IR Topics
- IR theory and models (general)
- statistical/probabilistic models
- logic-based models
- term expansion/thesauri
- relevance feedback algorithms/evaluation
- text clustering
- filtering/routing
- passage retrieval
- retrieval using document structure
- structured queries
- change in queries over time
- evaluation (general)
- test collections
- testing methodology
- scalability of evaluation
- information brokers
- distributed collections
- merging search results/information synthesis
- systems and implementation (general)
- architectures for IR systems
- architectures for WWW search
- scalability of IR systems
- efficiency indexing for IR systems
- efficient query evaluation
- compression and other optimizations for IR
- integration with database systems
- information access in digital libraries
- natural language processing for IR (general)
- stemming/morphological analysis
- tokenization/parsing
- thesaurus construction
- phrase detection and use
- word sense disambiguation and IR
- text segmentation
- discourse analysis and IR
- summarization/abstracting and IR
- question answering
- translation
- cross-lingual indexing/retrieval
- information seeking behavior (general)
- individual differences in information-seeking
- field/empirical studies of the information seeking process
- theoretical discussion of the information seeking process
- embedding search within larger tasks
- user studies (general)
- comparing interfaces for information access
- methodology for evaluating interactive IR
- user interface (UI) design for IR (general)
- information visualization for IR (general)
- UIs/visualization for collection overviews and topic spaces
- UIs/visualization for categories/subject codes
- UIs/visualization for query generation and specification
- UIs/visualization organizing and displaying retrieval results
- UIs/visualization for source selection
- UIs/visualization for hypertext search and navigation
- integrating navigation and search
- animation and IR interfaces
- structuring information to aid search and navigation
- structuring information for different user populations
- navigation versus ad hoc search
- monitoring user behavior to improve search
- automated presentation of information
- adaptive IR interfaces
- adaptive ranking algorithms
- cognitive models and IR
- user models and information access
- information seeking dialogues
- sensemaking
- collaboration and IR
- collaboritive filtering
- social techniques for organization and search
- reading/annotating and IR
- knowledge-based systems and IR
- semantic nets/conceptual graphs and IR
- case-based reasoning and IR
- machine learning and IR
- text categorization
- planning and IR
- IR agents (general)
- architectures for IR agents
- IR and avatars
- (semi) automated search assistants
- MMIR (general)
- content-based indexing/retrieval (general)
- image indexing/retrieval
- text image indexing/retrieval
- OCR/degraded images indexing/retrieval
- video indexing/retrieval
- speech indexing/retrieval
- general audio indexing/retrieval
- metadata for retrieval of non-text information
- efficient search over non-textual information
- query languages for non-textual information
- results analysis and presentation for MMIR
- evaluation theory and methodology for MMIR
- test collection development for MMIR
- application areas (general)
- biomedical informatics
- legal informatics
- entertainment and IR
- education and IR
- exploiting hyperlink structure
- event detection and tracking
- text data mining
- search and ecommerce
- search and mobile systems
- IR interaction with the physical world