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".
Publications
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
- 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
- Milad Shokouhi and Luo Si, Federated Search, FNTIR, 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
- Paul Thomas and Milad Shokouhi, Evaluating Server Selection for Federated Search , in Proceedings of the 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval, Springer, 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
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 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
- 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 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
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. 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, 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. 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, 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 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
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
