Our paper "The Healing Power of Poison: Helpful Non-relevant Documents in Feedback", with Samira Abnar and Jaap Kamps, has been accepted as a short paper at The 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'16). \o/ Query expansion based on feedback information is one of the classic approaches for improving the performance of […]
Our paper "Luhn Revisited: Significant Words Language Models", with Hosein Azarbonyad, Jaap Kamps, Djoerd Hiemstra and Maarten Marx, has been accepted as a long paper at The 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'16). \o/ On of the key factors affecting search quality is the fact that our queries are ultra-short statements […]
My doctoral consortium submission on "Significant Words Representations of Entities", has been accepted at the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2016). \o/ Transforming the data into a suitable representation is the first key step of data analysis, and the performance of any data-oriented method is heavily depending on it. […]