Gabriella Kazai
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Gabriella Kazai is an Associate Researcher with the Integrated Systems team at Microsoft Research Cambridge, working on development of designs and technologies for natural and effective use of computer technology. Gabriella’s research interests include design and evaluation of systems for structured document retrieval, book search, and personal digital library.
Gabriella is the organizer of the Book Track at the INEX evaluation initiative, which investigates full-text searching over digitized books and studies users’ interactions with e-books. Her PhD work at Queen Mary, University of London covered the evaluation of XML information retrieval. |
Projects
- Research Desktop: Designing and developing technologies to aid the work of knowledge workers with focus on four key areas: 1) Support for activity based computing, 2) Pervasive research tools, 3) Library, and 4) Notes.
- Social Information Retrieval: IR framework incorporating models of trust and reputation and notions of authoritativeness and popularity.
- Book Search: Algorithms and systems for the domain specific searching and browsing of collections of digitized books.
- IR Evaluation Measures: Algorithms and methods for evaluating the effectiveness of search systems, taking into account the user's browsing behaviour.
- INEX Book Track: I am organizer of the track since 2007, attracting over 50 participating organizations. My research here focuses on methodology and systems for crowdsourcing relevance judgements on parts of books.
Publications
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
