Monday 21st , 09.00-09:30: Conference Opening

Monday 21st, 09:30-11:00: Keynote Speech, Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow (UK)

A Probabilistic Logic for Information Retrieval

Monday 21st, 11:00-11:30: Coffee break

Monday 21st, 11.30-13:00: P2P

BuddyNet: History-based P2P Search
Y. Shao, R. Wang (Princeton University, USA)

A Suite of Testbeds for the Realistic Evaluation of Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval Systems
I. A. Klampanos (University of Glasgow, UK), V. Poznanski (Sharp Labs of Europe Ltd., UK), J. Jose, P. Dickman (University of Glasgow, UK)

Federated Search of Text-Based Digital Libraries in Hierarchical Peer-to-Peer Networks
J. Lu, J. Callan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Monday 21st, 13:00-14:30: Lunch

Monday 21st, 14.30-16.00: IR MODELS (I)

'Beauty' of the World Wide Web -- Cause, Goal, or Principle
S. Dominich, J. Góth, M. Horváth, T. Kiezer (University of Veszprém, Hungary)

sPLMap: A probabilistic approach to schema matching
H. Nottelmann (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany), U. Straccia (ISTI-CNR, Italy)

Encoding XML in vector spaces
V. Kakade (A9.com, Inc, USA), P. Raghavan (Verity, Inc, USA)

Monday 21st, 16:00-16:30: Coffee break

Monday 21st, 16.30-18.30: TEXT SUMMARIZATION

Features Combination for Extracting Gene Functions from MedLine
P. Ruch (University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland), L Perret, J. Savoy (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland)

Filtering for profile-biased multi-document summarization
S. L. Châar (University of Antilles and Guyane, France), O. Ferret, C. Fluhr (CEA-LIST, France)

Automatic text summarization based on word-clusters and ranking algorithms
M. Amini, N. Usunier, P. Gallinari (University of Pierre and Marie Curie, France)

Comparing Topiary-Style Approaches to Headline Generation
R. Wang, N. Stokes, W. Doran, E. Newman, J. Dunnion, J. Carthy (University College Dublin, Ireland)

Monday 21st, 18:30-20:00: Reception & Poster Session.

Tuesday 22nd, 09:00-10:30: IR METHODS (I)

Improving Retrieval Effectiveness by Using Key Terms in Top Retrieved Documents
Y. Lingpeng, J. Donghong, Z. Guodong, N. Yu (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

Evaluating Relevance Feedback Algorithms for Searching on Small Displays
V. Vinay, I. J. Cox (University College London, UK), N. Milic-Frayling, K. Wood (Microsoft Research Ltd, UK)

Term Frequency Normalisation Tuning for BM25 and DFR Models
B. He, I. Ounis (University of Glasgow, UK)

Tuesday 22nd, 10:30-11:00: Coffee break

Tuesday 22nd, 11:00-13.00: IR MODELS (II)

Improving the Context-based Influence Diagram Model for Structured Document Retrieval: Removing Topological Restrictions and Adding New Evaluation Methods
L.M. de Campos, J.M. Fernández-Luna, J.F. Huete (University of Granada, Spain)

Knowing-Aboutness: Question-Answering using a logic-based framework
T. Clifton, W. Teahan (University of Wales, Bangor, UK)

Modified LSI Model for Efficient Search by Metric Access Methods
T. Skopal (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic), P. Moravec (Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic)

PIRE: An extensible IR engine based on probabilistic Datalog
H. Nottelmann (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

Tuesday 22nd, 13:00-14:30: Lunch

Tuesday 22nd, 14:30-16.00: TEXT CLASSIFICATION AND FUSION

Data Fusion with Correlation Weights
S. Wu, S. McClean (University of Ulster, UK)

Using Restrictive Classification and Meta Classification for Junk Elimination
S. Siersdorfer, G. Weikum (Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science (MPI), Germany)

On Compression-Based Text Classification
Y. Marton (University of Maryland, USA), N. Wu, L. Hellerstein (Polytechnic University, USA)

Tuesday 22nd, 16:00-16:30: Coffee break

Tuesday 22nd, 16:30-18.30: USER STUDIES AND EVALUATION

Ontology as Search Tool: A study of real users’ query formulation with and without conceptual support
S. Suomela, J. Kekäläinen (University of Tampere, Finland)

An Analysis of Query Similarity in Collaborative Web Search
E. Balfe, B. Smyth (University College Dublin, Ireland)

A probabilistic interpretation of precision, recall and F-score, with implication for evaluation
C. Goutte, E. Gaussier (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)

Exploring cost-effective approaches to human evaluation of search engine relevance
K. Ali, Y. Juan, C. Chang (Yahoo! Inc., USA)

Tuesday 22nd, 20:30: Banquet

Wednesday 23rd, 09:00-10:30: Keynote Speech, Ricardo Baeza Yates, ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain and University of Chile

Applications of Web Query Mining

Wednesday 23rd, 10:30-11:00: Coffee break

Wednesday 23rd, 11:00-13.00: IR METHODS (II)

Document identifier reassignment through dimensionality reduction
R. Blanco, A. Barreiro (University of A Corunna, Spain)

Scalability influence on retrieval models: an experimental methodology
A. Imafouo, M. Beigbeder (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France)

The Role of Multi-Word Units in Interactive Information Retrieval
O. Vechtomova (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Dictionary-Based CLIR Loses Highly Relevant Documents
R. Lehtokangas, H. Keskustalo, K. Järvelin (University of Tampere, Finland)

Wednesday 23rd, 13:00-14:30: Lunch

Wednesday 23rd, 14:30-15:30: BCS-IRSG AGM

Wednesday 23rd, 15:30-17:00: MULTIMEDIA RETRIEVAL

Football Video Segmentation Based on Video Production Strategy
R. Ren, J. Jose (University of Glasgow, UK)

Fractional Distance Measures for Content-based Image Retrieval
P. Howarth, S. Rüger (Imperial College London, UK)

Combining semantics and texture characterizations for precision-oriented automatic image retrieval
M. Belkhatir (MRIM – IMAG/CNRS, France)

Wednesday 23rd, 15:30-17:00: WEB IR

Applying Associative Relationship on the Clickthrough Data to Improve Web Search
X. Jiang, W. Song (Shanghai Business School, China), H. Zeng (Microsoft Research Asia, China)

Factors affecting web page similarity
A. Tombros, Z. Ali (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

Boosting Web Retrieval through Query Operations
G. Mishne, M. de Rijke (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Wednesday 23rd, 17:00: Conference Close

Terrier Information Retrieval Platform
B. He, C. Macdonald, D. Johnson (University of Glasgow, UK), G. Amati (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy), I. Ounis, V. Plachouras (University of Glasgow, UK)

A Low Cost Terabyte Search Engine
P. Ferguson, C. Gurrin, A. Smeaton, P. Wilkins (Dublin City University, Ireland)

Query Formulation for Answer Projection
G. Mishne, M. de Rijke (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Network Analysis for Distributed Information Retrieval Architectures
F. Cacheda, V. Carneiro (University of A Coruña, Spain), V. Plachouras, I. Ounis (University of Glasgow, UK)

SnapToTell: a Singapore Image Test Bed for Ubiquitous Information Access from Camera
J. Chevallet (IPAL-I2R Laboratory, Singapore), J. Lim, R. Vasudha (I2R A-STAR, Singapore)

Acquisition of Translation Knowledge of Syntactically Ambiguous Named Entity
T. Kutsumi (Sharp Corporation, Japan), T. Yoshimi (Ryukoku University, Japan), K. Kotani (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan), I. Sata (Sharp Corporation, Japan), H. Isahara (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)

IR & OLAP in XML Document Warehouses
J.M. Perez Martínez (Universitat Jaume I,Spain), T. Bach Pedersen (Aalborg University, Denmark), R. Berlanga Llavori, M.J. Aramburu Cabo (Universitat Jaume I,Spain)

Manipulating the Relevance Models of Existing Search Engines
O. Boydell, B. Smyth (University College Dublin, Ireland), A. Smeaton, C. Gurrin (Dublin City University, Ireland)

Enhancing Web Search Result Lists Using Interaction Histories
M. Coyle, B. Smyth (University College Dublín, Ireland)

An Evaluation of Gisting in Mobile Search
K. Church, M.T. Keane, B. Smyth (University College Dublin, Ireland)

Video shots classification using lexical context
S. Ayache, G. Quénot, M. Charhad (CLIPS/IMAG, France)

Age Dependent Document Priors in Link Structure Analysis
C. Hauff (University of Magdeburg, Germany), L. Azzopardi (University of Glasgow, UK)

Improving Image Representation With Relevance Judgements From the Searchers
L. Boldareva (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Temporal Shot Clustering Analysis for Video Concept Detection
D. Ding, L. Chen, B. Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)

IRMAN: Software Framework for IR in Mobile Social Cyberspaces
Z. Syed, F. Walsh (The Robert Gordon University, Scotland)

Assigning Geographical Scopes To Web Pages
B. Martins, M. Chaves, M.J. Silva (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)

AP-based borda voting method for feature extraction in trecvid-2004
L. Chen, D. Ding, D. Wang, F. Lin, B. Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)