34th European Conference on Information Retrieval

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Full Papers

Cluster Labeling for Multilingual Scatter/Gather in Resource-scarce Languages

Tholpadi, Goutham (Indian Institute of Science, India)

Das, Mrinal (Indian Institute of Science, India)

Bhattacharyya, Chiranjib (Indian Institute of Science, India)

Shevade, Shirish (Indian Institute of Science, India)

Intra-Query Concurrent Pipelined Processing For Distributed Full-Text Retrieval

Jonassen, Simon (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

Bratsberg, Svein Erik (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

Relation based Term Weighting Regularization

Fang, Hui (University of Delaware, United States of America)

Classification of Short Texts by Deploying Topical Annotations

Vitale, Daniele (University of Pisa, Italy)

Ferragina, Paolo (University of Pisa, Italy)

Scaiella, Ugo (University of Pisa, Italy)

Language Modelling of Constraints for Text Clustering

Parapar, Javier (University of A Coruña, Spain)

Barreiro, Álvaro (University of A Coruña, Spain)

Comparing Tweets and Tags for URLs

Harvey, Morgan (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

Elsweiler, David (University of Regensburg, Germany)

Carman, Mark (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)

Exploring Query Patterns in Email Search

Harvey, Morgan (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

Elsweiler, David (University of Regensburg, Germany)

On smoothing average precision

Robertson, Stephen E (Microsoft Research Cambridge, United Kingdom)

Answerer Recommendation with Tensor Factorization in Community Question Answering

Yan, Zhenlei (Tsinghua University, China)

Explaining query modifications: An alternative interpretation of term addition and removal

Hollink, Vera (Centrum Wiskunde Informatica, Netherlands, The)

He, Jiyin (Centrum Wiskunde Informatica, Netherlands, The)

de Vries, Arjen (Centrum Wiskunde Informatica, Netherlands, The)

Retrieving Candidate Plagiarised Documents using Query Expansion

Nawab, Rao Muhammad Adeel (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)

Stevenson, Mark (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)

Clough, Paul (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)

Top-k Retrieval using Facility Location Analysis

Zuccon, Guido (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Azzopardi, Leif (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Zhang, Dell (University of London, United Kingdom)

Wang, Jun (University College London, United Kingdom)

On Aggregating Labels from Multiple Crowd Workers to Infer the Relevance of Documents

Hosseini, Mehdi (University College London, United Kingdom)

Cox, Ingemar (University College London, United Kingdom)

Milic-Frayling, Natasa (Microsoft Research Cambridge)

Kazai, Gabriella (Microsoft Research Cambridge)

Vinay, Vishwa (Microsoft Research Cambridge)

Image Abstraction in Crossmedia Retrieval for Text Illustration

Coelho, Filipe (INESC-Porto; DEI-FEUP)

Ribeiro, Cristina (INESC-Porto; DEI-FEUP)

Predicting the Future Impact of News Events

Gaugaz, Julien (L3S Research Center, Germany)

Siehndel, Patrick (L3S Research Center, Germany)

Demartini, Gianluca (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)

Iofciu, Tereza (L3S Research Center, Germany)

Georgescu, Mihai (L3S Research Center, Germany)

Henze, Nicola (L3S Research Center, Germany)

Axiomatic Analysis of Translation Language Model For Information Retrieval

Karimzadehgan, Maryam (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America)

Zhai, ChengXiang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America)

An Information-Based Cross-Language Information Retrieval System

Li, Bo (Unervisity J. Fourier/Grenoble 1, France)

Gaussier, Eric (Unervisity J. Fourier/Grenoble 1, France)

Detection of News Feeds Items Appropriate for Children

Polajnar, Tamara (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Glassey, Richard (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Azzopardi, Leif (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Improving Field Weighting for Structured Document Retrieval

Kim, Jinyoung (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States of America)

Croft, Bruce (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States of America)

A Framework for Unsupervised Spam Detection in Social Networking Sites

Bosma, Maarten (ISLA, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Meij, Edgar (ISLA, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Weerkamp, Wouter (ISLA, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Interactive Search Support for Difficult Web Queries

Diriye, Abdigani (University College London, United Kingdom)

Kumaran, Giridhar (Microsoft Corporation)

Huang, Jeff (Information School, University of Washington)

A Log-logistic Model-based Interpretation of TF Normalization of BM25

Lv, Yuanhua (University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, United States of America)

Zhai, ChengXiang (University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, United States of America)

Extended Expectation Maximization for Inferring Score Distributions

Dai, Keshi (Northeastern University, USA)

Pavlu, Virgil (Northeastern University, USA)

Kanoulas, Evangelos (The University of Sheffield, UK)

Aslam, Javed (Northeastern University, USA)

An Interactive Paper and Digital Pen Interface for Query-by-Sketch Image Retrieval

Al Kabary, Ihab (University of Basel, Switzerland)

Schuldt, Heiko (University of Basel, Switzerland)

Springmann, Michael (University of Basel, Switzerland)

Kreuzer, Roman (University of Basel, Switzerland)

Result Disambiguation in Web People Search

Berendsen, Richard (ISLA, University of Amsterdam)

Kovachev, Bogomil (ISLA, University of Amsterdam)

Nastou, Evi (ISLA, University of Amsterdam)

de Rijke, Maarten (ISLA, University of Amsterdam)

Weerkamp, Wouter (ISLA, University of Amsterdam)

Score Transformation in Linear Combination for Multi-Criteria Relevance Ranking

Gerani, Shima (University of Lugano, Switzerland)

Zhai, Chengxiang (University of Lugano, Switzerland)

Crestani, Fabio (University of Lugano, Switzerland)

Reliability Prediction of Webpages in the Medical Domain

Sondhi, Parikshit (UIUC, United States of America)

Vydiswaran, Vinod (UIUC, United States of America)

Zhai, ChengXiang (UIUC, United States of America)

Modeling Transactional Queries via Templates

Bortnikov, Edward (Yahoo! Labs)

Donmez, Pinar (Yahoo! Labs)

Kagian, Amit (Yahoo! Labs)

Lempel, Ronny (Yahoo! Labs)

How Random Walks can Help Tourism

Lucchese, Claudio (IMT Lucca, Italy)

Perego, Raffaele (IMT Lucca, Italy)

Silvestri, Fabrizio (IMT Lucca, Italy)

Vahabi, Hossein (ISTI-CNR)

Venturini, Rossano (IMT Lucca, Italy)

Geo-Location Estimation of Flickr Images: Social Web Based Enrichment

Hauff, Claudia (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The)

Houben, Geert-Jan (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The)

A Latent Variable Ranking Model for Content-based Retrieval

Quattoni, Ariadna (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)

Carreras, Xavier (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)

Torralba, Antonio (MIT CSAIL)

New Metrics for Meaningful Evaluation of Informally Structured Speech Retrieval

Eskevich, Maria (Dublin City University, Ireland)

Magdy, Walid (Dublin City University, Ireland)

Jones, Gareth (Dublin City University, Ireland)

Adaptive Time-to-Live Strategies for Query Result Caching in Web Search Engines

Alici, Sadiye (Computer Engineering Dept., Bilkent University, Turkey)

Altingovde, Ismail Sengor (L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany)

Ozcan, Rifat (Computer Engineering Dept., Bilkent University, Turkey)

Cambazoglu, B. Barla (Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain)

Ulusoy, Özgür (Computer Engineering Dept., Bilkent University, Turkey)

Automatic Foldering of Email Messages: a Combination Approach

Tam, Tony (ISEL, Portugal)

Lourenço, André (ISEL, Portugal)

Ferreira, Artur (ISEL, Portugal)

On the Modeling of Entities for Ad-hoc Entity Search in the Web of Data

Neumayer, Robert (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

Balog, Krisztian (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

Nørvåg, Kjetil (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

Full Papers that are accepted as Poster

Integrating Interactive Visualizations in the Search Process of Digital Libraries and IR Systems

Hienert, Daniel (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany)

Sawitzki, Frank (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany)

Schaer, Philipp (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany)

Mayr, Philipp (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany)

Adaptive Temporal Query Modeling

Peetz, Maria-Hendrike (ISLA, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Meij, Edgar (ISLA, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

de Rijke, Maarten (ISLA, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Weerkamp, Wouter (ISLA, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

The Design of a Visual History Tool to help Users Refind Information within a Website

Do, Trien V. (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)

Ruddle, Roy A. (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)

Analyzing, Predicting and Exploiting the Polarity of Opinionated Queries

Chelaru, Sergiu (L3S, Germany)

Altingovde, Ismail Sengor (L3S, Germany)

Siersdorfer, Stefan (L3S, Germany)

Posters

On Theoretically Valid Score Distributions in Information Retrieval

Cummins, Ronan (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland)

O'Riordan, Colm (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland)

Semi-Automatic Document Classification: Exploiting Document Difficulty

Martinez-Alvarez, Miguel (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom; Globe Business Publishing Ltd)

Yahyaei, Sirvan (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom)

Roelleke, Thomas (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom)

Investigating summarization techniques for geo-tagged image indexing

Aker, Ahmet (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)

Fan, Xin (Yahoo! Labs Beijing, China)

Sanderson, Mark (RMIT University, Australia)

Gaizauskas, Robert (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)

Handling OOV Words in Indian-language--English CLIR

Chedda, Parin (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)

Faruqui, Manaal (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)

Mitra, Pabitra (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)

Using a Medical Thesaurus to Predict Query Difficulty

Boudin, Florian (Université de Nantes, France)

Nie, Jian-Yun (Université de Montréal)

Dawes, Martin (University of British Columbia)

Studying a Personality Coreference Network in a News Stories Photo Collection

Devezas, José (Labs SAPO/UP, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto)

Coelho, Filipe (INESC-Porto & Labs SAPO/UP, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto)

Nunes, Sérgio (INESC-Porto & DEI, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto)

Ribeiro, Cristina (INESC-Porto & DEI, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto)

Phrase Pair Classification for Identifying Subtopics

G, Sujatha Das (Penn State University, United States of America)

Mitra, Prasenjit (Penn State University, United States of America)

Giles, C. Lee (Penn State University, United States of America)

Full and Mini-Batch Clustering of News Articles with Star-EM

Gallé, Matthias (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)

Renders, Jean-Michel (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)

Assessing and Predicting Vertical Intent for Web Queries

Zhou, Ke (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Cummins, Ronan (National University of Ireland, Ireland)

Halvey, Martin (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Lalmas, Mounia (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain)

Jose, Joemon (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Predicting IMDB Movie Ratings Using Social Media

Oghina, Andrei (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The)

Breuss, Mathias (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The)

Tsagkias, Manos (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The)

de Rijke, Maarten (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The)

Squeezing the Ensemble Pruning: Faster and More Accurate Categorization for News Portals

Toraman, Cagri (Bilkent University, Turkey)

Can, Fazli (Bilkent University, Turkey)

A General Framework for People Retrieval in Social Media with Multiple Roles

Mantrach, Amin (Xerox Research Center Europe, France)

Renders, Jean-Michel (Xerox Research Center Europe, France)

Analysis of Query Reformulations in a Search Engine of a Local Web Site

Albakour, M-Dyaa (University of Essex, United Kingdom)

Kruschwitz, Udo (University of Essex, United Kingdom)

Nanas, Nikolaos (Cereteth, Greece)

Adeyanju, Ibrahim (RGU, United Kingdom)

Song, Dawei (RGU, United Kingdom)

Fasli, Maria (University of Essex, United Kingdom)

De Roeck, Anne (Open University)

Temporal Pseudo-Relevance Feedback in Microblog Retrieval

Whiting, Stewart William (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Klampanos, Iraklis Angelos (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Jose, Joemon M. (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Learning Adaptive Domain Models from Click Data to Bootstrap Interactive Web Search

Lungley, Deirdre Margaret (University of Essex, United Kingdom)

Kruschwitz, Udo (University of Essex, United Kingdom)

Song, Dawei (The Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom)

A Little Interaction Can Go A Long Way: Enriching the Query Formulation Process

Diriye, Abdigani (University College London, United Kingdom)

Tombros, Tassos (Queen Mary, University of London)

Learning to Rank from Relevance Feedback for e-Discovery

Lubell-Doughtie, Peter B. (Helioid, Inc.)

Hofmann, Katja (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

When Simple is (more than) Good Enough: Effective Semantic Search with (almost) no Semantics

Neumayer, Robert (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

Balog, Krisztian (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

Nørvåg, Kjetil (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

Evaluating Personal Information Retrieval

Kelly, Liadh (Dublin City University, Ireland)

Jones, Gareth (Dublin City University, Ireland)

Bunburry, Paul (Dublin City University, Ireland)

Applying Power Graph Analysis to Weighted Graphs

Bloom, Niels (Pagelink, Netherlands, The)

An Investigation of Term Weighting Approaches for Microblog Retrieval

Ferguson, Paul (CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, Dublin City University)

O'Hare, Neil (CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, Dublin City University)

Lanagan, James (CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, Dublin City University)

Phelan, Owen (CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, University College Dublin)

McCarthy, Kevin (CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, University College Dublin)

On the Size of Full Element-Indexes for XML Keyword Search

Atilgan, Duygu (Google, Ireland)

Altingovde, Ismail Sengor (L3S Research Center, Germany)

Ulusoy, Özgür (Bilkent University, Turkey)

Combining Probabilistic Language Models for Aspect-Based Sentiment Retrieval

García-Moya, Lisette (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)

Anaya-Sánchez, Henry (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)

Berlanga Llavori, Rafael (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)

In Praise of Laziness: A Lazy Strategy for Web Information Extraction

Ozcan, Rifat (Bilkent University, Turkey)

Altingovde, Ismail Sengor (L3S Research Center, Germany)

Ulusoy, Özgür (Bilkent University, Turkey)

Demos

LiveTweet: Monitoring and Predicting Interesting Microblog Posts

Che Alhadi, Arifah (Universitat Koblenz-Landau, Germany)

Gottron, Thomas (Universitat Koblenz-Landau, Germany)

Kunegis, Jérôme (Universitat Koblenz-Landau, Germany)

Naveed, Nasir (Universitat Koblenz-Landau, Germany)

A User Interface for Query-by-Sketch based Image Retrieval with Color Sketches

Al Kabary, Ihab (University of Basel, Switzerland)

Schuldt, Heiko (University of Basel, Switzerland)

Springmann, Michael (University of Basel, Switzerland)

Giangrico, Ivan (University of Basel, Switzerland)

Crisees: Real-Time Monitoring of Social Media Streams to Support Crisis Management

Maxwell, David (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Raue, Stefan (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Azzopardi, Leif (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Johnson, Chris (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Oates, Sarah (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Search Engine for Mailboxes based on Cross-Modal, Topics and Communities Query Expansion

Mantrach, Amin (Xerox Research Center Europe, France)

Renders, Jean-Michel (Xerox Research Center Europe, France)

EmSe: Supporting Children's Information Finding Needs within a Hospital Environment

Azzopardi, Leif (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Glassey, Richard (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Gyllstrom, Karl (KU Leuven)

van der Sluis, Frans (University of Twente)

Eickhoff, Carsten (Technical University of Delft)

Duarte, Sergio (University of Twente)

Retro: Time-based Exploration of Product Reviews

Strötgen, Jannik (Heidelberg University, Germany)

Alonso, Omar (Bing, USA)

Gertz, Michael (Heidelberg University, Germany)

Querium: A Session-Based Collaborative Search System

Diriye, Abdigani (University College London, United Kingdom)

Golovchinsky, Gene (FX Palo Alto lab)

Industry Day

Modeling Static Caching in Web Search Engines

Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Simon Jonassen

Usefulness of Sentiment Analysis

Jussi Karlgren, Magnus Sahlgren, Fredrik Olsson, Fredrik Espinoza, and Ola Hamfors