SIGIR Forum
December 2006, Volume 40 Number 2

Articles include:
+ A Reference Collection for Web Spam
by Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, Luca Becchetti, Paolo Boldi, Stefano Leonardi, Massimo Santini and Sebastiano Vigna
From the abstract:

We describe the WEBSPAM-UK2006 collection, a large set of Web pages that have been manually annotated with labels indicating if the hosts are include Web spam aspects or not. This is the first publicly available Web spam collection that includes page contents and links, and that has been labelled by a large and diverse set of judges.

+ Workshop Report: Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web
Brian D. Davison, Marc Najork and Tim Converse

+ Workshop Report: New Directions in Multilingual Information Access
Fredric C. Gey, Noriko Kando, Chin-Yew Lin and Carol Peters

+ Workshop Report: Geographic Information Retrieval
Ross Purves and Chris Jones

+ Workshop Report: Open Source Information Retrieval Systems
Wai Gen Yee, Michel Beigbeder and Wray Buntine

Source: SIGIR

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 and is filed under Geographic, Info Management and Retrieval, Information Science, Technology and Internet. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.