2022

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Differential Query Semantic Analysis: Discovery of Explicit Interpretable Knowledge from E-Com Search Logs
Sahiti Labhishetty | ChengXiang Zhai | Min Xie | Lin Gong | Rahul Sharnagat | Satya Chembolu
WSDM '22: The Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Virtual Event / Tempe, AZ, USA, February 21 - 25, 2022

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PRE: A Precision-Recall-Effort Optimization Framework for Query Simulation
Sahiti Labhishetty | ChengXiang Zhai
ICTIR '22: The 2022 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11 - 12, 2022

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I3A: An Intelligent Interactive Information Agent Model for Information Retrieval
ChengXiang Zhai
ICTIR '22: The 2022 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11 - 12, 2022

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RATE: A Reliability-Aware Tester-Based Evaluation Framework of User Simulators
Sahiti Labhishetty | ChengXiang Zhai
Advances in Information Retrieval - 44th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2022, Stavanger, Norway, April 10-14, 2022, Proceedings, Part I

2021

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Interactive Information Retrieval: Models, Algorithms, and Evaluation
Chengxiang Zhai
SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11-15, 2021

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DarkJargon.net: A Platform for Understanding Underground Conversation with Latent Meaning
Dominic Seyler | Wei Liu | Yunan Zhang | XiaoFeng Wang | ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11-15, 2021

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An Exploration of Tester-based Evaluation of User Simulators for Comparing Interactive Retrieval Systems
Sahiti Labhishetty | Chengxiang Zhai
SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11-15, 2021

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DeepQAMVS: Query-Aware Hierarchical Pointer Networks for Multi-Video Summarization
Safa Messaoud | Ismini Lourentzou | Assma Boughoula | Mona Zehni | Zhizhen Zhao | Chengxiang Zhai | Alexander G. Schwing
SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11-15, 2021

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Team Skeletor at Touché 2021: Argument Retrieval and Visualization for Controversial Questions
Kevin Ros | Carl Edwards | Heng Ji | Chengxiang Zhai
Proceedings of the Working Notes of CLEF 2021 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Bucharest, Romania, September 21st - to - 24th, 2021

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Towards Dark Jargon Interpretation in Underground Forums
Dominic Seyler | Wei Liu | XiaoFeng Wang | ChengXiang Zhai
Advances in Information Retrieval - 43rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2021, Virtual Event, March 28 - April 1, 2021, Proceedings, Part II

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A Study of Distributed Representations for Figures of Research Articles
Saar Kuzi | ChengXiang Zhai
Advances in Information Retrieval - 43rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2021, Virtual Event, March 28 - April 1, 2021, Proceedings, Part I

2020

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Axiomatic thinking for information retrieval: introduction to special issue
Enrique Amigó | Hui Fang | Stefano Mizzaro | Chengxiang Zhai
2020 Volume 23 Issue 3

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Leveraging Personalized Sentiment Lexicons for Sentiment Analysis
Dominic Seyler | Jiaming Shen | Jinfeng Xiao | Yiren Wang | ChengXiang Zhai
ICTIR '20: The 2020 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Norway, September 14-17, 2020

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Interactive Information Retrieval: Models, Algorithms, and Evaluation
ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2020, Virtual Event, China, July 25-30, 2020

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FigExplorer: A System for Retrieval and Exploration of Figures from Collections of Research Articles
Saar Kuzi | ChengXiang Zhai | Yin Tian | Haichuan Tang
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2020, Virtual Event, China, July 25-30, 2020

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A Study of Methods for the Generation of Domain-Aware Word Embeddings
Dominic Seyler | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2020, Virtual Event, China, July 25-30, 2020

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Empirical Analysis of Impact of Query-Specific Customization of nDCG: A Case-Study with Learning-to-Rank Methods
Shubhra (Santu) K. Karmaker | Parikshit Sondhi | ChengXiang Zhai
CIKM '20: The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Ireland, October 19-23, 2020

2019

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Learning to Diversify for E-commerce Search with Multi-Armed Bandit
Anjan Goswami | Chengxiang Zhai | Prasant Mohapatra
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2019 Workshop on eCommerce, co-located with the 42st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, eCom@SIGIR 2019, Paris, France, July 25, 2019

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Help Me Search: Leveraging User-System Collaboration for Query Construction to Improve Accuracy for Difficult Queries
Saar Kuzi | Abhishek Narwekar | Anusri Pampari | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2019, Paris, France, July 21-25, 2019

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Analysis of Adaptive Training for Learning to Rank in Information Retrieval
Saar Kuzi | Sahiti Labhishetty | Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu | Prasad Pradip Joshi | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2019, Beijing, China, November 3-7, 2019

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Exploring Multi-Objective Exercise Recommendations in Online Education Systems
Zhenya Huang | Qi Liu | Chengxiang Zhai | Yu Yin | Enhong Chen | Weibo Gao | Guoping Hu
Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2019, Beijing, China, November 3-7, 2019

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Quantifying and Visualizing the Demand and Supply Gap from E-commerce Search Data using Topic Models
Anjan Goswami | Prasant Mohapatra | Chengxiang Zhai
Companion of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 13-17, 2019

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Figure Retrieval from Collections of Research Articles
Saar Kuzi | ChengXiang Zhai
Advances in Information Retrieval - 41st European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2019, Cologne, Germany, April 14-18, 2019, Proceedings, Part I

2018

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Towards Optimization of e-Commerce Search and Discovery
Anjan Goswami | Chengxiang Zhai | Prasant Mohapatra
The SIGIR 2018 Workshop On eCommerce co-located with the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018), Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, July 12, 2018

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Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2018, Marina Del Rey, CA, USA, February 5-9, 2018

Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2018, Marina Del Rey, CA, USA, February 5-9, 2018

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A Tutorial on Probabilistic Topic Models for Text Data Retrieval and Analysis
ChengXiang Zhai | Chase Geigle
The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, July 08-12, 2018

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A Taxonomy of Queries for E-commerce Search
Parikshit Sondhi | Mohit Sharma | Pranam Kolari | ChengXiang Zhai
The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, July 08-12, 2018

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Are we on the Right Track?: An Examination of Information Retrieval Methodologies
Enrique Amigó | Hui Fang | Stefano Mizzaro | ChengXiang Zhai
The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, July 08-12, 2018

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Modeling Diverse Relevance Patterns in Ad-hoc Retrieval
Yixing Fan | Jiafeng Guo | Yanyan Lan | Jun Xu | Chengxiang Zhai | Xueqi Cheng
The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, July 08-12, 2018

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JIM: Joint Influence Modeling for Collective Search Behavior
Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu | Liangda Li | Yi Chang | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2018, Torino, Italy, October 22-26, 2018

2017

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A Study of Smoothing Methods for Language Models Applied to Ad Hoc Information Retrieval
Chengxiang Zhai | John D. Lafferty
2017 Volume 51 Issue 2

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Document Language Models, Query Models, and Risk Minimization for Information Retrieval
John D. Lafferty | Chengxiang Zhai
2017 Volume 51 Issue 2

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Report on the SIGIR 2017 Workshop on Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval and Related Tasks (ATIR)
Enrique Amigó | Hui Fang | Stefano Mizzaro | ChengXiang Zhai
2017 Volume 51 Issue 3

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Constructing and Embedding Abstract Event Causality Networks from Text Snippets
Sendong Zhao | Quan Wang | Sean Massung | Bing Qin | Ting Liu | Bin Wang | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2017, Cambridge, United Kingdom, February 6-10, 2017

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Information Retrieval Evaluation as Search Simulation: A General Formal Framework for IR Evaluation
Yinan Zhang | Xueqing Liu | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 1-4, 2017

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Towards Privacy-Preserving Evaluation for Information Retrieval Models Over Industry Data Sets
Peilin Yang | Mianwei Zhou | Yi Chang | Chengxiang Zhai | Hui Fang
Information Retrieval Technology - 13th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2017, Jeju Island, South Korea, November 22-24, 2017, Proceedings

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Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval: And Related Tasks
Enrique Amigó | Hui Fang | Stefano Mizzaro | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, August 7-11, 2017

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Probabilistic Topic Models for Text Data Retrieval and Analysis
ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, August 7-11, 2017

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On Application of Learning to Rank for E-Commerce Search
Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu | Parikshit Sondhi | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, August 7-11, 2017

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A Study of Feature Construction for Text-based Forecasting of Time Series Variables
Yiren Wang | Dominic Seyler | Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2017, Singapore, November 06 - 10, 2017

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Numerical Facet Range Partition: Evaluation Metric and Methods
Xueqing Liu | ChengXiang Zhai | Wei Han | Onur Güngör
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion, Perth, Australia, April 3-7, 2017

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Modeling the Influence of Popular Trending Events on User Search Behavior
Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu | Liangda Li | Dae Hoon Park | Yi Chang | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion, Perth, Australia, April 3-7, 2017

2016

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Personalized generation of word clouds from tweets
Martin Leginus | ChengXiang Zhai | Peter Dolog
2016 Volume 67 Issue 5

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Learning Query and Document Relevance from a Web-scale Click Graph
Shan Jiang | Yuening Hu | Changsung Kang | Tim Daly Jr. | Dawei Yin | Yi Chang | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy, July 17-21, 2016

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A Sequential Decision Formulation of the Interface Card Model for Interactive IR
Yinan Zhang | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy, July 17-21, 2016

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Mobile App Retrieval for Social Media Users via Inference of Implicit Intent in Social Media Text
Dae Hoon Park | Yi Fang | Mengwen Liu | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2016, Indianapolis, IN, USA, October 24-28, 2016

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Generative Feature Language Models for Mining Implicit Features from Customer Reviews
Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu | Parikshit Sondhi | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2016, Indianapolis, IN, USA, October 24-28, 2016

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Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2016, Indianapolis, IN, USA, October 24-28, 2016

Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2016, Indianapolis, IN, USA, October 24-28, 2016

2015

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Beyond Independent Relevance: Methods and Evaluation Metrics for Subtopic Retrieval
ChengXiang Zhai | William W. Cohen | John D. Lafferty
2015 Volume 49 Issue 1

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OpinoFetch: a practical and efficient approach to collecting opinions on arbitrary entities
Kavita Ganesan | ChengXiang Zhai
2015 Volume 18 Issue 6

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Negative query generation: bridging the gap between query likelihood retrieval models and relevance
Yuanhua Lv | ChengXiang Zhai
2015 Volume 18 Issue 4

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Overcoming bias to learn about controversial topics
V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran | ChengXiang Zhai | Dan Roth | Peter Pirolli
2015 Volume 66 Issue 8

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Axiomatic Analysis of Smoothing Methods in Language Models for Pseudo-Relevance Feedback
Hussein Hazimeh | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on The Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2015, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA, September 27-30, 2015

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Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on The Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2015, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA, September 27-30, 2015

Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on The Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2015, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA, September 27-30, 2015

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Information Retrieval as Card Playing: A Formal Model for Optimizing Interactive Retrieval Interface
Yinan Zhang | Chengxiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Santiago, Chile, August 9-13, 2015

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Towards a Game-Theoretic Framework for Information Retrieval
ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Santiago, Chile, August 9-13, 2015

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Leveraging User Reviews to Improve Accuracy for Mobile App Retrieval
Dae Hoon Park | Mengwen Liu | ChengXiang Zhai | Haohong Wang
Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Santiago, Chile, August 9-13, 2015

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Retrieval of Relevant Opinion Sentences for New Products
Dae Hoon Park | Hyun Duk Kim | ChengXiang Zhai | Lifan Guo
Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Santiago, Chile, August 9-13, 2015

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Mining Coordinated Intent Representation for Entity Search and Recommendation
Huizhong Duan | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2015, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, October 19 - 23, 2015

2014

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Content-based citation analysis: The next generation of citation analysis
Ying Ding | Guo Zhang | Tamy Chambers | Min Song | Xiaolong Wang | Chengxiang Zhai
2014 Volume 65 Issue 9

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VIRLab: A Platform for Privacy-Preserving Evaluation for Information Retrieval Models
Hui Fang | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceeding of the 1st International Workshop on Privacy-Preserving IR: When Information Retrieval Meets Privacy and Security co-located with 37th Annual International ACM SIGIR conference, PIR@SIGIR 2014, Gold Coast, Australia, July 11, 2014

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User modeling in search logs via a nonparametric bayesian approach
Hongning Wang | ChengXiang Zhai | Feng Liang | Anlei Dong | Yi Chang
Seventh ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2014, New York, NY, USA, February 24-28, 2014

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Axiomatic analysis and optimization of information retrieval models
Hui Fang | ChengXiang Zhai
The 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '14, Gold Coast , QLD, Australia - July 06 - 11, 2014

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VIRLab: a web-based virtual lab for learning and studying information retrieval models
Hui Fang | Hao Wu | Peilin Yang | ChengXiang Zhai
The 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '14, Gold Coast , QLD, Australia - July 06 - 11, 2014

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A two-dimensional click model for query auto-completion
Yanen Li | Anlei Dong | Hongning Wang | Hongbo Deng | Yi Chang | ChengXiang Zhai
The 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '14, Gold Coast , QLD, Australia - July 06 - 11, 2014

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Unsupervised Feature Selection for Multi-View Clustering on Text-Image Web News Data
Mingjie Qian | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2014, Shanghai, China, November 3-7, 2014

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Revisiting the Divergence Minimization Feedback Model
Yuanhua Lv | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2014, Shanghai, China, November 3-7, 2014

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Mining Semi-Structured Online Knowledge Bases to Answer Natural Language Questions on Community QA Websites
Parikshit Sondhi | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2014, Shanghai, China, November 3-7, 2014

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The Fudan-UIUC Participation in the BioASQ Challenge Task 2a: The Antinomyra system
Ke Liu | Junqiu Wu | Shengwen Peng | Chengxiang Zhai | Shanfeng Zhu
Working Notes for CLEF 2014 Conference, Sheffield, UK, September 15-18, 2014

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Advances in Information Retrieval - 36th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 13-16, 2014. Proceedings

Advances in Information Retrieval - 36th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 13-16, 2014. Proceedings

2013

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A learning approach to optimizing exploration-exploitation tradeoff in relevance feedback
Maryam Karimzadehgan | ChengXiang Zhai
2013 Volume 16 Issue 3

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Leveraging comparable corpora for cross-lingual information retrieval in resource-lean language pairs
Azadeh Shakery | ChengXiang Zhai
2013 Volume 16 Issue 1

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FindiLike: a preference driven entity search engine for evaluating entity retrieval and opinion summarization
Kavita Ganesan | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 2013 workshop on Living labs for information retrieval evaluation, LivingLab@CIKM 2013, San Francisco, California, USA, November 1, 2013

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Statistical Translation Language Model for Twitter Search
Maryam Karimzadehgan | ChengXiang Zhai | Miles Efron
International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR '13, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 29 - October 02, 2013

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Exploiting Forum Thread Structures to Improve Thread Clustering
Kumaresh Pattabiraman | Parikshit Sondhi | ChengXiang Zhai
International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR '13, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 29 - October 02, 2013

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Information Retrieval with Time Series Query
Hyun Duk Kim | Danila Nikitin | ChengXiang Zhai | Malú Castellanos | Meichun Hsu
International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR '13, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 29 - October 02, 2013

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Axiomatic Analysis and Optimization of Information Retrieval Models
ChengXiang Zhai | Hui Fang
International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR '13, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 29 - October 02, 2013

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Ranking explanatory sentences for opinion summarization
Hyun Duk Kim | Malú Castellanos | Meichun Hsu | ChengXiang Zhai | Umeshwar Dayal | Riddhiman Ghosh
The 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '13, Dublin, Ireland - July 28 - August 01, 2013

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A probabilistic mixture model for mining and analyzing product search log
Huizhong Duan | ChengXiang Zhai | Jinxing Cheng | Abhishek Gattani
22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'13, San Francisco, CA, USA, October 27 - November 1, 2013

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Unsupervised identification of synonymous query intent templates for attribute intents
Yanen Li | Bo-June Paul Hsu | ChengXiang Zhai
22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'13, San Francisco, CA, USA, October 27 - November 1, 2013

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Compact explanatory opinion summarization
Hyun Duk Kim | Malú Castellanos | Meichun Hsu | ChengXiang Zhai | Umeshwar Dayal | Riddhiman Ghosh
22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'13, San Francisco, CA, USA, October 27 - November 1, 2013

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Mining causal topics in text data: iterative topic modeling with time series feedback
Hyun Duk Kim | Malú Castellanos | Meichun Hsu | ChengXiang Zhai | Thomas A. Rietz | Daniel Diermeier
22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'13, San Francisco, CA, USA, October 27 - November 1, 2013

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Mining entity attribute synonyms via compact clustering
Yanen Li | Bo-June Paul Hsu | ChengXiang Zhai | Kuansan Wang
22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'13, San Francisco, CA, USA, October 27 - November 1, 2013

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Content coverage maximization on word networks for hierarchical topic summarization
Chi Wang | Xiao Yu | Yanen Li | Chengxiang Zhai | Jiawei Han
22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'13, San Francisco, CA, USA, October 27 - November 1, 2013

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Content-aware click modeling
Hongning Wang | ChengXiang Zhai | Anlei Dong | Yi Chang
22nd International World Wide Web Conference, WWW '13, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 13-17, 2013

2012

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Opinion-based entity ranking
Kavita Ganesan | ChengXiang Zhai
2012 Volume 15 Issue 2

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Integer linear programming for Constrained Multi-Aspect Committee Review Assignment
Maryam Karimzadehgan | ChengXiang Zhai
2012 Volume 48 Issue 4

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Tapping into knowledge base for concept feedback: leveraging conceptnet to improve search results for difficult queries
Alexander Kotov | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, WSDM 2012, Seattle, WA, USA, February 8-12, 2012

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A generalized hidden Markov model with discriminative training for query spelling correction
Yanen Li | Huizhong Duan | ChengXiang Zhai
The 35th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '12, Portland, OR, USA, August 12-16, 2012

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InCaToMi: integrative causal topic miner between textual and non-textual time series data
Hyun Duk Kim | ChengXiang Zhai | Thomas A. Rietz | Daniel Diermeier | Meichun Hsu | Malú Castellanos | Carlos Ceja Limon
21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'12, Maui, HI, USA, October 29 - November 02, 2012

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BiasTrust: teaching biased users about controversial topics
V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran | ChengXiang Zhai | Dan Roth | Peter Pirolli
21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'12, Maui, HI, USA, October 29 - November 02, 2012

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Query likelihood with negative query generation
Yuanhua Lv | ChengXiang Zhai
21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'12, Maui, HI, USA, October 29 - November 02, 2012

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Unsupervised discovery of opposing opinion networks from forum discussions
Yue Lu | Hongning Wang | ChengXiang Zhai | Dan Roth
21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'12, Maui, HI, USA, October 29 - November 02, 2012

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Mining long-lasting exploratory user interests from search history
Bin Tan | Yuanhua Lv | ChengXiang Zhai
21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'12, Maui, HI, USA, October 29 - November 02, 2012

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Click patterns: an empirical representation of complex query intents
Huizhong Duan | Emre Kiciman | ChengXiang Zhai
21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'12, Maui, HI, USA, October 29 - November 02, 2012

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Micropinion generation: an unsupervised approach to generating ultra-concise summaries of opinions
Kavita Ganesan | ChengXiang Zhai | Evelyne Viegas
Proceedings of the 21st World Wide Web Conference 2012, WWW 2012, Lyon, France, April 16-20, 2012

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CloudSpeller: query spelling correction by using a unified hidden markov model with web-scale resources
Yanen Li | Huizhong Duan | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 21st World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2012, Lyon, France, April 16-20, 2012 (Companion Volume)

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FindiLike: preference driven entity search
Kavita Ganesan | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 21st World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2012, Lyon, France, April 16-20, 2012 (Companion Volume)

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Axiomatic Analysis of Translation Language Model for Information Retrieval
Maryam Karimzadehgan | ChengXiang Zhai
Advances in Information Retrieval - 34th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2012, Barcelona, Spain, April 1-5, 2012. Proceedings

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Score Transformation in Linear Combination for Multi-criteria Relevance Ranking
Shima Gerani | ChengXiang Zhai | Fabio Crestani
Advances in Information Retrieval - 34th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2012, Barcelona, Spain, April 1-5, 2012. Proceedings

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A Log-Logistic Model-Based Interpretation of TF Normalization of BM25
Yuanhua Lv | ChengXiang Zhai
Advances in Information Retrieval - 34th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2012, Barcelona, Spain, April 1-5, 2012. Proceedings

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Reliability Prediction of Webpages in the Medical Domain
Parikshit Sondhi | V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran | ChengXiang Zhai
Advances in Information Retrieval - 34th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2012, Barcelona, Spain, April 1-5, 2012. Proceedings

2011

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Diagnostic Evaluation of Information Retrieval Models
Hui Fang | Tao Tao | ChengXiang Zhai
2011 Volume 29 Issue 2

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Investigating task performance of probabilistic topic models: an empirical study of PLSA and LDA
Yue Lu | Qiaozhu Mei | ChengXiang Zhai
2011 Volume 14 Issue 2

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Mining named entities with temporally correlated bursts from multilingual web news streams
Alexander Kotov | ChengXiang Zhai | Richard Sproat
Proceedings of the Forth International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, WSDM 2011, Hong Kong, China, February 9-12, 2011

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Axiomatic Analysis and Optimization of Information Retrieval Models
ChengXiang Zhai
Advances in Information Retrieval Theory - Third International Conference, ICTIR 2011, Bertinoro, Italy, September 12-14, 2011. Proceedings

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When documents are very long, BM25 fails!
Yuanhua Lv | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceeding of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2011, Beijing, China, July 25-29, 2011

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Learning online discussion structures by conditional random fields
Hongning Wang | Chi Wang | ChengXiang Zhai | Jiawei Han
Proceeding of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2011, Beijing, China, July 25-29, 2011

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Unsupervised query segmentation using clickthrough for information retrieval
Yanen Li | Bo-June Paul Hsu | ChengXiang Zhai | Kuansan Wang
Proceeding of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2011, Beijing, China, July 25-29, 2011

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A boosting approach to improving pseudo-relevance feedback
Yuanhua Lv | ChengXiang Zhai | Wan Chen
Proceeding of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2011, Beijing, China, July 25-29, 2011

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Beyond search: statistical topic models for text analysis
ChengXiang Zhai
Proceeding of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2011, Beijing, China, July 25-29, 2011

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Automatic query reformulation with syntactic operators to alleviate search difficulty
Huizhong Duan | Rui Li | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2011, Glasgow, United Kingdom, October 24-28, 2011

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Adaptive term frequency normalization for BM25
Yuanhua Lv | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2011, Glasgow, United Kingdom, October 24-28, 2011

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Interactive sense feedback for difficult queries
Alexander Kotov | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2011, Glasgow, United Kingdom, October 24-28, 2011

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Improving retrieval accuracy of difficult queries through generalizing negative document language models
Maryam Karimzadehgan | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2011, Glasgow, United Kingdom, October 24-28, 2011

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Lower-bounding term frequency normalization
Yuanhua Lv | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2011, Glasgow, United Kingdom, October 24-28, 2011

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Automatic construction of a context-aware sentiment lexicon: an optimization approach
Yue Lu | Malú Castellanos | Umeshwar Dayal | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2011, Hyderabad, India, March 28 - April 1, 2011

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Geographical topic discovery and comparison
Zhijun Yin | Liangliang Cao | Jiawei Han | Chengxiang Zhai | Thomas S. Huang
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2011, Hyderabad, India, March 28 - April 1, 2011

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Exploiting Thread Structures to Improve Smoothing of Language Models for Forum Post Retrieval
Huizhong Duan | Chengxiang Zhai
Advances in Information Retrieval - 33rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2011, Dublin, Ireland, April 18-21, 2011. Proceedings

2010

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Web N-gram workshop 2010
Chengxiang Zhai | Kuansan Wang | David Yarowsky | Stephan Vogel | Evelyne Viegas
2010 Volume 44 Issue 2

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Introduction to special issue on learning to rank for information retrieval
Tie-Yan Liu | Thorsten Joachims | Hang Li | Chengxiang Zhai
2010 Volume 13 Issue 3

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Medical Case-based Retrieval by Leveraging Medical Ontology and Physician Feedback: UIUC-IBM at ImageCLEF 2010
Parikshit Sondhi | Jimeng Sun | ChengXiang Zhai | Robert Sorrentino | Martin S. Kohn | Shahram Ebadollahi | Yanen Li
CLEF 2010 LABs and Workshops, Notebook Papers, 22-23 September 2010, Padua, Italy

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Positional relevance model for pseudo-relevance feedback
Yuanhua Lv | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceeding of the 33rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2010, Geneva, Switzerland, July 19-23, 2010

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Estimation of statistical translation models based on mutual information for ad hoc information retrieval
Maryam Karimzadehgan | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceeding of the 33rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2010, Geneva, Switzerland, July 19-23, 2010

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PTM: probabilistic topic mapping model for mining parallel document collections
Duo Zhang | Jimeng Sun | ChengXiang Zhai | Abhijit Bose | Nikos Anerousis
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2010, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 26-30, 2010

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Exploration-exploitation tradeoff in interactive relevance feedback
Maryam Karimzadehgan | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2010, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 26-30, 2010

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Improving one-class collaborative filtering by incorporating rich user information
Yanen Li | Jia Hu | ChengXiang Zhai | Ye Chen
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2010, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 26-30, 2010

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Towards natural question guided search
Alexander Kotov | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2010, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, April 26-30, 2010

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Aggregation of Multiple Judgments for Evaluating Ordered Lists
Hyun Duk Kim | ChengXiang Zhai | Jiawei Han
Advances in Information Retrieval, 32nd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2010, Milton Keynes, UK, March 28-31, 2010. Proceedings

2009

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Learning to rank for information retrieval (LR4IR 2009)
Hang Li | Tie-Yan Liu | ChengXiang Zhai
2009 Volume 43 Issue 2

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An empirical study of gene synonym query expansion in biomedical information retrieval
Yue Lu | Hui Fang | Chengxiang Zhai
2009 Volume 12 Issue 1

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Massive Implicit Feedback: Organizing Search Logs into Topic Maps for Collaborative Surfing
Xuanhui Wang | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the Workshop on Understanding the User - Logging and Interpreting User Interactions in Information Search and Retrieval ( UIIR-2009 ), Boston, MA, USA, July 23, 2009. Workshop in Conjunction with SIGIR-2009 , Boston, MA, USA, July 19-23 2009

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Finding Related Entities by Retrieving Relations: UIUC at TREC 2009 Entity Track
V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran | Kavita Ganesan | Yuanhua Lv | Jing He | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of The Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2009, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 17-20, 2009

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A Study of Term Proximity and Document Weighting Normalization in Pseudo Relevance Feedback–UIUC at TREC 2009 Million Query Track
Yuanhua Lv | Jing He | V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran | Kavita Ganesan | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of The Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2009, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 17-20, 2009

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Positional language models for information retrieval
Yuanhua Lv | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009, Boston, MA, USA, July 19-23, 2009

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Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009, Boston, MA, USA, July 19-23, 2009

Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009, Boston, MA, USA, July 19-23, 2009

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Evaluation of methods for relative comparison of retrieval systems based on clickthroughs
Jing He | Chengxiang Zhai | Xiaoming Li
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2009, Hong Kong, China, November 2-6, 2009

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A comparative study of methods for estimating query language models with pseudo feedback
Yuanhua Lv | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2009, Hong Kong, China, November 2-6, 2009

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Constrained multi-aspect expertise matching for committee review assignment
Maryam Karimzadehgan | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2009, Hong Kong, China, November 2-6, 2009

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Beyond hyperlinks: organizing information footprints in search logs to support effective browsing
Xuanhui Wang | Bin Tan | Azadeh Shakery | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2009, Hong Kong, China, November 2-6, 2009

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Generating comparative summaries of contradictory opinions in text
Hyun Duk Kim | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2009, Hong Kong, China, November 2-6, 2009

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Adaptive relevance feedback in information retrieval
Yuanhua Lv | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2009, Hong Kong, China, November 2-6, 2009

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Rated aspect summarization of short comments
Yue Lu | ChengXiang Zhai | Neel Sundaresan
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2009, Madrid, Spain, April 20-24, 2009

2008

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Statistical Language Models for Information Retrieval
ChengXiang Zhai
2008

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Learning to rank for information retrieval (LR4IR 2008)
Hang Li | Tie-Yan Liu | ChengXiang Zhai
2008 Volume 42 Issue 2

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DirichletRank: Solving the zero-one gap problem of PageRank
Xuanhui Wang | Tao Tao | Jian-Tao Sun | Azadeh Shakery | Chengxiang Zhai
2008 Volume 26 Issue 2

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Smoothing document language models with probabilistic term count propagation
Azadeh Shakery | ChengXiang Zhai
2008 Volume 11 Issue 2

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Statistical Language Models for Information Retrieval: A Critical Review
ChengXiang Zhai
2008 Volume 2 Issue 3

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A Study of Adaptive Relevance Feedback - UIUC TREC 2008 Relevance Feedback Experiments
Yuanhua Lv | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of The Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2008, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 18-21, 2008

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A general optimization framework for smoothing language models on graph structures
Qiaozhu Mei | Duo Zhang | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2008, Singapore, July 20-24, 2008

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A study of methods for negative relevance feedback
Xuanhui Wang | Hui Fang | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2008, Singapore, July 20-24, 2008

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Multi-aspect expertise matching for review assignment
Maryam Karimzadehgan | ChengXiang Zhai | Geneva G. Belford
Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2008, Napa Valley, California, USA, October 26-30, 2008

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Modeling hidden topics on document manifold
Deng Cai | Qiaozhu Mei | Jiawei Han | Chengxiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2008, Napa Valley, California, USA, October 26-30, 2008

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Mining term association patterns from search logs for effective query reformulation
Xuanhui Wang | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2008, Napa Valley, California, USA, October 26-30, 2008

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Opinion integration through semi-supervised topic modeling
Yue Lu | Chengxiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2008, Beijing, China, April 21-25, 2008

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Topic modeling with network regularization
Qiaozhu Mei | Deng Cai | Duo Zhang | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2008, Beijing, China, April 21-25, 2008

2007

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Learning to rank for information retrieval (LR4IR 2007)
Thorsten Joachims | Hang Li | Tie-Yan Liu | ChengXiang Zhai
2007 Volume 41 Issue 2

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Meeting of the MINDS: an information retrieval research agenda
Jamie Callan | James Allan | Charles L. A. Clarke | Susan T. Dumais | David A. Evans | Mark Sanderson | ChengXiang Zhai
2007 Volume 41 Issue 2

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Privacy protection in personalized search
Xuehua Shen | Bin Tan | ChengXiang Zhai
2007 Volume 41 Issue 1

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An empirical study of tokenization strategies for biomedical information retrieval
Jing Jiang | ChengXiang Zhai
2007 Volume 10 Issue 4-5

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Generating gene summaries from biomedical literature: A study of semi-structured summarization
Xu Ling | Jing Jiang | Xin He | Qiaozhu Mei | Chengxiang Zhai | Bruce R. Schatz
2007 Volume 43 Issue 6

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Language Models for Genomics Information Retrieval: UIUC at TREC 2007 Genomics Track
Yue Lu | Jing Jiang | Xu Ling | Xin He | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of The Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2007, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 5-9, 2007

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A study of Poisson query generation model for information retrieval
Qiaozhu Mei | Hui Fang | ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 23-27, 2007

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An exploration of proximity measures in information retrieval
Tao Tao | ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 23-27, 2007

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Term feedback for information retrieval with language models
Bin Tan | Atulya Velivelli | Hui Fang | ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 23-27, 2007

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Learn from web search logs to organize search results
Xuanhui Wang | ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 23-27, 2007

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Improve retrieval accuracy for difficult queries using negative feedback
Xuanhui Wang | Hui Fang | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, November 6-10, 2007

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A two-stage approach to domain adaptation for statistical classifiers
Jing Jiang | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, November 6-10, 2007

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Topic sentiment mixture: modeling facets and opinions in weblogs
Qiaozhu Mei | Xu Ling | Matthew Wondra | Hang Su | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 8-12, 2007

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Probabilistic Models for Expert Finding
Hui Fang | ChengXiang Zhai
Advances in Information Retrieval, 29th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2007, Rome, Italy, April 2-5, 2007, Proceedings

2006

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Extraction of coherent relevant passages using hidden Markov models
Jing Jiang | Chengxiang Zhai
2006 Volume 24 Issue 3

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A study of mixture models for collaborative filtering
Rong Jin | Luo Si | Chengxiang Zhai
2006 Volume 9 Issue 3

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A risk minimization framework for information retrieval
ChengXiang Zhai | John D. Lafferty
2006 Volume 42 Issue 1

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Robust Pseudo Feedback Estimation and HMM Passage Extraction: UIUC at TREC 2006 Genomics Track
Jing Jiang | Xin He | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2006, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 14-17, 2006

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Language Models for Expert Finding–UIUC TREC 2006 Enterprise Track Experiments
Hui Fang | Lixin Zhou | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2006, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 14-17, 2006

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Latent semantic analysis for multiple-type interrelated data objects
Xuanhui Wang | Jian-Tao Sun | Zheng Chen | ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Seattle, Washington, USA, August 6-11, 2006

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Regularized estimation of mixture models for robust pseudo-relevance feedback
Tao Tao | ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Seattle, Washington, USA, August 6-11, 2006

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Semantic term matching in axiomatic approaches to information retrieval
Hui Fang | ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Seattle, Washington, USA, August 6-11, 2006

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Best-k queries on database systems
Tao Tao | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 6-11, 2006

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A probabilistic relevance propagation model for hypertext retrieval
Azadeh Shakery | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 6-11, 2006

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A probabilistic approach to spatiotemporal theme pattern mining on weblogs
Qiaozhu Mei | Chao Liu | Hang Su | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, May 23-26, 2006

2005

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UIUC/MUSC at TREC 2005 Genomics Track
ChengXiang Zhai | Xu Ling | Xin He | Atulya Velivelli | Xuanhui Wang | Hui Fang | Azadeh Shakery | Xinghua Lu
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2005, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 15-18, 2005

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Interactive Construction of Query Language Models - UIUC TREC 2005 HARD Track Experiments
Bin Tan | Atulya Velivelli | Hui Fang | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2005, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 15-18, 2005

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An Axiomatic Approach to IR–UIUC TREC 2005 Robust Track Experiments
Hui Fang | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2005, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 15-18, 2005

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UCAIR: a personalized search toolbar
Xuehua Shen | Bin Tan | ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR 2005: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Salvador, Brazil, August 15-19, 2005

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An exploration of axiomatic approaches to information retrieval
Hui Fang | ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR 2005: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Salvador, Brazil, August 15-19, 2005

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Active feedback in ad hoc information retrieval
Xuehua Shen | ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR 2005: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Salvador, Brazil, August 15-19, 2005

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Context-sensitive information retrieval using implicit feedback
Xuehua Shen | Bin Tan | ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR 2005: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Salvador, Brazil, August 15-19, 2005

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Implicit user modeling for personalized search
Xuehua Shen | Bin Tan | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Bremen, Germany, October 31 - November 5, 2005

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Accurately extracting coherent relevant passages using hidden Markov models
Jing Jiang | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Bremen, Germany, October 31 - November 5, 2005

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Accurate language model estimation with document expansion
Tao Tao | Xuanhui Wang | Qiaozhu Mei | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Bremen, Germany, October 31 - November 5, 2005

2004

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A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to information retrieval
ChengXiang Zhai | John D. Lafferty
2004 Volume 22 Issue 2

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UIUC in HARD 2004–Passage Retrieval Using HMMs
Jing Jiang | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2004, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 16-19, 2004

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ACES: a contextual engine for search
Xuehua Shen | Smitha Sriram | ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR 2004: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Sheffield, UK, July 25-29, 2004

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A session-based search engine
Smitha Sriram | Xuehua Shen | ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR 2004: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Sheffield, UK, July 25-29, 2004

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A two-stage mixture model for pseudo feedback
Tao Tao | ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR 2004: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Sheffield, UK, July 25-29, 2004

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A formal study of information retrieval heuristics
Hui Fang | Tao Tao | ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR 2004: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Sheffield, UK, July 25-29, 2004

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Proceedings of the 2004 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Washington, DC, USA, November 8-13, 2004

2003

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Challenges in information retrieval and language modeling: report of a workshop held at the center for intelligent information retrieval, University of Massachusetts Amherst, September 2002
James Allan | Jay Aslam | Nicholas J. Belkin | Chris Buckley | James P. Callan | W. Bruce Croft | Susan T. Dumais | Norbert Fuhr | Donna Harman | David J. Harper | Djoerd Hiemstra | Thomas Hofmann | Eduard H. Hovy | Wessel Kraaij | John D. Lafferty | Victor Lavrenko | David D. Lewis | Liz Liddy | R. Manmatha | Andrew McCallum | Jay M. Ponte | John M. Prager | Dragomir R. Radev | Philip Resnik | Stephen E. Robertson | Ronald Rosenfeld | Salim Roukos | Mark Sanderson | Richard M. Schwartz | Amit Singhal | Alan F. Smeaton | Howard R. Turtle | Ellen M. Voorhees | Ralph M. Weischedel | Jinxi Xu | ChengXiang Zhai
2003 Volume 37 Issue 1

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Relevance Propagation for Topic Distillation UIUC TREC 2003 Web Track Experiments
Azadeh Shakery | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of The Twelfth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2003, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 18-21, 2003

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Improving the Robustness of Language Models - UIUC TREC 2003 Robust and Genomics Experiments
ChengXiang Zhai | Tao Tao | Hui Fang | Zhidi Shang
Proceedings of The Twelfth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2003, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 18-21, 2003

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Active Feedback - UIUC TREC-2003 HARD Experiments
Xuehua Shen | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of The Twelfth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2003, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 18-21, 2003

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Error analysis of difficult TREC topics
Xiao Hu | Sindhura Bandhakavi | ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR 2003: Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 28 - August 1, 2003, Toronto, Canada

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Exploiting query history for document ranking in interactive information retrieval
Xuehua Shen | ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR 2003: Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 28 - August 1, 2003, Toronto, Canada

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Beyond independent relevance: methods and evaluation metrics for subtopic retrieval
ChengXiang Zhai | William W. Cohen | John D. Lafferty
SIGIR 2003: Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 28 - August 1, 2003, Toronto, Canada

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Collaborative filtering with decoupled models for preferences and ratings
Rong Jin | Luo Si | ChengXiang Zhai | James P. Callan
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November 2-8, 2003

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Text classification from positive and unlabeled documents
Hwanjo Yu | ChengXiang Zhai | Jiawei Han
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November 2-8, 2003

2002

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Risk minimization and language modeling in text retrieval dissertation abstract
ChengXiang Zhai
2002 Volume 36 Issue 2

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Two-stage language models for information retrieval
ChengXiang Zhai | John D. Lafferty
SIGIR 2002: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, August 11-15, 2002, Tampere, Finland

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Title language model for information retrieval
Rong Jin | Alexander G. Hauptmann | ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR 2002: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, August 11-15, 2002, Tampere, Finland

2001

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A Study of Smoothing Methods for Language Models Applied to Ad Hoc Information Retrieval
ChengXiang Zhai | John D. Lafferty
SIGIR 2001: Proceedings of the 24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, September 9-13, 2001, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

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Document Language Models, Query Models, and Risk Minimization for Information Retrieval
John D. Lafferty | ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR 2001: Proceedings of the 24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, September 9-13, 2001, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

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Model-based Feedback in the Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval
ChengXiang Zhai | John D. Lafferty
Proceedings of the 2001 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, November 5-10, 2001

2000

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Exploration of a heuristic approach to threshold learning in adaptive filtering
ChengXiang Zhai | Peter Jansen | David A. Evans
SIGIR 2000: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 24-28, 2000, Athens, Greece

1999

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Optimization in CLARIT TREC-8 Adaptive Filtering
ChengXiang Zhai | Peter Jansen | Norbert Roma | Emilia Stoica | David A. Evans
Proceedings of The Eighth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 1999, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 17-19, 1999

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CLARIT TREC-8 Manual Ad-Hoc Experiments
David A. Evans | Jeffrey Bennett | Xiang Tong | Alison Huettner | ChengXiang Zhai | Emilia Stoica
Proceedings of The Eighth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 1999, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 17-19, 1999

1998

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Threshold Calibration in CLARIT Adaptive Filtering
ChengXiang Zhai | Peter Jansen | Emilia Stoica | Norbert Grot | David A. Evans
Proceedings of The Seventh Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 1998, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 9-11, 1998

1996

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OCR Correction and Query Expansion for Retrieval on OCR Data – CLARIT TREC-5 Confusion Track Report
Xiang Tong | ChengXiang Zhai | Natasa Milic-Frayling | David A. Evans
Proceedings of The Fifth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 1996, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 20-22, 1996

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Experiments on Chinese Text Indexing – CLARIT TREC-5 Chinese Track Report
Xiang Tong | ChengXiang Zhai | Natasa Milic-Frayling | David A. Evans
Proceedings of The Fifth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 1996, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 20-22, 1996

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Evaluation of Syntactic Phrase Indexing – CLARIT NLP Track Report
Xiang Tong | ChengXiang Zhai | Natasa Milic-Frayling | David A. Evans
Proceedings of The Fifth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 1996, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 20-22, 1996

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CLARIT Compound Queries and Constraint-Controlled Feedback in TREC-5 Ad-Hoc Experiments
Natasa Milic-Frayling | David A. Evans | Xiang Tong | ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of The Fifth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 1996, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 20-22, 1996

1995

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CLARIT TREC-4 Interactive Experiments
Natasa Milic-Frayling | Michael P. Mastroianni | David A. Evans | Robert G. Lefferts | ChengXiang Zhai | Xiang Tong
Proceedings of The Fourth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 1995, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 1-3, 1995

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