Paper List for WebIR&IE 2005

• Web data extraction

  • Hongkun Zhao, Weiyi Meng, Zonghuan Wu, Vijay Raghavan, Clement T. Yu: Fully automatic wrapper generation for search engines. 66-75, WWW 2005
  • Yanhong Zhai, Bing Liu: Web data extraction based on partial tree alignment. 76-85, WWW 2005
  • Andrew Hogue, David Karger: Thresher: automating the unwrapping of semantic content from the World Wide Web. 86-95, WWW 2005
  • Oren Etzioni, Michael J. Cafarella, Doug Downey, Stanley Kok, Ana-Maria Popescu, Tal Shaked, Stephen Soderland, Daniel S. Weld, Alexander Yates: Web-scale information extraction in knowitall: (preliminary results). 100-110, WWW 2004

• Search interface integration

  • Bin He, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Jiawei Han: Discovering complex matchings across web query interfaces: a correlation mining approach. KDD2004, 148-157
  • Hai He, Weiyi Meng, Clement T. Yu, Zonghuan Wu: WISE-Integrator: An Automatic Integrator of Web Search Interfaces for E-Commerce. VLDB2003, 357-368

• Web service

  • Vikas Agarwal, Koustuv Dasgupta, Neeran Karnik, Arun Kumar, Ashish Kundu, Sumit Mittal, Biplav Srivastava: A service creation environment based on end to end composition of Web services. 128-137, WWW 2005
  • Sami Bhiri, Olivier Perrin, Claude Godart: Ensuring required failure atomicity of composite Web services. 138-147, WWW 2005
  • Dirk Beyer, Arindam Chakrabarti, Thomas A. Henzinger: Web service interfaces. 148-159, WWW 2005
  • Monika Solanki, Antonio Cau, Hussein Zedan: Augmenting semantic web service descriptions with compositional specification. 544-552, WWW 2004
  • Abhijit A. Patil, Swapna A. Oundhakar, Amit P. Sheth, Kunal Verma: Meteor-s web service annotation framework. 553-562, WWW 2004
  • Peter Mika, Daniel Oberle, Aldo Gangemi, Marta Sabou: Foundations for service ontologies: aligning OWL-S to dolce. 563-572, WWW 2004

• Web crawling

  • Sandeep Pandey, Krithi Ramamritham, Soumen Chakrabarti: Monitoring the dynamic web to respond to continuous queries. 659-668, WWW 2003
  • Dennis Fetterly, Mark Manasse, Marc Najork, Janet L. Wiener: A large-scale study of the evolution of web pages. 669-678, WWW 2003
  • Andrei Z. Broder, Marc Najork, Janet L. Wiener: Efficient URL caching for world wide web crawling. 679-68, WWW 2003

• Indexing and Querying

  • Edleno Silva de Moura, Celia F. dos Santos, Daniel R. Fernandes, Altigran Soares da Silva, Pavel Calado, Mario A. Nascimento: Improving Web search efficiency via a locality based static pruning method. 235-244, WWW 2005
  • Aris Anagnostopoulos, Andrei Z. Broder, David Carmel: Sampling search-engine results. 245-256, WWW 2005 Xiaohui Long, Torsten Suel: Three-level caching for efficient query processing in large Web search engines. 257-266, WWW 2005

• Ranking

  • Paolo Boldi, Massimo Santini, Sebastiano Vigna: PageRank as a function of the damping factor. 557-566, WWW 2005 Zaiqing Nie, Yuanzhi Zhang, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma: Object-level ranking: bringing order to Web objects. 567-574, WWW 2005
  • Frank McSherry: A uniform approach to accelerated PageRank computation. 575-582, WWW 2005
  • Sepandar D. Kamvar, Taher H. Haveliwala, Christopher D. Manning, Gene H. Golub: Extrapolation methods for accelerating PageRank computations. 261-270, WWW 2003
  • Glen Jeh, Jennifer Widom: Scaling personalized web search. 271-279, WWW 2003
  • Serge Abiteboul, Mihai Preda, Gregory Cobena: Adaptive on-line page importance computation. 280-290, WWW 2003
  • John A. Tomlin: A new paradigm for ranking pages on the world wide web. 350-355, WWW 2003
  • Ah Chung Tsoi, Gianni Morini, Franco Scarselli, Markus Hagenbuchner, Marco
  • Maggini: Adaptive ranking of web pages. 356-365, WWW 2003
  • Ronald Fagin, Ravi Kumar, Kevin S. McCurley, Jasmine Novak, D. Sivakumar,
  • John A. Tomlin, David P. Williamson: Searching the workplace web. 366-375, WWW 2003

• Question Answering

  • Dell Zhang, Wee Sun Lee: Question classification using support vector machines. 26-32, SIGIR 2003
  • Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua, Shuguang Wang, Chun-Keat Koh: Structured use of external knowledge for event-based open domain question answering. 33-40, SIGIR 2003
  • Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron Fernandes, Gregory Marton: Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering. 41-47, SIGIR 2003

• Semantic Search

  • Michael J. Cafarella, Oren Etzioni: A search engine for natural language applications. 442-452, WWW 2005
  • Lei Zhang, Yong Yu, Jian Zhou, Chenxi Lin, Yin Yang: An enhanced model for searching in semantic portals. 453-462,WWW 2005
  • Ron Bekkerman, Andrew McCallum: Disambiguating Web appearances of people in a social network. 463-470, WWW 2005

• XML retrieval

  • Makoto Onizuka, Fong Yee Chan, Ryusuke Michigami, Takashi Honishi: Incremental maintenance for materialized XPath/XSLT views. 671-681, WWW 2005
  • Achille Fokoue, Kristoffer Hogsbro Rose, Jerome Simeon, Lionel Villard: Compiling XSLT 2.0 into XQuery 1.0. 682-691, WWW 2005
  • Toshiro Takase, Hisashi Miyashita, Toyotaro Suzumura, Michiaki Tatsubori: An adaptive, fast, and safe XML parser based on byte sequences memorization. 692-701, WWW 2005
  • Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Arjen P. de Vries: The overlap problem in content-oriented XML retrieval evaluation. 72-79, SIGIR 2004
  • Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke, Borkur Sigurbjornsson: Length normalization in XML retrieval. 80-87, SIGIR 2004
  • Shaorong Liu, Qinghua Zou, Wesley W. Chu: Configurable indexing and ranking for XML information retrieval. 88-95,SIGIR 2004
  • David Carmel, Yoelle S. Maarek, Matan Mandelbrod, Yosi Mass, Aya Soffer: Searching XML documents via XML fragments. 151-158, SIGIR 2003

• Information Retrieval Model

  • Hugo Zaragoza, Djoerd Hiemstra, Michael E. Tipping: Bayesian extension to the language model for ad hoc information retrieval. 4-9, SIGIR 2003
  • ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John D. Lafferty: Beyond independent relevance: methods and evaluation metrics for subtopic retrieval. 10-17, SIGIR 2003
  • Jaime Teevan, David R. Karger: Empirical development of an exponential probabilistic model for text retrieval: using textual analysis to build a better model. 18-25, SIGIR 2003
  • Kareem Darwish, Douglas W. Oard: Probabilistic structured query methods. 338-344, SIGIR 2003
  • Thomas Hofmann: Collaborative filtering via gaussian probabilistic latent semantic analysis. 259-266, SIGIR 2003

• Web usage analysis

  • Ahmed Metwally, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi: Duplicate detection in click streams. 12-21, WWW 2005
  • Cai-Nicolas Ziegler, Sean M. McNee, Joseph A. Konstan, Georg Lausen: Improving recommendation lists through topic diversification. 22-32,WWW 2005

• Focused crawling

  • Jian-Tao Sun, Hua-Jun Zeng, Huan Liu, Yuchang Lu, Zheng Chen: CubeSVD: a novel approach to personalized Web search. 382-390, WWW 2005
  • Uichin Lee, Zhenyu Liu, Junghoo Cho: Automatic identification of user goals in Web search. 391-400, WWW 2005
  • Sandeep Pandey, Christopher Olston: User-centric Web crawling. 401-411, WWW 2005
  • Ismail Sengor Altingovde, Ozgur Ulusoy: Exploiting Interclass Rules for Focused Crawling. 66-73, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2004

• Clustering web search result

  • Krishna Kummamuru, Rohit Lotlikar, Shourya Roy, Karan Singal, Raghu Krishnapuram: A hierarchical monothetic document clustering algorithm for summarization and browsing search results. 658-665, WWW 2004
  • Reiner Kraft, Jason Y. Zien: Mining anchor text for query refinement. 666-674, WWW 2004
  • Kazunari Sugiyama, Kenji Hatano, Masatoshi Yoshikawa: Adaptive web search based on user profile constructed without any effort from users. 675-684 WWW 2004

• Text classification

  • Dunja Mladenic, Janez Brank, Marko Grobelnik, Natasa Milic-Frayling: Feature selection using linear classifier weights: interaction with classification models. 234-241 SIGIR 2004
  • Dmitry Davidov, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Shaul Markovitch: Parameterized generation of labeled datasets for text categorization based on a hierarchical directory. 250-257, SIGIR 2004
  • Yiming Yang, Jian Zhang, Bryan Kisiel: A scalability analysis of classifiers in text categorization. 96-103, SIGIR 2003
  • Dmitry V. Khmelev, William John Teahan: A repetition based measure for verification of text collections and for text categorization. 104-110, SIGIR 2003
  • Paul N. Bennett: Using asymmetric distributions to improve text classifier probability estimates. 111-118 SIGIR 2003
  • Sheng Gao, Wen Wu, Chin-Hui Lee, Tat-Seng Chua: A maximal figure-of-merit learning approach to text categorization. 174-181, SIGIR 2003
  • Lijuan Cai, Thomas Hofmann: Text categorization by boosting automatically extracted concepts. 182-189, SIGIR 2003
  • Jian Zhang, Yiming Yang: Robustness of regularized linear classification methods in text categorization. 190-197 SIGIR 2003
  • Dunja Mladenic, Janez Brank, Marko Grobelnik, Natasa Milic-Frayling: Feature selection using linear classifier weights: interaction with classification models. 234-241, SIGIR 2004
  • Dou Shen, Zheng Chen, Qiang Yang, Hua-Jun Zeng, Benyu Zhang, Yuchang Lu, Wei-Ying Ma: Web-page classification through summarization. 242-249, SIGIR 2004
  • Dmitry Davidov, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Shaul Markovitch: Parameterized generation of labeled datasets for text categorization based on a hierarchical directory. 250-257,SIGIR 2004