The assignment, due Feb 2, is explained here.
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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