Technical Program
Tuesday, September 11, 2001

9.00-10.00 Keynote Address

10.30-12.30 Parallel Paper Sessions 4A and 4B (Tuesday Sept. 11)

Paper Session 4A: Categorization

A Statistical Learning Model of Text Classification with Support Vector Machines
Thorsten Joachims (GMD, Bonn)

A Study on Thresholding Strategies for Text Categorization
Yiming Yang (Carnegie Mellon University)

On Feature Distributional Clustering for Text Categorization
Ron Bekkerman (The Technion, Haifa), Ran El-Yaniv (The Technion, Haifa), Naftali Tishby (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Yoad Winter (The Technion, Haifa)

Paper Session 4B: Retrieval Models

Iterative Residual Rescaling: An Analysis and Generalization of LSI
Rie Ando (Cornell University) and Lillian Lee (Cornell University)

Expressive Retrieval from XML Documents
Taurai T. Chinenyanga (University College Dublin) and Nicholas Kushmerick (University College Dublin)

XIRQL: A Query Language for Information Retrieval in XML Documents
Norbert Fuhr (University of Dortmund) and Kai Grossjohann (University of Dortmund)

Empirical Investigations on Query Modification using Abductive Explanations
Ian Ruthven (University of Glasgow), Mounia Lalmas (Queen Mary, University of London), Keith van Rijsbergen (University of Glasgow)

2.00-3.30 Parallel Paper Sessions 5A and 5B (Tuesday Sept. 11)

Paper Session 5A: Summarization 2

Generic Summaries for Indexing in Information Retrieval
Tetsuya Sakai (University of Cambridge) and Karen Sparck Jones (University of Cambridge)

Automatic Generation of Concise Summaries of Spoken Dialogues in Unrestricted Domains
Klaus Zechner (Carnegie Mellon University)

Enhanced Topic Distillation using Text, Markup Tags, and Hyperlinks
Soumen Chakrabarti (IIT Bombay), Mukul Joshi (IIT Bombay), and Vivek Tawde (IIT Bombay)

Paper Session 5B: User Studies

Transparent Queries: Investigating Users' Mental Models of Search Engines
Jack Muramatsu (University of California, Irvine) and Wanda Pratt (University of California, Irvine)

Why Batch and User Evaluations Do Not Give the Same Results
Andrew Turpin (Curtin University of Technology, Perth) and William Hersh (Oregon Health Sciences University)

Evaluating a Content Based Image Retrieval System
Sharon McDonald (University of Sunderland), Ting Sheng Lai (National Palace Museum), and John Tait (University of Sunderland)

4.00-5.30 Paper Session 6 (Tuesday Sept. 11)

Paper Session 6: The Web

Evaluating Topic-Driven Web Crawlers
Filippo Menczer (University of Iowa), Gautam Pant (University of Iowa), Padmini Srinivasan (University of Iowa), and Miguel Ruiz (TextWise)

Effective Site Finding using Link Anchor Information
Nick Craswell (CSIRO, Canberra), David Hawking (CSIRO, Canberra), and Stephen Robertson (Microsoft Research)

Stable Eigenvector Algorithms for Link Analysis
Alice Zheng (U.C. Berkeley), Andrew Ng (U.C. Berkeley), and Michael Jordan (U.C. Berkeley)