Advances in Information Retrieval Theory: Second International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2009 Cambridge, UK, September 10-12, 2009 Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Is There Something Quantum-Like about the Human Mental Lexicon?....Pages 1-1
Score Distributions in Information Retrieval....Pages 139-151
Modeling the Score Distributions of Relevant and Non-relevant Documents....Pages 152-163
Modeling Expected Utility of Multi-session Information Distillation....Pages 164-175
Specificity Aboutness in XML Retrieval....Pages 176-187
An Effectiveness Measure for Ambiguous and Underspecified Queries....Pages 188-199
An Analysis of NP-Completeness in Novelty and Diversity Ranking....Pages 200-211
From “Identical” to “Similar”: Fusing Retrieved Lists Based on Inter-document Similarities....Pages 212-223
Probably Approximately Correct Search....Pages 2-16
PageRank: Splitting Homogeneous Singular Linear Systems of Index One....Pages 17-28
Training Data Cleaning for Text Classification....Pages 29-41
Semi-parametric and Non-parametric Term Weighting for Information Retrieval....Pages 42-53
Bridging Language Modeling and Divergence from Randomness Models: A Log-Logistic Model for IR....Pages 54-65
Ordinal Regression Based Model for Personalized Information Retrieval....Pages 66-78
Navigating in the Dark: Modeling Uncertainty in Ad Hoc Retrieval Using Multiple Relevance Models....Pages 79-91
 A Belief Model of Query Difficulty That Uses Subjective Logic ....Pages 92-103
 “A term is known by the company it keeps” : On Selecting a Good Expansion Set in Pseudo-Relevance Feedback....Pages 104-115
An Effective Approach to Verbose Queries Using a Limited Dependencies Language Model....Pages 116-127
Time-Sensitive Language Modelling for Online Term Recurrence Prediction....Pages 128-138
A Quantum-Based Model for Interactive Information Retrieval....Pages 224-231
The Quantum Probability Ranking Principle for Information Retrieval....Pages 232-240
Written Texts as Statistical Mechanical Problem....Pages 241-248
What Happened to Content-Based Information Filtering?....Pages 249-256
Prior Information and the Determination of Event Spaces in Probabilistic Information Retrieval Models....Pages 257-264
Robust Word Similarity Estimation Using Perturbation Kernels....Pages 265-272
Possibilistic Similarity Estimation and Visualization....Pages 273-280
A New Measure of the Cluster Hypothesis....Pages 281-288
Explaining User Performance in Information Retrieval: Challenges to IR Evaluation....Pages 289-296
A Four-Factor User Interaction Model for Content-Based Image Retrieval....Pages 297-304
Predicting Query Performance by Query-Drift Estimation....Pages 305-312
What’s in a Link? From Document Importance to Topical Relevance....Pages 313-321
Avoiding Bias in Text Clustering Using Constrained K-means and May-Not-Links....Pages 322-329
Optimizing WebPage Interest....Pages 330-337
The “Beautiful” in Information....Pages 338-341
IR Evaluation without a Common Set of Topics....Pages 342-345
An Ad Hoc Information Retrieval Perspective on PLSI through Language Model Identification....Pages 346-349
Less Is More: Maximal Marginal Relevance as a Summarisation Feature....Pages 350-353
On the Notion of “An Information Need”....Pages 354-357
A Logical Inference Approach to Query Expansion with Social Tags....Pages 358-361
Evaluating Mobile Proactive Context-Aware Retrieval: An Incremental Benchmark....Pages 362-365
Predicting the Usefulness of Collection Enrichment for Enterprise Search....Pages 366-370
Ranking List Dispersion as a Query Performance Predictor....Pages 371-374
Semi-subsumed Events: A Probabilistic Semantics of the BM25 Term Frequency Quantification....Pages 375-379
Batch-Mode Computational Advertising Based on Modern Portfolio Theory....Pages 380-383
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