SIGIR Forum
June 2006, Volume 40 Number 1
Table of Contents
SIGIR News
From the Chair
Jamie Callan, pp 1-2
Annual Business
Meeting: secretary's notes
David D. Lewis, pp 3-8
Call for participation:
Historical IR Documents Survey/ACM Computing Reviews
David D. Lewis and Donna Harman/ACM Computing Reviews, p 9
Papers
What's the value
of TREC - is there a gap to jump or a chasm to bridge?
Karen Sparck Jones, pp 10-20
The Eurovision St
Andrews Collection of Photographs
Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson and Norman Reid, pp 21-30
CIKM Workshop Reports
7th ACM International
Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2005)
Angela Bonifati and Dongwon Lee, pp 31-33
GIR'05 2005 ACM Workshop
on Geographical Information Retrieval
Christopher B. Jones and Ross Purves, pp 34-37
The CIKM 2005
Workshop on Information Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer Networks
Henrik Nottelmann, Karl Aberer, Jamie Callan and Wolfgang Nejdl, pp
38-40
TREC Report
The TREC 2005 Robust TrackEllen M. Voorhees, pp 41-48
INEX Reports
Report on the ad-hoc track of the INEX 2005 workshopMounia Lalmas and Gabriella Kazai, pp 49-57
Relevance feedback at
INEX 2005
Carolyn J. Crouch, pp 58-59
The NLP Task at
INEX 2005
Shlomo Geva and Alan Woodley, pp 60-63
The Wikipedia XML Corpus
Ludovic Denoyer and Partick Gallinari, pp 64-69
Dissertation Abstracts
Incorporating context
within the Language Modeling Approach for ad hoc Information Retrieval
Leif Azzopardi, p70
Advanced document
description, a sequential approach
Antoine Doucet, pp 71-72