June 2011

SIGIR Forum

Volume 45 Number 1

Table of Contents

SIGIR News

From the Chair
James Allan, 1

INEX

Report on INEX 2010
D. Alexander, P. Arvola, T. Beckers, P. Bellot, T. Chappell, C.M. De Vries, A. Doucet, N. Fuhr, S. Geva, J. Kamps, G. Kazai, M. Koolen, S. Kutty, M. Landoni, V. Moriceau, R. Nayak, R. Nordlie, N. Pharo, E. SanJuan, R. Schenkel, A. Tagarelli, X. Tannier, J.A. Thom, A. Trotman, J. Vaino, Q. Wang, C. Wu, 2

Workshop

Crowdsourcing for Search and Data Mining
Matthew Lease, Vitor R. Carvalho, Emine Yilmaz, 18

Report on BooksOnline’10: Third Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories and Complementary Media
Gabriella Kazai, Peter Brusilovsky, 25

Report on the Third Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval (ESAIR)
Jaap Kamps, Jussi Karlgren, Ralf Schenkel, 33

DIR 2011: The Eleventh Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop
Corrado Boscarino, Katja Hofmann, Valentin Jijkoun, Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke, Wouter Weerkamp, 42

Fourth International Workshop on Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse
Benno Stein, Paolo Rosso, Efstathios Stamatatos, Martin Potthast, Alberto Barron-Cedeno, Moshe Koppel, 45

DiversiWeb 2011
Elena Simperl, Devika P. Madalli, Denny Vrandecic, Enrique Alfonseca, 49

Eighth Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb 2011)
Ullas B. Nambiar, L. Venkata Subramaniam, 54

First International Workshop on Social Media Engagement (SoME 2011)
Alejandro Jaimes, Mounia Lalmas, Yana Volkovich, 56

Usage Analysis and the Web of Data
Bettina Berendt, Laura Hollink, Vera Hollink, Markus Luczak-Rosch, Knud Moller, David Vallet, 63

Note

Publishing Survey Articles on Information Retrieval Topics
Douglas W. Oard, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Jonathan Furner, Gary Marchionini, 70

Dissertation Abstracts

From People to Entities: Typed Search in the Enterprise and the Web
Gianluca Demartini, 73

Multitasking, Cognitive Coordination and Cognitive Shifts during Web Searching
Jia Tina Du, 74

Improving Search Effectiveness in Sentence Retrieval and Novelty Detection
Ronald T. Fernandez, 75

Search in Audiovisual Broadcast Archives
Bouke Huurnink, 77

The Meaning of Structure: the Value of Link Evidence for Information Retrieval
Marijn Koolen, 78

Combining Concepts and Language Models for Information Access
Edgar Meij, 80