Author: Iadh Ounis

Publications

Co-authors

Vassilis Plachouras

8

Ben He

15

Craig Macdonald

35

Productive Colleagues

Ian Ruthven

33

Craig Macdonald

37

Ryen W. White

59

Publications

He, Ben, Ounis, Iadh (2007): On setting the hyper-parameters of term frequency normalization for information retrieval. In ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 25 (3) pp. 13. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1247715.1247719

Ounis, Iadh (2000): Ranking Digital Images using Combination of Evidences. In: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2000, . pp. 348-350. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/ir/345508/p348-ounis/p348-ounis.pdf

Plachouras, Vassilis, Ounis, Iadh (2004): Usefulness of hyperlink structure for query-biased topic distillation. In: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2004, . pp. 448-455. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1008992.1009069

Azman, Azreen, Ounis, Iadh (2004): Discovery of aggregate usage profiles based on clustering information needs. In: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2004, . pp. 470-471. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1008992.1009075

He, Ben, Ounis, Iadh (2005): A study of the dirichlet priors for term frequency normalisation. In: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2005, . pp. 465-471. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1076034.1076114

Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh (2006): Combining fields in known-item email search. In: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2006, . pp. 675-676. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1148170.1148312

Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh (2006): Searching for expertise using the terrier platform. In: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2006, . pp. 732. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1148170.1148345

Ounis, Iadh, Pasca, Marius (1998): RELIEF: Combining Expressiveness and Rapidity into a Single System. In: Proceedings of the 21st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 1998, . pp. 266-274. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/ir/290941/p266-ounis/p266-ounis.pdf

Chiaramella, Yves, Mulhem, Philippe, Mourad, Mechkour, Ounis, Iadh, Pasca, Marius (1998): Towards a Fast Precision-Oriented Image Retrieval System. In: Proceedings of the 21st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 1998, . pp. 383. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/ir/290941/p383-chiaramella/p383-chiaramella.pdf

Peng, Jie, Macdonald, Craig, He, Ben, Plachouras, Vassilis, Ounis, Iadh (2007): Incorporating term dependency in the DFR framework. In: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2007, . pp. 843-844. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1277741.1277937

He, Ben, Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh (2008): Retrieval sensitivity under training using different measures. In: Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2008, . pp. 67-74. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1390334.1390348

He, Ben, Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh (2008): Ranking opinionated blog posts using OpinionFinder. In: Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2008, . pp. 727-728. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1390334.1390473

Macdonald, Craig, He, Ben, Ounis, Iadh, Soboroff, Ian (2008): Limits of opinion-finding baseline systems. In: Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2008, . pp. 747-748. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1390334.1390483

Peng, Jie, Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh (2008): Automatic document prior feature selection for web retrieval. In: Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2008, . pp. 761-762. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1390334.1390490

He, Ben, Ounis, Iadh (2003): A study of parameter tuning for term frequency normalization. In: Proceedings of the 2003 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management November 2-8, 2003, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. pp. 10-16. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/956863.956867

Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh (2006): Voting for candidates: adapting data fusion techniques for an expert search task. In: Yu, Philip S., Tsotras, Vassilis J., Fox, Edward A., Liu, Bing (eds.) Proceedings of the 2006 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management November 6-11, 2006, Arlington, Virginia, USA. pp. 387-396. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1183614.1183671

He, Ben, Ounis, Iadh (2007): Parameter sensitivity in the probabilistic model for ad-hoc retrieval. In: Silva, Mario J., Laender, Alberto H. F., Baeza-Yates, Ricardo A., McGuinness, Deborah L., Olstad, Bjørn, Olsen, Øystein Haug, Falcão, André O. (eds.) Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management - CIKM 2007 November 6-10, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal. pp. 263-272. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1321440.1321479

Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh (2008): Key blog distillation: ranking aggregates. In: Shanahan, James G., Amer-Yahia, Sihem, Manolescu, Ioana, Zhang, Yi, Evans, David A., Kolcz, Aleksander, Choi, Key-Sun, Chowdhury, Abdur (eds.) Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management - CIKM 2008 October 26-30, 2008, Napa Valley, California, USA. pp. 1043-1052. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1458082.1458221

Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh (2007): Expertise drift and query expansion in expert search. In: Silva, Mario J., Laender, Alberto H. F., Baeza-Yates, Ricardo A., McGuinness, Deborah L., Olstad, Bjørn, Olsen, Øystein Haug, Falcão, André O. (eds.) Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management - CIKM 2007 November 6-10, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal. pp. 341-350. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1321440.1321490

He, Ben, Macdonald, Craig, He, Jiyin, Ounis, Iadh (2008): An effective statistical approach to blog post opinion retrieval. In: Shanahan, James G., Amer-Yahia, Sihem, Manolescu, Ioana, Zhang, Yi, Evans, David A., Kolcz, Aleksander, Choi, Key-Sun, Chowdhury, Abdur (eds.) Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management - CIKM 2008 October 26-30, 2008, Napa Valley, California, USA. pp. 1063-1072. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1458082.1458223

Santos, Rodrygo L. T., Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh (2010): Exploiting query reformulations for web search result diversification. In: Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on the World Wide Web , 2010, . pp. 881-890. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1772690.1772780

He, Ben, Peng, Jie, Ounis, Iadh (2009): Fitting score distribution for blog opinion retrieval. In: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2009, . pp. 688-689. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1571941.1572079

Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh, Soboroff, Ian (2009): Is spam an issue for opinionated blog post search?. In: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2009, . pp. 710-711. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1571941.1572090

Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh (2009): On perfect document rankings for expert search. In: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2009, . pp. 740-741. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1571941.1572105

McCreadie, Richard M. C., Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh (2009): On single-pass indexing with MapReduce. In: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2009, . pp. 742-743. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1571941.1572106

Ounis, Iadh, Huibers, T. W. C. (1997): A Logical Relational Approach for Information Retrieval Indexing. In: 19th Annual BCS-IRSG Colloquium on IR 8th-9th April, 1997, Aberdeen, UK. https://ewic.bcs.org/conferences/1997/irsg/papers/paper7.htm

Ounis, Iadh, Pasca, Marius (1998): Effective and Efficient Relational Query Processing Using Conceptual Graphs. In: 20th Annual BCS-IRSG Colloquium on IR 25th-27th March, 1998, Autrans, France. https://ewic.bcs.org/conferences/1998/20thirsg/papers/paper8.htm

He, Ben, Ounis, Iadh (2005): Term Frequency Normalisation Tuning for BM25 and DFR Models. In: Losada, David E., Fernández-Luna, Juan M. (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 27th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2005 March 21-23, 2005, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. pp. 200-214. https://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/3408/34080200.htm

Cacheda, Fidel, Carneiro, Victor, Plachouras, Vassilis, Ounis, Iadh (2005): Network Analysis for Distributed Information Retrieval Architectures. In: Losada, David E., Fernández-Luna, Juan M. (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 27th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2005 March 21-23, 2005, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. pp. 527-529. https://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/3408/34080527.htm

Cacheda, Fidel, Plachouras, Vassilis, Ounis, Iadh (2004): Performance Analysis of Distributed Architectures to Index One Terabyte of Text. In: Mcdonald, Sharon, Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK. pp. 394-408. https://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/2997/29970394.htm

He, Ben, Ounis, Iadh (2007): Setting Per-field Normalisation Hyper-parameters for the Named-Page Finding Search Task. In: Amati, Giambattista, Carpineto, Claudio, Romano, Giovanni (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieva - 29th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2007 April 2-5, 2007, Rome, Italy. pp. 468-480. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_42

Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh, Plachouras, Vassilis, Ruthven, Ian, White, Ryen W. (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 30th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2008 March 30-April 3, 2008, Glasgow, UK.

Martinet, Jean, Ounis, Iadh, Chiaramella, Yves, Mulhem, Philippe (2003): A Weighting Scheme for Star-Graphs. In: Sebastiani, Fabrizio (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 25th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2003 April 14-16, 2003, Pisa, Italy. pp. 546-554. https://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/2633/26330546.htm

McEwan, Craig J. A., Ounis, Iadh, Ruthven, Ian (2002): Building Bilingual Dictionaries from Parallel Web Documents. In: Crestani, Fabio, Girolami, Mark, Rijsbergen, C. J. Van (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 24th BCS-IRSG European Colloquium on IR Research March 25-27, 2002, Glasgow, UK. pp. 303-323. https://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/2291/22910303.htm

Ounis, Iadh, Amati, Gianni, Plachouras, Vassilis, He, Ben, Macdonald, Craig, Johnson, Douglas (2005): Terrier Information Retrieval Platform. In: Losada, David E., Fernández-Luna, Juan M. (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 27th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2005 March 21-23, 2005, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. pp. 517-519. https://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/3408/34080517.htm

Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh (2007): Using Relevance Feedback in Expert Search. In: Amati, Giambattista, Carpineto, Claudio, Romano, Giovanni (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieva - 29th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2007 April 2-5, 2007, Rome, Italy. pp. 431-443. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_39

Peng, Jie, Ounis, Iadh (2007): Combination of Document Priors in Web Information Retrieval. In: Amati, Giambattista, Carpineto, Claudio, Romano, Giovanni (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieva - 29th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2007 April 2-5, 2007, Rome, Italy. pp. 732-736. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_80

Macdonald, Craig, Hannah, David, Ounis, Iadh (2008): High Quality Expertise Evidence for Expert Search. In: Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh, Plachouras, Vassilis, Ruthven, Ian, White, Ryen W. (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 30th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2008 March 30-April 3, 2008, Glasgow, UK. pp. 283-295. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_27

Hannah, David, Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh (2008): Analysis of Link Graph Compression Techniques. In: Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh, Plachouras, Vassilis, Ruthven, Ian, White, Ryen W. (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 30th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2008 March 30-April 3, 2008, Glasgow, UK. pp. 596-601. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_62

Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh (2008): Expert Search Evaluation by Supporting Documents. In: Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh, Plachouras, Vassilis, Ruthven, Ian, White, Ryen W. (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 30th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2008 March 30-April 3, 2008, Glasgow, UK. pp. 555-563. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_55

Cacheda, Fidel, Carneiro, Victor, Plachouras, Vassilis, Ounis, Iadh (2007): Performance Comparison of Clustered and Replicated Information Retrieval Systems. In: Amati, Giambattista, Carpineto, Claudio, Romano, Giovanni (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieva - 29th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2007 April 2-5, 2007, Rome, Italy. pp. 124-135. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_14

Lioma, Christina, Ounis, Iadh (2007): Light Syntactically-Based Index Pruning for Information Retrieval. In: Amati, Giambattista, Carpineto, Claudio, Romano, Giovanni (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieva - 29th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2007 April 2-5, 2007, Rome, Italy. pp. 88-100. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_11

Plachouras, Vassilis, Ounis, Iadh (2007): Multinomial Randomness Models for Retrieval with Document Fields. In: Amati, Giambattista, Carpineto, Claudio, Romano, Giovanni (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieva - 29th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2007 April 2-5, 2007, Rome, Italy. pp. 28-39. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_6

Santos, Rodrygo L. T., He, Ben, Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh (2009): Integrating Proximity to Subjective Sentences for Blog Opinion Retrieval. In: Boughanem, Mohand, Berrut, Catherine, Mothe, Josiane, Soulé-Dupuy, Chantal (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 31th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2009 April 6-9, 2009, 2009, Toulouse, France. pp. 325-336. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00958-7_30

He, Ben, Ounis, Iadh (2009): Studying Query Expansion Effectiveness. In: Boughanem, Mohand, Berrut, Catherine, Mothe, Josiane, Soulé-Dupuy, Chantal (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 31th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2009 April 6-9, 2009, 2009, Toulouse, France. pp. 611-619. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00958-7_57

Peng, Jie, Ounis, Iadh (2009): Selective Application of Query-Independent Features in Web Information Retrieval. In: Boughanem, Mohand, Berrut, Catherine, Mothe, Josiane, Soulé-Dupuy, Chantal (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 31th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2009 April 6-9, 2009, 2009, Toulouse, France. pp. 375-387. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00958-7_34

Peng, Jie, Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh (2010): Learning to Select a Ranking Function. In: Gurrin, Cathal, He, Yulan, Kazai, Gabriella, Kruschwitz, Udo, Little, Suzanne, Roelleke, Thomas, Rüger, Stefan M., Rijsbergen, Keith van (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 32nd European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2010 March 28-31, 2010, Milton Keynes, UK. pp. 114-126. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12275-0_13

Santos, Rodrygo L. T., Peng, Jie, Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh (2010): Explicit Search Result Diversification through Sub-queries. In: Gurrin, Cathal, He, Yulan, Kazai, Gabriella, Kruschwitz, Udo, Little, Suzanne, Roelleke, Thomas, Rüger, Stefan M., Rijsbergen, Keith van (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 32nd European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2010 March 28-31, 2010, Milton Keynes, UK. pp. 87-99. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12275-0_11

Santos, Rodrygo L. T., Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh (2011): Intent-aware search result diversification. In: Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2011, . pp. 595-604. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2009916.2009997

Tonellotto, Nicola, Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh (2011): Effect of different docid orderings on dynamic pruning retrieval strategies. In: Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2011, . pp. 1179-1180. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2009916.2010108

Santos, Rodrygo L. T., Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh (2011): On the suitability of diversity metrics for learning-to-rank for diversity. In: Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2011, . pp. 1185-1186. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2009916.2010111

Santos, Rodrygo L. T., Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh (2011): How diverse are web search results?. In: Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2011, . pp. 1187-1188. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2009916.2010112

Limsopatham, Nut, Santos, Rodrygo L. T., Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh (2011): Disambiguating biomedical acronyms using EMIM. In: Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2011, . pp. 1213-1214. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2009916.2010125

Macdonald, Craig, Tonellotto, Nicola, Ounis, Iadh (2012): Learning to predict response times for online query scheduling. In: Proceedings of the 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2012, . pp. 621-630. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2348283.2348367

McCreadie, Richard, Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh (2012): CrowdTerrier: automatic crowdsourced relevance assessments with terrier. In: Proceedings of the 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2012, . pp. 1005. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2348283.2348430

Macdonald, Craig, Tonellotto, Nicola, Ounis, Iadh (2012): Effect of dynamic pruning safety on learning to rank effectiveness. In: Proceedings of the 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2012, . pp. 1051-1052. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2348283.2348464

Limsopatham, Nut, Macdonald, Craig, McCreadie, Richard, Ounis, Iadh (2012): Exploiting term dependence while handling negation in medical search. In: Proceedings of the 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2012, . pp. 1065-1066. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2348283.2348471

McCreadie, Richard, Soboroff, Ian, Lin, Jimmy, Macdonald, Craig, Ounis, Iadh, McCullough, Dean (2012): On building a reusable Twitter corpus. In: Proceedings of the 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2012, . pp. 1113-1114. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2348283.2348495

Freire, Ana, Macdonald, Craig, Tonellotto, Nicola, Ounis, Iadh, Cacheda, Fidel (2012): Scheduling queries across replicas. In: Proceedings of the 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2012, . pp. 1139-1140. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2348283.2348508