Thirteen papers from Microsoft Research have been accepted for the 29th annual SIGIR, the Association for Computing Machinery's Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval, to be held Aug. 6-11 in Seattle. This represents 17.6 percent of the 74 papers accepted overall. Ten of Microsoft Research's 13 papers were co-authored by researchers at major universities.

2006

A Compositional Context Sensitive Multidocument Summarizer
Ani Nenkova (Stanford University), Lucy Vanderwende, Kathleen McKeown (Columbia University)

A Study of Statistical Models for Query Translation: Finding a Good Unit of Translation
Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie (Université de Montréal)

Adapting Ranking SVM to Document Retrieval
Yunbo Cao, Jun Xu (Nankai University), Tie-Yan Liu, Hang Li, Yalou Huang (Nankai University), Hsiao-Wuen Hon

AggregateRank: Bring Order to Web Sites
Tie-Yan Liu, Ying Wang (Chinese Academy of Science), Guang Feng (Tsinghua University), Ying Bao (Chinese Academy of Science), Zhiming Ma (Chinese Academy of Science)

Building Bridges for Web Query Classification
Dou Shen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Jian-Tao Sun, Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Zheng Chen

Forum Search: Build Implicit Links from Content
Gu Xu, Wei-Ying Ma

High Accuracy Retrieval with Multiple Nested Ranker
Irina Matveeva (University of Chicago), Chris Burges, Timo Burkard, Andy Laucius, Leon Wong

Improving Web Search Ranking by Incorporating User Behavior
Eugene Agichtein, Eric Brill, Susan Dumais

Latent Semantic Analysis for Multiple-Type Interrelated Data Objects
Xuanhui Wang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jian-Tao Sun, Zheng Chen

Learning User Interaction Models for Predicting Web Search Result Preferences
Eugene Agichtein, Eric Brill, Susan Dumais, Robert Ragno

On Ranking the Effectiveness of Searches
Vishwa Vinay (University College London), Ingemar Cox (University College London), Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ken Wood

Thread Detection in Dynamic Text Message Streams
Dou Shen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Jian-Tao Sun, Zheng Chen

Using Web-Graph Distance for Relevance Feedback in Web Search
Sergei Vassilvitskii (Stanford University), Eric Brill

2005

A Probabilistic Model for Retrospective News Event Detection
Zhiwei Li, Bin Wang (University of Science and Technology of China), Mingjing Li, Wei-Ying Ma

A Study of Relevance Propagation for Web Search
Tao Qin (Tsinghua University), Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang (Tsinghua University), Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying Ma

Detecting Dominant Locations from Search Queries
Lee Wang, Chuang Wang (Huazhong University of Science & Technology), Xing Xie, Josh Forman (Harvard University), Yansheng Lu (Huazhong University of Science & Technology), Wei-Ying Ma, Ying Li

Detecting Phrase-Level Duplication on the World Wide Web
Dennis Fetterly, Mark Manasse, Marc Najork

Exploiting the Hierarchical Structure for Link Analysis
Gui-Rong Xue (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Hua-Jun Zeng, Yong Yu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Zheng Chen

Gravitation-Based Model for Information Retrieval
Shuming Shi, Ji-Rong Wen, Qing Yu (Beijing Institute of Technology), Ruihua Song, Wei-Ying Ma

Improving Web Search Results Using Affinity Graph
Benyu Zhang, Hua Li (Peking University), Yi Liu (Michigan State University), Lei Ji (Beijing Institute of Technology), Wensi Xi (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Weiguo Fan (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying Ma

Learning to Extract Information from Semi-structured Text using a Discriminative Context Free Grammar
Paul Viola, Mukund Narasimhan (University of Washington)

Linear Discriminant Model for Information Retrieval
Jianfeng Gao, Haoliang Qi (Harbin Institute of Technology), Xinsong Xia (Peking University), Jian-Yun Nie (Université de Montréal)

OCFS: Optimal Orthogonal Centroid Feature Selection for Text Categorization
Jun Yan (Peking University), Ning Liu (Tsinghua University), Benyu Zhang, Shuicheng Yan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Zheng Chen, Qiansheng Cheng (Peking University), Weiguo Fan (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Wei-Ying Ma

Personalizing Search via Automated Analysis of Interests and Activities
Jaime Teevan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Susan T. Dumais, Eric Horvitz

Relevance Weighting for Query Independent Evidence
Nick Craswell, Stephen Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza, Michael Taylor

Scalable Collaborative Filtering Using Cluster-based Smoothing
Gui-Rong Xue (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Chenxi Lin (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Wensi Xi (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Hua-Jun Zeng, Yong Yu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Zheng Chen

SimFusion: Measuring Similarity using Unified Relationship Matrix
Wensi Xi (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Edward Allan Fox (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Weiguo Patrick Fan (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Jun Yan (Beijing University), Dong Zhuang (Beijing Institute of Technology)

Title Extraction from Bodies of HTML Documents and its Application to Web Page Retrieval
Yunhua Hu (Xi'an Jiaotong University), Guomao Xin (Peking University), Ruihua Song, Guoping Hu (University of Science and Technology of China), Shuming Shi, Yunbo Cao, Hang Li

Web-Page Summarization Using Clickthrough Data
Jian-Tao Sun (Tsinghua University), Dou Shen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Hua-Jun Zeng, Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Yuchang Lu (Tsinghua University), Zheng Chen

2004

Block-Based Web Search
Deng Cai (Tsinghua University), Shipeng Yu (University of Munich), Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma

Block-Level Link Analysis
Deng Cai (Tsinghua University), Xiaofei He (University of Chicago), Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma

Dependence Language Model for Information Retrieval
Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie (Université de Montréal), Guangyuan Wu (Tianjin University), Guihong Cao (Tianjin University)

Feature Selection Using Linear Classifier Weights: Interaction with Classification Models
Dunja Mladenic (Jožef Stefan Institute), Janez Brank (Jožef Stefan Institute), Marko Grobelnik (Jožef Stefan Institute), Natasa Milic-Frayling

Learning Effective Ranking Functions for Newsgroup Search
Wensi Xi (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Jesper Lind, Eric Brill

Learning To Cluster Search Results
Hua-Jun Zeng, Qi-Cai He (Peking University), Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying Ma, Jinwen Ma (Peking University)

Locality Preserving Indexing for Document Representation
Xiaofei He (University of Chicago), Deng Cai (Tsinghua University), Haifeng Liu (University of Toronto), Wei-Ying Ma

Parsimonious Language Models for Information Retrieval
Djoerd Hiemstra (University of Twente), Stephen Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza

Probabilistic Model for Contextual Retrieval
Ji-Rong Wen, Ni Lao (Tsinghua University)

Web-Page Classification through Summarization
Dou Shen (Tsinghua University), Zheng Chen, Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Hua-Jun Zeng, Benyu Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma, Yuchang Lu (Tsinghua University)