SIGIR 2015 Short Papers

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Short papers will be presented as posters during the posters session.

Note to presenters: Posters must be A0 size (or smaller) in portrait format. That is, 841mm x 1189mm, or 33.1 inches x 46.8 inches.

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• Using Sensor Metadata Streams to Identify Topics of Local Events in the City
  M-Dyaa Albakour, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
   
• StarSum: A Simple Star Graph for Multi-document Summarization
  Mohammed Al-Dhelaan
   
• When Relevance Judgement is Happening? An EEG-based Study
  Marco Allegretti, Yashar Moshfeghi, Maria Hadjigeorgieva, Frank E. Pollick, Joemon Jose, Gabriella Pasi
   
• Search Engine Evaluation based on Search Engine Switching Prediction
  Olga Arkhipova, Lidia Grauer, Igor Kuralenok, Pavel Serdyukov
   
• Time-Aware Authorship Attribution for Short Text Streams
  Hosein Azarbonyad, Mostafa Dehghani, Maarten Marx, Jaap Kamps
   
• A Priori Relevance Based On Quality and Diversity Of Social Signals
  Ismail Badache, Mohand Boughanem
   
• Document Comprehensiveness and User Preferences in Novelty Search Tasks
  Ashraf Bah Rabiou, Ben Carterette
   
• Cost-Aware Result Caching for Meta-Search Engines
  Emre Bakkal, Ismail Altingovde, Ismail Toroslu
   
• From unlabelled tweets to Twitter-specific opinion words
  Felipe Bravo-M rquez, Eibe Frank, Bernhard Pfahringer
   
• The Best Published Result is Random: Sequential Testing and its Effect on Reported Effectiveness
  Ben Carterette
   
• Load-sensitive CPU Power Management for Web Search Engines
  Matteo Catena, Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto
   
• Retrieval from Noisy E-Discovery Corpus in the Absence of Training Data
  Anirban Chakraborty, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Swapan Kumar Parui
   
• Opinion Spammer Detection in Web Forum
  Yu-Ren Chen, Hsin-Hsi Chen
   
• Multi-Faceted Recall of Continuous Active Learning for Technology-Assisted Review
  Gordon V. Cormack, Maura Grossman
   
• Time Pressure and System Delays in Information Search
  Anita Crescenzi, Diane Kelly, Leif Azzopardi
   
• How Random Decisions Affect Selective Distributed Search
  Zhuyun Dai, Yubin Kim, Jamie Callan
   
• Comparing Approaches for Query Autocompletion
  Giovanni Di Santo, Richard McCreadie, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
   
• Sign-Aware Periodicity Metrics of User Engagement for Online Search Quality Evaluation
  Alexey Drutsa
   
• Modelling Term Dependence with Copulas
  Carsten Eickhoff, Arjen de Vries, Thomas Hofmann
   
• Modeling Website Topic Cohesion at Scale to Improve Webpage Classification
  Dhivya Eswaran, Paul Bennett, Joseph Pfeiffer III
   
• Topic-centric Classification of Twitter User's Political Orientation
  Anjie Fang, Iadh Ounis, Philip Habel, Craig Macdonald, Nut Limsopatham
   
• Word Embedding based Generalized Language Model for Information Retrieval
  Debasis Ganguly, Dwaipayan Roy, Gareth Jones, Mandar Mitra
   
• A Head-Weighted Gap-Sensitive Correlation Coefficient
  Ning Gao, Douglas Oard
   
• On Term Selection Techniques for Patent Prior Art Search
  Mona Golestan Far, Scott Sanner, Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Gabriela Ferraro, David Hawking
   
• Automatic Feature Generation on Heterogeneous Graph for Music Recommendation
  Chun Guo, Xiaozhong Liu
   
• Differences in eye-tracking measures between visits / revisits to relevant and irrelevant Web pages
  Jacek Gwizdka, Yinglong Zhang
   
• Reducing Hubness: A Cause of Vulnerability in Recommender Systems
  Kazuo Hara
   
• Modularity-based query clustering for identifying users sharing a common condition
  Maayan Harel, Elad Yom-Tov
   
• Understanding Temporal Query Intent
  Mohammed Hasanuzzaman, Sriparna Saha, Ga l Dias, St phane Ferrari
   
• On the Reusability of Open Test Collections
  Seyyed Hadi Hashemi, Charles Clarke, Adriel Dean-Hall, Jaap Kamps, Julia Kiseleva
   
• Towards Vandalism Detection in Knowledge Bases: Corpus Construction and Analysis
  Stefan Heindorf, Martin Potthast, Benno Stein, Gregor Engels
   
• About the Compromised Information Need and Optimal Interaction as Quality Measure for Search Interfaces
  Eduard Hoenkamp
   
• I See You: Person-of-Interest Search in Social Networks
  Hsun-Ping Hsieh, Cheng-Te Li
   
• Towards Quantifying the Impact of Non-Uniform Information Access in CIR
  Nyi Nyi Htun, Martin Halvey, Lynne Baillie
   
• Features of Disagreement Between Retrieval Effectiveness Measures
  Timothy Jones, Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson
   
• Subsequence Search in Event-Interval Sequences
  Orestis Kostakis, Aristides Gionis
   
• Searcher in a Strange Land: Understanding Web Search from Familiar and Unfamiliar Locations
  Elad Kravi, Ido Guy, Ido Guy, Yaron Kanza, Avihai Mejer, Dan Pelleg
   
• Evaluating Retrieval Models through Histogram Analysis
  Kriste Krstovski, David Smith, Michael J. Kurtz
   
• Inter-Category Variation in Location Search
  Chia-Jung Lee, Nick Craswell, Vanessa Murdock
   
• Reachability based Ranking in Interactive Image Retrieval
  Jiyi Li
   
• Predicting User Behavior in Display Advertising via Dynamic Collective Matrix Factorization
  Sheng Li, Jaya Kawale, Yun Fu
   
• Modeling Multi-query Retrieval Tasks Using Density Matrix Transformation
  Qiuchi Li, Jingfei Li, Peng Zhang, Dawei Song
   
• Zero-shot Image Tagging by Hierarchical Semantic Embedding
  Xirong Li, Shuai Liao, Weiyu Lan, Xiaoyong Du
   
• Learning Context-aware Latent Representations for Context-aware Collaborative Filtering
  Xin Liu
   
• Using Term Location Information to Enhance Probabilistic Information Retrieval
  Baiyan Liu, Xiangdong An, Jimmy Huang
   
• Exploiting User and Business Attributes for Personalized Business Recommendation
  Kai Lu, Shuxin Wang, Lanbo Zhang
   
• Speeding up Document Ranking with Rank-based Features
  Claudio Lucchese, Franco Maria Nardini, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto
   
• Mining Measured Information from Text
  Arun Maiya, Dale Visser, Andrew Wan
   
• An Initial Investigation into Fixed and Adaptive Stopping Strategies
  David Maxwell, Leif Azzopardi, Kalervo Jarvelin, Heikki Keskustalo
   
• Regularised Cross-Modal Hashing
  Sean Moran, Victor Lavrenko
   
• Adapted B-CUBED metrics to unbalanced datasets
  Jose Moreno, Ga l Dias
   
• A Time-aware Random Walk Model for Finding Important Documents in Web Archives
  Tu Ngoc Nguyen, Nattiya Kanhabua, Claudia Nieder e, Xiaofei Zhu
   
• A Test Collection for Spoken Gujarati Queries
  Douglas Oard, Rashmi Sankepally, Jerome White, Aren Jansen, Craig Harman
   
• Discovering Experts across Multiple Domains
  Aditya Pal
   
• Using Key Concepts in a Translation Model for Retrieval
  JaeHyun Park, Bruce Croft
   
• On the Cost of Phrase-Based Ranking
  Matthias Petri, Alistair Moffat
   
• Location-Aware Model for News Events in Social Media
  Mauricio Quezada, Vanessa Pe a-Araya, Barbara Poblete
   
• Exploring Opportunities to Facilitate Serendipity in Search
  Md Ataur Rahman, Max Wilson
   
• Combining Orthogonal Information in Large-Scale Cross-Language Information Retrieval
  Shigehiko Schamoni, Stefan Riezler
   
• Tailoring Music Recommendations to Users by Considering Diversity, Mainstreaminess, and Novelty
  Markus Schedl, David Hauger
   
• Challenges of Mathematical Information Retrieval in the NTCIR-11 Math Wikipedia Task
  Moritz Schubotz, Abdou Youssef, Howard Cohl
   
• Probabilistic Multileave for Online Retrieval Evaluation
  Anne Schuth, Robert-Jan Bruintjes, Fritjof B ttner, Joost van Doorn, Carla Groenland, Cong-Nguyen Tran, Harrie Oosterhuis, Bas Veeling, Jos van der Velde, Roger Wechsler, David Woudenberg, Maarten de Rijke
   
• Twitter Sentiment Analysis with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
  Aliaksei Severyn, Alessandro Moschitti
   
• Anchoring and Adjustment in Relevance Estimation
  Milad Shokouhi, Ryen W. White, Emine Yilmaz
   
• Cognitive Activity during Web Search
  Md Hedayetul Islam Shovon, Nanda Nandagopal, Jia Tina Du, Ramasamy Vijayalakshmi, Bernadine Cocks
   
• Personalized Semantic Ranking for Collaborative Recommendation
  Xu Song, Wu Shu, Wang Liang
   
• Active Learning for Entity Filtering in Microblog Streams
  Damiano Spina, Maria-Hendrike Peetz, Maarten de Rijke
   
• Relevance-aware Filtering of Tuples Sorted by an Attribute Value via Direct Optimization of Metrics
  Nikita Spirin, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Julia Kiseleva, Yaroslav Spirin, Pavel Izhutov
   
• Multi-source Information Fusion for Personalized Restaurant Recommendation
  Jing Sun, Yun Xiong, Yangyong Zhu, Junming Liu, Chu Guan, Hui Xiong
   
• Joint Matrix Factorization and Manifold-Ranking for Topic-Focused Multi-Document Summarization
  Jiwei Tan, Xiaojun Wan
   
• Towards Understanding the Impact of Length in Web Search Result Summaries over a Speech-only Communi
  Johanne Trippas, Damiano Spina, Mark Sanderson, Lawrence Cavedon
   
• Early Detection of Topical Expertise in Community Question and Answering
  David van Dijk, Manos Tsagkias, Maarten de Rijke
   
• LBMCH: Learning Bridging Mapping for Cross-modal Hashing
  Yang Wang, Lin Wu
   
• Gibberish, Assistant, or Master? Using Tweets Linking to News for Extractive Single-Document Summari
  Zhongyu Wei, Wei Gao
   
• Context-aware Point-of-Interest Recommendation Using Tensor Factorization with Social Regularization
  Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, Yongrui Qin, Xianzhi Wang, Ali Shemshadi
   
• Adaptive User Engagement Evaluation via Multi-task Learning
  Hamed Zamani, Azadeh Shakery, Pooya Moradi
   
• Compact Snippet Caching for Flash-based Search Engines
  Rui Zhang, Pengyu Sun, Jiancong Tong, Rebecca Stones, Gang Wang, Xiao-guang Liu
   
• When Personalization meets Conformity: Collective Similarity based Multi-Domain Recommendation
  Xi Zhang, Jian Cheng, Shuang Qiu, Hanqing Lu
   
• Sub-document timestamping of Web documents
  Yue Zhao, Claudia Hauff