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. G�th, T. Kiezer (University of Veszpr�m, 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 (Universit� de Neuch�tel, Switzerland) Features Combination
for Extracting Gene Functions from MedLine
-S. L. Ch�ar (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. Fern�ndez-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. Kek�l�inen (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 Sup�rieure 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. J�rvelin (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. R�ger (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 Coru�a, 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 Mart�nez (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 Dubl�n, 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. Qu�not, 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 Ci�ncias 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:
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Dr. David E. Losada
Grupo de Sistemas Inteligentes
Dept. Electr�nica y Computaci�n
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Campus sur s/n
15782 Santiago de Compostela
Spain
Tel: +34 981563100 x13572
Fax: +34 981528012
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dr. Juan M. Fern�ndez Luna
Grupo de Tratamiento de Incertidumbre en Inteligencia Artificial
Dept. Ciencias de la Computaci�n e Inteligencia Artificial
Universidad de Granada
Escuela T�cnica Superior de Ingenier�a Inform�tica
C/ Periodista Daniel Saucedo Aranda, s/n.
18071 Granada
Spain
Tel: +34 958 240465
Fax: +34 958 243317
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
