SIGIR Forum
Volume 41 Number 2
Table of Contents
SIGIR News
From the Chair
Liz Liddy, pp 1-2
ACM SIGIR Annual Business Meeting 2007: Secretary’s Notes
David D. Lewis, pp 3-7
Papers
Ambiguous Requests: Implications for Retrieval Tests, Systems and Theories
Karen Spärck-Jones, Stephen E. Robertson and Mark Sanderson, pp 8-17
SIGIR’s 30th Anniversary: An Analysis of Trends in IR Research and the Topology of its Community
Djoerd Hiemstra, Claudia Hauff, Franciska de Jong and Wessel Kraaij, pp 18-24
Meeting of the MINDS: An Information Retrieval Research Agenda
Jamie Callan, James Allan, Charles L. A. Clarke, Susan Dumais, David A. Evans, Mark Sanderson and ChengXiang Zhai, pp 25-34
On the Value of Temporal Information in Information Retrieval
Omar Alonso, Michael Gertz and Ricardo Baeza-Yates, pp 35-41
The CSIRO Enterprise Search Test Collection
Peter Bailey, Nick Craswell, Ian Soboroff and Arjen P. de Vries, pp 42-45
Conference Reports
The RIAO 2007 Conference – A Personal View
Adrian Popescu, pp 46-54
SIGIR Workshop Reports
The SIGIR 2007 Workshop Program
Josiane Mothe, pp 55-57
Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval (LR4IR 2007)
Thorsten Joachims, Hang Li, Tie-Yan Liu and ChengXiang Zhai, pp 58-62
Workshop on Web Information Seeking and Interaction
Kerry Rodden, Ian Ruthven and Ryen W. White, pp 63-67
Plagiarism Analysis, Authorship Identification, and Near-Duplicate Detection (PAN’07)
Benno Stein, Moshe Koppel and Efstathios Stamatatos, pp 68-71
Improving Non-English Web Searching (iNEWS07)
Fotis Lazarinis, Jesus Vilares Ferro and John Tait, pp 72-76
Multimedia Information Retrieval: “New Challenges in Audio Visual Search”
Roelof van Zwol, Stefan R¸ger, Mark Sanderson and Yosi Mass, pp 77-82
Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval
Flavio P. Junqueira, Vassilis Plachouras and Fabrizio Silvestri, pp 83-88
Information Retrieval and Applications of Graphical Models (IRGM 2007)
Juan M. Fernández-Luna, Benjamin Piwowarski and Juan F. Huete, pp 89-96
Report on the SIGIR 2007 Workshop on Focused Retrieval
Andrew Trotman, Shlomo Geva and Jaap Kamps, pp 97-103
Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech
Franciska de Jong, Douglas W. Oard, Roeland Ordelman and Stephan Raaijmakers, pp 104-108
Other Workshop Reports
EVIA 2007: The First International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access
Mark Sanderson, Tetsuya Sakai and Noriko Kando, pp 109-111
Query Log Analysis: Social and Technological Challenges
G. Craig Murray and Jaime Teevan, pp 112-120
7th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop March 28- 29, 2007 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Marie-Francine Moens, Tinne Tuytelaars and Arjen de Vries, pp 121-122
Dissertation Abstracts
Feature Generation for Textual Information Retrieval Using World Knowledge
Evgeniy Gabrilovich, p 123
Toponym Resolution in Text (Annotation, Evaluation and Application of Spatial Grounding)
Jochen L. Leidner, pp 124-126
Aspects of Sentence Retrieval
Vanessa Murdock, p 127