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title: "SIGIR 1998 — all accepted papers with summaries and citations"
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# SIGIR 1998: all accepted papers

75 papers · the most cited first · [← SIGIR 1998](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-acm-sigir-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information/1998/)

1. **[The use of MMR, diversity-based reranking for reordering documents and producing summaries ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291025)**Jaime Carbonell, Jade Goldstein*2,239 citations*
2. **[A language modeling approach to information retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ponte-1998-language-modeling-approach-information/)**Jay M. Ponte, W. Bruce Croft*1,748 citations · our summary*
3. **[Web document clustering ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290956)**Oren Zamir, Oren Etzioni*1,055 citations*
4. **[A study of retrospective and on-line event detection ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290953)**Yiming Yang, Tom Pierce, Jaime Carbonell*731 citations*
5. **[Distributional clustering of words for text classification ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290970)**L. Douglas Baker, Andrew Kachites McCallum*676 citations*
6. **[How reliable are the results of large-scale information retrieval experiments? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291014)**Justin Zobel*578 citations*
7. **[Improving automatic query expansion ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290995)**Mandar Mitra, Amit Singhal, Chris Buckley*557 citations*
8. **[On-line new event detection and tracking ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290954)**James Allan, Ron Papka, Victor P. Lavrenko*530 citations*
9. **[Improved algorithms for topic distillation in a hyperlinked environment ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290972)**Krishna A. Bharat, Monika Rauch Henzinger*444 citations*
10. **[Advantages of query biased summaries in information retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290947)**Anastasios Tombros, Mark Sanderson*439 citations*
11. **[Resolving ambiguity for cross-language retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290958)**Lisa A. Ballesteros, W. Bruce Croft*309 citations*
12. **[Variations in relevance judgments and the measurement of retrieval effectiveness ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291017)**Ellen M. Voorhees*303 citations*
13. **[Boosting and Rocchio applied to text filtering ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290996)**Robert E. Schapire, Yoram Singer, Amit Singhal*301 citations*
14. **[Automatic essay grading using text categorization techniques ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290965)**Leah S. Larkey*275 citations*
15. **[The effects of query structure and dictionary setups in dictionary-based cross-language information retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290957)**Ari Pirkola*259 citations*
16. **[Efficient construction of large test collections ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291009)**Gordon V. Cormack, Christopher R. Palmer, Charles L. A. Clarke*234 citations*
17. **[Using a generalized instance set for automatic text categorization ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290961)**Wai Pang Lam, Chao Yang Ho*188 citations*
18. **[Effective retrieval with distributed collections ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290974)**Jinxi Xu, Jamie Callan*154 citations*
19. **[A flexible model for retrieval of SGML documents ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290980)**Sung Hyon Myaeng, Dong-Hyun Jang, Mun-Seok Kim et al.*132 citations*
20. **[Predicting the performance of linearly combined IR systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290991)**Christopher C. Vogt, Garrison W. Cottrell*118 citations*
21. **[Discovering typical structures of documents ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290982)**Ke Wang, Huiqing Liu*114 citations*
22. **[Measures of relative relevance and ranked half-life ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291019)**Pia Borlund, Peter Ingwersen*96 citations*
23. **[The impact of query structure and query expansion on retrieval performance ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290978)**Jaana Kekäläinen, Kalervo Järvelin*96 citations*
24. **[Aspect windows, 3-D visualizations, and indirect comparisons of information retrieval systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290987)**Russell Swan, James Allan*88 citations*
25. **[A theory of term weighting based on exploratory data analysis ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290948)**Warren R. Greiff*87 citations*
26. **[Comparing interactive information retrieval systems across sites ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290986)**Eric S. Lagergren, Paul Lauterbur Over*83 citations*
27. **[Extracting classification knowledge of Internet documents with mining term associations ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291001)**Shian-Hua Lin, Chi‐Sheng Shih, Meng Chang Chen et al.*80 citations*
28. **[Improving two-stage ad-hoc retrieval for short queries ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291003)**K L Kwok, M. Chan*74 citations*
29. **[Spatial querying for image retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291000)**Joemon M. Jose, Jonathan Furner, David J. Harper*70 citations*
30. **[Evaluating database selection techniques ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290976)**James C. French, Allison L. Powell, Charles L. Viles et al.*67 citations*
31. **[Cross-language information retrieval with the UMLS metathesaurus ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290959)**David A. Eichmann, Miguel E. Ruiz, Padmini Srinivasan*62 citations*
32. **[Compressed inverted files with reduced decoding overheads ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291011)**Anh Ngoc Vo, Alistair Moffat*59 citations*
33. **[RELIEF ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291007)**Iadh Ounis, MARIUS A. PAŞCA*59 citations*
34. **[Fast searching on compressed text allowing errors ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291013)**Edleno Silva de Moura, Gonzalo Navarro, Nívio Ziviani et al.*54 citations*
35. **[New techniques for open-vocabulary spoken document retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290950)**Martin Wechsler, Eugen Munteanu, Peter Scháuble*53 citations*
36. **[Learning while filtering documents ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290998)**Jamie Callan*52 citations*
37. **[Four text classification algorithms compared on a Dutch corpus ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291059)**Hein Ragas, Cornelis H. A. Koster*39 citations*
38. **[DOLORES ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291005)**Norbert Fuhr, Norbert Gövert, Thomas Rölleke*37 citations*
39. **[Multilingual keyword extraction for term suggestion ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291066)**Yuen‐Hsien Tseng*37 citations*
40. **[Automatically locating, extracting and analyzing tabular data ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291037)**William A. Kornfeld, John Wattecamps*22 citations*
41. **[Modeling and combining evidence provided by document relationships using probabilistic argumentation systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290989)**Justin Picard*20 citations*
42. **[Experiments in Japanese text retrieval and routing using the NEAT system ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290992)**Gareth J. F. Jones, Tetsuya Sakai, Masahiro Kajiura et al.*16 citations*
43. **[Experiments of collecting WWW information using distributed WWW robots ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291068)**Hayato Yamana, Kent Tamura, Hiroyuki Kawano et al.*15 citations*
44. **[A cognitive model for searching for III-defined targets on the Web ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290984)**Mari Saito, Kazunori Ohmura*14 citations*
45. **[Term-ordered query evaluation versus document-ordered query evaluation for large document databases ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291031)**Marcin Kaszkiel, Justin Zobel*13 citations*
46. **[The WebCluster project. Using clustering for mediating access to the World Wide Web ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291047)**Mourad Mechkour, David J. Harper, Gheorghe Mureşan*13 citations*
47. **[Keyword extraction of radio news using term weighting with an encyclopedia and newspaper articles ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291062)**Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshihiro Sekiguchi*12 citations*
48. **[Lessons from BMIR-J2 ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291033)**Tsuyoshi Kitani, Yasushi Ogawa, Tetsuya Ishikawa et al.*9 citations*
49. **[Optimizing query evaluation in n-gram indexing ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291057)**Yasushi Ogawa, Toru Matsuda*9 citations*
50. **[Interactive multidimensional document visualization ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291054)**Josiane Mothe, Taoufiq Dkaki*8 citations*
51. **[The future of Internet search (keynote address) ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290967)**Steve Kirsch*8 citations*
52. **[Visual interactions with a multidimensional ranked list ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291043)**Anton V. Leouski, James Allan*8 citations*
53. **[Comparison between proximity operation and dependency operation in Japanese full-text retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291030)**Yasuaki Hyoudo, Kazuhiko Niimi, Takashi Ikeda*6 citations*
54. **[Modern classical document indexing ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291024)**Bas van Bakel*6 citations*
55. **[Cafe ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291078)**Hugh E. Williams*5 citations*
56. **[Optimizing recall/precision scores in IR over the WWW ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291052)**Matthew Montebello*5 citations*
57. **[Speech retrieval using phonemes with error correction ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291055)**Corinna Ng, Justin Zobel*5 citations*
58. **[Using maps as a user interface to a digital library ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291028)**Mountaz Hascoët, Xavier Soinard*5 citations*
59. **[Automatic abstracting of magazine articles ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291049)**Marie‐Francine Moens, Jos Dumortier*4 citations*
60. **[Automatic acquisition of phrasal knowledge for English-Chinese bilingual information retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291041)**Ming-Jer Lee, Lee‐Feng Chien*4 citations*
61. **[Automatic acquisition of terminological relations from a corpus for query expansion ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291060)**Jean-David Sta*4 citations*
62. **[Presenting Web site search results in context ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291070)**Michael Chen, Marti A. Hearst*4 citations*
63. **[Using global colour features for general photographic image indexing and retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291038)**Ting-Sheng Lai, John Irving Tait*3 citations*
64. **[Towards a fast precision-oriented image retrieval system ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291071)**Yves Chiaramella, Philippe Mulhem, Mourad Mechkour et al.*2 citations*
65. **[A method for scoring correlated features in query expansion ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291027)**Martin Franz, Salim Roukos*1 citation*
66. **[The structured information manager (SIM) ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291076)**Ron Sacks‐Davis, Alan J. Kent*1 citation*
67. **[A research prototype image retrieval system ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291075)**‪Surya Nepal‬, M. V. Ramakrishna, James A. Thom
68. **[Cheshire II ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291072)**Ray R. Larson
69. **[Efficient search server assignment in a disproportionate system environment ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291064)**Toru Takaki, Tsuyoshi Kitani
70. **[Fast speculative search engine on the highly parallel computer EM-X ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291079)**Hayato Yamana, Koike Hanpei, Yuetsu Kodama et al.
71. **[PWA ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291077)**Dan J. Smith, Rattasit Sukhahuta
72. **[Personal browser ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291074)**Yi-Shiou Chen, Schy Chiou, Yuan-Kai Wang et al.
73. **[Predicting query times ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291045)**Rodger J. McNab, Yong Wang, Ian H. Witten et al.
74. **[Teraphim ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291073)**Owen de Kretser, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel
75. **[Tools for searching the Web (panel) ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291021)**Donna K. Harman, Paul Lauterbur Over
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