Papers Appearing at ICTIR 2015

The conference will include full-length papers presented in plenary sessions throughout the conference as well as short papers presented in a poster session on Monday afternoon.

Full-length papers that will be presented:

Monday, September 28, 2015

Session M1: IR Evaluation: Measures

• An Axiomatically Derived Measure for the Evaluation of Classification Algorithms
  Fabrizio Sebastiani, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
• Towards a Formal Framework for Utility-oriented Measurements of Retrieval Effectiveness
  Marco Ferrante, University of Padua, Italy; Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy; Maria Maistro, University of Padua, Italy
• Bayesian Inference for Information Retrieval Evaluation
  Ben Carterette, University of Delaware, USA

Session M2: Theoretical Framework & Transfer Learning

• Transferring Learning To Rank Models for Web Search
  Craig Macdonald, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom; B. Taner Dincer, Mugla University, Turkey; Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
• The Probability Ranking Principle is Not Optimal in Adversarial Retrieval Settings
  Ran Ben Basat, Technion, Israel; Moshe Tennenholtz, Technion, Israel; Oren Kurland, Technion, Israel
• Dynamic Information Retrieval: Theoretical Framework and Application
  Marc Sloan, University College London, United Kingdom; Jun Wang, University College London, United Kingdom
• A Theoretical Analysis of Two-Stage Recommendation for Cold-Start Collaborative Filtering
  Xiaoxue Zhao, University College London, United Kingdom; Jun Wang, University College London, United Kingdom

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Session T1: IR Evaluation: Interactive and Task Evaluation

• An Analysis of Theories of Search and Search Behavior
  Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom; Guido Zuccon, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia
• Dynamic Test Collections for Retrieval Evaluation
  Ben Carterette, University of Delaware, USA; Ashraf Bah, University of Delaware, USA; Mustafa Zengin, University of Delaware, USA
• Development and Evaluation of Search Tasks for IIR Experiments using a Cognitive Complexity Framework
  Diane Kelly, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA; Jaime Arguello, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA; Ashlee Edwards, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA; Wan-Ching Wu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Session T2: Query Representation

• Query Expansion with Freebase
  Chenyan Xiong, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Language-independent Query Representation for IR Model Parameter Estimation on Unlabeled Collections
  Parantapa Goswami, University Grenoble-Alps, France; Massih-Reza Amini, University Grenoble-Alps, France; Eric Gaussier, University Grenoble-Alps, France
• Terms, Topics & Tasks: Enhanced User Modelling for Better Personalization
  Rishabh Mehrotra, University College London, United Kingdom; Emine Yilmaz, University College London, United Kingdom

Session T3: Language Models for IR

• Axiomatic Analysis of Smoothing Methods in Language Models for Pseudo-Relevance Feedback
  Hussein Hazimeh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; ChengXiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• On Divergence Measures and Static Index Pruning
  Ruey-Cheng Chen, RMIT University, Australia; Chia-Jung Lee, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA; W. Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
• Partially Labeled Supervised Topic Models for Retrieving Similar Questions in CQA Forums
  Debasis Ganguly, Dublin City University, Ireland; Gareth J.F. Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland

Session T4: Entity Analysis

• Entity Linking in Queries: Tasks and Evaluation
  Faegheh Hasibi, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway; Krisztian Balog, University of Stavanger; Svein Erik Bratsberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
• Random Walks on the Reputation Graph
  Sabir Ribas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil; Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais & Google Inc., Brazil; Rodrygo L.T. Santos, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil; Edmundo de Souza e Silva, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Alberto Ueda, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil; Nivio Ziviani, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais & Zunnit Tech, Brazil
• Entropy and Graph Based Modelling of Document Coherence using Discourse Entities: An Application to IR
  Casper Petersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Christina Lioma, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Jakob Grue Simonsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Birger Larsen, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Session W1: IR Applications

• Improving Patent Search by Search Result Diversification
  Youngho Kim, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA; W. Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
• On Microblog Dimensionality and Informativeness: Exploiting microblogs' structure and dimensions for ad-hoc retrieval
  Jesus Alberto Rodriguez Perez, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom; Joemon M Jose, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
• Online News Tracking for Ad-Hoc Information Needs
  Jeroen B. P. Vuurens, The Hague University of Applied Science & Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; Arjen P. de Vries, CWI & Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; Roi Blanco, Yahoo Labs, England; Peter Mika, Yahoo Labs, England

Session W2: NLP and IR

• IR meets NLP: On the Semantic Similarity between Subject-Verb-Object Phrases
  Dmitrijs Milajevs, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom; Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom; Thomas Roelleke, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
• A Theoretical Analysis of Cross-lingual Semantic Relatedness in Vector Space Models
  Lei Zhang, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany; Thanh Tran, San Jose State University, USA; Achim Rettinger, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
• Context Retrieval for Web Tables
  Hong Wang, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; Anqi Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; Jing Wang, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; Brian D. Ziebart, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; Clement T. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; Warren Shen, Cohesity, USA
  

Session W3: Learning-based Retrieval Models

• Session Search by Direct Policy Learning
  Jiyun Luo, Georgetown University, USA; Xuchu Dong, Georgetown University, USA; Hui Yang, Georgetown University, USA
• Learning to Reinforce Search Effectiveness
  Jiyun Luo, Georgetown University, USA; Xuchu Dong,Georgetown University, USA; Hui Yang, Georgetown University, USA
• Learning Asymmetric Co-Relevance
  Fiana Raiber, Technion, Israel; Oren Kurland, Technion, Israel; Filip Radlinski, Microsoft Cambridge, UK; Milad Shokouhi, Microsoft Cambridge, UK
• Implicit Preference Labels for Learning Highly Selective Personalized Rankers
  Paul Bennett, Microsoft, United Kingdom; Milad Shokouhi, Microsoft, United States; Rich Caruana, Microsoft, United States
  

Short papers that will be presented in a poster session:
(Listed in alphabetical order by title)

• Anytime Ranking for Impact-Ordered Indexes
  Jimmy Lin, University of Waterloo, Canada; Andrew Trotman, eBay Inc.
  
• Balancing Aspects in Retrieved Search Results
  David Wemhoener, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA; James Allan, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
• Building a Self-Contained Search Engine in the Browser
  Jimmy Lin, University of Waterloo, Canada
  
• Condensed List Relevance Models
  Fernando Diaz, Microsoft, USA
• Estimating the Uncertainty of Average F1 Scores
  Dell Zhang, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom; Jun Wang, University College London, United Kingdom; Xiaoxue Zhao, University College London, United Kingdom
• The Feasibility of Brute Force Scans for Real-Time Tweet Search
  Yulu Wang, University of Maryland, USA; Jimmy Lin, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Improving Pseudo Relevance Feedback in the Divergence from Randomness Model
  Dipasree Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India; Mandar Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, India; Samar Bhattacharya, Jadavpur University, India
• An Initial Analytical Exploration of Retrievability
  Aldo Lipani, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo-Japan; Mihai Lupu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria; Akiko Aizawa, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo-Japan; Allan Hanbury, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• On the Behavior of PRES Using Incomplete Judgment Sets
  Ellen M. Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
• Optimal Packing in Simple-Family Codecs
  Andrew Trotman, eBay Inc.; Michael Albert, University of Otago, New Zealand; Blake Burgess, University of Otago, New Zealand
• Pooling for User-Oriented Evaluation Measures
  Gaurav Baruah, University of Waterloo, Canada; Adam Roegiest, University of Waterloo, Canada; Mark D. Smucker, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Predicting Relevance Feedback Effectiveness with the Help of the Principle of Polyrepresentation in MIR
  David Zellhöfer, Berlin State Library, Prussian Cultural Heritage, Germany
• A Relationship Between the Average Precision and the Area Under the ROC Curve
  Wanhua Su, MacEwan University, Canada; Yan Yuan, University of Alberta, Canada; Mu Zhu, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Revisiting Optimal Rank Aggregation: A Dynamic Programming Approach
  Shayan A. Tabrizi, University of Tehran, Iran; Javid Dadashkarimi, University of Tehran, Iran; Mostafa Dehghani, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Hassan Nasr Esfahani, Sharif University of Technology, Iran; Azadeh Shakery, University of Tehran, Iran
• Searching for Twitter Posts by Location
  Ariana Minot, Harvard University, USA; Andrew Heier, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA; Davis King, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA; Olga Simek, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA; Nicholas Stanisha, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
• A Signaling Game Approach to Databases Querying and Interaction
  Arash Termehchy, Oregon State University, USA; Behrouz Touri, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
• Study of Heuristic IR Constraints Under Function Discovery Framework
  Parantapa Goswami, Université Grenoble-Alps, France; Massih-Reza Amini, Université Grenoble-Alps, France; Eric Gaussier, Université Grenoble-Alps, France
• Theoretical Categorization of Query Performance Predictors
  Victor Makarenkov, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel; Bracha Shapira, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel; Lior Rokach, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
• Towards Less Biased Web Search
  Xitong Liu, University of Delaware, USA; Hui Fang, University of Delaware, USA; Deng Cai, Zhejiang University, China
  
• Two Operators to Define and Manipulate Themes of a Document Collection
  Emanuele Di Buccio, University of Padua, Italy; Massimo Melucci, University of Padua, Italy
• Using Part-of-Speech N-grams for Sensitive-Text Classification
  Graham McDonald, University Of Glasgow, United Kingdom; Craig Macdonald, University Of Glasgow, United Kingdom; Iadh Ounis, University Of Glasgow, United Kingdom
• Verboseness Fission for BM25 Document Length Normalization
  Aldo Lipani, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo-Japan; Mihai Lupu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria; Allan Hanbury, Vienna University of Technology, Austria; Akiko Aizawa, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo-Japan