Advances in Information Retrieval

Multimedia.- Evaluating a Melody Extraction Engine.- Organising and Searching Partially Indexed Image Databases.- Combining Features for Content-Based Sketch Retrieval - A Comparative Evaluation of Retrieval Performance.- The Web.- Combining Web Document Representations in a Bayesian Inference Network Model Using Link and Content-Based Evidence.- An Improved Computation of the PageRank Algorithm.- Serving Enhanced Hypermedia Information.- Query Modification.- The Use of Implicit Evidence for Relevance Feedback in Web Retrieval.- Subject Knowledge, Source of Terms, and Term Selection in Query Expansion: An Analytical Study.- Automatic Profile Reformulation Using a Local Document Analysis.- Soft Computing.- A Study on Using Genetic Niching for Query Optimisation in Document Retrieval.- Concept Based Adaptive IR Model Using FCA-BAM Combination for Concept Representation and Encoding.- Models.- A Layered Bayesian Network Model for Document Retrieval.- Term Frequency Normalization viaPareto Distributions.- Optimal Mixture Models in IR.- Categorization.- Text Categorization: An Experiment Using Phrases.- A Hierarchical Model for Clustering and Categorising Documents.- Uncertainty-Based Noise Reduction and Term Selection in Text Categorization.- Structured Documents.- A Graphical User Interface for Structured Document Retrieval.- The Accessibility Dimension for Structured Document Retrieval.- Cross-Language.- Building Bilingual Dictionaries from Parallel Web Documents.- Translation-Based Indexing for Cross-Language Retrieval.- Interactive Systems.- A Retrospective Evaluation Method for Exact-Match and Best-Match Queries Applying an Interactive Query Performance Analyser.- Genre Classification and Domain Transfer for Information Filtering.