Poster Sessions and Demos
Poster and Demo Reception 1
July 9 (Monday), 15:30 – 17:00, Ballroom (Floor 2)
Short Research Papers
- Pytrec_eval: An Extremely Fast Python Interface to trec_eval
Christophe Van Gysel (University of Amsterdam), Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam) - Split-Lists and Initial Thresholds for WAND-based Search
Andrew Kane (University of Waterloo), Frank Tompa (University of Waterloo) - Ontology Evaluation with Path-based Text-aware Entropy Computation
Ying Shen (Peking University), Daoyuan Chen (Peking University), Min Yang (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Yaliang Li (Tencent Medical AI Lab), Nan Du (Tencent Medical AI Lab), Kai Lei (Peking University) - Reducing Variance in Gradient Bandit Algorithm using Antithetic Variates Method
Sihao Yu (ICT, CAS), Jun Xu (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Yanyan Lan (ICT), Jiafeng Guo (Institute of Computing Technology), Xueqi Cheng (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, P. R. China) - A Flexible Forecasting Framework for Hierarchical Time Series with Seasonal Patterns: A Case Study of Web Traffic
Zitao Liu (TAL Education Group), Yan Yan (JD.com), Milos Hauskrecht (University of Pittsburgh) - Query Performance Prediction using Passage Information
Haggai Roitman (IBM Research AI) - Users, Adaptivity, and Bad Abandonment
Alistair Moffat (The University of Melbourne), Alfan Farizki Wicaksono (The University of Melbourne) - Knowledge-aware Attentive Neural Network for Ranking Question Answer Pairs
Ying Shen (Peking University), Yang Deng (Peking University), Min Yang (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Yaliang Li (Tencent Medical AI Lab), Nan Du (Tencent Medical AI Lab), Wei Fan (Tencent Medical AI Lab), Kai Lei (Peking University) - A Living Lab Study of Query Amendment in Job Search
Bahar Salehi (The University of Melbourne), Damiano Spina (RMIT University), Alistair Moffat (The University of Melbourne), Sargol Sadeghi (SEEK Ltd.), Falk Scholer (RMIT University), Timothy Baldwin (The University of Melbourne), Lawrence Cavedon (RMIT University), Mark Sanderson (RMIT University), Wilson Wong (SEEK Ltd.), Justin Zobel (The University of Melbourne) - Attention-driven Factor Model for Explainable Personalized Recommendation
Jingwu Chen (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Fuzhen Zhuang (ICT, CAS), Xin Hong (ICT, CAS), Xiang Ao (ICT, CAS), Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia), Qing He (ICT, CAS) - IRevalOO: An Object Oriented Framework for Retrieval Evaluation
Kevin Roitero (University of Udine), Eddy Maddalena (University of Southampton), Ponte Yannick (University of Udine), Stefano Mizzaro (University of Udine) - Translating Representations of Knowledge Graphs with Neighbors
Chun-Chih Wang (National Taiwan University), Pu-Jen Cheng (National Taiwan University) - Index Compression for BitFunnel Query Processing
Xinyu Liu (Nankai University), Zhaohua Zhang (Nankai University), Boran Hou (Nankai University), Rebecca Stones (Nankai University), Gang Wang (Nankai University), Xiaoguang Liu (Nankai University) - Large-Scale Image Retrieval with Elasticsearch
Giuseppe Amato (ISTI-CNR), Paolo Bolettieri (ISTI-CNR), Fabio Carrara (ISTI CNR), Fabrizio Falchi (ISTI-CNR), Claudio Gennaro (ISTI – CNR) - A Co-Memory Network for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
Nan Xu (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Wenji Mao (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Guandan Chen (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences) - Investigating User Perception of Gender Bias in Image Search
Jahna Otterbacher (Open University of Cyprus), Alessandro Checco (The University of Sheffield), Gianluca Demartini (The University of Queensland), Paul Clough (The University of Sheffield) - Killing Two Birds With One Stone: Concurrent Ranking of Tags and Comments of Social Images
Boon-Siew Seah (Nanyang Technological University), Aixin Sun (Nanyang Technological University), Sourav S Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University) - Imagination Based Sample Construction for Zero-Shot Learning
Gang Yang (Renmin university of China), Jinlu Liu (Renmin university of China), Xirong Li (Renmin University of China) - Parameterizing Kterm Hashing
Dominik Wurzer (University of Wuhan), Yumeng Qin (University of Wuhan) - Technology Assisted Reviews: Finding the Last Few Relevant Documents by Asking Yes/No Questions to Reviewers
Jie Zou (University of Amsterdam), Dan Li (University of Amsterdam), Evangelos Kanoulas (University of Amsterdam) - An Information Retrieval Framework for Contextual Suggestion Based on Heterogeneous Information Network Embeddings
Dominic Seyler (IBM Research), Praveen Chandar (IBM Research), Matthew Davis (IBM Research) - Toward an Interactive Patent Retrieval Framework based on Distributed Representations
Walid Shalaby (UNC Charlotte), Wlodek Zadrozny (UNC Charlotte) - Consistency and Variation in Kernel Neural Ranking Model
Mary Arpita Pyreddy (Carnegie Mellon University), Varshini Ramaseshan (Carnegie Mellon University), Narendra Nath Joshi (Carnegie Mellon University), Zhuyun Dai (Carnegie Mellon University), Chenyan Xiong (Carnegie Mellon University), Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University), Zhiyuan Liu (Tsinghua University) - Review Sentiment-Guided Scalable Deep Recommender System
Dongmin Hyun (POSTECH), Chanyoung Park (POSTECH), Min-Chul Yang (NAVER Corp.), Ilhyeon Song (NAVER Corp.), Jung-Tae Lee (NAVER Corp.), Hwanjo Yu (POSTECH) - Learning to Detect Pathogenic Microorganism of Community-acquired Pneumonia
Wenwei Liang (East China Normal University), Wei Zhang (East China Normal University), Bo Jin (East China Normal University), Jiangjiang Xu (Shanghai Children',s Hospital), Linhua Shu (Shanghai Children',s Hospital), Hongyuan Zha (Georgia Institute of Technology) - Towards Distributed Pairwise Ranking using Implicit Feedback
Mohsan Jameel (University of Hildesheim), Nicolas Schilling (University of Hildesheim), Lars Schmidt-Thieme (University of Hildesheim) - Semantic Location in Email Query Suggestion
John Foley (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Mingyang Zhang (Google), Michael Bendersky (Google), Marc Najork (Google) - GraphCAR: Content-aware Multimedia Recommendation with Graph Autoencoder
Qidi Xu (Center for Future Media, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), Fumin Shen (Center for Future Media, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), Li Liu (School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia), Heng Tao Shen (Center for Future Media, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) - Multi-level Abstraction Convolutional Model with Weak Supervision for Information Retrieval
Yifan Nie (University of Montreal), Alessandro Sordoni (Maluuba – Microsoft), Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal) - Analyzing and Characterizing User Intent in Information-seeking Conversations
Chen Qu (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Liu Yang (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Johanne R Trippas (RMIT University), Yongfeng Zhang (Rutgers University), Minghui Qiu (Alibaba Group) - Modeling Multidimensional User Relevance in IR using Vector Spaces
Sagar Uprety (The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom), Yi Su (School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, China), Dawei Song (The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom), Jingfei Li (National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China) - Are we on the Right Track? An Examination of Information Retrieval Methodologies
Enrique Amigó (National Distance Education University), Stefano Mizzaro (University of Udine), Hui Fang (University of Delaware), Chengxiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) - Fine-Grained Information Identification in Health Related Posts
Hamed Khanpour (University of North Texas), Cornelia Caragea (Kansas State University) - Quantitative Information Extraction From Social Data
Omar Alonso (Microsoft), Thibault Sellam (Columbia University) - Measuring Influence on Instagram: a Network-Oblivious Approach
Noam Segev (Klear.com), Noam Avigdor (Klear.com), Eytan Avigdor (Klear.com) - Event2Vec: Neural Embeddings for News Events
Vinay Setty (University of Stavanger), Katja Hose (Aalborg University) - Universal Approximation Functions for Fast Learning to Rank
Daniel Cohen (UMASS Amherst), John Foley (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Hamed Zamani (University of Massachusetts Amherst), James Allan (UMass Amherst), Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst) - Modeling Mobile User Actions for Purchase Recommendation using Deep Memory Networks
Djordje Gligorijevic (Temple University), Jelena Gligorijevic (Temple University), Aravindan Raghuveer (Facebook), Mihajlo Grbovic (Temple University), Zoran Obradovic (Temple University) - Cross Domain Regularization for Neural Ranking Models using Adversarial Learning
Daniel Cohen (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Bhaskar Mitra (Microsoft), Katja Hofmann (Microsoft), Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst) - Affective Representations for Sarcasm Detection
Ameeta Agrawal (York University), Aijun An (York University) - A User Study on Snippet Generation: Text Reuse vs. Paraphrases
Wei-Fan Chen (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), Matthias Hagen (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), Benno Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), Martin Potthast (Leipzig University) - New Embedded Representations and Evaluation Protocols for Inferring Transitive Relations
Sandeep Subramanian (IIT Bombay), Soumen Chakrabarti (IIT Bombay) - Taxi or Hitchhiking: Predicting Passenger’s Preferred Service on Ride Sharing Platforms
Lingyu Zhang (Didi Chuxing), Wei Ai (University of Michigan), Chuan Yuan (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Yuhui Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong University), Jieping Ye (Didi Chuxing) - Towards Intent-Aware Contextual Music Recommendation: Initial Experiments
Sergey Volokhin (Emory University), Eugene Agichtein (Emory University) - Deep Domain Adaptation Based on Multi-layer Joint Kernelized Distance
Sitong Mao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Xiao Shen (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Fu Lai Chung (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) - Do Not Pull My Data for Resale: Protecting Data Providers using Data Retrieval Pattern Analysis
Guosai Wang (Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University), Wei Xu (Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University), Ling Huang (AHI Fintech Corporation), Shiyang Xiang (AHI Fintech Corporation), Yitao Duan (Netease Youdao Inc.) - K-plet Recurrent Neural Networks for Sequential Recommendation
Xiang Lin (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China), Shuzi Niu (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China), Yiqiao Wang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China), Yucheng Li (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) - Citation Worthiness of Sentences in Scientific Reports
Hamed Bonab (UMass Amherst), Hamed Zamani (UMass Amherst), Erik Learned-Miller (UMass Amherst), James Allan (UMass Amherst)
Demos
- A/B Testing with APONE
Mónica Marrero (Delft University of Technology), Claudia Hauff (Delft University of Technology) - CoNEREL: Collective Information Extraction in News Articles
Minh C. Phan (Nanyang Technological University), Aixin Sun (Nanyang Technological University) - A2A: Benchmark Your Clinical Decision Support Search
Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO), Vincent Nguyen (CSIRO), Falk Scholer (RMIT University), Brian Jin (CSIRO), Sara Falamaki (CSIRO) - An Information Retrieval Experiment Framework for Domain Specific Applications
Harrisen Scells (Queensland University of Technology), Daniel Locke (Queensland University of Technology), Guido Zuccon (Queensland University of Technology) - LogCanvas: Visualizing Search History Using Knowledge Graphs
Luyan Xu (Renmin University of China), Zeon Trevor Fernando (L3S Research Center and Leibniz Universität Hannover), Xuan Zhou (East China Normal University), Wolfgang Nejdl (L3S Research Center and Leibniz Universität Hannover) - API Caveat Explorer: Surfacing Negative Usages from Practice
Jing Li (Nanyang Technological University), Aixin Sun (Nanyang Technological University), Zhenchang Xing (Australian National University), Lei Han (Nanyang Technological University) - SmartTable: A Spreadsheet Program with Intelligent Assistance
Shuo Zhang (University of Stavanger), Vugar Abdul Zada (University of Stavanger), Krisztian Balog (University of Stavanger)
Poster and Demo Reception 2
July 10 (Tuesday), 15:30 – 17:00, Ballroom (Floor 2)
Short Research Papers
- Ad Click Prediction in Sequence with Long Short-Term Memory Networks: An Externality-aware Model
Weiwei Deng (Microsoft), Xiaoliang Ling (Microsoft), Yang Qi (Microsoft), Tunzi Tan (School of Mathematical Sciences @ University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Eren Manavoglu (Microsoft), Qi Zhang (Microsoft) - Assessing the Readability of Web Search Results for Searchers with Dyslexia
Adam Fourney (Microsoft), Meredith Ringel Morris (Microsoft), Abdullah Ali (University of Washington), Laura Vonessen (University of Washington) - Comparing Two Binned Probability Distributions for Information Access Evaluation
Tetsuya Sakai (Waseda University) - Robust Asymmetric Recommendation via Min-Max Optimization
Peng Yang (Kaust), Peilin Zhao (South China University of Technology, China), Vincent Zheng (Advanced Digital Sciences Center, UIUC), Lizhong Ding (KAUST, Saudi Arabia), Xin Gao (KAUST, Saudi Arabia) - From the PRP to the Low Prior Discovery Recall Principle for Recommender Systems
Rocío Cañamares (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Pablo Castells (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) - Deep Learning for Epidemiological Predictions
Yuexin Wu (Carnegie Mellon University), Yiming Yang (Carnegie Mellon University), Hiroshi Nishiura (Hokkaido University), Masaya Saitoh (The Institute of Statistical Matheamtics) - Query Variation Performance Prediction for Systematic Reviews
Harrisen Scells (Queensland University of Technology), Leif Azzopardi (University of Strathclyde), Guido Zuccon (Queensland University of Technology), Bevan Koopman (CSIRO) - Attention-based Hierarchical Neural Query Suggestion
Wanyu Chen (National University of Defense Technology), Fei Cai (National University of Defense Technology), Honghui Chen (National University of Defense Technology), Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam) - Texygen: A Benchmarking Platform for Text Generation Models
Yaoming Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Sidi Lu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Lei Zheng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Jiaxian Guo (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Weinan Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Jun Wang (University College London), Yong Yu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) - CA-LSTM: Search Task Identification with Context Attention based LSTM
Cong Du (Sogou inc.), Peng Shu (Sogou Inc.), Yong Li (Sogou Inc.) - On the Volatility of Commercial Search Engines and its Impact on Information Retrieval Research
Jimmy (Queensland University of Technology), Guido Zuccon (Queensland University of Technology), Gianluca Demartini (The University of Queensland) - Deep Semantic Text Hashing with Weak Supervision
Suthee Chaidaroon (Santa Clara University), Travis Ebesu (Santa Clara University), Yi Fang (Santa Clara University) - Who is the Mr. Right for Your Brand? — Discovering Brand Key Assets via Multi-modal Asset-aware Projection
Yang Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University), Tobey H. Ko (The University of Hong Kong), Zhonglei Gu (Hong Kong Baptist University) - Sogou-QCL: A New Dataset with Click Relevance Label
Yukun Zheng (Tsinghua University), Zhen Fan (Tsinghua University), Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University), Cheng Luo (Tsinghua University), Shaoping Ma (Tsinghua University) - Towards Designing Better Session Search Evaluation Metrics
Mengyang Liu (Tsinghua University), Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University), Jiaxin Mao (Tsinghua University), Cheng Luo (Tsinghua University), Shaoping Ma (Tsinghua University) - Predicting Contradiction Intensity: Low, Strong or Very Strong?
Ismail Badache (FEG/LIS, Aix-Marseille Université), Sebastien Fournier (FEG/LIS, Aix-Marseille Université), Adrian-Gabriel Chifu (FEG/LIS, Aix-Marseille Université) - A Large-Scale Study of Mobile Search Examination Behavior
Xiaochuan Wang (Tsinghua University), Ning Su (Tsinghua University), Zexue He (Beijing Normal University), Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University), Shaoping Ma (Tsinghua University) - Ranking Without Learning: Towards Historical Relevance-based Ranking of Social Images
Min Min Chew (Nanyang Technological University), Sourav S Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University), Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University) - Entire Space Multi-Task Model: An Effective Approach for Estimating Post-Click Conversion Rate
Xiao Ma (Alibaba Group), Liqin Zhao (Alibaba Group), Guan Huang (Alibaba Group), Zhi Wang (Alibaba Group), Zelin Hu (Alibaba Group), Xiaoqiang Zhu (Alibaba Group), Kun Gai (Alibaba Group) - How Much is Too Much? Whole Session vs. First Query Behaviors in Task Type Prediction
Matthew Mitsui (Rutgers University), Jiqun Liu (Rutgers University), Chirag Shah (Rutgers University) - Effectiveness Evaluation with a Subset of Topics: A Practical Approach
Kevin Roitero (University of Udine), Michael Soprano (University of Udine), Stefano Mizzaro (University of Udine) - Locality-adapted Kernel Densities for Tweet Localization
Ozer Ozdikis (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Heri Ramampiaro (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Kjetil Nørvåg (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) - Related or Duplicate: Distinguishing Similar CQA Questions via Convolutional Neural Networks
Wei Emma Zhang (Macquarie University), Zhejun Tang (Ningxia University), Quan Z. Sheng (Macquarie University), Wenjie Ruan (University of Oxford) - Procrastination is the Thief of Time: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Proactive Search Systems
Procheta Sen (Dublin City University), Debasis Ganguly (IBM Research Lab, Dublin), Gareth Jones (Dublin City University) - Convolution-based Memory Network for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis
Chuang Fan (Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology), Qinghong Gao (Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology), Jiachen Du (Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology), Lin Gui (Aston university), Ruifeng Xu (Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology), Kam-Fai Wong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) - WikiPassageQA: A Benchmark Collection for Research on Non-factoid Answer Passage Retrieval
Daniel Cohen (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Liu Yang (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst) - Beyond Pooling
Gordon Cormack (University of Waterloo), Maura Grossman (University of Waterloo) - Testing the Cluster Hypothesis with Focused and Graded Relevance Judgments
Eilon Sheetrit (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology), Anna Shtok (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology), Oren Kurland (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology), Igal Shprincis (Microsoft, Herzliya, Israel) - Query Performance Prediction Focused on Summarized Letor Features
Adrian-Gabriel Chifu (LSIS – UMR 7296 CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université), Léa Laporte (INSA Lyon – LIRIS), Josiane Mothe (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse), Md Zia Ullah (IRIT) - A Study of Per-Topic Variance on System Comparison
Meng Yang (Tianjin University), Peng Zhang (Tianjin University), Dawei Song (The Open University) - Online Job Search: Study of Users’ Search Behavior using Search Engine Query Logs
Behrooz Mansouri (University of Tehran), Mohammad Sadegh Zahedi (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,University of Tehran), Ricardo Campos (Polytechnic Institute of Tomar), Mojgan Farhoodi (ITRC) - Identifying and Modeling Information Resumption Behaviors in Cross-Device Search
Dan Wu (School of Information Management, Wuhan University), Jing Dong (School of Information Management, Wuhan University), Yuan Tang (School of Information Management, Wuhan University) - Optimizing Query Evaluations Using Reinforcement Learning for Web Search
Corby Rosset (Microsoft), Damien Jose (Microsoft), Gargi Ghosh (Microsoft), Bhaskar Mitra (Microsoft), Saurabh Tiwary (Microsoft) - SAAN: A Sentiment-Aware Attention Network for Sentiment Analysis
Zeyang Lei (Tsinghua University), Yujiu Yang (Tsinghua University), Min Yang (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) - An Attribute-aware Neural Attentive Model for Next Basket Recommendation
Ting Bai (School of information, Renmin University of China), Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal), Xin Zhao (Renmin University of China, School of Information), Yutao Zhu (Renmin University of China, School of Information), Pan Du (University of Montreal), Ji-Rong Wen (Renmin University of China) - Characterizing Question Facets for Complex Answer Retrieval
Sean MacAvaney (Georgetown University), Andrew Yates (Max Planck Institute for Informatics), Arman Cohan (Georgetown University), Luca Soldaini (Georgetown University), Kai Hui (SAP SE), Nazli Goharian (Georgetown University), Ophir Frieder (Georgetown University) - A Test Collection for Coreferent Mention Retrieval
Rashmi Sankepally (University of Maryland – CP, HLTCOE), Tongfei Chen (Johns Hopkins University, HLTCOE), Benjamin Van Durme (Johns Hopkins University, HLTCOE), Douglas W. Oard (University of Maryland – CP, HLTCOE) - What Do Users Say to Their TVs? An Analysis of Voice Queries to Entertainment Systems
Jinfeng Rao (University of Maryland), Ferhan Ture (Comcast Applied AI Research Lab), Jimmy Lin (University of Waterloo) - Sanity Check: A Strong Alignment and Information Retrieval Baseline for Question Answering
Vikas Yadav (University of Arizona), Rebecca Sharp (University of Arizona), Mihai Surdeanu (University of Arizona) - Explaining Controversy on Social Media via Stance Summarization
Myungha Jang (University of Massachusetts Amherst), James Allan (University of Massachusetts Amherst) - Identifying Clickbait: A Multi-Strategy Approach Using Neural Networks
Vaibhav Kumar (International Institute of Information Technology), Yash Kumar Lal (Manipal Institute of Technology, Dhruv Khattar (International Institute of Information Technology), Siddhartha Gairola (International Institute of Information Technology), Vasudeva Varma (International Institute of Information Technology) - Multi-Target Stance Detection via a Dynamic Memory-Augmented Network
Penghui Wei (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science), Junjie Lin (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science), Wenji Mao (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science) - Query Performance Prediction and Effectiveness Evaluation Without Relevance Judgments: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Stefano Mizzaro (Univ Udine), Josiane Mothe (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse), Kevin Roitero (Univ Udine), Md Zia Ullah (IRIT, University of Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier) - A New Term Frequency Normalization Model for Probabilistic Information Retrieval
Fanghong Jian (Central China Normal University), Jimmy Huang (University of York), Jiashu Zhao (University of York), Tingting He (Central China Normal University) - Transparent Tree Ensembles
Alexander Moore (Microsoft), Vanessa Murdock (Microsoft), Yaxiong Cai (Microsoft), Kristine Jones (Microsoft) - A Taxonomy of Queries for E-commerce Search
Mohit Sharma (WalmartLabs), Parikshit Sondhi (Neulogic Inc.), Chengxiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Pranam Kolari (WalmartLabs) - Theoretical Analysis of Interdependent Constraints in Pseudo-Relevance Feedback
Ali Montazeralghaem (university of massachusetts amherst), Hamed Zamani (university of massachusetts amherst), Azadeh Shakery (University of Tehran) - Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval Using Monolingual Data Only
Robert Litschko (University of Mannheim), Goran Glavas (University of Mannheim), Simone Paolo Ponzetto (University of Mannheim), Ivan Vulic (University of Cambridge) - Toward Voice Query Clarification
Johannes Kiesel (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), Arefeh Bahrami (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), Benno Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), Avishek Anand (L3S Research Center), Matthias Hagen (Halle University) - A Test Collection for Evaluating Legal Case Law Search
Daniel Locke (Queensland University of Technology), Guido Zuccon (Queensland University of Technology)
Demos
- Interactive Symptom Elicitation for Diagnostic Information Retrieval
Tuukka Ruotsalo (University of Helsinki), Antti Lipsanen (University of Helsinki) - Sover! Social Media Observer
Asmelash Teka Hadgu (L3S Research Center), Sallam Abualhaija (Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust), Claudia Niederée (L3S Research Center) - Combining Terrier with Apache Spark to create Agile Experimental Information Retrieval Pipelines
Craig Macdonald (University of Glasgow) - Dynamic Composition of Question Answering Pipelines with Frankenstein
Kuldeep Singh (Fraunhofer), Ioanna Lytra (University of Bonn), Arun Sethupat Radhakrishna (University of Minnesota), Akhilesh Vyas (Fraunhofer), Maria Esther Vidal (TIB) - A System for Efficient High-Recall Retrieval
Mustafa Abualsaud (University of Waterloo), Nimesh Ghelani (University of Waterloo), Haotian Zhang (University of Waterloo), Mark D. Smucker (University of Waterloo), Gordon V. Cormack (University of Waterloo), Maura R. Grossman (University of Waterloo) - HyPlag: A Hybrid Approach to Academic Plagiarism Detection
Norman Meuschke (University of Konstanz), Vincent Stange (University of Konstanz), Moritz Schubotz (University of Konstanz), Bela Gipp (University of Konstanz) - RecAdvisor: Criteria-based Ph.D. Supervisor Recommendation
Mir Anamul Hasan (Florida State University), Daniel G. Schwartz (Florida State University) - Minority Report by Lemur: Supporting Search Engine with Virtual Reality
Andrew Jie Zhou (Georgetown University), Grace Hui Yang (Georgetown University) - Hide-n-Seek: An Intent-aware Privacy Protection Plugin for Personalized Web Search
Puxuan Yu (Wuhan University), Wasi Ahmad (University of California, Los Angeles), Hongning Wang (University of Virginia) - Vote Goat: Conversational Movie Recommendation
Jeffrey Dalton (University of Glasgow), Victor Ajayi (University of Glasgow), Richard Main (University of Glasgow)