Advances in Information Retrieval: 26th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2004, Sunderland, UK, April 5-7, 2004. ProceedingsAuthor: Sharon McDonald, John Tai Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg ISBN: 978-3-540-21382-6 DOI: 10.1007/b96895Table of Contents:From Information Retrieval to Information Interaction IR and AI: Traditions of Representation and Anti-representation in Information Processing A User-Centered Approach to Evaluating Topic Models A Study of User Interaction with a Concept-Based Interactive Query Expansion Support Tool Searcher’s Assessments of Task Complexity for Web Searching Evaluating Passage Retrieval Approaches for Question Answering Identification of Relevant and Novel Sentences Using Reference Corpus Answer Selection in a Multi-stream Open Domain Question Answering System A Bidimensional View of Documents for Text Categorisation Query Difficulty, Robustness, and Selective Application of Query Expansion Combining CORI and the Decision-Theoretic Approach for Advanced Resource Selection Predictive Top-Down Knowledge Improves Neural Exploratory Bottom-Up Clustering Contextual Document Clustering Complex Linguistic Features for Text Classification: A Comprehensive Study Eliminating High-Degree Biased Character Bigrams for Dimensionality Reduction in Chinese Text Categorization Broadcast News Gisting Using Lexical Cohesion Analysis From Text Summarisation to Style-Specific Summarisation for Broadcast News Relevance Feedback for Cross Language Image Retrieval NN Integrating Perceptual Signal Features within a Multi-facetted Conceptual Model for Automatic Image Retrieval, Includes bibliographical references and index