30th March - 3rd April 2008, Glasgow, Scotland

Programme

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28 Accepted Posters

Ranking Categories for Web Search
Gianluca Demartini, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Adobe Systems Incorporated, Romania
Ingo Brunkhorst, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Wolfgang Nejdl, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

Key Design Issues with Visualising Images using Google Earth
Paul Clough, University of Sheffield, UK
Simon Read, University of Sheffield, UK

Methods for Augmenting Semantic Models with Structural Information for Text Classification
Jonathan M. Fishbein, University of Waterloo, Canada
Chris Eliasmith, University of Waterloo, Canada

Use of Temporal Expressions in Web Queries
Sérgio Nunes, University of Porto, Portugal
Cristina Ribeiro, INESC-Porto, University of Porto, Portugal
Gabriel David INESC-Porto, University of Porto, Portugal

Towards an Automatically Generated Music Information System via Web Content Mining
Markus Schedl, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Peter Knees, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Tim Pohle, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Gerhard Widmer Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Investigating the Effectiveness of Clickthrough Data for Document Reordering
Milad Shokouhi, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Falk Scholer, RMIT University, Australia
Andrew Turpin RMIT University, Australia

Analysis of Link Graph Compression Techniques
David Hannah, University of Glasgow, UK
Craig Macdonald, University of Glasgow, UK
Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, UK

An Evaluation and Analysis of Incorporating Term Dependency for Ad-hoc Retrieval
Hao Lang, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Bin Wang Chinese Academy of Science, China
Gareth Jones Dublin City University, Ireland
Jintao Li, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Yang Xu,Chinese Academy of Science, China

An Evaluation Measure for Distributed Information Retrieval Systems
Florian Holz, University of Leipzig, Germany
Gregor Heinrich, University of Leipzig, Germany
Sven Teresniak University of Leipzig, Germany

Optimizing Language Models for Polarity Classification
Michael Wiegand, Saarland University, Germany
Dietrich Klakow,  Saarland University, Germany

Improving Web Image Retrieval Using Image Annotations and Inference Network
Peng Huang, Zhejiang University, China
Jiajun Bu, Zhejiang University, China
Chun Chen, Zhejiang University, China
Guang Qiu, Zhejiang University, China

Slide-Film Interface: Overcoming Small Screen Limitations in Mobile Web Search
Roman Y. Shtykh, Waseda University, Japan
Jian Chen, Waseda University, Japan
Qun Jin Waseda University, Japan

A Document-centered Approach to a Natural Language Music Search Engine
Peter Knees, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Tim Pohle, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Markus Schedl, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Dominik Schnitzer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Klaus Seyerlehner Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Collaborative Topic Tracking in an Enterprise Environment
Conny Franke, University of California at Davis, US
Omar Alonso,University of California at Davis, US

Graph-based Profile Similarity Calculation Method and Evaluation
Hassan Naderi, Béatrice Rumpler INSA Lyon, France

The Good, the Bad, the Difficult, and the Easy: Something Wrong with Information Retrieval Evaluation?
Stefano Mizzaro, University of Udine, Italy

Hybrid Method for Personalized Search in Digital Libraries
Thanh-Trung Van, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France
Michel Beigbeder, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France

Exploiting Session Context for Information Retrieval - A Comparative Study
Gaurav Pandey, Max-Planck Institute of Informatics, Germany
Julia Luxenburger Max-Planck Institute of Informatics, Germany

Structural Re-Ranking with Cluster-based Retrieval
Seung-Hoon Na POSTECH, South Korea
In-Su Kang KISTI, South Korea
Jong-Hyeok Lee POSTECH, South Korea

Automatic Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia
Martin Potthast, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
Benno Stein, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
Robert Gerling, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany

Evaluating paragraph retrieval for why-QA
Suzan Verberne, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Lou Boves, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Nelleke Oostdijk, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Peter-Arno Coppen, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Revisit of Nearest Neighbor Test for Direct Evaluation of Inter-Document Similarities
Seung-Hoon Na, POSTECH, South Korea
In-Su Kang, KISTI, South Korea
Jong-Hyeok Lee, POSTECH, South Korea

A Comparison of Named Entity Patterns from a User Analysis and a System Analysis
Masnizah Mohd, University of Strathclyde, UK
Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK

Query-based Inter-Document Similarity Using Probabilistic Co-relevance Model
Seung-Hoon Na POSTECH, South Korea
In-Su Kang KISTI, South Korea
Jong-Hyeok Lee POSTECH, South Korea

Using Coherence-based Measures to Predict Query Difficulty
Jiyin He, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Martha Larson, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Maarten de Rijke University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Efficient Processing of Category-Restricted Queries for Web Directories
Ismail Sengor Altingovde, Bilkent University, Turkey
Fazli Can, Bilkent University, Turkey
Özgür Ulusoy, Bilkent University, Turkey

Focused Browsing: Providing Topical Feedback for Link Selection in Hypertext Browsing
Gareth J. F. Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland
Quixiang Li, Dublin City University, Ireland

The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering
Mahboob Alam Khalid, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Valentin Jijkoun, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Maarten de Rijke University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands