Yahoo Wins Best Paper Award at SIGIR

NEWS
Jul 23, 2009

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