IPM in 2011

The first issue of Information Processing & Management (IMP) is available online now and includes 146 pages. The title of research articles in this issue are:

Enhancing query translation with relevance feedback in translingual information retrieval,

Modeling information sources as integrals for effective and efficient source selection,

Select-the-Best-Ones: A new way to judge relative relevance,

Mining and modeling linkage information from citation context for improving biomedical literature retrieval,

Medical query generation by term–category correlation,

Popular and/or prestigious? Measures of scholarly esteem,

Measuring the interestingness of articles in a limited user environment,

The skewness of computer science,

Discovering author impact: A PageRank perspective,

Patterns of bibliographic references in the ACM published papers.

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