WORKSHOP: TIR-08

TIR-08

5th International Workshop on Text-based Information Retrieval
in conjunction with DEXA 2008
Politecnico di Torino
Turin, Italy
1-5 September 2008

Program on Monday, September 1st, 2008

 

09:15-09:30Opening
Session 1Information Retrieval Theory
09:30-10:00A Formalization of Logical Imaging for Information Retrieval using Quantum Theory
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen [PAPER] [TALK]
10:00-10:30Language Models and Smoothing Methods for Collections with Large Variation in Document Length
Najeeb Abdulmutalib, Norbert Fuhr [PAPER] [TALK]
10:30-11:00Proximity estimation and hardness of short-text corpora
Marcelo Errecalde, Diego Ingaramo, Paolo Rosso [PAPER] [TALK]
11:00-11:30Coffee break
Session 2Information Extraction and Deep Text Analysis
11:30-12:00Text Extraction from the Web via Text-to-Tag Ratio
Tim Weninger, William Hsu [PAPER] [TALK]
12:00-12:30Content Code Blurring: A New Approach to Content Extraction
Thomas Gottron [PAPER] [TALK]
12:30-13:00Meta Analysis within Authorship Verification
Benno Stein, Nedim Lipka, Sven Meyer zu Eissen [PAPER] [TALK]
13:00-14:30Lunch
Session 3Clustering and Mining
14:30-15:00Semantically rich spaces for document clustering
Roberto Basili, Paolo Marocco, Danele Milizia [PAPER] [TALK]
15:00-15:30Learning Visual Entities and their Visual Attributes from Text Corpora
Erik Boiy, Koen Deschacht, Marie-Francine Moens [PAPER] [TALK]
15:30-16:00Topic Detection by Clustering Keywords
Christian Wartena, Rogier Brussee [PAPER] [TALK]
16:00-16:30Coffee break
Session 4Advanced Application
16:30-17:00Enhanced Query Expansion in English-Arabic CLIR
Abdelghani Bellaachia, Ghita Amor-Tijani [PAPER]
17:00-17:30Using NLP and Ontologies for Notary Document Management Systems
Flora Amato, Antonino Mazzeo, Antonio Penta, Antonio Picariello [PAPER] [TALK]
17:30Closing Remarks