SIGIR 2010, Geneva July 19 – 23

1  Session: Retrieval Models and Ranking

Chair:  Djoerd Hiemstra (University of Twente)

30     Estimation of Statistical Translation Models Based on Mutual Information for Ad Hoc Information Retrieval
Maryam Karimzadehgan, ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

502   DivQ: Diversification for Keyword Search over Structured Databases
Elena Demidova (L3S Research Center, Leibniz Universität Hannover),
Peter Fankhauser (L3S Research Center), Xuan Zhou (CSIRO ICT Centre),
Wolfgang Nejdl (L3S Research Center)

602   Finding Support Sentences for Entities
Roi Blanco, Hugo Zaragoza (Yahoo! Research)

872   Estimating Probabilities for Effective Data Fusion
David Lillis, Lusheng Zhang, Fergus Toolan, Rem Collier, John Dunnion (University College Dublin)

2  Session: Filtering and Recommendation

Chair:  Douglas W. Oard (University of Maryland, College Park)

102   Social Media Recommendation based on People and Tags
Ido Guy, Naama Zwerdling, Inbal Ronen, David Carmel, Erel Uziel (IBM Research Haifa)

287   Towards Multidimensional Information Filtering
Nikolaos Nanas, Manolis Vavalis (Centre for Research and Technology Thessaly),
Anne De Roeck (The Open University)

531   Temporal Diversity in Recommender Systems
Neal Lathia, Stephen Hailes, Licia Capra (University College London),
Xavier Amatriain (Telefonica Research)

568   Serendipitous Recommendation for Saving Time
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3  Session: Multimedia Information Retrieval

Chair:  Tat Seng Chua (National University of Singapore)

20     Content-Enriched Classifier for Web Video Classification
Ce Zhang, Bin Cui (Peking University), Gao Cong (Nanyang Technological University)

141   Robust Audio Identification for MP3 Popular Music
Li Wei, Liu Yaduo, Xue Xiangyang (Fudan University, Shanghai)

229   Effective Music Tagging Through Advanced Statistical Modeling
Jialie Shen (Singapore Management University), Meng Wang (Microsoft Research Asia),
Shuicheng Yan, HweeHwa Pang (Singapore Management University),
Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia)

738   Properties of Optimally Weighted Data Fusion in CBMIR
Peter Wilkins, Alan Smeaton, Paul Ferguson (Dublin City University)

4  Session: Search Engine Architectures and Scalability

Chair:  Alistair Moffat (University of Melbourne)

25     Scalability of Findability: Effective and Efficient IR Operations in Large Information Networks
Weimao Ke, Javed Mostafa (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

606   Caching Search Engine Results over Incremental Indices
Roi Blanco, Edward Bortnikov, Flavio Junqueira, Ronny Lempel (Yahoo! Research),
Luca Telloli (Barcelona Supercomputing Center), Hugo Zaragoza (Yahoo! Research)

641   Query Forwarding in Geographically Distributed Search Engines
B. Barla Cambazoglu (Yahoo! Research), Emre Varol, Enver Kayaaslan,
Cevdet Aykanat (Bilkent University), Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research)

705   A Joint Probabilistic Classification Model for Resource Selection
Dzung Hong, Luo Si, Paul Bracke, Michael Witt, Tim Juchcinski (Purdue University)

5  Session: Learning to Rank

Chair:  Hang Li (Microsoft Research Asia)

334   Learning to Efficiently Rank
Lidan Wang (University of Maryland, College Park),
Jimmy Lin (University of Maryland, College Park), Donald Metzler (Yahoo!)

394   Ranking for the Conversion Funnel in Contextual Advertising
Abraham Bagherjeiran, Andrew Hatch, Adwait Ratnaparkhi (Yahoo!)

728   How Good is a Span of Terms?  Exploiting Proximity to Improve Web Retrieval
Krysta Svore (Microsoft Research), Pallika Kanani (University of Massachusetts Amherst),
Nazan Khan (Microsoft Research)

874   Learning to Rank Only Using Training Data from Related Domain
Wei Gao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Peng Cai (East China Normal University), 
Kam-Fai Wong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong),
Aoying Zhou (East China Normal University)

6  Session: Link Analysis & Advertising

Chair:  Tie-Yan Liu (Microsoft Research Asia)

155   Temporal Click Model for Sponsored Search
Wanhong Xu (Carnegie Mellon University), Eren Manavoglu, Erick Cantu-Paz (Yahoo! Labs)

322   Freshness Matters: In Flowers, Food, and Web Authority
Na Dai, Brian Davison Brian (Lehigh University)

532   The Importance of Anchor-Text for Ad Hoc Search Revisited
Marijn Koolen, Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam)

700   Ready to Buy or Just Browsing? Detecting Web Searcher Goals from Interaction Data
Qi Guo, (Emory University), Eugene Agichtein (Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology)

7  Session: Web IR and Social Media Search

Chair:  Hugo Zaragoza (Yahoo! Research)

55     Segmentation of Multi-Sentence Questions: Towards Effective Question Retrieval in cQA Services
Kai Wang, Zhao-Yan Ming, Xia Hu, Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore)

426   Mining the Blogosphere for Top News Stories Identification
Yeha Lee, Hun-Young Jung, Woosang Song, Jong-Hyeok Lee (POSTECH, Pohang)

472   Proximity Based Opinion Retrieval 
Shima Gerani, Mark J. Carman, Fabio Crestani (University of Lugano)

784   Evaluating and Predicting Answer Quality in Community QA
Chirag Shah, Jeffrey Pomerantz (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

8  Session: Effectiveness Measures

Chair:  Ian Soboroff (NIST)

306   Assessing the Scenic Route:  Measuring the Value of Search Trails in Web Logs
Ryen White (Microsoft Research Redmond), Jeff Huang (University of Washington)

689   Human Performance and Retrieval Precision Revisited
Mark D. Smucker, Chandra Prakash Jethani (University of Waterloo)

713   Extending Average Precision to Graded Relevance Judgments
Stephen Robertson (Microsoft Research), Evangelos Kanoulas (University of Sheffield), 
Emine Yilmaz (Microsoft Research Cambridge)

805   PRES: A Score Metric for Evaluating Recall-Oriented Information Retrieval Applications
Walid Magdy, Gareth J.F. Jones (Dublin City University)

9  Session: User Feedback & User Models

Chair:  Nicholas J. Belkin (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)

145   Incorporating Post-Click Behaviors Into a Click Model
Feimin Zhong, Dong Wang (Tsinghua University),
Gang Wang, Weizhu Chen, Yuchen Zhang, Zheng Chen, Haixun Wang (Microsoft Research Asia)

310   Interactive User Profile Initialization Based on Faceted Feedback
Lanbo Zhang, Yi Zhang (University of California at Santa Cruz)

317   A Comparison of General vs. Personalized Affective Models for the Prediction of Topical Relevance
Ioannis Arapakis, Konstantinos Athanasakos, Joemon M. Jose (University of Glasgow)

340   Understanding Web Browsing Behaviors through Weibull Analysis of Dwell Time
Chao Liu, Ryen White, Susan Dumais (Microsoft Research Redmond)

11  Session: Non-English IR & Evaluation

Chair:  Jaana Kekäläinen (University of Tampere)

268   To Translate or Not to Translate?
Chia-Jung Lee, Chin-Hui Chen, Shao-Hang Kao, Pu-Jen Cheng (National Taiwan University)

858   Multilingual PRF: English Lends a Helping Hand
Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla, Karthik Raman, Pushpak Bhattacharyya (IIT Bombay)

146   Comparing the Sensitivity of Information Retrieval Metrics
Filip Radlinski (Microsoft, Cambridge), Nick Craswell (Microsoft, Redmond)

12  Session: Clustering I

Chair:  Gabriella Pasi (University of Milano-Bicocca)

57     Prototype Hierarchy Based Clustering for the Categorization and Navigation of Web Collection
Zhao-Yan Ming, Kai Wang, Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore)

429   Person Name Disambiguation by Bootstrapping
Yoshida Minoru, Ikeda Masaki, Ono Shingo, Sato Issei, Nakagawa Hiroshi (University of Tokyo)

553   Self-Taught Hashing for Fast Similarity Search
Dell Zhang (Birkbeck, University of London), Jun Wang (University College London), 
Deng Cai (Zhejiang University), Jinsong Lu (Birkbeck, University of London)

13  Session: Information Retrieval Theory

Chair:  Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow)

434   On Statistical Analysis and Optimization of Information Retrieval Effectiveness Metrics
Jun Wang, Jianhan Zhu (University College London)

442   Information-Based Models for Ad Hoc Information Retrieval
Stéphane Clinchant (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Université Grenoble 1), 
Eric Gaussier (Université Joseph Fourier)

806   Score Distribution Models: Assumptions, Intuition, and Robustness to Score Manipulation
Evangelos Kanoulas (University of Sheffield),
Keshi Dai, Virgil Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam (Northeastern University)

14  Session: Test-Collections

Chair:

560   The Effect of Assessor Error on IR System Evaluation
Ben Carterette (University of Delaware), Ian Soboroff (NIST)

710   Building Reusable Test Collections Through Experimental Design
Ben Carterette (University of Delaware), Evangelos Kanoulas (University of Sheffield),
Virgil Pavlu (Northeastern University), Hui Fang (University of Delaware)

755   Comparing User Preferences, for Relevance and Diversity with Test Collection Outputs
Mark Sanderson, Monica Lestari Paramita , Clough Paul,
Evangelos Kanoulas (University of Sheffield)

15  Session: Query Log Analysis

Chair:  Yoelle Maarek (Yahoo! Research)

277   Query Similarity by Projecting the QueryFlow Graph
Ilaria Bordino (Sapienza University of Rome & University of Pompeu Fabra)
Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, Aristides Gionis (Yahoo! Research Barcelona)

485   The Demographics of Web Search
Ingmar Weber, Carlos Castillo (Yahoo! Research Barcelona)

506   A Generalization of Mean Average Precision to Graduated Relevance Labels
Georges Dupret (Yahoo! Labs), Benjamin Piwowarski (University of Glasgow)

16  Session: Query Analysis

Chair:  Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research)

118   Estimating Advertisability of Tail Queries for Sponsored Search
Sandeep Pandey, Kunal Punera, Marcus Fontoura, Vanja Josifovski (Yahoo! Research)

665   Exploring Reductions for Long Web Queries
Niranjan Balasubramanian (University of Massachusetts Amherst), 
Giridhar Kumaran, Vitor Carvalho (Microsoft Corporation)

731   Positional Relevance Model for Pseudo-Relevance Feedback
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

17  Session: Automatic Classification

Chair:

191   SED: Supervised Experimental Design and Its Application to Text Classification
Yi Zhen, Dit-Yan Yeung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

628   Temporally-Aware Algorithms for Document Classification
Thiago Salles (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), 
Leonardo Chaves Dutra Rocha (Universidade Federal de São João Del-Rei), 
Gisele L. Pappa, Fernando Mourão, Marcos Goncalves, 
Wagner Meira Jr. (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)

789   Multi-Label Classification with Meta-Level Features
Siddharth Gopal, Yiming Yang (Carnegie Mellon University)

19  Session: Document Representation and Content Analysis

Chair:  Marie-Francine Moens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

580   Multi-Style Language Model for Web Scale Information Retrieval
Kuansan Wang, Jianfeng Gao, Xiaolong Li (Microsoft Research)

695   Combining Coregularization and Consensus-Based Self-Training for Multilingual Text Categorization
Massih-Reza Amini (National Research Council of Canada), 
Cyril Goutte (NRC Institute for Information Technology), 
Nicolas Usunier (University Pierre et Marie Curie)

838   Text Clustering Subjectified
Sajib Dasgupta, Vincent Ng (University of Texas at Dallas)

20  Session: Language Models & IR Theory

Chair:

284   Geometric Representations for Multiple Documents
Jangwon Seo, Bruce W. Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

305   Using Statistical Decision Theory and Relevance Models for Query-Performance Prediction
Anna Shtok, Oren Kurland  (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology), 
David Carmel (IBM Research)

393   Active Learning for Ranking through Expected Loss Optimization
Bo Long, Olivier Chapelle, Ya Zhang, Yi Chang Yi, Zhaohui Zheng, Belle Tseng (Yahoo! Labs)

21  Session: Applications II

Chair:

182   Efficient Partial-Duplicate Detection Based on Sequence Matching
Qi Zhang, Yue Zhang, Haomin Yu, Xuanjing Huang (Fudan University, Shanghai)

352   Discriminative Models of Integrating Document Evidence and Document-Candidate Associations for Expert Search
Yi Fang, Luo Si, Aditya Mathur (Purdue University)

737   Vertical Selection in the Presence of Unlabeled Verticals
Jaime Arguello (Carnegie Mellon University),
Fernando Diaz, Jean-Francois Paiement (Yahoo! Labs)

22  Session: Users and Interactive IR

Chair:

157   Studying Trailfinding Algorithms for Enhanced Web Search
Adish Singla (Microsoft Bing), Ryen White (Microsoft Research Redmond),
Jeff Huang (University of Washington)

201   Context-Aware Ranking in Web Search
Biao Xiang (University of Science and Technology of China), Daxin Jiang (Microsoft Researc Asia), 
Jian Pei (Simon Fraser University), Xiaohui Sun (Microsoft Research Asia), 
Enhong Chen (University of Science and Technology of China),
Hang Li (Microsoft Research Asia)

691   Collecting High Quality Overlapping Labels at Low Cost
Hui Yang (Carnegie Mellon University), Anton Mityagin (Qualcomm), 
Krysta Svore (Microsoft Research)

23  Session: Summarization & User Feedback

Chair:

356   EUSUM: Extracting Easy-to-Understand English Summaries for Non-Native Readers
Xiaojun Wan (Peking University)

581   Visual Summarization of Web Pages
Binxing Jiao (University of Science and Technology of China), 
Linjun Yang, Xu Jizheng, Feng Wu (Microsoft Research Asia)

814   Learning More Powerful Statistical Tests for Click-Based Retrieval Evaluation
Yisong Yue, Yue Gao (Cornell University), Olivier Chapelle, Ya Zhang (Yahoo! Labs), 
Thorsten Joachins (Cornell University,Yahoo! Labs)

24  Session: User Models

Chair:  Ian Ruthven (University of Strathclyde)

160   Personalizing Information Retrieval for Multi-Session Tasks: The Roles of Task Stage and Task Type
Jingjing Liu, Nicholas J. Belkin (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)

307   Predicting Searcher Frustration
Henry Feild, James Allan (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Rosie Jones (Yahoo! Labs)

745   The Good, the Bad, and the Random: An Eye-Tracking Study of Ad Quality in Web Search
Georg Buscher (University of Kaiserslautern), Susan Dumais (Microsoft Research Redmond),
Edward Cutrell (Microsoft Research India)

25  Session: Clustering II

Chair:

137   Optimal Meta Search Results Clustering
Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Romano (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome)

513   Analysis of Structural Relationships for Hierarchical Cluster Labeling
Markus Muhr, Roman Kern (Know-Center Gmbh), 
Michael Granitzer (University of Technology Graz)

649   On the Existence of Obstinate Results in Vector Space Models
Miloš Radovanović (University of Novi Sad), Alexandros Nanopoulos (University of Hildesheim),
Mirjana K. Ivanović (University of Novi Sad)

26  Session: Query Representations & Reformulations

Chair:

83     Image Search by Concept Map
Hao Xu (University of Science and Technology of China), 
Jingdong Wang, Xian-Sheng Hua, Shipeng Li (Microsoft Research Asia)

248   Generalized Syntactic and Semantic Models of Query Reformulation
Amac Herdagdelen (University of Trento), Massimiliano Ciaramita, Daniel Mahler (Google), 
Maria Holmqvist (Linköping University), Keith Hall, Stefan Riezler, Enrique Alfonseca (Google)

273   Evaluating Verbose Query Processing Techniques
Samuel Huston, Bruce W. Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

27  Session: Applications I

Chair:  Luo Si (Purdue University)

103   Ranking using Multiple Document Types in Desktop Search
Jinyoung Kim, Bruce W. Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

256   Acquisition of Instance Attributes via Labeled and Related Instances
Enrique Alfonseca, Marius Pasca, Enrique Robledo-Arnuncio (Google)

740   Relevance and Ranking in Online Dating Systems
Fernando Diaz, Donald Metzler, Sihem Amer-Yahia (Yahoo! Labs)

28  Session: Document Structure & Adversarial Information Retrieval

Chair:

308   Adaptive Near-Duplicate Detection via Similarity Learning
Hannaneh Hajishirzi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), 
Wen-Tau Yih, Aleksander Kolcz (Microsoft Research)

704   A Content Based Approach for Discovering Missing Anchor Text for Web Search
Xing Yi, James Allan (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

707   Uncovering Social Spammers: Social Honeypots + Machine Learning
Kyumin Lee, James Caverlee (Texas A&M University), 
Steve Webb (Georgia Institute of Technology)