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ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Beyond the Web: Retrieval in Social Information Spaces
We research whether the inclusion of information about an information user's social environment and his position in the social network of his peers leads to an improval in sea...
Sebastian Marius Kirsch, Melanie Gnasa, Armin B. C...
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A Declarative DB-Powered Approach to IR
We present a prototype system using array comprehensions to bridge the gap between databases and information retrieval. It allows researchers to express their retrieval models in t...
Roberto Cornacchia, Arjen P. de Vries
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Judging the Spatial Relevance of Documents for GIR
Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) is concerned with the retrieval of documents based on both thematic and geographic content. An important issue in GIR, as for all IR, is rele...
Paul Clough, Hideo Joho, Ross Purves
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Efficient Phrase Querying with Common Phrase Index
Abstract. In this paper, we propose a common phrase index as an efficient index structure to support phrase queries in a very large text database. Our structure is an extension of ...
Matthew Chang, Chung Keung Poon
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A Comparative Study of the Effectiveness of Search Result Presentation on the Web
Presentation of search results in Web-based information retrieval (IR) systems has been dominated by a textual form of information such as the title, snippet, URL, and/or file type...
Hideo Joho, Joemon M. Jose
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A Hybrid Approach to Index Maintenance in Dynamic Text Retrieval Systems
In-place and merge-based index maintenance are the two main competing strategies for on-line index construction in dynamic information retrieval systems based on inverted lists. Mo...
Stefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Authoritative Re-ranking of Search Results
We examine the use of authorship information in information retrieval for closed communities by extracting expert rankings for queries. We demonstrate that these rankings can be us...
Toine Bogers, Antal van den Bosch
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Supporting Relevance Feedback in Video Search
Abstract. WWW Video Search Engines have become increasingly commonplace within the last few years and at the same time video retrieval research has been receiving more attention wi...
Cathal Gurrin, Dag Johansen, Alan F. Smeaton
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Filtering Obfuscated Email Spam by means of Phonetic String Matching
Rule-based email filters mainly rely on the occurrence of critical words to classify spam messages. However, perceptive obfuscation techniques can be used to elude exact pattern ma...
Valerio Freschi, Andrea Seraghiti, Alessandro Bogl...
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
An Efficient Computation of the Multiple-Bernoulli Language Model
Abstract. The Multiple Bernoulli (MB) Language Model has been generally considered too computationally expensive for practical purposes and superseded by the more efficient multino...
Leif Azzopardi, David E. Losada