Good reads from SIGIR 2006

We had a hugely successful SIGIR here in Seattle.

Here are some of the papers I really enjoyed, and worth a read (and the first is certainly apropos):

Web IR: current topics: You are what you say: privacy risks of public mentions Dan Frankowski, Dan Cosley, Shilad Sen, Loren Terveen, John Riedl Additional Information: full citation, abstract, references, index terms

Evaluation 1–user models and test collections: Minimal test collections for retrieval evaluation Ben Carterette, James Allan, Ramesh Sitaraman Additional Information: full citation, abstract, references, index terms

Evaluation 1–user models and test collections: Dynamic test collections: measuring search effectiveness on the live web Ian Soboroff Additional Information: full citation, abstract, references, index terms

Evaluation 2: A statistical method for system evaluation using incomplete judgments Javed A. Aslam, Virgil Pavlu, Emine Yilmaz Additional Information: full citation, abstract, references, index terms

Web 2: Generalizing PageRank: damping functions for link-based ranking algorithms Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Paolo Boldi, Carlos Castillo Additional Information: full citation, abstract, references, index terms

The first page of results: Less is more: probabilistic models for retrieving fewer relevant documents Harr Chen, David R. Karger Additional Information: full citation, references, index terms

Users: clarification, feedback, and browsing: Exploring the limits of single-iteration clarification dialogs Jimmy Lin, Philip Wu, Dina Demner-Fushman, Eileen Abels Additional Information: full citation, abstract, references, index terms

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One Response to “Good reads from SIGIR 2006”

1. Greg Linden Says:
   
   August 13th, 2006 at 7:02 am

   Great list, Erik. If I could add one, I really enjoyed Monika Henzinger’s talk as well.

   “Finding near-duplicate web pages: a large-scale evaluation of algorithms”
   http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1148170.1148222

   Also, it’s worth noting that Dan Frankowski’s privacy talk (the first paper you listed) is also available on Google video:

   http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6474169875352273382

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