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# IIR-2011
Italian Information Retrieval (IIR) Workshop

### Proceedings of the 2nd Italian Information Retrieval (IIR) Workshop

### Milan, Italy, January 27-28, 2011.

Edited by

### Massimo Melucci *
Stefano Mizzaro **
Gabriella Pasi ***

* University of Padua, Italy
** University of Udine, Italy
*** University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy

## Table of Contents

- Web Information Retrieval for Complex Not-Informational Intents: An Introduction to User Intent Analysis
  Debora Donato Keynote Paper
- Experimenting Text Summarization Techniques for Contextual Advertising
  Giuliano Armano, Alessandro Giuliani, Eloisa Vargiu
- A Methodology for Analyzing Web Search Results
  Gloria Bordogna, Giuseppe Psaila
- Using Micro-Documents for Feature Selection: The Case of Ordinal Text Classification
  Stefano Baccianella, Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebastiani
- Semantic Re-ranking in Ad-hoc Robust Retrieval
  Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Giovanni Semeraro
- Blog Distillation via Sentiment-Sensitive Link Analysis
  Giacomo Berardi, Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Fabrizio Silvestri
- Definition of User Profiles Based on the YAGO Ontology
  Silvia Calegari, Gabriella Pasi
- From Terms to Concepts: A Revisited Approach to Local Context Analysis
  Annalina Caputo, Pierpaolo Basile, Giovanni Semeraro
- A Query Algebra for Quantum Information Retrieval
  Annalina Caputo, Benjamin Piwowarski, Mounia Lalmas
- Enriched Page Rank for Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation
  Diego De Cao, Roberto Basili, Matteo Luciani, Francesco Mesiano, Riccardo Rossi
- HNews: An Enhanced Multilingual Hyperlinking News Platform
  Diego De Cao, Daniele Previtali, Roberto Basili
- Quantum Contextual Information Access and Retrieval
  Emanuele Di Buccio, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Massimo Melucci, Nicola Orio
- First Steps Beyond the Bag-Of-Words Representation of Short Texts
  Paolo Ferragina, Ugo Scaiella
- IR Models Based on Network Science: A Research Agenda
  Giulio Leso, Stefano Mizzaro
- A Flexible XML Query Language for NON Dummies
  Stefania Marrara, Emanuele Panzeri, Gabriella Pasi
- Modeling Emergent Associations of Nominal Compound: Ongoing Research and Preliminary Results
  Massimo Melucci, Laurianne Sitbon
- Heterogeneous Data Co-Clustering by Pseudo-Semantic Affinity Functions
  Alberto Messina, Maurizio Montagnuolo
- Random Indexing for Content-Based Recommender Systems
  Cataldo Musto, Pasquale Lops, Marco de Gemmis, Giovanni Semeraro
- Explicit Semantic Analysis for Enriching Content-Based User Profiles
  Fedelucio Narducci, Giovanni Semeraro, Pasquale Lops, Marco de Gemmis
- On the Probabilistic Logical Modelling of Quantum and Geometrically-Inspired IR
  Fabrizio Smeraldi, Miguel Martinez-Alvarez, Ingo Frommholz, Thomas Roelleke
- Retrieve Volunteered Geographic Information for Forest Fire
  Laura Spinsanti, Frank Ostermann
- Investigating Subspace Distances in Semantic Spaces
  Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Enrico Gasco

02-Mar-2011: submitted by Massimo Melucci
03-Mar-2011: published on CEUR-WS.org