SIGIR Forum
Volume 36 Number 2
Table of Contents
Papers
A Taxonomy of Web Search
Andrei Broder
Challenges in Web Search Engines
Monika R. Henzinger, Rajeev Motwani, and Craig Silverstein
Do TREC Web Collections Look Like the Web?
Ian Soboroff
U.S. Versus European Web Searching Trends
Amanda Spink, Seda Ozmutlu, Huseyin C. Ozmutlu and Bernard J Jansen
Analysis of Papers from Twenty-Five Years of SIGIR Conferences: What Have We Been Doing for the Last Quarter of a Century?
Alan F. Smeaton, Gary Keogh, Cathal Gurrin, Kieran McDonald and Tom S¯dring
Keynotes
Digital Copyright and the Progress of Science (from JCDL 2002)
Jessica Litman
Workshop Reports
Second Edition of the “XML and Information Retrieval” Workshop
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Norbert Fuhr and Yoelle S. Maarek
Information Retrieval and OCR: From Converting Content to Grasping Meaning
Jamie Callan, Paul Kantor and David Grossman
Report on ACM SIGIR Workshop on Mathematical/Formal Methods in Information Retrieval
Sandor Dominich, Mounia Lalmas and C. J. “Keith” van Rijsbergen
Report on the Workshop on Operational Text Classification Systems (OTC-02)
Susan T. Dumais, David D. Lewis and Fabrizio Sebastiani
Cross Language Information Retrieval: A Research Roadmap
Fredric Gey, Noriko Kando and Carol Peters
TREC Genomics Pre-Track Workshop Report
William Hersh
Workshop Report: Usability of Digital Libraries @ JCDL’02
Ann Blandford and George Buchanan
Workshop Report: Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries at JCDL ’02
Katy Bˆrner and Chaomei Chen
Workshop Report: Digital Gazetteers – Integration into Distributed Digital Library Services
Linda Hill
Summary of Workshop on Document Search Interface Design at the JCDL’02
Javed Mostafa
Dissertation Abstracts
Risk Minimization and Language Modeling in Text Retrieval
ChengXiang Zhai