P. Callan. 294-302
• A Meta-Learning Approach for Text CategorizationWai Lam, Kwok-Yin Lai. 303-309
• Unsupervised and Supervised Clustering for Topic TrackingMartin Franz, J. Scott McCarley, Todd Ward, Wei-Jing Zhu. 310-317
• Intelligent Information TriageSofus A. Macskassy, Haym Hirsh, Foster J. Provost, Ramesh Sankaranarayanan, Vasant Dhar. 318-326
• Discovering Information Flow Using a High Dimensional Conceptual SpaceDawei Song, Peter Bruza. 327-333
• A Study of Smoothing Methods for Language Models Applied to Ad Hoc Information RetrievalChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty. 334-342
• Topic Segmentation with an Aspect Hidden Markov ModelDavid M. Blei, Pedro J. Moreno. 343-348
• Finding Topic Words for Hierarchical SummarizationDawn Lawrie, W. Bruce Croft, Arnold L. Rosenberg. 349-357
• Exploiting Redundancy in Question AnsweringCharles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam. 358-365
• High Performance Question/AnsweringMarius Pasca, Sanda M. Harabagiu. 366-374
• Searcher Performance in Question AnsweringRoss Wilkinson, Mingfang Wu, Michael Fuller. 375-383
• Toward an Improved Concept-Based Information Retrieval SystemPeter V. Henstock, Young-Suk Lee, Clifford J. Weinstein, Daniel J. Pack. 384-385
• Metasearch ConsistencyJaved A. Aslam, Mark H. Montague. 386-387
• Anchor Text Mining for Translation Extraction of Query TermsWen-Hsiang Lu, Hsi-Jian Lee, Lee-Feng Chien. 388-389
• Selecting Expansion Terms in Automatic Query ExpansionHiroko Mano, Yasushi Ogawa. 390-391
• An Experimental Framework for Email Categorization and ManagementKenrick J. Mock. 392-393
• Analyses of Multiple-Evidence Combinations for Retrieval StrategiesAbdur Chowdhury, Ophir Frieder, David A. Grossman, M. Catherine McCabe. 394-395
• Flexible Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Using Optimization TablesTetsuya Sakai, Stephen E. Robertson. 396-397
• Quantifying the Utility of Parallel CorporaMartin Franz, J. Scott McCarley, Todd Ward, Wei-Jing Zhu. 398-399
• Unitary Operators for Fast Latent Semantic Indexing (FLSI)Eduard Hoenkamp. 400-401
• Probabilistic Combination of Content and LinksSusan T. Dumais, Rong Jin. 402-403
• Structure and Content-Based Segmentation of Speech TranscriptsDulce B. Ponceleon, Savitha Srinivasan. 404-405
• Text Summarization via Hidden Markov ModelsJohn M. Conroy, Dianne P. O Leary. 406-407
• Reading Time, Scrolling and Interaction: Exploring Implicit Sources of User Preferences for Relevant FeedbackDiane Kelly, Nicholas J. Belkin. 408-409
• Interactive Phrase Browsing Within Compressed TextRaymond Wan, Alistair Moffat. 410-411
• Query-Based Web Page Summarisation: A Task-Oriented EvaluationRyen White, Joemon M. Jose, Ian Ruthven. 412-413
• Query Expansion Based on Predictive Algorithms for Collaborative FilteringKeiichiro Hoashi, Kazunori Matsumoto, Naomi Inoue, Kazuo Hashimoto. 414-415
• Query Optimization for Vector Space ProblemsKazuo Goda, Masaru Kitsuregawa, Takayuki Tamura, Ophir Frieder, Abdur Chowdhury. 416-417
• Generic Topic Segmentation of Document TextsMarie-Francine Moens, Rik De Busser. 418-419
• Towards the use of Prosodic Information for Spoken Document RetrievalFabio Crestani. 420-421
• An Homogeneous Framework to Model Relevance FeedbackDavid E. Losada, Alvaro Barreiro. 422-423
• Combining Semantic and Syntactic Document Classifiers to Improve First Story DetectionNicola Stokes, Joe Carthy. 424-425
• Browsing in a Digital Library Collecting Linearly Arranged DocumentsMakoto Nakashima, Yanhua Qu, Keizo Sato, Tetsuro Ito. 426-427
• Feature Selection for Polyphonic Music RetrievalJeremy Pickens. 428-429
• Automatic Information Extraction from Web PagesRoland H. C. Yap, Budi Rahardjo. 430-431
• Automatic Web Search Query Generation to Create Minority Language CorporaRayid Ghani, Rosie Jones, Dunja Mladenic. 432-433
• Perceptual Consistency Improves Image Retrieval PerformanceHuizhong Long, Wee Kheng Leow. 434-435
• Intelligent Object-based Image Retrieval Using Cluster-driven Personal Preference LearningKyoung-Mi Lee, W. Nick Street. 436-437
• Construction of a Hierarchical Classifier Schema Using a Combination of Text-Based and Image-Based ApproachesMark S. Drew, Cheng Lu. 438-439
• A Method Based on the Chi-Square Test for Document ClassificationMichael P. Oakes, Robert J. Gaizauskas, Helene Fowkes. 440-441
• Query Clustering Using Content Words and User FeedbackJi-Rong Wen, HongJiang Zhang, Jian-Yun Nie. 442-443
• Modifications of Kleinberg s HITS Algorithm Using Matrix Exponentiation and WebLog RecordsJoel C. Miller, Gregory Rae, Fred Schaefer. 444-445
• Cite Me, Cite My References? (Scholarly Use of the ACM SIGIR Proceedings Based on Two Citation Indexes)Elana Broch. 446-447
• IFind: A Web Image Search EngineZheng Chen, Liu Wenyin, Chunhui Hu, Mingjing Li, HongJiang Zhang. 450-450
• Building Interoperable Digital Library Services: MARIAN, Open Archives and NDLTDEdward A. Fox, Robert K. France, Marcos André Gonçalves, Hussein Suleman. 451-451
• AUTINDEX: An Automatic Multilingual Indexing SystemBärbel Ripplinger, Paul Schmidt. 452-452
• Does Visualization Improve Our Ability to Find and Learn from Internet Based Information?Daniel A. Kauwell, Jim Levin, Hwan Jo Yu, Young-Jin Lee, Jeff Ellen, Arun Bahalla. 453-453
• The HySpirit Retrieval PlatformThomas Rölleke, Ralf Lübeck, Gabriella Kazai. 454-454
• Distributed Resource Discovery and Structured Data Searching with Cheshire IIRay R. Larson. 455-455
• Searching the Deep Web - Distributed Explorit Directed Query ApplicationsValerie S. Allen, Abe Lederman. 456-456
• CROWSE: A System for Organizing Repositories and Web Search ResultsKinshuman, Sudeshna Sarkar. 457-457
• MS Read: User Modeling in the Web EnvironmentNatasa Milic-Frayling, Ralph Sommerer. 458-458