Advances in Information Retrieval

Reducing Reliance on Relevance Judgments for System Comparison by Using Expectation-Maximization.- Best and Fairest: An Empirical Analysis of Retrieval System Bias.- Tackling Biased Baselines in the Risk-Sensitive Evaluation of Retrieval Systems.- Content + Attributes: A Latent Factor Model for Recommending Scientific Papers in Heterogeneous Academic Networks.- Real-Time News Recommendation Using Context-Aware Ensembles.- A Personalised Recommendation System for Context-Aware Suggestions.- Optimizing Base Rankers Using Clicks: A Case Study Using BM25.- Predicting Search Task Difficulty.- Crawling Policies Based on Web Page Popularity Prediction.- Measuring the Effectiveness of Gamesourcing Expert Oil Painting Annotations.- Relevance-Ranked Domain-Specific Synonym Discovery.- Towards Generating Text Summaries for Entity Chains.- Tolerance of Effectiveness Measures to Relevance Judging Errors.- Evaluation of IR Applications with Constrained Real Estate.- Dissimilarity Based Query Selection for Efficient Preference Based IR Evaluation.- Blending Vertical and Web Results: A Case Study Using Video Intent.- Personalizing Aggregated Search.- HetPathMine: A Novel Transductive Classification Algorithm on Heterogeneous Information Networks.- Leveraging Dynamic Query Subtopics for Time-Aware Search Result Diversification.- A Study of Query Term Deletion Using Large-Scale E-commerce Search Logs.- Detecting Missing Content Queries in an SMS-Based HIV/AIDS FAQ Retrieval System.- Cross-Language Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Techniques for Informal Text.- Hierarchical Multi-label Conditional Random Fields for Aspect-Oriented Opinion Mining.- Generating Pseudo-ground Truth for Predicting New Concepts in Social Streams.- Thumbnail Summarization Techniques for Web Archives.- CiteSeerx: A Scholarly Big Dataset.- User Reviews in the Search Index? That'll Never Work.- A Scalable Gibbs Sampler for Probabilistic Entity Linking.- Effective Kernelized OnlineLearning in Language Processing Tasks.- On Inverted Index Compression for Search Engine Efficiency.- Exploring the Space of IR Functions.- Metric Spaces for Temporal Information Retrieval.- Local Linear Matrix Factorization for Document Modeling.- Video Clip Retrieval by Graph Matching.- EDIUM: Improving Entity Disambiguation via User Modeling.- A Comparison of Approaches for Measuring Cross-Lingual Similarity of Wikipedia Articles.- Challenges on Combining Open Web and Dataset Evaluation Results: The Case of the Contextual Suggestion Track.- Integrating Multiple Resources for Diversified Query Expansion.- Facet-Based User Modeling in Social Media for Personalized Ranking.- Spot the Ball: Detecting Sports Events on Twitter.- Exploiting Result Diversification Methods for Feature Selection in Learning to Rank.- Boilerplate Detection and Recoding.- A Two-level Approach for Subtitle Alignment.- Analyzing Discussions on Twitter: Case Study on HPV Vaccinations.- Automatically Retrieving Explanatory Analogies from Webpages.- Geo-spatial Domain Expertise in Microblogs.- The Impact of Semantic Document Expansion on Cluster-Based Fusion for Microblog Search.- Towards a Classifier for Digital Sensitivity Review.- Unsupervised Approach for Identifying Users' Political Orientations.- User Perception of Information Credibility of News on Twitter.- Sentiment Analysis and the Impact of Employee Satisfaction on Firm Earnings.- Entity Tracking in Real-Time Using Sub-topic Detection on Twitter.- Time-Aware Focused Web Crawling.- Temporal Expertise Profiling.- Assessing Quality of Unsupervised Topics in Song Lyrics.- An Information Retrieval-Based Approach to Determining Contextual Opinion Polarity of Words.- Query Term Suggestion in Academic Search.- The Impact of Future Term Statistics in Real-Time Tweet Search.- Exploring Adaptive Window Sizes for Entity Retrieval.- Score Normalization Using Logistic Regression with Expected Parameters.- MoreInformative Open Information Extraction via Simple Inference.- Learning a Theory of Marriage (and Other Relations) from a Web Corpus.- Learning from User Interactions for Recommending Content in Social Media.- Towards an Entity-Based Automatic Event Validation.- Query Expansion with Temporal Segmented Texts.- On Clustering and Polyrepresentation.- Effects of Position Bias on Click-Based Recommender Evaluation.- Bringing Information Retrieval into Crowdsourcing: A Case Study.- Quality-Based Automatic Classification for Presentation Slides.- Context of Seasonality in Web Search.- On the Effect of Locality in Compressing Social Networks.- Cross-Domain Collaborative Filtering with Factorization Machines.- Improvements to Suffix Tree Clustering.- Deep Learning for Character-Based Information Extraction.- Text-Image Topic Discovery for Web News Data.- Detecting Event Visits in Urban Areas via Smartphone GPS Data.- A Case for Hubness Removal in High-Dimensional Multimedia Retrieval.- Multi-evidence User Group Discovery in Professional Image Search.- Analyzing Tweets to Aid Situational Awareness.- Query-Dependent Contextualization of Streaming Data.- An Exploration of Tie-Breaking for Microblog Retrieval.- Efficiently Estimating Retrievability Bias.- A Language Modeling Approach to Personalized Search Based on Users' Microblog Behavior.- Using Hand Gestures for Specifying Motion Queries in Sketch-Based Video Retrieval.- Page Retrievability Calculator.- ORMA: A Semi-automatic Tool for Online Reputation Monitoring in Twitter.- My First Search User Interface.- Needle Custom Search: Recall-Oriented Search on the Web Using Semantic Annotations.- Khresmoi Professional: Multilingual, Multimodal Professional Medical Search.- DAIKnow: A Gamified Enterprise Bookmarking System.- Search Maps: Enhancing Traceability and Overview in Collaborative Information Seeking.- Visual Interactive Environment for Making Sense of Experimental Data.- TripBuilder: ATool for Recommending Sightseeing Tours.- GTE-Cluster: A Temporal Search Interface for Implicit Temporal Queries.- SQX-Lib: Developing a Semantic Query Expansion System in a Media Group.- EntEXPO: An Interactive Search System for Entity-Bearing Queries.- Column Stores as an IR Prototyping Tool.- CroSeR: Cross-language Semantic Retrieval of Open Government Data.- Bibliometric-Enhanced Information Retrieval.- 4th Workshop on Context-Awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation.- Workshop on Gamification for Information Retrieval (GamifIR'14).- Information Access in Smart Cities (i-ASC).- Designing Search Usability.- Text Quantification.- The Cluster Hypothesis in Information Retrieval.