Advances in Information Retrieval: 28th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2006, London, UK, April 10-12, 2006, Proceedings Book

	Progress in information retrieval	1
	Enterprise search - the new frontier?	12
	Frequentist and Bayesian approach to information retrieval	13
	Using proportional transportation distances for measuring document similarity	25
	A user-item relevance model for log-based collaborative filtering	37
	Generating search term variants for text collections with historic spellings	49
	Efficient phrase querying with common phrase index	61
	Document length normalization using effective level of term frequency in large collections	72
	Beyond the Web : retrieval in social information spaces	84
	Evaluating Web search result summaries	96
	Measuring the complexity of a collection of documents	107
	Sentence retrieval with LSI and topic identification	119
	Ranking Web news via homepage visual layout and cross-site voting	131
	Clustering-based searching and navigation in an online news source	143
	Mobile clustering engine	155
	Improving quality of search results clustering with approximate matrix factorisations	167
	Adapting the naive Bayes classifier to rank procedural texts	179
	The effects of relevance feedback quality and quantity in interactive relevance feedback : a simulation based on user modeling	191
	Using query profiles for clarification	205
	Lexical entailment for information retrieval	217
	A hybrid approach to index maintenance in dynamic text retrieval systems	229
	Efficient parallel computation of PageRank	241
	Comparing different architectures for query routing in peer-to-peer networks	253
	Automatic document organization in a P2P environment	265
	Exploring URL hit priors for Web search	277
	A study of blog search	289
	A comparative study of the effectiveness of search result presentation on the Web	302
	Bricks : the building blocks to tackle query formulation in structured document retrieval	314
	Structural feedback for keyword-based XML retrieval	326
	Machine learning ranking for structured information retrieval	338
	Generating and retrieving text segments for focused access to scientific documents	350
	Browsing personal images using episodic memory (time + location)	362
	An information retrieval system for motion capture data	373
	Can a workspace help to overcome the query formulation problem in image retrieval?	385
	A fingerprinting technique for evaluating semantics based indexing	397
	A cross-language approach to historic document retrieval	407
	Automatic acquisition of Chinese-English parallel corpus from the Web	420
	Fast discovery of similar sequences in large genomic collections	432
	Using concept-based indexing to improve language modeling approach to genomic IR	444
	The effects on topic familiarity on online search behaviour and use of relevance criteria	456
	PERC : a personal email classifier	460
	Influence diagrams for contextual information retrieval	464
	Morphological variation of Arabic queries	468
	Combining short and long term audio features for TV sports highlight detection	472
	Object-based access to TV rushes video	476
	An efficient computation of the multiple-Bernoulli language model	480
	Title and snippet based result re-ranking in collaborative Web search	484
	A classification of IR effectiveness metrics	488
	Experiments on average distance measure	492
	Phrase clustering without document context	496
	Rapid development of Web-based monolingual question answering systems	501
	Filtering obfuscated email spam by means of phonetic string matching	505
	Sprinkling : supervised latent semantic indexing	510
	Web-based multiple choice question answering for English and Arabic questions	515
	Authoritative re-ranking of search results	519
	Readability applied to information retrieval	523
	Automatic determination of feature weights for multi-feature CBIR	527
	Towards automatic retrieval of album covers	531
	Clustering sentences for discovering events in news articles	535
	Specificity helps text classification	539
	A declarative DB-powered approach to IR	543
	Judging the spatial relevance of documents for GIR	548
	Probabilistic score normalization for rank aggregation	553
	Learning links between a user's calendar and information needs	557
	Supporting relevance feedback in video search	561
	Intrinsic plagiarism detection	565
	Investigating biometric response for information retrieval applications	570
	Relevance feedback using weight propagation	575
	Context-specific frequencies and discriminativeness for the retrieval of structured documents	579