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2010 – 2019
- 2019
- [j69]Stephen Robertson:
A Brief History of Search Results Ranking. IEEE Ann. Hist. Comput. 41(2): 22-28 (2019) - 2018
- [r4]Nick Craswell, Stephen Robertson:
Average Precision at n. Encyclopedia of Database Systems (2nd ed.) 2018 - [r3]Thomas Roelleke, Jun Wang, Stephen Robertson:
Probabilistic Retrieval Models and Binary Independence Retrieval (BIR) Model. Encyclopedia of Database Systems (2nd ed.) 2018 - 2017
- [c91]Stephen Robertson:
Forward to the Past: Notes towards a Pre-history of Web Search. SIGIR 2017: 1 - 2014
- [j68]Robin Aly, Thomas Demeester, Stephen Robertson:
Probabilistic models in IR and their relationships. Inf. Retr. 17(2): 177-201 (2014) - 2013
- [j67]Jiaul H. Paik, Swapan K. Parui, Dipasree Pal, Stephen E. Robertson:
Effective and Robust Query-Based Stemming. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 31(4): 18:1-18:29 (2013) - [c90]Andrea Berto, Stefano Mizzaro, Stephen Robertson:
On Using Fewer Topics in Information Retrieval Evaluations. ICTIR 2013: 9 - [c89]Stephen Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas, Emine Yilmaz:
Modelling Score Distributions Without Actual Scores. ICTIR 2013: 20 - [c88]Jagadeesh Gorla, Neal Lathia, Stephen Robertson, Jun Wang:
Probabilistic group recommendation via information matching. WWW 2013: 495-504 - 2012
- [j66]Olga Vechtomova, Stephen E. Robertson:
A domain-independent approach to finding related entities. Inf. Process. Manag. 48(4): 654-670 (2012) - [c87]Stephen Robertson:
On Smoothing Average Precision. ECIR 2012: 158-169 - [c86]Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas:
On per-topic variance in IR evaluation. SIGIR 2012: 891-900 - [c85]Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas:
On real-time ad-hoc retrieval evaluation. SIGIR 2012: 1119-1120 - [p1]Stephen Robertson:
The Web, the Home and the Search Engine. The Connected Home - The Future of Domestic Life 2012: 79-91 - [i2]Jagadeesh Gorla, Stephen Robertson, Jun Wang, Tamas Jambor:
A Theory of Information Matching. CoRR abs/1205.5569 (2012) - 2011
- [j65]Leif Azzopardi, Dawei Song, Gabriella Kazai, Stephen Robertson, Stefan M. Rüger, Milad Shokouhi, Emine Yilmaz:
Introduction to special issue on the second international conference on the theory of information retrieval. Inf. Retr. 14(1): 1-4 (2011) - [j64]Avi Arampatzis, Stephen Robertson:
Modeling score distributions in information retrieval. Inf. Retr. 14(1): 26-46 (2011) - [c84]Stephen Robertson:
On the Contributions of Topics to System Evaluation. ECIR 2011: 129-140 - [i1]Jagadeesh Gorla, Stephen Robertson, Jun Wang:
A Unified Relevance Retrieval Model by Eliteness Hypothesis. CoRR abs/1106.2946 (2011) - 2010
- [j63]Emine Yilmaz, Stephen Robertson:
On the choice of effectiveness measures for learning to rank. Inf. Retr. 13(3): 271-290 (2010) - [c83]Emine Yilmaz, Milad Shokouhi, Nick Craswell, Stephen Robertson:
Expected browsing utility for web search evaluation. CIKM 2010: 1561-1564 - [c82]Tetsuya Sakai, Nick Craswell, Ruihua Song, Stephen Robertson, Zhicheng Dou, Chin-Yew Lin:
Simple Evaluation Metrics for Diversified Search Results. EVIA@NTCIR 2010: 42-50 - [c81]Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas, Emine Yilmaz:
Extending average precision to graded relevance judgments. SIGIR 2010: 603-610
2000 – 2009
- 2009
- [j62]Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza:
The Probabilistic Relevance Framework: BM25 and Beyond. Found. Trends Inf. Retr. 3(4): 333-389 (2009) - [j61]John Guiver, Stefano Mizzaro, Stephen Robertson:
A few good topics: Experiments in topic set reduction for retrieval evaluation. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 27(4): 21:1-21:26 (2009) - [c80]Stephen Robertson, Milan Vojnovic, Ingmar Weber:
Rethinking the ESP game. CHI Extended Abstracts 2009: 3937-3942 - [c79]Avi Arampatzis, Stephen Robertson, Jaap Kamps:
Score Distributions in Information Retrieval. ICTIR 2009: 139-151 - [c78]Avi Arampatzis, Jaap Kamps, Stephen Robertson:
Where to stop reading a ranked list?: threshold optimization using truncated score distributions. SIGIR 2009: 524-531 - [c77]Emine Yilmaz, Stephen Robertson:
Deep versus shallow judgments in learning to rank. SIGIR 2009: 662-663 - [c76]Emine Yilmaz, Milad Shokouhi, Nick Craswell, Stephen Robertson:
Incorporating User Behavior Information in IR Evaluation. UIIR@SIGIR 2009 - [c75]Nick Craswell, Dennis Fetterly, Marc Najork, Stephen Robertson, Emine Yilmaz:
Microsoft Research at TREC 2009: Web and Relevance Feedback Track. TREC 2009 - [e2]Leif Azzopardi, Gabriella Kazai, Stephen E. Robertson, Stefan M. Rüger, Milad Shokouhi, Dawei Song, Emine Yilmaz:
Advances in Information Retrieval Theory, Second International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2009, Cambridge, UK, September 10-12, 2009, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5766, Springer 2009, ISBN 978-3-642-04416-8 [contents] - [r2]Nick Craswell, Stephen Robertson:
Average Precision at n. Encyclopedia of Database Systems 2009: 193-194 - [r1]Thomas Roelleke, Jun Wang, Stephen Robertson:
Probabilistic Retrieval Models and Binary Independence Retrieval (BIR) Model. Encyclopedia of Database Systems 2009: 2156-2160 - 2008
- [j60]Jun Wang, Stephen Robertson, Arjen P. de Vries, Marcel J. T. Reinders:
Probabilistic relevance ranking for collaborative filtering. Inf. Retr. 11(6): 477-497 (2008) - [j59]Stephen Robertson, John Tait:
Karen Spärck Jones. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 59(5): 852-854 (2008) - [j58]Stephen Robertson:
On the history of evaluation in IR. J. Inf. Sci. 34(4): 439-456 (2008) - [c74]Guihong Cao, Stephen Robertson, Jian-Yun Nie:
Selecting Query Term Alternations for Web Search by Exploiting Query Contexts. ACL 2008: 148-155 - [c73]Anna Ritchie, Stephen Robertson, Simone Teufel:
Comparing citation contexts for information retrieval. CIKM 2008: 213-222 - [c72]Anna Ritchie, Simone Teufel, Stephen Robertson:
Using Terms from Citations for IR: Some First Results. ECIR 2008: 211-221 - [c71]Stephen Robertson:
The study of information retrieval: a long view. IIiX 2008: 1-2 - [c70]Tetsuya Sakai, Stephen Robertson:
Modelling A User Population for Designing Information Retrieval Metrics. EVIA@NTCIR 2008 - [c69]Guihong Cao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jianfeng Gao, Stephen Robertson:
Selecting good expansion terms for pseudo-relevance feedback. SIGIR 2008: 243-250 - [c68]Emine Yilmaz, Javed A. Aslam, Stephen Robertson:
A new rank correlation coefficient for information retrieval. SIGIR 2008: 587-594 - [c67]Stephen Robertson:
A new interpretation of average precision. SIGIR 2008: 689-690 - [c66]Chris Buckley, Stephen Robertson:
Relevance Feedback Track Overview: TREC 2008. TREC 2008 - [c65]Michael J. Taylor, John Guiver, Stephen Robertson, Tom Minka:
SoftRank: optimizing non-smooth rank metrics. WSDM 2008: 77-86 - 2007
- [j57]Andrew MacFarlane, Julie A. McCann, Stephen E. Robertson:
Parallel methods for the update of partitioned inverted files. Aslib Proc. 59(4/5): 367-396 (2007) - [j56]Stephen Robertson, John Tait:
In Memoriam: Karen Spärck Jones. Inf. Process. Manag. 43(6): 1441-1444 (2007) - [j55]Stephen Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza:
On rank-based effectiveness measures and optimization. Inf. Retr. 10(3): 321-339 (2007) - [j54]Peter Willett, Stephen Robertson:
In memoriam: Karen Spärck Jones. J. Documentation 63(5) (2007) - [j53]Peter Willett, Stephen Robertson:
In memoriam: Karen Spärck Jones. J. Inf. Sci. 33(5): 637-639 (2007) - [j52]Karen Sparck Jones, Stephen E. Robertson, Mark Sanderson:
Ambiguous requests: implications for retrieval tests, systems and theories. SIGIR Forum 41(2): 8-17 (2007) - [c64]Stephen Robertson:
The Last Half-Century: A Perspective on Experimentation in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2007: 2 - [c63]Stephen Robertson:
On Score Distributions and Relevance. ECIR 2007: 40-51 - [c62]Jaap Kamps, Jovan Pehcevski, Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Stephen Robertson:
INEX 2007 Evaluation Measures. INEX 2007: 24-33 - [c61]Anna Ritchie, Stephen Robertson, Simone Teufel:
Expanding a Test Collection for Citation-based IR Experiments. RIAO 2007: 251-261 - [c60]Stefano Mizzaro, Stephen Robertson:
Hits hits TREC: exploring IR evaluation results with network analysis. SIGIR 2007: 479-486 - 2006
- [j51]Olga Vechtomova, Murat Karamuftuoglu, Stephen E. Robertson:
On document relevance and lexical cohesion between query terms. Inf. Process. Manag. 42(5): 1230-1247 (2006) - [c59]Stephen Robertson:
On GMAP: and other transformations. CIKM 2006: 78-83 - [c58]Michael J. Taylor, Hugo Zaragoza, Nick Craswell, Stephen Robertson, Chris Burges:
Optimisation methods for ranking functions with multiple parameters. CIKM 2006: 585-593 - [c57]Stephen E. Robertson, Wei Lu, Andrew MacFarlane:
XML-Structured Documents: Retrievable Units and Inheritance. FQAS 2006: 121-132 - [c56]Mounia Lalmas, Gabriella Kazai, Jaap Kamps, Jovan Pehcevski, Benjamin Piwowarski, Stephen Robertson:
INEX 2006 Evaluation Measures. INEX 2006: 20-34 - [c55]Wei Lu, Stephen E. Robertson, Andrew MacFarlane:
CISR at INEX 2006. INEX 2006: 57-63 - [c54]Stephen Robertson:
On the science of search: statistical approaches, evaluation, optimisation. IWRIDL 2006: 2 - [c53]Anna Ritchie, Simone Teufel, Stephen Robertson:
Creating a Test Collection for Citation-based IR Experiments. HLT-NAACL 2006 - [c52]Wei Lu, Stephen E. Robertson, Andrew MacFarlane, Haozhen Zhao:
Window-based Enterprise Expert Search. TREC 2006 - 2005
- [j50]Andrew MacFarlane, Julie A. McCann, Stephen E. Robertson:
Parallel methods for the generation of partitioned inverted files. Aslib Proc. 57(5): 434-459 (2005) - [j49]Stephen E. Robertson:
On Event Spaces and Probabilistic Models in Information Retrieval. Inf. Retr. 8(2): 319-329 (2005) - [c51]Wei Lu, Stephen E. Robertson, Andrew MacFarlane:
Field-Weighted XML Retrieval Based on BM25. INEX 2005: 161-171 - [c50]Nick Craswell, Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza, Michael J. Taylor:
Relevance weighting for query independent evidence. SIGIR 2005: 416-423 - [c49]Nick Craswell, Hugo Zaragoza, Stephen Robertson:
Microsoft Cambridge at TREC 14: Enterprise Track. TREC 2005 - 2004
- [j48]Andrew MacFarlane, Stephen E. Robertson, Julie A. McCann:
Parallel computing for passage retrieval. Aslib Proc. 56(4): 201-211 (2004) - [j47]David Bodoff, Stephen E. Robertson:
A new unified probabilistic model. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 55(6): 471-487 (2004) - [j46]Stephen Robertson:
Understanding inverse document frequency: on theoretical arguments for IDF. J. Documentation 60(5): 503-520 (2004) - [c48]Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza, Michael J. Taylor:
Simple BM25 extension to multiple weighted fields. CIKM 2004: 42-49 - [c47]Djoerd Hiemstra, Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza:
Parsimonious language models for information retrieval. SIGIR 2004: 178-185 - [c46]Trystan Upstill, Stephen E. Robertson:
Exploiting hyperlink recommendation evidence in navigational web search. SIGIR 2004: 576-577 - [c45]Hugo Zaragoza, Nick Craswell, Michael J. Taylor, Suchi Saria, Stephen E. Robertson:
Microsoft Cambridge at TREC 13: Web and Hard Tracks. TREC 2004 - 2003
- [j45]David Hawking, Stephen E. Robertson:
On Collection Size and Retrieval Effectiveness. Inf. Retr. 6(1): 99-105 (2003) - [j44]Olga Vechtomova, Stephen E. Robertson, Susan Jones:
Query Expansion with Long-Span Collocates. Inf. Retr. 6(2): 251-273 (2003) - [j43]Xiangji Huang, Fuchun Peng, Dale Schuurmans, Nick Cercone, Stephen E. Robertson:
Applying Machine Learning to Text Segmentation for Information Retrieval. Inf. Retr. 6(3-4): 333-362 (2003) - [j42]James Allan, Jay Aslam, Nicholas J. Belkin, Chris Buckley, James P. Callan, W. Bruce Croft, Susan T. Dumais, Norbert Fuhr, Donna Harman, David J. Harper, Djoerd Hiemstra, Thomas Hofmann, Eduard H. Hovy, Wessel Kraaij, John D. Lafferty, Victor Lavrenko, David D. Lewis, Liz Liddy, R. Manmatha, Andrew McCallum, Jay M. Ponte, John M. Prager, Dragomir R. Radev, Philip Resnik, Stephen E. Robertson, Ronald Rosenfeld, Salim Roukos, Mark Sanderson, Richard M. Schwartz, Amit Singhal, Alan F. Smeaton, Howard R. Turtle, Ellen M. Voorhees, Ralph M. Weischedel, Jinxi Xu, ChengXiang Zhai:
Challenges in information retrieval and language modeling: report of a workshop held at the center for intelligent information retrieval, University of Massachusetts Amherst, September 2002. SIGIR Forum 37(1): 31-47 (2003) - [c44]Andy MacFarlane, Stephen E. Robertson, Julie A. McCann:
Parallel Computing for Term Selection in Routing/Filtering. ECIR 2003: 537-545 - [c43]Ian Soboroff, Stephen E. Robertson:
Building a filtering test collection for TREC 2002. SIGIR 2003: 243-250 - [c42]Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza, Michael J. Taylor:
Microsoft Cambridge at TREC-12: HARD track. TREC 2003: 418-425 - 2002
- [j41]Stephen E. Robertson:
Introduction to the Special Issue: Overview of the TREC Routing and Filtering Tasks. Inf. Retr. 5(2-3): 127-137 (2002) - [j40]Stephen E. Robertson:
Threshold Setting and Performance Optimization in Adaptive Filtering. Inf. Retr. 5(2-3): 239-256 (2002) - [j39]Stephen E. Robertson:
Comparing the Performance of Adaptive Filtering and Ranked Output Systems. Inf. Retr. 5(2-3): 257-268 (2002) - [j38]Murat Karamuftuoglu, Susan Jones, Stephen Robertson, Fabio Venuti, Xinkun Wang:
Challenges posed by web-based retrieval of scientific papers: Okapi participation in TIPS. J. Inf. Sci. 28(1): 3-17 (2002) - [j37]Susan Jones, Olga Vechtomova, Stephen Robertson:
A tool for comparative evaluation in an interactive environment. J. Inf. Sci. 28(6): 493-503 (2002) - [c41]Fuchun Peng, Xiangji Huang, Dale Schuurmans, Nick Cercone, Stephen E. Robertson:
Using self-supervised word segmentation in Chinese information retrieval. SIGIR 2002: 349-350 - [c40]Tetsuya Sakai, Stephen E. Robertson:
Relative and absolute term selection criteria: a comparative study for English and Japanese IR. SIGIR 2002: 411-412 - [c39]Stephen E. Robertson, Ian Soboroff:
The TREC 2002 Filtering Track Report. TREC 2002 - [c38]Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker, Hugo Zaragoza, Ralf Herbrich:
Microsoft Cambridge at TREC 2002: Filtering Track. TREC 2002 - 2001
- [j36]Yasemin Kural, Stephen E. Robertson, Susan Jones:
Deciphering cluster representations. Inf. Process. Manag. 37(4): 593-601 (2001) - [c37]Djoerd Hiemstra, Stephen E. Robertson:
Relevance Feedback for Best Match Term Weighting Algorithms in Information Retrieval. DELOS 2001 - [c36]Tetsuya Sakai, Stephen E. Robertson, Stephen Walker:
Flexible Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for NTCIR-2. NTCIR 2001 - [c35]Nick Craswell, David Hawking, Stephen E. Robertson:
Effective Site Finding Using Link Anchor Information. SIGIR 2001: 250-257 - [c34]Tetsuya Sakai, Stephen E. Robertson:
Flexible Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Using Optimization Tables. SIGIR 2001: 396-397 - [c33]Jianfeng Gao, Guihong Cao, Hongzhao He, Min Zhang, Jian-Yun Nie, Steve Walker, Stephen E. Robertson:
TREC-10 Web Track Experiments at MSRA. TREC 2001 - [c32]Stephen E. Robertson, Ian Soboroff:
The TREC 2001 Filtering Track Report. TREC 2001 - [c31]Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker, Hugo Zaragoza:
Microsoft Cambridge at TREC-10: Filtering and Web Tracks. TREC 2001 - 2000
- [j35]Xiangji Huang, Stephen E. Robertson, Nick Cercone, Aijun An:
Probability-Based Chinese Text Processing and Retrieval. Comput. Intell. 16(4): 552-569 (2000) - [j34]Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker, Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu:
Experimentation as a way of life: Okapi at TREC. Inf. Process. Manag. 36(1): 95-108 (2000) - [j33]Karen Sparck Jones, Steve Walker, Stephen E. Robertson:
A probabilistic model of information retrieval: development and comparative experiments - Part 1. Inf. Process. Manag. 36(6): 779-808 (2000) - [j32]Karen Sparck Jones, Steve Walker, Stephen E. Robertson:
A probabilistic model of information retrieval: development and comparative experiments - Part 2. Inf. Process. Manag. 36(6): 809-840 (2000) - [j31]Stephen E. Robertson, Stephen Walker:
Threshold setting in adaptive filtering. J. Documentation 56(3): 312-331 (2000) - [j30]Stephen E. Robertson:
Salton Award Lecture: On theoretical argument in information retrieval. SIGIR Forum 34(1): 1-10 (2000) - [c30]Stephen E. Robertson:
Evaluation in Information Retrieval. ESSIR 2000: 81-92 - [c29]Stephen E. Robertson:
Salton Award Lecture: On theoretical argument in information retrieval. SIGIR 2000: 1 - [c28]Andrew MacFarlane, Julie A. McCann, Stephen E. Robertson:
Parallel Search Using Partitioned Inverted Files. SPIRE 2000: 209-220 - [c27]Stephen E. Robertson, David A. Hull:
The TREC-9 Filtering Track Final Report. TREC 2000 - [c26]Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker:
Microsoft Cambridge at TREC-9: Filtering Track. TREC 2000
1990 – 1999
- 1999
- [j29]Paul B. Kantor, Stephen E. Robertson:
Editorial. Inf. Retr. 1(1-2): 5 (1999) - [j28]David A. Hull, Stephen E. Robertson:
The TREC-9 Filtering Track. SIGIR Forum 33(2): 16 (1999) - [c25]Yasemin Kural, Stephen E. Robertson, Susan Jones:
Clustering Information Retrieval Search Outputs. BCS-IRSG Annual Colloquium on IR Research 1999 - [c24]Stephen E. Robertson:
Process and Outcome: On the Evaluation of IR Systems in the Age of Interaction, GUIs and Multimedia. MIRA 1999 - [c23]Andrew MacFarlane, Julie A. McCann, Stephen E. Robertson:
PLIERS: A Parallel Information Retrieval System Using MPI. PVM/MPI 1999: 317-324 - [c22]