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# SMIR 2014
Semantic Matching in Information Retrieval

### Proceedings of Workshop on Semantic Matching in Information Retrieval
co-located with the 37th international ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR 2014)

### Queensland, Australia, July 11, 2014.

Edited by

### Julio Gonzalo *
Hang Li **
Alessandro Moschitti ***
Jun Xu **

* UNED, Spain
** Noah's Ark Lab, Huawei, Hong Kong
*** Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar

## Table of Contents

- Preface

### Abstracts of invited talks

- Six Tweets per Second 1
  Maarten de Rijke
- Distributional Semantics for IR 2-3
  Eduard Hovy
- Semantic Matching in Search 4
  Hang Li, Jun Xu
- Semantic Matching using Kernel Methods 5-6
  Alessandro Moschitti
- Leveraging Cold-Start Knowledge Base Population for Information Access 7
  Douglas Oard

### Full papers

- Labeling Documents in Search Collection: Evolving Classifiers on a Semantically Relevant Label Space 8-15
  Ramakrishna Bairi, Ganesh Ramakrishnan
- Locating Query-oriented Experts in Microblog Search 16-23
  Qin Chen, Yan Yang, Qinmin Hu, Liang He
- Query Term Expansion by Automatic Learning of Morphological Equivalence Patterns from Wikipedia 24-29
  Kareem Darwish, Ahmed Ali, Ahmed Abdelali
- Detecting Semantic Uncertainty by Learning Hedge Cues in Sentences Using an HMM 30-37
  Xiujun Li, Wei Gao, Jude Shavlik
- Distributed Representations for Semantic Matching in non-factoid Question Answering 38-45
  Piero Molino, Luca Aiello
- Deep Semantic Embedding 46-52
  Hao Wu, Martin Renqiang Min, Bing Bai

- Author Index
- Program Committee

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