20. SIGIR 1997: Philadelphia, PA, USA

• Tefko Saracevic:
  Users Lost: Reflections on the Past, Future, and Limits of Information Science (Summary). 1-2
  

Relevance Feedback

• Bienvenido Vélez, Ron Weiss, Mark A. Sheldon, David K. Gifford:
  Fast and Effective Query Refinement. 6-15
  
• Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker:
  On Relevance Weights with Little Relevance Information. 16-24
  
• Amit Singhal, Mandar Mitra, Chris Buckley:
  Learning Routing Queries in a Query Zone. 25-32
  

Chinese Language Retrieval

• K. L. Kwok:
  Comparing Representations in Chinese Information Retrieval. 34-41
  
• Aitao Chen, Jianzhang He, Liangjie Xu, Fredric C. Gey, Jason Meggs:
  Chinese Text Retrieval Without Using a Dictionary. 42-49
  
• Lee-Feng Chien, T.-I. Huang, M-C. Chien:
  Pat-tree-based Keyword Extraction for Chinese Information Retrieval. 50-58
  

Classification Methods

• Craig Silverstein, Jan O. Pedersen:
  Almost-Constant-Time Clustering of Arbitrary Corpus Subsets. 60-66
  
• Hwee Tou Ng, Wei Boon Goh, Kok Leong Low:
  Feature Selection, Perceptron Learning, and a Usability Case Study for Text Categorization. 67-73
  
• Hinrich Schütze, Craig Silverstein:
  Projections for Efficient Document Clustering. 74-81
  

Cross-Language Retrieval

• Lisa Ballesteros, W. Bruce Croft:
  Phrasal Translation and Query Expansion Techniques for Cross-language Information Retrieval. 84-91
  
• Mark W. Davis, William C. Ogden:
  QUILT: Implementing a Large-scale Cross-language Text Retrieval System. 92-98
  
• Paraic Sheridan, Martin Wechsler, Peter Schäuble:
  Cross Language Speech Retrieval: Establishing a Baseline Performance. 99-108
  

Formal Models

• Mounia Lalmas:
  Dempster-Shafer's Theory of Evidence Applied to Structured Documents: Modelling Uncertainty. 110-118
  
• Warren R. Greiff, W. Bruce Croft, Howard R. Turtle:
  Computationally Tractable Probabilistic Modeling of Boolean Operators. 119-128
  
• Marios Sintichakis, Panos Constantopoulos:
  A Method for Monolingual Thesauri Merging. 129-138
  

Natural Language Processing

• Mark A. Stairmand:
  Textual Context Analysis for Information Retrieval. 140-147
  
• Evelyne Tzoukermann, Judith Klavans, Christian Jacquemin:
  Effective Use of Natural Language Processing Techniques for Automatic Conflation of Multi-Word Terms: The Role of Derivational Morphology, Part of Speech Tagging, and Shallow Parsing. 148-155
  
• Christian Jacquemin:
  Guessing Morphology from Terms and Corpora. 156-165
  

Text Structures

• Scott Aaronson:
  Optimal Demand-oriented Topology for Hypertext Systems. 168-177
  
• Marcin Kaszkiel, Justin Zobel:
  Passage Retrieval Revisited. 178-185
  
• Dieter Merkl:
  Exploration of Text Collections with Hierarchical Feature Maps. 186-195
  

User Issues 1

• Raya Fidel, Michael Crandall:
  Users' Perception of the Performance of a Filtering System. 198-205
  
• Mark D. Dunlop:
  Time, Relevance and Interaction Modelling for Information Retrieval. 206-213
  

Asian Languages

• Doug Cooper:
  How to Read Less and Know More - Approximate OCR for Thai. 216-225
  
• Yashishi Ogawa, Toru Matsuda:
  Overlapping Statistical Word Indexing: A New Indexing Method for Japanese Text. 226-234
  

User Issues 2

• Aravindan Veerasamy, Russell Heikes:
  Effectiveness of a Graphical Display of Retrieval Results. 236-245
  
• Marti A. Hearst, Chandu Karadi:
  Cat-a-Cone: An Interactive Interface for Specifying Searches and Viewing Retrieval Results using a Large Category Hierarchy. 246-255
  

Combination Techniques

• Christoph Baumgarten:
  A Probabilistic Model for Distributed Information Retrieval. 258-266
  
• Jong-Hak Lee:
  Analyses of Multiple Evidence Combination. 267-276
  

Image Retrieval

• S. Ravela, R. Manmatha:
  Image Retrieval by Appearance. 278-285
  
• Y. Alp Aslandogan, Chuck Thier, Clement T. Yu, Jon Zou, Naphtali Rishe:
  Using Semantic Contents and WordNet in Image Retrieval. 286-295
  
• V. Harmandas, Mark Sanderson, Mark D. Dunlop:
  Image Retrieval by Hypertext Links. 296-303
  

Query Expansion

• Larry Fitzpatrick, Mei Dent:
  Automatic Feedback Using Past Queries: Social Searching? 306-313
  
• Peter G. Anick, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan:
  Exploiting Clustering and Phrases for Context-based Information Retrieval. 314-323
  
• Mark Magennis, C. J. van Rijsbergen:
  The Potential and Actual Effectiveness of Interactive Query Expansion. 324-332
  

Panel

• Michael Lesk, Douglas R. Cutting, Jan O. Pedersen, Terry Noreault, Matthew B. Koll:
  Real Life Information Retrieval: Commercial Search Engines (Panel). 333
  

• Maristella Agosti, Lucio Benfante, Massimo Melucci:
  ACHIRA: Automatic Construction of Hypertexts for Information Retrieval Applications (Abstract). 335
  
• Hsinchun Chen, Andrea Houston, Robin R. Sewell, Bruce R. Schatz:
  Semantic Search and Semantic Categorization (Abstract). 335
  
• Hsinchun Chen, Marshall Ramsey, Terence R. Smith:
  Visual SOM (Abstract). 336