IR seminar, May 9, 2008

SIGIR 2008 papers.

Process

The following papers will appear in SIGIR this summer (2008) in Singapore. Please select one paper to present. You will have 10 (ten!) minutes for your presentation. You are welcome to read other papers, but should not assume that anyone has read any paper other then their own. In particular, no one will have read the paper you're presenting.

Please present (using powerpoint or the like) the main idea of the paper, its contributions, the key results, and so on. If it relates nicely to something we've already talked about in the seminar, please mention that, but that's not a key issue.

To snag a paper, put your name before it in the blank parens. Then also give yourself a slot in the presentation order. When you save the page, please release the edit lock so that others can get in quickly. I hope no weird collision errors occur, so check more than once to ensure your selection survived.

Presentation order

This is the order of talks at the moment.

1. Vidit (Manju's laptop)
2. Manju (my laptop)
3. JinyoungKim (no laptop)
4. Elif (my laptop is broken )
5. XingYi (my laptop)
6. Jangwon (my laptop)
7. MichaelBendersky (Xiaobing's laptop)
8. Xiaobing (my laptop)
9. Marc (my laptop)
10. Henry (my laptop -- I can use someone else's or vice versa if it's faster)
11. Niranjan (my laptop)

Papers from which you can choose

The following are papers that I've received preprints for. If you want to try for some other SIGIR paper, the list is on the SIGIR web page.

All papers marked "pdf" are accessible only from within the department.

• (Elif) Krisztian Balog, Wouter Weerkamp, Maarten de Rijke. "A Few Examples Go A Long Way: Constructing Query Models from Elaborate Query Formulationsn". [http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/Publications/Files/sigir2008-csiro.pdf][pdf at their site]]
• (XingYi) Li, Ding, Zhang, and Shao. "Knowledge Transformation from Word Space to Document Space", pdf
• (Ben) E. Yilmaz, J. Aslam and S. Robertson (Microsoft Research/Northeastern University). "A New Rank Correlation Coefficient for Information Retrieval", pdf
• (ManjunathaJagalur) E. Yilmaz, E. Kanoulas and J. Aslam. "A Simple and Efficient Sampling Method for Estimating AP and NDCG", pdf
• (Marc) W. Webber, A. Moffat and J. Zobel. "Score Standardization for Inter-Collection Comparison of Retrieval Systems", pdf
• (presenter) J. Pickens, G. Golovchinsky, C. Shah, P. Qvarfordt and M. Back. "Algorithmic Mediation for Collaborative Exploratory Search", pdf
• (MichaelBendersky) O. Kurland. "The Opposite of Smoothing: A Language Model Approach to Ranking Query-Specific Document Clusters", pdf
• (Xiaobing) Oren Kurland and Carmel Domshlak. "A Rank-Aggregation Approach to Searching for Optimal Query-Specific Clusters", pdf
• (Jangwon) L. Nie and B. Davison. "Separate and Inequal", pdf
• (ViditJain) X. Qi and B. Davison. "Classifiers Without Borders: Incorporating Fielded Text From Neighboring Web Pages", pdf
• (HenryFeild) M. Sanderson. "Ambiguous Queries: Test Collections Need More Sense", pdf
• (JinyoungKim) I. Arapakis and J. Joemon. "Affective Feedback: An investigation of the role of emotions during an information seeking process", pdf
• (presenter) J. Elsas, J. Arguello, J. Callan and J. Carbonell. "Retrieval and Feedback Models for Blog Feed Search", pdf
• (NiranjanB) Azzah Al-Maskari, Mark Sanderson, Paul Clough, Eija Airio. "The Good and the Bad System: Does the Test Collection Predict Users’ Effectiveness?", pdf

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