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International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) (sigir)
2003 (conf/sigir/2003)

  1. Andrei Z. Broder
    Keynote Address - exploring, modeling, and using the web graph. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:1- [Conf]
  2. W. Bruce Croft
    Salton Award Lecture - Information retrieval and computer science: an evolving relationship. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:2-3 [Conf]
  3. Hugo Zaragoza, Djoerd Hiemstra, Michael E. Tipping
    Bayesian extension to the language model for ad hoc information retrieval. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:4-9 [Conf]
  4. ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John D. Lafferty
    Beyond independent relevance: methods and evaluation metrics for subtopic retrieval. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:10-17 [Conf]
  5. Jaime Teevan, David R. Karger
    Empirical development of an exponential probabilistic model for text retrieval: using textual analysis to build a better model. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:18-25 [Conf]
  6. Dell Zhang, Wee Sun Lee
    Question classification using support vector machines. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:26-32 [Conf]
  7. Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua, Shuguang Wang, Chun-Keat Koh
    Structured use of external knowledge for event-based open domain question answering. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:33-40 [Conf]
  8. Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron Fernandes, Gregory Marton
    Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:41-47 [Conf]
  9. Zheng Chen, Shengping Liu, Liu Wenyin, Geguang Pu, Wei-Ying Ma
    Building a web thesaurus from web link structure. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:48-55 [Conf]
  10. Gui-Rong Xue, Hua-Jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying Ma, HongJiang Zhang, Chao-Jun Lu
    Implicit link analysis for small web search. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:56-63 [Conf]
  11. In-Ho Kang, Gil-Chang Kim
    Query type classification for web document retrieval. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:64-71 [Conf]
  12. Susan T. Dumais, Edward Cutrell, Jonathan J. Cadiz, Gavin Jancke, Raman Sarin, Daniel C. Robbins
    Stuff I've seen: a system for personal information retrieval and re-use. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:72-79 [Conf]
  13. Sharon McDonald, John Tait
    Search strategies in content-based image retrieval. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:80-87 [Conf]
  14. Peter G. Anick
    Using terminological feedback for web search refinement: a log-based study. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:88-95 [Conf]
  15. Yiming Yang, Jian Zhang, Bryan Kisiel
    A scalability analysis of classifiers in text categorization. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:96-103 [Conf]
  16. Dmitry V. Khmelev, William John Teahan
    A repetition based measure for verification of text collections and for text categorization. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:104-110 [Conf]
  17. Paul N. Bennett
    Using asymmetric distributions to improve text classifier probability estimates. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:111-118 [Conf]
  18. Jiwoon Jeon, Victor Lavrenko, R. Manmatha
    Automatic image annotation and retrieval using cross-media relevance models. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:119-126 [Conf]
  19. David M. Blei, Michael I. Jordan
    Modeling annotated data. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:127-134 [Conf]
  20. Thijs Westerveld, Arjen P. de Vries
    Experimental result analysis for a generative probabilistic image retrieval model. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:135-142 [Conf]
  21. Paul Ogilvie, James P. Callan
    Combining document representations for known-item search. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:143-150 [Conf]
  22. David Carmel, Yoëlle S. Maarek, Matan Mandelbrod, Yosi Mass, Aya Soffer
    Searching XML documents via XML fragments. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:151-158 [Conf]
  23. Christopher Stokoe, Michael P. Oakes, John Tait
    Word sense disambiguation in information retrieval revisited. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:159-166 [Conf]
  24. Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Jun-ichi Tsujii
    Probabilistic term variant generator for biomedical terms. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:167-173 [Conf]
  25. Sheng Gao, Wen Wu, Chin-Hui Lee, Tat-Seng Chua
    A maximal figure-of-merit learning approach to text categorization. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:174-181 [Conf]
  26. Lijuan Cai, Thomas Hofmann
    Text categorization by boosting automatically extracted concepts. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:182-189 [Conf]
  27. Jian Zhang, Yiming Yang
    Robustness of regularized linear classification methods in text categorization. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:190-197 [Conf]
  28. Nikolaos Nanas, Victoria S. Uren, Anne N. De Roeck
    Building and applying a concept hierarchy representation of a user profile. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:198-204 [Conf]
  29. Nicholas J. Belkin, Diane Kelly, G. Kim, Ja-Young Kim, Hyuk-Jin Lee, Gheorghe Muresan, Muh-Chyun (Morris) Tang, Xiao-Jun Yuan, Colleen Cool
    Query length in interactive information retrieval. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:205-212 [Conf]
  30. Ian Ruthven
    Re-examining the potential effectiveness of interactive query expansion. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:213-220 [Conf]
  31. Georges Dupret
    Latent concepts and the number orthogonal factors in latent semantic analysis. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:221-226 [Conf]
  32. Thomas Rölleke
    A frequency-based and a poisson-based definition of the probability of being informative. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:227-234 [Conf]
  33. David Pinto, Andrew McCallum, Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft
    Table extraction using conditional random fields. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:235-242 [Conf]
  34. Ian Soboroff, Stephen E. Robertson
    Building a filtering test collection for TREC 2002. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:243-250 [Conf]
  35. Makoto Iwayama, Atsushi Fujii, Noriko Kando, Yuzo Marukawa
    An empirical study on retrieval models for different document genres: patents and newspaper articles. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:251-258 [Conf]
  36. Thomas Hofmann
    Collaborative filtering via gaussian probabilistic latent semantic analysis. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:259-266 [Conf]
  37. Wei Xu, Xin Liu, Yihong Gong
    Document clustering based on non-negative matrix factorization. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:267-273 [Conf]
  38. Jidong Wang, Hua-Jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Hongjun Lu, Li Tao, Wei-Ying Ma
    ReCoM: reinforcement clustering of multi-type interrelated data objects. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:274-281 [Conf]
  39. Tao Li, Mitsunori Ogihara, Qi Li
    A comparative study on content-based music genre classification. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:282-289 [Conf]
  40. Henrik Nottelmann, Norbert Fuhr
    Evaluating different methods of estimating retrieval quality for resource selection. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:290-297 [Conf]
  41. Luo Si, James P. Callan
    Relevant document distribution estimation method for resource selection. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:298-305 [Conf]
  42. Mayank Bawa, Gurmeet Singh Manku, Prabhakar Raghavan
    SETS: search enhanced by topic segmentation. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:306-313 [Conf]
  43. James Allan, Courtney Wade, Alvaro Bolivar
    Retrieval and novelty detection at the sentence level. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:314-321 [Conf]
  44. Xiang Ji, Hongyuan Zha
    Domain-independent text segmentation using anisotropic diffusion and dynamic programming. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:322-329 [Conf]
  45. Thorsten Brants, Francine Chen
    A System for new event detection. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:330-337 [Conf]
  46. Kareem Darwish, Douglas W. Oard
    Probabilistic structured query methods. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:338-344 [Conf]
  47. Ari Pirkola, Jarmo Toivonen, Heikki Keskustalo, Kari Visala, Kalervo Järvelin
    Fuzzy translation of cross-lingual spelling variants. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:345-352 [Conf]
  48. Yan Qu, Gregory Grefenstette, David A. Evans
    Automatic transliteration for Japanese-to-English text retrieval. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:353-360 [Conf]
  49. Javed A. Aslam, Robert Savell
    On the effectiveness of evaluating retrieval systems in the absence of relevance judgments. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:361-362 [Conf]
  50. James P. Callan, Fabio Crestani, Henrik Nottelmann, Pietro Pala, Xiao Mang Shou
    Resource selection and data fusion in multimedia distributed digital libraries. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:363-364 [Conf]
  51. Paola Virga, Sanjeev Khudanpur
    Transliteration of proper names in cross-language applications. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:365-366 [Conf]
  52. Brian D. Davison
    Toward a unification of text and link analysis. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:367-368 [Conf]
  53. Leif Azzopardi, Mark Girolami, Keith van Risjbergen
    Investigating the relationship between language model perplexity and IR precision-recall measures. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:369-370 [Conf]
  54. Ikkyu Choi, Minkoo Kim
    Topic distillation using hierarchy concept tree. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:371-372 [Conf]
  55. Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury, David A. Grossman, Ophir Frieder
    Using manually-built web directories for automatic evaluation of known-item retrieval. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:373-374 [Conf]
  56. Yazhong Feng, Yueting Zhuang, Yunhe Pan
    Popular music retrieval by detecting mood. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:375-376 [Conf]
  57. Xuehua Shen, ChengXiang Zhai
    Exploiting query history for document ranking in interactive information retrieval. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:377-378 [Conf]
  58. Rabia Nuray, Fazli Can
    Automatic ranking of retrieval systems in imperfect environments. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:379-380 [Conf]
  59. Richard J. Edens, Helen L. Gaylard, Gareth J. F. Jones, Adenike M. Lam-Adesina
    An investigation of broad coverage automatic pronoun resolution for information retrieval. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:381-382 [Conf]
  60. Xiaoyan Li
    Syntactic features in question answering. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:383-384 [Conf]
  61. Anastasios Tombros, Ian Ruthven, Joemon M. Jose
    Searchers' criteria For assessing web pages. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:385-386 [Conf]
  62. Bodo Billerbeck, Justin Zobel
    When query expansion fails. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:387-388 [Conf]
  63. Victor Lavrenko, Jeremy Pickens
    Music modeling with random fields. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:389-390 [Conf]
  64. Christopher C. Yang, Fu Lee Wang
    Fractal summarization: summarization based on fractal theory. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:391-392 [Conf]
  65. Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu, Robert Savell
    A unified model for metasearch and the efficient evaluation of retrieval systems via the hedge algorithm. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:393-394 [Conf]
  66. Xiangming Mu, Gary Marchionini
    Statistical visual feature indexes in video retrieval. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:395-396 [Conf]
  67. Fatiha Sadat, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Shunsuke Uemura
    Enhancing cross-language information retrieval by an automatic acquisition of bilingual terminology from comparable corpora. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:397-398 [Conf]
  68. Yuen-Hsien Tseng, Da-Wei Juang
    Document-self expansion for text categorization. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:399-400 [Conf]
  69. Iraklis A. Klampanos, Joemon M. Jose
    An architecture for peer-to-peer information retrieval. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:401-402 [Conf]
  70. Ching-Yung Lin, Milind R. Naphade, Apostol Natsev, Chalapathy Neti, John R. Smith, Belle L. Tseng, Harriet J. Nock, W. Adams
    User-trainable video annotation using multimodal cues. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:403-404 [Conf]
  71. Munirathnam Srikanth, Rohini K. Srihari
    Incorporating query term dependencies in language models for document retrieval. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:405-406 [Conf]
  72. Xiao Hu, Sindhura Bandhakavi, ChengXiang Zhai
    Error analysis of difficult TREC topics. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:407-408 [Conf]
  73. Jaap Kamps, Maarten Marx, Maarten de Rijke, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson
    XML retrieval: what to retrieve? [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:409-410 [Conf]
  74. Joan C. Bartlett, Elaine G. Toms
    Discovering and structuring information flow among bioinformatics resources. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:411-412 [Conf]
  75. C. Lee Giles, Yves Petinot, Pradeep B. Teregowda, Hui Han, Steve Lawrence, Arvind Rangaswamy, Nirmal Pal
    eBizSearch: a niche search engine for e-business. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:413-414 [Conf]
  76. James Mayfield, Paul McNamee
    Single n-gram stemming. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:415-416 [Conf]
  77. Tetsuya Sakai
    Average gain ratio: a simple retrieval performance measure for evaluation with multiple relevance levels. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:417-418 [Conf]
  78. Peter Bruza, Dawei Song
    A comparison of various approaches for using probabilistic dependencies in language modeling. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:419-420 [Conf]
  79. Tao Li, Shenghuo Zhu, Mitsunori Ogihara
    Topic hierarchy generation via linear discriminant projection. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:421-422 [Conf]
  80. Innes Martin, Joemon M. Jose
    A personalised information retrieval tool. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:423-424 [Conf]
  81. Robert Krovetz, Secil Ugurel, C. Lee Giles
    Classification of source code archives. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:425-426 [Conf]
  82. Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra
    Passage retrieval vs. document retrieval for factoid question answering. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:427-428 [Conf]
  83. Tetsuya Sakai, Tomoharu Kokubu
    Evaluating retrieval performance for Japanese question answering: what are best passages? [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:429-430 [Conf]
  84. Chih-Fong Tsai, Kenneth McGarry, John Tait
    Image classification using hybrid neural networks. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:431-432 [Conf]
  85. Mark Girolami, Ata Kabán
    On an equivalence between PLSI and LDA. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:433-434 [Conf]
  86. Rosie Jones, Daniel C. Fain
    Query word deletion prediction. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:435-436 [Conf]
  87. Stephen Levin, Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson
    Assessing the effectiveness of pen-based input queries. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:437-438 [Conf]
  88. Jeffery Antoniuk, Mario A. Nascimento
    A light weight PDA-friendly collection fusion technique. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:439-440 [Conf]
  89. Yoshihiko Hayashi, Katsutoshi Ohtsuki, Katsuji Bessho, Osamu Mizuno, Yoshihiro Matsuo, Shoichi Matsunaga, Minoru Hayashi, Takaaki Hasegawa, Naruhiro Ikeda
    Speech-based and video-supported indexing of multimedia broadcast news. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:441-442 [Conf]
  90. Khurshid Ahmad, Bogdan Vrusias, Paulo C. F. de Oliveira
    Summary evaluation and text categorization. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:443-444 [Conf]
  91. Hui Han, Eren Manavoglu, C. Lee Giles, Hongyuan Zha
    Rule-based word clustering for text classification. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:445-446 [Conf]
  92. S. Kagan Agun, Ophir Frieder
    HAT: a hardware assisted TOP-DOC inverted index component. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:447-448 [Conf]
  93. Javed A. Aslam, Meredith Frost
    An information-theoretic measure for document similarity. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:449-450 [Conf]
  94. David A. Evans, Jeffrey Bennett, David A. Hull
    Optimizing term vectors for efficient and robust filtering. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:451-452 [Conf]
  95. J. Stephen Downie
    The TREC-like evaluation of music IR systems. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:453-454 [Conf]
  96. James Allan, Giridhar Kumaran
    Stemming in the language modeling framework. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:455-456 [Conf]
  97. Dawn J. Lawrie, W. Bruce Croft
    Generating hierarchical summaries for web searches. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:457-458 [Conf]
  98. Nadav Eiron, Kevin S. McCurley
    Analysis of anchor text for web search. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:459-460 [Conf]
  99. Daqing He, Jianqiang Wang, Douglas W. Oard, Michael Nossal
    User-assisted query translation for interactive CLIR. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:461- [Conf]
  100. Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Kathleen McKeown, Andrew Hazen Schlaikjer
    DefScriber: a hybrid system for definitional QA. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:462- [Conf]
  101. Cong Yu, H. V. Jagadish, Dragomir R. Radev
    Querying XML using structures and keywords in timber. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:463- [Conf]
  102. Zonghuan Wu, Vijay Raghavan, Chun Du, Komanduru Sai C, Weiyi Meng, Hai He, Clement T. Yu
    SE-LEGO: creating metasearch engines on demand. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:464- [Conf]
  103. Stefano Berretti, James P. Callan, Henrik Nottelmann, Xiao Mang Shou, Shengli Wu
    MIND: resource selection and data fusion in multimedia distributed digital libraries. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:465- [Conf]
  104. Cornelis H. A. Koster
    Head/modifier pairs for everyone. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:466- [Conf]
  105. Ulrich Bohnacker, Ingrid Renz
    Document retrieval from user-selected web sites. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:467- [Conf]
  106. Anton Leuski, Douglas W. Oard, Rahul Bhagat
    eArchivarius: accessing collections of electronic mail. [Citation Graph (0, 0)][DBLP]
    SIGIR, 2003, pp:468- [Conf]
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