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31st SIGIR 2008: Singapore
- Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Douglas W. Oard, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Tat-Seng Chua, Mun-Kew Leong:
Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2008, Singapore, July 20-24, 2008. ACM 2008, ISBN 978-1-60558-164-4 - Kai-Fu Lee:
Delighting Chinese users: the Google China experience. 1 - Limsoon Wong:
Guilt by association as a search principle. 2
User interaction models
- Gang Luo, Chunqiang Tang:
On iterative intelligent medical search. 3-10 - Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan:
Effective and efficient user interaction for long queries. 11-18 - Jimmy Lin, Mark D. Smucker:
How do users find things with PubMed?: towards automatic utility evaluation with user simulations. 19-26
Web search - 1
- Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Rabia Nuray-Turan, Sharad Mehrotra:
Towards breaking the quality curse.: a web-querying approach to web people search. 27-34 - Tak-Lam Wong, Wai Lam, Tik-Shun Wong:
An unsupervised framework for extracting and normalizing product attributes from multiple web sites. 35-42 - Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson, Mikhail Bilenko, Allison P. Heath:
Enhancing web search by promoting multiple search engine use. 43-50
Evaluation - 1
- William Webber, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel:
Score standardization for inter-collection comparison of retrieval systems. 51-58 - Azzah Al-Maskari, Mark Sanderson, Paul D. Clough, Eija Airio:
The good and the bad system: does the test collection predict users' effectiveness? 59-66 - Ben He, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis:
Retrieval sensitivity under training using different measures. 67-74
Collaborative filtering
- Bhaskar Mehta, Wolfgang Nejdl:
Attack resistant collaborative filtering. 75-82 - Nathan Nan Liu, Qiang Yang:
EigenRank: a ranking-oriented approach to collaborative filtering. 83-90 - Abhay Harpale, Yiming Yang:
Personalized active learning for collaborative filtering. 91-98
Learning to rank - 1
- Massih-Reza Amini, Tuong-Vinh Truong, Cyril Goutte:
A boosting algorithm for learning bipartite ranking functions with partially labeled data. 99-106 - Jun Xu, Tie-Yan Liu, Min Lu, Hang Li, Wei-Ying Ma:
Directly optimizing evaluation measures in learning to rank. 107-114 - Xiubo Geng, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Andrew Arnold, Hang Li, Heung-Yeung Shum:
Query dependent ranking using K-nearest neighbor. 115-122
High-performance & high dimensional indexing
- Wei Dong, Moses Charikar, Kai Li:
Asymmetric distance estimation with sketches for similarity search in high-dimensional spaces. 123-130 - Gleb Skobeltsyn, Flavio Junqueira, Vassilis Plachouras, Ricardo Baeza-Yates:
ResIn: a combination of results caching and index pruning for high-performance web search engines. 131-138 - Nieves R. Brisaboa, Antonio Fariña, Susana Ladra, Gonzalo Navarro:
Reorganizing compressed text. 139-146
User adaptation & personalization
- Catherine L. Smith, Paul B. Kantor:
User adaptation: good results from poor systems. 147-154 - Shengliang Xu, Shenghua Bao, Ben Fei, Zhong Su, Yong Yu:
Exploring folksonomy for personalized search. 155-162 - Jaime Teevan, Susan T. Dumais, Daniel J. Liebling:
To personalize or not to personalize: modeling queries with variation in user intent. 163-170
Clustering - 1
- Oren Kurland:
The opposite of smoothing: a language model approach to ranking query-specific document clusters. 171-178 - Jian Hu, Lujun Fang, Yang Cao, Hua-Jun Zeng, Hua Li, Qiang Yang, Zheng Chen:
Enhancing text clustering by leveraging Wikipedia semantics. 179-186 - Tao Li, Chris H. Q. Ding, Yi Zhang, Bo Shao:
Knowledge transformation from word space to document space. 187-194
Multilingual & crosslingual retrieval
- Ming-Feng Tsai, Yu-Ting Wang, Hsin-Hsi Chen:
A study of learning a merge model for multilingual information retrieval. 195-202 - Yejun Wu, Douglas W. Oard:
Bilingual topic aspect classification with a few training examples. 203-210 - Tanuja Joshi, Joseph Joy, Tobias Kellner, Udayan Khurana, A. Kumaran, Vibhuti S. Sengar:
Crosslingual location search. 211-218
Relevance feedback
- Xuanhui Wang, Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai:
A study of methods for negative relevance feedback. 219-226 - Zuobing Xu, Ram Akella:
A bayesian logistic regression model for active relevance feedback. 227-234 - Kyung-Soon Lee, W. Bruce Croft, James Allan:
A cluster-based resampling method for pseudo-relevance feedback. 235-242 - Guihong Cao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jianfeng Gao, Stephen Robertson:
Selecting good expansion terms for pseudo-relevance feedback. 243-250
Learning to rank - 2
- Kevin Duh, Katrin Kirchhoff:
Learning to rank with partially-labeled data. 251-258 - John Guiver, Edward Lloyd Snelson:
Learning to rank with SoftRank and Gaussian processes. 259-266 - Adriano Veloso, Humberto Mossri de Almeida, Marcos André Gonçalves, Wagner Meira Jr.:
Learning to rank at query-time using association rules. 267-274 - Ke Zhou, Gui-Rong Xue, Hongyuan Zha, Yong Yu:
Learning to rank with ties. 275-282
Summarization
- Furu Wei, Wenjie Li, Qin Lu, Yanxiang He:
Query-sensitive mutual reinforcement chain and its application in query-oriented multi-document summarization. 283-290 - Meishan Hu, Aixin Sun, Ee-Peng Lim:
Comments-oriented document summarization: understanding documents with readers' feedback. 291-298 - Xiaojun Wan, Jianwu Yang:
Multi-document summarization using cluster-based link analysis. 299-306 - Dingding Wang, Tao Li, Shenghuo Zhu, Chris H. Q. Ding:
Multi-document summarization via sentence-level semantic analysis and symmetric matrix factorization. 307-314
Exploratory search & filtering
- Jeremy Pickens, Gene Golovchinsky, Chirag Shah, Pernilla Qvarfordt, Maribeth Back:
Algorithmic mediation for collaborative exploratory search. 315-322 - Christian Zimmer, Christos Tryfonopoulos, Gerhard Weikum:
Exploiting correlated keywords to improve approximate information filtering. 323-330
Web-search - 2
- Georges Dupret, Benjamin Piwowarski:
A user browsing model to predict search engine click data from past observations. 331-338 - Xiao Li, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero:
Learning query intent from regularized click graphs. 339-346 - Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime Arguello, Jamie Callan, Jaime G. Carbonell:
Retrieval and feedback models for blog feed search. 347-354
Multimedia retrieval
- Changhu Wang, Lei Zhang, Hong-Jiang Zhang:
Learning to reduce the semantic gap in web image retrieval and annotation. 355-362 - Tee Kiah Chia, Khe Chai Sim, Haizhou Li, Hwee Tou Ng:
A lattice-based approach to query-by-example spoken document retrieval. 363-370
Query analysis & models - 1
- Krisztian Balog, Wouter Weerkamp, Maarten de Rijke:
A few examples go a long way: constructing query models from elaborate query formulations. 371-378 - Jiafeng Guo, Gu Xu, Hang Li, Xueqi Cheng:
A unified and discriminative model for query refinement. 379-386 - Georg Buscher, Andreas Dengel, Ludger van Elst:
Query expansion using gaze-based feedback on the subdocument level. 387-394
Non-topicality
- Ioannis Arapakis, Joemon M. Jose, Philip D. Gray:
Affective feedback: an investigation into the role of emotions in the information seeking process. 395-402 - Filip Radlinski, Andrei Z. Broder, Peter Ciccolo, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josifovski, Lance Riedel:
Optimizing relevance and revenue in ad search: a query substitution approach. 403-410 - Min Zhang, Xingyao Ye:
A generation model to unify topic relevance and lexicon-based sentiment for opinion retrieval. 411-418
Probabilistic models
- Mengqiu Wang, Luo Si:
Discriminative probabilistic models for passage based retrieval. 419-426 - Zuobing Xu, Ram Akella:
A new probabilistic retrieval model based on the dirichlet compound multinomial distribution. 427-434 - Thomas Roelleke, Jun Wang:
TF-IDF uncovered: a study of theories and probabilities. 435-442
Analysis of social networks
- Lan Nie, Brian D. Davison:
Separate and inequal: preserving heterogeneity in topical authority flows. 443-450 - Yuting Liu, Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, Ying Zhang, Zhiming Ma, Shuyuan He, Hang Li:
BrowseRank: letting web users vote for page importance. 451-458 - Yida Wang, Jiang-Ming Yang, Wei Lai, Rui Cai, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma:
Exploring traversal strategy for web forum crawling. 459-466
Question-answering
- Gao Cong, Long Wang, Chin-Yew Lin, Young-In Song, Yueheng Sun:
Finding question-answer pairs from online forums. 467-474 - Xiaobing Xue, Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft:
Retrieval models for question and answer archives. 475-482 - Yandong Liu, Jiang Bian, Eugene Agichtein:
Predicting information seeker satisfaction in community question answering. 483-490
Query analysis & models - 2
- Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft:
Discovering key concepts in verbose queries. 491-498 - Mark Sanderson:
Ambiguous queries: test collections need more sense. 499-506 - Michael J. Welch, Junghoo Cho:
Automatically identifying localizable queries. 507-514
Social tagging
- Yang Song, Ziming Zhuang, Huajing Li, Qiankun Zhao, Jia Li, Wang-Chien Lee, C. Lee Giles:
Real-time automatic tag recommendation. 515-522 - Ralf Schenkel, Tom Crecelius, Mouna Kacimi, Sebastian Michel, Thomas Neumann, Josiane Xavier Parreira, Gerhard Weikum:
Efficient top-k querying over social-tagging networks. 523-530 - Paul Heymann, Daniel Ramage, Hector Garcia-Molina:
Social tag prediction. 531-538
Clustering - 2
- Ying Liu, Wenyuan Li, Yongjing Lin, Liping Jing:
Spectral geometry for simultaneously clustering and ranking query search results. 539-546 - Oren Kurland, Carmel Domshlak:
A rank-aggregation approach to searching for optimal query-specific clusters. 547-554 - Xiaodan Zhang, Xiaohua Hu, Xiaohua Zhou:
A comparative evaluation of different link types on enhancing document clustering. 555-562
Content analysis
- Martin Theobald, Jonathan Siddharth, Andreas Paepcke:
SpotSigs: robust and efficient near duplicate detection in large web collections. 563-570 - Jangwon Seo, W. Bruce Croft:
Local text reuse detection. 571-578 - Chien Chin Chen, Meng Chang Chen:
TSCAN: a novel method for topic summarization and content anatomy. 579-586
Learning models for IR
- Emine Yilmaz, Javed A. Aslam, Stephen Robertson:
A new rank correlation coefficient for information retrieval. 587-594 - Gregory Druck, Gideon S. Mann, Andrew McCallum:
Learning from labeled features using generalized expectation criteria. 595-602 - Emine Yilmaz, Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam:
A simple and efficient sampling method for estimating AP and NDCG. 603-610 - Qiaozhu Mei, Duo Zhang, ChengXiang Zhai:
A general optimization framework for smoothing language models on graph structures. 611-618
Text classification
- Gui-Rong Xue, Dikan Xing, Qiang Yang, Yong Yu:
Deep classification in large-scale text hierarchies. 619-626 - Gui-Rong Xue, Wenyuan Dai, Qiang Yang, Yong Yu:
Topic-bridged PLSA for cross-domain text classification. 627-634 - Kai Yu, Shenghuo Zhu, Wei Xu, Yihong Gong:
Non-greedy active learning for text categorization using convex transductive experimental design. 635-642 - Xiaoguang Qi, Brian D. Davison:
Classifiers without borders: incorporating fielded text from neighboring web pages. 643-650
Evaluation - 2
- Ben Carterette, Virgiliu Pavlu, Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam, James Allan:
Evaluation over thousands of queries. 651-658 - Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. Cormack, Olga Vechtomova, Azin Ashkan, Stefan Büttcher, Ian MacKinnon:
Novelty and diversity in information retrieval evaluation. 659-666 - Peter Bailey, Nick Craswell, Ian Soboroff, Paul Thomas, Arjen P. de Vries, Emine Yilmaz:
Relevance assessment: are judges exchangeable and does it matter. 667-674 - Heikki Keskustalo, Kalervo Järvelin, Ari Pirkola, Jaana Kekäläinen:
Intuition-supporting visualization of user's performance based on explicit negative higher-order relevance. 675-682
Posters group 1: evaluation, text collections and user/personalized IR
- Azzah Al-Maskari, Mark Sanderson, Paul D. Clough:
Relevance judgments between TREC and Non-TREC assessors. 683-684 - Ben Carterette, Paul N. Bennett:
Evaluation measures for preference judgments. 685-686 - Sri Devi Ravana, Alistair Moffat:
Exploring evaluation metrics: GMAP versus MAP. 687-688 - Stephen Robertson:
A new interpretation of average precision. 689-690 - Tetsuya Sakai:
Comparing metrics across TREC and NTCIR: : the robustness to pool depth bias. 691-692 - Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin:
Relevance thresholds in system evaluations. 693-694 - William Webber, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel, Tetsuya Sakai:
Precision-at-ten considered redundant. 695-696 - Omar Alonso, Justin Talbot:
Structuring collections with Scatter/Gather extensions. 697-698 - Prasenjit Majumder, Mandar Mitra, Dipasree Pal, Ayan Bandyopadhyay, Samaresh Maiti, Sukanya Mitra, Aparajita Sen, Sukomal Pal:
Text collections for FIRE. 699-700 - Peter G. Anick, Raj Gopal Prasad Kantamneni:
A longitudinal study of real-time search assistance adoption. 701-702 - Ivan Berlocher, Kyung-Il Lee, Kono Kim:
TopicRank: bringing insight to users. 703-704 - Mikhail Bilenko, Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson, G. Craig Murray:
Talking the talk vs. walking the walk: salience of information needs in querying vs. browsing. 705-706 - Qi Guo, Eugene Agichtein:
Exploring mouse movements for inferring query intent. 707-708 - Hideo Joho, David Hannah, Joemon M. Jose:
Emulating query-biased summaries using document titles. 709-710 - Juan F. Huete, Luis M. de Campos, Juan M. Fernández-Luna, Miguel A. Rueda-Morales:
Hierarchical naive bayes models for representing user profiles. 711-712 - Liyan Zhang, Kai Zhang, Chunping Li:
A topical PageRank based algorithm for recommender systems. 713-714 - Yangbo Zhu, Jamie Callan, Jaime G. Carbonell:
The impact of history length on personalized search. 715-716 - Mingfang Wu, Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin:
User preference choices for complex question answering. 717-718 - Mark James Carman, Fabio Crestani:
Towards personalized distributed information retrieval. 719-720 - Julia Luxenburger, Shady Elbassuoni, Gerhard Weikum:
Task-aware search personalization. 721-722
Posters group 2: blog, tagging, opinion analysis and web IR
- Erik Elgersma, Maarten de Rijke:
Personal vs non-personal blogs: initial classification experiments. 723-724 - Maojin Jiang, Shlomo Argamon:
Exploiting subjectivity analysis in blogs to improve political leaning categorization. 725-726 - Ben He, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis:
Ranking opinionated blog posts using OpinionFinder. 727-728 - Aixin Sun, Meishan Hu, Ee-Peng Lim:
Searching blogs and news: a study on popular queries. 729-730 - Mingfang Wu, Andrew Turpin, Justin Zobel:
Aggregated click-through data in a homogeneous user community. 731-732 - Adriana Budura, Sebastian Michel, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Karl Aberer:
To tag or not to tag -: harvesting adjacent metadata in large-scale tagging systems. 733-734 - Baoli Li, Yandong Liu, Ashwin Ram, Ernest V. Garcia, Eugene Agichtein:
Exploring question subjectivity prediction in community QA. 735-736 - Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein:
On the evolution of the yahoo! answers QA community. 737-738 - Maarten Clements, Arjen P. de Vries, Marcel J. T. Reinders:
Detecting synonyms in social tagging systems to improve content retrieval. 739-740 - Chao Zhou, Guang Qiu, Kangmiao Liu, Jiajun Bu, Mingcheng Qu, Chun Chen:
SOPING: a Chinese customer review mining system. 741-742 - Songbo Tan, Yuefen Wang, Xueqi Cheng:
Combining learn-based and lexicon-based techniques for sentiment detection without using labeled examples. 743-744 - Mona Mojdeh, Gordon V. Cormack:
Semi-supervised spam filtering: does it work? 745-746 - Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Iadh Ounis, Ian Soboroff:
Limits of opinion-finding baseline systems. 747-748 - Rong Hu, Weizhu Chen, Peng Bai, Yansheng Lu, Zheng Chen, Qiang Yang:
Web query translation via web log mining. 749-750 - Xing Wei, Fuchun Peng, Benoît Dumoulin:
Analyzing web text association to disambiguate abbreviation in queries. 751-752 - Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke, Wouter Weerkamp:
Bloggers as experts: feed distillation using expert retrieval models. 753-754 - Dennis Fetterly, Nick Craswell, Vishwa Vinay:
Search effectiveness with a breadth-first crawl. 755-756 - Ziyu Guan, Can Wang, Chun Chen, Jiajun Bu, Junfeng Wang:
Guide focused crawler efficiently and effectively using on-line topical importance estimation. 757-758 - Takuya Maekawa, Yutaka Yanagisawa, Yasushi Sakurai, Yasue Kishino, Koji Kamei, Takeshi Okadome:
Web page retrieval in ubiquitous sensor environments. 759-760