Conferences

C60. Jie Zou, Evangelos Kanoulas, Yiqun Liu, “An Empirical Study on Clarifying Question-Based Systems” In Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’20). ACM, New York, NY, USA. (to appear).

C59. Antonios Minas Krasakis, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nikos Voskarides and Evangelos Kanoulas, “Analysing the Effect of Clarifying Questions on Document Ranking in Conversational Search” In Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGIR  International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR’20) (publisher’s link)

C58. Georgios Sidiropoulos, Nikos Voskarides, Evangelos Kanoulas, “Knowledge Graph Simple Question Answering for Unseen Domains”, In Proceedings of the International Conference of Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC’20) (publisher’s link)

C57. Jie Zou, Yifan Chen and Evangelos Kanoulas, “Towards Question-based Recommender Systems”. In Proceedings of the 43rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR ’20). ACM, New York, NY, USA. (publisher’s link)

C56. Dan Li, Panagiotis Zafeiriadis and Evangelos Kanoulas, “APS: An Active PubMed Search System for Technology Assisted Review”. In Proceedings of the 43rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR ’20). ACM, New York, NY, USA. (publisher’s link)

C55. Svitlana Vakulenko, Evangelos Kanoulas and Maarten de Rijke, “An Analysis of Mixed Initiative and Collaboration in Information-Seeking Dialogues”. In Proceedings of the 43rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR ’20). ACM, New York, NY, USA. (publisher’s link)

C54. Nikos Voskarides, Dan Li, Pengjie Ren, Evangelos Kanoulas and Maarten de Rijke, “Query Resolution for Conversational Search with Limited Supervision”. In Proceedings of the 43rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR ’20). ACM, New York, NY, USA. (publisher’s link)

C53. Chuan Wu, Evangelos Kanoulas, Maarten de Rijke, “WN-Salience: A Corpus of News Articles with Entity Salience Annotations” In International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), 2020. (publisher’s link)

C52. Jie Zou and Evangelos Kanoulas: Learning to Ask: Question-based Sequential Bayesian Product Search. In Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’19). ACM, New York, NY, USA. (publisher’s link).

C51. Christopher Norman, Mariska Leeflang, René Spijker, Evangelos Kanoulas, Aurélie Névéol: A distantly supervised dataset for automated data extraction from diagnostic studies. BioNLP@ACL 2019: 105-114 (publisher’s link)

C50. Antonios Minas Krasakis, Evangelos Kanoulas, George Tsatsaronis, “Semi-supervised Ensemble Learning with Weak Supervision for Biomedical Relationship Extraction”. In Proceedings of the International Conference of Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC’19) (publisher’s link)

C49. David van Dijk, Marco Ferrante, Nicola Ferro and Evangelos Kanoulas. “A Markovian Approach to Evaluate Session-based IR Systems”. In Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval – 41st European Conference on IR (ECIR’19). (publisher’s link)

C48. Liadh Kelly, Lorraine Goeuriot, Hanna Suominen, Mariana L. Neves, Evangelos Kanoulas, René Spijker, Leif Azzopardi, Dan Li, Jimmy, João R. M. Palotti, Guido Zuccon: CLEF eHealth 2019 Evaluation Lab. ECIR (2) 2019: 267-274

C47. Julien Rossi and Evangelos Kanoulas. “Query Generation for Patent Retrieval with Keyword Extraction based on Syntactic Features”. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX ‘18). (publisher’s link)

C46. Christophe Van Gysel, Maarten de Rijke, and Evangelos Kanoulas. “Mix ’n Match: Integrating Text Matching and Product Substitutability within Product Search”. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA. (publisher’s link)

C45. Oana Inel, Giannis Haralabopoulos, Dan Li, Christophe Van Gysel, Zoltan Szlavik, Elena Simperl, Evangelos Kanoulas, Lora Aroyo. “Studying Topical Relevance with Evidence-based Crowdsourcing”. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA. (publisher’s link)

C44. Jasper Linmans, Bob van de Velde, Evangelos Kanoulas. “Improved and Robust Controversy Detection in General Web Pages Using Semantic Approaches under Large Scale Conditions”. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA. (publisher’s link)

C43. Shangsong Liang, Xiangliang Zhang, Zhaochun Ren and Evangelos Kanoulas. “Dynamic Embeddings for User Profiling in Twitter”. In Proceedings of ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2018), 2018. (publisher’s link)

C42. Jie Zou, Dan Li and Evangelos Kanoulas. “Technology Assisted Reviews: Finding the Last Few Relevant Documents by Asking Yes/No Questions to Reviewers”. In Proceedings of the 41st international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR ’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA. (publisher’s link)

C41. Thijs Scheepers, Evangelos Kanoulas and Efstratios Gavves. “Improving Word Embedding Compositionality using Lexicographic Definitions”. In Proceedings of the 2018 World Wide Web Conference (WWW ’18). (publisher’s link)

C40. Mircea Mironenco, Dana Kianfar, Ke Tran, Evangelos Kanoulas, Efstratios Gavves. “Examining Cooperation in Visual Dialog Models”. In Proceedings of the Thirty-first Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Workshop on Visually Grounded Interaction and Languages (NIPS ‘17). To Appear.

C39. Dan Li and Evangelos Kanoulas. “Bayesian Optimization for Optimizing Retrieval Systems”. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM ‘17). (publisher’s link)

C38. Ilias Koutsakis, Evangelos Kanoulas, George Tsatsaronis and Eamonn Maguire. Classy: A visual analytics environment for supervised text classification and model evaluation. In Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA. (https://github.com/Lilykos/classy)

C37. Dan Li and Evangelos Kanoulas. Active Sampling for Large-scale Information Retrieval Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA. (publisher’s link)

C36. Kaspar Beelen, Evangelos Kanoulas and Bob van de Velde. Detecting Controversies in Online News Media. In Proceedings of the 40th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA (publisher’s link)

C35. Christophe Van Gysel, Evangelos Kanoulas, and Maarten de Rijke. Pyndri: a Python Interface to the Indri Search Engine. In Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval – 39th European Conference on IR (ECIR’17). (publisher’s link)

C34. Cristina Gârbacea and Evangelos Kanoulas: A Systematic Analysis of Temporal Summarization Methods. In Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval – 39th European Conference on IR (ECIR’17). (publisher’s link)

C33. Shangsong Liang, Zhaochun Ren, Emine Yilmaz, and Evangelos Kanoulas: Collaborative User Clustering for Short Text Stream. In Proceedings of the Thirty first AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’17). AAAI Press. (publisher’s link)

C32. Aldo Lipani, Mihai Lupu, Evangelos Kanoulas, Allan Hanbury: The Solitude of Relevant Documents in the Pool. In Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 19989–1992. (publisher’s link)

C31. Christophe Van Gysel, Maarten de Rijke, Evangelos Kanoulas: Learning Latent Vector Spaces for Product Search. In Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 165–174. (publisher’s link)

C30. Hosein Azarbonyad and Evangelos Kanoulas. 2016. Power Analysis for Interleaving Experiments by Means of Offline Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 87-90. (publisher’s link)

C29. Christophe Van Gysel, Evangelos Kanoulas, and Maarten de Rijke. 2016. Lexical Query Modeling in Session Search. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 69-72. (publisher’s link)

C28. Shangsong Liang, Emine Yilmaz, Evangelos Kanoulas: Dynamic Clustering of Streaming Short Documents. KDD 2016: 995-1004. (publisher’s link). 

C27. Ben Carterette, Paul D Clough, Mark M Hall, Evangelos Kanoulas, and Mark Sanderson. “Evaluating Retrieval over Sessions: The TREC Session Track 2011–2014” In Proceedings of the 39th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA. (publisher’s link).

C26. Emine Yilmaz, Evangelos Kanoulas, Nick Craswell, “Effect of Intent Descriptions on Retrieval Evaluation” In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 599-608.  (publisher’s link).

C25. Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas and Emine Yilmaz, “Modelling Score Distributions Without Actual Scores”, in ICTIR’13: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2013. NOMINATED FOR BEST PAPER AWARD. (publisher’s link).

C24. Ahmet Aker, Evangelos Kanoulas and Robert Gaizauskas, “A Light Way to Collect Comparable Corpora from the Web”, in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’12), 2012. (publisher’s link)

C23. Ben Carterette, Evangelos Kanoulas and Emine Yilmaz, “Advances on the Development of Evaluation Measures”, in SIGIR ’12: Proceeding of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, pp. 1200–1201, 2012. (publisher’s link).

C22. Ben Carterette, Evangelos Kanoulas and Emine Yilmaz, “Incorporating Variability in User Behavior into Systems Based Evaluation”, in CIKM ’12: Proceedings of the 21st ACM international Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM ’12, pp. 135–144, New York, NY, USA, 2012, ACM. (publisher’s link)

C21. Keshi Dai, Virgil Pavlu, Evangelos Kanoulas and Javed A. Aslam, “Extended Expectation Maximization for Inferring Score Distributions”, in ECIR’12: Advances in Information Retrieval: 34th European Conference on IR Research, 2012. (publisher’s link)

C20. Stephen E. Robertson and Evangelos Kanoulas , “On Per-topic Variance in IR Evaluation”, in SIGIR ’12: Proceeding of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, pp. 891–900, 2012. (publisher’s link)

C19. Stephen E. Robertson and Evangelos Kanoulas, “On Real-time Ad-hoc Retrieval Evaluation”, in SIGIR ’12: Proceeding of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, pp. 1119–1120, 2012. (publisher’s link).

C18. Ben Carterette, Evangelos Kanoulas and Emine Yilmaz, “Simulating Simple User Behavior for System Effectiveness Evaluation”, in CIKM ’11: Proceedings of the 20th ACM international Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pp. 611–620, 2011. (publisher’s link).

C17.  Evangelos Kanoulas, Ben Carterette, Paul Clough and Mark Sanderson, “Evaluating Multi-Query Sessions”, in The proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR 2011), 2011. (publisher’s link).

C16. Evangelos Kanoulas, Stefan Savev, Pavel Metrikov and Javed A. Aslam, “A Large-scale Study of the Effect of Training Set Characteristics over Learning-to-Rank Algorithms”, in Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR 2011), 2011. (publisher’s link)

C15. Ben Carterette, Evangelos Kanoulas, Virgil Pavlu and Hui Fang, “Reusable test collections through experimental design”, in SIGIR ’10: Proceeding of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, pp. 547–554, New York, NY, USA, 2010, ACM. (publisher’s link).

C14. Ben Carterette, Evangelos Kanoulas and Emine Yilmaz, “Low Cost Evaluation in Information Retrieval”, in SIGIR ’10: Proceeding of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, p. 903, 2010.

C13. Evangelos Kanoulas, Keshi Dai, Virgil Pavlu and Javed A. Aslam, “Score Distribution Models: Assumptions, Intuition, and Robustness to Score Manipulation”, in SIGIR ’10: Proceeding of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, pp. 242–249, ISBN: 978-1-4503-0153-4, New York, NY, USA, 2010, ACM. (publisher’s link).

C12. Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas and Emine Yilmaz, “Extending average precision to graded relevance judgments”, in SIGIR ’10: Proceeding of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, pp. 603–610, ISBN: 978-1-4503-0153-4, New York, NY, USA, 2010, ACM. NOMINATED FOR BEST PAPER AWARD. (publisher’s link).

C11. Mark Sanderson, Monica Lestari Paramita, Paul Clough and Evangelos Kanoulas, “Do User Preferences and Evaluation Measures Line Up?”, in SIGIR ’10: Proceeding of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, pp. 555–562, ISBN: 978-1-4503-0153-4, New York, NY, USA, 2010, ACM. (publisher’s link).

C10. Javed A. Aslam, Evangelos Kanoulas, Virgil Pavlu, Stefan Savev and Emine Yilmaz, “Document Selection Methodologies for Efficient and Effective Learning-to-Rank”, in SIGIR’09 Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, SIGIR ’09, pp. 468–475, ISBN: 978-1-60558-483-6, New York, NY, USA, 2009, ACM. (publisher’s link).

C9. Ben Carterette, Virgil Pavlu, Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam and James Allan, “If I Had a Million Queries”, in ECIR’09: Advances in Information Retrieval: 31st European Conference on IR Research, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2009. (publisher’s link).

C8. Evangelos Kanoulas and Javed A. Aslam, “Empirical Justification of the Gain and Discount Function for nDCG”, in CIKM ’09: Proceedings of the 18th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management, 2009. (publisher’s link).

C7. Evangelos Kanoulas, Virgil Pavlu, Keshi Dai and Javed A. Aslam, “Modeling the Score Distributions of Relevant and Non-Relevant Documents”, in ICTIR’09: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2009. NOMINATED FOR BEST PAPER AWARD. (publisher’s link).

C6. Ben Carterette, Virgil Pavlu, Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam and James Allan, “Evaluation Over Thousands of Queries”, in Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Douglas W. Oard, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Tat-Seng Chua and Mun-Kew Leong, editors, SIGIR’08: Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 651–658, ACM Press, 2008. (publisher’s link).

C5. Emine Yilmaz, Evangelos Kanoulas and Javed A. Aslam, “A Simple and Efficient Sampling Method for Estimating AP and NDCG”, in SIGIR ’08: Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 603–610, ACM Press, 2008. (publisher’s link).

C4. Evangelos Kanoulas, Yang Du, Tian Xia and Donghui Zhang, “Finding Fastest Paths on A Road Network with Speed Patterns”, in ICDE ’06: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’06), p. 10, IEEE Computer Society, 2006. (publisher’s link).

C3. Tian Xia, Donghui Zhang, Evangelos Kanoulas and Yang Du, “On Computing Top-t Most Influential Spatial Sites”, in VLDB ’05: Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, pp. 946–957, VLDB Endowment, 2005. (publisher’s link).

C2. B Salzberg, L. Jiang, D.B. Lomet, M.B. Garcia, J. Shan and E. Kanoulas, “A Framework for Access Methods for Versioned Data”, in EDBT ’04: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of Extending Database Technology, pp. 730–747, Springer, 2004. (publisher’s link).

C1. Evangelos Kanoulas and Georgios Evangelidis, “Indexing of Spatiotemporal Data with the hB-pi Tree”, in HDMS ’02: 1st Hellenic Symposium on the Management of Data, 2002. (publisher’s link).