Milad Shokouhi
APPLIED RESEARCHER
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I am an applied researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge, in the Information Retrieval group . I'm employed by Microsoft search engine Bing. My research is mainly focused on information retrieval and web search problems. I am interested in temporal relevance, query expansion, query log analysis, and web search evaluation. I also have done some previous work on distributed information retrieval and metasearch, and have co-aurhored a short book with Luo Si on that topic.
Before Joining Microsoft, I did my PhD at RMIT university, under the supervision of Justin Zobel. The title of my PhD thesis was "Federated text retrieval from independent collections".
Workshops and Tutorials
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SIGIR2012 Workshop with Fernando Diaz, Maarten de Rijke, Susan Dumais and Kira Radinsky, Time-aware Information Access.
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WWW2012 Tutorial with Fernando Diaz and Jaime Arguello, Integrating and Ranking Aggregated Content on the Web.
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SIGIR2010 Tuorial, with Fernando Diaz and Mounia Lalmas, From Federated to Aggregated Search.
Publications
2012
- Milad Shokouhi and Kira Radinsky, Time-Sensitive Query Auto-Completion, in Proceedings of the 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, ACM, 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
- Daniel Sheldon, Milad Shokouhi, Martin Szummer, and Nick Craswell, LambdaMerge: Merging the Results of Query Reformulations, in Conf. Web search and data mining (WSDM), ACM, February 2011
- Milad Shokouhi and Luo Si, Federated Search, FNTIR, 2011
- M. Shokouhi, Detecting Seasonal Queries by Time-Series Analysis, in Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, ACM, 2011
- Na Dai, Milad Shokouhi, and Brian Davison, Learning to Rank for Freshness and Relevance, in Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 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
- Paul Thomas and Milad Shokouhi, Evaluating Server Selection for Federated Search , in Proceedings of the 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval, Springer, 2010
2009
- M. Shokouhi and P. Thomas, SUSHI: Scoring scaled samples for server selection, in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, ACM, Boston, MA, 2009
- Z. Yin, M. Shokouhi, and N. Craswell, Query Expansion Using External Evidence, in Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval, Toulouse, France, 2009
- M. Shokouhi, P. Thomas, and L. Azzopardi, Effective Query Expansion for Federated Search, in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, ACM, Boston, MA, 2009
- M. Shokouhi and J. Zobel, Robust Result Merging Using Sample-Based Score Estimates, in ACM Transactions on Information Systems, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. to appear, ACM, New York, NY, 2009
2008
- F. Scholer, M. Shokouhi, A. Turpin, and B. Billerbeck, Using Clicks as Implicit Judgments: Expectations Versus Observations, in Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Glasgow, UK, 2008
- M. Shokouhi, F. Scholer, and A. Turpin, Investigating the Effectiveness of Clickthrough Data for Document Reordering, in Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Glasgow, UK, 2008
2007
- M. Shokouhi, M. Baillie, and L. Azzopardi, Updating collection representations for federated search, in Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, ACM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2007
- M. Shokouhi, Segmentation of Search Engine Results for Effective Data-Fusion, in Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Rome, Italy, 2007
- M. Wu, F. Scholer, M. Shokouhi, S. Puglisi, and H. Ali, RMIT University at TREC 2007: Enterprise Track, in Proceedings of the fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2007), Gaithersburg, MD, 2007
- M. Shokouhi, J. Zobel, and Y. Bernstein, Distributed text retrieval from overlapping collections, in Proceedings of the eighteenth conference on Australasian database, Australian Computer Society, Inc., Ballarat, Australia, 2007
- M. Shokouhi and J. Zobel, Federated text retrieval from uncooperative overlapped collections, in Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, ACM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2007
- M. Shokouhi, J. Zobel, S. Tahaghoghi, and F. Scholer, Using query logs to establish vocabularies in distributed information retrieval, in Information Processing and Management, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 169–180, Pergamon Press, Inc., Tarrytown, NY, 2007
