Information Retrieval Technology

Session 1: IR Models.- Exploring and Exploiting Proximity Statistic for Information Retrieval Model.- A Category-integrated Language Model for Question Retrieval in Community Question Answering.- Session 2: Evaluation and User Studies.- The Reusability of a Diversified Search Test Collection.- One Click One Revisited: Enhancing Evaluation Based on Information Units.- A Comparison of Action Transitions in Individual and Collaborative Exploratory Web Search.- Session 3: NLP for IR.- Query-Oriented Keyphrase Extraction.- Using Lexical and Thematic Knowledge for Name Disambiguation.- Sells Out or Piles Up? A Sentiment Autoregressive Model for Predicting Sales Performance.- Session 4: Machine Learning and Data Mining.- Are Human-Input Seeds Good Enough for Entity Set Expansion? Seeds Rewriting by Leveraging Wikipedia Semantic Knowledge.- Combining Modifications to Multinomial Naive Bayes for Text Classification.- Organizing Information on the Web through Agreement-Conflict Relation Classification.- Session 5: Social Media.- Exploiting Twitter for Spiking Query Classification.- Where Are You Settling Down: Geo-locating Twitter Users Based on Tweets and Social Networks.- Detecting Informative Messages Based on User History in Twitter.- Session 6: IR Applications.- A Study on Potential Head Advertisers in Sponsored Search.- Feature Transformation Method Enhanced Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia.- PLIDMiner: A Quality Based Approach for Researcher's Homepage Discovery.- Session 7: Multimedia IR and Indexing.- Exploiting and Exploring Hierarchical Structure in Music Recommendation.- Enhancing Music Information Retrieval by Incorporating Image-BasedLocal Features.- Yet Another Sorting-Based Solution to the Reassignment of Document Identifiers.- Session 8: Collaborative and Federated Search.- What Snippets Say about Pages in Federated Web Search.- CoFox: A Synchronous Collaborative Browser.- Poster Session.- FISER: An Effective Method for Detecting Interactions between