Informal SIGIR 2011 Test of Time Award (Poll Closed)

• "Applying summarization techniques for term selection in relevance feedback", Adenike M. Lam-Adesina, Gareth J. F. Jones
  0%
  0 votes
   
• "Temporal summaries of new topics", James Allan, Rahul Gupta, Vikas Khandelwal
  1%
  1 vote
   
• "Generic text summarization using relevance measure and latent semantic analysis", Yihong Gong, Xin Liu
  0%
  0 votes
   
• "A new approach to unsupervised text summarization", Tadashi Nomoto, Yuji Matsumoto
  1%
  1 vote
   
• "Vector-space ranking with effective early termination", Vo Ngoc Anh, Owen de Kretser, Alistair Moffat
  1%
  1 vote
   
• "Static index pruning for information retrieval systems", David Carmel, Doron Cohen, Ronald Fagin, Eitan Farchi, Michael Herscovici, Yoelle S. Maarek, Aya Soffer
  2%
  2 votes
   
• "Rank-preserving two-level caching for scalable search engines", Paricia Correia Saraiva, Edleno Silva de Moura, Novio Ziviani, Wagner Meira, Rodrigo Fonseca, Berthier Riberio-Neto
  1%
  1 vote
   
• "Using event segmentation to improve indexing of consumer photographs", Amanda Stent, Alexander Loui
  0%
  0 votes
   
• "Ranking retrieval systems without relevance judgments", Ian Soboroff, Charles Nicholas, Patrick Cahan
  2%
  2 votes
   
• "Evaluation by highly relevant documents", Ellen M. Voorhees
  2%
  2 votes
   
• "Meta-scoring: automatically evaluating term weighting schemes in IR without precision-recall", Rong Jin, Christos Falusos, Alex G. Hauptmann
  0%
  0 votes
   
• "Improving cross language retrieval with triangulated translation", Tim Gollins, Mark Sanderson
  0%
  0 votes
   
• "Improving query translation for cross-language information retrieval using statistical models", Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Endong Xun, Jian Zhang, Ming Zhou, Changning Huang
  0%
  0 votes
   
• "Evaluating a probabilistic model for cross-lingual information retrieval", Jinxi Xu, Ralph Weischedel, Chanh Nguyen
  0%
  0 votes
   
• "Relevance based language models", Victor Lavrenko, W. Bruce Croft
  24%
  20 votes
   
• "A statistical learning learning model of text classification for support vector machines", Thorsten Joachims
  16%
  13 votes
   
• "A study of thresholding strategies for text categorization", Yiming Yang
  1%
  1 vote
   
• "On feature distributional clustering for text categorization", Ron Bekkerman, Ran El-Yaniv, Naftali Tishby, Yoad Winter
  0%
  0 votes
   
• "Iterative residual rescaling", Rie Kubota Ando, Lillian Lee
  2%
  2 votes
   
• "Expressive retrieval from XML documents", Taurai Tapiwa Chinenyanga, Nicholas Kushmerick
  1%
  1 vote
   
• "XIRQL: a query language for information retrieval in XML documents", Norbert Fuhr, Kai Großjohann
  1%
  1 vote
   
• "Empirical investigations on query modification using abductive explanations", Ian Rithven, Mounia Lalmas, Keith van Rijsbergen
  0%
  0 votes
   
• "Generic summaries for indexing in information retrieval", Tetsuya Sakai, Karen Sparck-Jones
  1%
  1 vote
   
• "Automatic generation of concise summaries of spoken dialogues in unrestricted domains", Klaus Zechner
  0%
  0 votes
   
• "Enhanced topic distillation using text, markup tags, and hyperlinks", Soumen Chakrabarti, Mukul Joshi, Vivek Tawde
  0%
  0 votes
   
• "Transparent Queries: investigation users' mental models of search engines", Jack Muramatsu, Wanda Pratt
  0%
  0 votes
   
• "Why batch and user evaluations do not give the same results", Andrew H. Turpin, William Hersh
  4%
  3 votes
   
• "Evaluating a content based image retrieval system", Sharon McDonald, Ting-Sheng Lai, John Tait
  0%
  0 votes
   
• "Evaluating topic-driven web crawlers", Filippo Menczer, Gautam Pant, Padmini Srinivasan, Miguel E. Ruiz
  0%
  0 votes
   
• "Effective site finding using link anchor information", Nick Craswell, David Hawking, Stephen Robertson
  2%
  2 votes
   
• "Stable algorithms for link analysis", Andrew Y. Ng, Alice X. Zheng, Michael I. Jordan
  1%
  1 vote
   
• "Modeling score distributions for combining the outputs of search engines", R. Manmatha, T. Rath, F. Feng
  5%
  4 votes
   
• "Models for metasearch", Javed A. Aslam, Mark Montague
  6%
  5 votes
   
• "The score-distributional threshold optimization for adaptive binary classification tasks", Avi Arampatzis, André van Hameran
  0%
  0 votes
   
• "Maximum likelihood estimation for filtering thresholds", Yi Zhang, Jamie Callan
  1%
  1 vote
   
• "A meta-learning approach for text categorization", Wai Lam, Kwok-Yin Lai
  0%
  0 votes
   
• "Unsupervised and supervised clustering for topic tracking", Martin Franz, Todd Ward, J. Scott McCarley, Wei-Jing Zhu
  0%
  0 votes
   
• "Intelligent information triage", Sofus A. Macskassy, Foster Provost
  1%
  1 vote
   
• "Discovering information flow suing high dimensional conceptual space", Dawei Song, Peter Bruza
  0%
  0 votes
   
• "A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to Ad Hoc information retrieval", Chengxiang Zhai, John Lafferty
  13%
  11 votes
   
• "Topic segmentation with an aspect hidden Markov model", David M. Blei, Pedro J. Moreno
  1%
  1 vote
   
• "Finding topic words for hierarchical summarization", Dawn Lawrie, W. Bruce Croft, Arnold Rosenberg
  1%
  1 vote
   
• "Exploiting redundancy in question answering", Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam
  0%
  0 votes
   
• "High performance question/answering", Marius A. Pasca, Sandra M. Harabagiu
  2%
  2 votes
   
• "Searcher performance in question answering", Mingfang Wu, Michael Fuller, Ross Wilkinson
  1%
  1 vote