まさおのChangeLogメモ / 2007-04-24

- THE SPOCK CHALLENGE: 24 users
One Challenging Problem. One Compelling Prize ($50,000)

http://www.sigir2007.org/papers.html

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Alternatives to Bpref
Tetsuya Sakai

Fast Generation of Result Snippets in Web Search
Andrew Turpin, Yohannes Tsegay, David Hawking

HITS hits TREC: Exploring IR evaluation results with network analysis
Stefano Mizzaro, Stephen Robertson

Query Performance Prediction in Web Search Environments
Yun Zhou, Bruce Croft

Reliable Information Retrieval Evaluation with Incomplete and Biased Judgements
Stefan Buettcher, Charles Clarke, Peter Yeung, Ian Soboroff

FRank: A Ranking Method with Fidelity Loss
Ming-Feng Tsai, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Wei-Ying Ma

How well does result relevance predict session satisfaction?
Scott Huffman, Michael Hochster

Strategic System Comparisons via Targeted Relevance Judgments
Alistair Moffat, William Webber, Justin Zobel

Feature Selection for Ranking
Xiubo Geng, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin

Building Simulated Queries for Known-Item Topics: An Analysis using Six European Languages
Azzopardi Leif, Maarten de Rijke, Krisztian Balog

Deconstructing Nuggets: The Stability and Reliability of Complex Question Answering Evaluation
Jimmy Lin, Pengyi Zhang

Investigating the Querying and Browsing Behavior of Advanced Search Engine Users
Ryen White, Dan Morris

Towards Task-based PIM Evaluations
David Elsweiler, Ian Ruthven

Test Theory for Assessing IR Test Collections
David Bodoff, Pu Li

Supporting Multiple Information Seeking Strategies in a Single System Framework
Xiaojun Yuan, Nicholas Belkin

Robust Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems
Ben Carterette

On the Robustness of Relevance Measures with Incomplete Judgments
Tanuja Bompada, Chi-Chao Chang, John Chen, Ravi Kumar, Rajesh Shenoy

Studying the Use of Popular Destinations to Enhance Web Search Interaction
Ryen White, Mikhail Bilenko, Silviu Cucerzan

Estimation and Use of Uncertainty in Pseudo-relevance Feedback
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan

Enhancing Relevance Scoring With Chronological Term Rank
Adam Troy, Guo-Qiang Zhang

Learn from Web Search Logs to Organize Search Results
Xuanhui Wang, ChengXiang Zhai

Using Query Contexts in Information Retrieval
Jing Bai, Jian-Yun Nie, Hugue Bouchard, Guihong Cao

Posters:
User-Oriented Text Segmentation Evaluation Measure
Martin Franz, J. Scott McCarley, Jian-Ming Xu

Recommending Citations for Academic Papers
Trevor Strohman, Bruce Croft, David Jensen

Understanding the Relationship of Information Need Specificity to Search Query Length
Peter Bailey, Nina Phan, Ross Wilkinson

Intra-assessor consistency in question answering
Ian Ruthven, Leif Azzopardi, Mark Baillie, Ralf Bierig, Emma Nicol, Simon Sweeney, Murat Yakici

Automatic Classification of Web Pages into Bookmark Categories
Chris Staff, Ian Bugeja

Validity and Power of t-Test for Comparing MAP and GMAP
Gordon Cormack, Thomas Lynam

The Relationship between IR Effectiveness Measures and Users' Satisfaction
Azzah Al-Maskari, Mark Sanderson, Paul Clough

A Comparison of Pooled and Sampled Relevance Judgments
Ian Soboroff

Clustering Short Texts using Wikipedia
Somnath Banerjee, Krishnan Ramanathan, Ajay Gupta

Enhancing Patent Retrieval by Citation Analysis
Atsushi Fujii

Finding Similar Experts
Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke

Generative modeling of persons and documents for expert search
Pavel Serdyukov, Maarten Fokkinga, Peter Apers

Comparing Query Logs and Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for Web-Search Query Refinement
Ryen White, Charlie Clarke, Silviu Cucerzan

Problems with Kendall's Tau
Mark Sanderson, Ian Soboroff

Opinion Holder Extraction from Author and Authority Viewpoints
Yohei Seki

Heads and Tails: Studies of Web Search with Common and Rare Queries
Doug Downey, Susan Dumais, Eric Horvitz

Viewing Online Searching as a Learning Paradigm
Bernard Jansen, Brian Smith, Danielle Booth

Effects of highly agreed documents in relevancy prediction
Hideo Joho, Andres Masegosa, Jose Joemon

Demonstrations:
ISKODOR: Unified User Modeling for Integrated Searching
Melanie Gnasa, Armin B. Cremers, Douglas Oard

DiscoverInfo: A Tool for Discovering Information with Relevance and Novelty
Chirag Shah, Gary Marchionini

A "Do-It-Yourself" Evaluation Service for Music Information Retrieval Systems
M Cameron Jones, Mert Bay, J. Stephen Downie

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