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A Living Lab Study of Query Amendment in Job Search
Errors in formulation of queries made by users can lead to poor search results pages. We performed a living lab study using online A/B …
Bahar Salehi
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Damiano Spina
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Alistair Moffat
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Sargol Sadeghi
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Falk Scholer
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Timothy Baldwin
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Lawrence Cavedon
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Mark Sanderson
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Wilson Wong
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Justin Zobel
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An Axiomatic Analysis of Diversity Evaluation Metrics: Introducing the Rank-Biased Utility Metric
Many evaluation metrics have been defined to evaluate the effectiveness ad-hoc retrieval and search result diversification systems. …
Enrique Amigó
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Damiano Spina
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Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz
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Desirable Properties for Diversity and Truncated Effectiveness Metrics
A wide range of evaluation metrics have been proposed to measure the quality of search results, including in the presence of …
Ameer Albahem
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Damiano Spina
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Falk Scholer
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Alistair Moffat
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Lawrence Cavedon
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How Many Truth Levels? Six? One Hundred? Even more? Validating Truthfulness of Statements via Crowdsourcing
We report on collecting truthfulness values (i) by means of crowd-sourcing and (ii) using fine-grained scales. In our experiment we …
Kevin Roitero
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Gianluca Demartini
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Stefano Mizzaro
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Damiano Spina
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Informing the Design of Spoken Conversational Search: Perspective Paper
We conducted a laboratory-based observational study where pairs of people performed search tasks communicating verbally. Examination of …
Johanne R. Trippas
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Damiano Spina
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Lawrence Cavedon
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Hideo Joho
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Mark Sanderson
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Second International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval (CAIR'18): Workshop at SIGIR 2018
The CAIR'18 workshop will bring together academic and industrial researchers to create a forum for research on conversational …
Jaime Arguello
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Filip Radlinski
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Hideo Joho
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Damiano Spina
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Julia Kiseleva
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Towards a Basic Principle for Ranking Effectiveness Prediction without Human Assessments: A Preliminary Study
We present in this paper a preliminary study about the Observational Information Linearity (OIL) assumption as a basic principle that …
Enrique Amigó
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Stefano Mizzaro
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Damiano Spina
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A Conversational Search Transcription Protocol and Analysis
The analysis of spoken interactions between human participants, for the purpose of understanding tactics and strategies for performing …
Johanne R. Trippas
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Damiano Spina
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Lawrence Cavedon
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Mark Sanderson
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Crowdsourcing User Preferences and Query Judgments for Speech-Only Search
The analysis of spoken interactions between human participants, for the purpose of understanding tactics and strategies for performing …
Johanne R. Trippas
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Damiano Spina
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Lawrence Cavedon
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Mark Sanderson
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How Do People Interact in Conversational Speech-Only Search Tasks: A Preliminary Analysis
We present preliminary findings from a study of mixed initiative conversational behaviour for informational search in an acoustic …
Johanne R. Trippas
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Damiano Spina
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Lawrence Cavedon
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Mark Sanderson
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