| 2004 | A collaborative filtering algorithm and evaluation metric that accurately model the user experience. Matthew R. McLaughlin, Jonathan L. Herlocker |
| 2004 | A formal study of information retrieval heuristics. Hui Fang, Tao Tao, ChengXiang Zhai |
| 2004 | A hybrid statistical/linguistic model for generating news story gists. William P. Doran, Nicola Stokes, Eamonn Newman, John Dunnion, Joe Carthy |
| 2004 | A joint framework for collaborative and content filtering. Justin Basilico, Thomas Hofmann |
| 2004 | A music recommender based on audio features. Qing Li, Byeong Man Kim, Donghai Guan, Duk whan Oh |
| 2004 | A nonparametric hierarchical bayesian framework for information filtering. Kai Yu, Volker Tresp, Shipeng Yu |
| 2004 | A review of relevance feedback experiments at the 2003 reliable information access (RIA) workshop. Robert H. Warren, Ting Liu |
| 2004 | A search engine for historical manuscript images. Toni M. Rath, R. Manmatha, Victor Lavrenko |
| 2004 | A search engine for imaged documents in PDF files. Yue Lu, Li Zhang, Chew Lim Tan |
| 2004 | A session-based search engine. Smitha Sriram, Xuehua Shen, ChengXiang Zhai |
| 2004 | A study of methods for normalizing user ratings in collaborative filtering. Rong Jin, Luo Si |
| 2004 | A study of topic similarity measures. Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose |
| 2004 | A two-stage mixture model for pseudo feedback. Tao Tao, ChengXiang Zhai |
| 2004 | A unified model of literal mining and link analysis for ranking web resources. Yinghui Xu, Kyoji Umemura |
| 2004 | ACES: a contextual engine for search. Xuehua Shen, Smitha Sriram, ChengXiang Zhai |
| 2004 | Aggregated feature retrieval for MPEG-7 via clustering. Jiamin Ye, Alan F. Smeaton |
| 2004 | An artificial intelligence approach to information retrieval (abstract only). Andrew Trotman |
| 2004 | An automatic weighting scheme for collaborative filtering. Rong Jin, Joyce Y. Chai, Luo Si |
| 2004 | An effective approach to document retrieval via utilizing WordNet and recognizing phrases. Shuang Liu, Fang Liu, Clement T. Yu, Weiyi Meng |
| 2004 | An implicit system for predicting interests. Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose |
| 2004 | Answer models for question answering passage retrieval. Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2004 | Armadillo: harvesting information for the semantic web. Sam Chapman, Alexiei Dingli, Fabio Ciravegna |
| 2004 | Assigning identifiers to documents to enhance the clustering property of fulltext indexes. Fabrizio Silvestri, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego |
| 2004 | Automatic image annotation by using concept-sensitive salient objects for image content representation. Jianping Fan, Yuli Gao, Hangzai Luo, Guangyou Xu |
| 2004 | Automatic recognition of reading levels from user queries. Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft, Paul Oh, David M. Hart |
| 2004 | Automatic sense disambiguation for acronyms. Manuel Zahariev |
| 2004 | Belief revision for adaptive information retrieval. Raymond Y. K. Lau, Peter Bruza, Dawei Song |
| 2004 | Block-based web search. Deng Cai, Shipeng Yu, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma |
| 2004 | Block-level link analysis. Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma |
| 2004 | Broken plural detection for arabic information retrieval. Abduelbaset Goweder, Massimo Poesio, Anne N. De Roeck |
| 2004 | Building an information retrieval test collection for spontaneous conversational speech. Douglas W. Oard, Dagobert Soergel, David S. Doermann, Xiaoli Huang, G. Craig Murray, Jianqiang Wang, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Martin Franz, Samuel Gustman, James Mayfield, Liliya Kharevych, Stephanie M. Strassel |
| 2004 | Challenges in using lifetime personal information stores. Gordon Bell, Jim Gemmell, Roger Lueder |
| 2004 | Chemoinformatics: an application domain for information retrieval techniques. Peter Willett |
| 2004 | Classifying racist texts using a support vector machine. Edel Greevy, Alan F. Smeaton |
| 2004 | Cluster-based retrieval using language models. Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2004 | Collaborative filing in a document repository. Harris Wu, Michael D. Gordon |
| 2004 | Comparison of using passages and documents for blind relevance feedback in information retrieval. Zhenmei Gu, Ming Luo |
| 2004 | Configurable indexing and ranking for XML information retrieval. Shaorong Liu, Qinghua Zou, Wesley W. Chu |
| 2004 | Constructing a text corpus for inexact duplicate detection. Jack G. Conrad, Cindy P. Schriber |
| 2004 | Context sensitive vocabulary and its application in protein secondary structure prediction. Yan Liu, Jaime G. Carbonell, Judith Klein-Seetharaman, Vanathi Gopalakrishnan |
| 2004 | Context-based methods for text categorisation. D. S. Hunnisett, W. J. Teahan |
| 2004 | Context-based question-answering evaluation. Elizabeth D. Liddy, Anne Diekema, Özgür Yilmazel |
| 2004 | Corpus structure, language models, and ad hoc information retrieval. Oren Kurland, Lillian Lee |
| 2004 | Dependence language model for information retrieval. Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Guangyuan Wu, Guihong Cao |
| 2004 | Design of an e-book user interface and visualizations to support reading for comprehension. Yixing Sun, David J. Harper, Stuart N. K. Watt |
| 2004 | Detection and translation of OOV terms prior to query time. Ying Zhang, Phil Vines |
| 2004 | Discovering and representing the contextual and narrative structure of e-books to support reading and comprehension (abstract only). Yixing Sun |
| 2004 | Discovery of aggregate usage profiles based on clustering information needs. Azreen Azman, Iadh Ounis |
| 2004 | Discriminative models for information retrieval. Ramesh Nallapati |
| 2004 | Display time as implicit feedback: understanding task effects. Diane Kelly, Nicholas J. Belkin |
| 2004 | Document clustering by concept factorization. Wei Xu, Yihong Gong |
| 2004 | Document clustering via adaptive subspace iteration. Tao Li, Sheng Ma, Mitsunori Ogihara |
| 2004 | Effect of varying number of documents in blind feedback: analysis of the 2003 NRRC RIA workshop "bf_numdocs" experiment suite. Jesse Montgomery, Luo Si, Jamie Callan, David A. Evans |
| 2004 | Effectiveness of web page classification on finding list answers. Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 2004 | Email is a stage: discovering people roles from email archives. Anton Leuski |
| 2004 | Evaluating content-based filters for image and video retrieval. Michael G. Christel, Neema Moraveji, Chang Huang |
| 2004 | Evaluating high accuracy retrieval techniques. Chirag Shah, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2004 | Evaluation of an extraction-based approach to answering definitional questions. Jinxi Xu, Ralph M. Weischedel, Ana Licuanan |
| 2004 | Evaluation of filtering current news search results. Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury, David A. Grossman, Ophir Frieder |
| 2004 | Evaluation of the real and perceived value of automatic and interactive query expansion. Yael Nemeth, Bracha Shapira, Meirav Taieb-Maimon |
| 2004 | Expertise community detection. Raymond J. D'Amore |
| 2004 | Exploiting hyperlink recommendation evidence in navigational web search. Trystan Upstill, Stephen E. Robertson |
| 2004 | Eye-tracking analysis of user behavior in WWW search. Laura A. Granka, Thorsten Joachims, Geri Gay |
| 2004 | Feature selection using linear classifier weights: interaction with classification models. Dunja Mladenic, Janez Brank, Marko Grobelnik, Natasa Milic-Frayling |
| 2004 | Filtering algorithms for information retrieval models with named attributes and proximity operators. Christos Tryfonopoulos, Manolis Koubarakis, Yannis Drougas |
| 2004 | Filtering for personal web information agents. Gabriel Somlo, Adele E. Howe |
| 2004 | Focused named entity recognition using machine learning. Li Zhang, Yue Pan, Tong Zhang |
| 2004 | Formal multiple-bernoulli models for language modeling. Donald Metzler, Victor Lavrenko, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2004 | Forming test collections with no system pooling. Mark Sanderson, Hideo Joho |
| 2004 | GaP: a factor model for discrete data. John F. Canny |
| 2004 | Geographic information retrieval (GIR): searching where and what. Ray R. Larson, Patricia Frontiera |
| 2004 | Geotemporal querying of multilingual documents. Fredric C. Gey, Aitao Chen, Ray R. Larson, Kim Carl |
| 2004 | Hourly analysis of a very large topically categorized web query log. Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury, David A. Grossman, Ophir Frieder |
| 2004 | Human versus machine in the topic distillation task. Mingfang Wu, Gheorghe Muresan, Alistair McLean, Muh-Chyun (Morris) Tang, Ross Wilkinson, Yuelin Li, Hyuk-Jin Lee, Nicholas J. Belkin |
| 2004 | Image based gisting in CLIR. Mark Sanderson, Robert C. Pasley |
| 2004 | Implicit queries (IQ) for contextualized search. Susan T. Dumais, Edward Cutrell, Raman Sarin, Eric Horvitz |
| 2004 | Improving document representation by accumulating relevance feedback (abstract only): the relevance feedback accumulation algorithm. Razvan Stefan Bot |
| 2004 | Information extraction using two-phase pattern discovery. Liping Ma, John Shepherd |
| 2004 | Information retrieval for language tutoring: an overview of the REAP project. Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan |
| 2004 | Information retrieval using hierarchical dirichlet processes. Philip J. Cowans |
| 2004 | Information retrieval using word senses: root sense tagging approach. Sang-Bum Kim, Hee-Cheol Seo, Hae-Chang Rim |
| 2004 | Language-specific models in multilingual topic tracking. Leah S. Larkey, Fangfang Feng, Margaret E. Connell, Victor Lavrenko |
| 2004 | Learning effective ranking functions for newsgroup search. Wensi Xi, Jesper Lind, Eric Brill |
| 2004 | Learning patterns to answer open domain questions on the web. Dmitri Roussinov, Jose Antonio Robles-Flores |
| 2004 | Learning phonetic similarity for matching named entity translations and mining new translations. Wai Lam, Ruizhang Huang, Pik-Shan Cheung |
| 2004 | Learning to cluster web search results. Hua-Jun Zeng, Qi-Cai He, Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying Ma, Jinwen Ma |
| 2004 | Length normalization in XML retrieval. Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson |
| 2004 | Locality preserving indexing for document representation. Xiaofei He, Deng Cai, Haifeng Liu, Wei-Ying Ma |
| 2004 | Measuring ineffectiveness. Ellen M. Voorhees |
| 2004 | Measuring pseudo relevance feedback & CLIR. Paul D. Clough, Mark Sanderson |
| 2004 | Merging retrieval results in hierarchical peer-to-peer networks. Jie Lu, Jamie Callan |
| 2004 | Multiple sources of evidence for XML retrieval. Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2004 | Natural language processing for browse help. Eric Crestan, Claude de Loupy |
| 2004 | On evaluating web search with very few relevant documents. Ian Soboroff |
| 2004 | On scaling latent semantic indexing for large peer-to-peer systems. Chunqiang Tang, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Zhichen Xu |
| 2004 | Parameterized generation of labeled datasets for text categorization based on a hierarchical directory. Dmitry Davidov, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Shaul Markovitch |
| 2004 | Parsimonious language models for information retrieval. Djoerd Hiemstra, Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza |
| 2004 | Polynomial filtering in latent semantic indexing for information retrieval. Effrosini Kokiopoulou, Yousef Saad |
| 2004 | Probabilistic model for contextual retrieval. Ji-Rong Wen, Ni Lao, Wei-Ying Ma |
| 2004 | Query based event extraction along a timeline. Hai Leong Chieu, Yoong Keok Lee |
| 2004 | Query-related data extraction of hidden web documents. Yih-Ling Hedley, Muhammad Younas, Anne E. James, Mark Sanderson |
| 2004 | Refining term weights of documents using term dependencies. Hee-soo Kim, Ikkyu Choi, Minkoo Kim |
| 2004 | Reliability and verification of natural language text on the world wide web (abstract only). Melanie J. Martin |
| 2004 | Resource selection for domain-specific cross-lingual IR. Monica Rogati, Yiming Yang |
| 2004 | Restrictive clustering and metaclustering for self-organizing document collections. Stefan Siersdorfer, Sergej Sizov |
| 2004 | Retrieval evaluation with incomplete information. Chris Buckley, Ellen M. Voorhees |
| 2004 | SIGIR 2004: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Sheffield, UK, July 25-29, 2004 Mark Sanderson, Kalervo Järvelin, James Allan, Peter Bruza |
| 2004 | Scaling IR-system evaluation using term relevance sets. Einat Amitay, David Carmel, Ronny Lempel, Aya Soffer |
| 2004 | Searching databases for sematically-related schemas. Gauri Shah, Tanveer Fathima Syeda-Mahmood |
| 2004 | Semantic video classification by integrating unlabeled samples for classifier training. Jianping Fan, Hangzai Luo |
| 2004 | Sentence completion. Korinna Grabski, Tobias Scheffer |
| 2004 | Sharing knowledge online (abstract only): a dream or reality? Melanie Gnasa |
| 2004 | Subwebs for specialized search. Raman Chandrasekar, Harr Chen, Simon Corston-Oliver, Eric Brill |
| 2004 | Supporting federated information sharing communities (abstract only). Bicheng Liu |
| 2004 | Supporting federated information sharing communities. Bicheng Liu, David J. Harper, Stuart N. K. Watt |
| 2004 | Supporting multiple information-seeking strategies in a single system framework (abstract only). Xiaojun Yuan |
| 2004 | Text classification and named entities for new event detection. Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan |
| 2004 | The NRRC reliable information access (RIA) workshop. Donna Harman, Chris Buckley |
| 2004 | The document as an ergodic markov chain. Eduard Hoenkamp, Dawei Song |
| 2004 | The effect of back-formulating questions in question answering evaluation. Tetsuya Sakai, Yoshimi Saito, Yumi Ichimura, Tomoharu Kokubu, Makoto Koyama |
| 2004 | The effect of document retrieval quality on factoid question answering performance. Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan, Egidio L. Terra, Charles L. A. Clarke |
| 2004 | The overlap problem in content-oriented XML retrieval evaluation. Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Arjen P. de Vries |
| 2004 | The patent retrieval task in the fourth NTCIR workshop. Atsushi Fujii, Makoto Iwayama, Noriko Kando |
| 2004 | Topic prediction based on comparative retrieval rankings. Chris Buckley |
| 2004 | Toponym resolution in text (abstract only): "which sheffield is it?". Jochen L. Leidner |
| 2004 | Toward better weighting of anchors. David Hawking, Trystan Upstill, Nick Craswell |
| 2004 | Translating unknown queries with web corpora for cross-language information retrieval. Pu-Jen Cheng, Jei-Wen Teng, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Jenq-Haur Wang, Wen-Hsiang Lu, Lee-Feng Chien |
| 2004 | Triangulation without translation. James Mayfield, Paul McNamee |
| 2004 | Tuning before feedback: combining ranking discovery and blind feedback for robust retrieval. Weiguo Fan, Ming Luo, Li Wang, Wensi Xi, Edward A. Fox |
| 2004 | UKSearch: search with automatically acquired domain knowledge. Udo Kruschwitz, Hala Al-Bakour |
| 2004 | Understanding combination of evidence using generative probabilistic models for information retrieval (abstract only). Paul Ogilvie |
| 2004 | Usefulness of hyperlink structure for query-biased topic distillation. Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis |
| 2004 | User biased document language modelling. Leif Azzopardi, Mark A. Girolami, Cornelis Joost van Rijsbergen |
| 2004 | Using bayesian priors to combine classifiers for adaptive filtering. Yi Zhang |
| 2004 | Using temporal profiles of queries for precision prediction. Fernando Diaz, Rosie Jones |
| 2004 | Using the web for automated translation extraction in cross-language information retrieval. Ying Zhang, Phil Vines |
| 2004 | Verifying a Chinese collection for text categorization. Yuen-Hsien Tseng, William John Teahan |
| 2004 | Web taxonomy integration through co-bootstrapping. Dell Zhang, Wee Sun Lee |
| 2004 | Web-a-where: geotagging web content. Einat Amitay, Nadav Har'El, Ron Sivan, Aya Soffer |
| 2004 | Web-page classification through summarization. Dou Shen, Zheng Chen, Qiang Yang, Hua-Jun Zeng, Benyu Zhang, Yuchang Lu, Wei-Ying Ma |
| 2004 | Why current IR engines fail. Chris Buckley |
| 2004 | eMailSift: mining-based approaches to email classification. Manu Aery, Sharma Chakravarthy |