Milad Shokouhi

Contact details: 7 JJ Thomson Avenue Cambridge, CB3 0FB United Kingdom Tel: +44 (1223) 479 939

I am an applied researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge, in the Information Retrieval group . 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

Falk Scholer, Milad Shokouhi, Bodo Billerbeck and Andrew Turpin, "Using Clicks as Implicit Judgments: Expectations Versus Observations", The 30th European Conference on InformationRetrieval (ECIR 08), Glasgow, UK, Apri 2008

Milad Shokouhi, Falk Scholer and Arew Turpin, "Investigating the Effectiveness of Clickthrough Data for Document Reordering" The 30th European Conference on InformationRetrieval (ECIR 08), Glasgow, UK, April 2008 (poster)

Milad Shokouhi and Justin Zobel, "Federated Text Retrieval From Uncooperative Overlapped Collections", The 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 07), Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2007

Milad Shokouhi, Mark Baillie and Leif Azzopardi, "Updating Collection Representations For Federated Search", The 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 07), Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2007

Mingfang Wu, Falk Scholer, Milad Shokouhi, Simon Puglisi and Halil Ali, "RMIT University at the TREC 2007 Enterprise Track", The sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2007) , Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 2007 (Unrefereed)

Milad Shokouhi, "Central-Rank-Based Collection Selection in Uncooperative Distributed Information Retrieval", The 29th European Conference on InformationRetrieval (ECIR 07), Rome, Italy, April 2007

Milad Shokouhi, "Segmentation of Search Engine Results for Effective Data-Fusion", The 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 07), Rome, Italy, April 2007

Milad Shokouhi, Justin Zobel, Seyed M.M. Tahaghoghi and Falk Scholer, "Using Query Logs to Establish Vocabularies in Distributed Information Retrieval", Journal of Information Processing and Management , 43(1), 2007

Milad Shokouhi, Justin Zobel and Yaniv Bernstein, "Distributed Text Retrieval From Overlapping Collections", The 18th Australasian Database Conference, Ballarat, Australia, January 2007 (Best student paper award winner)

Yaniv Bernstein, Milad Shokouhi, Justin Zobel, "Compact Features for Detection of Near-Duplicates in Distributed Retrieval", The 13th edition of the symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 06) , Glasgow, UK, October 2006

Milad Shokouhi, Justin Zobel, Falk Scholer and Seyed M.M. Tahaghoghi, "Capturing Collection Size for Distributed Non-Cooperative Retrieval", The 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 06), Seattle, WA, August 2006

Steven Garcia, Nick Lester and Falk Scholer and Milad Shokouhi, "RMIT University at TREC 2006: Terabyte Track", The fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006) , Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 2006 (Unrefereed)

Milad Shokouhi, Falk Scholer and Justin Zobel, "Sample Sizes for Query Probing in Uncooperative Distributed Information Retrieval", The 8th Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 06), January 2006, Harbin, China