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The collected DIR 2012 proceedings in pdf format can be found here.

The separate contributions are listed below:

 

RESEARCH PAPERS

 

Collection and Analysis of Ground Truth Data for Query Intent

Maya Sappelli, Suzan Verberne, Maarten van der Heijden, Max Hinne, Wessel Kraaij

 

Result clustering supports users with vague information needs

Marc Lechtenfeld, Norbert Fuhr

 

Link Anchors in Images: Is There Truth?

Robin Aly, Kevin McGuinness, Martijn Kleppe, Roeland Ordelman, Noel O’Conner, Franciska de Jong

 

Identifying Experts Through a Framework for Knowledge Extraction from Public Online Sources

Anna Hristoskova, Elena Tsiporkova, Tom Tourwé, Simon Buelens, Mattias Putman, Filip De Turck

 

Improved Cyberbullying Detection Using Gender Information

Maral Dadvar, Franciska de Jong, Roeland Ordelman, Dolf Trieschnigg

 

Context-Based Person Identification for News Collections

Laurent Mertens, Thomas Demeester, Johannes Deleu, Chris Develder, Piet Demeester

 

Effectiveness of Learning to Rank for Finding User Similarity in Social Media

Van Duc Thong Hoang, Thomas Demeester, Chris Develder, Hyoseop Shin

 

Implementation and Evaluation of Query Filtering in a Role Ontology-Enhanced Search Engine

Stijn Vandamme, Tim Wauters, Thomas Demeester, Filip De Turck

 

Named Entity Recognition on Flemish Audio-Visual and Newspaper Archives

Johannes Deleu, An De Moor, Thomas Demeester, Brecht Vermeulen, Piet Demeester

 

Proximity-based Passage Ranking for Question Answering

Fang Xu, Dietrich Klakow

 

 

 

EXTENDED ABSTRACTS

 

Using Word Clouds to Summarize Multiple Search Results (Abstract)

Rianne Kaptein, Jaap Kamps

 

Query Session Detection as a Cascade (Abstract)

Matthias Hagen, Benno Stein, Tino Rüb

 

People Searching for People: Analysis of a People Search Engine Log (Abstract)

Wouter Weerkamp, Richard Berendsen, Bogomil Kovachev, Edgar Meij, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke

 

Adaptive Temporal Query Modeling (Abstract)

Maria-Hendrike Peetz, Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke, Wouter Weerkamp

 

Impact of HIT Design on Crowdsourcing Relevance (Abstract)

Gabriella Kazai, Jaap Kamps, Marijn Koolen, Natasa Milic-Frayling

 

Adding Semantics to Microblog Posts (Abstract)

Edgar Meij, Wouter Weerkamp, Maarten de Rijke

 

Conditional Ranking Algorithms for Efficient Object Retrieval and Object Querying on Relational Data (Abstract)

Willem Waegeman, Michiel Stock, Bernard De Baets, Tapio Pahikkala, Antti Airola, Tapio Salakoski

 

Cross-Language Information Retrieval with Latent Topic Models Trained on a Comparable Corpus (Abstract)

Ivan Vulić, Wim De Smet, Marie-Francine Moens

 

Finding similar research papers using language models (Abstract)

Germán Hurtado Martín, Steven Schockaert, Chris Cornelis, Helga Naessens

 

Hypergeometric Language Models for Republished Article Finding (Abstract)

Manos Tsagkias, Maarten de Rijke, Wouter Weerkamp

 

Linking Archives Using Document Enrichment and Term Selection (Abstract)

Marc Bron, Bouke Huurnink, Maarten de Rijke

 

Query Segmentation Revisited (Abstract)

Matthias Hagen, Martin Potthast, Benno Stein, Christof Bräutigam

 

Semantics-Based Financial Event Detection (Abstract)

Frederik Hogenboom, Alexander Hogenboom, Flavius Frasincar

 

Supporting the Negation Operator in the Hermes Graphical Query Language for Document Ranking (Abstract)

Arnout Verheij, Allard Kleijn, Flavius Frasincar, Damir Vandic, Frederik Hogenboom

 

Knowledge Transfer across Multilingual Corpora via Latent Topics (Abstract)

Wim De Smet, Jie Tang, Marie-Francine Moens

 

Naming People in News Videos with Label Propagation (Abstract)

Phi The Pham, Tinne Tuytelaars, Marie-Francine Moens

 

The Impact of Semantically Related Links on Retrieval (Abstract)

Marijn Koolen, Jaap Kamps

 

 

DEMO PAPERS

 

Demonstrating Contextual Group Recommendations for Media in a Home Environment

Simon Dooms, Toon De Pessemier, Luc Martens

 

MediaHaven: Multimedia Asset Management with Integrated NER and Categorization

Bruno Van Den Bossche, Brecht Vermeulen, Johannes Deleu, Thomas Demeester, Piet Demeester

 

Semantic CV Search using Vacancies as Queries

Henning Rode, Rinke Colen, Jakub Zavrel

 

xTAS: Text Analysis in a Timely Manner

Ork de Rooij, Andrei Vishneuski, Maarten de Rijke