Advances in Information Retrieval Theory: Third International Conference, ICTIR 2011, Bertinoro, Italy, September 12-14, 2011. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Axiomatic Analysis and Optimization of Information Retrieval Models....Pages 1-1
What Is Quantum Information Retrieval?....Pages 2-2
User Perspectives on Query Difficulty....Pages 3-14
A Unified Framework for Post-Retrieval Query-Performance Prediction....Pages 15-26
Predicting the Performance of Recommender Systems: An Information Theoretic Approach....Pages 27-39
Trading Spaces: On the Lore and Limitations of Latent Semantic Analysis....Pages 40-51
Quantum Latent Semantic Analysis....Pages 52-63
Pure High-Order Word Dependence Mining via Information Geometry....Pages 64-76
Promoting Divergent Terms in the Estimation of Relevance Models....Pages 77-88
Is Document Frequency Important for PRF?....Pages 89-100
Model-Based Inference about IR Systems....Pages 101-112
Selecting a Subset of Queries for Acquisition of Further Relevance Judgements....Pages 113-124
On the Feasibility of Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval....Pages 125-138
Can Information Retrieval Systems Be Improved Using Quantum Probability?....Pages 139-150
An Analysis of Ranking Principles and Retrieval Strategies....Pages 151-163
Towards a Better Understanding of the Relationship between Probabilistic Models in IR....Pages 164-175
Cognitive Processes in Query Generation....Pages 176-187
Protocol-Driven Searches for Medical and Health-Sciences Systematic Reviews....Pages 188-200
Enhanced Information Retrieval Using Domain-Specific Recommender Models....Pages 201-212
Exploring Ant Colony Optimisation for Adaptive Interactive Search....Pages 213-224
Applying the User-over-Ranking Hypothesis to Query Formulation....Pages 225-237
How to Count Thumb-Ups and Thumb-Downs: User-Rating Based Ranking of Items from an Axiomatic Perspective....Pages 238-249
Aggregated Search Result Diversification....Pages 250-261
Topical Categorization of Search Results Based on a Domain Ontology....Pages 262-273
Towards Semantic Category Verification with Arbitrary Precision....Pages 274-284
Negation for Document Re-ranking in Ad-hoc Retrieval....Pages 285-296
A Descriptive Approach to Classification....Pages 297-308
Do Subtopic Judgments Reflect Diversity?....Pages 309-312
On Upper Bounds for Dynamic Pruning....Pages 313-317
A Comparative Study of Pseudo Relevance Feedback for Ad-hoc Retrieval....Pages 318-322
A Generic Data Model for Schema-Driven Design in Information Retrieval Applications....Pages 323-326
A Query-Basis Approach to Parametrizing Novelty-Biased Cumulative Gain....Pages 327-331
Investigating Query-Drift Problem from a Novel Perspective of Photon Polarization....Pages 332-336
Using Emotion to Diversify Document Rankings....Pages 337-341
Improved Stable Retrieval in Noisy Collections....Pages 342-345
On the use of Complex Numbers in Quantum Models for Information Retrieval....Pages 346-350
A Query Performance Analysis for Result Diversification....Pages 351-355
Rare Disease Diagnosis as an Information Retrieval Task....Pages 356-359
Distilling Relevant Documents by Means of Dynamic Quantum Clustering....Pages 360-363
Adding Emotions to Pictures....Pages 364-367
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