ChengXiang Zhai

2025

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TINK: Text Information Navigation Kit.
Dean E. Alvarez|ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025
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Theory and Toolkits for User Simulation in the Era of Generative AI: User Modeling, Synthetic Data Generation, and System Evaluation.
Krisztian Balog|Nolwenn Bernard|Saber Zerhoudi|ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025
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InstInfo: A Just-in-Time Literature Recommendation System for Presentations.
Kevin Ros|Rahul Suresh|ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025
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Information Retrieval for Artificial General Intelligence: A New Perspective of Information Retrieval Research.
ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025

2024

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User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems.
Krisztian Balog|ChengXiang Zhai
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval 2024 Volume 18 Issue 1-2
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Report on the 1st Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2024) at SIGIR 2024.
Timo Breuer|Christin Katharina Kreutz|Norbert Fuhr|Krisztian Balog|Philipp Schaer|Nolwenn Bernard|Ingo Frommholz|Marcel Gohsen|Kaixin Ji|Gareth J. F. Jones|Jüri Keller|Jiqun Liu|Martin Mladenov|Gabriella Pasi|Johanne R. Trippas|Xi Wang|Saber Zerhoudi|ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR Forum 2024 Volume 58 Issue 2
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TextData: Save What You Know and Find What You Don't.
Kevin Ros|Kedar Takwane|Ashwin Patil|Rakshana Jayaprakash|ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2024, Washington DC, USA, July 14-18, 2024
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Large Language Models and Future of Information Retrieval: Opportunities and Challenges.
ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2024, Washington DC, USA, July 14-18, 2024
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CharmBana: Progressive Responses with Real-Time Internet Search for Knowledge-Powered Conversations.
Revanth Gangi Reddy|Sharath Chandra Etagi Suresh|Hao Bai|Wentao Yao|Mankeerat Sidhu|Karan Aggarwal|Prathamesh Sonawane|ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2024, Merida, Mexico, March 4-8, 2024
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Tutorial on User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems on the Web.
Krisztian Balog|ChengXiang Zhai
Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024, WWW 2024, Singapore, Singapore, May 13-17, 2024

2023

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Tutorial on User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems.
Krisztian Balog|ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2023, Birmingham, United Kingdom, October 21-25, 2023
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Retrieving Webpages Using Online Discussions.
Kevin Ros|Matthew Jin|Jacob Levine|ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, 23 July 2023
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OVERVIEW OF THE TREC 2023 PRODUCT PRODUCT SEARCH TRACK.
Daniel Campos|Surya Kallumadi|Corby Rosset|Cheng Xiang Zhai|Alessandro Magnani
The Thirty-Second Text REtrieval Conference Proceedings (TREC 2023), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 14-17, 2023
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CAM: A Large Language Model-based Creative Analogy Mining Framework.
Bhavya|Jinjun Xiong|Chengxiang Zhai
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, WWW 2023, Austin, TX, USA, 30 April 2023 - 4 May 2023

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
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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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Information Retrieval Evaluation as Search Simulation.
ChengXiang Zhai
Proceedings of the 16th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, NTCIR 2022, Tokyo, Japan, June 14-17, 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

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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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
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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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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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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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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

2020

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

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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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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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
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Help Me Search: Leveraging User-System Collaboration for Query Construction to Improve Accuracy for Difficult Queries.
Saar Kuzi|ChengXiang Zhai|Jose Miguel Herrera|Abhishek Narwekar|Anusri Pampari|Jose Miguel Herrera|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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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.

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
Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 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
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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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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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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

2017

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Document Language Models, Query Models, and Risk Minimization for Information Retrieval.
John D. Lafferty|Chengxiang Zhai
SIGIR Forum 2017 Volume 51 Issue 2
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A Study of Smoothing Methods for Language Models Applied to Ad Hoc Information Retrieval.
Chengxiang Zhai|John D. Lafferty
SIGIR Forum 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
SIGIR Forum 2017 Volume 51 Issue 3
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2016, Indianapolis, IN, USA, October 24-28, 2016
Javed Mostafa|Dongsup Kim|Javed Mostafa|Dongsup Kim
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2016
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Personalized generation of word clouds from tweets.
Martin Leginus|ChengXiang Zhai|Peter Dolog
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) 2016 Volume 67 Issue 5
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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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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

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
International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR) 2015
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Beyond Independent Relevance: Methods and Evaluation Metrics for Subtopic Retrieval.
ChengXiang Zhai|William W. Cohen|John D. Lafferty
SIGIR Forum 2015 Volume 49 Issue 1
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Negative query generation: bridging the gap between query likelihood retrieval models and relevance.
Yuanhua Lv|ChengXiang Zhai
Discover Computing 2015 Volume 18 Issue 4
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OpinoFetch: a practical and efficient approach to collecting opinions on arbitrary entities.
Kavita Ganesan|ChengXiang Zhai
Discover Computing 2015 Volume 18 Issue 6
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Overcoming bias to learn about controversial topics.
V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran|ChengXiang Zhai|Dan Roth|Peter Pirolli
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) 2015 Volume 66 Issue 8
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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
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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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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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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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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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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

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
Arjen P. de Vries|Maarten de Rijke|Arjen P. de Vries|Maarten de Rijke
European Conference on Advances in Information Retrieval (ECIR) 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
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) 2014 Volume 65 Issue 9
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

2013

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Leveraging comparable corpora for cross-lingual information retrieval in resource-lean language pairs.
Azadeh Shakery|ChengXiang Zhai
Discover Computing 2013 Volume 16 Issue 1
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A learning approach to optimizing exploration-exploitation tradeoff in relevance feedback.
Maryam Karimzadehgan|ChengXiang Zhai
Discover Computing 2013 Volume 16 Issue 3
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A probabilistic mixture model for mining and analyzing product search log.
Huizhong Duan|ChengXiang Zhai|Hwan-Gue Cho|Jinxing Cheng|Hwan-Gue Cho|ChengXiang Zhai|Rohit Kumar
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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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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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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FindiLike: a preference driven entity search engine for evaluating entity retrieval and opinion summarization.
Kavita Ganesan|ChengXiang Zhai|Mitch Cherniack
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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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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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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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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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
Discover Computing 2012 Volume 15 Issue 2
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Integer linear programming for Constrained Multi-Aspect Committee Review Assignment.
Maryam Karimzadehgan|ChengXiang Zhai
Information Processing and Management 2012 Volume 48 Issue 4
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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)

2011

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Investigating task performance of probabilistic topic models: an empirical study of PLSA and LDA.
Yue Lu|Qiaozhu Mei|ChengXiang Zhai
Discover Computing 2011 Volume 14 Issue 2
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Diagnostic Evaluation of Information Retrieval Models.
Hui Fang|Tao Tao|ChengXiang Zhai
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2011 Volume 29 Issue 2
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

2010

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Web N-gram workshop 2010.
Chengxiang Zhai|Kuansan Wang|David Yarowsky|Stephan Vogel|Evelyne Viegas
SIGIR Forum 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
Discover Computing 2010 Volume 13 Issue 3
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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

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
ChengXiang Zhai|Eduard H. Hovy|Makoto Iwayama|Javed A. Aslam|Makoto Iwayama|ChengXiang Zhai|Javed A. Aslam|Eduard H. Hovy
Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) 2009
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An empirical study of gene synonym query expansion in biomedical information retrieval.
Yue Lu|Hui Fang|Chengxiang Zhai
Discover Computing 2009 Volume 12 Issue 1
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Learning to rank for information retrieval (LR4IR 2009).
Hang Li|Tie-Yan Liu|ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR Forum 2009 Volume 43 Issue 2
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Smoothing document language models with probabilistic term count propagation.
Azadeh Shakery|ChengXiang Zhai
Discover Computing 2008 Volume 11 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
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2008 Volume 26 Issue 2
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Learning to rank for information retrieval (LR4IR 2008).
Hang Li|Tie-Yan Liu|ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR Forum 2008 Volume 42 Issue 2
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Statistical Language Models for Information Retrieval: A Critical Review.
ChengXiang Zhai
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval 2008 Volume 2 Issue 3
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Privacy protection in personalized search.
Xuehua Shen|Bin Tan|ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR Forum 2007 Volume 41 Issue 1
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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
SIGIR Forum 2007 Volume 41 Issue 2
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Learning to rank for information retrieval (LR4IR 2007).
Thorsten Joachims|Hang Li|Tie-Yan Liu|ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR Forum 2007 Volume 41 Issue 2
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An empirical study of tokenization strategies for biomedical information retrieval.
Jing Jiang|ChengXiang Zhai
Discover Computing 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
Information Processing and Management 2007 Volume 43 Issue 6
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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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

2006

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A risk minimization framework for information retrieval.
ChengXiang Zhai|John D. Lafferty
Information Processing and Management 2006 Volume 42 Issue 1
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Extraction of coherent relevant passages using hidden Markov models.
Jing Jiang|Chengxiang Zhai
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2006 Volume 24 Issue 3
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A study of mixture models for collaborative filtering.
Rong Jin|Luo Si|Chengxiang Zhai
Discover Computing 2006 Volume 9 Issue 3
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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An exploration of axiomatic approaches to information retrieval.
ChengXiang Zhai|Zhongyu Wei|Hui Fang|Zhongyu Wei|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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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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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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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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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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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

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
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2004
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A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to information retrieval.
ChengXiang Zhai|John D. Lafferty
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2004 Volume 22 Issue 2
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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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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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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

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
SIGIR Forum 2003 Volume 37 Issue 1
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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
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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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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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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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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

2002

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

2001

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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
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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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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

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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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
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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

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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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
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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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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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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

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