ToC: Information Processing & Management, Vol. 44, Iss. 3, 2008

*  Information Processing & Management
   Volume 44, Issue 3, Pages 991-1396 (May 2008)
   http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5948-2008-999559996-683227

A new robust relevance model in the language model framework
Pages 991-1007
Xiaoyan Li

Hierarchical learning strategy in semantic relation extraction☆
Pages 1008-1021
GuoDong Zhou, Min Zhang, DongHong Ji and QiaoMing Zhu

Assessing term effectiveness in the interactive information access process
Pages 1022-1031
Nina Wacholder and Lu Liu

Towards a unified approach to document similarity search using
manifold-ranking of blocks
Pages 1032-1048
Xiaojun Wan, Jianwu Yang and Jianguo Xiao

Global term weights in distributed environments
Pages 1049-1061
Hans Friedrich Witschel

Interactive high-quality text classification☆
Pages 1062-1075
Rey-Long Liu

Fast exact maximum likelihood estimation for mixture of language model
Pages 1076-1085
Yi Zhang and Wei Xu

Re-examining the effects of adding relevance information in a relevance
feedback environment
Pages 1086-1116
W.S. Wong, R.W.P. Luk, H.V. Leong, K.S. Ho and D.L. Lee

Test theory for evaluating reliability of IR test collections
Pages 1117-1145
David Bodoff

Using information gain to improve multi-modal information retrieval systems
Pages 1146-1158
M.T. Martín-Valdivia, M.C. Díaz-Galiano, A. Montejo-Raez and L.A.
Ureña-López

An information-pattern-based approach to novelty detection
Pages 1159-1188
Xiaoyan Li and W. Bruce Croft

Text image matching without language model using a Hausdorff distance
Pages 1189-1200
Hwa-Jeong Son, Soo-Hyung Kim and Ji-Soo Kim

Local relational string and mutual matching for image retrieval
Pages 1201-1213
Adel Hafiane and Bertrand Zavidovique

Retrieval of images by spatial and object similarities
Pages 1214-1233
Shu-Ming Hsieh and Chiun-Chieh Hsu

Exploring usefulness and usability in the evaluation of open access digital
libraries
Pages 1234-1250
Giannis Tsakonas and Christos Papatheodorou

Determining the informational, navigational, and transactional intent of
Web queries
Pages 1251-1266
Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth and Amanda Spink

Inside the source selection process: Selection criteria for human
information sources
Pages 1267-1278
Lilian Woudstra and Bart van den Hooff

Search characteristics in different types of Web-based IR environments: Are
they the same?
Pages 1279-1292
Dietmar Wolfram

User-centred versus system-centred evaluation of a personalization system
Pages 1293-1307
Alberto Díaz, Antonio García and Pablo Gervás

Web search strategies: The influence of Web experience and task type
Pages 1308-1329
Andrew Thatcher

The influence of mental models on undergraduate students’ searching
behavior on the Web
Pages 1330-1345
Yan Zhang

Users’ evaluation of digital libraries (DLs): Their uses, their criteria,
and their assessment
Pages 1346-1373
Hong Iris Xie

An examination of the physical and the digital qualities of humanities
research
Pages 1374-1392
Jon Rimmer, Claire Warwick, Ann Blandford, Jeremy Gow and George Buchanan


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   Book Review
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Personal Information Management, Jones, W., Teevan, J. University of
Washington Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-295-98737-8.
Pages 1393-1396
David Elsweiler

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