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On the Effectiveness of Evaluating Retrieval Systems in the Absence of Relevance Judgments. Javed Aslam (Dartmouth College), Robert Savell (Dartmouth College).
Resource Selection and Data Fusion in Multimedia Distributed Digital Libraries. Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University), Fabio Crestani (University of Strathclyde), Henrik Nottelmann (Gerhard Mercator University of Duisburg), Pietro Pala (Universit`a degli Studi di Firenze), Xiao Mang Shou (University of Sheffield, Sheffield).
Transliteration of Proper Names in Cross-Language Applications. Paola Virga (Johns Hopkins University), Sanjeev Khudanpur (Johns Hopkins University).
Toward a Unification of Text and Link Analysis. Brian D. Davison (Lehigh University).
Investigating the Relationship between Language Model Perplexity and IR Precision-Recall Measures. Leif Azzopardi (University of Paisley), Mark Girolami (University of Paisley), Keith van Rijsbergen (University of Glasgow).
Topic Distillation using Hierarchy Concept Tree. Ikkyu Choi (Ajou University), Minkoo Kim (Ajou University).
Using Manually-built Web Directories for Automatic Evaluation of Known-Item Retrieval. Steven M. Beitzel (Illinois Institute of Technology), Eric C. Jensen (Illinois Institute of Technology), Abdur Chowdhury (Illinois Institute of Technology), David Grossman (Illinois Institute of Technology), Ophir Frieder (Illinois Institute of Technology).
Popular Music Retrieval by Detecting Mood. Yazhong Feng (Zhejiang University), Yueting Zhuang (Zhejiang University), Yunhe Pan (Zhekjiang University).
Exploiting Query History for Document Ranking in Interactive Information Retrieval. Xuehua Shen (University of Illinois), ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois).
Automatic Ranking of Retrieval Systems in Imperfect Environments. Rabia Nuray (Bilkent University), Fazli Can (Miami University).
An Investigation of Broad Coverage Automatic Pronoun Resolution for Information Retrieval. Richard J. Edens (University of Exeter), Helen L. Gaylard (University of Exeter), Gareth J. F. Jones (University of Exeter), Adenike M. Lam-Adesina (University of Exeter).
Syntactic Features in Question Answering. Li, Xiaoyan (University of Massachusetts).
Searchers' Criteria For Assessing Web Pages. Anastasios Tombros (University of Glasgow), Ian Ruthven (University of Strathclyde), Joemon Jose (University of Glasgow).
When Query Expansion Fails. Bodo Billerbeck (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Justin Zobel (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology).
Music Modeling with Random Fields. Victor Lavrenko (University of Massachusetts), Jeremy Pickens (University of Massachusetts).
Fractal Summarization: Summarization Based on Fractal Theory. Christopher C. Yang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Fe Lee Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong).
A Unified Model for Metaseach and the Efficient Evaluation of Retrieval Systems via the Hedge Algorithm for Online Learning. Javed Aslam (Dartmouth College), Virgil Pavlu (Dartmouth College), Robert Savell (Dartmouth College).
Statistical Visual Feature Indexes in Video Retrieval. Xiangming Mu (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Cary Marchionini (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
Enhancing Cross-Language Information Retrieval by an Automatic Acquisition of Bilingual Terminology from Comparable Corpora. Fatiha SADAT (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Masatoshi YOSHIKAWA (Nagoya University), Shunsuke UEMURA (Nara Institute of Science and Technology).
Document-Self Expansion for Text Categorization. Yuen-Hsien Tseng (Fu Jen Catholic University), Da-Wei Juang (Fu Jen Catholic University).
An Architecture for Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval. Iraklis A Klampanos (University of Glasgow), Joemon M Jose (University of Glasgow).
User-trainable Video Annotation Using Multimodal Cues. HJ Nock (IBM), G Iyengar C-Y Lin MR Naphade C Neti B Tseng + JR Smith .
Incorporating Incorporating Query Term Dependencies in Language Models for Document Retrieval. Munirathnam Srikanth (State University of New York), Rohini Srihari (State University of New York).
Error Analysis of Difficult TREC Topics. Xiao Hu (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Sindhura Bandhakavi (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign).
Improved Promoter Prediction by Two-Phase Neural Network. Neng-Wen Lo (Tunghai University), S. Wesley Changchien (Chaoyang University of Technology), Yi-Feng Chang (Chaoyang University of Technology).
XML Retrieval: What to Retrieve?. Jaap Kamps (Language and Inference Technology Group), Maarten Marx (Language and Inference Technology Group), Maarten de Rijke (Language and Inference Technology Group), Borkur Sigurbjornsson (Language and Inference Technology Group).
Discovering and Structuring Information Flow Among Bioinformatics Resources. Joan C. Bartlett (University of Toronto), Elaine G. Toms (University of Toronto).
A Niche Search Engine For e-Business. Yves Petinot (Pennsylvania State University), Pradeep B. Teregowda (Pennsylvania State University), Hui Han (Pennsylvania State University), C. Lee Giles (Pennsylvania State University), Steve Lawrence (Google Inc.), Arvind Rangaswamy (Pennsylvania State University).
Single N-gram Stemming. James Mayfield (JHU/APL), Paul McNamee (JHU/APL).
Average Gain Ratio: A Simple Retrieval Performance Measure for Evaluation with Multiple Relevance Levels. Tetsuya Sakai (Toshiba Corporate R&D Center).
A Comparison of Various Approaches for Using Probabilistic Dependencies in Language modeling. Peter Bruza (University of Queensland), Dawei Song (University of Queensland).
Document Hierarchy Structure Generation Via Discriminant Linear Projection. Tao Li (University of Rochester).
A Personalised Information Retrieval Tool. Innes Martin (University of Glasgow), Joemon Jose (University of Glasgow).
Classification of Source Code Archives. Robert Krovetz (NEC Laboratories America), Secil Ugurel (NEC Laboratories America), and C Lee Giles (Pennsylvania State University).
Passsage Retrieval vs. Document Retrieval for Factoid Question Answering. Charles L. A. Clarke (University of Waterloo), Egidio L. Terra (University of Waterloo).
Evaluating Retrieval Performance for Japanese Question Answering: What Are Best Passages?. Tetsuya Sakai (), Tomoharu Kokubu tomoharu.kokubu@toshiba.co.jp ().
Image Classification Using Hybrid Neural Networks. Chih-Fong Tsai (The Informatics Centre), Ken McGarry (The Informatics Centre), John Tait (The Informatics Centre).
On an Equivalence between PLSI and LDA. Mark Girolami (University of Paisley), Ata Kaban (University of Birmingham).
Query Word Deletion Prediction. Rosie Jones (Overture Services, Inc.), Daniel C. Fain (Overture Services, Inc.).
Assessing The Effectiveness of Pen-Based Input Queries. Steve Lvein (University of Sheffield), Paul Clough (University of Sheffield), Mark Sanderson (University of Sheffield).
A Light Weight PDA-Friendly Collection Fusion Technique. Jeffery Antoniuk (Univ. of Alberta), Mario A. Nascimento (Univ. of Alberta).
Speech-based and Video-supported Indexing of Multimedia Broadcast News. Yoshihiko Hayashi (NTT Cyberspace Labs.), Katsutoshi Ohtsuki (NTT Cyberspace Labs.), Katsuji Bessho (NTT Cyberspace Labs.), Osamu Mizuno (NTT Cyberspace Labs.), Yoshihiro Matsuo (NTT Cyberspace Labs.), Shoichi Matsunaga (NTT Cyberspace Labs.).
Summary Evaluation and Text Categorization. Khurshid Ahmad (University of Surrey), Bogdan L Vrusias (University of Surrey), Paulo C F de Oliveira (University of Surrey).
Rule-based Word Clustering for Text Classification. Hui Han (Pennsylvania State University), Eren Manavoglu (Pennsylvania State University), C. Lee Giles (Pennsylvania State University), Hongyuan Zha (Pennsylvania State University).
HAT: A HARDWARE ASSISTED TOP-DOC INVERTED INDEX COMPONENT. Salih Kagan Agun (Illinois Institute of Technology), Ophir Frieder (Illinois Institute of Technology).
An Information-theoretic Measure for Document Similarity. Javed Aslam (Dartmouth College), Meredith Frost (Dartmouth College).
Optimizing Term Vectors for Efficient and Robust Filtering. David A. Evans (Clairvoyance Corporation), Jeffrey Bennett (Clairvoyance Corporation), David A. Hull , (Clairvoyance Corporation).
The TREC-like Evaluation of Music Information Retrieval Systems: Challenges and Progress. J. Stephen Downie (GSLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
Stemming in the Language Modeling Framework. James Allan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Giridhar Kumaran (University of Massachusetts, Amherst).
Generating Hierarchical Summaries for Web Searches. Dawn J. Lawrie (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst), W. Bruce Croft (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst).
Analysis of Anchor Text for Web Search. Nadav Eiron (IBM Almaden Research Center), Kevin S. McCurley (IBM Almaden Research Center).