SIGIR 2018 信息检索领域顶级学术会议接受论文列表

2018 年 4 月 29 日 专知

SIGIR 2018，是展示信息检索领域新技术和新成果的顶级国际会议。 SIGIR 2018 将于2018年7月8日至12日在美国密歇根州安阿伯市举行，今年已是第四十一届。

ACM SIGIR 2018 Accepted Papers

Full Papers

From Greedy Selection to Exploratory Decision-Making: Diverse Ranking with Policy-Value Networks	Yue Feng (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Jun Xu (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Yanyan Lan (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Jiafeng Guo (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Zeng Wei (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Xueqi Cheng (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Modeling Diverse Relevance Patterns in Ad-hoc Retrieval	Yixing Fan (ict); Jiafeng Guo (ict); Yanyan Lan (ict); Jun Xu (ict); Chengxiang Zhai (Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Xueqi Cheng (ict)
Adversarial Personalized Ranking for Recommendation	Xiangnan He (National University of Singapore); Zhankui He (Fudan University); Xiaoyu Du (University of Science and Technology of China); Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore)
Towards Better Text Understanding and Retrieval through Kernel Entity Salience Modeling	Chenyan Xiong (Carnegie Mellon University); Zhengzhong Liu (Carnegie Mellon University); Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University); Tie-Yan Liu (Microsoft)
Intent-aware fQuery Obfuscation for Privacy Protection in Personalized Web Search	Wasi Ahmad (University of California, Los Angeles); Kai-Wei Chang (University of Virginia); Hongning Wang (University of Virginia)
Structuring Wikipedia Articles with Section Recommendations	Tiziano Piccardi (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne); Michele Catasta (Stanford University); Leila Zia (Wikimedia Foundation); Robert West (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Learning a Deep Listwise Context Model for Ranking Refinement	Qingyao Ai (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Keping Bi (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Jiafeng Guo (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); W. Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Unbiased Learning to Rank with Unbiased Propensity Estimation	Qingyao Ai (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Keping Bi (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Cheng Luo (Tsinghua University); Jiafeng Guo (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); W. Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
BiNE: Bipartite Network Embedding	Ming Gao (East China Normal University); Leihui Chen (East China Normal University); Xiangnan He (National University of Singapore); Aoying Zhou (East China Normal University)
On-the-fly Table Generation	Shuo Zhang (University of Stavanger); Krisztian Balog (University of Stavanger)
Torch: A Search Engine for Trajectory Data	Sheng Wang (RMIT University); Zhifeng Bao (RMIT University); J. Shane Culpepper (RMIT University); Zizhe Xie (Nanjing University); Qizhi Liu (Nanjing University); Xiaolin Qin (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
Constructing an Interaction Behavior Model for Web Image Search	Xiaohui Xie (Tsinghua University); Jiaxin Mao (Tsinghua University); Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam); Ruizhe Zhang (Tsinghua University); Min Zhang (Tsinghua University); Shaoping Ma (Tsinghua University)
Collaborative Memory Network for Recommendation Systems	Travis Ebesu (Santa Clara University); Bin Shen (Google); Yi Fang (Santa Clara University)
Ranking for Relevance and Display Preferences in Complex Presentation Layouts	Harrie Oosterhuis (University of Amsterdam); Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam)
Turning Clicks into Purchases: Revenue Optimization for Product Search in E-Commerce	Liang Wu (Arizona State University); Diane Hu (Etsy); Liangjie Hong (Etsy Inc.); Huan Liu (Arizona State University)
Seed-driven Document Ranking for Systematic Reviews in Evidence-Based Medicine	Grace E. Lee (Nanyang Technological University); Aixin Sun (Nanyang Technological University)
A Personal Privacy Preserving Framework: I Let You Know Who Can See What	Xuemeng Song (Shandong University); Xiang Wang (National University of Singapore); Liqiang Nie (Shandong University); Xiangnan He (National University of Singapore); Zhumin Chen (Shandong University); Wei Liu (Tencent AI Lab)
Neural Compatibility Modeling with Attentive Knowledge Distillation	Xuemeng Song (Shandong University); Fuli Feng (National University of Singapore); Xianjing Han (Shandong University); Xin Yang (Shandong University); Wei Liu (Tencent AI Lab); Liqiang Nie (Shandong University)
Dialogue Act Recognition via CRF-Attentive Structured Network	Zheqian Chen (Zhejiang University); Rongqin Yang (Zhejiang University); Zhou Zhao (Zhejiang University); Deng Cai (Zhejiang University); Xiaofei He (Zhejiang University)
Attentive Group Recommendation	Da Cao (Hunan University); Xiangnan He (National University of Singapore); Lianhai Miao (Hunan University); Yahui An (University of Science and Technology of China); Chao Yang (Hunan University); Richang Hong (Hefei University of Technology)
Deep Domain Adaptation Hashing with Adversarial Learning	Fuchen Long (University of Science and Technology of China); Ting Yao (Microsoft); Qi Dai (Microsoft); Xinmei Tian (University of Science and Technology of China); Jiebo Luo (University of Rochester); Tao Mei (Microsoft)
Enriching Taxonomies With Functional Domain Knowledge	Nikhita Vedula (The Ohio State University); Patrick K. Nicholson (Nokia Bell Labs); Deepak Ajwani (Nokia Bell Labs); Sourav Dutta (Nokia Bell Labs); Alessandra Sala (Nokia Bell Labs); Srinivasan Parthasarathy (The Ohio State University)
Calendar-Aware Proactive Email Recommendation	Qian Zhao (University of Minnesota); Paul Bennett (Microsoft); Adam Fourney (Microsoft); Anne Thompson (Microsoft); Shane Williams (Microsoft); Adam D. Troy (Microsoft); Susan Dumais (Microsoft)
Towards Conversational Recommender System	Yueming Sun (University of California, Santa Cruz); Yi Zhang (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Attentive Moment Retrieval in Videos	Meng Liu (Shandong University); Xiang Wang (National University of Singapore); Liqiang Nie (Shandong University); Xiangnan He (National University of Singapore); Baoquan Chen (Shandong University); Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore)
A Click Sequence Model for Web Search	Alexey Borisov (University of Amsterdam); Martijn Wardenaar (University of Amsterdam); Ilya Markov (University of Amsterdam); Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam)
Dynamic Shard Cutoff Prediction for Selective Search	Hafeezul Rahman Mohammad (Carnegie Mellon University); Keyang Xu (Petuum Inc.); Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University); J. Shane Culpepper (RMIT University)
Modeling Long- and Short-Term Temporal Patterns with Deep Neural Networks	Guokun Lai (Carnegie Mellon University); Wei-Cheng Chang (Carnegie Mellon University); Yiming Yang (Carnegie Mellon University); Hanxiao Liu (Carnegie Mellon University)
Between Clicks and Satisfaction: Study on Multi-Phase User Preferences and Satisfaction for Online News Reading	Hongyu Lu (Tsinghua University); Min Zhang (Tsinghua University); Shaoping Ma (Tsinghua University)
SynTF: Synthetic and Differentially Private Term Frequency Vectors for Privacy-Preserving Text Mining	Benjamin Weggenmann (SAP SE); Florian Kerschbaum (University of Waterloo)
Multihop Attention Networks for Question Answer Matching	Nam Khanh Tran (L3S Research Centre); Claudia Niederée (L3S Research Centre)
Explainable Recommendation via Multi-Task Learning in Opinionated Text Data	Nan Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Hongning Wang (University of Virginia); Yiling Jia (University of Virginia); Yue Yin (University of Virginia)
Response Ranking with Deep Matching Networks and External Knowledge in Information-seeking Conversation Systems	Liu Yang (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Minghui Qiu (Alibaba Group); Chen Qu (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Jiafeng Guo (Institute of Computing Technology); Yongfeng Zhang (Rutgers University); Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Jun Huang (Alibaba Group); Haiqing Chen (Alibaba Group)
Ranking Robustness under Adversarial Document Manipulations	Gregory Goren (Technion); Fiana Raiber (Yahoo Research); Moshe Tennenholtz (Technion); Oren Kurland (Technion)
Natural Language Interfaces with Fine-Grained User Interaction: A Case Study on Web APIs	Yu Su (University of California Santa Barbara); Ahmed Hassan Awadallah (Microsoft); Miaosen Wang (Microsoft); Ryen White (Microsoft)
Should I Follow the Crowd? A Probabilistic Analysis of the Effectiveness of Popularity in Recommender Systems	Rocío Cañamares (Universidad Autnoma de Madrid – Information Retrieval Group); Pablo Castells (Universidad Autnoma de Madrid)
A Dataset and an Examination of Identifying Passages for Due Diligence	Adam Roegiest (Kira Systems); Alexander Hudek (Kira Systems); Anne McNulty (Kira Sytems)
Streaming Ranking Based Recommender Systems	Weiqing Wang (The University of Queensland); Hongzhi Yin (The University of Queensland); Zi Huang (The University of Queensland); Qinyong Wang (The University of Queensland); Xingzhong Du (The University of Queensland); Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen (Griffith University)
Improving Sequential Recommendation with Knowledge-enhanced Memory Networks	Jin Huang (School of Information, Renmin University of China); Wayne Xin Zhao (School of Information, Renmin University of China); Hongjian Dou (School of Information, Renmin University of China); Ji-Rong Wen (School of Information, Renmin University of China); Edward Y. Chang (Research & Innovation, HTC)
Update Delivery Mechanisms for Prospective Information Needs: An Analysis of Attention in Mobile Users	Jimmy Lin (University of Waterloo); Salman Mohammed (University of Waterloo); Royal Sequiera (University of Waterloo); Luchen Tan (University of Waterloo)
CAN: Enhancing Sentence Similarity Modeling with Collaborative and Adversarial Network	Qin Chen (East China Normal University); Qinmin Hu (East China Normal University); Jimmy Huang (University of York); Liang He (East China Normal University)
Generating Better Queries for Systematic Reviews	Harrisen Scells (Queensland University of Technology); Guido Zuccon (Queensland University of Technology)
Automated Comparative Table Generation for Facilitating Human Intervention in Multi-Entity Resolution	Jiacheng Huang (Nanjing University); Wei Hu (Nanjing University); Haoxuan Li (Nanjing University); Yuzhong Qu (Nanjing University)
Privacy-aware Ranking with Tree Ensembles on the Cloud	Shiyu Ji (University of California, Santa Barbara); Daniel Agun (University of California, Santa Barbara); Jinjin Shao (University of California, Santa Barbara); Tao Yang (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Attentive Recurrent Social Recommendation	Peijie Sun (Hefei University of Technology); Le Wu (Hefei University of Technology); Meng Wang (Hefei University of Technology)
An Axiomatic Analysis of Diversity Evaluation Metrics: Introducing the Rank-Biased Utility Metric	Enrique Amigó (UNED); Damiano Spina (RMIT University); Jorge Carrillo-De-Albornoz (UNED)
Enhancing Person-Job Fit for Talent Recruitment: An Ability-aware Neural Network Approach	Chuan Qin (University of Science and Technology of China); Hengshu Zhu (Talent Intelligence Center, Baidu, inc.); Tong Xu (University of Science and Technology of China); Chen Zhu (Talent Intelligence Center, Baidu, inc.); Liang Jiang (University of Science and Technology of China); Enhong Chen (University of Science and Technology of China); Hui Xiong (Rutgers University)
Mention Recommendation for Multimodal Microblog with Cross-attention Memory Network	Renfeng Ma (Fudan University); Qi Zhang (Fudan University); Jiawen Wang (Fudan University); Lizhen Cui (Shandong Univerisity); Xuanjing Huang (Fudan University)
Measuring the Utility of Search Engine Result Pages	Leif Azzopardi (University of Strathclyde); Paul Thomas (Microsoft); Nick Craswell (Microsoft)
Ranking Documents by Answer-Passage Quality	Evi Yulianti (RMIT University); Ruey-Cheng Chen (RMIT University); Falk Scholer (RMIT University); Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Mark Sanderson (RMIT University)
On Link Prediction in Knowledge Bases: Max-K Criterion and Prediction Protocols	Jiajie Mei (Beihang University); Richong Zhang (Beihang University); Yongyi Mao (University of Ottawa); Ting Deng (Beihang University)
Identifying Sub-events and Summarizing Information during Disasters	Koustav Rudra (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur); Pawan Goyal (IIT Kharagpur); Niloy Ganguly (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur); Prasenjit Mitra (The Pennsylvania State University); Muhammad Imran (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Weakly-supervised Contextualization of Knowledge Graph Facts	Nikos Voskarides (University of Amsterdam); Edgar Meij (Bloomberg L.P.); Ridho Reinanda (Bloomberg L.P.); Abhinav Khaitan (Bloomberg L.P.); Miles Osborne (Bloomberg L.P.); Giorgio Stefanoni (Bloomberg L.P.); Prabhanjan Kambadur (Bloomberg L.P.); Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam)
Cross-language Citation Recommendation via Hierarchical Representation Learning on Heterogeneous Graph	Zhuoren Jiang (Sun Yat-sen University); Yue Yin (Beijing Normal University); Liangcai Gao (Peking University); Yao Lu (Sun Yat-sen University); Xiaozhong Liu (Indiana University Bloomington)
What Can Rationales behind Relevance Judgments Tell Us About Assessor Disagreement?	Mucahid Kutlu (Qatar University); Tyler McDonnell (The University of Texas at Austin); Yassmine Barkallah (Qatar University); Tamer Elsayed (Qatar University); Matthew Lease (The University of Texas at Austin)
Automatic Ground Truth Expansion for Timeline Evaluation	Richard Mccreadie (University of Glasgow); Craig Macdonald (University of Glasgow); Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow)
Fast Scalable Supervised Hashing	Xin Luo (Shandong University); Liqiang Nie (Shandong University); Xiangnan He (National University of Singapore); Ye Wu (Shandong University); Zhen-Duo Chen (Shandong University); Xin-Shun Xu (Shandong University)
Cross-modal retrieval in the cooking context: Learning semantic text-image embeddings	Micael Carvalho (Sorbonne Université); Remi Cadene (Sorbonne Université); David Picard (Sorbonne Université); Laure Soulier (Sorbonne Université); Nicolas Thome (Conservatoire national des arts et métiers); Matthieu Cord (Sorbonne Université)
The Rise of Guardians: Fact-checking URL Recommendation to Combat Fake News	Nguyen Vo (Worcester Polytechnic Institute); Kyumin Lee (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Top-k Route Search through Submodularity Modeling of Recurrent POI Features	Hongwei Liang (Simon Fraser University); Ke Wang (Simon Fraser University)
Target Apps Selection: Towards a Unified Search Framework for Mobile Devices	Mohammad Alian Nejadi (Università della Svizzera italiana); Hamed Zamani (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Fabio Crestani (Università della Svizzera italiana); W. Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Identify Shifts of Word Semantics through Bayesian Surprise	Zhuofeng Wu (Zhejiang University); Cheng Li (University of Michigan); Zhe Zhao (University of Michigan); Fei Wu (Zhejiang University); Qiaozhu Mei (University of Michigan)
Neural Query Performance Prediction with Weak Supervision	Hamed Zamani (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst); J. Shane Culpepper (RMIT University)
Contextual Attention Recurrent Architecture for Context-aware Venue Recommendation	Jarana Manotumruksa (University of Glasgow); Craig Macdonald (University of Glasgow); Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow)
Stochastic Simulation of Test Collections: Evaluation Scores	Julián Urbano (Delft University of Technology); Thomas Nagler (Technical University of Munich)
Learning Geo-Social User Topical Profiles with Bayesian Hierarchical User Factorization	Haokai Lu (Texas A&M University); Wei Niu (Texas A&M University); James Caverlee (Texas A&M University)
Efficient Exploration of Gradient Space for Online Learning to Rank	Huazheng Wang (University of Virginia); Ramsey Langley (University of Virginia); Sonwoo Kim (University of Virginia); Eric McCord-Snook (University of Virginia); Hongning Wang (University of Virginia)
Characterizing and Supporting Question Answering in Human-to-Human Communication	Xiao Yang (The Pennsylvania State University); Ahmed Hassan Awadallah (Microsoft); Madian Khabsa (Apple); Wei Wang (Microsoft); Miaosen Wang (Microsoft)
The effects of manipulating task determinability on search behaviors and outcomes	Robert Capra (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Jaime Arguello (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Heather O’Brien (The University of British Columbia); Yuan Li (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Bogeum Choi (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Selective Gradient Boosting for Effective Learning to Rank	Claudio Lucchese (ISTI-CNR); Franco Maria Nardini (ISTI-CNR); Raffaele Perego (ISTI-CNR); Salvatore Orlando (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia); Salvatore Trani (ISTI CNR, Pisa)
Understanding and Evaluating User Satisfaction with Music Discovery	Jean Garcia-Gathright (Spotify); Brian St. Thomas (Spotify); Christine Hosey (Spotify); Zahra Nazari (Spotify); Fernando Diaz (Spotify)
Offline Comparative Evaluation with Incremental, Minimally-Invasive Online Feedback	Ben Carterette (University of Delaware); Praveen Chandar (Spotify Research)
Learning Contextual Bandits in a Non-stationary Environment	Qingyun Wu (University of Virginia); Naveen Iyer (University of Virginia); Hongning Wang (University of Virginia)
On Fine-Grained Relevance Scales	Kevin Roitero (University of Udine); Eddy Maddalena (University of Southampton); Gianluca Demartini (The University of Queensland); Stefano Mizzaro (University of Udine)
Item Retrieval as Utility Estimation	Shawn R. Wolfe (NASA); Yi Zhang (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Identifying Users behind Shared Accounts in Online Streaming Services	Jyun-Yu Jiang (University of California, Los Angeles); Cheng-Te Li (National Cheng Kung University); Yian Chen (KKBOX Inc.,); Wei Wang (University of California, Los Angeles)
Entity Set Search of Scientific Literature: An Unsupervised Ranking Approach	Jiaming Shen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Jinfeng Xiao (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Xinwei He (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Jingbo Shang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Saurabh Sinha (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Jiawei Han (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Sentiment Analysis of Peer Review Texts for Scholarly Papers	Ke Wang (Peking University); Xiaojun Wan (Peking University)
Modeling Dynamic Pairwise Attention for Crime Classification over Legal Articles	Pengfei Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Ze Yang (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications); Shu Zi (Chinese Academy of Science); Yongfeng Zhang (Rutgers University); Lei Zhang (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications); Shaozhang Niu (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications)
From Royals to Vegans: Characterizing Question Trolling on a Community Question Answering Website	Ido Guy (eBay); Bracha Shapira (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
How Well do Offline and Online Evaluation Metrics Measure User Satisfaction in Web Image Search?	Fan Zhang (Tsinghua University); Ke Zhou (University of Nottingham); Yunqiu Shao (Tsinghua University); Cheng Luo (Tsinghua University); Min Zhang (Tsinghua University); Shaoping Ma (Tsinghua University)
Constructing Click Models for Mobile Search	Jiaxin Mao (Tsinghua University); Cheng Luo (Tsinghua University); Min Zhang (Tsinghua University); Shaoping Ma (Tsinghua University)
Chat More: Deepening and Widening the Chatting Topic via A Deep Model	Wenjie Wang (Shandong University); Minlie Huang (Tsinghua University); Xin-Shun Xu (Shandong University); Fumin Shen (University of Science and Technology of China); Liqiang Nie (Shandong University)
Combined Regression and Tripletwise Learning for Ad Conversion Rates Prediction	Lili Shan (Harbin Institute of Technology); Lei Lin (Harbin Institute of Technology); Chengjie Sun (Harbin Institute of Technology)
Equity of Attention: Amortizing Individual Fairness in Rankings	Asia J. Biega (Max Planck Institute for Informatics); Krishna P. Gummadi (MPI-SWS); Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Predicting User Knowledge Gain in Informational Search Sessions	Ran Yu (L3S Research Center); Ujwal Gadiraju (L3S Research Center); Peter Holtz (Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM)); Markus Rokicki (L3S Research Center); Philipp Kemkes (L3S Research Center); Stefan Dietze (L3S Research Center)

Short Papers

Pytrec_eval: An Extremely Fast Python Interface to trec_eval	Christophe Van Gysel (University of Amsterdam); Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam)
Split-Lists and Initial Thresholds for WAND-based Search	Andrew Kane (University of Waterloo); Frank Tompa (University of Waterloo)
Ontology Evaluation with Path-based Text-aware Entropy Computation	Ying Shen (Peking University); Daoyuan Chen (Peking University); Min Yang (Chinese Academy of Sciences); Yaliang Li (Tencent Medical AI Lab); Nan Du (Tencent Medical AI Lab); Kai Lei (Peking University)
Variance Reduction of Policy Gradient Bandit Problem via Antithetic Variates	Sihao Yu (ICT, CAS); Jun Xu (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Yanyan Lan (ICT); Jiafeng Guo (Institute of Computing Technology); Xueqi Cheng (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, P. R. China)
A Flexible Forecasting Framework for Hierarchical Time Series with Seasonal Patterns: A Case Study of Web Traffic	Zitao Liu (Pinterest); Yan Yan (JD.com); Milos Hauskrecht (University of Pittsburgh)
Query Performance Prediction using Passage Information	Haggai Roitman (IBM Research AI)
Ad Click Prediction in sequence with Long Short-Term Memory Networks: An externality-aware model	Weiwei Deng (Microsoft); Xiaoliang Ling (Microsoft); Yang Qi (Microsoft); Tunzi Tan (School of Mathematical Sciences @ University of Chinese Academy of Sciences); Eren Manavoglu (Microsoft); Qi Zhang (Microsoft)
Assessing the Readability of Web Search Results for Searchers with Dyslexia	Adam Fourney (Microsoft); Meredith Ringel Morris (Microsoft); Abdullah Ali (University of Washington); Laura Vonessen (University of Washington)
Comparing Two Binned Probability Distributions for Information Access Evaluation	Tetsuya Sakai (Waseda University)
Robust Asymmetric Recommendation via Min-Max Optimization	Peng Yang (Kaust); Peilin Zhao (South China University of Technology, China); Vincent Zheng (Advanced Digital Sciences Center, UIUC); Lizhong Ding (KAUST, Saudi Arabia); Xin Gao (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)
Users, Adaptivity, and Bad Abandonment	Alistair Moffat (The University of Melbourne); Alfan Farizki Wicaksono (The University of Melbourne)
From the PRP to the Low Prior Discovery Recall Principle for Recommender Systems	Rocío Cañamares (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid – Information Retrieval Group); Pablo Castells (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Deep Learning for Epidemiological Predictions	Yuexin Wu (Carnegie Mellon University); Yiming Yang (Carnegie Mellon University); Hiroshi Nishiura (Hokkaido University); Masaya Saitoh (The Institute of Statistical Matheamtics)
Query Variation Performance Prediction for Systematic Reviews	Harrisen Scells (Queensland University of Technology); Leif Azzopardi (University of Strathclyde); Guido Zuccon (Queensland University of Technology); Bevan Koopman (CSIRO)
Attention-based Hierarchical Neural Query Suggestion	Wanyu Chen (National University of Defense Technology); Fei Cai (National University of Defense Technology); Honghui Chen (National University of Defense Technology); Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam)
Texygen: A Benchmarking Platform for Text Generation Models	Yaoming Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Sidi Lu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Lei Zheng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Jiaxian Guo (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Weinan Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Jun Wang (University College London); Yong Yu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Knowledge-aware Attentive Neural Network for Ranking Question Answer Pairs	Ying Shen (Peking University); Yang Deng (Peking University); Min Yang (Chinese Academy of Sciences); Yaliang Li (Tencent Medical AI Lab); Nan Du (Tencent Medical AI Lab); Wei Fan (Tencent Medical AI Lab); Kai Lei (Peking University)
A Living Lab Study of Query Amendment in Job Search	Bahar Salehi (The University of Melbourne); Damiano Spina (RMIT University); Alistair Moffat (The University of Melbourne); Sargol Sadeghi (SEEK Ltd.); Falk Scholer (RMIT University); Timothy Baldwin (The University of Melbourne); Lawrence Cavedon (RMIT University); Mark Sanderson (RMIT University); Wilson Wong (RMIT University); Justin Zobel (The University of Melbourne)
Attention-driven Factor Model for Explainable Personalized Recommendation	Jingwu Chen (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Fuzhen Zhuang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Xin Hong (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Xiang Ao (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Xing Xie (Microsoft); Qing He (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
IRevalOO: An Object Oriented Framework for Retrieval Evaluation	Kevin Roitero (University of Udine); Eddy Maddalena (University of Southampton); Ponte Yannick (University of Udine); Stefano Mizzaro (University of Udine)
Translating Representations of Knowledge Graphs with Neighbors	Chun-Chih Wang (National Taiwan University); Pu-Jen Cheng (National Taiwan University)
Index Compression for BitFunnel Query Processing	Xinyu Liu (Nankai University); Zhaohua Zhang (Nankai University); Boran Hou (Nankai University); Rebecca Stones (Nankai University); Gang Wang (Nankai University); Xiaoguang Liu (Nankai University)
CA-LSTM: Search Task Identification with Context Attention based LSTM	Cong Du (Sogou inc.); Peng Shu (Sogou Inc.); Yong Li (Sogou Inc.)
On the Volatility of Commercial Search Engines and its Impact on Information Retrieval Research	Jimmy Jimmy (Queensland University of Technology); Guido Zuccon (Queensland University of Technology); Gianluca Demartini (The University of Queensland)
Large-Scale Image Retrieval with Elasticsearch	Giuseppe Amato (ISTI-CNR); Paolo Bolettieri (ISTI-CNR); Fabio Carrara (ISTI CNR); Fabrizio Falchi (ISTI-CNR); Claudio Gennaro (ISTI – CNR)
Deep Semantic Text Hashing with Weak Supervision	Suthee Chaidaroon (Santa Clara University); Travis Ebesu (Santa Clara University); Yi Fang (Santa Clara University)
Who is the Mr. Right for Your Brand? — Discovering Brand Key Assets via Multi-modal Asset-aware Projection	Yang Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University); Tobey H. Ko (The University of Hong Kong); Zhonglei Gu (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Sogou-QCL: A New Dataset with Click Relevance Label	Yukun Zheng (Tsinghua University); Zhen Fan (Tsinghua University); Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University); Cheng Luo (Tsinghua University); Shaoping Ma (Tsinghua University)
A Co-Memory Network for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis	Nan Xu (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Wenji Mao (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Guandan Chen (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Investigating User Perception of Gender Bias in Image Search: The Role of Sexism	Jahna Otterbacher (Open University of Cyprus); Alessandro Checco (The University of Sheffield); Gianluca Demartini (The University of Queensland); Paul Clough (The University of Sheffield)
Killing Two Birds With One Stone: Concurrent Ranking of Tags and Comments of Social Images	Boon-Siew Seah (Nanyang Technological University); Aixin Sun (Nanyang Technological University); Sourav S Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University)
Imagination Based Sample Construction for Zero-Shot Learning	Gang Yang (Renmin university of China); Jinlu Liu (Renmin university of China); Xirong Li (Renmin University of China)
Towards Designing Better Session Search Evaluation Metrics	Mengyang Liu (Tsinghua University); Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University); Jiaxin Mao (Tsinghua University); Cheng Luo (Tsinghua University); Shaoping Ma (Tsinghua University)
Predicting Contradiction Intensity: Low, Strong or Very Strong?	Ismail Badache (FEG/LIS, Aix-Marseille Université); Sebastien Fournier (FEG/LIS, Aix-Marseille Université); Adrian-Gabriel Chifu (FEG/LIS, Aix-Marseille Université)
A Large-Scale Study of Mobile Search Examination Behavior	Xiaochuan Wang (Tsinghua University); Ning Su (Tsinghua University); Zexue He (Beijing Normal University); Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University); Shaoping Ma (Tsinghua University)
Ranking Without Learning: Towards Historical Relevance-based Ranking of Social Images	Min Min Chew (Nanyang Technological University); Sourav S Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University); Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University)
Parameterizing Kterm Hashing	Dominik Wurzer (University of Wuhan); Yumeng Qin (University of Wuhan)
Technology Assisted Reviews: Finding the last few relevant documents by asking questions to the user	Jie Zou (University of Amsterdam); Dan Li (University of Amsterdam); Evangelos Kanoulas (University of Amsterdam)
An Information Retrieval Framework for Contextual Suggestion Based on Heterogeneous Information Network Embeddings	Dominic Seyler (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign); Praveen Chandar (Spotify); Matthew Davis (IBM)
Entire Space Multi-Task Model: An Effective Approach for Estimating Post-Click Conversion Rate	Xiao Ma (Alibaba Group); Liqin Zhao (Alibaba Group); Guan Huang (Alibaba Group); Zhi Wang (Alibaba Group); Zelin Hu (Alibaba Group); Xiaoqiang Zhu (Alibaba Group); Kun Gai (Alibaba Group)
How Much is Too Much? Whole Session vs. First Query Behaviors in Task Prediction	Matthew Mitsui (Rutgers University); Jiqun Liu (Rutgers University); Chirag Shah (Rutgers University)
Toward an Interactive Patent Retrieval Framework based on Distributed Representations	Walid Shalaby (UNC Charlotte); Wlodek Zadrozny (UNC Charlotte)
Consistency and Variation in Kernel Neural Ranking Model	Mary Arpita Pyreddy (Carnegie Mellon University); Varshini Ramaseshan (Carnegie Mellon University); Narendra Nath Joshi (Carnegie Mellon University); Zhuyun Dai (Carnegie Mellon University); Chenyan Xiong (Carnegie Mellon University); Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University); Zhiyuan Liu (Tsinghua University)
Effectiveness Evaluation with a Subset of Topics: A Practical Approach	Kevin Roitero (University of Udine); Michael Soprano (University of Udine); Stefano Mizzaro (University of Udine)
Locality-adapted Kernel Densities for Tweet Localization	Özer Özdikis (Norwegian University of Science and Technology); Heri Ramampiaro (Norwegian University of Science and Technology); Kjetil Nørvåg (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Related or Duplicate: Distinguishing Similar CQA Questions via Convolutional Neural Networks	Wei Emma Zhang (Macquarie University); Zhejun Tang (Ningxia University); Quan Z. Sheng (Macquarie University); Wenjie Ruan (University of Oxford)
Review Sentiment-Guided Scalable Deep Recommender System	Dongmin Hyun (POSTECH); Chanyoung Park (POSTECH); Min-Chul Yang (NAVER Corp.); Ilhyeon Song (NAVER Corp.); Jung-Tae Lee (NAVER Corp.); Hwanjo Yu (POSTECH)
Learning to Detect Pathogenic Microorganism of Community-acquired Pneumonia	Wenwei Liang (East China Normal University); Wei Zhang (East China Normal University); Bo Jin (East China Normal University); Jiangjiang Xu (Shanghai Children’s Hospital); Linhua Shu (Shanghai Children’s Hospital); Hongyuan Zha (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Towards Distributed Pairwise Ranking using Implicit Feedback	Mohsan Jameel (University of Hildesheim); Nicolas Schilling (University of Hildesheim); Lars Schmidt-Thieme (University of Hildesheim)
Procrastination is the Thief of Time: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Proactive Search Systems	Procheta Sen (Dublin City University); Debasis Ganguly (IBM Research Lab, Dublin); Gareth Jones (Dublin City University)
Convolution-based Memory Network for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis	Chuang Fan (Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology); Qinghong Gao (Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology); Jiachen Du (Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology); Lin Gui (Aston university); Ruifeng Xu (Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology); Kam-Fai Wong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Semantic Location in Email Query Suggestion	John Foley (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Mingyang Zhang (Google); Michael Bendersky (Google); Marc Najork (Google)
GraphCAR: Content-aware Multimedia Recommendation with Graph Autoencoder	Qidi Xu (Center for Future Media, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China); Fumin Shen (Center for Future Media, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China); Li Liu (School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia); Heng Tao Shen (Center for Future Media, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)
WikiPassageQA: A Benchmark Collection for Research on Non-factoid Answer Passage Retrieval	Daniel Cohen (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Liu Yang (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Beyond Pooling	Gordon Cormack (University of Waterloo); Maura Grossman (University of Waterloo)
Testing the Cluster Hypothesis with Focused and Graded Relevance Judgments	Eilon Sheetrit (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology); Anna Shtok (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology); Oren Kurland (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology); Igal Shprincis (Microsoft, Herzliya, Israel)
Query Performance Prediction Focused on Summarized Letor Features	Adrian-Gabriel Chifu (LSIS – UMR 7296 CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université); Léa Laporte (INSA Lyon – LIRIS); Josiane Mothe (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse); Md Zia Ullah (IRIT)
A Study of Per-Topic Variance on System Comparison	Meng Yang (Tianjin University); Peng Zhang (Tianjin University); Dawei Song (The Open University)
Multi-level Abstraction Convolutional Model with Weak Supervision for Information Retrieval	Yifan Nie (University of Montreal); Alessandro Sordoni (Maluuba – Microsoft); Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal)
Analyzing and Characterizing User Intent in Information-seeking Conversations	Chen Qu (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Liu Yang (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Johanne R Trippas (RMIT University); Yongfeng Zhang (Rutgers University); Minghui Qiu (Alibaba Group)
Online Job Search: Study of Users’ Search Behavior using Search Engine Query Logs	Behrooz Mansouri (University of Tehran); Mohammad Sadegh Zahedi (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,University of Tehran); Ricardo Campos (Polytechnic Institute of Tomar); Mojgan Farhoodi (ITRC)
Identifying and Modeling Information Resumption Behaviors in Cross-Device Search	Dan Wu (School of Information Management, Wuhan University); Jing Dong (School of Information Management, Wuhan University); Yuan Tang (School of Information Management, Wuhan University)
Optimizing Query Evaluations using Reinforcement Learning for Web Search	Corby Rosset (Microsoft); Damien Jose (Microsoft); Gargi Ghosh (Microsoft); Bhaskar Mitra (Microsoft); Saurabh Tiwary (Microsoft)
SAAN: A Sentiment-Aware Attention Network for Sentiment Analysis	Zeyang Lei (Tsinghua University); Yujiu Yang (Tsinghua University); Min Yang (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
An Attribute-aware Neural Attentive Model for Next Basket Recommendation	Ting Bai (School of information, Renmin University of China); Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal); Xin Zhao (Renmin University of China, School of Information); Yutao Zhu (Renmin University of China, School of Information); Pan Du (University of Montreal); Ji-Rong Wen (Renmin University of China)
Modeling multidimensional user relevance in IR using vector spaces	Sagar Uprety (The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom); Yi Su (School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, China); Dawei Song (The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom); Jingfei Li (National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China)
Are we on the Right Track? Integrating Theoretical and Empirical Methodologies for Information Retrieval	Enrique Amigó (National Distance Education University); Stefano Mizzaro (University of Udine); Hui Fang (University of Delaware); Chengxiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Fine-Grained Information Identification in Health Related Posts	Hamed Khanpour (University of North Texas); Cornelia Caragea (Kansas State University)
Quantitative Information Extraction From Social Data	Omar Alonso (Microsoft); Thibault Sellam (Columbia University)
Measuring Influence on Instagram: a Network-oblivious Approach	Noam Segev (Klear.com); Noam Avigdor (Klear); Eytan Avigdor (Klear)
Characterizing Question Facets for Complex Answer Retrieval	Sean MacAvaney (Georgetown University); Andrew Yates (Max Planck Institute for Informatics); Arman Cohan (Georgetown University); Luca Soldaini (Georgetown University); Kai Hui (SAP SE); Nazli Goharian (Georgetown University); Ophir Frieder (Georgetown University)
Event2Vec: Neural Embeddings for News Events	Vinay Setty (University of Stavanger); Katja Hose (Aalborg University)
Universal Approximation Functions for Fast Learning to Rank	Daniel Cohen (UMASS Amherst); John Foley (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Hamed Zamani (University of Massachusetts Amherst); James Allan (UMass Amherst); Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Modeling Mobile User Actions for Purchase Recommendation using Deep Memory Networks	Djordje Gligorijevic (Temple University); Jelena Gligorijevic (Temple University); Aravindan Raghuveer (Facebook); Mihajlo Grbovic (Temple University); Zoran Obradovic (Temple University)
A Test Collection for Coreferent Mention Retrieval	Rashmi Sankepally (University of Maryland – CP, HLTCOE); Tongfei Chen (Johns Hopkins University, HLTCOE); Benjamin Van Durme (Johns Hopkins University, HLTCOE); Douglas W. Oard (University of Maryland – CP, HLTCOE)
What Do Users Say to Their TVs? An Analysis of Voice Queries to an Entertainment System	Jinfeng Rao (University of Maryland); Ferhan Ture (Comcast Applied AI Research Lab); Jimmy Lin (University of Waterloo)
Cross Domain Regularization for Neural Ranking Models using Adversarial Learning	Daniel Cohen (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Bhaskar Mitra (Microsoft); Katja Hofmann (Microsoft); Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Sanity Check: A Strong Alignment and Information Retrieval Baseline for Question Answering	Vikas Yadav (University of Arizona); Rebecca Sharp (University of Arizona); Mihai Surdeanu (University of Arizona)
Explaining Controversy on Social Media via Stance Summarization	Myungha Jang (University of Massachusetts Amherst); James Allan (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Identifying Clickbait: A Multi-Strategy Approach Using Neural Networks	Yash Kumar Lal (Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal); Vaibhav Kumar (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad); Dhruv Khattar (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad); Siddharth Gairola (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad); Vasudeva Varma (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad)
Multi-Target Stance Detection via a Dynamic Memory-Augmented Network	Penghui Wei (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science); Junjie Lin (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science); Wenji Mao (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science)
Query Performance Prediction and Effectiveness Evaluation Without Relevance Judgments: Two Sides of the Same Coin	Stefano Mizzaro (Univ Udine); Josiane Mothe (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse); Kevin Roitero (Univ Udine); Md Zia Ullah (IRIT, University of Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier)
A New Term Frequency Normalization Model for Probabilistic Information Retrieval	Fanghong Jian (Central China Normal University); Jimmy Huang (University of York); Jiashu Zhao (University of York); Tingting He (Central China Normal University)
Affective Representations for Sarcasm Detection	Ameeta Agrawal (University of York); Aijun An (University of York)
A User Study on Snippet Generation: Text Reuse vs. Paraphrases	Wei-Fan Chen (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar); Matthias Hagen (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar); Benno Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar); Martin Potthast (Leipzig University)
New Embedded Representations and Evaluation Protocols for Inferring Transitive Relations	Sandeep Subramanian (IIT Bombay); Soumen Chakrabarti (IIT Bombay)
Transparent Tree Ensembles	Alexander Moore (Microsoft); Vanessa Murdock (Microsoft); Yaxiong Cai (Microsoft); Kristine Jones (Microsoft)
A taxonomy of queries for e-commerce search	Mohit Sharma (WalmartLabs); Parikshit Sondhi (walmart labs); Chengxiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Pranam Kolari (WalmartLabs)
Taxi or Hitchhiking: Predicting Passenger’s Preferred Service on Ride Sharing Platforms	Lingyu Zhang (Didi CHuxing); Wei Ai (University of Michigan); Chuan Yuan (Didi Chuxing); Yuhui Zhang (Didi Chuxing); Jieping Ye (Didi Chuxing)
Towards Intent-Aware Contextual Music Recommendation: Initial Experiments	Sergey Volokhin (Emory University); Eugene Agichtein (Emory University)
Deep Domain Adaptation Based on Multi-layer Joint Kernelized Distance	Sitong Mao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University); Xiao Shen (University of Cambridge); Fu Lai Chung (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Theoretical Analysis of Interdependent Constraints in Pseudo-Relevance Feedback	Ali Montazeralghaem (university of massachusetts amherst); Hamed Zamani (university of massachusetts amherst); Azadeh Shakery (University of Tehran)
Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval using Monolingual Data Only	Robert Litschko (University of Mannhem); Goran Glavaš (University of Mannhem); Simone Paolo Ponzetto (University of Mannheim); Ivan Vulić (University of Cambridge)
Do Not Pull My Data for Resale: Protecting Data Providers using Data Retrieval Pattern Analysis	Guosai Wang (Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University); Wei Xu (Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University); Ling Huang (AHI Fintech Corporation); Shiyang Xiang (AHI Fintech Corporation); Yitao Duan (Netease Youdao Inc.)
K-plet Recurrent Neural Networks for Sequential Recommendation	Xiang Lin (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China); Shuzi Niu (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China); Yiqiao Wang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China); Yucheng Li (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
Toward Voice Query Clarification	Johannes Kiesel (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar); Arefeh Bahrami (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar); Benno Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar); Avishek Anand (L3S Research Center, Hannover); Matthias Hagen (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
A Test Collection for Evaluating Legal Case Law Search	Daniel Locke (Queensland University of Technology); Guido Zuccon (Queensland University of Technology)
Citation Worthiness of Sentences in Scientific Reports	Hamed Bonab (UMass Amherst); Hamed Zamani (UMass Amherst); Erik Learned-Miller (UMass Amherst); James Allan (UMass Amherst)

Industry Papers

Merchandise Recommendation For Retail Events With Word Embedding Weighted Tf-idf And Dynamic Query Expansion	Ted Yuan(eBay); Zezhong Zhang(eBay)
Product Question Answering Using Customer Generated Content – Research Challenges	David Carmel (Amazon Research); Liane Lewin-Eytan (Amazon Research); Yoelle Maarek (Amazon Research)
Auto-completion for Question Answering Systems at Bloomberg	Konstantine Arkoudas (Bloomberg); Mohamed Yahya (Bloomberg);
Talent Search and Recommendation Systems at LinkedIn: Practical Challenges and Lessons Learned	Sahin Geyik (LinkedIn); Qi Guo (LinkedIn); Bo Hu (LinkedIn); Cagri Ozcaglar (LinkedIn); Ryan Wu (LinkedIn); Krishnaram Kenthapadi (LinkedIn)
The Evolution of Content Analysis for Personalized Recommendations at Twitter	Ajeet Grewal (Twitter); Jimmy Lin (University of Waterloo)
Large Scale Search Engine Marketing (SEM) at Airbnb	Ganesh Venkataraman (Airbnb), James Wong (Airbnb); Brendan Collins (Airbnb)
Clova: Services and Devices powered by AI	Inho Kang (NAVER Corporation )
Puneet Agrawal and Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla. Lessons from Building a Large-scale Commercial IR-based Chatbot for an Emerging Market	Puneet Agrawal (Microsoft); Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla (Microsoft)
LessonWare: Mining Student Notes to Provide Personalized Feedback	Perry Samson(Echo360 Inc.); Charles Bassam (Echo360 Inc.)
Machine Learning @ Amazon	Rajeev Rastogi (Amazon)
Extracting Real-Time Insights from Graphs and Social Streams	Charu C. Aggarwal (IBM Research)

Doctoral Consortium Abstracts

Exploring Potential Pathways to Address Bias and Ethics in IR	Steven Zimmerman (University of Essex)
SmartTable: Equipping Spreadsheets with Intelligent Assistance Functionalities	Shuo Zhang (University of Stavanger)
Efficiency-Effectiveness Trade-Offs in Machine Learned Models for Information Retrieval	Luke Gallagher (RMIT University)
Case-Based Retrieval Using Document-Level Semantic Networks	Stefano Marchesin (University of Padova)
Utilizing Inter-Passage Similarities for Focused Retrieval	Eilon Sheetrit (Israel Institute of Technology)
Enhanced Contextual Recommendation using Social Media Data	Anirban Chakraborty (Trinity College Dublin)
A Semantic Search Approach to Task-Completion Engines	Darío Garigliotti (University of Stavanger)
Addressing the Standing Information Needs of Users Focused on Current Events	Kristine Rogers (University of Maryland)
Improving Systematic Review Creation With Information Retrieval	Harrisen Scells (Queensland University of Technology)
Design and Evaluation of Query Auto Completion Mechanisms	Unni Krishnan (The University of Melbourne)
Better Textbooks with Human Language Technology	Sudeshna Das (IIT Kharagpur)
CHEERS: CHeap & Engineered Evaluation of Retrieval Systems	Kevin Roitero (University of Udine)