SIGIR Forum, Volume 39

Volume 39, Number 1, June 2005

ICDM invited presentation

Wray L. Buntine:
Open source search: a data mining platform. 4-10
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TREC Reports

Ellen M. Voorhees:
The TREC robust retrieval track. 11-20
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William R. Hersh:
Report on the TREC 2004 genomics track. 21-24
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Charles L. A. Clarke, Nick Craswell, Ian Soboroff:
The TREC terabyte retrieval track. 25
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CIKM Workshop Report

Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu:
The second ACM international workshop on multimedia databases (MMDB 2004) held at ACM CIKM 2004. 26-30
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Alberto H. F. Laender, Dongwon Lee:
Report on the 6th ACM international workshop on web information and data management (WIDM 2004) held at CIKM 2004. 31-33
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Workshop Reports

Thijs Westerveld, Arjen P. de Vries, Franciska M. G. de Jong:
Workshop on the evaluation of multimedia retrieval. 34-36
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David E. Losada, Juan M. Fernández-Luna:
Report on the 27th European conference on information retrieval research (ECIR 2005). 37-40
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INEX Reports

Carolyn J. Crouch:
Relevance feedback at the INEX 2004 workshop. 41-42
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Anastasios Tombros, Saadia Malik, Birger Larsen:
Report on the INEX 2004 interactive track. 43-49
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Shlomo Geva, Tony Sahama:
The NLP task at INEX 2004. 50-53
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Dissertation abstracts

Paul Browne:
Video information retrieval using objects and ostensive relevance feedback. 54
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Carlos Castillo:
Effective web crawling. 55-56
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Michael Chau:
Searching and mining the web for personalized and specialized information. 57
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Shyamala Doraisamy:
Polyphonic music retrieval: the n-gram approach. 58
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Kai Halttunen:
Two information retrieval learning environments: their design and evaluation. 59-60
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Wessel Kraaij:
Variations on language modeling for information retrieval. 61
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Jean Martinet:
A relational vector-space model of information retrieval adapted to images. 62
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Jesper W. Schneider:
Verification of bibliometric methods' applicability for thesaurus construction. 63-64
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Yohei Seki:
Automatic summarization focusing on document genre and text structure. 65-67
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Christopher Stokoe:
Automated word sense disambiguation for web information retrieval. 68
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Thijs Westerveld:
Using generative probabilistic models for multimedia retrieval. 69
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Ryen W. White:
Implicit feedback for interactive information retrieval. 70
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Jiamin Ye:
Aggregated feature video retrieval for MPEG-7 via clustering. 71
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Volume 39, Number 2, December 2005

Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel:
Recommended reading for IR research students. 3-14
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SIGIR workshop reports

Douglas W. Oard:
The SIGIR 2005 workshop program. 15-16
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Shlomo Argamon, Jussi Karlgren, James G. Shanahan:
Future short term goals of research in computational analysis of stylistics in text. 17-18
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Ranieri Baraglia, Domenico Laforenza, Fabrizio Silvestri:
SIGIR workshop report: the SIGIR heterogeneous and distributed information retrieval workshop. 19-24
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David Carmel, Elad Yom-Tov, Ian Soboroff:
SIGIR workshop report: predicting query difficulty - methods and applications. 25-28
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Sándor Dominich, Iadh Ounis, Jian-Yun Nie:
ACM SIGIR workshop on mathematical/formal methods in information retrieval MF/IR 2005. 29-30
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Peter Ingwersen, Kalervo Järvelin:
Information retrieval in context: IRiX. 31-39
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Raghavan Manmatha, Stefan M. Rüger, Alexander G. Hauptmann:
Multimedia information retrieval: workshop report. 40-41
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Olga Vechtomova, Rosie Jones, Gaël Dias:
Report on the ACM International Workshop on Methodologies and Evaluation of Lexical Cohesion Techniques in Real-World Applications (ELECTRA 2005) held at SIGIR 2005. 42-45
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Workshop and conference reports

Andrew Trotman, Mounia Lalmas:
Report on the INEX 2005 workshop on element retrieval methodology. 46-51
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Ryen W. White, Bill Kules, Benjamin B. Bederson:
Exploratory search interfaces: categorization, clustering and beyond: report on the XSI 2005 workshop at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland. 52-56
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Dissertation abstracts

Yi Zhang:
Bayesian graphical models for adaptive filtering. 57
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Panagiotis Petratos:
A heuristic information retrieval study: an investigation of methods for enhanced searching of distributed data objects exploiting bidirectional relevance feedback. 58
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