Damiano Spina
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Understanding User Behavior in Job and Talent Search: An Initial Investigation
The Web has created a global marketplace for e-Commerce as well as for talent. Online employment marketplaces provide an effective …
Damiano Spina
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Maria Maistro
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Yongli Ren
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Sargol Sadeghi
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Wilson Wong
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Timothy Baldwin
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Lawrence Cavedon
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Alistair Moffat
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Mark Sanderson
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Falk Scholer
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Justin Zobel
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Beyond Factoid QA: Effective Methods for Non-factoid Answer Sentence Retrieval
Retrieving finer grained text units such as passages or sentences as answers for non-factoid Web queries is becoming increasingly …
Liu Yang
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Qingyao Ai
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Damiano Spina
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Ruey-Cheng Chen
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Liang Pang
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W. Bruce Croft
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Jiafeng Guo
,
Falk Scholer
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RMIT @ TREC 2016 Dynamic Domain: Exploiting Passage Representation for Retrieval and Relevance Feedback
The TREC Dynamic Domain search task addresses search scenarios where users engage interactively with search systems to tackle …
Ameer Albahem
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Damiano Spina
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Lawrence Cavedon
,
Falk Scholer
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Active Learning for Entity Filtering in Microblog Streams
Monitoring the reputation of entities such as companies or brands in microblog streams (e.g., Twitter) starts by selecting mentions …
Damiano Spina
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Maria-Hendrike Peetz
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Maarten de Rijke
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Harnessing Semantics for Answer Sentence Retrieval
Finding answer passages from the Web is a challenging task. One major difficulty is to retrieve sentences that may not have many terms …
Ruey-Cheng Chen
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Damiano Spina
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W. Bruce Croft
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Mark Sanderson
,
Falk Scholer
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Results Presentation Methods for a Spoken Conversational Search System
We propose research to investigate a new paradigm for Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR) where all input and output is mediated …
Johanne R. Trippas
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Damiano Spina
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Mark Sanderson
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Lawrence Cavedon
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SpeakerLDA: Discovering Topics in Transcribed Multi-Speaker Audio Contents
Topic models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) have been extensively used for characterizing text collections according to the …
Damiano Spina
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Johanne R. Trippas
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Lawrence Cavedon
,
Mark Sanderson
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Towards Understanding the Impact of Length in Web Search Result Summaries over a Speech-Only Communication Channel
Presenting search results over a speech-only communication channel involves a number of challenges for users due to cognitive …
Johanne R. Trippas
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Damiano Spina
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Mark Sanderson
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Lawrence Cavedon
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Learning Similarity Functions for Topic Detection in Online Reputation Monitoring
Reputation management experts have to monitor–among others–Twitter constantly and decide, at any given time, what is being …
Damiano Spina
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Julio Gonzalo
,
Enrique Amigó
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ORMA: A Semi-Automatic Tool for Online Reputation Monitoring in Twitter
We present a semi-automatic tool that assists experts in their daily work of monitoring the reputation of entities—companies, …
Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz
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Enrique Amigó
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Damiano Spina
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Julio Gonzalo
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