Stephen Robertson


2017

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Forward to the Past: Notes towards a Pre-history of Web Search
Stephen Robertson
Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, August 7-11, 2017

2014

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Probabilistic models in IR and their relationships
Robin Aly | Thomas Demeester | Stephen Robertson
2014 Volume 17 Issue 2

2013

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Modelling Score Distributions Without Actual Scores
Stephen Robertson | Evangelos Kanoulas | Emine Yilmaz
International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR '13, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 29 - October 02, 2013

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On Using Fewer Topics in Information Retrieval Evaluations
Andrea Berto | Stefano Mizzaro | Stephen Robertson
International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR '13, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 29 - October 02, 2013

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Probabilistic group recommendation via information matching
Jagadeesh Gorla | Neal Lathia | Stephen Robertson | Jun Wang
22nd International World Wide Web Conference, WWW '13, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 13-17, 2013

2012

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On Smoothing Average Precision
Stephen Robertson
Advances in Information Retrieval - 34th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2012, Barcelona, Spain, April 1-5, 2012. Proceedings

2011

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Modeling score distributions in information retrieval
Avi Arampatzis | Stephen Robertson
2011 Volume 14 Issue 1

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Introduction to special issue on the second international conference on the theory of information retrieval
Leif Azzopardi | Dawei Song | Gabriella Kazai | Stephen Robertson | Stefan M. Rüger | Milad Shokouhi | Emine Yilmaz
2011 Volume 14 Issue 1

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On the Contributions of Topics to System Evaluation
Stephen Robertson
Advances in Information Retrieval - 33rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2011, Dublin, Ireland, April 18-21, 2011. Proceedings

2010

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On the choice of effectiveness measures for learning to rank
Emine Yilmaz | Stephen Robertson
2010 Volume 13 Issue 3

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Simple Evaluation Metrics for Diversified Search Results
Tetsuya Sakai | Nick Craswell | Ruihua Song | Stephen Robertson | Zhicheng Dou | Chin-Yew Lin
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access, EVIA 2010, National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, Japan, June 15, 2010

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Expected browsing utility for web search evaluation
Emine Yilmaz | Milad Shokouhi | Nick Craswell | Stephen Robertson
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2010, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 26-30, 2010

2009

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A few good topics: Experiments in topic set reduction for retrieval evaluation
John Guiver | Stefano Mizzaro | Stephen Robertson
2009 Volume 27 Issue 4

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Incorporating User Behavior Information in IR Evaluation
Emine Yilmaz | Milad Shokouhi | Nick Craswell | Stephen Robertson
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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Microsoft Research at TREC 2009: Web and Relevance Feedback Track
Nick Craswell | Dennis Fetterly | Marc Najork | Stephen Robertson | Emine Yilmaz
Proceedings of The Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2009, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 17-20, 2009

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Score Distributions in Information Retrieval
Avi Arampatzis | Stephen Robertson | Jaap Kamps
Advances in Information Retrieval Theory, Second International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2009, Cambridge, UK, September 10-12, 2009, Proceedings

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Deep versus shallow judgments in learning to rank
Emine Yilmaz | Stephen Robertson
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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Where to stop reading a ranked list?: threshold optimization using truncated score distributions
Avi Arampatzis | Jaap Kamps | Stephen Robertson
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

2008

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Probabilistic relevance ranking for collaborative filtering
Jun Wang | Stephen Robertson | Arjen P. de Vries | Marcel J. T. Reinders
2008 Volume 11 Issue 6

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Karen Spärck Jones
Stephen Robertson | John Tait
2008 Volume 59 Issue 5

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Modelling A User Population for Designing Information Retrieval Metrics
Tetsuya Sakai | Stephen Robertson
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access, EVIA 2008, National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, Japan, December 16, 2008

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SoftRank: optimizing non-smooth rank metrics
Michael J. Taylor | John Guiver | Stephen Robertson | Tom Minka
Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, WSDM 2008, Palo Alto, California, USA, February 11-12, 2008

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Relevance Feedback Track Overview: TREC 2008
Chris Buckley | Stephen Robertson
Proceedings of The Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2008, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 18-21, 2008

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A new interpretation of average precision
Stephen Robertson
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 new rank correlation coefficient for information retrieval
Emine Yilmaz | Javed A. Aslam | Stephen Robertson
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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Selecting good expansion terms for pseudo-relevance feedback
Guihong Cao | Jian-Yun Nie | Jianfeng Gao | Stephen Robertson
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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Comparing citation contexts for information retrieval
Anna Ritchie | Stephen Robertson | Simone Teufel
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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The study of information retrieval: a long view
Stephen Robertson
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Interaction in Context, IIiX 2008, London, UK, October 14-17, 2008

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Using Terms from Citations for IR: Some First Results
Anna Ritchie | Simone Teufel | Stephen Robertson
Advances in Information Retrieval , 30th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2008, Glasgow, UK, March 30-April 3, 2008. Proceedings

2007

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On rank-based effectiveness measures and optimization
Stephen Robertson | Hugo Zaragoza
2007 Volume 10 Issue 3

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In Memoriam: Karen Spärck Jones
Stephen Robertson | John Tait
2007 Volume 43 Issue 6

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Expanding a Test Collection for Citation-based IR Experiments
Anna Ritchie | Stephen Robertson | Simone Teufel
Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval (Recherche d'Information et ses Applications) - RIAO 2007, 8th International Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 30 - June 1, 2007. Proceedings, CD-ROM

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Hits hits TREC: exploring IR evaluation results with network analysis
Stefano Mizzaro | Stephen Robertson
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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On Score Distributions and Relevance
Stephen Robertson
Advances in Information Retrieval, 29th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2007, Rome, Italy, April 2-5, 2007, Proceedings

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The Last Half-Century: A Perspective on Experimentation in Information Retrieval
Stephen Robertson
Advances in Information Retrieval, 29th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2007, Rome, Italy, April 2-5, 2007, Proceedings

2006

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Optimisation methods for ranking functions with multiple parameters
Michael J. Taylor | Hugo Zaragoza | Nick Craswell | Stephen Robertson | Chris Burges
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 6-11, 2006

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On GMAP: and other transformations
Stephen Robertson
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 6-11, 2006

2005

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Microsoft Cambridge at TREC 14: Enterprise Track
Nick Craswell | Hugo Zaragoza | Stephen Robertson
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2005, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 15-18, 2005