Publications
Journals and Conference Proceedings
2009
- Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues and Natasa Milic-Frayling, Socializing or Knowledge Sharing? Characterizing Social Intent in Community Question Answering, in Proceedings of ACM 18th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2009, November 2009
- Chung Tong Lee, Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Gabriella Kazai, Natasa Milic-Frayling, and Aleks Ignjatovic, Model for Voter Scoring and Best Answer Selection in Community Q&A Services, in Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2009, September 2009
- Gabriella Kazai, Natasa Milic-Frayling, and Jamie Costello, Towards methods for the collective gathering and quality control of relevance assessments, in Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (Boston, MA, USA, July 19 - 23, 2009). SIGIR '09, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., July 2009
- Marc Smith, Ben Shneiderman, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Vladimir Barash, Cody Dunne, Tony Capone, Adam Perer, and Eric Gleave, Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL, in The 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, June 2009
- Gerard Oleksik, Max L. Wilson, Craig Tashman, Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Gabriella Kazai, Gavin Smyth, Natasa Milic-Frayling, and Rachel Jones, Lightweight Tagging Expands Information and Activity Management Practices, in Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 2009
- Marijn Koolen, Gabriella Kazai, and Nick Craswell, Wikipedia Pages as Entry Points for Book Search, in Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'09), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., February 2009
2008
- Natasa Milic-Frayling, Martin Hicks, Rachel Jones, and Jamie Costello, Exploring Personal Broadcast Channels for Rich Media Sharing in Close Relationships, in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference of Mobile and Ubiquitous Multi-Media (MUM 2008), Sweeden, December 2008 , December 2008
- Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Natasa Milic-Frayling, and Blaz Fortuna, Social Tagging Behaviour in Community-driven Question Answering, in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2008, December 2008
- Paul Kantor, Gabriella Kazai, Natasa Milic-Frayling, and Ross Wilkinson, Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories, BooksOnline 2008, Napa Valley, California, USA, October 30, 2008, in BooksOnline'08, ACM, October 2008
- M S. Ali, Mariano P. Consens, Gabriella Kazai, and Mounia Lalmas, Structural relevance: A common basis for the evaluation of structured document retrieval, in CIKM '08: Proceeding of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Mining, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., October 2008
- Hengzhi Wu, Gabriella Kazai, and Thomas Roelleke, Modelling Anchor Text Retrieval in Book Search based on Back-of-Book Index, in SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Focused Retrieval, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., July 2008
- Hengzhi Wu, Gabriella Kazai, and Michael Taylor, Book Search Experiments: Investigating IR Methods for the Indexing and Retrieval of Books, in Advances in Information Retrieval, 30th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2008, Springer, April 2008
- Gabriella Kazai, Antoine Doucet, and Monica Landoni, New Tasks on Collections of Digitized Books, in Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 12th European Conference, ECDL 2008, Aarhus, Denmark, September 14-19, 2008. Proceedings, Springer, 2008
- Gabriella Kazai and Natasa Milic-Frayling, Trust, authority and popularity in social information retrieval, in CIKM '08: Proceeding of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge mining, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2008
- Gabriella Kazai and Antoine Doucet, Overview of the INEX 2007 Book Search track: BookSearch '07, in SIGIR Forum, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 2-15, 2008
- Vishwa Vinay, Natasa Milic-Frayling, and Ingemar Cox, Estimating retrieval effectiveness using rank distributions, in CIKM '08: Proceeding of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge mining, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2008
2007
- Gabriella Kazai, Search and navigation in structured document retrieval: comparison of user behaviour in search on document passages and XML elements, in Proceedings of The Twelfth Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS'07), December 2007
- Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Natasa Milic-Frayling, and Blaz Fortuna, Detection of Web Subsites: Concepts, Algorithms, and Evaluation Issues, in Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2007, November 2007
- Blaz Fortuna, Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, and Natasa Milic-Frayling, Improving the Classification of Newsgroup Messages through Social Network analysis, in Proceedings of ACM Sixteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2007, November 2007
- Gabriella Kazai and Andrew Trotman, Users' perspectives on the usefulness of structure for XML information retrieval, in Studies in theory of information retrieval (Proceedings of ICTIR 2007), October 2007
- Jaap Kamps, Jovan Pehcevski, Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, and Stephen Robertson, INEX 2007 Evaluation Measures, in Focused Access to XML Documents, 6th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2007, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, December 17-19, 2007. Selected Papers, Springer, 2007
- Rachel Jones, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Kerry Rodden, and Alan Blackwell, Contextual Method for the Redesign of Existing Software Products, in International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 2007
- Natasa Milic-Frayling, Martin Hicks, Rachel Jones, and Jamie Costello, On the design and evaluation of web augmented mobile applications, in MobileHCI '07: Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2007
2006
- Norbert Fuhr, Mounia Lalmas, Saadia Malik, and Gabriella Kazai, Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation, 4th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2005, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, November 28-30, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, in INEX'05, Springer, May 2006
- Gabriella Kazai, Choosing an Ideal Recall-Base for the Evaluation of the Focused Task: Sensitivity Analysis of the XCG Evaluation Measures, in Comparative Evaluation of XML Information Retrieval Systems, 5th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2006, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, December 17-20, 2006, Revised and Selected Papers, Springer, 2006
- Vishwa Vinay, Ingemar J. Cox, Natasa Milic-Frayling, and Ken Wood, On ranking the effectiveness of searches, in SIGIR '06: Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2006
- Jan Muntermann and Natasa Milic-Frayling, Enhancing Asynchronous User Communication with Cross Platform and Channel Agnostic Messaging Services, in AMCIS'06: Proceedings of the Twelfth Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2006
- Mounia Lalmas, Gabriella Kazai, Jaap Kamps, Jovan Pehcevski, Benjamin Piwowarski, and Stephen Robertson, INEX 2006 Evaluation Measures, in Comparative Evaluation of XML Information Retrieval Systems, 5th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2006, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, December 17-20, 2006, Revised and Selected Papers, Springer, 2006
2005
- Natasa Milic-Frayling, Text Processing and Information Retrieval, in Text Mining and its Applications to Intelligence, CRM and Knowledge Management, Editor: Alessandro Zanasi, May 2005
- Janez Brank, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Anthony Frayling, and Gavin Smyth, Predictive Algorithms for Browser Support of Habitual User Activities on the Web, in WI '05: Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 2005
- Natasa Milic-Frayling, Dunja Mladenic, Janez Brank, and Marko Grobelnik, Sparsity Analysis of Term Weighting Schemes and Application to Text Classification, in PASCAL - Subspace, Latent Structure and Feature Selection Techniques: Statistical and Optimisation Perspectives Workshop, 2005
- Jure Leskovec, Natasa Milic-Frayling, and Marko Grobelnik, Impact of linguistic analysis on the semantic graph coverage and learning of document extracts, in AAAI'05: Proceeding of the 12th National Conference On Artificial Intelligence, 2005
2004
- Natasa Milic-Frayling, Rachel Jones, Kerry Rodden, Gavin Smyth, Alan Blackwell, and Ralph Sommerer, Smartback: supporting users in back navigation, in WWW '04: Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2004
- Dunja Mladenić, Janez Brank, Marko Grobelnik, and Natasa Milic-Frayling, Feature selection using linear classifier weights: interaction with classification models, in SIGIR '04: Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2004
- Natasa Milic-Frayling, World Wide Web Challenges: Supporting Users in Search and Navigation, in SOFSEM 2004: Theory and Practice of Computer Science, 30th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, 2004
- Jure Leskovec, Marko Grobelnik, and Natasa Milic-Frayling, Learning Sub-structures of Document Semantic Graphs for Document Summarization, in KDD2004 Workshop on Link Analysis, 2004
- Jafar Adibi, Hans Chalupsky, Marko Grobelnik, Dunja Mladenic, and Natasa Milic-Frayling, KDD-2004 workshop report link analysis and group detection (LinkKDD-2004), in SIGKDD Explorations, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 136–139, 2004
- Jure Leskovec, Marko Grobelnik, and Natasa Milic-Frayling, Learning sub-structures of document semantic graphs for document summarization, in IS 2004: Proceedings of the 7th International Multi-Conference Information Society, 2004
2003
- Natasa Milic-Frayling and Ralph Sommerer, Perspectives: Use of digital information, in LIDA 2002: Libraries in the Digital Age, 2003
- Natasa Milic-Frayling and Ralph Sommerer, Enhanced Web Publishing: Towards Integration of Search and Browsing, in LIDA 2003: Libraries in the Digital Age, 2003
- Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ralph Sommerer, and Kerry Rodden, WebScout: Support for Revisitation of Web Pages within a Navigation Session, in WI '03: Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence, IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 2003
- Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ralph Sommerer, Kerry Rodden, and Alan Blackwell, Effective Web Searching on Mobile Devices, in HCI 2003: Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2003
- Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ralph Sommerer, Kerry Rodden, and Alan F. Blackwell, SmartView and SearchMobil: Providing Overview and Detail in Handheld Browsing, in Mobile HCI Workshop on Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access, 2003
- Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ralph Sommerer, Kerry Rodden, and Alan F. Blackwell, SearchMobil: Web Viewing and Search for Mobile Devices, in WWW 2003: Proceedings of the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (Posters), 2003
- Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ralph Sommerer, and Gavin Smyth, MIDAS: Towards Rich Site Structure and Content Metadata, in WWW 2003: Proceedings of the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (Posters), 2003
2002
- Natasa Milic-Frayling and Ralph Sommerer, SearchMobil: Search Support Interface for PDAs, in SIGIR 2002: Workshop on Mobile Personal Information Retrieval, 2002
- Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ralph Sommerer, and Robert Tucker, MS WebScout: Web Navigation Aid and Personal Web History Explorer, in WWW 2002: Proceedings of the Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference (Posters), 2002
- Natasa Milic-Frayling and Ralph Sommerer, SmartView: Flexible Viewing of Web Page Contents, in WWW 2002: Proceedings of the Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference (Posters), 2002
- Janez Brank, Marko Grobelnik, Natasa Milic-Frayling, and Dunja Mladenic, Interaction of feature selection methods and linear classification models, in Proceedings of the ICML-02 Workshop on Text Learning, 2002
- Janez Brank, Marko Grobelnik, Natasa Milic-Frayling, and Dunja Mladenic, Feature Selection Using Support Vector Machines, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Data Mining Methods and Databases for Engineering, Finance, and Other Fields, 2002
2001
- Natasa Milic-Frayling and Ralph Sommerer, MS read: user modeling in the web environment, in SIGIR '01: Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2001
2000
- Marko Grobelnik, Dunja Mladenic, and Natasa Milic-Frayling, Text Mining as Integration of Several Related Research Areas: Report on KDD'2000 Workshop on Text Mining, in SIGKDD Explorations, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 99–102, 2000
Technical Reports
2006
- Natasa Milic-Frayling, Rachel Jones, and Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, User Study of Interconnection among Communication, Authoring, and Information Management Processes, no. MSR-TR-2006-96, June 2006
- Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Martin Hicks, and Gavin Smyth, Link Structure Graphs for Representing and Analyzing Web Sites, no. MSR-TR-2006-94, June 2006
2005
- Janez Brank, Natasa Milic-Frayling. A Framework for Characterizing Feature Weighting and Selection Methods in Text Classification, Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2005-09, January 2005.
- Jure Leskovec, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Marko Grobelnik. Extracting Summary Sentences Based on the Document Semantic Graph, Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2005-07, January 2005.
2004
- Janez Brank, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Anthony Frayling, Gavin Smyth. Predictive Algorithms for Browser Support of Habitual User Activities on the Web, Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2004-122, November 2004.
- Natasa Milic-Frayling, Rachel Jones, Kerry Rodden, Gavin Smyth, Anthony Frayling. Designing for Web Revisitation: Exploring Structure from User Interaction and Navigation, Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2004-97, September 2004.
- Rachel Jones, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Kerry Rodden, Alan Blackwell. Contextual Method for the Re-design of Existing Software Products, Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2004-96, September 2004.
- Ralph Sommerer: Presentable Document Format: Improved On-demand PDF to HTML Conversion, MSR Technical Report 2004-119, 2004
2003
- Natasa Milic-Frayling, Dunja Mladenic, Janez Brank, Marko Grobelnik. Sparsity Analysis of Term Weighting Schemes: Application to Feature Selection, Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2003-35, April 2003.
- Janez Brank, Marko Grobelnik, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Dunja Mladenic. Training Text Classifiers with SVM on Very Few Positive Examples, Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2003-34, April 2003.
2002
- Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ralph Sommerer: SmartView: Enhanced Document Viewer for Mobile Devices, Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2002-114, November 2002.
- Janez Brank, Marko Grobelnik, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Dunja Mladenic. Feature Selection Using Linear Support Vector Machines, Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2002-63, June 2002.
2001
- Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ralph Sommerer: MS Read: Context Sensitive Document Analysis in the WWW Environment, Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2001-63, June 2001.
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