Preliminary Program and Call for participation BCS-IRSG ECIR-05 27th European Conference on Information Retrieval 21-23 March, 2005 Santiago de Compostela, Spain http://www-gsi.dec.usc.es/ecir05/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sponsored by: -European Research Consortium for Informatics & Mathematics (ERCIM) -Microsoft Research -Sharp Laboratories of Europe -Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS). The annual European Conference on Information Retrieval is the main European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field of Information Retrieval. Registration for ECIR-05 is now open. Early registration deadline: Feb 20th, 2005. PRELIMINARY PROGRAM: ================MONDAY===================================== Monday 21st , 09.00-09:30: Conference Opening Monday 21st, 09:30-11:00: Keynote Speech, Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow (UK) A Probabilistic Logic for Information Retrieval Monday 21st, 11:00-11:30: Coffee break Monday 21st, 11.30-13:00: P2P -Y. Shao, R. Wang (Princeton University, USA). BuddyNet: History-based P2P Search -I. A. Klampanos (University of Glasgow, UK), V. Poznanski (Sharp Labs of Europe Ltd., UK), J. Jose, P. Dickman (University of Glasgow, UK) A Suite of Testbeds for the Realistic Evaluation of Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval Systems -J. Lu, J. Callan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Federated Search of Text-Based Digital Libraries in Hierarchical Peer-to-Peer Networks Monday 21st, 13:00-14:30: Lunch Monday 21st, 14.30-16.00: IR MODELS (I) -S. Dominich, J. Góth, T. Kiezer (University of Veszprém, Hungary) 'Beauty' of the World Wide Web -- Cause, Goal, or Principle -H. Nottelmann (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany), U. Straccia (ISTI-CNR, Italy) sPLMap: A probabilistic approach to schema matching -V. Kakade (A9.com, Inc, USA), P. Raghavan (Verity, Inc, USA) Encoding XML in vector spaces Monday 21st, 16:00-16:30: Coffee break Monday 21st, 16.30-18.30: TEXT SUMMARIZATION -P. Ruch (University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland), L Perret, J. Savoy (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland) Features Combination for Extracting Gene Functions from MedLine -S. L. Châar (University of Antilles and Guyane, France), O. Ferret, C. Fluhr (CEA-LIST, France) Filtering for profile-biased multi-document summarization -M. Amini, N. Usunier, P. Gallinari (University of Pierre and Marie Curie, France) Automatic text summarization based on word-clusters and ranking algorithms -R. Wang, N. Stokes, W. Doran, E. Newman, J. Dunnion, J. Carthy (University College Dublin, Ireland) Comparing Topiary-Style Approaches to Headline Generation Monday 21st, 18:30-20:00: Reception & Poster Session. ================TUESDAY===================================== Tuesday 22nd, 09:00-10:30: IR METHODS (I) -Y. Lingpeng, J. Donghong, N. Yu (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Improving Retrieval Effectiveness by Using Key Terms in Top Retrieved Documents -V. Vinay, I. J. Cox (University College London, UK), N. Milic-Frayling, K. Wood (Microsoft Research Ltd, UK) Evaluating Relevance Feedback Algorithms for Searching on Small Displays -B. He, I. Ounis (University of Glasgow, UK) A Refined Term Frequency Normalisation Parameter Tuning Method by Measuring the Normalisation Effect Tuesday 22nd, 10:30-11:00: Coffee break Tuesday 22nd, 11:00-13.00: IR MODELS (II) -L.M. de Campos, J.M. Fernández-Luna, J.F. Huete (University of Granada, Spain) Improving the Context-based Influence Diagram Model for Structured Document Retrieval: Removing Topological Restrictions and Adding New Evaluation Methods -T. Clifton, W. Teahan (University of Wales, Bangor, UK) Knowing-Aboutness: Question-Answering using a logic-based framework -T. Skopal (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic), P. Moravec (Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic) Modified LSI Model for Efficient Search by Metric Access Methods -H. Nottelmann (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) PIRE: An extensible IR engine based on probabilistic Datalog Tuesday 22nd, 13:00-14:30: Lunch Tuesday 22nd, 14:30-16.00: TEXT CLASSIFICATION AND FUSION -S. Wu, S. McClean (University of Ulster, UK) Data Fusion with Correlation Weights -S. Siersdorfer, G. Weikum (Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science (MPI), Germany) Using Restrictive Classification and Meta Classification for Junk Elimination -Y. Marton (University of Maryland, USA), N. Wu, L. Hellerstein (Polytechnic University, USA) On Compression-Based Text Classification Tuesday 22nd, 16:00-16:30: Coffee break Tuesday 22nd, 16:30-18.30: USER STUDIES AND EVALUATION -S. Suomela, J. Kekäläinen (University of Tampere, Finland) Ontology as Search Tool: A study of real users' query formulation with and without conceptual support -E. Balfe, B. Smyth (University College Dublin, Ireland) An Analysis of Query Similarity in Collaborative Web Search -C. Goutte, E. Gaussier (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France) A probabilistic interpretation of precision, recall and F-score, with implication for evaluation -K. Ali, Y. Juan, C. Chang (Yahoo! Inc., USA) Exploring cost-effective approaches to human evaluation of search engine relevance Tuesday 22nd, 20:00: Banquet ================WEDNESDAY===================================== Wednesday 23rd, 09:00-10:30: Keynote Speech, Ricardo Baeza Yates, ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain and University of Chile Applications of Web Query Mining Wednesday 23rd, 10:30-11:00: Coffee break Wednesday 23rd, 11:00-13.00: IR METHODS (II) -R. Blanco, A. Barreiro (University of A Corunna, Spain) Document identifier reassignment through dimensionality reduction -A. Imafouo, M. Beigbeder (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France) Scalability influence on retrieval models: an experimental methodology -O. Vechtomova (University of Waterloo, Canada) The Role of Multi-Word Units in Interactive Information Retrieval -R. Lehtokangas, H. Keskustalo, K. Järvelin (University of Tampere, Finland) Dictionary-Based CLIR Loses Highly Relevant Documents Wednesday 23rd, 13:00-14:30: Lunch Wednesday 23rd, 14:30-15:30: BCS-IRSG AGM Wednesday 23rd, 15:30-17:00:MULTIMEDIA RETRIEVAL -R. Reede, J. Jose (University of Glasgow, UK) Football Video Segmentation Based on Video Production Strategy -P. Howarth, S. Rüger (Imperial College London, UK) Fractional Distance Measures for Content-based Image Retrieval -B. Mohammed (MRIM - IMAG/CNRS, France) Combining semantics and texture characterizations for precision-oriented automatic image retrieval Wednesday 23rd, 15:30-17:00:WEB IR -X. Jiang, W. Song (Shanghai Business School, China), H. Zeng (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Applying Associative Relationship on the Clickthrough Data to Improve Web Search -A. Tombros, Z. Ali (Queen Mary University of London, UK) Factors affecting web page similarity -G. Mishne, M. de Rijke (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Boosting Web Retrieval through Query Operations Wednesday 23rd, 17:00: Conference Close ================List of accepted posters:===================================== - -Terrier Information Retrieval Platform B. He, C. Macdonald, D. Johnson (University of Glasgow, UK), G. Amati (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy), I. Ounis, V. Plachouras (University of Glasgow, UK) - -A Low Cost Terabyte Search Engine P. Ferguson, C. Gurrin, A. Smeaton, P. Wilkins (Dublin City University, Ireland) - -Query Formulation for Answer Projection G. Mishne, M. de Rijke (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - -Network Analysis for Distributed Information Retrieval Architectures F. Cacheda, V. Carneiro (University of A Coruña, Spain), V. Plachouras, I. Ounis (University of Glasgow, UK) - -SnapToTell: a Singapore Image Test Bed for Ubiquitous Information Access from Camera J. Chevallet (IPAL-I2R Laboratory, Singapore), J. Lim (I2R A-STAR, Singapore) - -Acquisition of Translation Knowledge of Syntactically Ambiguous Named Entity T. Kutsumi (Sharp Corporation, Japan), T. Yoshimi (Ryukoku University, Japan), K. Kotani (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan), I. Sata (Sharp Corporation, Japan), H. Isahara (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) - -IR & OLAP in XML Document Warehouses J.M. Perez Martínez (Universitat Jaume I,Spain), T. Bach Pedersen (Aalborg University, Denmark), R. Berlanga Llavori, M.J. Aramburu Cabo (Universitat Jaume I,Spain) - -Manipulating the Relevance Models of Existing Search Engines O. Boydell, B. Smyth (University College Dublin, Ireland), A. Smeaton, C. Gurrin (Dublin City University, Ireland) - -Enhancing Web Search Result Lists Using Interaction Histories M. Coyle, B. Smyth (University College Dublín, Ireland) - -An Evaluation of Gisting in Mobile Search K. Church, M.T. Keane, B. Smyth (University College Dublin, Ireland) - -Video shots classification using lexical context S. Ayache, G. Quénot, M. Charhad (CLIPS/IMAG, France) - -Age Dependent Document Priors in Link Structure Analysis C. Hauff (University of Magdeburg, Germany), L. Azzopardi (University of Glasgow, UK) - -Improving Image Representation With Relevance Judgements From the Searchers L. VBoldareva (University of Twente, The Netherlands) - -Temporal Shot Clustering Analysis for Video Concept Detection D. Ding, L. Chen, B. Zhang (Tsinghua University, China) - -IRMAN: Software Framework for IR in Mobile Social Cyberspaces Z. Syed, F. Walsh (The Robert Gordon University, Scotland) - -Assigning Geographical Scopes To Web Pages B. Martins, M. Chaves, M.J. Silva (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) - -AP-based borda voting method for feature extraction in trecvid-2004 L. Chen, D. Ding, D. Wang, F. Lin, B. Zhang (Tsinghua University, China) Contacts: - --------- Dr. David E. 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