Advances in Information Retrieval: 40th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2018, Grenoble, France, March 26-29, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 10772)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 40th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2018, held in Grenoble, France, in March 2018. The 39 full papers and 39 short papers presented together with 6 demos, 5 workshops and 3 tutorials, were carefully reviewed and selected from 303 submissions. Accepted papers cover the state of the art in information retrieval including topics such as: topic modeling, deep learning, evaluation, user behavior, document representation, recommendation systems, retrieval methods, learning and classication, and micro-blogs. Front Matter ....Pages I-XXV Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Entity-Centric Topic Extraction and Exploration: A Network-Based Approach (Andreas Spitz, Michael Gertz)....Pages 3-15 Predicting Topics in Scholarly Papers (Seyed Ali Bahrainian, Ida Mele, Fabio Crestani)....Pages 16-28 Topic Lifecycle on Social Networks: Analyzing the Effects of Semantic Continuity and Social Communities (Kuntal Dey, Saroj Kaushik, Kritika Garg, Ritvik Shrivastava)....Pages 29-42 Front Matter ....Pages 43-43 Medical Forum Question Classification Using Deep Learning (Raksha Jalan, Manish Gupta, Vasudeva Varma)....Pages 45-58 Multi-task Learning for Extraction of Adverse Drug Reaction Mentions from Tweets (Shashank Gupta, Manish Gupta, Vasudeva Varma, Sachin Pawar, Nitin Ramrakhiyani, Girish Keshav Palshikar)....Pages 59-71 Choices in Knowledge-Base Retrieval for Consumer Health Search ( Jimmy, Guido Zuccon, Bevan Koopman)....Pages 72-85 Front Matter ....Pages 87-87 An Adversarial Joint Learning Model for Low-Resource Language Semantic Textual Similarity (Junfeng Tian, Man Lan, Yuanbin Wu, Jingang Wang, Long Qiu, Sheng Li et al.)....Pages 89-101 Reproducing a Neural Question Answering Architecture Applied to the SQuAD Benchmark Dataset: Challenges and Lessons Learned (Alexander Dür, Andreas Rauber, Peter Filzmoser)....Pages 102-113 Bringing Back Structure to Free Text Email Conversations with Recurrent Neural Networks (Tim Repke, Ralf Krestel)....Pages 114-126 A Hybrid Embedding Approach to Noisy Answer Passage Retrieval (Daniel Cohen, W. Bruce Croft)....Pages 127-140 Deep Learning for Detecting Cyberbullying Across Multiple Social Media Platforms (Sweta Agrawal, Amit Awekar)....Pages 141-153 Affective Neural Response Generation (Nabiha Asghar, Pascal Poupart, Jesse Hoey, Xin Jiang, Lili Mou)....Pages 154-166 Web2Text: Deep Structured Boilerplate Removal (Thijs Vogels, Octavian-Eugen Ganea, Carsten Eickhoff)....Pages 167-179 Attention-Based Neural Text Segmentation (Pinkesh Badjatiya, Litton J. Kurisinkel, Manish Gupta, Vasudeva Varma)....Pages 180-193 Front Matter ....Pages 195-195 Modelling Randomness in Relevance Judgments and Evaluation Measures (Marco Ferrante, Nicola Ferro, Silvia Pontarollo)....Pages 197-209 Information Scent, Searching and Stopping (David Maxwell, Leif Azzopardi)....Pages 210-222 Investigating Result Usefulness in Mobile Search (Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Noriko Kando, Cheng Luo, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma)....Pages 223-236 A Comparative Study of Native and Non-native Information Seeking Behaviours (David Brazier, Morgan Harvey)....Pages 237-248 Front Matter ....Pages 249-249 Indiscriminateness in Representation Spaces of Terms and Documents (Vincent Claveau)....Pages 251-262 On the Reproducibility and Generalisation of the Linear Transformation of Word Embeddings (Xiao Yang, Iadh Ounis, Richard McCreadie, Craig Macdonald, Anjie Fang)....Pages 263-275 Discriminative Path-Based Knowledge Graph Embedding for Precise Link Prediction (Maoyuan Zhang, Qi Wang, Wukui Xu, Wei Li, Shuyuan Sun)....Pages 276-288 Spherical Paragraph Model (Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, Xueqi Cheng)....Pages 289-302 Aggregating Neural Word Embeddings for Document Representation (Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, Xueqi Cheng)....Pages 303-315 Unsupervised Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Posts Using Density Matrix Representation (Yazhou Zhang, Dawei Song, Xiang Li, Peng Zhang)....Pages 316-329 Front Matter ....Pages 331-331 Explicit Modelling of the Implicit Short Term User Preferences for Music Recommendation (Kartik Gupta, Noveen Sachdeva, Vikram Pudi)....Pages 333-344 Benefits of Using Symmetric Loss in Recommender Systems (Gaurav Singh, Sandra Mitrović)....Pages 345-356 Time-Aware Novelty Metrics for Recommender Systems (Pablo Sánchez, Alejandro Bellogín)....Pages 357-370 Employing Document Embeddings to Solve the “New Catalog” Problem in User Targeting, and Provide Explanations to the Users (Ludovico Boratto, Salvatore Carta, Gianni Fenu, Luca Piras)....Pages 371-382 Front Matter ....Pages 383-383 Statistical Stemmers: A Reproducibility Study (Gianmaria Silvello, Riccardo Bucco, Giulio Busato, Giacomo Fornari, Andrea Langeli, Alberto Purpura et al.)....Pages 385-397 Cross-Lingual Document Retrieval Using Regularized Wasserstein Distance (Georgios Balikas, Charlotte Laclau, Ievgen Redko, Massih-Reza Amini)....Pages 398-410 T-Shaped Mining: A Novel Approach to Talent Finding for Agile Software Teams (Sajad Sotudeh Gharebagh, Peyman Rostami, Mahmood Neshati)....Pages 411-423 Modeling Relevance Judgement Inspired by Quantum Weak Measurement (Panpan Wang, Tianshu Wang, Yuexian Hou, Dawei Song)....Pages 424-436 Front Matter ....Pages 437-437 Active Learning Strategies for Technology Assisted Sensitivity Review (Graham McDonald, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis)....Pages 439-453 Authorship Verification in the Absence of Explicit Features and Thresholds (Oren Halvani, Lukas Graner, Inna Vogel)....Pages 454-465 Efficient Context-Aware K-Nearest Neighbor Search (Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani, Morteza Haghir Chehreghani)....Pages 466-478 Front Matter ....Pages 479-479 An Optimization Approach for Sub-event Detection and Summarization in Twitter (Polykarpos Meladianos, Christos Xypolopoulos, Giannis Nikolentzos, Michalis Vazirgiannis)....Pages 481-493 Spatial Statistics of Term Co-occurrences for Location Prediction of Tweets (Ozer Ozdikis, Heri Ramampiaro, Kjetil Nørvåg)....Pages 494-506 Learning to Leverage Microblog Information for QA Retrieval (Jose Herrera, Barbara Poblete, Denis Parra)....Pages 507-520 Front Matter ....Pages 521-521 Biomedical Question Answering via Weighted Neural Network Passage Retrieval (Ferenc Galkó, Carsten Eickhoff)....Pages 523-528 Topical Stance Detection for Twitter: A Two-Phase LSTM Model Using Attention (Kuntal Dey, Ritvik Shrivastava, Saroj Kaushik)....Pages 529-536 A Neural Passage Model for Ad-hoc Document Retrieval (Qingyao Ai, Brendan O’Connor, W. Bruce Croft)....Pages 537-543 On the Cost of Negation for Dynamic Pruning (Joel Mackenzie, Craig Macdonald, Falk Scholer, J. Shane Culpepper)....Pages 544-549 A Meta-Evaluation of Evaluation Methods for Diversified Search (Suneel Kumar Kingrani, Mark Levene, Dell Zhang)....Pages 550-555 Co-training for Extraction of Adverse Drug Reaction Mentions from Tweets (Shashank Gupta, Manish Gupta, Vasudeva Varma, Sachin Pawar, Nitin Ramrakhiyani, Girish Keshav Palshikar)....Pages 556-562 Concept Embedding for Information Retrieval (Karam Abdulahhad)....Pages 563-569 Patient-Age Extraction for Clinical Reports Retrieval (Rúben Ramalho, André Mourão, João Magalhães)....Pages 570-576 Inverted List Caching for Topical Index Shards (Zhuyun Dai, Jamie Callan)....Pages 577-583 ALF-200k: Towards Extensive Multimodal Analyses of Music Tracks and Playlists (Eva Zangerle, Michael Tschuggnall, Stefan Wurzinger, Günther Specht)....Pages 584-590 Proposing Contextually Relevant Quotes for Images (Shivali Goel, Rishi Madhok, Shweta Garg)....Pages 591-597 To Cite, or Not to Cite? Detecting Citation Contexts in Text (Michael Färber, Alexander Thiemann, Adam Jatowt)....Pages 598-603 Automated Assistance in E-commerce: An Approach Based on Category-Sensitive Retrieval (Anirban Majumder, Abhay Pande, Kondalarao Vonteru, Abhishek Gangwar, Subhadeep Maji, Pankaj Bhatia et al.)....Pages 604-610 Neural Multi-step Reasoning for Question Answering on Semi-structured Tables (Till Haug, Octavian-Eugen Ganea, Paulina Grnarova)....Pages 611-617 Document Ranking Applied to Second Language Learning (Rodrigo Wilkens, Leonardo Zilio, Cédrick Fairon)....Pages 618-624 Generating High-Quality Query Suggestion Candidates for Task-Based Search (Heng Ding, Shuo Zhang, Darío Garigliotti, Krisztian Balog)....Pages 625-631 An Incremental Approach for Collaborative Filtering in Streaming Scenarios (Rama Syamala Sreepada, Bidyut Kr. Patra)....Pages 632-637 Collection-Document Summaries (Nils Witt, Michael Granitzer, Christin Seifert)....Pages 638-643 Towards an Understanding of Entity-Oriented Search Intents (Darío Garigliotti, Krisztian Balog)....Pages 644-650 Towards Measuring Content Coordination in Microblogs (Dmitri Roussinov)....Pages 651-656 Long-Span Language Models for Query-Focused Unsupervised Extractive Text Summarization (Mittul Singh, Arunav Mishra, Youssef Oualil, Klaus Berberich, Dietrich Klakow)....Pages 657-664 Topic-Association Mining for User Interest Detection (Anil Kumar Trikha, Fattane Zarrinkalam, Ebrahim Bagheri)....Pages 665-671 A Study of an Automatic Stopping Strategy for Technologically Assisted Medical Reviews (Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio)....Pages 672-677 Improving Deep Learning for Multiple Choice Question Answering with Candidate Contexts (Bogdan Nicula, Stefan Ruseti, Traian Rebedea)....Pages 678-683 A Text Feature Based Automatic Keyword Extraction Method for Single Documents (Ricardo Campos, Vítor Mangaravite, Arian Pasquali, Alípio Mário Jorge, Célia Nunes, Adam Jatowt)....Pages 684-691 Simplified Hybrid Approach for Detection of Semantic Orientations in Economic Texts (Jan Štihec, Martin Žnidaršič, Senja Pollak)....Pages 692-698 Towards Maximising Openness in Digital Sensitivity Review Using Reviewing Time Predictions (Graham McDonald, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis)....Pages 699-706 Towards a Unified Supervised Approach for Ranking Triples of Type-Like Relations (Mahsa S. Shahshahani, Faegheh Hasibi, Hamed Zamani, Azadeh Shakery)....Pages 707-714 ParsTime: Rule-Based Extraction and Normalization of Persian Temporal Expressions (Behrooz Mansouri, Mohammad Sadegh Zahedi, Ricardo Campos, Mojgan Farhoodi, Maseud Rahgozar)....Pages 715-721 Active Search for High Recall: A Non-stationary Extension of Thompson Sampling (Jean-Michel Renders)....Pages 722-728 Classifying Short Descriptions of Past Events (Yasunobu Sumikawa, Adam Jatowt)....Pages 729-736 Stopword Detection for Streaming Content (Hossein Fani, Masoud Bashari, Fattane Zarrinkalam, Ebrahim Bagheri, Feras Al-Obeidat)....Pages 737-743 Generating Adversarial Text Samples (Suranjana Samanta, Sameep Mehta)....Pages 744-749 Controlling Information Aggregation for Complex Question Answering (Heeyoung Kwon, Harsh Trivedi, Peter Jansen, Mihai Surdeanu, Niranjan Balasubramanian)....Pages 750-757 Local Is Good: A Fast Citation Recommendation Approach (Haofeng Jia, Erik Saule)....Pages 758-764 On Refining Twitter Lists as Ground Truth Data for Multi-community User Classification (Ting Su, Anjie Fang, Richard McCreadie, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis)....Pages 765-772 Entity Retrieval via Type Taxonomy Aware Smoothing (Xinshi Lin, Wai Lam)....Pages 773-779 A Data Collection for Evaluating the Retrieval of Related Tweets to News Articles (Axel Suarez, Dyaa Albakour, David Corney, Miguel Martinez, José Esquivel)....Pages 780-786 Content Based Weighted Consensus Summarization (Parth Mehta, Prasenjit Majumder)....Pages 787-793 Front Matter ....Pages 795-795 NOA: A Search Engine for Reusable Scientific Images Beyond the Life Sciences (Jean Charbonnier, Lucia Sohmen, John Rothman, Birte Rohden, Christian Wartena)....Pages 797-800 A Micromodule Approach for Building Real-Time Systems with Python-Based Models: Application to Early Risk Detection of Depression on Social Media (Rodrigo Martínez-Castaño, Juan C. Pichel, David E. Losada, Fabio Crestani)....Pages 801-805 YAKE! Collection-Independent Automatic Keyword Extractor (Ricardo Campos, Vítor Mangaravite, Arian Pasquali, Alípio Mário Jorge, Célia Nunes, Adam Jatowt)....Pages 806-810 SIREN - Security Information Retrieval and Extraction eNgine (Lalit Mohan Sanagavarapu, Neeraj Mathur, Shriyansh Agrawal, Y. Raghu Reddy)....Pages 811-814 CITEWERTs: A System Combining Cite-Worthiness with Citation Recommendation (Michael Färber, Alexander Thiemann, Adam Jatowt)....Pages 815-819 Elastic ChatNoir: Search Engine for the ClueWeb and the Common Crawl (Janek Bevendorff, Benno Stein, Matthias Hagen, Martin Potthast)....Pages 820-824 Back Matter ....Pages 825-844