Transactions on Information Systems


ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) is a scholarly journal that publishes the highest quality papers about the design and evaluation of computer software that helps people find, organize, analyze, and use information in a variety of media.  TOIS is published quarterly.

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Current Issue:

Volume 30 Issue 1

Word-based Self-Indexes for Natural Language Text
Antonio Fariña, Nieves R. Brisaboa, Gonzalo Navarro, Francisco Claude, Angeles S. Places, Eduardo Rodríguez
Static Index Pruning in Web Search Engines: Combining Term and Document Popularities with Query Views
Ismail Altingovde, Rifat Ozcan, Özgür Ulusoy
Summarizing Figures, Tables and Algorithms in Scientific Publications to Augment Search Results
Sumit Bhatia and Prasenjit Mitra
Multiple Testing in Statistical Analysis of Systems-Based Information Retrieval Experiments
Benjamin A. Carterette
High-Performance Processing of Text Queries with Tunable Pruned Term and Term Pair Indexes
Andreas Broschart and Ralf Schenkel
Large Scale Validation and Analysis of Interleaved Search Evaluation
Olivier Chapelle, Thorsten Joachims, Filip Radlinski, Yisong Yue

Forthcoming Issues:

Volume 30 Issue 2

Approaches to Exploring Category Information for Question Retrieval in Community Question Answer Archives
Xin Cao, Gao Cong, Bin Cui, Christian S. Jensen, Quan Yuan
A Probabilistic Model to Combine Tags and Acoustic Similarity for Music Retrieval
Riccardo Miotto and Nicola Orio
Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval: An Overview
Almer S. Tigelaar, Djoerd Hiemstra, Dolf Trieschnigg
Exploring Question Selection Bias to Identify Experts and Potential Experts in CQA
Aditya Pal, F. Maxwell Harper, Joseph A. Konstan
Predicting Query Performance by Query-Drift Estimation
Anna Shtok, Oren Kurland, David Carmel, Fiana Raiber, Gad Markovits
Authorship Attribution Based on Specific Vocabulary
Jacques Savoy
Oracle in Image Search: A Content-Based Approach to Performance Prediction
Liqiang Nie, Meng Wang, Zheng-Jun Zha, Tat-Seng Chua
A Measurement Framework for Evaluating Emulators for Digital Preservation
Mark Guttenbrunner and Andreas Rauber


Forthcoming in the special issue on Searching Speech:

Direct Posterior Confidence for Out-of-Vocabulary Spoken Term Detection
Dong Wang, Simon King, Joe Frankel, Ravichander Vipperla, Nicholas Evans, Raphael Troncy
The non-Verbal Structure of Patient Case Discussions in Multidisciplinary Medical Team Meetings
Saturnino Luz
Comparison of methods for language-dependent and language-independent Query-by-Example spoken term detection
Javier Tejedor, Michal Fapso, Igor Szoke, Jan "Honza" Cernocky, Frantisek Grezl
Sibyl, a Factoid Question Answering System for Spoken Documents
Pere R. Comas, Jordi Turmo, Lluis Marquez

Other Forthcoming Papers:

Online Learning Framework for Refining Recency Search Results with User Click Feedback
Taesup Moon, Wei Chu, Lihong Li, Zhaohui Zheng, Yi Chang
Detecting and Tracking Topics and Events from Web Search Logs
Jun He, Hongyan Liu, Yingqin Gu, Hui Xiong, Xiaoyong Du
Detecting Fake Medical Websites using Recursive Trust Labeling
Ahmed Abbasi, Mariam Zahedi, Siddharth Kaza
 



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