Multidisciplinary Information Retrieval

• Multilingual and Cross-Lingual News Analysis in the Europe Media Monitor (EMM) (Extended Abstract).- Ontology Based Query Expansion with a Probabilistic Retrieval Model.- A Machine Learning Approach for Subjectivity Classification Based on Positional and Discourse Features.- Recall-Oriented Evaluation for Information Retrieval Systems.- Using ‘Search Transitions’ to Study Searchers’ Investment of Effort: Experiences with Client and Server Side Logging.- An IR-Inspired Approach to Recovering Named Entity Tags in Broadcast News.- An Exploratory Study on Content-Based Filtering of Call for Papers.- Domain Adaptation of General Natural Language Processing Tools for a Patent Claim Visualization System.- Concept Extraction from Patent Images Based on Recursive Hybrid Classification.- Towards a Framework for Human (Manual) Information Retrieval.- A Generalized Framework for Integrated Professional Search Systems.

From the book reviews: "This collection of refereed papers presented at the 6th Information Retrieval Facility Conference covers a variety of topics related to multidisciplinary information retrieval. ... This collection of papers is recommended to talent scouts in the information retrieval (IR) industry as well as to graduate students working to optimise IR." (Stephanie H. Wical, Online Information Review, Vol. 38 (6), 2014)