This page lists the technical program for the main conference, Monday through Wednesday. The conference also includes tutorials on Sunday morning and afternoon, a welcome reception on Sunday evening, and workshops on Thursday morning and afternoon.
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Monday
Monday, 7:00-8:20, Newcomers' Breakfast (invitation only)
First time attendees are invited to a breakfast. A selection of SIGIR old timers will be there for mingling.
Republic Ballroom
Monday, 8:30-10:15, Welcome Salton Award lecture
Presenter and title a surprise (come to the Sunday reception to find out)
Constitution Ballroom
Monday, 10:15-10:45, break
Visit exhibitor tables, get something to drink and a small snack
Back Bay A and B
Monday, 10:45-12:15, Session 1 of papers
- Session 1A: Novel search features
Chair: Fabio Crestani, Constitution Ballroom -
- Web Searching for Daily Living
- Takuya Maekawa (NTT ), Yutaka Yanagisawa , Yasushi Sakurai , Yasue Kishino , Koji Kamei , Takeshi Okadome (NTT)
- Global Ranking by Exploiting User Clicks
- Shihao Ji (Yahoo! Labs), Ke Zhou (Shanghai Jiao-Tong University), Ciya Liao , Zhaohui Zheng (Yahoo! Labs), Gui-Rong Xue (Shanghai Jiao-Tong University), Olivier Chapelle , Gordon Sun (Yahoo! Labs), Hongyuan Zha (Georgia Tech.)
- Good Abandonment in Mobile and PC Internet Search
- Jane Li , Scott Huffman , Akihito Tokuda (Google Inc. )
- Session 1B: Classification and clustering
Chair: Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Back Bay C -
- Context-Aware Query Classification
- Huanhuan Cao (University of Science and Technology of China), Derek Hao Hu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Dou Shen (Microsoft Coporation), Daxin Jiang , Jian-Tao Sun (Microsoft Research Asia), Enhong Chen (University of Science and Technology of China), Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology )
- Refined Experts: Improving Classification in Large Taxonomies
- Paul N. Bennett (Microsoft Research), Nam Nguyen (Cornell University)
- Dynamicity vs. Effectiveness: Studying Online Clustering for Scatter/Gather
- Weimao Ke , Cassidy R. Sugimoto , Javed Mostafa (University of North Carolina)
- Session 1C: Expansion and feedback
Chair: Ellen Voorhees, Back Bay D -
- Efficient Query Expansion for Advertisement Search
- Haofen Wang , Yan Liang , Linyun Fu , Gui-Rong Xue , Yong Yu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
- Query Dependent Pseudo-Relevance Feedback based on Wikipedia
- Yang Xu (Institute of Computing,Chinese Academy of Sciences), Gareth J. F. Jones (Dublin City University), Bin Wang (Institute of Computing,Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- Segment-Level Display Time as Implicit Feedback: A Comparison to Eye Tracking
- Georg Buscher , Ludger van Elst , Andreas Dengel (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI))
Monday, 12:15-2:00, lunch on your own
A list of nearby lunch-friendly restaurants is available at the registration desk.
Monday, 2:00-3:30, Session 2 of papers
- Session 2A: Web 2.0
Chair: Eugene Agichtein, Constitution Ballroom -
- A Statistical Comparison of Tag and Query Logs
- Mark J. Carman (University of Lugano), Mark Baillie (University of Strathclyde), Robert Gwadera , Fabio Crestani (University of Lugano)
- Simultaneously Modeling Semantics and Structure of Threaded Discussions: A Sparse Coding Approach and Its Applications
- Chen Lin (Fudan University), Jiang-Ming Yang , Rui Cai , Xin-Jing Wang (Microsoft Research, Asia), Wei Wang (Fudan University), Lei Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia)
- Enhancing Cluster Labeling Using Wikipedia
- David Carmel , Haggai Roitman , Naama Zwerdling (IBM Haifa Research Lab)
- Session 2B: Retrieval models I
Chair: Maarten de Rijke, Back Bay C -
- Risky Business: Modeling and Exploiting Uncertainty in Information Retrieval
- Jianhan Zhu , Jun Wang , Ingemar J. Cox (University College London), Michael J. Taylor (Microsoft Research)
- Approximating True Relevance Distribution from a Mixture Model based on Irrelevance Data
- Peng Zhang (The Robert Gordon University), Yuexian Hou (Tianjin University), Dawei Song (The Robert Gordon University)
- Portfolio Theory of Information Retrieval
- Jun Wang , Jianhan Zhu (University College London)
- Session 2C: Speech and linguistic processing
Chair: Arjen P. de Vries, Back Bay D -
- Addressing Morphological Variation in Alphabetic Languages
- Paul McNamee (Johns Hopkins University), Charles Nicholas (UMBC), James Mayfield (Johns Hopkins University)
- Web derived Pronunciations for Spoken Term Detection
- Dogan Can (Bogazici University), Erica Cooper (MIT), Arnab Ghoshal (Johns Hopkins University), Martin Jansche (Google, Inc.), Sanjeev Khudanpur (Johns Hopkins University), Bhuvana Ramabhadran (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Michael Riley (Google, Inc.), Murat Saraclar (Bogazici University), Abhinav Sethy (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Morgan Ulinski (Cornell University), Christopher White (Johns Hopkins University)
- Combining LVCSR and Vocabulary-Independent Ranked Utterance Retrieval for Robust Speech Search
- J. Scott Olsson (Johns Hopkins University), Douglas W. Oard (University of Maryland)
Monday, 3:30-4:00, break
Back Bay A and B
Monday, 4:00-5:30, Session 3 of papers
- Session 3A: Recommenders I
Chair: Natasa Milic-Fraylin, Constitution Ballroom -
- On Social Networks and Collaborative Recommendation
- Ioannis Konstas , Vassilios Stathopoulos , Joemon M. Jose (University of Glasgow)
- Learning to Recommend with Social Trust Ensemble
- Hao Ma , Irwin King , Michael R. Lyu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- Fast Nonparametric Matrix Factorization for Large-scale Collaborative Filtering
- Kai Yu , Shenghuo Zhu (NEC Laboratories America), John Lafferty (School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University), Yihong Gong (NEC Laboratories America)
- Session 3B: Question answering
Chair: Hwee Tou Ng, Back Bay C -
- A Classification-based Approach to Question Answering in Discussion Boards
- Liangjie Hong , Brian D. Davison (Lehigh University)
- Ranking Community Answers by Modeling Question-Answer Relationships via Analogical Reasoning
- Xin-Jing Wang (Microsoft Research Asia), Xudong Tu , Dan Feng (Huazhong Science and Technology University), Lei Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia)
- A Syntactic Tree Matching Approach to Finding Similar Questions in Community-based QA Services
- Kai Wang , Zhaoyan Ming , Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore)
- Session 3C: Efficiency
Chair: Alistair Moffat, Back Bay D -
- Compressing Term Positions in Web Indexes
- Hao Yan , Shuai Ding , Torsten Suel (Polytechnic Institute of NYU)
- Brute Force and Indexed Approaches to Pairwise Document Similarity Comparisons with MapReduce
- Jimmy Lin (University of Maryland)
- Efficiency Trade-Offs in Two-Tier Web Search Systems
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates , Vanessa Murdock (Yahoo!), Claudia Hauff (University of Twente)
Monday, 6:00-9:00, Poster and demonstration reception
Come look at posters presenting recent and interesting results, as well as a dozen demonstrations of IR systems and IR-related systems. The receiption includes heavy hors d'oevres.
Republic Ballroom
Tuesday
Tuesday, 8:30-10:00, Session 4 of papers
- Session 4A: Web retrieval I
Chair: Dave Hawking, Constitution Ballroom -
- Building Enriched Document Representations using Aggregated Anchor Text
- Donald Metzler , Jasmine Novak , Hang Cui , Srihari Reddy (Yahoo! Labs)
- Using Anchor Texts with Their Hyperlink Structure for Web Search
- Zhicheng Dou , Ruihua Song (Microsoft Research Asia), Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal), Ji-Rong Wen (Microsoft Research Asia)
- Link Analysis for Private Weighted Graphs
- Jun Sakuma (University of Tsukuba), Shigenobu Kobayashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
- Session 4B: Learning to Rank I
Chair: Tie-Yan Liu, Back Bay C -
- Learning to Rank for Quantity Consensus Queries
- Somnath Banerjee (HP Labs India), Soumen Chakrabarti , Ganesh Ramakrishnan (IIT Bombay)
- Learning in a Pairwise Term-Term Proximity Framework for Information Retrieval
- Ronan Cummins (Digital Enterprise Research Institute), Colm O'Riordan (Dept. of Information Technology)
- Robust Sparse Rank Learning for Non-Smooth Ranking Measures
- Zhengya Sun (Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences), Tao Qin (Microsoft Research Asia), Qing Tao , Jue Wang (Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- Session 4C: Information extraction
Chair: Isabelle Moulinier, Back Bay D -
- Named Entity Recognition in Query
- Jiafeng Guo (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS), Gu Xu (Microsoft Research Asia), Xueqi Cheng (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS), Hang Li (Microsoft Research Asia)
- A 2-Poisson Model for Probabilistic Coreference of Named Entities for Improved Text Retrieval
- Seung-Hoon Na , Hwee Tou Ng (National University of Singapore)
- Mining Employment Market via Text Block Detection and Adaptive Cross-Domain Information Extraction
- Tak-Lam Wong , Wai Lam , Bo Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Tuesday, 10:00-10:30, break
Back Bay A and B
Tuesday, 10:30-12:00, Session 5 of papers
- Session 5A: Retrieval models II
Chair: Stephen Robertson, Constitution Ballroom -
- A Proximity Language Model for Information Retrieval
- Jinglei Zhao (iZENEsoft, Inc.), Yeogirl Yun (Wisenut, Inc.)
- Positional Language Models for Information Retrieval
- Yuanhua Lv , ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- A Bayesian Learning Approach to Promoting Diversity in Ranking for Biomedical Information Retrieval
- Xiangji Huang , Qinmin Hu (York University)
- Session 5B: Clickthrough models
Chair: Wessel Kraaij, Back Bay C -
- Entropy-biased Models for Query Representation on the Click Graph
- Hongbo Deng , Irwin King , Michael R. Lyu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- Click-Through Prediction for News Queries
- Arnd Christian König , Michael Gamon , Qiang Wu (Microsoft Research)
- Smoothing Clickthrough Data for Web Search Ranking
- Jianfeng Gao (Microsoft Research), Wei Yuan (University of Montreal), Xiao Li (Microsoft Research), Kefeng Deng (Microsoft China), Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal)
- Session 5C: Vertical search
Chair: Luo Si, Back Bay D -
- Sources of Evidence for Vertical Selection
- Jaime Arguello (Carnegie Mellon University), Fernando Diaz (Yahoo! Labs Montreal), Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University), Jean-Francois Crespo (Yahoo! Labs Montreal)
- Adaptation of Offline Vertical Selection Predictions in the Presence of User Feedback
- Fernando Diaz (Yahoo! Labs Montreal), Jaime Arguello (Carnegie Mellon University)
- A Probabilistic Topic-Based Ranking Framework for Location-Sensitive Domain Information Retrieval
- Huajing Li (The Pennsylvania State University), Zhisheng Li (The Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology), Wang-Chien Lee (The Pennsylvania State University), Dik Lun Lee (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Tuesday, 12:00-2:00, lunch on your own
A list of nearby lunch-friendly restaurants is available at the registration desk.
Tuesday, 2:00-3:30, Session 6 of papers
- Session 6A: Interactive search
Chair: Sue Dumais, Constitution Ballroom -
- Predicting User Interests from Contextual Information
- Ryen W. White , Peter Bailey , Liwei Chen (Microsoft Corporation)
- A Comparison of Query and Term Suggestion Features for Interactive Searching
- Diane Kelly , Karl Gyllstrom , Earl W. Bailey (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- An Aspectual Interface for Supporting Complex Search Tasks
- Robert Villa , Iván Cantador , Hideo Joho , Joemon M. Jose (University of Glasgow)
- Session 6B: Multimedia I (Music and video)
Chair: Gareth Jones, Back Bay C -
- Combining Audio Content and Social Context for Semantic Music Discovery
- Douglas R. Turnbull (Swarthmore College), Luke Barrington, Gert Lanckriet , Mehrdad Yazdani (UC San Diego)
- Automatic Video Tagging using Content Redundancy
- Stefan Siersdorfer (L3S Research Centre), Jose San Pedro , Mark Sanderson (University of Sheffield)
- CompositeMap: a Novel Framework for Music Similarity Measure
- Bingjun Zhang (School of Computing, National University of Singapore), Jialie Shen (School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University), Qiaoliang Xiang , Ye Wang (School of Computing, National University of Singapore)
- Session 6C: Federated, distributed search
Chair: Jamie Callan, Back Bay D -
- Quantifying Performance and Quality Gains in Distributed Web Search Engines
- B. Barla Cambazoglu , Vassilis Plachouras , Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research)
- SUSHI: Scoring Scaled Samples for Server Selection
- Paul Thomas (CSIRO), Milad Shokouhi (Microsoft Research)
- Effective Query Expansion for Federated Search
- Milad Shokouhi (Microsoft Research), Leif Azzopardi (University of Glasgow), Paul Thomas (CSIRO)
Tuesday, 3:30-4:00, break
Back Bay A and B
Tuesday, 4:00-5:30, Keynote presentation
A keynote address by Albert-László Barabási, "From Networks to Human Behavior".
Tuesday, 6:30-10:00, Conference banquet
The conference banquet will be held at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Transportation to and from the banquet will be provided.
Wednesday
Wednesday is run in parallel with the Industry Track.
Wednesday, 8:30-10:00, Session 7 of papers and industry speakers
- Session 7A: Industry Track speakers
Back Bay C - Session 7B: Learning to Rank II
Chair: Don Metzler, Constitution Ballroom -
- On the Local Optimality of LambdaRank
- Pinar Donmez (Carnegie Mellon University), Krysta M. Svore , Christopher J.C. Burges (Microsoft Research)
- Document Selection Methodologies for Efficient and Effective Learning-to-Rank
- Javed A. Aslam , Evangelos Kanoulas , Virgil Pavlu , Stefan Savev (Northeastern University), Emine Yilmaz (Microsoft Research)
- An Improved Markov Random Field Model for Supporting Verbose Queries
- Matthew Lease (Brown University)
- Session 7C: Evaluation and measurement I
Chair: Tetsuya Sakai, Back Bay D -
- On Rank Correlation and the Distance Between Rankings
- Ben Carterette (University of Delaware)
- Score Adjustment for Correction of Pooling Bias
- William Webber , Laurence A. F. Park (The University of Melbourne)
- Towards Methods for the Collective Gathering and Quality Control of Relevance Assessments
- Gabriella Kazai, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Jamie Costello (Microsoft Research)
Wednesday, 10:00-10:30, break
Back Bay A and B
Wednesday, 10:30-12:00, Session 8 of papers and industry speakers
- Session 8A: Industry Track speakers
Back Bay C - Session 8B: Multimedia II (Images and tags)
Chair: R. Manmatha, Constitution Ballroom -
- Placing Flickr Photos on a Map
- Pavel Serdyukov (University of Twente), Vanessa Murdock , Roelof van Zwol (Yahoo!)
- An Automatic Translation of Tags for Multimedia Contents Using Folksonomy Networks
- Tae-Gil Noh , Seong-Bae Park , Hee-Geun Yoon , Sang-Jo Lee , Se-Young Park (Kyungpook National University)
- CrowdReranking: Exploring Multiple Search Engines for Visual Search Reranking
- Yuan Liu (University of Science and Technology of China), Tao Mei , Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia)
- Session 8C: Evaluation and measurement II
Chair: Mounia Lalmas, Back Bay D -
- Including Summaries in System Evaluation
- Andrew Turpin , Falk Scholer (RMIT University), Kalervo Jarvelin (University of Tampere), Mingfang Wu , J. Shane Culpepper (RMIT University)
- When More is Less: The Paradox of Choice in Search Engine Use
- Antti Oulasvirta , Janne P. Hukkinen (Helsinki University of Technology TKK), Barry Schwartz (Swarthmore College)
- Where to Stop Reading a Ranked List?: Threshold Optimization using Truncated Score Distributions
- Avi Arampatzis , Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam), Stephen Robertson (Microsoft Research)
Wednesday, 12:00-2:00, lunch and SIGIR business meeting
A box lunch will be available.
The SIGIR business meeting will be held over lunch in Back Bay C.
Wednesday, 2:00-3:30, Session 9 of papers and industry speakers
- Session 9A: Industry track speakers
Back Bay C - Session 9B: Recommenders II
Chair: Nick Belkin, Constitution Ballroom -
- The Wisdom of the Few: A Collaborative Filtering Approach Based on Expert Opinions from the Web
- Xavier Amatriain (Telefonica Research), Neal Lathia (University College of London), Josep M. Pujol (Telefonica Research), Haewoon Kwak (KAIST), Nuria Oliver (Telefonica Research)
- Personalized Tag Recommendation Using Graph-based Ranking on Multi-type Interrelated Objects
- Ziyu Guan , Jiajun Bu (Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Service Robot, College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University), Qiaozhu Mei (Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Chun Chen , Can Wang (Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Service Robot, College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University)
- Leveraging Sources of Collective Wisdom on the Web for Discovering Technology Synergies
- Cai-Nicolas Ziegler , Stefan Jung (Siemens AG)
- Session 9C: Query formulation
Chair: Diane Kelly, Back Bay D -
- Query Side Evaluation: An Empirical Analysis of Effectiveness and Effort
- Leif Azzopardi (University of Glasgow)
- Reducing Long Queries Using Query Quality Predictors
- Giridhar Kumaran , Vitor R. Carvalho (Microsoft Corporation)
- Extracting Structured Information from User Queries with Semi-Supervised Conditional Random Fields
- Xiao Li , Ye-Yi Wang , Alex Acero (Microsoft Research)
Wednesday, 3:30-4:00, break
Back Bay A and B
Wednesday, 4:00-5:30, Session 10 of papers and industry speakers
- Session 10A: Industry track speakers
Back Bay C - Session 10B: Web retrieval II
Chair: Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Constitution Ballroom -
- The Impact of Crawl Policy on Web Search Effectiveness
- Dennis Fetterly , Nick Craswell , Vishwa Vinay (Microsoft Research)
- Optimizing Search Engine Revenue in Sponsored Search
- Yunzhang Zhu (Department of Fundamental Science, Tsinghua University), Gang Wang (Microsoft Research Aisa), Junli Yang (Software Engineering Department, Nankai University ), Dakan Wang (Computer Science Department, Shanghai Jiaotong University), Jun Yan , Jian Hu , Zheng Chen (Microsoft Resarch Asia)
- Web-Derived Resources for Web Information Retrieval: From Conceptual Hierarchies to Attribute Hierarchies
- Marius Pasca , Enrique Alfonseca (Google Inc.)
- Session 10C: Spamming
Chair: Charlie Clarke, Back Bay D -
- Spam Filter Evaluation with Imprecise Ground Truth
- Gordon V. Cormack (University of Waterloo), Aleksander Kolcz (Microsoft Live Labs)
- Telling Experts from Spammers: Expertise Ranking in Folksonomies
- Michael G. Noll (Hasso Plattner Institute), Ching-man Au Yeung , Nicholas Gibbins (University of Southampton), Christoph Meinel (Hasso Plattner Institute), Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton)
- Detecting Spammers and Content Promoters in Online Video Social Networks
- Fabrício Benevenuto , Tiago Rodrigues , Virgílio Almeida , Jussara Almeida , Marcos Gonçalves (Federal University of Minas Gerais)
Wednesday, 5:30-6:00, Conference closing
Constitution Ballroom
