Dear all,

please find bellow the list of accepted paper for SPIRE 2006.

The conference will take place in Glasgow on 11-13 October 2006.  
Please see the web site for all information: http:// 
www.cis.strath.ac.uk/external/spire06/.

Best,

Fabio Crestani
SPIRE 2006 General Chair

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Long Papers

#106 A Compressed Self-Index using a Ziv-Lempel Dictionary		
Luis Manuel Silveira Russo, Arlindo Oliveira	
	
#118 Mapping Words into Codewords on PPM		
Joaquin Adiego, Pablo de la Fuente	
	
#119 MP-Boost: A Multiple-Pivot Boosting Algorithm and its  
Application to Text Categorization	
Andrea Esuli, Tiziano Fagni, Fabrizio Sebastiani		
	
#120 TreeBoost.MH: A Boosting Algorithm for Multi-label Hierarchical  
Text Categorization
Andrea Esuli, Tiziano Fagni, Fabrizio Sebastiani	
	
#121 Improving Usability Through Password-Corrective Hashing		
Andrew Mehler, Steven Skiena	
	
#123 Compact Features for Detection of Near-Duplicates in Distributed  
Retrieval
Yaniv Bernstein, Milad Shokouhi, Justin Zobel	

#127 Computing the Minimum Approximate λ-Cover of a String		
Qing Guo, Hui Zhang, Costas Iliopoulos	
	
#131 Efficient algorithms for pattern matching with general gaps and  
character classes		
Kimmo Fredriksson, Szymon Grabowski	
	
#146 Inverted Files Versus Suffix Arrays for Locating Patterns in  
Primary Memory
Simon Puglisi, Andrew Turpin, Bill Smyth	
	
#153 Analyzing User Behavior to Rank Desktop Items		
Paul - Alexandru Chirita, Wolfgang Nejdl	

#156 Efficient Lazy Algorithms for Minimal-Interval Semantics
Paolo Boldi, Sebastiano Vigna	
	
#164 Structured Index Organizations for High-Throughput Text Querying	
Vo Ngoc Anh, Alistair Moffat	

#172 Sparse Directed Acyclic Word Graphs		
Shunsuke Inenaga, Masayuki Takeda	
	
#179 Cluster Generation and Cluster Labelling for Web Snippets: A  
Fast and Accurate Hierarchical Solution		
Pellegrini Marco, Filippo Geraci, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Marco Maggini	
	
#183 Output-Sensitive Autocompletion Search		
Holger Bast, Christian W. Mortensen, Ingmar Weber	

#185 An Adaptive Stopping Criteria for Query-Based Sampling of  
Distributed Collections		
Mark Baillie, Leif Azzopardi, Fabio Crestani	
	
#188 Word-Based Correction for Retrieval of Arabic OCR Degraded  
Documents
Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish	

#191 On-line Repetition Detection		
Gen-Huey Chen, Jin-Ju Hong, Hsueh-I Lu	
	
#192 Principal Components for Automatic Term Hierarchy Building	
Georges Dupret, Benjamin Piwowarski	
	
#194 A Statistical Model of Query Log Generation		
Georges Dupret, Benjamin Piwowarski, Carlos A. Hurtado, Marcelo Mendoza	
	
#198 Using String Comparison in Context for Improved Relevance  
Feedback in Different Text Media
Adenike Lam-Adesina, Gareth Jones	

#209 A multiple criteria approach for information retrieval		
Mohamed Farah, Daniel Vanderpooten

#212 Matrix Tightness: A Linear-Algebraic Framework for Sorting by  
Transpositions
Elad Verbin, Tzvika Hartman	
	
#214 How to compare arc-annotated sequences: the alignment hierarchy	
Guillaume Blin, Hélène Touzet

#215 English to Persian Transliteration		
Sarvnaz Karimi, Andrew Turpin, Falk Scholer	

#225 The Intention Behind Web Queries		
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Liliana Calderon-Benavides, Cristina Gonzalez-Caro


Short papers

#133 A Structure for Approximate Text Indexing	  	 	 	
Luis Coelho, Arlindo Oliveira	 	 	 	

#166 Phrase-based pattern matching in compressed text
Shane Culpepper, Alistair Moffat	 	
	 	 	 	
#190 Discovering Context-Topic Rules in Search Engine Logs	  	Carlos  
A. Hurtado, Mark Levene	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
#195 Incremental Aggregation of Latent Semantics Using a Graph-Based  
Energy Model 	
Aditya Rachakonda, Srinath Srinivasa	 	 	 	
	 	 	 	
#207 A New Algorithm for Fast All-Against-All Substring Matching	
Marina Barsky, Ulrike Stege, Alex Thomo, Chris Upton