Stephen Robertson

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2002-2019
Publications (10 Years): 2

Top Topics

Retrieval Effectiveness

Score Distributions

Top Venues

IEEE Ann. Hist. Comput.

Publications

Stephen Robertson
A Brief History of Search Results Ranking. IEEE Ann. Hist. Comput. 41 (2) (2019)
Stephen Robertson
Forward to the Past: Notes towards a Pre-history of Web Search. SIGIR (2017)
Robin Aly, Thomas Demeester, Stephen Robertson
Probabilistic models in IR and their relationships. Inf. Retr. 17 (2) (2014)
Andrea Berto, Stefano Mizzaro, Stephen Robertson
On Using Fewer Topics in Information Retrieval Evaluations. ICTIR (2013)
Jagadeesh Gorla, Neal Lathia, Stephen Robertson, Jun Wang
Probabilistic group recommendation via information matching. WWW (2013)
Stephen Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas, Emine Yilmaz
Modelling Score Distributions Without Actual Scores. ICTIR (2013)
Jagadeesh Gorla, Stephen Robertson, Jun Wang, Tamas Jambor
A Theory of Information Matching CoRR (2012)
Stephen Robertson
On Smoothing Average Precision. ECIR (2012)
Leif Azzopardi, Dawei Song, Gabriella Kazai, Stephen Robertson, Stefan M. Rüger, Milad Shokouhi, Emine Yilmaz
Introduction to special issue on the second international conference on the theory of information retrieval. Inf. Retr. 14 (1) (2011)
Avi Arampatzis, Stephen Robertson
Modeling score distributions in information retrieval. Inf. Retr. 14 (1) (2011)
Jagadeesh Gorla, Stephen Robertson, Jun Wang
A Unified Relevance Retrieval Model by Eliteness Hypothesis CoRR (2011)
Stephen Robertson
On the Contributions of Topics to System Evaluation. ECIR (2011)
Emine Yilmaz, Milad Shokouhi, Nick Craswell, Stephen Robertson
Expected browsing utility for web search evaluation. CIKM (2010)
Tetsuya Sakai, Nick Craswell, Ruihua Song, Stephen Robertson, Zhicheng Dou, Chin-Yew Lin
Simple Evaluation Metrics for Diversified Search Results. EVIA@NTCIR (2010)
Emine Yilmaz, Stephen Robertson
On the choice of effectiveness measures for learning to rank. Inf. Retr. 13 (3) (2010)
John Guiver, Stefano Mizzaro, Stephen Robertson
A few good topics: Experiments in topic set reduction for retrieval evaluation. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 27 (4) (2009)
Emine Yilmaz, Milad Shokouhi, Nick Craswell, Stephen Robertson
Incorporating User Behavior Information in IR Evaluation. UIIR@SIGIR (2009)
Emine Yilmaz, Stephen Robertson
Deep versus shallow judgments in learning to rank. SIGIR (2009)
Stephen Robertson, Milan Vojnovic, Ingmar Weber
Rethinking the ESP game. CHI Extended Abstracts (2009)
Nick Craswell, Dennis Fetterly, Marc Najork, Stephen Robertson, Emine Yilmaz
Microsoft Research at TREC 2009: Web and Relevance Feedback Track. TREC (2009)
Avi Arampatzis, Jaap Kamps, Stephen Robertson
Where to stop reading a ranked list?: threshold optimization using truncated score distributions. SIGIR (2009)
Avi Arampatzis, Stephen Robertson, Jaap Kamps
Score Distributions in Information Retrieval. ICTIR (2009)
Anna Ritchie, Stephen Robertson, Simone Teufel
Comparing citation contexts for information retrieval. CIKM (2008)
Stephen Robertson, John Tait
Karen Spärck Jones. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 59 (5) (2008)
Guihong Cao, Stephen Robertson, Jian-Yun Nie
Selecting Query Term Alternations for Web Search by Exploiting Query Contexts. ACL (2008)
Jun Wang, Stephen Robertson, Arjen P. de Vries, Marcel J. T. Reinders
Probabilistic relevance ranking for collaborative filtering. Inf. Retr. 11 (6) (2008)
Guihong Cao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jianfeng Gao, Stephen Robertson
Selecting good expansion terms for pseudo-relevance feedback. SIGIR (2008)
Chris Buckley, Stephen Robertson
Relevance Feedback Track Overview: TREC 2008. TREC (2008)
Stephen Robertson
The study of information retrieval: a long view. IIiX (2008)
Stephen Robertson
On the history of evaluation in IR. J. Inf. Sci. 34 (4) (2008)
Tetsuya Sakai, Stephen Robertson
Modelling A User Population for Designing Information Retrieval Metrics. EVIA@NTCIR (2008)
Stephen Robertson
A new interpretation of average precision. SIGIR (2008)
Anna Ritchie, Simone Teufel, Stephen Robertson
Using Terms from Citations for IR: Some First Results. ECIR (2008)
Michael J. Taylor, John Guiver, Stephen Robertson, Tom Minka
SoftRank: optimizing non-smooth rank metrics. WSDM (2008)
Emine Yilmaz, Javed A. Aslam, Stephen Robertson
A new rank correlation coefficient for information retrieval. SIGIR (2008)
Stephen Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza
On rank-based effectiveness measures and optimization. Inf. Retr. 10 (3) (2007)
Stephen Robertson
On Score Distributions and Relevance. ECIR (2007)
Stephen Robertson
The Last Half-Century: A Perspective on Experimentation in Information Retrieval. ECIR (2007)
Jaap Kamps, Jovan Pehcevski, Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Stephen Robertson
INEX 2007 Evaluation Measures. INEX (2007)
Peter Willett, Stephen Robertson
In memoriam: Karen Spärck Jones. J. Documentation 63 (5) (2007)
Stefano Mizzaro, Stephen Robertson
Hits hits TREC: exploring IR evaluation results with network analysis. SIGIR (2007)
Anna Ritchie, Stephen Robertson, Simone Teufel
Expanding a Test Collection for Citation-based IR Experiments. RIAO (2007)
Stephen Robertson, John Tait
In Memoriam: Karen Spärck Jones. Inf. Process. Manag. 43 (6) (2007)
Peter Willett, Stephen Robertson
In memoriam: Karen Spärck Jones. J. Inf. Sci. 33 (5) (2007)
Mounia Lalmas, Gabriella Kazai, Jaap Kamps, Jovan Pehcevski, Benjamin Piwowarski, Stephen Robertson
INEX 2006 Evaluation Measures. INEX (2006)
Michael J. Taylor, Hugo Zaragoza, Nick Craswell, Stephen Robertson, Chris Burges
Optimisation methods for ranking functions with multiple parameters. CIKM (2006)
Stephen Robertson
On the science of search: statistical approaches, evaluation, optimisation. IWRIDL (2006)
Stephen Robertson
On GMAP: and other transformations. CIKM (2006)
Anna Ritchie, Simone Teufel, Stephen Robertson
Creating a Test Collection for Citation-based IR Experiments. HLT-NAACL (2006)
Nick Craswell, Hugo Zaragoza, Stephen Robertson
Microsoft Cambridge at TREC 14: Enterprise Track. TREC (2005)
Stephen Robertson
Understanding inverse document frequency: on theoretical arguments for IDF. J. Documentation 60 (5) (2004)
Susan Jones, Olga Vechtomova, Stephen Robertson
A tool for comparative evaluation in an interactive environment. J. Inf. Sci. 28 (6) (2002)
Murat Karamuftuoglu, Susan Jones, Stephen Robertson, Fabio Venuti, Xinkun Wang
Challenges posed by web-based retrieval of scientific papers: Okapi participation in TIPS. J. Inf. Sci. 28 (1) (2002)