Advances in Information Retrieval 2006

Query Formulation in Structured Document Retrieval.- Structural Feedback for Keyword-Based XML Retrieval.- Machine Learning Ranking for Structured Information Retrieval.- Generating and Retrieving Text Segments for Focused Access to Scientific Documents.- Multimedia.- Browsing Personal Images Using Episodic Memory (Time + Location).- An Information Retrieval System for Motion Capture Data.- Can a Workspace Help to Overcome the Query Formulation Problem in Image Retrieval?.- Cross-Language Retrieval.- A Fingerprinting Technique for Evaluating Semantics Based Indexing.- A Cross-Language Approach to Historic Document Retrieval.- Automatic Acquisition of Chinese-English Parallel Corpus from the Web.- Genomic IR.- Fast Discovery of Similar Sequences in Large Genomic Collections.- Using Concept-Based Indexing to Improve Language Modeling Approach to Genomic IR.- Posters.- The Effects on Topic Familiarity on Online Search Behaviour and Use of Relevance Criteria.- PERC: A Personal Email Classifier.- Influence Diagrams for Contextual Information Retrieval.- Morphological Variation of Arabic Queries.- Combining Short and Long Term Audio Features for TV Sports Highlight Detection.- Object-Based Access to TV Rushes Video.- An Efficient Computation of the Multiple-Bernoulli Language Model.- Title and Snippet Based Result Re-ranking in Collaborative Web Search.- A Classification of IR Effectiveness Metrics.- Experiments on Average Distance Measure.- Phrase Clustering Without Document Context.- Rapid Development of Web-Based Monolingual Question Answering Systems.- Filtering Obfuscated Email Spam by means of Phonetic String Matching.- Sprinkling: Supervised Latent Semantic Indexing.- Web-Based Multiple Choice Question Answering for English and Arabic Questions.- Authoritative Re-ranking of Search Results.- Readability Applied to Information Retrieval.- Automatic Determination of Feature Weights for Multi-feature CBIR.- Towards Automatic Retrieval of Album Covers.- Clustering Sentences for Discovering Events in News Articles.- Specificity Helps Text Classification.- A Declarative DB-Powered Approach to IR.- Judging the Spatial Relevance of Documents for GIR.- Probabilistic Score Normalization for Rank Aggregation.- Learning Links Between a User's Calendar and Information Needs.- Supporting Relevance Feedback in Video Search.- Intrinsic Plagiarism Detection.- Investigating Biometric Response for Information Retrieval Applications.- Relevance Feedback Using Weight Propagation.- Context-Specific Frequencies and Discriminativeness for the Retrieval of Structured Documents.