Journal Articles

Richard McCreadie, Craig Macdonald, and Iadh Ounis.
MapReduce Indexing Strategies: Studying Scalability and Efficiency.
In Information Processing & Management, 2011.
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Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Craig Macdonald, and Iadh Ounis.
Mimicking Web search engines for expert search.
In Information Processing & Management, 2011.
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Craig Macdonald, Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Iadh Ounis, and Ian Soboroff.
Blog track research at TREC.
In SIGIR Forum, 44(1):57-74, 2010.
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Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Searching for Expertise: Experiments with the Voting Model.
In Special Issue of the Computer Journal on Expertise Profiling, 2008.
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Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Voting Techniques for Expert Search.
Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), in press, 2007.
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Ben He and Iadh Ounis.
On Setting the Hyper-Parameters of the Term Frequency Normalisation for Information Retrieval.
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 2007.
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Christina Lioma and Iadh Ounis.
A Syntactically-Based Query Reformulation Technique for Information Retrieval.
Information Processing and Management (IPM), 2007.
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Iadh Ounis, Christina Lioma, Craig Macdonald, and Vassilis Plachouras.
Research Directions in Terrier: a Search Engine for Advanced Retrieval on the Web.
Novatica/UPGRADE Special Issue on Web Information Access, 2007.
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Ben He and Iadh Ounis.
Combining Fields for Query Expansion and Adaptive Query Expansion.
Information Processing and Management (IPM), 2006.
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Vassilis Plachouras, Fidel Cacheda and Iadh Ounis.
A Decision Mechanism for the Selective Combination of Evidence in Topic Distillation.
Information Retrieval, 9(2):139-163, 2006.
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Fidel Cacheda, Vassilis Plachouras and Iadh Ounis.
A Case Study of Distributed Information Retrieval Architectures to Index One Terabyte of Text.
Information Processing and Management, 41(5):1141-1161, 2005.
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Tsz-wai Rachel Lo, Ben He and Iadh Ounis.
Automatically Building a Stopword List for an Information Retrieval System.
Journal on Digital Information Management: Special Issue on the 5th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR'05), 3(1):3-8, 2005.
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Vassilis Plachouras and Iadh Ounis.
Dempster-Shafer Theory for a Query-Biased Combination of Evidence on the Web.
Information Retrieval, 8(2):197-218, 2005.
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Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis and Gianni Amati.
The Static Absorbing Model for Hyperlink Analysis on the Web.
Journal of Web Engineering, 4(2):165-186, 2005.
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Gianni Amati and C.J. van Rijsbergen.
Probabilistic Models of Information Retrieval Based on Measuring Divergence From Randomness.
ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 20(4):357-389, 2002.
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Conference Papers <Top>

Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Intent-aware search result diversification.
In Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2011), Beijing, China, 2011.
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Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Aggregated search result diversification.
In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2011), Bertinoro, Italy, 2011.
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Veronica Gil-Costa, Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Sparse spatial selection for novelty-based search result diversification.
In Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2011), Pisa, Italy, 2011.
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Rodrygo L. T. Santos and Iadh Ounis.
Diversifying for multiple information needs.
In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Diversity in Document Retrieval (DDR 2011), Dublin, Ireland, 2011.
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Richard McCreadie, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Crowdsourcing Blog Track Top News Judgments at TREC.
In Proceedings of Crowdsourcing for Search and Data Mining (CSDM'10), Hong Kong, China.
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Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Selectively Diversifying Web Search Results.
In Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2010), Toronto, Canada, 2010.
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Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Exploiting Query Reformulations for Web Search Result Diversification.
In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2010), Raleigh, NC, USA, 2010.
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Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Voting for Related Entities.
In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval (RIAO 2010), Paris, France, 2010.
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Richard McCreadie, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
News Article Ranking: Leveraging the Wisdom of Bloggers.
In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval (RIAO 2010), Paris, France, 2010.
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Richard M. C. McCreadie, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Insights on the Horizon of News Search.
In Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2010), New York City, USA, 2010.
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Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Explicit Search Result Diversification through Sub-Queries.
In Proceedings of the 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2010). Milton Keynes, UK, 2010.
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Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Learning to Select a Ranking Function.
In Proceedings of the 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2010). Milton Keynes, UK, 2010.
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Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
The Influence of the Document Ranking in Expert Search.
In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'09). Hong Kong, China, 2009.
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Ben He and Iadh Ounis.
Finding Good Feedback Documents.
In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'09). Hong Kong, China, 2009.
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Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald, Ben He and Iadh Ounis.
A Study of Selective Collection Enrichment for Enterprise Search.
In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'09). Hong Kong, China, 2009.
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Richard M. C. McCreadie, Craig Macdonald, and Iadh Ounis.
Comparing Distributed Indexing: To MapReduce or Not?.
In Proceedings of LSDS-IR 2009 Workshop at SIGIR 2009. Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2009.
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Ben He and Iadh Ounis.
Studying Query Expansion Effectiveness.
In Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR09). Toulouse, France, 2009.
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Jie Peng and Iadh Ounis.
Selective Application of Query-independent Features in Web Information Retrieval.
In Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR09). Toulouse, France, 2009.
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Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Ben He, Craig Macdonald, and Iadh Ounis.
Integrating Proximity to Subjective Sentences for Blog Opinion Retrieval.
In Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR09). Toulouse, France, 2009.
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Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Usefulness of Quality Click-through Data for Training.
In Proceedings of WSCD09 Workshop at WSDM 2009. Barcelona, Spain, 2009.
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Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Key Blog Distillation: Ranking Aggregates.
In Proceedings of ACM CIKM'08. Napa Valley, California, USA, 2008.
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Ben He, Craig Macdonald, Jiyin He, and Iadh Ounis.
An Effective Statistical Approach to Blog Post Opinion Retrieval.
In Proceedings of ACM CIKM'08. Napa Valley, California, USA, 2008.
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Ben He, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Retrieval Sensitivity Under Training Using Different Measures.
In Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Singapore, 2008.
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Craig Maconald and Iadh Ounis.
Expert Search Evaluation by Supporting Documents.
In Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR08). Glasgow, UK, 2008.
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Craig Macdonald, David Hannah and Iadh Ounis.
High Quality Expertise Evidence for Expert Search.
In Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR08). Glasgow, UK, 2008.
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Patrice Lacour, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Efficiency Comparison of Document Matching Techniques.
In Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR08). Glasgow, UK, 2008.
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Iadh Ounis, Craig Macdonald and Ian Soboroff.
On the TREC Blog track.
In Proceedings of International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. Seattle, Washington, U.S.A, 2008.
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Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
A Belief Network Model for Expert Search.
In Proceedings of the 1st conference on Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR). Budapest, Hungary, 2007.
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Ben He and Iadh Ounis.
Parameter Sensitivity in the Probabilistic Model for Ad-hoc Retrieval.
In Proceedings of ACM CIKM'07. Lisbon, Portugal, 2007.
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Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Expertise Drift and Query Expansion in Expert Search.
In Proceedings of ACM CIKM'07. Lisbon, Portugal, 2007.
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Christina Lioma and Iadh Ounis.
Extending Weighting Models with a Term Quality Measure.
In 14th Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval. Santiago, Chile, 2007.
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Craig Macdonald, Christina Lioma and Iadh Ounis.
Terrier takes on the non-English Web.
In Proceedings of iNEWS'07 SIGIR Workshop. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2007.
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Erik Graf, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Clickthrough based measures of search engine performance.
In Proceedings of WISI'07 SIGIR Workshop. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2007.
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Vassilis Plachouras and Iadh Ounis.
Multinomial Randomness Models for Retrieval with Document Fields.
In Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR07). Rome, Italy, 2007.
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Ben He and Iadh Ounis.
Setting Per-field Normalisation Hyper-parameters for the Named-page Finding Search Task.
In Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR07). Rome, Italy, 2007.
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Christina Lioma and Iadh Ounis.
Light Syntactically-Based Index Pruning for Information Retrieval.
In Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR07). Rome, Italy, 2007.
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Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Using Relevance Feedback in Expert Search.
In Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR07). Rome, Italy, 2007.
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Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald, Ben He, and Iadh Ounis.
Combination of Document Priors in Web Information Retrieval.
In Proceedings of RIAO 2007 (Recherche d'Information Assistee par Ordinateur - Computer assisted information retrieval). Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Voting for Candidates: Adapting Data Fusion Techniques for an Expert Search Task.
In Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management. Arlington Virginia, USA.
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Iadh Ounis, Gianni Amati, Vassilis Plachouras, Ben He, Craig Macdonald, and Christina Lioma.
Terrier: A High Performance and Scalable Information Retrieval Platform.
In Proceedings of ACM SIGIR'06 Workshop on Open Source Information Retrieval (OSIR 2006). 10th August, 2006. Seattle, Washington, USA.
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Christina Lioma and Iadh Ounis.
Examining the Content Load of Part-of-Speech Blocks for Information Retrieval.
In Joint Conference of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics , (COLING/ACL 2006), 17-22 July, Sydney, Australia.
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Ben He and Iadh Ounis.
A study of the dirichlet priors for term frequency normalisation.
In Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.
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Craig Macdonald, Ben He and Iadh Ounis.
Predicting Query Performance in Intranet Search.
In ACM SIGIR'05 Query Prediction Workshop.
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Christina Lioma and Iadh Ounis.
Deploying Part-of-Speech Patterns to Enhance Statistical Phrase-Based Machine Translation Resources.
In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts, pages 163-166, June 2005.
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Ben He and Iadh Ounis.
Term Frequency Normalisation Tuning for BM25 and DFR Models.
In Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 05).
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Sau Kwan Chan, Ben He and Iadh Ounis.
An In-depth Survey on the Automatic Detection and Correction of Spelling Mistakes.
In Proceedings of the 5th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR'05).
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Ben He and Iadh Ounis.
Inferring Query Performance Using Pre-retrieval Predictors.
In Proceedings of the 11th Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2004), Padova, Italy, 2004.
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Vassilis Plachouras and Iadh Ounis.
Usefulness of hyperlink structure for query-biased topic distillation.
In Proceedings of the 27th annual international conference on Research and developement in information retrieval, Sheffield, UK, 2004.
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Ben He and Iadh Ounis.
A Query-based Pre-retrieval Model Selection Approach to Information Retrieval.
In Proceedings of RIAO 2004 (Recherche d'Information Assistee par Ordinateur - Computer assisted information retrieval), Avignon, Vaucluse, France, 2004.
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Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis and Fidel Cacheda.
Selective Combination of Evidence for Topic Distillation using Document and Aggregate-level Information.
In Proceedings of RIAO 2004 (Recherche d'Information Assistee par Ordinateur - Computer assisted information retrieval), Avignon, Vaucluse, France, 2004.
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Fidel Cacheda, Vassilis Plachouras and Iadh Ounis.
Performance Analysis of Distributed Architectures to Index One Terabyte of Text.
In Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on IR Research (ECIR 2004), Sunderland, UK, 2004.
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Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis and Gianni Amati.
A Utility-oriented Hyperlink Analysis Model for the Web.
In Proceedings of the First Latin Web Conference, Santiago, Chile, 2003.
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Ben He and Iadh Ounis.
A study of parameter tuning for term frequency normalization.
In Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on Information and knowledge management, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2003.
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Vassilis Plachouras and Iadh Ounis.
Information Theoretic Query Context Detection for Web Information Retrieval.
In Proceedings of IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet, Algarve, Portugal, 2003.
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Vassilis Plachouras and Iadh Ounis.
Query-Biased Combination of Evidence on the Web.
Workshop on Mathematical/Formal Methods in Information Retrieval, ACM SIGIR Conference, Tampere, Finland, 2002.
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Poster Papers <Top>

Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
How diverse are Web search results?
In Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2011), Beijing, China, 2011.
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Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
On the suitability of diversity metrics for learning-to-rank for diversity.
In Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2011), Beijing, China, 2011.
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Nut Limsopatham, Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Disambiguating biomedical acronyms using EMIM.
In Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2011), Beijing, China, 2011.
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Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis and Ian Soboroff.
Is Spam an Issue for Opinionated Blog Post Search?
In Proceedings of the 32nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2009.
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Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
On Perfect Document Rankings for Expert Search.
In Proceedings of the 32nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2009.
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Richard McCreadie, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
On Single-Pass Indexing with MapReduce.
In Proceedings of the 32nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2009.
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Craig Macdonald and Ryen White.
Usefulness of Click-through data in Expert Search.
In Proceedings of the 32nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2009.
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Ben He, Jie Peng, and Iadh Ounis.
Fitting Score Distribution for Blog Opinion Retrieval.
In Proceedings of the 32nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2009.
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Jie Peng, Ben He and Iadh Ounis.
Predicting the Usefulness of Collection Enrichment for Enterprise Search.
In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR'09). Cambridge, UK, 2009.
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Ben He, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Ranking Opinionated Blog Posts using OpinionFinder.
In Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Singapore, 2008.
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Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Iadh Ounis and Ian Soboroff.
Limits of Opinion-Finding Baseline Systems.
In Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Singapore, 2008.
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Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Automatic Document Prior Feature Selection for Web Retrieval.
In Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Singapore, 2008.
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David Hannah, Craig Maconald and Iadh Ounis.
Analysis of Link Graph Compression Techniques.
In Proceedings of 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR08). Glasgow, UK, 2008.
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Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Vassilis Plachouras and Iadh Ounis.
Incorporating Term Dependency in the DFR Framework.
In Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2007.
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Jie Peng and Iadh Ounis.
Combination of Document Priors in Web Information Retrieval.
In Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR07). Rome, Italy, 2007.
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Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Searching for expertise using the terrier platform.
In Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Seattle, Washington, USA, 2006.
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Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
Combining Fields in Known-Item Email Search.
In Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Seattle, Washington, USA.
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Iadh Ounis, Gianni Amati, Vassilis Plachouras, Ben He, Craig Macdonald and Douglas Johnson.
Terrier Information Retrieval Platform.
In Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 05).
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Fidel Cacheda, Victor Carneiro, Vassilis Plachouras and Iadh Ounis.
Network Analysis for Distributed Information Retrieval Architectures.
In Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on IR Research (ECIR 2005), pages 527-529, Sangiago De Compostela, Spain, 2005.
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Vassilis Plachouras and Iadh Ounis.
Distribution of Relevant Documents in Domain-level Aggregates for Topic Distillation.
In Proceedings of the 13th International World Wide Web Conference, New York, NY, USA, 2004.
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Evaluation Conference Papers <Top>

Rodrygo L.T. Santos, Richard McCreadie, Craig Macdonald, and Iadh Ounis.
University of Glasgow at TREC 2010: Experiments with Terrier in Blog and Web tracks.
In Proceedings of the 19th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2010), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 2010.
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Richard McCreadie, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, Jie Peng and Rodrygo L.T. Santos.
University of Glasgow at TREC 2009: Experiments with Terrier -- Blog, Entity, Million Query, Relevance Feedback, and Web tracks.
In Proceedings of the 18th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2009), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 2009.
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Ben He, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, Jie Peng and Rodrygo L.T. Santos.
University of Glasgow at TREC 2008: Experiments in Blog, Enterprise, and Relevance Feedback Tracks with Terrier.
In Proceedings of the 17th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2008), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 2008.
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Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis and Ian Soboroff.
Overview of the TREC 2007 Blog Track.
In Proceedings of the 16th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2007), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 2007.
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David Hannah, Craig Macdonald, Jie Peng, Ben He and Iadh Ounis.
University of Glasgow at TREC2007: Experiments in Blog and Enterprise tracks with Terrier.
In Proceedings of the 16th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2007), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 2007.
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Iadh Ounis, Maarten de Rijke, Craig Macdonald, Gilad Mishne and Ian Soboroff.
Overview of the TREC-2006 Blog Track.
In Proceedings of the 15th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 2006.
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Christina Lioma, Craig Macdonald, Vassilis Plachouras, Jie Peng, Ben He and Iadh Ounis.
University of Glasgow at TREC 2006: Experiments in Terabyte and Enterprise Tracks with Terrier.
In Proceedings of the 15th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 2006.
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Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Vassilis Plachouras and Iadh Ounis.
University of Glasgow at TREC 2005: Experiments in Terabyte and Enterprise Tracks with Terrier.
In Proceedings of the 14th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2005), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 2005.
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Craig Macdonald, Vassilis Plachouras, Ben He, Christina Lioma and Iadh Ounis.
University of Glasgow at WebCLEF 2005: Experiments in per-field normalisation and language specific stemming.
In Working notes of the CLEF 2005 Workshop, Vienna, Austria, 2005.
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Christina Lioma, Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Vassilis Plachouras and Iadh Ounis.
Applying Light Natural Language Processing to Ad-Hoc Cross Language Information Retrieval.
In Working notes of the CLEF 2005 Workshop, Vienna, Austria, 2005.
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Vassilis Plachouras, Ben He and Iadh Ounis.
University of Glasgow at TREC2004: Experiments in Web, Robust and Terabyte tracks with Terrier.
In Proceedings of the 13th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC2004), Gaithersburg MD, USA, 2004.
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Christina Lioma, Ben He, Vassilis Plachouras and Iadh Ounis.
The University of Glasgow at CLEF 2004: French Monolingual Information Retrieval with Terrier.
In Proceedings of the CLEF 2004 Workshop, Bath, UK, 2004.
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Ben He and Iadh Ounis.
University of Glasgow at the Robust Track - A Query-based Model Selection Approach for the Poorly-Performing Queries.
In Proceedings of the 12th Text Retrieval Conference TREC 2003, Gaithersburg, MD, 2003.
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Vassilis Plachouras, Fidel Cacheda, Iadh Ounis and C.J. van Rijsbergen.
University of Glasgow at the Web Track: Dynamic Application of Hyperlink Analysis using the Query Scope.
In Proceedings of the 12th Text Retrieval Conference TREC 2003, Gaithersburg, MD, 2003.
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Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis, Gianni Amati and C.J. van Rijsbergen.
University of Glasgow at the Web track of TREC 2002.
In E.M. Voorhees and L.P. Buckland (editors), Proceedings of the 11th Text Retrieval Conference TREC 2002, Gaithersburg, MD, 2002.
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Gianni Amati, Claudio Carpineto and Gianni Romano.
FUB at TREC 10 web track: a probabilistic framework for topic relevance term weighting.
In E.M. Voorhees and D.K. Harman (editors), Proceedings of the 10th Text Retrieval Conference TREC 2001, pages 182-191, Gaithersburg, MD, 2002. NIST Special Publication 500-250.
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Technical Reports <Top>

Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis.
The TREC Blogs06 Collection : Creating and Analysing a Blog Test Collection.
Technical Report TR-2006-224, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 2006.
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Gianni Amati, Iadh Ounis and Vassilis Plachouras.
The Dynamic Absorbing Model for the Web.
Technical Report TR-2003-137, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, April, 2003.
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Thesis <Top>

Craig Macdonald. The Voting Model for People Search. PhD Thesis, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 2009
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Ben He. Term Frequency Normalisation for Information Retrieval. PhD Thesis, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 2007
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Vassilis Plachouras. Selective Web Information Retrieval. PhD Thesis, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 2006
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