SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
During a three-day workshop in February 2012, 45 Information Retrieval researchers met to discuss long-range challenges and opportunities within the field. The result of the works...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Many important search tasks require multiple search sessions to complete. Tasks such as travel planning, large purchases, or job searches can span hours, days, or even weeks. Inev...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Hashtags are widely used in Twitter to define a shared context for events or topics. In this paper, we aim to predict hashtag popularity in near future (i.e., next day). Given a ...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Assessors frequently disagree on the topical relevance of documents. How much of this disagreement is due to ambiguity in assessment instructions? We have two assessors assess TRE...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
People are seldom aware that their search queries frequently mismatch a majority of the relevant documents. This may not be a big problem for topics with a large and diverse set o...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Online reputation management is about monitoring and handling the public image of entities (such as companies) on the Web. An important task in this area is identifying aspects of...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
We demonstrate the merits of using inter-document similarities for federated search. Specifically, we study a resultsmerging method that utilizes information induced from cluster...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Many private and/or public organizations have been reported to create and monitor targeted Twitter streams to collect and understand users’ opinions about the organizations. Tar...