34th European Conference on Information Retrieval

Program

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	April 1st	April 2nd	April 3rd	April 4th	April 5th
9:00:00			Invited Talk
9:30:00	Tutorials and Workshops	Opening		Retrieval Models II	Industry Day
10:00:00			Invited Talk		Semi Structured Retrieval II		Break
10:30:00									Industry Day
11:00:00	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
11:30:00	Tutorials and Workshops	Query Representation	Applications	Classification, Categorisation and Clustering
12:00:00									Break
12:30:00									Industry Day
13:00:00
13:30:00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
14:00:00									Lunch
14:30:00	Tutorials and Workshops	Blog and Online Community Search	Evaluation	Image and Video Retrieval
15:00:00									Industry Day
15:30:00
16:00:00					Coffee Break	Coffee Break
16:30:00	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Retrieval Models I	Systems Efficiency
17:00:00	Tutorials and Workshops	Semi Structured Retrieval I
17:30:00
18:00:00						Presentation of ECIR 2013 and Closing
18:30:00		Poster and Demo Session
19:00:00
19:30:00
20:00:00
20:30:00			Banquet

The main track of the conference, from April 2nd to April 4th, will be located at the Auditorium of the venue.

Detailed Program

April 2nd

9:45 Opening

10:00 Invited Talk

Studying Network Structures for IR: the Impact of Size

Paolo Boldi, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Query Representation

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

Vera Hollink, Jiyin He, Arjen de Vries

Modeling Transactional Queries via Templates

Edward Bortnikov, Pinar Donmez, Amit Kagian, Ronny Lempel

Exploring Query Patterns in Email Search

Morgan Harvey, David Elsweiler

Interactive Search Support for Difficult Web Queries

Abdigani Diriye, Giridhar Kumaran, Jeff Huang

13:30 Lunch

14:30 Blog and Online-Community Search

Predicting the Future Impact of News Events

Julien Gaugaz, Patrick Siehndel, Gianluca Demartini, Tereza Iofciu, Mihai Georgescu, Nicola Henze

Detection of News Feeds Items Appropriate for Children

Tamara Polajnar, Richard Glassey, Leif Azzopardi

Comparing Tweets and Tags for URLs

Morgan Harvey, Mark Carman, David Elsweiler

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

Claudia Hauff, Geert-Jan Houben

16:30 Coffee Break

16:45 Semi-structured Retrieval I

A Field Relevance Model for Structured Document Retrieval

Jin Young Kim, W. Bruce Croft

Relation based Term Weighting Regularization

Hao Wu, Hui Fang

A New Approach to Answerer Recommendation in Community Question Answering Services

Zhenlei Yan, Jie Zhou

18:30-20:30 Poster & Demo Reception

April 3rd

9:00 Invited Talk

The Surprising Role of Users in Web Search

Yoelle Maarek, Yahoo! Labs Haifa, Israel

10:00 Semi-structured Retrieval II

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

Robert Neumayer, Krisztian Balog, Kjetil Nørvåg

Result Disambiguation in Web People Search

Richard Berendsen, Bogomil Kovachev, Evangelia-Paraskevi Nastou, Maarten de Rijke, Wouter Weerkamp

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Applications

How Random Walks can Help Tourism

Claudio Lucchese, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hossein Vahabi, Rossano Venturini

Retrieving Candidate Plagiarised Documents using Query Expansion

Rao Muhammad Adeel Nawab, Mark Stevenson, Paul Clough

Reliability Prediction of Webpages in the Medical Domain

Parikshit Sondhi, V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran, ChengXiang Zhai

Automatic Foldering of Email Messages: A Combination Approach

Tony Tam, Artur Ferreira, André Lourenço

13:30 Lunch

14:30 Evaluation

On smoothing average precision

Stephen Robertson

New Metrics for Meaningful Evaluation of Informally Structured Speech Retrieval

Maria Eskevich, Walid Magdy, Gareth J. F. Jones

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

Mehdi Hosseini, Ingemar J. Cox, Nataša Milić-Frayling, Gabriella Kazai, Vishwa Vinay

16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 Retrieval Models I

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

Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai

Score Transformation in Linear Combination for Multi-Criteria Relevance Ranking

Shima Gerani, Chengxiang Zhai, Fabio Crestani

Axiomatic Analysis of Translation Language Model For Information Retrieval

Maryam Karimzadehgan, ChengXiang Zhai

20:30 Banquet – La Fontana del Eixample

April 4th

9:30 Retrieval Models II

An Information-based Cross-Language Information Retrieval Model

Bo Li, Eric Gaussier

Extended Expectation Maximization for Inferring Score Distributions

Keshi Dai, Virgil Pavlu, Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam

Top-k Retrieval using Facility Location Analysis

Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Dell Zhang, Jun Wang

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Classification, Categorisation and Clustering

Language Modelling of Constraints for Text Clustering

Javier Parapar, Álvaro Barreiro

A Framework for Unsupervised Spam Detection in Social Networking Sites

Maarten Bosma, Edgar Meij, Wouter Weerkamp

Classification of Short Texts by Deploying Topical Annotations

Daniele Vitale, Paolo Ferragina, Ugo Scaiella

Cluster Labeling for Multilingual Scatter/Gather using Comparable Corpora

Goutham Tholpadi, Mrinal Kanti Das, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, Shirish Shevade

13:30 Lunch

14:30 Image and Video Retrieval

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

Roman Kreuzer, Michael Springmann, Ihab Al Kabary, Heiko Schuldt

Image Abstraction in Crossmedia Retrieval for Text Illustration

Filipe Coelho, Cristina Ribeiro

A Latent Variable Ranking Model for Content-based Retrieval

Ariadna Quattoni, Xavier Carreras, Antonio Torralba

16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 Systems Efficiency

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

Sadiye Alici, Ismail Sengor Altingovde, Rifat Ozcan, B. Barla Cambazoglu, Özgür Ulusoy

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

Simon Jonassen, Svein Erik Bratsberg

(Industry Track) Modeling Static Caching in Web Search Engines

Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Simon Jonassen

Posters

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

Daniel Hienert, Frank Sawitzki, Philipp Schaer, Philipp Mayr

On Theoretically Valid Score Distributions in Information Retrieval

Ronan Cummins, Colm O'Riordan

Adaptive Temporal Query Modeling

Maria-Hendrike Peetz, Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke, Wouter Weerkamp

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

Trien V. Do, Roy A. Ruddle

Analyzing the Polarity of Opinionated Queries

Sergiu Chelaru, Ismail Sengor Altingovde, Stefan Siersdorfer

Semi-Automatic Document Classification: Exploiting Document Difficulty

Miguel Martinez-Alvarez, Sirvan Yahyaei, Thomas Roelleke

Investigating summarization techniques for geo-tagged image indexing

Ahmet Aker, Xin Fan, Mark Sanderson, Robert Gaizauskas

Handling OOV Words in Indian-language–English CLIR

Parin Chheda, Manaal Faruqui, Pabitra Mitra

Using a Medical Thesaurus to Predict Query Difficulty

Florian Boudin, Jian-Yun Nie, Martin Dawes

Studying a Personality Coreference Network in a News Stories Photo Collection

José Devezas, Filipe Coelho, Sérgio Nunes, Cristina Ribeiro

Phrase Pair Classification for Identifying Subtopics

Sujatha Das, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles,

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

Matthias Gallé, Jean-Michel Renders

Assessing and Predicting Vertical Intent for Web Queries

Ke Zhou, Ronan Cummins, Martin Halvey, Mounia Lalmas, Joemon M. Jose

Predicting IMDB Movie Ratings Using Social Media

Andrei Oghina, Mathias Breuss, Manos Tsagkias, Maarten de Rijke

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

Cagri Toraman, Fazli Can

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

Amin Mantrach, Jean-Michel Renders

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

M-Dyaa Albakour, Udo Kruschwitz, Nikolaos Nanas, Ibrahim Adeyanju, Dawei Song, Maria Fasli, Anne De Roeck

Temporal Pseudo-Relevance Feedback in Microblog Retrieval

Stewart Whiting, Iraklis A. Klampanos, Joemon M. Jose

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

Deirdre Lungley, Udo Kruschwitz, Dawei Song

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

Abdigani Diriye, Anastasios Tombros, Ann Blandford

Learning to Rank from Relevance Feedback for e-Discovery

Peter Lubell-Doughtie, Katja Hofmann

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

Robert Neumayer, Krisztian Balog, Kjetil Nørvåg

Evaluating Personal Information Retrieval

Liadh Kelly, Paul Bunbury, Gareth J. F. Jones

Applying Power Graph Analysis to Weighted Graphs

Niels Bloom

An Investigation of Term Weighting Approaches for Microblog Retrieval

Paul Ferguson, Neil O'Hare, James Lanagan, Owen Phelan, Kevin McCarthy

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

Duygu Atilgan, Ismail Sengor Altingovde, Özgür Ulusoy

Combining Probabilistic Language Models for Aspect-Based Sentiment Retrieval

Lisette García-Moya, Henry Anaya-Sánchez, Rafael Berlanga-Llavori,

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

Rifat Ozcan, Ismail Sengor Altingovde, Özgür Ulusoy

Demos

LiveTweet: Monitoring and Predicting Interesting Microblog Posts

Arifah Che Alhadi, Thomas Gottron, Jérôme Kunegis, Nasir Naveed

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

Ivan Giangreco, Michael Springmann, Ihab Al Kabary, Heiko Schuldt

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

David Maxwell, Stefan Raue, Leif Azzopardi, Chris Johnson, Sarah Oates

A Mailbox Search Engine using Query Multi-modal Expansion and Community-based Smoothing

Amin Mantrach, Jean-Michel Renders

EmSe: Supporting Children’s Information Needs within a Hospital Environment

Leif Azzopardi, Doug Dowie, Sergio Duarte, Carsten Eickhoff, Richard Glassey, Karl Gyllstrom, Djoerd Hiemstra, Franciska de Jong, Frea Kruisinga, Kelly Marshall, Sien Moens, Tamara Polajnar, Frans van der Sluis, Arjen de Vries,

Retro: Time-based Exploration of Product Reviews

Jannik Strötgen, Omar Alonso, Michael Gertz

Querium: A Session-Based Collaborative Search System

Abdigani Diriye, Gene Golovchinsky

Best paper award committee

• Nicholas J. Belkin (Rutgers University, USA.) (Chair)
• Ronny Lempel (Yahoo! Research, Israel)
• Benjamin Piwowarski (CNRS, France)
• Donald Metzler (University of Southern California, USA)
• Javed Aslam (Northeastern University, USA)

Best poster award committee

• Joemon Jose (University of Glasgow, UK)
• Pavel Serdyukov (Yandex, Russia)
• Fazli Can (Bilkent University, Turkey)