SIGIR Forum

Fall 2002, Volume 36 Number 2

 

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Table of Contents

Papers

A Taxonomy of Web Search

Andrei Broder


Challenges in Web Search Engines

Monika R. Henzinger, Rajeev Motwani, and Craig Silverstein


Do TREC Web Collections Look Like the Web?

Ian Soboroff


U.S. Versus European Web Searching Trends

Amanda Spink, Seda Ozmutlu, Huseyin C. Ozmutlu and Bernard J Jansen


Analysis of Papers from Twenty-Five Years of SIGIR Conferences: What Have We Been Doing for the Last Quarter of a Century ?

Alan F. Smeaton, Gary Keogh, Cathal Gurrin, Kieran McDonald and Tom Sødring


Keynotes

Digital Copyright and the Progress of Science (from JCDL 2002)

Jessica Litman


Workshop Reports

Second Edition of the "XML and Information Retrieval" Workshop

Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Norbert Fuhr and Yoelle S. Maarek


Information Retrieval and OCR: From Converting Content to Grasping Meaning

Jamie Callan, Paul Kantor and David Grossman


Report on ACM SIGIR Workshop on Mathematical/Formal Methods in Information Retrieval

Sandor Dominich, Mounia Lalmas and C. J. "Keith" van Rijsbergen


Report on the Workshop on Operational Text Classification Systems (OTC-02)

Susan T. Dumais, David D. Lewis and Fabrizio Sebastiani


Cross Language Information Retrieval: A Research Roadmap

Fredric Gey, Noriko Kando and Carol Peters


TREC Genomics Pre-Track Workshop Report

William Hersh


Workshop Report: Usability of Digital Libraries @ JCDL'02

Ann Blandford and George Buchanan


Workshop Report: Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries at JCDL '02

Katy Börner and Chaomei Chen


Workshop Report: Digital Gazetteers - Integration into Distributed Digital Library Services

Linda Hill


Summary of Workshop on Document Search Interface Design at the JCDL'02

Javed Mostafa


Dissertation Abstracts

Risk Minimization and Language Modeling in Text Retrieval

ChengXiang Zhai