SIGIR Forum, Volume 45

Volume 45, Number 1, June 2011

INEX

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  David Alexander, Paavo Arvola, Thomas Beckers, Patrice Bellot, Timothy Chappell, Christopher M. De Vries, Antoine Doucet, Norbert Fuhr, Shlomo Geva, Jaap Kamps, Gabriella Kazai, Marijn Koolen, Sangeetha Kutty, Monica Landoni, Véronique Moriceau, Richi Nayak, Ragnar Nordlie, Nils Pharo, Eric SanJuan, Ralf Schenkel, Andrea Tagarelli, Xavier Tannier, James A. Thom, Andrew Trotman, Johanna Vainio, Qiuyue Wang, Chen Wu:
  Report on INEX 2010. 2-17

Workshop reports

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  Matthew Lease, Vitor R. Carvalho, Emine Yilmaz:
  Crowdsourcing for search and data mining. 18-24
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  Gabriella Kazai, Peter Brusilovsky:
  Report on the BooksOnline'10: third workshop on research advances in large digital book repositories and complementary media. 25-32
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  Jaap Kamps, Jussi Karlgren, Ralf Schenkel:
  Report on the third workshop on exploiting semantic annotations in information retrieval (ESAIR). 33-41
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  Corrado Boscarino, Katja Hofmann, Valentin Jijkoun, Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke, Wouter Weerkamp:
  DIR 2011: the eleventh Dutch-Belgian information retrieval workshop. 42-44
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  Benno Stein, Martin Potthast, Paolo Rosso, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Efstathios Stamatatos, Moshe Koppel:
  Fourth international workshop on uncovering plagiarism, authorship, and social software misuse. 45-48
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  Elena Paslaru Bontas Simperl, Devika P. Madalli, Denny Vrandecic, Enrique Alfonseca:
  DiversiWeb 2011. 49-53
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  Ullas B. Nambiar, L. Venkata Subramaniam:
  Eighth workshop on information integration on the web (IIWeb 2011). 54-55
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  Alejandro Jaimes, Mounia Lalmas, Yana Volkovich:
  First international workshop on social media engagement (SoME 2011). 56-62
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  Bettina Berendt, Laura Hollink, Vera Hollink, Markus Luczak-Rösch, Knud Möller, David Vallet:
  Usage analysis and the web of data. 63-69

Note

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  Douglas W. Oard, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Jonathan Furner, Gary Marchionini:
  Publishing survey articles on information retrieval topics. 70-72

Dissertation abstracts

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  Gianluca Demartini:
  From people to entities: typed search in the enterprise and the web. 73
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  Jia Tina Du:
  Multitasking, cognitive coordination and cognitive shifts during web searching. 74
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  Ronald T. Fernández:
  Improving search effectiveness in sentence retrieval and novelty detection. 75-76
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  Bouke Huurnink:
  Search in audiovisual broadcast archives. 77
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  Marijn Koolen:
  The meaning of structure: the value of link evidence for information retrieval. 78-79
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  Edgar Meij:
  Combining concepts and language models for information access. 80

Volume 45, Number 2, December 2011

Conference and summer school reports

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  Kalervo Järvelin:
  IR research: systems, interaction, evaluation and theories. 17-31
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  Paul D. Clough, Nicola Ferro, Pamela Forner, Julio Gonzalo, Bouke Huurnink, Jaana Kekäläinen, Mounia Lalmas, Vivien Petras, Maarten de Rijke:
  CLEF 2011: conference on multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation. 32-37
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  Irwin King, Hang Li:
  The fourth ACM international conference on web search and data mining (WSDM 2011). 38-40
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  Ken Church, Jian-Yun Nie, Le Sun, Maosong Sun, Haifeng Wang, Endong Xun:
  Report on the first summer school on NLP and IR in Beijing. 41-42

SIGIR workshop reports

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  Krisztian Balog, Arjen P. de Vries, Pavel Serdyukov, Ji-Rong Wen:
  The first international workshop on entity-oriented search (EOS). 43-50
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  Nicholas J. Belkin, Charles L. A. Clarke, Ning Gao, Jaap Kamps, Jussi Karlgren:
  Report on the SIGIR workshop on "entertain me": supporting complex search tasks. 51-59
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  Paul N. Bennett, Khalid El-Arini, Thorsten Joachims, Krysta Marie Svore:
  Enriching information retrieval. 60-65
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  Matthew Lease, Emine Yilmaz:
  Crowdsourcing for information retrieval. 66-75

ECIR workshop reports

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  Ben Carterette, Paul D. Clough, Evangelos Kanoulas, Mark Sanderson:
  Report on the ECIR 2011 workshop on information retrieval over query sessions. 76-80
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  Liadh Kelly, Jinyoung Kim, David Elsweiler:
  Workshop on evaluating personal search. 81-86
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  Craig Macdonald, Charles L. A. Clarke, Jun Wang:
  The 1st international workshop on diversity in document retrieval. 87-93

Other workshop reports

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  Maristella Agosti, Ernesto William De Luca, Séamus Lawless, Johannes Leveling:
  PMHR 2011: the first workshop on personalised multilingual hypertext retrieval. 94-98
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  Carlos Castillo, Zoltán Gyöngyi, Adam Jatowt, Katsumi Tanaka:
  Report on the joint WICOW/AIRWeb workshop on web quality (WebQuality 2011). 99-101
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  Robert Capra, Gene Golovchinsky, Bill Kules, Daniel M. Russell, Catherine L. Smith, Daniel Tunkelang, Ryen W. White:
  HCIR 2011: the fifth international workshop on human-computer interaction and information retrieval. 102-107

Dissertation abstracts

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  Rianne Kaptein:
  Effective focused retrieval by exploiting query context and document structure. 108
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  Junte Zhang:
  System evaluation of archival description and access. 109-110