P1

ICA and SOM in Text Document Analysis
Ella Bingham, Jukka Kuusisto and Krista Lagus (Helsinki University of Technology)

P2

Improving Hierarchical Text Classification Using Unlabeled Data
Vijay Boyapati (Whizbang! Labs)

P3

Document Normalization Revisited
Abdur Chowdhury (America Online), Mary Catherine McCabe (U.S. Government), David Grossman and Ophir Frieder (Illinois Institute of Technology)

P4

Automatic Evaluation of World Wide Web Search Services
Abdur Chowdhury (America Online, Inc.) and Ian Soboroff (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

P5

Amilcare: Document Annotation via Adaptive Information Extraction
Fabio Ciravegna, Alexiei Dingli, Yorick Wilks and Daniela Petrelli (University of Sheffield)

P6

The Impact of Corpus Size on Question Answering Performance
Charles Clarke, G. V. Cormack, M. Laszlo, T. R. Lynam and E. L. Terra (University of Waterloo)

P7

Effective Collection Metasearch in a Hierarchical Environment: Global vs. Localized Retrieval Performance
Jack Conrad (TLR Research & Development), Changwen Yang (Oracle) and Joanne S. Claussen (West Group)

P8

Experimenting with Graphical User Interfaces for Structured Document Retrieval
Fabio Crestani (University of Strathclyde),Pablo de la Fuente and Jesus Vegas (University of Valladolid)

P9

Experiments in High Dimensional Text Categorization
Frederick Damerau, Tong Zhang, Sholom Weiss and Nitin Indurkhya (IBM T.J. Watson Research)

P10

PageRank, HITS and a Unified Framework for Link Analysis
Chris Ding (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Xiaofeng He (Pennsylvania State University), Parry Husbands (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Hongyuan Zha (Pennsylvania State University) and Horst D Simon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratary)

P11

Do Thumbnail Previews Help Users Make Better Relevance Decisions about Web Search Results?
Susan Dziadosz and Raman Chandrasekar (Microsoft)

P12

The Web Retrieval Task and its Evaluation in the Third NTCIR Workshop
Koji Eguchi, Keizo Oyama, Emi Ishida, Kazuko Kuriyama and Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics)

P13

Topic Structure Modeling
D. A. Evans, James G. Shanahan and Victor Sheftel (Clairvoyance)

P14

A Hierarchical Approach: Query Large Music Database by Acoustic Input
Yazhong Feng, Yueting Zhuang and Yunhe Pan (Zhejiang University)

P15

How Many Bits are Needed to Store Term Frequencies?
Martin Franz and J. Scott McCarley (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

P16

Non-Linear Reading for a Structured Web Indexation
Mathias Géry (MRIM Team, CLIPS-IMAG Laboratory)

P17

User-Centered Interface Design for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Preben Hansen (SICS), Daniela Petrelli (University of Sheffield), Jussi Karlgren (SICS), Micheline Beaulieu and Mark Sanderson (University of Sheffield)

P18

Implementation of Relevance Feedback for Content-based Music Retrieval Based on User Preferences
Keiichiro Hoashi (KDDI R&D Laboratories), Erik Zeitler (Uppsala University) and Naomi Inoue (KDDI R&D Laboratories)

P19

Language Model for IR Using Collection Information
Rong Jin, Luo Si, Alex G. Hauptmann and Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University)

P20

Spatial Information Retrieval and Geographical Ontologies: An Overview of the SPIRIT Project
Christopher Jones (Cardiff University), R. Purves (University of Zurich), A. Ruas (Institut Geographic National), M. Sanderson (University of Sheffield), M. Sester (University of Hannover), M. van Kreveld (University of Utrecht) and R. Weibel (University of Zurich)

P21

A Visualisation Tool for Topic Tracking Analysis and Development
Gareth J. F. Jones and Steven J. Gabb (University of Exeter)

P22

A New Method of Parameter Estimation for Multinomial Naive Bayes Text Classifiers
Sang-Bum Kim, Hae-Chang Rim (Korea University) and Heui-Seok Lim (Cheonan University)

P23

Study of Category Score Algorithms for k-NN Classifier
Huaizhong Kou (PRiSM Laboratory) and Georges Gardarin (e-XMLMedia)

P24

Higher Precision for Two-Word Queries
Kui Lam Kwok (Queens College, CUNY)

P25

The Boomerang Effect: Retrieving Scientific Documents through the Network of References and Citations
Birger Larsen and Peter Ingwersen (Royal School of Library and Information Science)

P26

A Logistic Regression Approach to Distributed IR
Ray Larson (University of California)

P27

Building Thematic Lexical Resources by Term Categorization
Alberto Lavelli, Bernardo Magnini (ITC-irst) and Fabrizio Sebastiani (Istituto di Elaborazione dell'Informazione)

P28

Automatic Metadata Generation & Evaluation
Elizabeth Liddy, Eileen Allen, Sarah Harwell, Susan Corieri, Ozgur Yilmazel, N. Erkan Ozgencil, Anne Diekema, Nancy McCracken, Joanne Silverstein (Syracuse University), and Stueart Sutton (University of Washington)

P29

A Critical Examination of TDT's Cost Function
R Manmatha, Ao Feng and James Allan (University of Massachusetts)

P30

Converting On-line Bilingual Dictionaries from Human-Readable to Machine-Readable Form
James Mayfield and Paul McNamee (Johns Hopkins University)

P31

Task Orientation in Question Answering
Vanessa Murdock and W. Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts)

P32

Modeling (In)Variability of Human Judgments for Text Summarization
Tadashi Nomoto (National Institute of Japanese Literature) and Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)

P33

Using Self-supervised Word Segmentation in Chinese Information Retrieval
Fuchun Peng, Xiangji Huang, Dale Schuurmans, Nick Cercone (University of Waterloo) and Stephen Robertson (Microsoft Research)

P34

Content-based Music Indexing and Organization
Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology), Elias Pampalk (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence) and Dieter Merkl (Vienna University of Technology)

P35

Relative and Absolute Term Selection Criteria: A Comparative Study for English and Japanese IR
Tetsuya Sakai (Toshiba R&D Center Knowledge Media Lab), Stephen E. Robertson (Microsoft Research / City University)

P36

Experiments on Data Fusion Using Headline Information
Xiao Mang Shou and Mark Sanderson (University of Sheffield)

P37

Does WT10g Look Like the Web?
Ian Soboroff (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

P38

Biterm Language Models for Document Retrieval
Munirathnam Srikanth and Rohini Srihari (State University of New York at Buffalo)

P39

Selecting Indexing Strings Using Adaptation
Yoshiyuki Takeda and Kyoji Umemura (Toyohashi University of Technology)

P40

Error Correction in a Chinese OCR Test Collection
Yuen-Hsien Tseng (Fu Jen Catholic University)

P41

User Interface Effects in Past Batch Versus User Studies
Andrew Turpin (Curtin University of Technology) and William Hersh (Oregon Health & Science University)

P42

K-tree/forest: Efficient Indexes for Boolean Queries
Rakesh Verma and Sanjiv Behl (University of Houston)

P43

Example-Based Phrase Translation in Chinese-English CLIR
Bin Wang, Xueqi Cheng and Shuo Bai (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

P44

Probabilistic Multimedia Retrieval
Thijs Westerveld (University of Twente)

P45

Automatic Classification in Product Catalogs
Ben Wolin (Commerce One Labs)

P46

Chinese Keyword Extraction Based on Max-duplicated Strings of the Documents
Wenfeng Yang and Xing Li (Tsinghua University)

P47

The Relationship between ASK and Relevance Criteria
Xiaojun Yuan, Nicholas Belkin and Ja-Young Kim (Rutgers University)

P48

Correlating Multilingual Documents via Bipartite Graph Modeling
Hongyuan Zha and Xiang Ji (Pennylvania State University)