Best Paper Awards (SIGIR)

1996-2018

Posted by pxzhang on January 4, 2019
Year Title Authors
2018 Should I Follow the Crowd? A Probabilistic Analysis of the Effectiveness of Popularity in Recommender Systems Rocío Cañamares & Pablo Castells, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
2017 BitFunnel: Revisiting Signatures for Search Bob Goodwin, Microsoft
Michael Hopcroft, Microsoft
Dan Luu, Microsoft
Alex Clemmer, Heptio
Mihaela Curmei, Microsoft
Sameh Elnikety, Microsoft
Yuxiong He, Microsoft
2016 Understanding Information Need: An fMRI Study Yashar Moshfeghi, University of Glasgow
Peter Triantafillou, University of Glasgow
Frank E. Pollick, University of Glasgow
2015 QuickScorer: A Fast Algorithm to Rank Documents with Additive Ensembles of Regression Trees Claudio Lucchese, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione
Franco Maria Nardini, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione
Salvatore Orlando, Università di Venezia
Raffaele Perego, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione
Nicola Tonellotto, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione
Rossano Venturini, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione
2014 Partitioned Elias-Fano Indexes Giuseppe Ottaviano, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione
Rossano Venturini, Università di Pisa
2013 Beliefs and Biases in Web Search Ryen W. White, Microsoft Research
2012 Time-Based Calibration of Effectiveness Measures Mark Smucker & Charles Clarke, University of Waterloo
2011 Find It If You Can: A Game for Modeling Different Types of Web Search Success Using Interaction Data Mikhail Ageev, Moscow State University
Qi Guo, Emory University
Dmitry Lagun, Emory University
Eugene Agichtein, Emory University
2010 Assessing the Scenic Route: Measuring the Value of Search Trails in Web Logs Ryen W. White, Microsoft Research
Jeff Huang, University of Washington
2009 Sources of evidence for vertical selection Jaime Arguello, Carnegie Mellon University
Fernando Diaz, Yahoo! Research
Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University
Jean-Francois Crespo, Yahoo! Research
2008 Algorithmic Mediation for Collaborative Exploratory Search Jeremy Pickens, FX Palo Alto Lab
Gene Golovchinsky, FX Palo Alto Lab
Chirag Shah, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Pernilla Qvarfordt, FX Palo Alto Lab
Maribeth Back, FX Palo Alto Lab
2007 Studying the Use of Popular Destinations to Enhance Web Search Interaction Ryen W. White, Microsoft Research
Mikhail Bilenko, Microsoft Research
Silviu Cucerzan, Microsoft Research
2006 Minimal Test Collections for Retrieval Evaluation Ben Carterette, University of Massachusetts Amherst
James Allan, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ramesh Sitaraman, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2005 Learning to estimate query difficulty: including applications to missing content detection and distributed information retrieval Elad Yom-Tov, IBM Research
Shai Fine, IBM Research
David Carmel, IBM Research
Adam Darlow, IBM Research
2004 A Formal Study of Information Retrieval Heuristics Hui Fang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tao Tao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ChengXiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2003 Re-examining the potential effectiveness of interactive query expansion Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde
2002 Novelty and redundancy detection in adaptive filtering Yi Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University
Thomas Minka, Carnegie Mellon University
2001 Temporal summaries of new topics James Allan, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Rahul Gupta, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Vikas Khandelwal, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2000 IR evaluation methods for retrieving highly relevant documents Kalervo Järvelin & Jaana Kekäläinen, University of Tampere
1999 Cross-language information retrieval based on parallel texts and automatic mining of parallel texts from the Web Jian-Yun Nie, Université de Montréal
Michel Simard, Université de Montréal
Pierre Isabelle, Université de Montréal
Richard Durand, Université de Montréal
1998 A theory of term weighting based on exploratory data analysis Warren R. Greiff, University of Massachusetts Amherst
1997 Feature selection, perceptron learning, and a usability case study for text categorization Hwee Tou Ng, DSO National Laboratories
Wei Boon Goh, Ministry of Defence
Kok Leong Low, Ministry of Defence
1996 Retrieving spoken documents by combining multiple index sources Gareth Jones, University of Cambridge
Jonathan Foote, University of Cambridge
Karen Spärck Jones, University of Cambridge
Steve Young, University of Cambridge