- From: Zia Syed <zs@comp.rgu.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:45:30 +0000
- To: zs@comp.rgu.ac.uk
26th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (ECIR '04)
Monday 5th April to Wednesday 7th April, 2004
University of Sunderland,
David Goldman Informatics Centre,
Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St. Peter's,
Sunderland SR6 0DD,
England.
FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Please see our website for details of how to register:
http://ecir04.sunderland.ac.uk
OUTLINE PROGRAMME
Monday 5th April 2004
08.30 - 18.00 Registration Desk Open
09.00 - Welcome (Conference Chairs)
09.15 - 10.30 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: GARY MARCHIONINI
>From Information Retrieval to Information Interaction
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 - 12.30 Main Paper Session: USER STUDIES
A user centred approach to evaluating topic models
Diane Kelly, Fernando Diaz, Nicholas J. Belkin, James Allan
A study of user interaction with a concept-based interactive query
expansion support tool
Hideo Joho, Mark Sanderson, Micheline Beaulieu
Searchers' assessments of task complexity for web searching
David J. Bell and Ian Ruthven
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 Main Paper Session: QUESTION ANSWERING
Evaluating passage retrieval approaches for question answering
Ian Roberts and Robert Gaizauskas
Identification of relevant and novel sentences using reference corpus
Hsin-Hsi Chen, Ming-Feng Tsai, and Ming-Hung Hsu
Answer selection in a multi-stream open domain question answering system
Valentin Jijkoun and Maarten de Rijke
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 - 18.00 Main Paper Session: INFORMATION MODELS
A bideminsional view of documents for text categorization
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio
Query difficulty, robustness and selective application of query
expansion
Giambattista Amati, Claudio Carpineto, and Giovanni Romano
Combining CORI and the decision-theoretic approach for advanced resource
selection
Henrik Nottelmann and Norbert Fuhr
Predictive top-down knowledge improves neural exploratory bottom-up
clustering
Chihli Hung, Stefan Wermter, and Peter Smith
18.30 Welcome Reception, The Prospect Building St. Peters Campus
Tuesday April 6th 2004
08.30 - 18.00 Registration Desk Open
09.00 - 10.30 Main Paper Session: CLASSIFICATION
Contextual document clustering
Valdimir Dobrynin, David Patterson, and Niall Rooney
Complex linguistic features for text classification: a comprehensive
study
Alessandro Moschitti and Roberto Basili
Eliminating High-degree biased character Bigrams for dimensionality
reduction in chinese text categorization
Dejun Xue and Maosung Sun
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break and Posters
11.00 - 12.00 Main Paper Session: SUMMARISATION
Broadcast news gisting using lexical cohesion analysis
Nicola Stokes, Eamonn Newman, Joe Carthy and Alan F. Smeaton
>From Text summarisation to style-specific summarisation for broadcast
news
Heidi Christensen, BalaKrishna Kolluru, Yoshihiko Gotoh and Steve Renals
12.00 - 14.00 Lunch and POSTERS
14.00 - 15.30 Main Paper Session: IMAGE RETRIEVAL
Relevance feedback for cross language image retrieval
Paul Clough and Mark Sanderson
NNk networks for content-based image retreival
Daniel Heesch and Stefan Ruger
Integrating perceptual signal features within a bi-facetted conceptual
model for automatic image retrieval
Belkhatir, M., Mulhem P, and Chiaramella, Y.
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break and Posters
16.00- 17.30 Main Paper Session: EVALUATION ISSUES
Improving retrieval effectiveness by reranking documents based on
controlled vocabulary
Jaap Kamps
A study of the assessment of relevance for the INEX'02 test collection
Gabriella Kazai, Sherezad Masood and Mounia Lalmas
A simulated Study of implicit feedback models
Ryen White, Joemon M. Jose, C.J. van Rijsbergen and Ian Ruthven
19.00 Conference Dinner and Ceilidh, Ramside Hall Hotel, Durham
Wednesday 7th April 2004
08.30 - 12.00 Registration Desk Open
09.15 - 10.00am KEYNOTE SPEAKER: YORICK WILKS
IR and AI: traditions of representation and anti represntation in
information processing.
10.00 - 10.30 Coffee Break
10.30 - 12.00 Main Paper Session: Cross Language IR
Cross-language information retrieval using EuroWordNEt and word sense
disambiguation
Paul Clough and Mark Stevenson
Fault tolerant full text information retrieval in digital multilingual
encyclopedias with weighted pattern morphing
Wolfram M. Esser
Measuring a cross langauge image retrieval system
Mark Sanderson, Paul Clough, Catherine Paterson and Wai Tung Lo
12.00 Lunch
12.30 IRSG AGM
13.30 - 15.30 Main Paper Session: WEB AND XML BASED IR
An optimistic model for searching web directories
Fidel Cacheda and Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Content-aware dataguides: interleaving IR and DB indexing techniques for
efficient retrieval of textual XML data
Felix Weigel, Holger Meuss, Francois Bry, and Klaus U. Schulz
Performance analysis of distributed Architectures to index one terabyte
of text
Fidel Cacheda, Vassilis Plachouras and Iadh Ounis
Applying the divergence from Randomness Approach for content-only search
in XML documents
Mohammed Abolhassani and Norbert Fuhr
CONFERENCE CLOSE
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