Tutorials
Supervised and Semi-Supervised Learning for IR Yi Zhang (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) Rong Jin (Michigan State University, USA) The Probabilistic Relevance Model: BM25 and Beyond Hugo Zaragoza (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain) Stephen Robertson (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK ) From `Ultra-Light' to Naturalistic IR Interaction: A Framework for Research on Interactive IR in Context Peter Ingwersen (Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark ) Web Mining for Search Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research) Rosie Jones (Yahoo! Research) Content-based and Semantic Image/Video Retrieval Winston Hsu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Rong Yan (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) Indian Language Information Retrieval: Dealing with Indian Language Issues Mandar Mitra (Indian Statistical Institute, India) Prasenjit Majumder (Indian Statistical Institute, India) Sobha L (Anna University, India) Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval Tie-Yan Liu (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Real World Text Mining Ronen Feldman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel ) Online Advertising: Business Models, Technologies and Issues James Shanahan (Independent Consultant, USA) Ayman Farahat (Admob, USA)

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Workshops
Focused Retrieval: Question Answering, Passage Retrieval, Element Retrieval Andrew Trotman (University of Otago, New Zealand ) Shlomo Geva (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval Hang Li (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Tie-Yan Liu (Microsoft Research Asia, China) ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech Joachim Kohler (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) Martha Larson (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Franciska de Jong (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Roeland Ordelman (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Wessel Kraaij (TNO ICT, The Netherlands) Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data Daniel Lopresti (Lehigh University, USA) Shourya Roy (IBM India Research Lab, India) Klaus Schulz (University of Munich, Germany) L. Venkata Subramaniam (IBM India Research Lab, India) Future Challenges in Expertise Retrieval Krisztian Balog (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Yong Yu (Apex Knowledge & Data Management Lab, China) Aggregated Search Mounia Lalmas (Queen Mary, University of London, UK ) Vanessa Murdock (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain) Beyond Binary Relevance: Preferences, Diversity, and Set-Level Judgments Paul N. Bennett (Microsoft Research, USA) Ben Carterette (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) Olivier Chapelle (Yahoo! Research, USA) Thorsten Joachims (Cornell University, USA) Mobile Information Retrieval Kap Luk Chan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Wang-Chien Lee (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Minoru Etoh (NTT DoCoMo, Japan) Flora S. Tsai (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Information Retrieval in Advertising Ewa Dominowska (Microsoft, USA) Eugene Agichtein (Emory University, USA) James Shanahan (Independent Consultant, USA) Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Yahoo! Research, USA)

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Author Index
Aberer, Karl ......................................733 Acero, Alex .......................................339 Agichtein, Eugene .... 483, 707, 735, 737 Airio, Eija ...........................................59 Akella, Ram ..............................227, 427 Allan, James ....................... 11, 235, 651 Al-Maskari, Azzah ......................59, 683 Almeida, Humberto M.......................267 Alonso, Omar ...................................697 Altingovde, Ismail Sengor .................861 Amini, Massih-Reza ...........................99 Ananiadou, Sophia ............................787 Anick, Peter ......................................701 Arampatzis, Avi ................................811 Arapakis, Ioannis ......................395, 891 Argamon, Shlomo .............................725 Arguello, Jaime .................................347 Arnold, Andrew ................................115 Ashkan, Azin ....................................659 Aslam, Javed A..................587, 603, 651 Avrachenkov, Konstantin ..................873 Back, Maribeth .................................315 Baeza-Yates, Ricardo ........................131 Baglioglu, Ozgur ..............................885 Bai, Peng ..........................................749 Bailey, Peter .....................................667 Balog, Krisztian ................371, 753, 817 Banchs, Rafael E................................863 Bandyopadhyay, Ayan ......................699 Banerjee, Somnath ............................867 Bao, Shenghua ..................................155 Bar-Yossef, Ziv .................................865 Bendersky, Michael ..................491, 853 Bennett, Paul N..................................685 Berlocher, Ivan .................................703 Bian, Jiang ........................................483 Bilenko, Mikhail .........................43, 705 Brisaboa, Nieves R. ...........................139 Broder, Andrei ..................................403 Broschart, Andreas ...........................845 Bu, Jiajun ..................................741, 757 Budura, Adriana ................................733 Buntine, Wray ...................................781 Buscher, Georg .................................387 Büttcher, Stefan ................................659 Cai, Rui .............................................459 Callan, Jamie ............................347, 715 Can, Fazli ..................................861, 885 Cao, Guihong ....................................243 Cao, Yang .........................................179 Carbonell, Jaime G.....................347, 715 Carman, Mark J. T. ............................719 Carterette, Ben ..........................651, 685 Charikar, Moses ................................123 Chen, Chien Chin...............................579 Chen, Chun ...............................741, 757 Chen, Enhong ...................................827 Chen, Hsin-Hsi .................................195 Chen, Ing-Xiang ...............................801 Chen, Kuan-Ting ..............................767 Chen, Meng Chang ............................579 Chen, Weizhu ....................................749 Chen, Zheng ..............................179, 749 Cheng, Xueqi ............................379, 743 Chernov, Sergey ................................894 Chia, Tee Kiah ..................................363 Cho, Junghoo ....................................507 Ciccolo, Peter ....................................403 Clarke, Charles L. A. .........................659 Clements, Maarten ............................739 Clough, Paul ...............................59, 683 Cong, Gao .........................................467 Cormack, Gordon V. ..................659, 745 Cotter, Philip .....................................787 Crain, Steven P...................................799 Craswell, Nick ..........................667, 755 Crecelius, Tom ..........................523, 884 Crestani, Fabio ..................................719 Croft, W. Bruce..........235, 475, 491, 571 Cucerzan, Silviu ................................841 Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe .................733 Dai, Wenyuan ...................................627 Damiani, Ernesto ..............................849 Davison, Brian D. ......................443, 643 de Campos, Luis M............................711 de Rijke, Maarten .............371, 723, 753, 773, 815, 817, 823 de Vries, Arjen P. .......................667, 739 Demir, Engin ....................................861 Dengel, Andreas ...............................387 Diaz, Fernando D...............805, 807, 809 Ding, Chris ........................187, 307, 831 Ding, Fan ..........................................855 Dobrynin, Vladimir ...........................873 Domshlak, Carmel ............................547 Dong, Wei .........................................123 Doucet, Antoine ............................... 843 Downie, J. Stephen ........................... 888 Druck, Gregory ................................ 595 Duh, Kevin ....................................... 251 Dumais, Susan T. .......................163, 791 Dumoulin, Benoit ............................. 751 Dupret, Georges E............................. 331 Elbassuoni, Shady ............................ 721 Elgersma, Erik ................................. 723 Elsas, Jonathan L. ............................. 347 Fang, Hui ......................................... 219 Fang, Lujun ...................................... 179 Fariña, Antonio ................................ 139 Fei, Ben ............................................ 155 Fernández-Luna, J. M. .......................711 Fetterly, Dennis ................................ 755 Floréen, Patrik .................................. 781 Fortuna, Blaz .................................... 883 Fox, Edward A.................................. 889 Frieder, Ophir .................................. 859 Gabrilovich, Evgeniy ....................... 403 Gao, Bin ........................................... 451 Gao, Jianfeng ................................... 243 Garain, Utpal .................................... 803 Garcia, Ernest V. ............................... 735 Garcia-Molina, Hector ..................... 531 Geng, Xiubo ......................................115 Gildea, Nicholas ............................... 775 Giles, C. Lee ..................................... 515 Gkanogiannis, Anestis ..................... 869 Goharian, Nazli ................................ 833 Golovchinsky, Gene ......................... 315 Gonçalves, Marcos A.................267, 889 Gong, Yihong ................................... 635 Goutte, Cyril ...................................... 99 Gray, Philip D................................... 395 Grobelnik, Marko ............................. 883 Guan, Ziyu ....................................... 757 Guiver, John ..................................... 259 Guo, Jiafeng ..................................... 379 Guo, Qi ............................................ 707 Hannah, David ................................. 709 Harpale, Abhay S................................ 91 Hattori, Hiroyuki .............................. 793 Hauskrecht, Milos ............................ 785 He, Ben ...............................67, 727, 747 He, Daqing ....................................... 882 He, Shuyuan ..................................... 451

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He, Yanxiang ....................................283 Heath, Allison P. ..................................43 Heymann, Paul ..................................531 Hiemstra, Djoerd ...... 763, 795, 797, 851 Hoon, Gan Keng ........................879, 895 Hsu, Winston H. ................................767 Hu, Jian .............................................179 Hu, Meishan .............................291, 729 Hu, Qinmin .......................................783 Hu, Rong ..........................................749 Hu, Tianming ....................................871 Hu, Xiao ...........................................888 Hu, Xiaohua ......................................555 Huang, Jian .......................................799 Huang, Xiangji ..................................783 Huete, Juan F. ....................................711 Jang, Myung-Gil ...............................829 Järvelin, Kalervo ...............................675 Jaygarl, Hojun ...................................801 Jeon, Jiwoon .....................................475 Jeong, Minwoo .................................875 Jiang, Maojin ....................................725 Jiang, Yu-Gang .................................769 Jing, Liping .......................................539 Joho, Hideo .......................................709 Jones, M. Cameron ............................888 Jose, Joemon M. ................395, 709, 775 Joshi, Tanuja .....................................211 Josifovski, Vanja ...............................403 Joy, Joseph ........................................211 Junqueira, Flavio P.............................131 Kacimi, Mouna .........................523, 884 Kalamboukis, Theodore ....................869 Kalashnikov, Dmitri V. ........................27 Kaltenbrunner, Andreas ....................863 Kamei, Koji ......................................759 Kamps, Jaap ...................... 763, 811, 847 Kang, In-Su .......................................821 Kanoulas, Evangelos .........................603 Kanoulas, Evangelos .........................651 Kantamneni, Raj Gopal .....................701 Kantor, Paul B. ..................................147 Kaptein, Rianne ................................763 Kardas, Suleyman .............................885 Kekäläinen, Jaana .............................675 Kellner, Tobias ..................................211 Kelly, Liadh ......................................899 Keong, Phang Keat ............................879 Keskustalo, Heikki ............................675 Khurana, Udayan ..............................211 Kikuchi, Masaaki ..............................779

Kim, HyunKi ....................................829 Kim, Jungi ........................................821 Kim, Kono ........................................703 Kim, Seokhwan .................................875 Kirchhoff, Katrin ..............................251 Kishino, Yasue ..................................759 Kocberber, Seyit ...............................885 Kolla, Maheedhar .............................659 Kong, Tang Enya ...............................879 Koolen, Marijn ..................................847 Kraaij, Wessel ...........................815, 823 Kukkonen, Joonas .............................781 Kumaran, A ......................................211 Kumaran, Giridhar ..............................11 Kurland, Oren ...........171, 547, 825, 853 Ladra, Susana ....................................139 Lagerspetz, Eemil .............................781 Lai, Wei ............................................459 Lalmas, Mounia ................................847 Lam, Wai ............................................35 Larson, Martha ..................................773 Larson, Ray R. ...................................886 Lee, Changki .....................................829 Lee, Gary Geunbae ............................875 Lee, Jong-Hyeok ...............................821 Lee, Kai-Fu .......................................... 1 Lee, Kyung Soon ...............................235 Lee, Kyung-il ....................................703 Lee, Wang-Chien ..............................515 Lee, Wee Sun ....................................835 Lehtonen, Miro .................................843 Li, Baoli ............................................735 Li, Chunping .....................................713 Li, Haizhou .......................................363 Li, Hang .................... 107, 115, 379, 451 Li, Hua ..............................................179 Li, Huajing ........................................515 Li, Jia ................................................515 Li, Kai ...............................................123 Li, Linlin ...........................................771 Li, Rongmei ......................................763 Li, Tao .......................187, 307, 819, 831 Li, Wenjie .........................................283 Li, Wenyuan ......................................539 Li, Xiao .............................................339 Liao, Wei-Shing ................................767 Liebling, Daniel J...............................163 Lim, Ee-Peng ............................291, 729 Lin, Chin-Yew ..................................467 Lin, Jian ............................................881 Lin, Jimmy ..........................................19

Lin, Lan ........................................... 777 Lin, Luxin ........................................ 837 Lin, Yongjing ................................... 539 Liu, Chang ....................................... 892 Liu, Kangmiao ................................. 741 Liu, Nathan N. .................................... 83 Liu, Tie-Yan ......................107, 115, 451 Liu, Yandong .....................483, 735, 737 Liu, Ying .......................................... 539 Liu, Yuting ....................................... 451 Lu, Min ............................................ 107 Lu, Qin ............................................. 283 Lu, Yansheng ................................... 749 Luo, Dijun ........................................ 831 Luo, Gang ............................................ 3 Luo, Hangzai .................................... 871 Luo, Qiming ..................................... 827 Luo, Yemin ...................................... 837 Luxenburger, Julia ........................... 721 Ma, Wei-Ying ................................... 107 Ma, Wei-Ying ................................... 459 Ma, Zhiming .................................... 451 Macdonald, Craig ........67, 727, 747, 761 MacKinnon, Ian ............................... 659 Maekawa, Takuya ............................ 759 Maiti, Samaresh ............................... 699 Majumder, Prasenjit ......................... 699 Mann, Gideon .................................. 595 Marrara, Stefania .............................. 849 Mashiach, Li-Tal .............................. 865 Mayfield, James ............................... 813 McCallum, Andrew ......................... 595 McNamee, Paul ................................ 813 Mehrotra, Sharad ............................... 27 Mehta, Bhaskar .................................. 75 Mei, Qiaozhu ....................................611 Meij, Edgar ...............815, 817, 823, 898 Meira Jr, Wagner .............................. 267 Mengle, Saket S. R. .......................... 833 Merhav, Yuval .................................. 859 Michel, Sebastian ..............523, 733, 884 Mitra, Mandar .................................. 699 Mitra, Sukanya ................................. 699 Mladenic, Dunja ............................... 883 Moffat, Alistair ...................51, 687, 695 Mojdeh, Mona .................................. 745 Murray, G. Craig ........................705, 900 Murthy, Uma .................................... 889 Na, Seung-Hoon ............................... 821 Navarro, Gonzalo ............................. 139 Nejdl, Wolfgang ................................. 75

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Nemirovsky, Danil ............................873 Neumann, Thomas ....................523, 884 Ng, Hwee Tou ...................................363 Ngo, Chong-Wah ..............................769 Nguyen, Doan ...................................765 Nicholas, Charles ..............................813 Nie, Jian-Yun ....................................243 Nie, Lan ............................................443 Nobata, Chikashi ..............................787 Nuray-Turan, Rabia ............................27 Nurmi, Petteri ...................................781 Oard, Douglas W. ..............................203 Ocalan, Huseyin Cagdas....................885 Okadome, Takeshi ............................759 Okamoto, Masayuki ..........................779 Okazaki, Naoaki ...............................787 Ounis, Iadh ................. 67, 727, 747, 761 Paepcke, Andreas ..............................563 Pajntar, Bostjan .................................883 Pal, Dipasree .....................................699 Pal, Sukomal .....................................699 Pan, Hanglin .....................................887 Pan, Yan ............................................837 Parreira, Josiane X. ....................523, 884 Pasi, Gabriella ...................................849 Pavlu, Virgil ......................................651 Peng, Fuchun ....................................751 Peng, Jie ............................................761 Peng, Wei ..................................819, 831 Pham, Son Kim..................................873 Pickens, Jeremy ................................315 Pirkola, Ari .......................................675 Piwowarski, Benjamin ......................331 Plachouras, Vassilis ..........................131 Qi, Xiaoguang ...................................643 Qin, Tao ............................................115 Qiu, Guang .......................................741 Qu, Mingcheng .................................741 Quan, Xiaojun ...................................827 Qvarfordt, Pernilla ............................315 Radlinski, Filip .................................403 Rahurkar, Mandar .............................841 Ram, Ashwin ....................................735 Ramage, Daniel ................................531 Ravana, Sri Devi ...............................687 Rea, Brian .........................................787 Reinders, Marcel J. T. ........................739 Richardson, Matthew ..................43, 705 Riedel, Lance ....................................403 Robertson, Stephen ...........243, 587, 689 Rode, Henning ..................795, 797, 851

Roelleke, Thomas .............................435 Rueda-Morales, M. A. .......................711 Rupnik, Jan .......................................883 Sakai, Tetsuya ...........................691, 695 Sakurai, Yasushi ................................759 Sanderson, Mark .................59, 499, 683 Sasaki, Yutaka ...................................787 Schenkel, Ralf ...........523, 845, 884, 887 Scholer, Falk .............................693, 717 Seki, Kazuhiro ..................................793 Sen, Aparajita ...................................699 Sengar, Vibhuti .................................211 Seo, Jangwon ....................................571 Serdyukov, Pavel ......795, 797, 851, 893 Shah, Chirag .............................315, 896 Shao, Bo ...........................................187 Shum, Heung-Yeung .........................115 Si, Luo ..............................................419 Siddharth, Jonathan ...........................563 Sifer, Mark ........................................881 Sim, Khe Chai ...................................363 Skobeltsyn, Gleb ...............................131 Smirnova, Elena ................................873 Smith, Catherine L.............................147 Smucker, Mark D.................................19 Snelson, Edward ...............................259 Soboroff, Ian .............................667, 747 Song, Yang ........................................515 Song, Young-In .................................467 Su, Zhong .........................................155 Sun, Aixin .................................291, 729 Sun, Yueheng ....................................467 Sung, Sam Yuan.................................871 Talbot, Justin .....................................697 Tan, Chew Lim ..................................771 Tan, Saravadee Sae ............................879 Tan, Songbo ......................................743 Tang, Chunqiang .................................. 3 Tang, Xiaoya .....................................789 Tang, Yong ........................................837 Teevan, Jaime ...........................163, 791 Theobald, Martin ..............................563 Thomas, Paul ............................667, 839 Torres, Ricardo da Silva.....................889 Trieschnigg, Dolf ..............815, 823, 897 Truong, Tuong-Vinh ...........................99 Tryfonopoulos, Christos ...................323 Tsagias, Manos .................................773 Tsai, Ming-Feng ................................195 Tsujii, Jun'ichi ..................................787 Tsuruoka, Yoshimasa ........................787

Turpin, Andrew .................693, 717, 731 Uehara, Kuniaki ............................... 793 Ulusoy, Özgür .................................. 861 Uyar, Erkan ...................................... 885 Vallet, David .................................... 857 van Elst, Ludger ............................... 387 Vechtomova, Olga ............................ 659 Veloso, Adriano A............................. 267 Venkatachalam, Logambigai ............ 889 Villa, Robert ..................................... 775 Vinay, Vishwa .................................. 755 Wan, Xiaojun ................................... 299 Wang, Bin ........................................ 855 Wang, Can ........................................ 757 Wang, Changhu ................................ 355 Wang, Dingding ............................... 307 Wang, Jun ........................................ 435 Wang, Junfeng ................................. 757 Wang, Long ...................................... 467 Wang, Mengqiu ................................ 419 Wang, Shuguang .............................. 785 Wang, Xuanhui ................................ 219 Wang, Ye-Yi ..................................... 339 Wang, Yida ....................................... 459 Wang, Yuefen ................................... 743 Wang, Yu-Ting ................................. 195 Webber, William ........................ 51, 695 Weerkamp, Wouter ............371, 753, 817 Wei, Furu ......................................... 283 Wei, Xing ......................................... 751 Weikum, Gerhard .....................323, 523, 721, 884, 887 Welch, Michael J............................... 507 West, Kris ........................................ 888 White, Ryen W.....................43, 705, 791 Winter, Judith ................................... 890 Wong, Limsoon .................................... 2 Wong, Tak-Lam ................................. 35 Wong, Tik-Shun ................................. 35 Wu, Dan ........................................... 882 Wu, Mingfang ...........................717, 731 Wu, Ping-Jung .................................. 801 Wu, Yejun ........................................ 203 Xing, Dikan ...................................... 619 Xiong, Hui ................................827, 871 Xu, Gu ............................................. 379 Xu, Hongtao ..................................... 777 Xu, Jun ............................................. 107 Xu, Shengliang ................................ 155 Xu, Wei ............................................ 635 Xu, Yang .......................................... 855

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Xu, Zuobing ..............................227, 427 Xue, Gui-Rong ..................275, 619, 627 Xue, Xiaobing ...................................475 Yamasaki, Tomohiro .........................779 Yanagisawa, Yutaka ..........................759 Yang, Cheng-Zen ..............................801 Yang, Jiang-Ming ..............................459 Yang, Jianwu .....................................299 Yang, Qiang ........ 83, 179, 619, 627, 749 Yang, Seungwon ...............................889 Yang, Yiming ......................................91 Yasukawa, Michiko ..........................880 Ye, Xingyao ......................................411 Yilmaz, Emine ..................587, 603, 667 Yokoo, Hidetoshi ..............................880

Yu, Kai ..............................................635 Yu, Yong ...................155, 275, 619, 627 Zaragoza, Hugo .................................857 Zeng, Hua-Jun ..................................179 Zha, Hongyuan .........................275, 799 Zhai, ChengXiang .....................219, 611 Zhang, Dell .......................................835 Zhang, Duo .......................................611 Zhang, Hong-Jiang ...........................355 Zhang, Kai ........................................713 Zhang, Lei .................................355, 459 Zhang, Liyan .....................................713 Zhang, Min .......................................411 Zhang, Wei ........................................877 Zhang, Xiaodan .................................555

Zhang, Yi ......................................... 187 Zhang, Ying ..................................... 451 Zhao, Qiankun ................................. 515 Zhou, Chao ...................................... 741 Zhou, Ke .......................................... 275 Zhou, Wenjun ................................... 871 Zhou, Xiangdong ............................. 777 Zhou, Xiaohua ................................. 555 Zhu, Shenghuo ..........................307, 635 Zhu, Yangbo ..................................... 715 Zhuang, Ziming ............................... 515 Zighelnic, Liron ............................... 825 Zimmer, Christian ............................ 323 Zobel, Justin ........................51, 695, 731

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