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 query expansion, query log analysis, duplicate detection and web search evaluation. I also have done some previous work on distributed information retrieval and metasearch.
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".
Publications
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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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, Central-Rank-Based Collection Selection in Uncooperative Distributed Information Retrieval, in Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Rome, Italy, 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
- 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. 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. 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
2006
- M. Shokouhi, J. Zobel, F. Scholer, and S. Tahaghoghi, Capturing collection size for distributed non-cooperative retrieval, in Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, ACM, Seattle, WA, 2006
- Y. Bernstein, M. Shokouhi, and J. Zobel, Compact features for detection of near-duplicates in distributed retrieval, in Proceedings of the SPIRE String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium, Springer, Glasgow, UK, 2006
- S. Garcia, N. Lester, F. Scholer, and M. Shokouhi, RMIT University at TREC 2006: Terabyte Track, in Proceedings of the fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006), Gaithersburg, MD, 2006
- M. Shokouhi, F. Scholer, and J. Zobel, Sample sizes for query probing in uncooperative distributed information retrieval, in Proceedings of the APWeb Asia Pacific Web Conference, Springer, Harbin, China, 2006
