SIGIR 2011 Previews

Accepted SIGIR 2011 authors have started posting their papers online, so I have decided to collect them here.  Please comment on the ones you think are the most interesting and important.  As I get more papers, I’ll edit this post to add them.

http://bit.ly/kMWe1b Lidan Wang, Jimmy Lin, and Don Metzler, “A Cascade Ranking Model for Efficient Ranked Retrieval”

http://bit.ly/iYr7HB Nima Asadi, Don Metzler, Tamer Elsayed, and Jimmy Lin, “Pseudo Test Collections for Learning Web Search Ranking Functions”

http://bit.ly/l4dBYO Evangelos Kanoulas, Ben Carterette, Paul D. Clough, and Mark Sanderson, “Evaluating Multi-Query Sessions”

http://bit.ly/kj8ZbD Michael Bendersky, Don Metzler, and Bruce Croft, “Parameterized Concept Weighting in Verbose Queries”

http://bit.ly/iAel3e Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Craig Macdonald, and Iadh Ounis, “Intent-Aware Search Result Diversification”

http://bit.ly/iTiNhJ Elad Yom-Tov, Fernando Diaz, “Out of sight, not out of mind: On the effect of social and physical detachment on information need”

http://bit.ly/jxV5BV Tetsuya Sakai and Ruihua Song, “Evaluating Diversified Search Results Using Per-intent Graded Relevance”

http://bit.ly/jTrdQD Ferhan Ture, Tamer Elsayed, and Jimmy Lin. “No Free Lunch: Brute Force vs. Locality-Sensitive Hashing for Cross-lingual Pairwise Similarity”

http://bit.ly/loeoAh Ben Carterette, “System Effectiveness, User Models, and User Utility: A Conceptual Framework for Investigation”

http://bit.ly/jH2vNX Manos Tsagkias, Maarten de Rijke, and Wouter Weerkamp, “Hypergeometric Language Models for Republished Article Finding”

http://bit.ly/kVfJpQ Wouter Weerkamp, Bogomil Kovachev, Richard Berendsen, Edgar Meij, Krisztian Balog, and Maarten de Rijke, “People Searching for People: Analysis of a People Search Engine Log”

http://bit.ly/iX0ZZj Daveid Elsweiler, Morgan Harvey, Martin Hacker, “Understanding Re-finding behavior in Naturalistic Email Interaction Logs”

http://bit.ly/loqQ57 David Elsweiler, David E. Losada, José Carlos Toucedo, Ronald T. Fernández, “Seeding Simulated Queries with User-study Data for Personal Search Evaluation”

http://tinyurl.com/3bsxql5 Aleksander Stupar and Sebastian Michel, “PICASSO – To Sing you must Close Your Eyes and Draw”

http://bit.ly/kYjT39 Avishek Anand, Srikanta Bedathur, Klaus Berberich, Ralf Schenkel, “Temporal Index Sharding for Space-Time Efficiency in Archive Search”