5th International Workshop on Text-based Information Retrieval (Workshop TIR '08 )

2008-09-01 [09:30 - 11:00] : Session 1: Information Retrieval Theory

• A Formalization of Logical Imaging for Information Retrieval using Quantum Theory
  Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen


• Language Models and Smoothing Methods for Collections with Large Variation in Document Length
  Najeeb Abdulmutalib, Norbert Fuhr


• Proximity estimation and hardness of short-text corpora
  Marcelo Errecalde, Diego Ingaramo, Paolo Rosso



2008-09-01 [11:00 - 11:30] : Coffee Break

2008-09-01 [11:00 - 11:30] : Coffee Break

2008-09-01 [11:30 - 13:00] : Session 2: Information Extraction and Deep Text Analysis

• Text Extraction from the Web via Text-to-Tag Ratio
  Tim Weninger, William Hsu


• Content Code Blurring: A New Approach to Content Extraction
  Thomas Gottron


• Meta Analysis within Authorship Verification
  Benno Stein, Nedim Lipka, Sven Meyer zu Eissen



2008-09-01 [13:00 - 14:30] : Lunch Break

2008-09-01 [13:00 - 14:30] : Lunch Break

2008-09-01 [14:30 - 16:00] : Session 3: Clustering and Mining

• Semantically rich spaces for document clustering
  Roberto Basili, Paolo Marocco, Danele Milizia


• Learning Visual Entities and their Visual Attributes from Text Corpora
  Erik Boiy, Koen Deschacht, Marie-Francine Moens


• Topic Detection by Clustering Keywords
  Christian Wartena, Rogier Brussee



2008-09-01 [16:00 - 16:30] : Coffee Break

2008-09-01 [16:00 - 16:30] : Coffee Break

2008-09-01 [16:30 - 17:30] : Session 4: Advanced Application

• Enhanced Query Expansion in English-Arabic CLIR
  Abdelghani Bellaachia, Ghita Amor-Tijani


• Using NLP and Ontologies for Notary Document Management Systems
  Flora Amato, Antonino Mazzeo, Antonio Penta, Antonio Picariello