Advances in Information Retrieval: 36th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 13-16, 2014, Proceedings [Paperback]

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 36th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2014, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in April 2014.

The 33 full papers, 50 poster papers and 15 demonstrations presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 288 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: evaluation, recommendation, optimization, semantics, aggregation, queries, mining social media, digital libraries, efficiency, and information retrieval theory. Also included are 3 tutorial and 4 workshop presentations.

Reducing Reliance on Relevance Judgments for System Comparison by Using Expectation-Maximization.-?Best and Fairest: An Empirical Analysis of Retrieval System Bias.- Tackling Biased Baselines in the Risk-Sensitive Evaluation of Retrieval Systems.-?Content + Attributes: A Latent Factor Model for Recommending Scientific Papers in Heterogeneous Academic Networks.-?Real-Time News Recommendation Using Context-Aware Ensembles.-?A Personalised Recommendation System for Context-Aware Suggestions.- Optimizing Base Rankers Using Clicks: A Case Study Using BM25.-?Predicting Search Task Difficulty.-?Crawling Policies Based on Web Page Popularity Prediction.-?Measuring the Effectiveness of Gamesourcing Expert Oil Painting Annotations.-?Relevance-Ranked Domain-Specific Synonym Discovery.- Towards Generating Text Summaries for Entity Chains.-?Tolerance of Effectiveness Measures to Relevance Judging Errors.-?Evaluation of IR Applications with Constrained Real Estate.-?Dissimilarity Based Query Selection for Efficient Preference Based IR Evaluation.-?Blending Vertical and Web Results: A Case Study Using Video Intent.-?Personalizing Aggregated Search.-?HetPathMine: A Novel Transductive Classification Algorithm on Heterogeneous Information Networks.-?Leveraging Dynamic Query Subtopics for Time-Aware Search Result Diversification.-?A Study of Query Term Deletion Using Large-Scale ElÓ2