August 7
Keynote: 9:00–10:00 AM
SIGIR Salton award lecture - 120 Kane Hall
Session 1: 10:30AM–12:00PM
User behavior & modelling - 120 kane hall
Learning User Interaction Models for Predicting Web Search Result Preferences
Eugene Agichtein, Eric Brill, Susan Dumais, Robert Ragno
Microsoft Research
User Performance versus Precision Measures for Simple Search Tasks
Andrew Turpin, Falk
Scholer
RMIT University
Improving Web Search Ranking by Incorporating User Behavior
Eugene Agichtein, Eric Brill, Susan Dumais
Microsoft Research
Handling messages and finding experts - 110 kane hall
Contextual Search and Disambiguation in Email Using Graphs
Einat Minkov, William Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University
Andrew Ng, Stanford University
Thread Detection in Dynamic Text Message Streams
Dou Shen, Qiang Yang,
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Jian-Tao Sun, Zheng Chen,
Microsoft Research Asia
Formal Models for Expert Finding in Enterprise Corpora
Krisztian Balog, University of Amsterdam
Leif Azzopardi, University of Strathclyde
Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam
Speech and Music - 220 kane hall
Spoken Document Retrieval from Call Center Conversations
Jonathan Mamou, David Carmel, Ron Hoory
IBM Research Lab
Towards Efficient Automated Singer Identification in Large Music Databases
Jialie Shen, University of New South Wales
Bin Cui, National University of Singapore
John Shepherd, University of New South Wales
KianLee Tan, National University of Singapore
Music structure analysis and a vector space modeling approach for content indexing and retrieval
Namunu Maddage, Haizhou Li, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore
Session 2: 1:30–3:00PM
Web1-Exploiting graph structure - 110 kane hall
AggregateRank: Bring Order to Web Sites
Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft Research Asia
Ying Wang, Chinese Academy of Science
Guang Feng, Tsinghua University
Ying Bao, Zhiming Ma, Chinese Academy of Science
Respect my authority! HITS Without Hyperlinks, Utilizing Cluster-Based
Language Models
Oren Kurland, Lillian Lee
Cornell University
Topical Link Analysis for Web Search
Lan Nie, Brian D. Davison, Xiaoguang Qi
Lehigh University
Semantics - 120 kane hall
Role of Knowledge in Conceptual Retrieval: A Study in the Domain of Clinical Medicine
Jimmy Lin, Dina Demner-Fushman
University of Maryland
Parallel Derivation of Probabilistic Information Retrieval Models
Thomas Roelleke, Jun Wang
Queen Mary University
Semantic Term Matching in Axiomatic Approaches to Information Retrieval
Hui Fang, Cheng-Xiang Zhai
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fusion & Spam - 220 kane hall
Online Spam Filter Fusion
Thomas Lynam, Gordon Cormack
University of Waterloo
Building Bridges for Web Query Classification
Dou Shen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Sun Jian-Tao, Microsoft
Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Zheng Chen,
Microsoft Research Asia
ProbFuse: A Probabilistic Approach to Data Fusion
David Lillis, Fergus Toolan, Rem Collier
University College Dublin
Session 3: 3:30–5:00PM
Relevance feedback - 110 kane hall
Using Web-Graph Distance for Relevance Feedback in Web Search
Sergei Vassilvitskii, Stanford University
Eric Brill, Microsoft
Improving the Estimation of Relevance Models Using Large External Corpora
Fernando Diaz, Donald Metzler
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Regularized Estimation of Mixture Models for Robust Pseudo-Relevance
Feedback
Tao Tao, ChengXiang Zhai
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Formal models - 120 kane hall
Context-Sensitive Semantic Smoothing for the Language Modeling Approach to Genomic IR
Xiaohua Zhou, Xiaohua Hu, Xiaodan Zhang, Xia Lin, Il-Yeol Song
Drexel University
LDA-Based Document Models for Adhoc Retrieval
Xing Wei, Bruce Croft
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Adapting Ranking SVM to Document Retrieval
Yunbo Cao, Microsoft Research Asia
Jun Xu, Nankai University
Tie-Yan Liu, Hang Li, Microsoft Research Asia
Yalou Huang, Nankai University
Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Microsoft Research Asia
Cross Language - 220 kane hall
A Study of Statistical Models for Query Translation: Finding a Good Unit of Translation
Jianfeng Gao, Microsoft
Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal
Combining Bidirectional Translation and Synonymy for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Jianqiang Wang, Douglas Oard
Umiversity of Maryland
August 8
Keynote: 9:00-10:00 AM
Social networks, Incentives, and Search - 120 kane hall
Jon kleinberg
Session 1: 10:30AM–12:30PM
Question & Answering - 120 kane hall
Probabilistic Model for Definitional Question Answering
Kyoung-Soo Han, Young-In Song, Hae-Chang Rim
Korea University
Answering Complex Questions with Random Walk Models
Sanda Harabagiu, Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hickl
Language Computer Corporation
A Framework to Predict the Quality of Answers with Non-Textual Features
Jiwoon Jeon, Bruce Croft, Soyeon Park, JoonHo Lee
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Machine learning - 210 kane hall
Latent Semantic Analysis for Multiple-Type Interrelated Data Objects
Xuanhui Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jian-Tao Sun, Zheng Chen, Microsoft
ChengXiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Identifying Comparative Sentences in Text Documents
Nitin Jindal, Bing Liu
University of Illinois at Chicago
Tackling Concept Drift by Temporal Inductive Transfer
George Forman
Hewlett-Packard Labs
Evaluation 1-User models & test collections - 220 kane hall
Evaluation in (XML) Information Retrieval: Expected Precision-Recall with User Modelling (EPRUM)
Benjamin Piwowarski, Georges Dupret
Yahoo! Research
Minimal Test Collections for Retrieval Evaluation
Ben Carterette, James Allan, Ramesh Sitaraman
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dynamic Test Collections: Measuring Search Effectiveness on the Live Web
Ian Soboroff
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Session 2: 2:30PM–4:30PM
Web 2 - 120 kane hall
Finding Near-Duplicate Web Pages: A Large-Scale Evaluation of Algorithms
Monika Henzinger
Google and Ecole Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Structure-Driven Crawler Generation by Example
Altigran Silva, Marcio Vidal, Edleno Moura, João Cavalcanti
Federal University of Amazonas
Forum Search: Build Implicit Links from Content
Gu Xu, Wei-Ying Ma
Microsoft
Generalizing PageRank: Damping Functions for Link-Based Ranking Algorithms
Carlos Castillo, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research
Paolo Boldi, Università di Milano
Distributed IR - 210 kane hall
Capturing Collection Size for Distributed Non-Cooperative Retrieval
Milad Shokouhi, Justin Zobel, Falk Scholer, S.M.M Tahaghoghi
RMIT University
Probabilistic Latent Query Analysis for Combining Multiple Retrieval Sources
Rong Yan, Alexander Hauptmann
Carnegie Mellon University
User Modeling for Full-Text Federated Search in Peer-to-Peer Networks
Jie Lu, Jamie Callan
Carnegie Mellon University
Distributed Query Sampling: A Quality-Conscious Approach
James Caverlee, Ling Liu, Joonsoo Bae
Georgia Institute of Technology
Efficiency - 220 kane hall
Load Balancing for Term-Distributed Parallel Retrieval
Alistair Moffat, William Webber, Justin Zobel
University of Melbourne
Hybrid Index Maintenance for Growing Text Collections
Stefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, Brad Lushman
University of Waterloo
Type Less, Find More: Fast Autocompletion Search with a Succinct
Index
Holger Bast, Ingmar Weber
Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics
Pruned Query Evaluation using Pre-Computed Impacts
Alistair Moffat, Vo Anh
University of Melbourne
August 9
Keynote: 9:00 - 10:00 AM
Information access in the extended Boeing enterprise - 120 Kane Hall
Radha Radhakrishnan
Session 1: 10:30AM–12:00PM
Queries - 120 kane hall
Mining Dependency Relations for Query Expansion in Passage Retrieval
Renxu Sun, Chai Huat, Tommy Ong, Tat Seng Chua
National University of Singapore
What makes a query difficult?
David Carmel, Elad Yom-Tov, Adam Darlow, Dan Pelleg
IBM Research Lab
On Ranking the Effectiveness of Searches
Vishwa Vinay,
Ingemar Cox, University College London
Natasa Milic-Frayling,
Ken Wood, Microsoft
Clustering - 210 kane hall
Document Clustering with Prior Knowledge
Xiang Ji, Yahoo!
Wei Xu, Shenghuo Zhu, NEC Labs America
Text Clustering with Extended User Feedback
Yifen Huang, Tom Mitchell
Carnegie Mellon University
Near-Duplicate Detection by Instance-level Constrained Clustering
Hui Yang, Jamie Callan
Carnegie Mellon University
the first page of results - 220 kane hall
Less is More: Probabilistic Models for Retrieving Fewer Relevant Documents
Harr Chen, David Karger
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
High Accuracy Retrieval with Multiple Nested Ranker
Irina Matveeva, University of Chicago
Chris Burges, Timo Burkard, Andy Laucius, Leon Wong, Microsoft
Semantic Search via XML Fragments: A High-Precision Approach to IR
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, John Prager, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Krzysztof Czuba, Google
David Ferrucci, Pablo Duboue, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Session 2: 1:30–3:00PM
Users: clarification, feedback, and browsing - 120 kane hall
Elicitation of Term Relevance Feedback: An Investigation of Term Source and Context
Diane Kelly, Xin Fu,
University of North Carolina
Find-Similar: Similarity Browsing as a Search Tool
Mark Smucker James Allan
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Exploring the Limits of SingleIteration Clarification Dialogs
Jimmy Lin, Philip Wu, Dina Demner-Fushman, Eileen Abels
University of Maryland
Classification and Machine learning - 210 kane hall
Large Scale Semi-supervised Linear SVMs
Vikas Sindhwani,
University of Chicago
Sathiya Keerthi, Yahoo!
Graph-based Text Classification: Learn from Your Neighbors
Ralitsa Angelova, Gerhard Weikum
Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Constructing Informative Prior Distributions from Domain Knowledge in Text Classification
Aynur Dayanik, Rutgers University
David Lewis, David D. Lewis Consulting
David Madigan, Vladimir Menkov, Alex Genkin,
Rutgers University
Recommendation: Use and Abuse - 220 kane hall
Unifying User-based and Item-based Collaborative Filtering Approaches by Similarity Fusion
Jun Wang, Arjen de Vries, Marcel Reinders
Delft University of Technology
Personalized Recommendation Driven by Information Flow
Xiaodan Song, University of Washington
Belle L. Tseng, NEC Labs America
Ching-Yung Lin, Ming-Ting Sun, University of Washington
Analysis of a Low-Dimensional Linear Model Under Recommendation Attacks
Sheng Zhang, Yi Ouyang, James Ford, Fillia Makedon
Dartmouth College
Session 3 3:30–5:00PM
Evaluation 2 - 210 kane hall
Evaluating Evaluation Metrics based on the Bootstrap
Tetsuya Sakai
Toshiba
Statistical Precision of Information Retrieval Evaluation
Gordon Cormack, Thomas Lynam
University of Waterloo
Statistical Method for System Evaluation Using Incomplete Judgments
Javed Aslam, Virgil Pavlu, Emine Yilmaz
Northeastern University
Web IR: Current topics - 120 kane hall
Learning to Advertise
Anísio Lacerda, Marco Cristo, Marcos Gonçalves, Federal University of Minas Gerais
Weiguo Fan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Nivio Ziviani, Federal University of Minas Gerais
Getting Work Done on the Web: Supporting Transactional Queries
Yunyao Li, University of Michigan
Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, IBM
H.V. Jagadish, University of Michigan
You Are What You Say: Privacy Risks of Public Mentions
Daniel Frankowski, Dan Cosley, Shilad Sen, Loren G. Terveen, John Riedl
University of Minnesota
Summarization: multidocuments and new applications - 220 kane hall
A Compositional Context Sensitive Multidocument Summarizer
Ani Nenkova, Stanford University
Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft
Kathleen McKeown, Columbia University
Information Graphics: An Untapped Resource for Digital Libraries
Sandra Carberry, University of Delaware
Stephanie Elzer, Millersville University
Seniz Demir, University of Delaware
News to Go: Hierarchical Text Summarization for Mobile Devices
Jahna Otterbacher, University of Cyprus
Dragomir Radev, Omer Kareem, University of Michigan