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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

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Embedded Representations of Lexical and Knowledge-Base Semantics
Andrew McCallum

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Theory of Retrieval: The Retrievability of Information
Leif Azzopardi

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Statistical Significance Testing in Information Retrieval: Theory and Practice
Ben Carterette

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An Axiomatically Derived Measure for the Evaluation of Classification Algorithms
Fabrizio Sebastiani

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Towards a Formal Framework for Utility-oriented Measurements of Retrieval Effectiveness
Marco Ferrante | Nicola Ferro | Maria Maistro

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Bayesian Inference for Information Retrieval Evaluation
Ben Carterette

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Transferring Learning To Rank Models for Web Search
Craig Macdonald | Bekir Taner Dinçer | Iadh Ounis

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The Probability Ranking Principle is Not Optimal in Adversarial Retrieval Settings
Ran Ben-Basat | Moshe Tennenholtz | Oren Kurland

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Dynamic Information Retrieval: Theoretical Framework and Application
Marc Sloan | Jun Wang

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A Theoretical Analysis of Two-Stage Recommendation for Cold-Start Collaborative Filtering
Xiaoxue Zhao | Jun Wang

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An Analysis of Theories of Search and Search Behavior
Leif Azzopardi | Guido Zuccon

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Dynamic Test Collections for Retrieval Evaluation
Ben Carterette | Ashraf Bah | Mustafa Zengin

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Development and Evaluation of Search Tasks for IIR Experiments using a Cognitive Complexity Framework
Diane Kelly | Jaime Arguello | Ashlee Edwards | Wan-Ching Wu

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Query Expansion with Freebase
Chenyan Xiong | Jamie Callan

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Language-independent Query Representation for IR Model Parameter Estimation on Unlabeled Collections
Parantapa Goswami | Massih-Reza Amini | Éric Gaussier

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Terms, Topics & Tasks: Enhanced User Modelling for Better Personalization
Rishabh Mehrotra | Emine Yilmaz

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Axiomatic Analysis of Smoothing Methods in Language Models for Pseudo-Relevance Feedback
Hussein Hazimeh | ChengXiang Zhai

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On Divergence Measures and Static Index Pruning
Ruey-Cheng Chen | Chia-Jung Lee | W. Bruce Croft

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Partially Labeled Supervised Topic Models for RetrievingSimilar Questions in CQA Forums
Debasis Ganguly | Gareth J. F. Jones

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Entity Linking in Queries: Tasks and Evaluation
Faegheh Hasibi | Krisztian Balog | Svein Erik Bratsberg

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Random Walks on the Reputation Graph
Sabir Ribas | Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto | Rodrygo L. T. Santos | Edmundo de Souza e Silva | Alberto Ueda | Nivio Ziviani

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Entropy and Graph Based Modelling of Document Coherence using Discourse Entities: An Application to IR
Casper Petersen | Christina Lioma | Jakob Grue Simonsen | Birger Larsen

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Improving Patent Search by Search Result Diversification
Youngho Kim | W. Bruce Croft

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On Microblog Dimensionality and Informativeness: Exploiting Microblogs' Structure and Dimensions for Ad-Hoc Retrieval
Jesus Alberto Rodriguez Perez | Joemon M. Jose

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Online News Tracking for Ad-Hoc Information Needs
Jeroen B. P. Vuurens | Arjen P. de Vries | Roi Blanco | Peter Mika

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IR meets NLP: On the Semantic Similarity between Subject-Verb-Object Phrases
Dmitrijs Milajevs | Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh | Thomas Roelleke

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A Theoretical Analysis of Cross-lingual Semantic Relatedness in Vector Space Models
Lei Zhang | Thanh Tran | Achim Rettinger

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Context Retrieval for Web Tables
Hong Wang | Anqi Liu | Jing Wang | Brian D. Ziebart | Clement T. Yu | Warren Shen

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Session Search by Direct Policy Learning
Jiyun Luo | Xuchu Dong | Hui Yang

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Learning to Reinforce Search Effectiveness
Jiyun Luo | Xuchu Dong | Hui Yang

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Learning Asymmetric Co-Relevance
Fiana Raiber | Oren Kurland | Filip Radlinski | Milad Shokouhi

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Implicit Preference Labels for Learning Highly Selective Personalized Rankers
Paul N. Bennett | Milad Shokouhi | Rich Caruana

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Anytime Ranking for Impact-Ordered Indexes
Jimmy Lin | Andrew Trotman

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Balancing Aspects in Retrieved Search Results
David Wemhoener | James Allan

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Building a Self-Contained Search Engine in the Browser
Jimmy Lin

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Condensed List Relevance Models
Fernando Diaz

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Estimating the Uncertainty of Average F1 Scores
Dell Zhang | Jun Wang | Xiaoxue Zhao

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The Feasibility of Brute Force Scans for Real-Time Tweet Search
Yulu Wang | Jimmy Lin

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Improving Pseudo Relevance Feedback in the Divergence from Randomness Model
Dipasree Pal | Mandar Mitra | Samar Bhattacharya

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An Initial Analytical Exploration of Retrievability
Aldo Lipani | Mihai Lupu | Akiko Aizawa | Allan Hanbury

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On the Behavior of PRES Using Incomplete Judgment Sets
Ellen M. Voorhees

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Optimal Packing in Simple-Family Codecs
Andrew Trotman | Michael Albert | Blake Burgess

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Pooling for User-Oriented Evaluation Measures
Gaurav Baruah | Adam Roegiest | Mark D. Smucker

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Predicting Relevance Feedback Effectiveness with the Help of the Principle of Polyrepresentation in MIR
David Zellhöfer

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A Relationship between the Average Precision and the Area Under the ROC Curve
Wanhua Su | Yan Yuan | Mu Zhu

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Revisiting Optimal Rank Aggregation: A Dynamic Programming Approach
Shayan A. Tabrizi | Javid Dadashkarimi | Mostafa Dehghani | Hassan Nasr Esfahani | Azadeh Shakery

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Searching for Twitter Posts by Location
Ariana S. Minot | Andrew Heier | Davis E. King | Olga Simek | Nicholas Stanisha

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A Signaling Game Approach to Databases Querying and Interaction
Arash Termehchy | Behrouz Touri

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Study of Heuristic IR Constraints Under Function Discovery Framework
Parantapa Goswami | Massih-Reza Amini | Éric Gaussier

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Theoretical Categorization of Query Performance Predictors
Victor Makarenkov | Bracha Shapira | Lior Rokach

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Towards Less Biased Web Search
Xitong Liu | Hui Fang | Deng Cai

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Two Operators to Define and Manipulate Themes of a Document Collection
Emanuele Di Buccio | Massimo Melucci

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Using Part-of-Speech N-grams for Sensitive-Text Classification
Graham McDonald | Craig Macdonald | Iadh Ounis

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Verboseness Fission for BM25 Document Length Normalization
Aldo Lipani | Mihai Lupu | Allan Hanbury | Akiko Aizawa