SWIRL ’12 looks at The Future of IR

SWIRL (http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/swirl12/index.php) is a workshop series that aims to explore the long-range issues in information retrieval.  The 2012 meeting will take place next month in Lorne, Victoria, Australia.

Participants were asked to nominate three papers that “represent important new directions, research areas, or results in the IR field.”  Since highlighting the bleeding (and soon-to-be-bleeding) edge is a goal of NR, I decided to mirror the list of nominated papers below.

(Original list is at http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/swirl12/proceedings.php)

What do you think of this list?  Are there other papers you feel should be on this list? (Undoubtedly there are, as this is the expressly limited input of a few participants!)  What do you think is the research that has the strongest implications for IR research for the next few years?

• Stuff I’ve seen: a system for personal information retrieval and re-use.
  Susan Dumais, Edward Cutrell, JJ Cadiz, Gavin Jancke, Raman Sarin, and Daniel C. Robbins
  In Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR ’03). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 72-79, 2003.
• A unified and discriminative model for query refinement
  J. Guo, G. Xu, H. Li, and X. Cheng
  In SIGIR08, pages 379–386, Singapore, 2008.
• Worker types and personality traits in crowdsourcing relevance labels.
  Gabriella Kazai, Jaap Kamps and Natasa Milic-Frayling
  In Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011), 4 pages, 2011.
• The Context-Aware Browser.
  Paolo Coppola, Vincenzo Della Mea, Luca Di Gaspero, Davide Menegon, Danny Mischis, Stefano Mizzaro, Ivan Scagnetto and Luca Vassena.
  IEEE Intelligent Systems 25(1): 38-47 (2010).
• Natural Language Processing to the Rescue? Extracting “Situational Awareness” Tweets During Mass Emergency.
  Sudha Verma, Sarah Vieweg, William Corvey, Leysia Palen, James H. Martin, Martha Palmer, Aaron Schram and Kenneth M. Anderson.
  In Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2011.
• IR System Evaluation using Nugget-based Test Collections
  Virgil Pavlu, Shahzad Rajput, Peter B. Golbus and Javed A. Aslam
  WSDM 2012, to appear
• Evaluating Search Systems Using Result Page Context
  Peter Bailey, Nick Craswell, Ryen W. White, Liwei Chen, Ashwin Satyanarayana, and S. M. M. Tahaghoghi
  IIiX 2010 pp.105-114
• Good Abandonment in Mobile and PC Internet Search
  Jane Li, Scott B. Huffman, and Akihito Tokuda
  SIGIR 2009 pp.43-50
• The Web changes everything: Understanding the dynamics of Web content.
  E. Adar, J. Teevan, S. Dumais and J. Elsas (2009).
  In Proceedings of WSDM 2009.
• Time Challenges – Challenging Times for Future Information Search.
  Thomas Mestl, Olga Cerrato, Jon Ølnes, Per Myrseth, Inger-Mette Gustavsen.
  D-Lib Magazine, May/June 2009, Vol. 15, No. 5/6.
• How to build a WebFountain: An architecture for very large-scale text analytics.
  D. Gruhl, L. Chavet, D. Gibson, J. Meyer, P. Pattanayak, A. Tomkins, and J. Zien. 2004.
  IBM Syst. J. 43, 1 (January 2004), 64-77. DOI=10.1147/sj.431.0064