Volume 12 Number 6 of Information Retrieval, the Special Issue on the Reliable Information Access Workshop (Guest Editors: Donna Harman and Chris Buckley) is available now on the SpringerLink web site at http://www.springerlink.com/content/1386-4564 By clicking on the URLs below you can access the abstracts for each article. In this issue: Overview of the Reliable Information Access Workshop http://www.springerlink.com/content/c34m764qq76k4m70 Author(s) Donna Harman; Chris Buckley; Pages 615-641 A guide to the RIA workshop data archive http://www.springerlink.com/content/53g5v2720m018v38 Author(s) Ian Soboroff; Pages 642-651 Why current IR engines fail http://www.springerlink.com/content/71t271317552v680 Author(s) Chris Buckley; Pages 652-665 On the number of terms used in automatic query expansion http://www.springerlink.com/content/66251l363209p7l0 Author(s) Paul Ogilvie; Ellen Voorhees; Jamie Callan; Pages 666-679 Swapping documents and terms http://www.springerlink.com/content/c72g277j77k66471 Author(s) Charles L. A. Clarke; Gordon V. Cormack; Thomas R. Lynam; Chris Buckley; Donna Harman; Pages 680-694 ******************************************************************************************** Recently accepted papers for Information Retrieval These papers will be soon available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/1386-4564 in the Online First Section Classifying Documents with Link-Based Bibliometric Measures Authors Thierson Couto, Nivio Ziviani, Pavel Calado, Marco Cristo, Marcos Goncalves, Edleno Silva Moura, Wladmir Brandao Accepted on Oct 06, 2009 Utilizing passage-based language models for ad hoc document retrieval Authors Michael Bendersky, Oren Kurland Accepted on Sep 21, 2009 S.I.: Learning to Rank for Info. Ret. Learning to Rank with (a Lot of) Word Features Authors Bing Bai, Jason Weston, David Grangier, Ronan Collobert, Kunihiko Sadamasa, Yanjun Qi, Olivier Chapelle, Kilian Weinberger Accepted on Sep 03, 2009 S.I.: Learning to Rank for Info. Ret. On the Choice of E ffectiveness Measures for Learning to Rank Authors Emine Yilmaz, Stephen Robertson Accepted on Aug 28, 2009 Book Review Introduction to Information Retrieval. Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press; 2008. 482 pp. ISBN: 978-0-521-86571-5. Authors Isaac Mogotsi Accepted on Aug 26, 2009 Book Review Review of Handbook of Research on Web Log Analysis. Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink and Isak Taksa. 2009. IGI Global; 628pp; $265 (ISBN: 978-1-59904-974-8). Authors Georg Buscher Accepted on Aug 25, 2009 Sentence-Level Event Classification in Unstructured Texts Authors Martina Ann Naughton, Nicola Stokes, Joe Carthy Accepted on Aug 19, 2009 S.I.: Learning to Rank for Info. Ret. Knowledge Transfer for Cross Domain Learning to Rank Authors Depin Chen, Yan Xiong, Jun Yan, Gui-Rong Xue, Gang Wang, Zheng Chen Accepted on Aug 19, 2009 S.I.: Learning to Rank for Info. Ret. Adapting Boosting for Information Retrieval Measures Authors Qiang Wu, Christopher J Burges, Krysta Svore, Jianfeng Gao Accepted on Aug 19, 2009 S.I.: Learning to Rank for Info. Ret. Efficient Algorithms for Ranking with SVMs Authors Olivier Chapelle, Sathiya S Keerthi Accepted on Aug 18, 2009 S.I.: Learning to Rank for Info. Ret. Gradient Descent Optimization of Smoothed Information Retrieval Metrics Authors Olivier Chapelle, Mingrui Wu Accepted on Aug 18, 2009 Document Clustering of Scientific Texts using Citation Contexts Authors Bader Aljaber, Nicola Stokes, James Bailey, Jian Pei Accepted on Jul 29, 2009 Estimating Deep Web Data Source Size by Capture-Recapture Method Authors Jianguo Lu, Dingding Li Accepted on Jul 27, 2009 Book Review Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective, 3rd ed. William Hersh. 2009. Health and Informatics Series, Springer; 504pp; $79.95.(ISBN: 978-0-387-78702-2). Authors Nicola Stokes Accepted on Jun 21, 2009 ******************************************************************************************** You can register for the Table of Contents-Alert of Information Retrieval at http://www.springer.com/10791 --- Ralf Gerstner Senior Editor Computer Science Springer --- Tiergartenstrasse 17 | 69121 Heidelberg | Germany ralf.gerstner@springer.com www.springer.com