ECIR'2009 Toulouse: Conference Programme

Conference Schedule

Monday 6th April, 9:15-18:00: Workshops Programme (Manufacture des Tabacs, University of Toulouse 1)

Monday 6th April, 9:15-18:00: Tutorials (Manufacture des Tabacs, University of Toulouse 1)

Tuesday 7th April (Pierre Baudis Center)		Wednesday 8th April (Pierre Baudis Center)		Thursday 9th April (Pierre Baudis Center)

09:30-10:30	Keynote1: Query evolution	09:00-10:00	Keynote2: searching user generated content: what's next ?	09:00-10:00	Keynote3: upcoming industrial needs for search

11:00-12:30	Session 1.a: retrieval model1 Session 1.b: collaborative IR/filtering	10:30-12:30	Session 3.a: expert search -advertising Session 3.b: retrieval model2	10:30-12:30	Session 5.a: web IR Session 5.b: representation

14:30-16:30	Session 2.a: learning Session 2.b: multimedia-metadata	14:00-15:30	Session 4.a: evaluation Session 4.b: opinion detection	14:00-15:30	Session 6.a: clustering/categorization Session 6.b: distributed IR

16:30-18:30	Poster session	16:00-18:00	Short paper session	15:30-16:00	Closing and ECIR2010
17:00/19:00	Welcome reception (Pierre Baudis)	19:30	Gala Dinner (Mediatheque)

Tuesday, 07/04/2009

S1: Opening and Welcome

(Tuesday, 07/04/2009 9:15am - 9:30am - Ariane Hall)
Session chair: Pr. Mohand Boughanem, University of Toulouse, IRIT (FR)

Keynote 1

(Tuesday, 07/04/2009 9:30am - 10:30am - Ariane Hall)
Session chair: Pr. Mohand Boughanem, University of Toulouse, IRIT (FR)

Query Evolution

University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA)

S1.a: Retrieval Model

(Tuesday, 07/04/2009 11:00am - 12 :30pm - Ariane Hall)
Session chair: Prof. Gabriella Pasi, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca (IT)

Mean-Variance Analysis: A New Document Ranking Theory in Information Retrieval

Risk-aware Information Retrieval

A Comparative Study of Utilizing Topic Models for Information Retrieval

S1.b: Collaborative IR/Filtering

(Tuesday, 07/04/2009 11:00am - 12:30pm - Spot Hall)
Session chair: Prof. Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano (CH)

Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval:Techniques and Evaluation

Movie Recommender: Semantically Enriched Unified Relevance Model for Rating Prediction in Collaborative Filtering

Revisiting IR Techniques for Collaborative Search Strategies

S2.a: Learning

(Tuesday, 07/04/2009 2:00pm - 4:00pm - Ariane Hall)
Session chair: Prof. Patrick Gallinari, University of Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6 (FR)

Active Sampling for Rank Learning via Optimizing the Area Under the ROC Curve

RegressionRank: Learning to Meet the Opportunity of Descriptive Queries

Active Learning Strategies for Multi-Label Text Classification

5. A Joint Ranking Model for Multilingual Web Search

S2.b: Multimedia-Metadata

(Tuesday, 07/04/2009 2:00pm - 4:00pm - Spot Hall)
Session chair: Prof. Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University (IE)

Diversity, assortment, dissimilarity, variety: A study of Diversity Measures using Low Level Features for Video Retrieval

Bayesian Mixture Hierarchies for Automatic Image Annotation

XML Multimedia Retrieval: From Relevant Textual Information To Relevant Multimedia Fragments

Effectively Searching Maps in Web Documents

Posters

Tuesday, 07/04/2009 4:00pm - 6:00pm

1. Cover Coefficient-based Multi-document Summarization

2. A Practitioner's Guide for Static Index Pruning

3. Revisiting N-gram Based Models for Retrieval in Degraded Large Collections

4. A Simple Linear Ranking Algorithm Using Query Dependent Intercept Variables

5. Measurement Techniques and Caching Effects

6. On Automatic Plagiarism Detection based on n-grams comparison

7. Exploiting Visual Concepts to Improve Text-Based Image Retrieval

8. Choosing the best MT programs for CLIR purposes - can MT metrics be helpful?

9. Entropy Based Static Index Pruning

10. Representing User Navigation in XML Retrieval with Structural Summaries

11. ESUM: An Efficient System for Query-specific Multi-document Summarization

12. Sentence-Level Opinion-Topic Association for Opinion Detection in Blogs

13. Improving Opinion Retrieval Based on Query-Specific Sentiment Lexicon

14. Automatically Maintained Domain Knowledge: Initial Findings

15. A framework of evaluation for question-answering systems.

16. Combining Content and Context Similarities for Image Retrieval

17. Investigating the Global Semantic Impact of Speech Recognition Error on Spoken Content Collections

18. Supervised Semantic Indexing

19. Split and Merge based Story Segmentation in News Videos

20. Encoding Ordinal Features into Binary Features for Text Classification

21. Topic and Trend Detection in Text Collections using Latent Dirichlet Allocation

22. Measuring Similarity of Geographic Regions for Geographic Information Retrieval

23. Towards the Selection of Induced Syntactic Relations

24. DiffPost: Filtering Non-Relevant Content Based on Content Difference between Two Consecutive Blog Posts

25. An Unsupervised Approach to Product Attribute Extraction

Wednesday, 08/04/2009

Keynote 2

(Wednesday, 08/04/2009 9:00am - 10:00am - Ariane Hall)
Session chair: Pr. Catherine Berrut, University of Joseph Fourrier, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (FR)

Searching User Generated Content: What's Next ?

University of Amsterdam (NL)

S3.a: Expert search-Advertising

(Wednesday, 08/04/2009 10:30am - 12:30pm - Spot Hall)
Session chair: Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam (NL)

Enhancing Expert Finding Using Organizational Hierarchies

A Vector Space Model for Ranking Entities and Its Application to Expert Search

Sentiment-Oriented Contextual Advertising

Lexical Graphs for Improved Contextual Ad Recommendation

S3.b: Retrieval Model2

(Wednesday, 08/04/2009 10:30am - 12:30pm - Ariane Hall)
Session chair: Dr. Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente (NL)

A Probabilistic Retrieval Model for Semistructured Data

Model Fusion in Conceptual Language Modeling

Graded Inclusion-Based Information Retrieval Systems

Multidimensional Relevance: A New Aggregation Criterion

S4.a: Evaluation

(Wednesday, 08/04/2009 2:00pm - 3:30pm - Spot Hall)
Session chair: Prof. Stephen E Robertson, Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK)

Using multiple query aspects to build test collections without human relevance judgments

If I Had a Million Queries

The Combination and Evaluation of Query Performance Prediction Methods

S4.b: Opinion detection

(Wednesday, 08/04/2009 2:00pm - 3:30pm - Ariane Hall)
Session chair: Prof. Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (BE)

Investigating Learning Approaches for Blog Post Opinion Retrieval

Integrating Proximity to Subjective Sentences for Blog Opinion Retrieval

Adapting Naive Bayes to Domain Adaptation for Sentiment Analysis

Short Papers

(Wednesday, 08/04/2009 4:00pm - 6:00pm - Ariane Hall)

43. List, Group or Menu: Organizing Suggestions in Autocompletion Interfaces

44. Building a Graph of Names and Contextual Patterns for Name Classification

45. Combination of Documents Features Based on Simulated Click-through Data

46. Discovering Association Rules on Experiences from Large-scale Blog entries

47. Extracting Geographic Context from the Web: GeoReferencing in MyMoSe

48. What else is there? Search Diversity Examined

49. Using second order statistics to enhance automated image annotation

50. Classifying and Characterizing Query Intent

51. Design and Evaluation of a University-wide Expert Search Engine

52. A study of the impact of index updates on distributed query processing for Web search

53. Generic and Spatial Approaches to Image Search Results Diversification

54. Studying Query Expansion Effectiveness

55. Correlation of Term Count and Document Frequency for Google N-Grams

56. A Cost-Aware Strategy for Query Result Caching in Web Search Engines

57. Quality-oriented search for depression portals

58. Evaluation of Text Clustering Algorithms with N-Gram-Based Document Fingerprints

59. Exploiting Flickr Tags and Groups for Finding Landmark Photos

60. Refining Keyword Queries for XML Retrieval by Combining Content and Structure

Thursday, 09/04/2009

Keynote 3

(Thursday, 09/04/2009 9:00am - 10:00am - Ariane Hall)
Session chair: Pr. Chantal Soulé Dupuy, University of Toulouse, IRIT (FR)

Upcoming Industrial Needs for Search

Exalead (FR)

S5.a: Web IR

(Thursday, 09/04/2009 10:30pm - 12:30pm - Ariane Hall)
Session chair: Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain (SP)

PathRank: Web Page Retrieval with Navigation Path

Query Expansion Using External Evidence

Selective Application of Query-independent Features in Web Information Retrieval

Measuring the Search Effectiveness of a Breadth-First Crawl

S5.b: Representation

(Thursday, 09/04/2009 10:30pm - 12:30pm - Spot Hall)
Session chair: Dr. Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science (DK)

Using Contextual Information to Improve Search in Email Archives

Part of speech based term weighting for information retrieval

Word Particles Applied to Information Retrieval

"They are out there, if you know where to look": Mining Transliterations of OOV Query Terms for Cross-Language Information Retrieval

S6.a: Clustering/Categorization

(Thursday, 09/04/2009 2:00pm - 3:30pm - Ariane Hall)
Session chair: Dr. Fabrizio Silvestri, Italian National Research Council (CNR)

E-Mail Classification for Phishing Defense

Multi-Facet Rating of Product Reviews

Exploiting Surface Features for the Prediction of Podcast Preference

S6.b: Distributed IR

(Thursday, 09/04/2009 2:00pm - 3:30pm - Spot Hall)
Session chair: Dr. Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University (IE)

A Topic-based Measure of Resource Description Quality for Distributed Information Retrieval

Simple adaptations of data fusion algorithms for source selection

Document Compaction for Efficient Query Biased Snippet Generation

S8: Closing and ECIR'2010

(Thursday, 09/04/2009 3:30pm - 4:00pm - Ariane Hall)

Workshops (Manufacture des Tabacs, University of Toulouse 1)

1. Contextual Information Access, Seeking and Retrieval Evaluation

2. Geographic Information on the Internet

3. Information Retrieval over Social Networks

Tutorials (Manufacture des Tabacs, University of Toulouse 1)

1. Current Developments in Information Retrieval Evaluation

2. Information Extraction and Linking in a Retrieval Context

3. Mining Query Logs