RSSM: Robust Search over Social Media

Publications

• Predicting Information Seeker Satisfaction in Community Question Answering,
  Yandong Liu, Jiang Bian, and Eugene Agichtein,
  to appear in the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2008
   
• You've Got Answers: Towards Personalized Models for Predicting Success in Community Question Answering,
  Yandong Liu and Eugene Agichtein,
  to appear in the Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2008
   
• Finding the Right Facts in the Crowd: Factoid Question Answering over Social Media,
  Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein, and Hongyuan Zha,
  International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2008
   
• Finding High Quality Content in Social Media,
  Eugene Agichtein, Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, Aristides Gionis, Gilad Mishne,
  ACM Web Search and Data Mining Conference (WSDM), 2008
   
• Subjectivity Analysis for Questions in QA Communities (poster),
  Baoli Li, Yandong Liu, Ashwin Ram, Ernest V. Garcia, and Eugene Agichtein,
  to appear in the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2008
   
• On the Evolution of the Yahoo! Answers QA Community (poster),
  Yandong Liu and Eugene Agichtein
  to appear in the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2008
   
• A Few Bad Votes Too Many? Towards Robust Ranking in Social Media,
  Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein and Hongyuan Zha,
  to appear in the WWW 2008 workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval (AIRWeb), 2008
   
• Discovering Authorities in Question Answer Communities Using Link Analysis (short paper),
  Pawel Jurczyk and Eugene Agichtein,
  ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2007
   
• HITS on Question Answer Portals: an Exploration of Link Analysis for Author Ranking (poster),
  Pawel Jurczyk and Eugene Agichtein,
  ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2007
   
• Question Answering over Implicitly Structured Web Content [ slides ], 
  Eugene Agichtein, Chris Burges, and Eric Brill,
  IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI), 2007
   
• Improving Web Search Ranking by Incorporating User Behavior Information [ slides ],
  Eugene Agichtein, Eric Brill, and Susan T. Dumais,
  ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2006
   
• Learning User Interaction Models for Predicting Web Search Result Preferences [ slides ],
  Eugene Agichtein, Eric Brill, Susan T. Dumais, and Robert Ragno,
  ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2006
   
• Identifying "Best Bet" Web Search Results by Mining Past User Behavior (short paper),
  Eugene Agichtein and Zijian Zheng,
  ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), 2006
   
• Learning to Find Answers to Questions on the Web,
  Eugene Agichtein, Steve Lawrence and Luis Gravano,
  ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) Special Issue on "Machine Learning for the Internet", 2004