Call for Participation
The Third International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2011)
12-14 September 2011, Bertinoro, Italy
http://www.ictir11.org/
The International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR) aims to provide a forum for discussion and interaction among those with theoretical and applicative research interests in mathematical/formal aspects of Information Retrieval (IR), including, e.g., foundational issues, description or integration of models, retrieval applications, mathematical/formal techniques, existing and/or new theories and theoretical aspects.
ICTIR has grown out of the Mathematical/Formal Methods workshops held annually at SIGIR between 2000 and 2005. These workshops demonstrated that the mathematical/formal results achieved in IR could be organized into a coherent theoretical framework, bringing new knowledge to IR, and that mathematical/formal research can stand as a specialized research area of IR. The first two ICTIR conferences were held in 2007 in Budapest, Hungary and in 2009 in Cambridge, UK.
The third ICTIR conference aims to continue in the same spirit, promoting research in the wider contexts of IR. Reflecting this, in addition to the established fields and approaches in IR, research papers on new approaches inspired from sociology, mathematics, physics, linguistics, biology, philosophy, and other areas were sought. Papers that demonstrated a high level of research adventure or which break out of the traditional IR paradigms were particularly welcome.
Keynote Talks
What is Quantum Information Retrieval?
(Keith van Rijsbergen)
Axiomatic Analysis and Optimization of Information Retrieval Models
(Chengxiang Zhai)
List of Accepted Papers
User Perspectives on Query Difficulty
(Christina Lioma, Birger Larsen, and Hinrich Schuetze)
A unified framework for post-retrieval query-performance prediction
(Oren Kurland, Anna Shtok, David Carmel and Shay Hummel)
Predicting the Performance of Recommender Systems: An Information Theoretic Approach
(Alejandro Bellogin, Pablo Castells and Ivan Cantador)
Trading Spaces: On the Lore and Limitations of Latent Semantic Analysis
(Eduard Hoenkamp)
Quantum Latent Semantic Analysis
(Fabio Gonzalez and Juan C. Caicedo)
Pure High-order Word Dependence Mining via Information Geometry
(Yuexian Hou, Liang He, Xiaozhao Zhao and Dawei Song)
Promoting Divergent Terms in the Estimation of Relevance Models
(Javier Parapar and Alvaro Barreiro)
Is Document Frequency important for PRF?
(Stéphane Clinchant and Eric Gaussier)
Model-Based Inference About IR Systems
(Ben Carterette)
Optimized Expansion of Test Collections and Reliable Ranking of Retrieval Systems
(Mehdi Hosseini, Ingemar Cox, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Vishwa Vinay and Trevor Sweetin)
On the Feasibility of Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval
(H. Asthana, Ruoxun Fu and Ingemar J. Cox)
Can Information Retrieval Systems Be Improved Using Quantum Probability?
(Massimo Melucci)
An Analysis of Ranking Principles and Retrieval Strategies
G(uido Zuccon, Benjamin Piwowarski and Leif Azzopardi)
Towards a Better Understanding of the Relationship Between Probabilistic Models in IR
(Robin Aly and Thomas Demeester)
Cognitive Processes in Query Generation
(Claudia Hauff and Geert-Jan Houben)
Protocol-driven Searches for Medical & Health-Sciences Systematic Reviews
(Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis and Frances Mair)
Enhanced Information Retrieval Using Domain-Specific Rcommender Models
(Wei Li, Debasis Ganguly and Gareth. J.F. Jones)
Exploring Ant Colony Optimisation for Adaptive Interactive Search
(M-Dyaa Albakour, Udo Kruschwitz, Nikolaos Nanas, Dawei Song, Maria Fasli and Anne De Roeck)
Applying the User-over-Ranking Hypothesis to Query Formulation
(Matthias Hagen and Benno Stein)
How to Count Thumb-Ups and Thumb-Downs: User-Rating based Ranking of Items from an Axiomatic Perspective
(Dell Zhang, Robert Mao, Haitao Li and Joanne Mao)
Aggregated Search Result Diversification
(Rodrygo Santos, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis)
Topical Categorization of Search Results based on a Domain Ontology
(Silvia Calegari, Gabriella Pasi and Fabio Farina)
Towards semantic category verification with arbitrary precision
(Dmitri Roussinov)
Negation for document re-ranking in ad-hoc retrieval
Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo and Giovanni Semeraro)
A Descriptive Approach to Classification
(Miguel Martinez-Alvarez and Thomas Roelleke)
plus 13 posters!
All accepted papers and posters are published by Springer in the Proceedings of ICTIR'11, as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
General and Program Chairs
Gianni Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Roma, Italy
Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano, Switzerland
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Prof. Fabio Crestani tel: +44 141 548 2934
Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences fax: +44 141 548 4523
University of Strathclyde [log in to unmask]
Glasgow G1 1XH, Scotland, UK http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/~fabioc
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