Stephen E. Robertson

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1974-2013
Publications (10 Years): 0

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SIGIR

Inf. Process. Manag.

ACM Trans. Inf. Syst.

Publications

Jiaul H. Paik, Swapan K. Parui, Dipasree Pal, Stephen E. Robertson
Effective and Robust Query-Based Stemming. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 31 (4) (2013)
Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas
On per-topic variance in IR evaluation. SIGIR (2012)
Olga Vechtomova, Stephen E. Robertson
A domain-independent approach to finding related entities. Inf. Process. Manag. 48 (4) (2012)
Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas
On real-time ad-hoc retrieval evaluation. SIGIR (2012)
Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas, Emine Yilmaz
Extending average precision to graded relevance judgments. SIGIR (2010)
Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza
The Probabilistic Relevance Framework: BM25 and Beyond. Found. Trends Inf. Retr. 3 (4) (2009)
Andrew MacFarlane, Julie A. McCann, Stephen E. Robertson
Parallel methods for the update of partitioned inverted files. Aslib Proc. 59 (4/5) (2007)
Karen Sparck Jones, Stephen E. Robertson, Mark Sanderson
Ambiguous requests: implications for retrieval tests, systems and theories. SIGIR Forum 41 (2) (2007)
Olga Vechtomova, Murat Karamuftuoglu, Stephen E. Robertson
On document relevance and lexical cohesion between query terms. Inf. Process. Manag. 42 (5) (2006)
Wei Lu, Stephen E. Robertson, Andrew MacFarlane
CISR at INEX 2006. INEX (2006)
Wei Lu, Stephen E. Robertson, Andrew MacFarlane, Haozhen Zhao
Window-based Enterprise Expert Search. TREC (2006)
Stephen E. Robertson, Wei Lu, Andrew MacFarlane
XML-Structured Documents: Retrievable Units and Inheritance. FQAS (2006)
Andrew MacFarlane, Julie A. McCann, Stephen E. Robertson
Parallel methods for the generation of partitioned inverted files. Aslib Proc. 57 (5) (2005)
Nick Craswell, Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza, Michael J. Taylor
Relevance weighting for query independent evidence. SIGIR (2005)
Stephen E. Robertson
On Event Spaces and Probabilistic Models in Information Retrieval. Inf. Retr. 8 (2) (2005)
Wei Lu, Stephen E. Robertson, Andrew MacFarlane
Field-Weighted XML Retrieval Based on BM25. INEX (2005)
Andrew MacFarlane, Stephen E. Robertson, Julie A. McCann
Parallel computing for passage retrieval. Aslib Proc. 56 (4) (2004)
Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza, Michael J. Taylor
Simple BM25 extension to multiple weighted fields. CIKM (2004)
Djoerd Hiemstra, Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza
Parsimonious language models for information retrieval. SIGIR (2004)
Hugo Zaragoza, Nick Craswell, Michael J. Taylor, Suchi Saria, Stephen E. Robertson
Microsoft Cambridge at TREC 13: Web and Hard Tracks. TREC (2004)
Trystan Upstill, Stephen E. Robertson
Exploiting hyperlink recommendation evidence in navigational web search. SIGIR (2004)
David Bodoff, Stephen E. Robertson
A new unified probabilistic model. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 55 (6) (2004)
Olga Vechtomova, Stephen E. Robertson, Susan Jones
Query Expansion with Long-Span Collocates. Inf. Retr. 6 (2) (2003)
David Hawking, Stephen E. Robertson
On Collection Size and Retrieval Effectiveness. Inf. Retr. 6 (1) (2003)
Ian Soboroff, Stephen E. Robertson
Building a filtering test collection for TREC 2002. SIGIR (2003)
Xiangji Huang, Fuchun Peng, Dale Schuurmans, Nick Cercone, Stephen E. Robertson
Applying Machine Learning to Text Segmentation for Information Retrieval. Inf. Retr. 6 (3-4) (2003)
James Allan, Jay Aslam, Nicholas J. Belkin, Chris Buckley, James P. Callan, W. Bruce Croft, Susan T. Dumais, Norbert Fuhr, Donna Harman, David J. Harper, Djoerd Hiemstra, Thomas Hofmann, Eduard H. Hovy, Wessel Kraaij, John D. Lafferty, Victor Lavrenko, David D. Lewis, Liz Liddy, R. Manmatha, Andrew McCallum, Jay M. Ponte, John M. Prager, Dragomir R. Radev, Philip Resnik, Stephen E. Robertson, Ronald Rosenfeld, Salim Roukos, Mark Sanderson, Richard M. Schwartz, Amit Singhal, Alan F. Smeaton, Howard R. Turtle, Ellen M. Voorhees, Ralph M. Weischedel, Jinxi Xu, ChengXiang Zhai
Challenges in information retrieval and language modeling: report of a workshop held at the center for intelligent information retrieval, University of Massachusetts Amherst, September 2002. SIGIR Forum 37 (1) (2003)
Andy MacFarlane, Stephen E. Robertson, Julie A. McCann
Parallel Computing for Term Selection in Routing/Filtering. ECIR (2003)
Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza, Michael J. Taylor
Microsoft Cambridge at TREC-12: HARD track. TREC (2003)
Stephen E. Robertson, Ian Soboroff
The TREC 2002 Filtering Track Report. TREC (2002)
Stephen E. Robertson
Threshold Setting and Performance Optimization in Adaptive Filtering. Inf. Retr. 5 (2-3) (2002)
Stephen E. Robertson
Comparing the Performance of Adaptive Filtering and Ranked Output Systems. Inf. Retr. 5 (2-3) (2002)
Fuchun Peng, Xiangji Huang, Dale Schuurmans, Nick Cercone, Stephen E. Robertson
Using self-supervised word segmentation in Chinese information retrieval. SIGIR (2002)
Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker, Hugo Zaragoza, Ralf Herbrich
Microsoft Cambridge at TREC 2002: Filtering Track. TREC (2002)
Stephen E. Robertson
Introduction to the Special Issue: Overview of the TREC Routing and Filtering Tasks. Inf. Retr. 5 (2-3) (2002)
Tetsuya Sakai, Stephen E. Robertson
Relative and absolute term selection criteria: a comparative study for English and Japanese IR. SIGIR (2002)
Nick Craswell, David Hawking, Stephen E. Robertson
Effective Site Finding Using Link Anchor Information. SIGIR (2001)
Tetsuya Sakai, Stephen E. Robertson
Flexible Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Using Optimization Tables. SIGIR (2001)
Stephen E. Robertson, Ian Soboroff
The TREC 2001 Filtering Track Report. TREC (2001)
Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker, Hugo Zaragoza
Microsoft Cambridge at TREC-10: Filtering and Web Tracks. TREC (2001)
Tetsuya Sakai, Stephen E. Robertson, Stephen Walker
Flexible Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for NTCIR-2. NTCIR (2001)
Djoerd Hiemstra, Stephen E. Robertson
Relevance Feedback for Best Match Term Weighting Algorithms in Information Retrieval. DELOS (2001)
Jianfeng Gao, Guihong Cao, Hongzhao He, Min Zhang, Jian-Yun Nie, Steve Walker, Stephen E. Robertson
TREC-10 Web Track Experiments at MSRA. TREC (2001)
Yasemin Kural, Stephen E. Robertson, Susan Jones
Deciphering cluster representations. Inf. Process. Manag. 37 (4) (2001)
Stephen E. Robertson
Evaluation in Information Retrieval. ESSIR (2000)
Xiangji Huang, Stephen E. Robertson, Nick Cercone, Aijun An
Probability-Based Chinese Text Processing and Retrieval. Comput. Intell. 16 (4) (2000)
Stephen E. Robertson, David A. Hull
The TREC-9 Filtering Track Final Report. TREC (2000)
Stephen E. Robertson
Salton Award Lecture: On theoretical argument in information retrieval. SIGIR (2000)
Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker, Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu
Experimentation as a way of life: Okapi at TREC. Inf. Process. Manag. 36 (1) (2000)
Andrew MacFarlane, Julie A. McCann, Stephen E. Robertson
Parallel Search Using Partitioned Inverted Files. SPIRE (2000)
Stephen E. Robertson, Stephen Walker
Threshold setting in adaptive filtering. J. Documentation 56 (3) (2000)
Karen Sparck Jones, Steve Walker, Stephen E. Robertson
A probabilistic model of information retrieval: development and comparative experiments - Part 1. Inf. Process. Manag. 36 (6) (2000)
Karen Sparck Jones, Steve Walker, Stephen E. Robertson
A probabilistic model of information retrieval: development and comparative experiments - Part 2. Inf. Process. Manag. 36 (6) (2000)
Stephen E. Robertson
Salton Award Lecture: On theoretical argument in information retrieval. SIGIR Forum 34 (1) (2000)
Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker
Microsoft Cambridge at TREC-9: Filtering Track. TREC (2000)
Yasemin Kural, Stephen E. Robertson, Susan Jones
Clustering Information Retrieval Search Outputs. BCS-IRSG Annual Colloquium on IR Research (1999)
David A. Hull, Stephen E. Robertson
The TREC-8 Filtering Track Final Report - Figures. TREC (1999)
Paul B. Kantor, Stephen E. Robertson
Editorial. Inf. Retr. 1 (1-2) (1999)
Stephen E. Robertson
Process and Outcome: On the Evaluation of IR Systems in the Age of Interaction, GUIs and Multimedia. MIRA (1999)
David A. Hull, Stephen E. Robertson
The TREC-8 Filtering Track Final Report. TREC (1999)
David A. Hull, Stephen E. Robertson
The TREC-9 Filtering Track. SIGIR Forum 33 (2) (1999)
Andrew MacFarlane, Stephen E. Robertson, Julie A. McCann
PLIERS at TREC8 - Appendix. TREC (1999)
Andrew MacFarlane, Stephen E. Robertson, Julie A. McCann
PLIERS at TREC8. TREC (1999)
Andrew MacFarlane, Julie A. McCann, Stephen E. Robertson
PLIERS: A Parallel Information Retrieval System Using MPI. PVM/MPI (1999)
Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker
Okapi/Keenbow at TREC-8. TREC (1999)
Andrew MacFarlane, Stephen E. Robertson, Julie A. McCann
PLIERS AT VLC2. TREC (1998)
Stephen E. Robertson
Cyril W. Cleverdon (In Memoriam). J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. 49 (10) (1998)
Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker, Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu
Okapi at TREC-7: Automatic Ad Hoc, Filtering, VLC and Interactive. TREC (1998)
Victoria Manglano, Micheline Beaulieu, Stephen E. Robertson
Evaluation of Interfaces for IRS: Modelling End-User Searching Behaviour. BCS-IRSG Annual Colloquium on IR Research (1998)
Andy MacFarlane, Stephen E. Robertson, Julie A. McCann
Parallel computing in information retrieval - an updated review. J. Documentation 53 (3) (1997)
Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker, Micheline Beaulieu
Laboratory experiments with Okapi: participation in the TREC programme. J. Documentation 53 (1) (1997)
Xiangji Huang, Stephen E. Robertson
Application of probabilistic methods to Chinese. J. Documentation 53 (1) (1997)
Steve Walker, Stephen E. Robertson, Mohand Boughanem, Gareth J. F. Jones, Karen Sparck Jones
Okapi at TREC-6 Automatic ad hoc, VLC, routing, filtering and QSDR. TREC (1997)
Stephen E. Robertson
Overview of the Okapi projects. J. Documentation 53 (1) (1997)
Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker
On Relevance Weights with Little Relevance Information. SIGIR (1997)
Stephen E. Robertson, Micheline Beaulieu
Research and evaluation in information retrieval. J. Documentation 53 (1) (1997)
Xiangji Huang, Stephen E. Robertson
Okapi Chinese Text Retrieval Experiments at TREC-6. TREC (1997)
Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, Mike Gatford, Xiangji Huang, Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker, P. W. Williams
Okapi at TREC-5. TREC (1996)
Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, Stephen E. Robertson, Edie M. Rasmussen
Evaluating Interactive Systems in TREC. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. 47 (1) (1996)
Maristella Agosti, Micheline Beaulieu, Cyril W. Cleverdon, Hans-Peter Frei, Norbert Fuhr, David J. Harper, Peter Ingwersen, E. Michael Keen, Rainer Kuhlen, Stephen E. Robertson, Alan F. Smeaton, Karen Sparck Jones, Keith van Rijsbergen, Peter Willett
Gerard (Gerry) Salton. J. Documentation 52 (1) (1996)
Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker, Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu
Large Test Collection Experiments on an Operational, Interactive System: Okapi at TREC. Inf. Process. Manag. 31 (3) (1995)
Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker, Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, Mike Gatford, A. Payne
Okapi at TREC-4. TREC (1995)
Susan Jones, Mike Gatford, Stephen E. Robertson, Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, Judith Secker, Steve Walker
Interactive Thesaurus Navigation: Intelligence Rules OK? J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. 46 (1) (1995)
Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker
Some Simple Effective Approximations to the 2-Poisson Model for Probabilistic Weighted Retrieval. SIGIR (1994)
Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker, Susan Jones, Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, Mike Gatford
Okapi at TREC-3. TREC (1994)
Stephen E. Robertson
Documentation note Query-Document Symmetry and Dual Models. J. Documentation 50 (3) (1994)
Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker, Susan Jones, Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, Mike Gatford
Okapi at TREC-2. TREC (1993)
William S. Cooper, Stephen E. Robertson
Workshop Report - Use of Training Materials in Constructing Routing Queries. TREC (1993)
Norbert Fuhr, Stephen E. Robertson
Machine Learning and Relevance Feedback. TREC (1992)
Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker, Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, Aarron Gull, Marianna Lau
Okapi at TREC. TREC (1992)
Stephen E. Robertson, Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu
On the Evaluation of IR Systems. Inf. Process. Manag. 28 (4) (1992)
Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, Stephen E. Robertson, Colin Neilson
Evaluation of online catalogues: Eliciting information from the user. Inf. Process. Manag. 27 (5) (1991)
Stephen E. Robertson
On sample sizes for non-matched-pair IR experiments. Inf. Process. Manag. 26 (6) (1990)
Stephen E. Robertson
B.C. Brookes and information science education: a personal note. J. Inf. Sci. 16 (1) (1990)
Stephen E. Robertson
On Term Selection for Query Expansion. J. Documentation 46 (4) (1990)
Stephen E. Robertson, M. E. Maron, William S. Cooper
The Unified Probabilistic Model for IR. SIGIR (1982)
Stephen E. Robertson
Term Frequency and Term Value. SIGIR (1981)
Stephen E. Robertson, C. J. van Rijsbergen, Martin F. Porter
Probabilistic Models of Indexing and Searching. SIGIR (1980)
Stephen E. Robertson
On Fuzzy sets: Reply to Cerny. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. 30 (6) (1979)
Stephen E. Robertson, Nicholas J. Belkin
Ranking in Principle. J. Documentation 34 (2) (1978)

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