Advances in Information Retrieval: 26th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2004, Sunderland, UK, April 5-7, 2004, ProceedingsSharon McDonald, John Tait Theseproceedingscontaintherefereedfulltechnicalpaperspresentedatthe26th Annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2004). ECIR is theannualconferenceoftheBritishComputerSociety’sspecialistgroupinInf- mation Retrieval. This year the conference was held at the School of Computing and Technology at the University of Sunderland. ECIR began life as the - nual Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research. The colloquium was held in the UK each year until 1998 when the event was held in Grenoble, France. Since then the conference venue has alternated between the United Kingdom and Continental Europe, and the event was renamed the European Conference on Information Retrieval. In recent years, ECIR has continued to grow and has become the major European forum for the discussion of research in the ?eld of Information Retrieval. To mark this metamorphosis from a small informal c- loquium to a major event in the IR research calendar, the BCS-IRSG decided to rename the event to the European Conference on Information Retrieval. ECIR2004received88fullpapersubmissions,fromacrossEuropeandfurther a?eldincludingNorthAmerica,ChinaandAustralia,atestamenttothegrowing popularity and reputation of the conference. Out of the 88 submitted papers, 28 were accepted for presentation. All papers were reviewed by at least three reviewers. Among the accepted papers 11 have a student as the primary author, illustrating that the traditional student focus of the original colloquium is alive today. |
Contents
Keynote Papers | 1 |
A Study of the Assessment of Relevance for the INEX02 | 2 |
Traditions of Representation and Antirepresentation | 12 |
User Studies | 27 |
A Study of User Interaction with a ConceptBased Interactive | 42 |
Searchers Assessments of Task Complexity for Web Searching David J Bell Ian Ruthven | 57 |
Question Answering | 72 |
Identification of Relevant and Novel Sentences Using | 85 |
From Text Summarisation to StyleSpecific Summarisation | 223 |
Image Retrieval | 238 |
NNk Networks for ContentBased Image Retrieval | 253 |
Integrating Perceptual Signal Features within a Multifacetted | 267 |
Evaluation Issues | 283 |
Test Collection | 296 |
A Simulated Study of Implicit Feedback Models | 311 |
Cross Language | 327 |
Answer Selection in a Multistream Open Domain Question | 99 |
Information Models | 112 |
Query Difficulty Robustness and Selective Application | 127 |
Combining CORI and the DecisionTheoretic Approach | 138 |
Predictive TopDown Knowledge Improves Neural Exploratory | 154 |
Contextual Document Clustering | 167 |
Eliminating HighDegree Biased Character Bigrams | 197 |
Summarization | 209 |
FaultTolerant Fulltext Information Retrieval in Digital | 338 |
Measuring a Cross Language Image Retrieval System | 353 |
WebBased and XML | 364 |
Interleaving IR and DB Indexing | 378 |
Performance Analysis of Distributed Architectures | 394 |
Applying the Divergence from Randomness Approach | 409 |
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