Yahoo! Wins Best Paper Award at SIGIR
SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval. Yahoo! has 7 papers accepted at this year's conference including the Best Paper Award for "Sources of Evidence for Vertical Selection" by Jaime Arguello (Carnegie Mellon University and Yahoo! intern), Fernando Diaz (Yahoo! Labs), Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University), Jean-Francois Crespo (Yahoo! Labs).
ACM SIGIR is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval. SIGIR focuses on all aspects of information storage, retrieval and dissemination, including research strategies, output schemes and system evaluations.
List of Yahoo! Accepted Papers
- Adaptation of Offline Vertical Selection Predictions in the Presence of User Feedback - Fernando Diaz (Yahoo!), Jaime Arguello (Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)
- Building Enriched Document Representations using Aggregated Anchor Text - Donald Metzler (Yahoo!), Jasmine Novak, Hang Cui (Yahoo! Labs), Srihari Reddy
- Global Ranking by Exploiting User Clicks - Shihao Ji (Yahoo! Labs), Ke Zhou (CS Department, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University), Ciya Liao, Zhaohui Zheng (Yahoo Labs), Gui-Rong Xue (Shanghai Jiao-Tong University), Gordon Sun, Olivier Chapelle (Yahoo! Research), Hongyuan Zha (Georgia Tech)
- Quantifying Performance and Quality Gains in Distributed Web Search Engines - Ricardo Baeza-Yates, (Yahoo! Research), B. Barla Cambazoglu (Yahoo! Research), Vassilis Plachouras
- Sources of Evidence for Vertical Selection - Jaime Arguello (Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University), Fernando Diaz (Yahoo!), Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University), Jean-Francois Crespo
- Efficiency trade-offs in two-tier web seach systems - Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research), Vanessa Murdock (Yahoo! Research), Claudia Hauff (University of Twente)
- Placing Flickr Photos on a Map - Pavel Serdyukov (University of Twente), Vanessa Murdock (Yahoo! Research),
Roelof van Zwol (Yahoo! Research)
