Month: January 2015

An Information Processing & Management paper on burst-aware data fusion for microblog search by Shangsong Liang and Maarten de Rijke is online now. We consider the problem of searching posts in microblog environments. We frame this microblog post search problem as a late data fusion problem. Previous work on data fusion has mainly focused on aggregating…

Our ECIR 2015 paper on user behavior in location search on mobile devices by Yaser Norouzzadeh Ravari, Ilya Markov, Artem Grotov, Maarten Clements and Maarten de Rijke is online now. Location search engines are an important part of GPS-enabled devices such as mobile phones and tablet computers. In this paper, we study how users behave when they…

Our ECIR 2015 paper on multi-emotion detection in user-generated reviews by Lars Buitinck, Jesse van Amerongen, Ed Tan and Maarten de Rijke is online now. Expressions of emotion abound in user-generated content, whether it be in blogs, reviews, or on social media. Much work has been devoted to detecting and classifying these emotions, but little of it…

Our ECIR 2015 paper on automatically assessing article quality by exploiting article-bitor networks by Xinyi Li, Jintao Tang, Ting Wang, Zhunchen Luo and Maarten de Rijke is online now. We consider the problem of automatically assessing Wikipedia article quality. We develop several models to rank articles by using the editing relations between articles and editors. First, we…