Stephen E. Robertson

Olga Vechtomova, Stephen E. Robertson: A domain-independent approach to finding related entities. Inf. Process. Manage. 48(4): 654-670 (2012)

Stephen Robertson: The Web, the Home and the Search Engine. The Connected Home - The Future of Domestic Life 2012: 79-91

Stephen Robertson: On Smoothing Average Precision. ECIR 2012: 158-169

Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas: On per-topic variance in IR evaluation. SIGIR 2012: 891-900

Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas: On real-time ad-hoc retrieval evaluation. SIGIR 2012: 1119-1120

Jagadeesh Gorla, Stephen Robertson, Jun Wang, Tamas Jambor: A Theory of Information Matching. CoRR abs/1205.5569 (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): 1-4 (2011)

Avi Arampatzis, Stephen Robertson: Modeling score distributions in information retrieval. Inf. Retr. 14(1): 26-46 (2011)

Stephen Robertson: On the Contributions of Topics to System Evaluation. ECIR 2011: 129-140

Jagadeesh Gorla, Stephen Robertson, Jun Wang: A Unified Relevance Retrieval Model by Eliteness Hypothesis. CoRR abs/1106.2946 (2011)

Emine Yilmaz, Stephen Robertson: On the choice of effectiveness measures for learning to rank. Inf. Retr. 13(3): 271-290 (2010)

Emine Yilmaz, Milad Shokouhi, Nick Craswell, Stephen Robertson: Expected browsing utility for web search evaluation. CIKM 2010: 1561-1564

Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas, Emine Yilmaz: Extending average precision to graded relevance judgments. SIGIR 2010: 603-610

Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza: The Probabilistic Relevance Framework: BM25 and Beyond. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval 3(4): 333-389 (2009)

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)

Stephen Robertson, Milan Vojnovic, Ingmar Weber: Rethinking the ESP game. CHI Extended Abstracts 2009: 3937-3942

Avi Arampatzis, Stephen Robertson, Jaap Kamps: Score Distributions in Information Retrieval. ICTIR 2009: 139-151

Avi Arampatzis, Jaap Kamps, Stephen Robertson: Where to stop reading a ranked list?: threshold optimization using truncated score distributions. SIGIR 2009: 524-531

Emine Yilmaz, Stephen Robertson: Deep versus shallow judgments in learning to rank. SIGIR 2009: 662-663

Nick Craswell, Dennis Fetterly, Marc Najork, Stephen Robertson, Emine Yilmaz: Microsoft Research at TREC 2009: Web and Relevance Feedback Track. TREC 2009

Nick Craswell, Stephen Robertson: Average Precision at n. Encyclopedia of Database Systems 2009: 193-194

Thomas Roelleke, Jun Wang, Stephen Robertson: Probabilistic Retrieval Models and Binary Independence Retrieval (BIR) Model. Encyclopedia of Database Systems 2009: 2156-2160

Leif Azzopardi, Gabriella Kazai, Stephen E. Robertson, Stefan M. Rüger, Milad Shokouhi, Dawei Song, Emine Yilmaz (Eds.): Advances in Information Retrieval Theory, Second International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2009, Cambridge, UK, September 10-12, 2009, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5766, Springer 2009, isbn 978-3-642-04416-8

Jun Wang, Stephen Robertson, Arjen P. de Vries, Marcel J. T. Reinders: Probabilistic relevance ranking for collaborative filtering. Inf. Retr. 11(6): 477-497 (2008)

Stephen Robertson, John Tait: Karen Spärck Jones. JASIST 59(5): 852-854 (2008)

Stephen Robertson: On the history of evaluation in IR. J. Information Science 34(4): 439-456 (2008)

Guihong Cao, Stephen Robertson, Jian-Yun Nie: Selecting Query Term Alternations for Web Search by Exploiting Query Contexts. ACL 2008: 148-155

Anna Ritchie, Stephen Robertson, Simone Teufel: Comparing citation contexts for information retrieval. CIKM 2008: 213-222

Anna Ritchie, Simone Teufel, Stephen Robertson: Using Terms from Citations for IR: Some First Results. ECIR 2008: 211-221

Stephen Robertson: The study of information retrieval: a long view. IIiX 2008: 1-2

Guihong Cao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jianfeng Gao, Stephen Robertson: Selecting good expansion terms for pseudo-relevance feedback. SIGIR 2008: 243-250

Emine Yilmaz, Javed A. Aslam, Stephen Robertson: A new rank correlation coefficient for information retrieval. SIGIR 2008: 587-594

Stephen Robertson: A new interpretation of average precision. SIGIR 2008: 689-690

Michael J. Taylor, John Guiver, Stephen Robertson, Tom Minka: SoftRank: optimizing non-smooth rank metrics. WSDM 2008: 77-86

Stephen Robertson, John Tait: In Memoriam: Karen Spärck Jones. Inf. Process. Manage. 43(6): 1441-1444 (2007)

Stephen Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza: On rank-based effectiveness measures and optimization. Inf. Retr. 10(3): 321-339 (2007)

Peter Willett, Stephen Robertson: In memoriam: Karen Spärck Jones. J. Information Science 33(5): 637-639 (2007)

Karen Sparck Jones, Stephen E. Robertson, Mark Sanderson: Ambiguous requests: implications for retrieval tests, systems and theories. SIGIR Forum 41(2): 8-17 (2007)

Stephen Robertson: The Last Half-Century: A Perspective on Experimentation in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2007: 2

Stephen Robertson: On Score Distributions and Relevance. ECIR 2007: 40-51

Jaap Kamps, Jovan Pehcevski, Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Stephen Robertson: INEX 2007 Evaluation Measures. INEX 2007: 24-33

Anna Ritchie, Stephen Robertson, Simone Teufel: Expanding a Test Collection for Citation-based IR Experiments. RIAO 2007

Stefano Mizzaro, Stephen Robertson: Hits hits TREC: exploring IR evaluation results with network analysis. SIGIR 2007: 479-486

Olga Vechtomova, Murat Karamuftuoglu, Stephen E. Robertson: On document relevance and lexical cohesion between query terms. Inf. Process. Manage. 42(5): 1230-1247 (2006)

Stephen Robertson: On GMAP: and other transformations. CIKM 2006: 78-83

Michael J. Taylor, Hugo Zaragoza, Nick Craswell, Stephen Robertson, Chris Burges: Optimisation methods for ranking functions with multiple parameters. CIKM 2006: 585-593

Stephen E. Robertson, Wei Lu, Andrew MacFarlane: XML-Structured Documents: Retrievable Units and Inheritance. FQAS 2006: 121-132

Mounia Lalmas, Gabriella Kazai, Jaap Kamps, Jovan Pehcevski, Benjamin Piwowarski, Stephen Robertson: INEX 2006 Evaluation Measures. INEX 2006: 20-34

Wei Lu, Stephen E. Robertson, Andrew MacFarlane: CISR at INEX 2006. INEX 2006: 57-63

Stephen Robertson: On the science of search: statistical approaches, evaluation, optimisation. IWRIDL 2006: 2

Anna Ritchie, Simone Teufel, Stephen Robertson: Creating a Test Collection for Citation-based IR Experiments. HLT-NAACL 2006

Wei Lu, Stephen E. Robertson, Andy MacFarlane, Haozhen Zhao: Window-based Enterprise Expert Search. TREC 2006

Stephen E. Robertson: On Event Spaces and Probabilistic Models in Information Retrieval. Inf. Retr. 8(2): 319-329 (2005)

Wei Lu, Stephen E. Robertson, Andrew MacFarlane: Field-Weighted XML Retrieval Based on BM25. INEX 2005: 161-171

Nick Craswell, Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza, Michael J. Taylor: Relevance weighting for query independent evidence. SIGIR 2005: 416-423

Nick Craswell, Hugo Zaragoza, Stephen Robertson: Microsoft Cambridge at TREC 14: Enterprise Track. TREC 2005

David Bodoff, Stephen E. Robertson: A new unified probabilistic model. JASIST 55(6): 471-487 (2004)

Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza, Michael J. Taylor: Simple BM25 extension to multiple weighted fields. CIKM 2004: 42-49

Djoerd Hiemstra, Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza: Parsimonious language models for information retrieval. SIGIR 2004: 178-185

Trystan Upstill, Stephen E. Robertson: Exploiting hyperlink recommendation evidence in navigational web search. SIGIR 2004: 576-577

Hugo Zaragoza, Nick Craswell, Michael J. Taylor, Suchi Saria, Stephen E. Robertson: Microsoft Cambridge at TREC 13: Web and Hard Tracks. TREC 2004

David Hawking, Stephen E. Robertson: On Collection Size and Retrieval Effectiveness. Inf. Retr. 6(1): 99-105 (2003)

Olga Vechtomova, Stephen E. Robertson, Susan Jones: Query Expansion with Long-Span Collocates. Inf. Retr. 6(2): 251-273 (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): 333-362 (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): 31-47 (2003)

Andy MacFarlane, Stephen E. Robertson, Julie A. McCann: Parallel Computing for Term Selection in Routing/Filtering. ECIR 2003: 537-545

Ian Soboroff, Stephen E. Robertson: Building a filtering test collection for TREC 2002. SIGIR 2003: 243-250

Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza, Michael J. Taylor: Microsoft Cambridge at TREC-12: HARD track. TREC 2003: 418-425

Stephen E. Robertson: Introduction to the Special Issue: Overview of the TREC Routing and Filtering Tasks. Inf. Retr. 5(2-3): 127-137 (2002)

Stephen E. Robertson: Threshold Setting and Performance Optimization in Adaptive Filtering. Inf. Retr. 5(2-3): 239-256 (2002)

Stephen E. Robertson: Comparing the Performance of Adaptive Filtering and Ranked Output Systems. Inf. Retr. 5(2-3): 257-268 (2002)

Fuchun Peng, Xiangji Huang, Dale Schuurmans, Nick Cercone, Stephen E. Robertson: Using self-supervised word segmentation in Chinese information retrieval. SIGIR 2002: 349-350

Tetsuya Sakai, Stephen E. Robertson: Relative and absolute term selection criteria: a comparative study for English and Japanese IR. SIGIR 2002: 411-412

Stephen E. Robertson, Ian Soboroff: The TREC 2002 Filtering Track Report. TREC 2002

Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker, Hugo Zaragoza, Ralf Herbrich: Microsoft Cambridge at TREC 2002: Filtering Track. TREC 2002

Yasemin Kural, Stephen E. Robertson, Susan Jones: Deciphering cluster representations. Inf. Process. Manage. 37(4): 593-601 (2001)

Djoerd Hiemstra, Stephen E. Robertson: Relevance Feedback for Best Match Term Weighting Algorithms in Information Retrieval. DELOS Workshop: Personalisation and Recommender Systems in Digital Libraries 2001

Nick Craswell, David Hawking, Stephen E. Robertson: Effective Site Finding Using Link Anchor Information. SIGIR 2001: 250-257

Tetsuya Sakai, Stephen E. Robertson: Flexible Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Using Optimization Tables. SIGIR 2001: 396-397

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

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

Xiangji Huang, Stephen E. Robertson, Nick Cercone, Aijun An: Probability-Based Chinese Text Processing and Retrieval. Computational Intelligence 16(4): 552-569 (2000)

Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker, Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu: Experimentation as a way of life: Okapi at TREC. Inf. Process. Manage. 36(1): 95-108 (2000)

Karen Sparck Jones, Steve Walker, Stephen E. Robertson: A probabilistic model of information retrieval: development and comparative experiments - Part 1. Inf. Process. Manage. 36(6): 779-808 (2000)

Karen Sparck Jones, Steve Walker, Stephen E. Robertson: A probabilistic model of information retrieval: development and comparative experiments - Part 2. Inf. Process. Manage. 36(6): 809-840 (2000)

Stephen E. Robertson: Salton Award Lecture: On theoretical argument in information retrieval. SIGIR Forum 34(1): 1-10 (2000)

Stephen E. Robertson: Evaluation in Information Retrieval. ESSIR 2000: 81-92

Stephen E. Robertson: Salton Award Lecture: On theoretical argument in information retrieval. SIGIR 2000: 1

Andy MacFarlane, Julie A. McCann, Stephen E. Robertson: Parallel Search Using Partitioned Inverted Files. SPIRE 2000: 209-220

Stephen E. Robertson, David A. Hull: The TREC-9 Filtering Track Final Report. TREC 2000

Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker: Microsoft Cambridge at TREC-9: Filtering Track. TREC 2000

Paul B. Kantor, Stephen E. Robertson: Editorial. Inf. Retr. 1(1-2): 5 (1999)

David A. Hull, Stephen E. Robertson: The TREC-9 Filtering Track. SIGIR Forum 33(2): 16 (1999)

Yasemin Kural, Stephen E. Robertson, Susan Jones: Clustering Information Retrieval Search Outputs. BCS-IRSG Annual Colloquium on IR Research 1999

Stephen E. Robertson: Process and Outcome: On the Evaluation of IR Systems in the Age of Interaction, GUIs and Multimedia. MIRA 1999

Andy MacFarlane, Julie A. McCann, Stephen E. Robertson: PLIERS: A Parallel Information Retrieval System Using MPI. PVM/MPI 1999: 317-324

David A. Hull, Stephen E. Robertson: The TREC-8 Filtering Track Final Report. TREC 1999

David A. Hull, Stephen E. Robertson: The TREC-8 Filtering Track Final Report - Figures. TREC 1999

Andy MacFarlane, Stephen E. Robertson, Julie A. McCann: PLIERS at TREC8. TREC 1999

Andy MacFarlane, Stephen E. Robertson, Julie A. McCann: PLIERS at TREC8 - Appendix. TREC 1999

Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker: Okapi/Keenbow at TREC-8. TREC 1999

Stephen E. Robertson: Cyril W. Cleverdon (In Memoriam). JASIS 49(10): 866 (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

Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker, Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu: Okapi at TREC-7: Automatic Ad Hoc, Filtering, VLC and Interactive. TREC 1998: 199-210

Andy MacFarlane, Stephen E. Robertson, Julie A. McCann: PLIERS AT VLC2. TREC 1998: 271-280

Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker: On Relevance Weights with Little Relevance Information. SIGIR 1997: 16-24

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: 125-136

Xiangji Huang, Stephen E. Robertson: Okapi Chinese Text Retrieval Experiments at TREC-6. TREC 1997: 137-142

Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, Stephen E. Robertson, Edie M. Rasmussen: Evaluating Interactive Systems in TREC. JASIS 47(1): 85-94 (1996)

Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, Mike Gatford, Xiangji Huang, Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker, P. W. Williams: Okapi at TREC-5. TREC 1996

Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker, Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu: Large Test Collection Experiments on an Operational, Interactive System: Okapi at TREC. Inf. Process. Manage. 31(3): 345-360 (1995)

Susan Jones, Mike Gatford, Stephen E. Robertson, Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, Judith Secker, Steve Walker: Interactive Thesaurus Navigation: Intelligence Rules OK? JASIS 46(1): 52-59 (1995)

Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker, Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, Mike Gatford, A. Payne: Okapi at TREC-4. TREC 1995

Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker: Some Simple Effective Approximations to the 2-Poisson Model for Probabilistic Weighted Retrieval. SIGIR 1994: 232-241

Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker, Susan Jones, Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, Mike Gatford: Okapi at TREC-3. TREC 1994: 0-

Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker, Susan Jones, Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, Mike Gatford: Okapi at TREC-2. TREC 1993: 21-34

William S. Cooper, Stephen E. Robertson: Workshop Report - Use of Training Materials in Constructing Routing Queries. TREC 1993: 305

Stephen E. Robertson, Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu: On the Evaluation of IR Systems. Inf. Process. Manage. 28(4): 457-466 (1992)

Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker, Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, Aarron Gull, Marianna Lau: Okapi at TREC. TREC 1992: 21-30

Norbert Fuhr, Stephen E. Robertson: Machine Learning and Relevance Feedback. TREC 1992: 369-370

Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, Stephen E. Robertson, Colin Neilson: Evaluation of online catalogues: Eliciting information from the user. Inf. Process. Manage. 27(5): 523-532 (1991)

Stephen E. Robertson: On sample sizes for non-matched-pair IR experiments. Inf. Process. Manage. 26(6): 739-753 (1990)

Stephen E. Robertson, M. E. Maron, William S. Cooper: The Unified Probabilistic Model for IR. SIGIR 1982: 108-117

Stephen E. Robertson: Term Frequency and Term Value. SIGIR 1981: 22-29

Robert N. Oddy, Stephen E. Robertson, C. J. van Rijsbergen, P. W. Williams (Eds.): Information Retrieval Research, Proc. Joint ACM/BCS Symposium in Information Storage and Retrieval, Cambridge, June 1980. Butterworths 1981, isbn 0408107758

Stephen E. Robertson, C. J. van Rijsbergen, Martin F. Porter: Probabilistic Models of Indexing and Searching. SIGIR 1980: 35-56

Stephen E. Robertson: The probabilistic character of relevance. Inf. Process. Manage. 13(4): 247-251 (1977)