Third International Workshop on
Web Information Retrieval Support Systems
August 31, 2010 (Toronto, Canada)

Workshop Program (August 31, 2010)

Session A: 8:35 – 10:00

Workshop Opening

Search Engine Result Aggregation Using Analytical Hierarchy Process
Arijit De, Elizabeth Diaz, and Vijay V. Raghavan

Towards Privacy Preserving Information Retrieval Through Semantic Microaggregation
Daniel Abril, Guillermo Navarro-Arribas, and Vicenç Torra

Deploying Top-k Specific Patterns for Relevance Feature Discovery
Luepol Pipanmaekaporn, Yuefeng Li, and Shlomo Geva

Session B: 10:20 – 12:00

Preprocessing of Slovak Blog Articles for Clustering
Tomas Kuzar and Pavol Navrat

Analyzing the Effectiveness of Pruning and Grouping Methods Used in Literature-Based Discovery Tools
Fatih Mehmet Gulec, Tahir Bicakci, Ebru Akcapinar Sezer, Hayri Sever, and Vijay V. Raghavan

Bridging Semantic and Legacy Web Exploration: Orientation, Revisitation and Result Exploration Support
Michal Tvarožek and Mária Bieliková

Pref Shop—A Web Shop with User Preference Search Capabilities
Branislav Vaclav, Alan Eckhardt, and Peter Vojtáš

Session C: 13:25 – 15:30

Comparing Tag Clouds, Term Histograms, and Term Lists for Enhancing Personalized Web Search
Orland Hoeber and Hanze Liu

Information Retrieval eXperience (IRX): Towards a Human-Centered Personalized Model of Relevance
Frans van der Sluis, Egon L. van den Broek, and Betsy van Dijk

Workshop Closing Remarks

For more information on the WIRSS Workshop, contact Dr. Orland Hoeber (hoeber <at> mun.ca).