DESIRES 2018
Design of Experimental Search & Information Retrieval Systems

Table of Contents

• Preface 01-02
  Omar Alonso, Gianmaria Silvello

Keynote Talks

• Computing without Servers, V8, Rocket Ships, and Other Batsh*t Crazy Ideas in Data Systems 03-06
  Jimmy Lin
• Learning to Rank at Bloomberg - From Theory to Production 07
  Diego Ceccarelli
• Balancing ​Efficiency and Effectiveness ​Trade-offs in Large Scale Multi-Stage Search Engines 08
  J. Shane Culpepper

Session 1: Systems

• Answering What If, Should I, and Other Expectation Exploration Queries Using Causal Inference over Longitudinal Data 09-15
  Emre Kiciman, Jorgen Thelin
• WASP: Web Archiving and Search Personalized 16-21
  Johannes Kiesel, Arjen P. De Vries, Matthias Hagen, Benno Stein, Martin Potthast

Session 2: Models

• Search Agent Model: A Conceptual Framework for Search by Algorithms and Agent Systems 22-28
  Jeffrey Dalton, John Foley
• Hyperdimensional utterance spaces 29-35
  Jussi Karlgren, Pentti Kanerva
• Joint Modeling and Optimization of Search and Recommendation 36-41
  Hamed Zamani, Bruce Croft

Session 3: Experimentation

• Mix and Match: Collaborative Expert-Crowd Judging for Building Test Collections Accurately and Affordably 42-46
  Mucahid Kutlu, Tyler McDonnell, Aashish Sheshadri, Tamer Elsayed, Matthew Lease
• APONE: Academic Platform for ONline Experiments 47-53
  Monica Marrero
• Agile Information Retrieval Experimentation with Terrier Notebooks 54-61
  Craig Macdonald, Richard McCreadie, Iadh Ounis

Session 4: Querying and Retrieval

• Towards Efficient and Effective Query Variant Generation 62-67
  Rodger Benham, Shane Culpepper, Luke Gallagher, Xiaolu Lu, Joel Mackenzie
• Retrieval and Richness when Querying by Document 68-75
  Eugene Yang, Dave Lewis, Ophir Frieder, David Grossman, Roman Yurchak

Session 5: Novel Applications

• On the Development of a Collaborative Search System 76-82
  Sindunuraga Rikarno Putra, Kilian Grashoff, Felipe Moraes, Claudia Hauff
• Pilot Experiments of Hypothesis Validation Through Evidence Detection for Historians 83-89
  Chris Stahlhut , Christian Stab, Iryna Gurevych
• 2dSearch: A Visual Approach to Search Strategy Formulation 90-96
  Tony Russell-Rose, Phil Gooch

Session 6: Short papers

• Fact Checking and Information Retrieval 97-98
  Matt Lease
• Keyword Search on RDF Graphs 99
  Dennis Dosso
• Single Query Optimisation is the Root of All Evil 100
  Shane Culpepper
• Topic-Specific Off-line Web Search 101
  Rodger Benham
• Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Topic Modeling 102
  Alberto Purpura
• Towards Interactive Summarization of Large Document Collections 103
  Benjamin Hättasch
• Searching Arguments in German with ArgumenText 104
  Chris Stahlhut
• INCEpTION: Interactive machine-assisted annotation 105
  Jan-Christoph Klie
• Finding all the Needles in the Haystack. A System to Estimate the Costs of e-Discovery and Systematic Reviews 106
  Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio
• We Don't Know S***** (Search) 107
  David Lewis
• Training On-Device Ranking Models from Cross-User Interactions in a Privacy-Preserving Fashion 108
  Marc Najork
• Implicit-Explicit Representations for Case-Based Retrieval 109
  Stefano Marchesin
• Building Interaction Profiles for Better Search Tools in DLs 110
  Maram Barifah