SIGIR Forum
June 2009, Volume 43 Number 1
Table of Contents
SIGIR News
From the Chair
Liz Liddy, pp 1-2
Essays
Against Recall: Is it Persistence, Cardinality, Density, Coverage, or Totality?
Justin Zobel, Alistair Moffat and Laurence A. F. Park, pp 3-15
So Many Topics, So Little Time
Giovanna Roda , Veronika Zenz, Mihai Lupu, Kalervo Järvelin, Mark Sanderson and Christa Womser-Hacker, pp 16-21
Inex
Report on INEX 2008
Gianluca Demartini, Ludovic Denoyer, Antoine Doucet, Khairun Nisa Fachry,
Patrick Gallinari, Shlomo Geva, Wei-Che Huang, Tereza Iofciu,
Jaap Kamps, Gabriella Kazai, Marijn Koolen, Monica Landoni,
Ragnar Nordlie, Nils Pharo, Ralf Schenkel, Martin Theobald,
Andrew Trotman, Arjen P. de Vries, Alan Woodley, Jianhan Zhu, pp 22-28
CIKM Workshop Reports
The 2nd Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web
Adam Jatowt and Katsumi Tanaka, pp 29-35
Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems
for Information Retrieval
Sebastian Michel, Gleb Skobeltsyn and Wai Gen Yee, pp 36-43
Report on the 10th International Workshop on Web
Information and Data Management (WIDM)
Chee-Yong Chan and Neoklis Polyzotis, pp 36-43
Workshop Reports
EVIA 2008:
The Second International Workshop on
Evaluating Information Access
Tetsuya Sakai, Mark Sanderson and Noriko Kando, pp 44-46
Second International Symposium on Information Interaction in Context
Mounia Lalmas, Anastasios Tombros, Pia Borlund and Jesper W. Schneider, pp 47-54
AIR 2008
Second International Workshop on Adaptive
Information Retrieval
Hideo Joho, Frank Hopfgartner, Joemon M. Jose, and C. J. van Rijsbergen, pp 55-58
Workshop on Novel Methodologies for Evaluation in Information
Retrieval
Mark Sanderson, pp 59-62
Dissertation Abstracts
Using Topic Shifts in Content-Oriented XML Retrieval
Elham Ashoori, p 75
A Probabilistic Framework for Information
Modelling and Retrieval Based on User
Annotations on Digital Objects
Ingo Frommholz, p 77
The Voting Model for People Search
Craig Macdonald, p 75
Content and structure summarisation for accessing XML documents
Zoltán Szlávik, p 77