Posters

A Hybrid Model for Adhoc Information Retrieval

Zheng Ye (York University, Canada), Jimmy Huang (York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Jun Miao (York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

A Path-based Approach to Entity Search in RDF Graphs

Minsuk Kahng (Seoul National University), Sang-goo Lee (Seoul National University)

A Study of Term Weighting Schemes Using Class Information for Text Classification

Youngjoong Ko (Dong-A University)

A Topic Model of Clinical Reports

Corey Arnold (UCLA), William Speier (Medical Imaging Informatics, UCLA)

Active Query Selection for Learning Rankers

Mustafa Bilgic (Illinois Institute of Technology), Paul N Bennett (Microsoft)

Anticipatory Search: Using Context to Initiate Search

Daniel Liebling (Microsoft Research), Paul N Bennett (Microsoft), Ryen White (Microsoft Research Redmond)

BReK12: A Book Recommender for K-12 Users

Maria S Pera (Brigham Young University), Yiu-Kai Ng (Brigham Young University)

Clarity Re-Visited

Anna Shtok (Technion IIT), Shay Hummel (Technion IIT), Fiana Raiber (Technion IIT), David Carmel (IBM Research), Oren Kurland (Technion)

Cluster-Based One-Class Ensemble for Classification Problems in Information Retrieval

Nedim Lipka (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), Benno Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), Anderka Maik (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)

Collaborative Filtering with Short Term Preferences Mining

Diyi Yang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Tianqi Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Weinan Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Creating Temporally Dynamic Web Search Snippets

Krysta Svore (Microsoft Research), Jaime Teevan (Microsoft Research Redmond), Susan Dumais (Microsoft Research Redmond), Anagha Kulkarni (Carnegie Mellon University)

Dependency Trigram Model for Social Relation Extraction from News Articles

Maengsik Choi (Kangwon National University), Harksoo Kim (Kangwon National University), W. Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Detecting Candidate Named Entities in Search Queries

Areej Alasiry (Birkbeck, University of London), Mark Levene (Birkbeck, University of London), Alexandra Poulovassilis (Birkbeck, University of London)

Effect of Dynamic Pruning Safety on Learning to Rank Effectiveness

Craig Macdonald (U. Glasgow), Nicola Tonellotto (ISTI-CNR), Iadh Ounis (U. Glasgow)

Effect of Written Instructions on Assessor Agreement

William Webber (University of Melbourne), Bryan Toth (Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Greenbelt), Marjorie Desamito (Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Greenbelt)

Effects of Expertise Differences in Synchronous Social Q&A

Ryen White (Microsoft Research Redmond), Matthew Richardson (Microsoft Research)

Efficient Estimation of Aspect Weights

Jon I Parker (Georgetown University), Andrew Yates (Georgetown University), Nazli Goharian (Georgetown University), Wai Gen Yee (Orbitz Worldwide)

Emotion Tagging for Comments of News by Meta Classification with Heterogeneous Information Sources

Ying Zhang (Nankai University), Yi Fang (Purdue University), Xiaojun Quan (City University of Hong Kong), Lin Dai (Beijing Institute of Technology), Luo Si (Purdue University), Xiaojie Yuan (Nankai University)

Estimating the Magic Barrier of Recommender Systems: A User Study

Alan Said (Technische University Berlin), Brijnesh J. Jain (Technische University Berlin), Sascha Narr (Technische University Berlin), Till Plumbaum (Technische University Berlin)

Explaining Neighborhood-based Recommendations

Juan F. Huete (University of Granada), Sergio Cleger-Tamayo (Universidad de Holguin), Juan M. Fernndez-Luna (Universidad de Granada)

Exploiting Term Dependency While Handling Negation in Medical Search

Nut Limsopatham (U. Glasgow), Craig Macdonald (U. Glasgow), Richard McCreadie (University of Glasgow), Iadh Ounis (U. Glasgow)

Exploring Example-Based Person Search in Email

Tan Xu (University of Maryland), Douglas W Oard (University of Maryland)

Exploring Tag Relevance for Image Tag Re-ranking

Jie Xiao (University of Texas at San Antonio), Wengang Zhou (University of Texas at San Antonio), Qi Tian (Microsoft Research)

Fast On-line Learning for Multilingual Categorization

Michelle Kovesi (Carleton University), Cyril Goutte (National Research Council Canada), Massih-Reza Amini (National Research Council of Canada)

Finding Interesting Posts in Twitter based on Retweet Graph Analysis

Min-Chul Yang (Korea University), Jung-Tae Lee (Korea University), Seung-Wook Lee (Korea University), Hae-Chang Rim (Korea University)

Finding Readings for Scientists from Social Websites

Jiepu Jiang (University of Pittsburgh), Zhen Yue (University of Pittsburgh), Daqing He (University of Pittsburgh)

Finding Web Appearances of Social Network Users via Latent Factor Model

Chen Kailong (Apex Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Fixed versus Dynamic Co-Occurrence Windows in TextRank Term Weights for Information Retrieval

Wei Lu (Wuhan University, China), Qikai Cheng, Christina Lioma (University of Copenhagen)

Gender-aware Re-ranking

Eugene Kharitonov (Yandex, LLC), Pavel Serdyukov (Yandex, LLC)

Genre Classification for Million Song Dataset Using Confidence-Based Classifiers Combination

Yajie Hu (University of Miami), Mitsunori Ogihara (University of Miami)

GLASE 0.1: Eyes tell more than mice

Viktors Garkavijs (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Mayumi Toshima (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics)

How Query Extensions Reflect Search Result Abandonments

Aleksandr Chuklin (Yandex), Pavel Serdyukov (Yandex, LLC)

Identifying Entity Aspects in Microblog Posts

Damiano Spina (UNED NLP & IR Group), Edgar Meij (University of Amsterdam), Andrei Oghina (ISLA, University of Amsterdam), Bui Minh Thuong (ISLA, University of Amsterdam), Mathias Breuss (ISLA, University of Amsterdam),Maarten de Rijke (ISLA, University of Amsterdam)

Impact of Assessor Disagreement on Ranking Performance

Pavel Metrikov (Northeastern University), Virgil Pavlu (Northeastern University), Javed A Aslam (Northeastern University)

Incorporating Statistical Topic Information in Relevance Feedback

Karla Caballero (University of California Santa Cruz), Ram Akella (University Of California Santa Cruz)

Inferring Missing Relevance Judgments from Crowd Workers via Probabilistic Matrix Factorization

Hyun Joon Jung (University of Texas at Austin), Matthew Lease (University of Texas at Austin)

Investigating Performance Predictors Using Monte Carlo Simulation and Score Distribution Models

Cummins Ronan (National University of Ireland, Galway)

Learning to Select a Time-aware Retrieval Model

Nattiya Kanhabua (L3S Research Center), Klaus Berberich (Max-Planck Institute for Informatics), Kjetil Norvag (NTNU)

Learning-based Query Re-ranking Using Time-Sensitive Information

Po-Tzu Chang (Dept. Of CSIE, National Taiwan University), Yen-Chieh Huang (Dept. Of CSIE, National Taiwan University), Cheng-Lun Yang (National Taiwan University), Shou-De Lin (Dept. Of CSIE, National Taiwan University), Pu-Jen Cheng (National Taiwan University)

Lightweight Contrastive Summarization for News Comment Mining

Gobaan Raveendran (University of Waterloo), Charles L. A.Clarke (University of Waterloo)

Looking Inside the Box: Context-Sensitive Translation for CLIR

Ferhan Ture (University of Maryland), Jimmy Lin (University of Maryland), Douglas W Oard (University of Maryland)

Making Results Fit Into 40 Characters: A Study in Document Rewriting

Johannes Leveling (Dublin City University), Gareth Jones (Dublin City University)

New Assessment Criteria for Query Suggestion

Zhongrui Ma (Renmin University of China), Yu Chen (Microsoft Research Asia), Ruihua Song (Microsoft Research Asia), Tetsuya Sakai (Microsoft Research Asia), Jiaheng Lu (Renmin University of China), Ji-Rong Wen (Microsoft Research)

On Automatically Tagging Web Documents from Examples

Nicholas Woodward (University of Texas at Austin), Weijia Xu

On Building a Reusable Twitter Corpus

Ian Soboroff (NIST), Dean McCullough (NIST), Jimmy Lin (University of Maryland), Craig Macdonald (U. Glasgow), Iadh Ounis (U. Glasgow), Richard McCreadie (U. Glasgow)

On Judgments Obtained from a Commercial Search Engine

Emine Yilmaz (Microsoft Research Cambridge), Nick Craswell (Microsoft), Gabriella Kazai (Microsoft Research), S.M.M (Saied) Tahaghoghi (Microsoft)

On the Mathematical Relationship between Expected n-call@k and the Relevance vs. Diversity Trade-off

Kar Wai Lim (Australian National University), Scott Sanner (NICTA), Shengbo Guo (Xerox Research Centre Europe)

On Time-aware Ad-hoc Retrieval Evaluation

Stephen Robertson (Microsoft Research Cambridge), Evangelos Kanoulas (Google)

Opinion Summarisation through Sentence Extraction: an Investigation with Movie Reviews

Marco Bonzanini (Queen Mary, University of London), Miguel Martinez-Alvarez (Queen Mary, University of London), Thomas Roelleke (Queen Mary University of London)

Optimizing parameters of the Expected Reciprocal Rank

Yury Logachev ( Yandex, LLC), Pavel Serdyukov (Yandex, LLC)

Ousting Ivory Tower Research: Towards a Web Framework for Providing Experiments as a Service

Tim Gollub (Bauhaus University Weimar), Benno Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), Steven Burrows (Bauhaus University Weimar)

Parallelizing ListNet Training using Spark

Shilpa Shukla (University of Texas at Austin), Matthew Lease (University of Texas at Austin), Ambuj Tewari (The University of Texas at Austin)

Predicting the Lifespans of Popular Tweets in Micro-Blog

Shoubin Kong (Tsinghua University), Ling Feng (Tsinghua University), Gordon Sun (Tencent, SOSO)

Preliminary Study of Technical Terminology for the Retrieval of Scientific Book Records

Birger Larsen (Royal School of Library and Information Science Denmark), Christina Lioma (University of Copenhagen), Ingo Frommholz (University of Bedfordshire), Hinrich Schuetze (University of Stuttgart)

Queries without clicks: Evaluating retrieval effectiveness based on user feedback.

Athanasia Koumpouri (University of Patras), Vasiliki Simaki (University of Patras)

Retrieval Evaluation on Focused Tasks

Besnik Fetahu (Saarland University), Ralf Schenkel (Saarland University)

Rewarding Term Location Information to Enhance Probabilistic Information Retrieval

Jiashu Zhao (York University), Jimmy Huang (York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

Scheduling Queries Across Replicas

Ana Freire (University of A Coru—a), Craig Macdonald (U. Glasgow), Nicola Tonellotto (ISTI—CNR), Iadh Ounis (U. Glasgow), Fidel Cacheda (University of A Coru—a)

Search Result Examination Time Shown Unhelpful for Estimating Individual Result Relevance

Dmitry Lagun (Emory University), Eugene Agichtein (Emory University)

Sentiment Identification by Incorporating Syntactics, Semantics and Context Information

Kunpeng Zhang (Northwestern University), Yu Cheng (Northwestern University), Yusheng Xie (Northwestern University), Ankit Agrawal (Northwestern University), Alok Choudhary (Northwestern University)

Short Text Classification Using Very Few Words

Aixin Sun (Nanyang Technological University)

Summarizing the Differences from Microblogs

Dingding Wang (University of Miami), Mitsunori Ogihara (University of Miami), Tao Li (Florida International University)

Survival Analysis on Click Logs

Si-Chi Chin (The University of Iowa), W. Nick Street (The University of Iowa)

Text Selections as Implicit Relevance Feedback

Ryen White (Microsoft Research Redmond), Georg Buscher

Time to Judge Relevance as an Indicator of Assessor Error

Mark D Smucker (University of Waterloo)

Towards Alias Detection Without String Similarity: an Active Learning based Approach

Lili Jiang (Lanzhou University), Jianyong Wang (Tsinghua), Ping Luo (Hewlett Packard Labs China), Ning An (Hefei University of Technology), Min Wang (HP Labs China)

Towards Zero-Click Mobile IR Evaluation: Knowing What and Knowing When

Tetsuya Sakai (Microsoft Research Asia)

Twanchor Text: A Preliminary Study of the Value of Tweets as Anchor Text

Gilad Mishne (Twitter, Inc.), Jimmy Lin (Twitter, Inc.)

Unsupervised Linear Score Normalization Revisited

Ilya Markov (University of Lugano), Avi Arampatzis (Democritus University of Thrace), Fabio Crestani (University of Lugano)

User-Aware Caching and Prefetching Query Results in Web Search Engines

Ma Hongyuan (Insti. of Computing Technology, CAS, China)

Using Eye-Tracking with Dynamic Areas of Interest for Analyzing Interactive Information Retrieval

Vu TuanTran (University of Duisburg-Essen), Norbert Fuhr (University Duisburg-Essen)

Using PageRank to Infer User Preferences

Chandar Praveen (University of Delaware), Ben Carterette (University of Delaware)

Utilizing Inter-Document Similarities in Federated Search

Savva Khalaman (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology), Oren Kurland (Technion)

Want a Coffee? Predicting Users’ Trails

Wen Li (Delft University of Technology), Carsten Eickhoff (Delft University of Technology), Arjen de Vries (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)

Will This Hashtag Be Popular Tomorrow?

Zongyang Ma (Nanyang Technological University), Aixin Sun (Nanyang Technological University), Gao Cong (Nanyang Technological University)

$100,000 Prize Jackpot. Call Now! Identifying the Pertinent Features of SMS Spam

Zhi Da Henry Tan (Georgetown University), Nazli Goharian (Georgetown University), Micah Sherr (Georgetown University)