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LIST OF CONTENTS Number | Christophe Brouard Relevance as resonance: a new theoretical perspective and a Jian-Yun Nie practical utilization in information filtering L. Egghe A universal method of information retrieval evaluation: the “missing” link M and the universal IR surface Akira Terada Automatic expansion of abbreviations by using context and Takenobu Tokunaga character information Hozumi Tanaka Masaki Oono An improvement key deletion method for double-array Masao Fuketa structure using single-nodes Kazuhiro Morita Shinkaku Kashiji Jun-ichi Aoe Youngjoong Ko improving text categorization using the importance of Jinwoo Park sentences Jungyun Seo P.W. Huang Design of a two-stage content-based image retrieval system S.K. Dai using texture similarity Ethelene Whitmire The relationship between undergraduates’ epistemological beliefs, reflective judgment, and their information-seeking behavior Amanda Spink Web searching for sexual information: an exploratory study H. Cenk Ozmutlu Daniel P. Lorence Mike Thelwall Methods for reporting on the targets of links from national systems of university Web sites Kyung-Soon Lee Implicit ambiguity resolution using incremental clustering in Kyo Kageura cross-language information retrieval Key-Sun Choi Schubert Foo Chinese word segmentation and its effect on information Hui Li retrieval Volume Contents formation Processing and Management 40 (2004) III-VIIT Number 2 Youngjoong Ko Using the feature projection technique based on a normalized Jungyun Seo voting method for text classification Fred J. Damerau Text categorization for a comprehensive time-dependent Tong Zhang benchmark Sholom M. Weiss Nitin Indurkhya Jyh-Jong Tsay Improving linear classifier for Chinese text categorization Jing-Doo Wang Kuo-Jui Wu Automatic topics discovery from hyperlinked documents Meng-Chang Chen Yeali Sun Luis G. Rueda A nearly-optimal Fano-based coding algorithm B. Jehn Oommen Fabio Crestani A graphical user interface for the retrieval of hierarchically Jesis Vegas structured documents Pablo de la Fuente Elaine G. Toms Measuring user perceptions of Web site reputation Adam R. Taves Seda Ozmutlu A day in the life of Web searching: an exploratory study Amanda Spink Huseyin C. Ozmutlu Jeffrey Pomerantz The current state of digital reference: validation of a general Scott Nicholson digital reference model through a survey of digital reference Yvonne Belanger services R. David Lankes Antonio Pulgarin Bibliometric analysis of the automatic indexing literature: Isidoro Gil-Leiva 1956-2000 Book review Yin Yang Socially Intelligent Agents: Creating Relationships Rui Wang with Computers and Robots. By Kerstin Dautenhahn (Ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, $39 ISBN 1-4020- 7057-8 Volume Contents | Information Processing and Management 40 (2004) III-VIII Number 3 S. Ferre Introduction to logical information systems O. Ridoux Seong-Bae Park Co-trained support vector machines for large scale unstruc- Byoung-Tak Zhang tured document classification using unlabeled data and syntactic information Kazem Taghva The role of manually-assigned keywords in query expansion Julie Borsack Thomas Nartker Allen Condit In-Ho Kang Integration of multiple evidences based on a query type for Gil Chang Kim web search Timothy C. Craven Variations in use of meta tag descriptions by Web pages in different languages Fazli Can Automatic performance evaluation of Web search engines Rabia Nuray Ayisigi B. Sevdik Mike Thelwall Finding similar academic Web sites with links, bibliometric David Wilkinson couplings and colinks Daryl D’Souza Collection selection for managed distributed document James A. Thom databases Justin Zobel Heidi Julien Intra-individual information behaviour in daily life David Michels Raya Fidel The many faces of accessibility: engineers’ perception of Maurice Green information sources Book review Mohamed Taher Building Websites for a Multinational Audience. By Linda Main, Lanham, Md. Scarecrow Press, 2002 [ISBN: 0810845032, 178pp. Paperback, USD $35.00]. Reviewed by: Dr. Mohamed Taher Volume Contents | Information Processing and Management 40 (2004) ITI-VIII Number 4 Weiguo Fan A generic ranking function discovery framework by genetic Michael D. Gordon programming for information retrieval Praveen Pathak L. Egghe Vector retrieval, fuzzy retrieval and the universal fuzzy IR surface for IR evaluation Andrew Trotman Searching structured documents Nils Pharo The SST method: a tool for analysing Web information search Kalervo Jarvelin processes Elaine G. Toms WiIRE: the Web interactive information retrieval experimen- Luanne Freund tation system prototype Cara Li Liwen Vaughan New measurements for search engine evaluation proposed and tested Liwen Vaughan Search engine coverage bias: evidence and possible causes Mike Thelwall Chien-Hsing Wu Knowledge discovery applied to material acquisitions for Tzai-Zang Lee libraries Shu-Chen Kao Number 5 SPECIAL ISSUE Bayesian Networks and Information Retrieval Luis M. de Campos 727 Bayesian networks and information retrieval: an introduction Juan M. Fernandez-Luna to the special issue Juan F. Huete Donald Metzler 35 Combining the language model and inference network W. Bruce Croft approaches to retrieval Theodora Tsikrika 51 Combining evidence for Web retrieval using the inference Mounia Lalmas network model: an experimental study Volume Contents | Information Processing and Management 40 (2004) III-VIII Vil Pavel Calado A Bayesian network approach to searching Web databases Altigran S. da Silva through keyword-based queries Alberto H.F. Laender Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto Rodrigo C. Vieira Maria L. Silveira Concept-based ranking: a case study in the juridical domain Berthier Ribeiro-Neto Ludovic Denoyer Bayesian network model for semi-structured document atrick Gallinari classification Luis M. de Campos Using context information in structured document retrieval Juan M. Fernandez-Luna an approach based on influence diagrams Juan F. Huete David Azari Actions, answers, and uncertainty: a decision-making Eric Horvitz spective on Web-based question answering Susan Dumais Eric Brill Number 6 Timo Niemi Advanced query language for manipulating complex entities Marko Junkkari Kalervo Jarvelin Samu Viita Young Mee Chung Optimization of some factors affecting the performance of Jae Yun Lee query expansion Dragomir R. Radey Centroid-based summarization of multiple documents Hongyan Jing Matgorzata Stys Daniel Tam Christopher C. Yang Building parallel corpora by automatic title alignment using Kar Wing Li length-based and text-based approaches Kazuhiro Morita Word classification and hierarchy using co-occurrence word El-Sayed Atlam information Masao Fuketra Kazuhiko Tsuda Masaki Oono Jun-ichi Aoe Vill Volume Contents | Information Processing and Management 40 (2004) III-VIII Raija Lehtokangas 973 Transitive dictionary translation challenges direct dictionary Eija Airio translation in CLIR Kalervo Jarvelin Diane H. Sonnenwald 989 Designing to support situation awareness across distances: an Kelly L. Maglaughlin example from a scientific collaboratory Mary C. Whitton Sanda Erdelez 1013 Investigation of information encountering in the controlled research environment Ziming Liu 1027 Perceptions of credibility of scholarly information on the web I Volume Contents and Author Index