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Advances in Information Retrieval

36th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 13-16, 2014, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8416)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

Conference series link(s): ECIR: European Conference on Information Retrieval

Conference proceedings info: ECIR 2014.

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Table of contents (105 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Session 1A: Evaluation

    1. Best and Fairest: An Empirical Analysis of Retrieval System Bias

      • Colin Wilkie, Leif Azzopardi
      Pages 13-25
    2. Tackling Biased Baselines in the Risk-Sensitive Evaluation of Retrieval Systems

      • B. Taner Dinçer, Iadh Ounis, Craig Macdonald
      Pages 26-38
  3. Session 1B: Recommendation

    1. A Personalised Recommendation System for Context-Aware Suggestions

      • Andrei Rikitianskii, Morgan Harvey, Fabio Crestani
      Pages 63-74
  4. Session 2A: Optimization

    1. Optimizing Base Rankers Using Clicks

      • Anne Schuth, Floor Sietsma, Shimon Whiteson, Maarten de Rijke
      Pages 75-87
    2. Predicting Search Task Difficulty

      • Jaime Arguello
      Pages 88-99
    3. Crawling Policies Based on Web Page Popularity Prediction

      • Liudmila Ostroumova, Ivan Bogatyy, Arseniy Chelnokov, Alexey Tikhonov, Gleb Gusev
      Pages 100-111
  5. Session 2B: Semantics

    1. Measuring the Effectiveness of Gamesourcing Expert Oil Painting Annotations

      • Myriam C. Traub, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Jiyin He, Lynda Hardman
      Pages 112-123
    2. Relevance-Ranked Domain-Specific Synonym Discovery

      • Andrew Yates, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
      Pages 124-135
    3. Towards Generating Text Summaries for Entity Chains

      • Shruti Chhabra, Srikanta Bedathur
      Pages 136-147
  6. Session 3A: Evaluation

    1. Evaluation of IR Applications with Constrained Real Estate

      • Yuanhua Lv, Ariel Fuxman, Ashok K. Chandra
      Pages 160-171
  7. Session 3B: Aggregation

    1. Blending Vertical and Web Results

      • Damien Lefortier, Pavel Serdyukov, Fedor Romanenko, Maarten de Rijke
      Pages 184-196
    2. Personalizing Aggregated Search

      • Stanislav Makeev, Andrey Plakhov, Pavel Serdyukov
      Pages 197-209
  8. Session 4A: Queries

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About this book

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 36th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2014, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in April 2014.

The 33 full papers, 50 poster papers and 15 demonstrations presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 288 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: evaluation, recommendation, optimization, semantics, aggregation, queries, mining social media, digital libraries, efficiency, and information retrieval theory. Also included are 3 tutorial and 4 workshop presentations.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Maarten Rijke, Tom Kenter

  • Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Arjen P. Vries

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA

    ChengXiang Zhai

  • University of Twente, Twente, The Netheralnds and Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Franciska Jong

  • SalesPredict, Haifa, Israel

    Kira Radinsky

  • Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK

    Katja Hofmann

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