Emine Yilmaz
I am a post doc researcher in the Information Retrieval and Analysis Group at Microsoft Research Cambridge. My current work involves evaluation of retrieval systems, the effect of evaluation metrics on learning to rank problems and modelling user behaviour. My main interests are information retrieval and applications of information theory, statistics and machine learning.
Before joining Microsoft Research, I was a PhD student and a research assistant at Northeastern University. My work there mainly focused on decreasing the amount of judgment effort needed for large scale retrieval evaluation.
Here is my Curriculum Vitae, in which you will find my email address.
Publications
2012
- Mehdi Hosseini, Ingemar Cox, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Milad Shokouhi, and Emine Yilmaz, An Uncertainty-aware Query Selection Model for Evaluation of IR Systems, in Proceedings of the 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, ACM, 2012
2011
- Martin Szummer and Emine Yilmaz, Semi-supervised Learning to Rank with Preference Regularization, in Conf. Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), ACM, October 2011
- Chang Wang, Emine Yilmaz, and Martin Szummer, Relevance Feedback Exploiting Query-Specific Document Manifolds, in Conf. Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), ACM, October 2011
- Paul N. Bennett, Filip Radlinski, Ryen White, and Emine Yilmaz, Inferring and Using Location Metadata to Personalize Web Search, in Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., July 2011
- Filip Radlinski, Paul N. Bennett, and Emine Yilmaz, Detecting Duplicate Web Documents using Clickthrough Data, in ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., February 2011
- Leif Azzopardi, Dawei Song, Gabriella Kazai, Stephen Robertson, Stefan M. Rüger, Milad Shokouhi, and Emine Yilmaz, Introduction to special issue on the second international conference on the theory of information retrieval, in Inf. Retr., vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 1-4, 2011
2010
- Emine Yilmaz, Milad Shokouhi, Nick Craswell, and Stephen Robertson, Expected browsing utility for web search evaluation, in Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management , ACM, 2010
- Emine Yilmaz, Milad Shokouhi, Nick Craswell, and Stephen Robertson, Expected browsing utility for web search evaluation, in 19th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2010
- Ben Carterette, Evangelos Kanoulas, and Emine Yilmaz, Low cost evaluation in information retrieval, in SIGIR 2010: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2010
- Emine Yilmaz and Stephen Robertson, On the Choice of Effectiveness Measures for Learning to Rank, in Special Issue on Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval, Information Retrieval Journal, Springer Verlag, 2010
- Stephen Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas, and Emine Yilmaz, Extending average precision to graded relevance judgments, in SIGIR 2010: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2010
2009
- Nick Craswell, Dennis Fetterly, Marc Najork, Stephen Robertson, and Emine Yilmaz, Microsoft Research at TREC 2009: Web and Relevance Feedback Tracks, in Proc. of the 18th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), National Institute of Standards and Technology , November 2009
- Emine Yilmaz, Milad Shokouhi, Nick Craswell, and Stephen Robertson, Incorporating user behavior information in IR evaluation, in Understanding the user - Logging and interpreting user interactions in information retrieval. Workshop in Conjunction with the ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval., 2009
- Emine Yilmaz and Stephen Robertson, Deep versus Shallow Judgments in Learning to Rank, in SIGIR 2009: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2009
- Javed A. Aslam, Evangelos Kanoulas, Virgil Pavlu, Stefan Savev, and Emine Yilmaz, Document Selection Methodologies for Efficient and Effective Learning-to-Rank, in SIGIR 2009: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2009
- Emine Yilmaz and Stephen Robertson, On the Choice of Effectiveness Measures for Learning to Rank, in Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval. Workshop in Conjunction with the ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval, 2009
2008
- Emine Yilmaz, Javed A Aslam, and Stephen Robertson, A new rank correlation coefficient for information retrieval, in SIGIR 2008: Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, ACM Press, New York, 2008
- Emine Yilmaz, Evangelos Kanoulas, and Javed A. Aslam, A simple and efficient sampling method for estimating AP and NDCG, in SIGIR 2008: Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2008
- Emine Yilmaz and Javed A. Aslam, Estimating average precision when judgments are incomplete, in Knowl. Inf. Syst., vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 173-211, Springer Verlag, 2008
- Peter Bailey, Nick Craswell, Ian Soboroff, Paul Thomas, Arjen P. de Vries, and Emine Yilmaz, Relevance assessment: are judges exchangeable and does it matter, in SIGIR '08: Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2008
2007
- Javed A. Aslam and Emine Yilmaz, Inferring document relevance from incomplete information, in CIKM 07: Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2007
2006
- Emine Yilmaz and Javed A. Aslam, Estimating average precision with incomplete and imperfect judgments, in CIKM 06: Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2006
- Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu, and Emine Yilmaz, A statistical method for system evaluation using incomplete judgments, in SIGIR '06: Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2006
- Javed A. Aslam and Emine Yilmaz, Inferring document relevance via average precision, in SIGIR '06: Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, 2006
2005
- Javed A. Aslam, Emine Yilmaz, and Virgiliu Pavlu, The maximum entropy method for analyzing retrieval measures, in SIGIR '05: Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, 2005
- Javed A. Aslam, Emine Yilmaz, and Virgiliu Pavlu, A geometric interpretation of R-precision and its correlation with average precision, in SIGIR, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2005
- Javed A. Aslam and Emine Yilmaz, A geometric interpretation and analysis of R-precision, in CIKM 05: Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2005
- Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu, and Emine Yilmaz, Measure-based metasearch, in SIGIR '05: Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, pp. 601-602, 2006, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2005