ICTIR 2015   September 27-30, 2015                                                Northampton, Massachusetts (USA)

ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval

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ICTIR '15- Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR 2015
International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval

 
The links below take you to the ACM Digital Library copy of each paper.  The papers themselves will be available starting Sunday, September 27, 2015. These links will allow access to these papers until September 2016 regardless of whether you have a subscription to the ACM Digital Library, but they will not work if copied and used elsewhere.
 
 

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 Tuesday afternoon.

 
The overall conference schedule of events is available here.
 

Full-length papers that will be presented:


Monday, September 28, 2015

 

SESSION: Keynote & Tutorials

 

Embedded Representations of Lexical and Knowledge-Base Semantics

  • Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Theory of Retrieval: The Retrievability of Information

  • Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Statistical Significance Testing in Information Retrieval: Theory and Practice

  • Ben Carterette, University of Delaware, USA

 

SESSION: Session M1: IR Evaluation: Measures

Session Chair: Diane Kelly

 

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 - ICTIR 2015 BEST PAPER AWARD

  • Ben Carterette, University of Delaware, USA

 

SESSION: Session M2: Theoretical Framework and Transfer Learning

Session Chair: Ben Carterette

 

Transferring Learning To Rank Models for Web Search

  • Craig Macdonald, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • B. Taner Dinçer, 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: Session T1: IR Evaluation: Interactive and Task Evaluation

Session Chair: Matt Lease

 

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, USA

 

SESSION: Session T2: Query Representation

Session Chair: Fernando Diaz

 

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: Session T3: Language Models for IR

Session Chair: Leif Azzopardi

 

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 RetrievingSimilar Questions in CQA Forums

  • Debasis Ganguly, Dublin City University, Ireland
  • Gareth J.F. Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland

 

SESSION: Session T4: Entity Analysis

Session Chair: David Lewis

 

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: Session W1: IR Applications

Session Chair: Jaap Kamps

 

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: Session W2: NLP and IR

Session Chair: Oren Kurland

 

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: Session W3: Learning-based Retrieval Models

Session Chair: Liz Liddy

 

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 N. Bennett, Microsoft, United States
  • 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 S. 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