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The following articles are from "Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004":
Marchionini, Gary (2004): From Information Retrieval to Information Interaction. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 1-11. Available online
Nunzio, Giorgio Maria Di (2004): A Bidimensional View of Documents for Text Categorisation. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 112-126. Available online
Wilks, Yorick (2004): IR and AI: Traditions of Representation and Anti-representation in Information Processing. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 12-26. Available online
Amati, Giambattista, Carpineto, Claudio and Romano, Giovanni (2004): Query Difficulty, Robustness, and Selective Application of Query Expansion. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 127-137. Available online
Nottelmann, Henrik and Fuhr, Norbert (2004): Combining CORI and the Decision-Theoretic Approach for Advanced Resource Selection. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 138-153. Available online
Hung, Chihli, Wermter, Stefan and Smith, Peter (2004): Predictive Top-Down Knowledge Improves Neural Exploratory Bottom-Up Clustering. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 154-166. Available online
Dobrynin, Vladimir, Patterson, David W. and Rooney, Niall (2004): Contextual Document Clustering. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 167-180. Available online
Moschitti, Alessandro and Basili, Roberto (2004): Complex Linguistic Features for Text Classification: A Comprehensive Study. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 181-196. Available online
Dejun, Xue and Sun, Maosong (2004): Eliminating High-Degree Biased Character Bigrams for Dimensionality Reduction in Chinese Text Categorization. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 197-208. Available online
Stokes, Nicola, Newman, Eamonn, Carthy, Joe and Smeaton, Alan F. (2004): Broadcast News Gisting Using Lexical Cohesion Analysis. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 209-222. Available online
Christensen, Heidi, Kolluru, BalaKrishna, Gotoh, Yoshihiko and Renals, Steve (2004): From Text Summarisation to Style-Specific Summarisation for Broadcast News. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 223-237. Available online
Clough, Paul and Sanderson, Mark (2004): Relevance Feedback for Cross Language Image Retrieval. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 238-252. Available online
Heesch, Daniel and Rüger, Stefan M. (2004): NNk Networks for Content-Based Image Retrieval. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 253-266. Available online
Belkhatir, Mohammed, Mulhem, Philippe and Chiaramella, Yves (2004): Integrating Perceptual Signal Features within a Multi-facetted Conceptual Model for Automatic Image Retrieval. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 267-282. Available online
Kelly, Diane, Diaz, Fernando, Belkin, Nicholas J. and Allan, James (2004): A User-Centered Approach to Evaluating Topic Models. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 27-41. Available online
Kamps, Jaap (2004): Improving Retrieval Effectiveness by Reranking Documents Based on Controlled Vocabulary. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 283-295. Available online
Kazai, Gabriella, Masood, Sherezad and Lalmas, Mounia (2004): A Study of the Assessment of Relevance for the INEX'02 Test Collection. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 296-310. Available online
White, Ryen W., Jose, Joemon M., Rijsbergen, C. J. Van and Ruthven, Ian (2004): A Simulated Study of Implicit Feedback Models. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 311-326. Available online
Clough, Paul and Stevenson, Mark (2004): Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using EuroWordNet and Word Sense Disambiguation. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 327-337. Available online
Esser, Wolfram M. (2004): Fault-Tolerant Fulltext Information Retrieval in Digital Multilingual Encyclopedias with Weighted Pattern Morphing. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 338-352. Available online
Sanderson, Mark, Clough, Paul, Paterson, Catherine and Lo, Wai Tung (2004): Measuring a Cross Language Image Retrieval System. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 353-363. Available online
Cacheda, Fidel and Baeza-Yates, Ricardo A. (2004): An Optimistic Model for Searching Web Directories. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 364-377. Available online
Weigel, Felix, Meuss, Holger, Bry, Francois and Schulz, Klaus U. (2004): Content-Aware DataGuides: Interleaving IR and DB Indexing Techniques for Efficient Retrieval of Textual XML Data. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 378-393. Available online
Cacheda, Fidel, Plachouras, Vassilis and Ounis, Iadh (2004): Performance Analysis of Distributed Architectures to Index One Terabyte of Text. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 394-408. Available online
Abolhassani, Mohammad and Fuhr, Norbert (2004): Applying the Divergence from Randomness Approach for Content-Only Search in XML Documents. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 409-419. Available online
Joho, Hideo, Sanderson, Mark and Beaulieu, Micheline (2004): A Study of User Interaction with a Concept-Based Interactive Query Expansion Support Tool. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 42-56. Available online
Bell, David J. and Ruthven, Ian (2004): Searcher's Assessments of Task Complexity for Web Searching. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 57-71. Available online
Roberts, Ian and Gaizauskas, Robert J. (2004): Evaluating Passage Retrieval Approaches for Question Answering. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 72-84. Available online
Chen, Hsin-Hsi, Tsai, Ming-Feng and Hsu, Ming-Hung (2004): Identification of Relevant and Novel Sentences Using Reference Corpus. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 85-98. Available online
Jijkoun, Valentin and Rijke, Maarten de (2004): Answer Selection in a Multi-stream Open Domain Question Answering System. In: Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 99-111. Available online
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