ToC: Information Processing & Management, Vol. 44, Iss. 1, 2008

*  Information Processing & Management
   Volume 44, Issue 1, Pages 1-432 (January 2008)
   Evaluation of Interactive Information Retrieval Systems
   Edited by Pia Borlund and Ian Ruthven
   http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5948-2008-999559998-673291


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   SPECIAL ISSUE: Evaluation of Interactive Information Retrieval Systems
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Introduction to the special issue on evaluating interactive information
retrieval systems
Pages 1-3
Pia Borlund and Ian Ruthven

The PRET A Rapporter framework: Evaluating digital libraries from the
perspective of information work
Pages 4-21
Ann Blandford, Anne Adams, Simon Attfield, George Buchanan, Jeremy Gow,
Stephann Makri, Jon Rimmer and Claire Warwick

On the role of user-centred evaluation in the advancement of interactive
information retrieval
Pages 22-38
Daniela Petrelli

Evaluation of a mobile information system in context☆
Pages 39-65
Ayşe Göker and Hans Myrhaug

Interactive question answering: Is Cross-Language harder than monolingual
searching?
Pages 66-81
Fernando López-Ostenero, Víctor Peinado, Julio Gonzalo and Felisa Verdejo

Controlling the complexity in comparing search user interfaces via user
studies
Pages 82-91
Mika Käki and Anne Aula

Willingness to pay and experienced utility as measures of affective value
of information objects: Users’ accounts
Pages 92-104
Irene Lopatovska and Hartmut B. Mokros

Academic users’ interactions with ScienceDirect in search tasks: Affective
and cognitive behaviors
Pages 105-121
Carol Tenopir, Peiling Wang, Yan Zhang, Beverly Simmons and Richard Pollard

Questionnaire mode effects in interactive information retrieval experiments
Pages 122-141
Diane Kelly, David J. Harper and Brian Landau

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   General Research Papers
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A syntactically-based query reformulation technique for information
retrieval
Pages 143-162
C. Lioma and I. Ounis

Query expansion and dimensionality reduction: Notions of optimality in
Rocchio relevance feedback and latent semantic indexing
Pages 163-180
Miles Efron

User-assisted query translation for interactive cross-language information
retrieval
Pages 181-211
Douglas W. Oard, Daqing He and Jianqiang Wang

Evaluation of retrieval effectiveness with incomplete relevance data:
Theoretical and experimental comparison of three measures
Pages 212-225
Per Ahlgren and Leif Grönqvist

Effectiveness of additional representations for the search result
presentation on the web
Pages 226-241
Hideo Joho and Joemon M. Jose

Collaborative information seeking: A field study of a multidisciplinary
patient care team
Pages 242-255
Madhu C. Reddy and Patricia Ruma Spence

A model for understanding collaborative information behavior in context: A
study of two healthcare teams
Pages 256-273
Madhu C. Reddy and Bernard J. Jansen

Source preferences in the context of seeking problem-specific information
Pages 274-293
Reijo Savolainen

The effects of conceptual description and search practice on users’ mental
models and information seeking in a case-based reasoning retrieval system
Pages 294-309
Wu He, Sanda Erdelez, Feng-Kwei Wang and Chi-Ren Shyu

Searching strategies for the Hungarian language
Pages 310-324
Jacques Savoy

Language morphology offset: Text classification on a Croatian–English
parallel corpus
Pages 325-339
M. Malenica, T. Šmuc, J. Šnajder and B. Dalbelo Bašić

Web search engine multimedia functionality
Pages 340-357
Dian Tjondronegoro and Amanda Spink

Website usage metrics: A re-assessment of session data
Pages 358-372
Paul Huntington, David Nicholas and Hamid R. Jamali

Effects of emotion control and task on Web searching behavior
Pages 373-385
Kyung-Sun Kim

Aesthetics and credibility in web site design
Pages 386-399
David Robins and Jason Holmes

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   Book Reviews
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Thomas M. Cover and Joy A. Thomas, Elements of Information Theory (2nd
ed.), John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2006).
Pages 400-401
Sheri Edwards

L. Henderson and J. Tallman, Editors, Stimulated Recall and Mental Models:
Tools for Teaching and Learning Computer Literacy, Scarecrow Press, Lanham,
MD (2006) xi+, 287 pp. $55, ISBN: 0-8108-5222-5 (alk. paper).
Pages 401-403
Delia Neuman

John Talbot and Dominic Welsh, Complexity and cryptography: an introduction
, Cambridge University Press, New York (2006) ISBN 0521617715 (February 20)
Cost: $50.00.
Pages 403-405
Daniel T. Naso

Mobile Database Systems, Vijay, Kumar. Wiley-Interscience Inc., Hoboken, NJ
(June 30, 2006). $99.95, ISBN: 0-471-46792-8.
Pages 405-407
Siddharth Maini

Robert L. Popp and John Yen, Editors, Emergent Information Technologies and
Enabling Policies for Counter-Terrorism, John Wiley and Sons, New Jersey
(2006) ISBN 978-0-471-78655-9 US $115.00.
Pages 407-409
Brandy Linn Maistros

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   Errata
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Erratum to “Nearest neighbor search in metric spaces through
Content-Addressable Networks” [Information Processing and Management 43
(2007) 665–683]
Page 410
Fabrizio Falchi, Claudio Gennaro and Pavel Zezula

Nearest neighbor search in metric spaces through Content-Addressable
Networks
Pages 411-429
Fabrizio Falchi, Claudio Gennaro and Pavel Zezula

Erratum to “The conflict detection and resolution in knowledge merging for
image annotation” [Information Processing and Management 42 (2006)
1030–1055]
Page 430
Chen-Yu Lee and Von-Wun Soo