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

Programme

Full Papers Short Papers Posters

19 Accepted Short Papers

Applying Maximum Entropy to Known-Item Email Retrieval
Sirvan Yahyaei, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Christof Monz, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

The Impact of Semantic Class Identification and Semantic Role Labeling on Natural Language Answer Extraction
Bahadorreza Ofoghi, University of Ballarat, Australia
John Yearwood, University of Ballarat, Australia
Liping Ma, University of Ballarat, Australia

Improving Complex Interactive Question Answering with Wikipedia Anchor Text
Ian MacKinnon, University of Waterloo, Canada
Olga Vechtomova, University of Waterloo, Canada

A Cluster-Sensitive Graph Model for Query-Oriented Multi-Document Summarization
Furu Wei, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Wenjie Li, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Evaluating Text Representations for Retrieval of the Best Group of Documents
Xiaoyong Liu, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA

Semantic Relationships in Multi-modal Graphs for Automatic Image Annotation
Vassilios Stathopoulos, University of Glasgow, UK
Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, UK

Conversation Detection in Email Systems
Shai Erera, University of Haifa, Israel
David Carmel, IBM Research in Haifa, Israel

A Wikipedia-based Multilingual Document Model for Cross-Language Plagiarism Detection
Martin Potthast, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
Benno Stein, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
Maik Anderka, University of Paderborn, Germany

Expert Search Evaluation by Supporting Documents
Craig Macdonald, University of Glasgow, UK
Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, UK

Towards Characterization of Actor Evolution and Interactions in News Corpora
Rohan Choudhary, Indian Insititute of Technology, India
Amitabha Bagchi, Indian Insititute of Technology, India
Sameep Mehta, IBM Research, India

Accessibility in Information Retrieval
Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow, UK
Vishwa Vinay, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK

Finding the Best Picture: Cross-Media Retrieval of Content
Xu Zhang, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Koen Deschacht, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Ontology Matching Using Vector Space
Zahra Eidoon, University of Tehran, Iran
Nasser Yazdani, University of Tehran, Iran
Farhad Oroumchian, University of Wollongong , Dubai

Efficient Multimedia Time Series Data Retrieval under Uniform Scaling and Normalization
Waiyawuth Euachongprasit, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Chotirat Ann Ratanamahatana, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Enhancing Relevance Models with Adaptive Passage Retrieval
Xiaoyan Li, Mount Holyoke College, USA

Integrating Structure and Meaning: A New Method for Encoding Structure for Text Classification
Jonathan Fishbein, University of Waterloo, Canada
Chris Eliasmith, University of Waterloo, Canada

Robust Query-specific Pseudo Feedback Document Selection for Query Expansion
Qiang Huang, The Open University, UK
Dawei Song, The Open University, UK
Stefan Rueger, The Open University,UK

Computing Information Retrieval Performance Measures Efficiently in the Presence of Tied Scores
Frank McSherry, Microsoft Research, USA
Marc Najork, Microsoft Research, USA

Filaments of meaning in word space
Jussi Karlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
Anders Holst, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
Magnus Sahlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden