The SIGIR 2003 Papers Assignment

ISU535, Spring 2004 - Professor Futrelle

The assignment, due Feb 2, is explained here.

The papers selected from SIGIR 2003 by Professor Futrelle

for ISU535, Spring 2004

Beyond independent relevance: methods and evaluation metrics for subtopic retrieval 
Cheng Xiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John Lafferty 
Pages: 10 - 17 

Empirical development of an exponential probabilistic
model for text retrieval: using textual analysis to build
a better model
Jaime Teevan, David R. Karger 
Pages: 18 - 25 
 
Structured use of external knowledge for event-based open domain question answering 
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua, Shuguang Wang, Chun-Keat Koh 
Pages: 33 - 40 
 
Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering 
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, Aaron Fernandes, Gregory Marton 
Pages: 41 - 47 
 
Building a web thesaurus from web link structure 
Zheng Chen, Shengping Liu, Liu Wenyin, Geguang Pu, Wei-Ying Ma 
Pages: 48 - 55 
 
Implicit link analysis for small web search 
Gui-Rong Xue, Hua-Jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Chao-Jun Lu 
Pages: 56 - 63 
 
Query type classification for web document retrieval 
In-Ho Kang, GilChang Kim 
Pages: 64 - 71 
 
Stuff I've seen: a system for personal information retrieval and re-use 
Susan Dumais, Edward Cutrell, JJ Cadiz, Gavin Jancke, Raman Sarin, Daniel C. Robbins 
Pages: 72 - 79 
 
Search strategies in content-based image retrieval 
Sharon McDonald, John Tait 
Pages: 80 - 87 
 
Using terminological feedback for web search refinement: a log-based study 
Peter Anick 
Pages: 88 - 95 
 
Automatic image annotation and retrieval using cross-media relevance models 
J. Jeon, V. Lavrenko, R. Manmatha 
Pages: 119 - 126 
  
Experimental result analysis for a generative probabilistic image retrieval model 
Thijs Westerveld, Arjen P. de Vries 
Pages: 135 - 142 
 
Searching XML documents via XML fragments 
David Carmel, Yoelle S. Maarek, Matan Mandelbrod, Yosi Mass, Aya Soffer 
Pages: 151 - 158 
 
Word sense disambiguation in information retrieval revisited 
Christopher Stokoe, Michael P. Oakes, John Tait 
Pages: 159 - 166 
 
Building and applying a concept hierarchy representation of a user profile 
Nikolaos Nanas, Victoria Uren, Anne De Roeck 
Pages: 198 - 204 
 
Query length in interactive information retrieval 
N. J. Belkin, D. Kelly, G. Kim, J.-Y. Kim, H.-J. Lee, G.
Muresan, M.-C. Tang, X.-J. Yuan, C. Cool
Pages: 205 - 212 
 
Re-examining the potential effectiveness of interactive query expansion 
Ian Ruthven 
Pages: 213 - 220 
 
An empirical study on retrieval models for different
document genres: patents and newspaper articles
Makoto Iwayama, Atsushi Fujii, Noriko Kando, Yuzo Marukawa 
Pages: 251 - 258 
 
A comparative study on content-based music genre classification 
Tao Li, Mitsunori Ogihara, Qi Li 
Pages: 282 - 289 
 
SETS: search enhanced by topic segmentation 
Mayank Bawa, Gurmeet Singh Manku, Prabhakar Raghavan 
Pages: 306 - 313 
 
A System for new event detection 
Thorsten Brants, Francine Chen 
Pages: 330 - 337 

THE FOLLOWING FOUR ARE SHORT PAPERS, NOT FOR USE FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENT:

Salton Award Lecture - 
 Information retrieval and computer science: an evolving relationship 
W. Bruce Croft 
Pages: 2 - 3 
 
On the effectiveness of evaluating retrieval systems in
the absence of relevance judgments
Javed A. Aslam, Robert Savell 
Pages: 361 - 362 
 
A unified model for metasearch and the efficient
evaluation of retrieval systems via the hedge algorithm
Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu, Robert Savell 
Pages: 393 - 394 
 
An information-theoretic measure for document similarity 
Javed A. Aslam, Meredith Frost 
Pages: 449 - 450 


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