Paper List:

User-Centered Adaptive IR

• Persona: a contextualized and personalized web search (EE), by F. Tanudjaja, L. Mui.
• Haystack: Per-User Information Environments (EE) .
• Personalized web search by mappiing user queries to categories (EE), by F. Liu, C. Yu and W. Meng.
• Self-Adaptive User Profiles for Large-Scale Data Delivery (EE).

Semi-structured IR

• Searching XML Documents via XML fragments (EE) SIGIR'03, by D. Carmel, Y. S.Maarek, M. Mandelbrod, Y. Mass and A. Soffer.
• PXML: A Probabilistic Semistructured Data Model and Algebra (EE), ICDE'03, by E. Hung, L. Getoor and V. S. Subrahmanian.
• XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents (EE) SIGMOD'03,by L. Guo, F. Shao , C. Botev and J. Shanmugasundaram.
• Keyword searching and browsing in databases using BANKS (EE), by G. Bhalotia, A. Hulgeri, C. Nakhe, S. Chakrabartiand S. Sudarshan.

Distributed IR

• Evaluating different methods of estimating retrieval quality for resource selection (EE)SIGIR'03, by H. Nottelmann and N. Fuhr.
• Term-specific smoothing for the language modeling approach to information retrieval: the importance of a query term (EE) SIGIR'02, by D. Hiemstra.
• Combining Fuzzy Information from Multiple Systems (EE) ,by R. Fagin.
• A framework for expressing and combining preferences (EE) SIGMOD'00, by R. Agrawal and E.Wimmers.

Text Mining

• Coupled Clustering: A Method for Detecting Structural Correspondence (EE), by Z. Marx, I. Dagan, J. M. Buhmann and E. Shamir.
• Accomplishments and challenges in literature data mining for biology (EE), by L. Hirschman, J. C. Park, J. Tsujii, L. Wong and C. H. Wu.