Virgiliu Pavlu


2013

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Optimizing nDCG Gains by Minimizing Effect of Label Inconsistency
Pavel Metrikov | Virgiliu Pavlu | Javed A. Aslam
Advances in Information Retrieval - 35th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2013, Moscow, Russia, March 24-27, 2013. Proceedings

2012

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IR system evaluation using nugget-based test collections
Virgiliu Pavlu | Shahzad Rajput | Peter B. Golbus | Javed A. Aslam
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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Impact of assessor disagreement on ranking performance
Pavel Metrikov | Virgiliu Pavlu | Javed A. Aslam
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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Constructing test collections by inferring document relevance via extracted relevant information
Shahzad Rajput | Matthew Ekstrand-Abueg | Virgiliu Pavlu | Javed A. Aslam
21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'12, Maui, HI, USA, October 29 - November 02, 2012

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Extended Expectation Maximization for Inferring Score Distributions
Keshi Dai | Virgiliu Pavlu | Evangelos Kanoulas | Javed A. Aslam
Advances in Information Retrieval - 34th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2012, Barcelona, Spain, April 1-5, 2012. Proceedings

2011

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Variational bayes for modeling score distributions
Keshi Dai | Evangelos Kanoulas | Virgiliu Pavlu | Javed A. Aslam
2011 Volume 14 Issue 1

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A large-scale study of the effect of training set characteristics over learning-to-rank algorithms
Evangelos Kanoulas | Stefan Savev | Pavel Metrikov | Virgiliu Pavlu | Javed A. Aslam
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 nugget-based test collection construction paradigm
Shahzad Rajput | Virgiliu Pavlu | Peter B. Golbus | Javed A. Aslam
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2011, Glasgow, United Kingdom, October 24-28, 2011

2010

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Reusable test collections through experimental design
Ben Carterette | Evangelos Kanoulas | Virgiliu Pavlu | Hui Fang
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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Score distribution models: assumptions, intuition, and robustness to score manipulation
Evangelos Kanoulas | Keshi Dai | Virgiliu Pavlu | Javed A. Aslam
Proceeding of the 33rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2010, Geneva, Switzerland, July 19-23, 2010

2009

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Northeastern University in the TREC 2009 Web Track
Shahzad Rajput | Evangelos Kanoulas | Virgiliu Pavlu | Javed A. Aslam
Proceedings of The Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2009, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 17-20, 2009

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Northeastern University in TREC 2009 Million Query Track
Evangelos Kanoulas | Keshi Dai | Virgiliu Pavlu | Stefan Savev | Javed A. Aslam
Proceedings of The Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2009, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 17-20, 2009

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Million Query Track 2009 Overview
Ben Carterette | Virgiliu Pavlu | Hui Fang | Evangelos Kanoulas
Proceedings of The Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2009, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 17-20, 2009

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Modeling the Score Distributions of Relevant and Non-relevant Documents
Evangelos Kanoulas | Virgiliu Pavlu | Keshi Dai | Javed A. Aslam
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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Document selection methodologies for efficient and effective learning-to-rank
Javed A. Aslam | Evangelos Kanoulas | Virgiliu Pavlu | Stefan Savev | Emine Yilmaz
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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If I Had a Million Queries
Ben Carterette | Virgiliu Pavlu | Evangelos Kanoulas | Javed A. Aslam | James Allan
Advances in Information Retrieval, 31th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2009, Toulouse, France, April 6-9, 2009. Proceedings

2008

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Evaluation over thousands of queries
Ben Carterette | Virgiliu Pavlu | Evangelos Kanoulas | Javed A. Aslam | James Allan
Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2008, Singapore, July 20-24, 2008

2007

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The Hedge Algorithm for Metasearch at TREC 2007
Javed A. Aslam | Virgiliu Pavlu | Olena Zubaryeva
Proceedings of The Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2007, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 5-9, 2007

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Million Query Track 2007 Overview
James Allan | Ben Carterette | Blagovest Dachev | Javed A. Aslam | Virgiliu Pavlu | Evangelos Kanoulas
Proceedings of The Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2007, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 5-9, 2007

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Query Hardness Estimation Using Jensen-Shannon Divergence Among Multiple Scoring Functions
Javed A. Aslam | Virgiliu Pavlu
Advances in Information Retrieval, 29th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2007, Rome, Italy, April 2-5, 2007, Proceedings

2006

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The Hedge Algorithm for Metasearch at TREC 2006
Javed A. Aslam | Virgiliu Pavlu | Carlos Rei
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2006, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 14-17, 2006

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A statistical method for system evaluation using incomplete judgments
Javed A. Aslam | Virgiliu Pavlu | Emine Yilmaz
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

2005

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A geometric interpretation of r-precision and its correlation with average precision
Javed A. Aslam | Emine Yilmaz | Virgiliu Pavlu
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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Measure-based metasearch
Javed A. Aslam | Virgiliu Pavlu | Emine Yilmaz
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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The maximum entropy method for analyzing retrieval measures
Javed A. Aslam | Emine Yilmaz | Virgiliu Pavlu
SIGIR 2005: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Salvador, Brazil, August 15-19, 2005

2003

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A unified model for metasearch and the efficient evaluation of retrieval systems via the hedge algorithm
Javed A. Aslam | Virgiliu Pavlu | Robert Savell
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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A unified model for metasearch, pooling, and system evaluation
Javed A. Aslam | Virgiliu Pavlu | Robert Savell
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November 2-8, 2003