Advances in Information Retrieval Recent Research from the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Croft, W. Bruce (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2000.
• Series: The Information Retrieval Series, 7
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Data structures (Computer science).; Information storage and retrieval.; Multimedia information systems.; Computer Science.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Computer Communication Networks.; Multimedia Information Systems.

The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) was formed in the Computer Science Department ofthe University ofMassachusetts, Amherst in 1992. The core support for the Center came from a National Science Foun- tion State/Industry/University Cooperative Research Center(S/IUCRC) grant, altho...

Table of Contents:

• Combining Approaches to Information Retrieval
• The use of Exploratory Data Analysis in Information Retrieval Research
• Language Models for Relevance Feedback
• Topic Detection and Tracking: Event Clustering as a Basis for First Story Detection
• Distributed Information Retrieval
• Topic-Based Language Models for Distributed Retrieval
• The Effect of Collection Organization and Query Locality on Information Retrieval System Performance
• Cross-Language Retrieval via Transitive Translation
• Building, Testing, and Applying Concept Hierarchies
• Appearance-Based Global Similarity Retrieval of Images.