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Most publications should be available for download in PDF format. Talk slides in PPTX and PPT formats are now also being added.

Book

2008

6  

Exploratory Search: Towards New Search Horizons
Ryen W. White and Resa A. Roth
To Appear in Morgan & Claypool Series on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
[Morgan & Claypool website]


Editor

2008

6  

Advances in Information Retrieval:
Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on IR Research
(ECIR 2008)

Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, Vassilis Plachouras, Ian Ruthven, and Ryen W. White
[Springer website]


2007

5 Proceedings
 

Web Information Seeking and Interaction:
Proceedings of SIGIR 2007 workshop

Kerry Rodden, Ian Ruthven, and Ryen W. White
[workshop website]


4 Introduction
 

Evaluating Exploratory Search Systems:
A Special Topic Issue of Information Processing and Management

Ryen W. White, Gheorghe Muresan, and Gary Marchionini
To Appear in Information Processing and Management (IP&M) [special issue website]


3 Proceedings
 

Exploratory Search and HCI:
Proceedings of SIGCHI 2007 Workshop

Ryen W. White, Steven M. Drucker, Gary Marchionini, Marti Hearst, and m.c. schraefel
[workshop website]


2006

2 Introduction
Proceedings
 

Evaluating Exploratory Search Systems:
Proceedings of SIGIR 2006 Workshop

Ryen W. White, Gheorghe Muresan, and Gary Marchionini
[workshop website] [SIGIR Forum Report available below]


1 Editorial  

Supporting Exploratory Search:
A Special Section of the Communications of the ACM

Ryen W. White, Bill Kules, Steven Drucker, and m.c. schraefel
Communications of the ACM (CACM), Vol: 49, Issue: 4


Journal Articles

2008

11 Revised version  

Leveraging Popular Destinations to Enhance Web Search Interaction
Ryen W. White, Mikhail Bilenko, and Silviu Cucerzan
To Appear in ACM Transactions on the Web (ACM TWEB), Vol: 2, Issue: 3


2007

10  

Evaluating Advanced Search Interfaces using Established Information-Seeking Models
Max Wilson, m.c. schraefel, and Ryen W. White
To Appear in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)


9  

Instrumenting the Dynamic Web
Andy Edmonds, Ryen W. White, Dan Morris, and Steven M. Drucker
Journal of Web Engineering (JWE), Vol: 6, Issue: 3, Pages: 243-260


8  

Find What You Need, Understand What You Find
Gary Marchionini and Ryen W. White
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI),
Vol: 23, Issue: 3, Pages: 205-237


7  

Examining the Effectiveness of Real-Time Query Expansion
Ryen W. White and Gary Marchionini
Information Processing and Management (IP&M), Vol: 43, Issue: 3, Pages: 685-704

2006

6  

Using Searcher Simulations to Redesign a Polyrepresentative Implicit Feedback Interface
Ryen W. White
Information Processing and Management (IP&M), Vol: 42, Issue: 5, Pages: 1185-1202


5  

A Study of Interface Support Mechanisms for Interactive Information Retrieval
Ryen W. White and Ian Ruthven
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Vol: 57, Issue: 7, Pages: 933-948

2005

4  

Evaluating Implicit Feedback Models Using Searcher Simulations
Ryen W. White, Ian Ruthven, Joemon M. Jose, and C. J. van Rijsbergen
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (ACM TOIS), Vol: 23, Issue: 3, Pages: 325-361


3
 

Using Top-Ranking Sentences to Facilitate Effective Information Access
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, and Ian Ruthven
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Vol: 56, Issue: 10, Pages: 1113-1125

2004

2
 

An Implicit Feedback Approach for Interactive Information Retrieval
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, and Ian Ruthven
Information Processing and Management (IP&M), Vol: 42, Issue: 1, Pages: 166-190

2003

1
 

A task oriented-study on the influencing effects of query-biased summarisation in web searching
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, and Ian Ruthven
Information Processing and Management (IP&M), Vol: 39, Issue: 5, Pages: 707-733


Papers

2008

27
 

Stream Prediction Using a Generative Model Based on Frequent Episodes in Event Sequences
Srivatsan Laxman, Vikram Tankasali, and Ryen W. White
14th Annual International ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2008)
Las Vegas, USA, August 2008


26
 

Enhancing Web Search by Promoting Multiple Search Engine Use
Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson, Mikhail Bilenko, and Allison P. Heath
31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2008)
Singapore, July 2008


25
 

Mining the Search Trails of Surfing Crowds: Identifying Relevant Websites From User Activity
Mikhail Bilenko and Ryen W. White
17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008)
Beijing, China, April 2008
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


2007

24
 

Utilizing a Geometry of Context For Enhanced Implicit Feedback
Massimo Melucci and Ryen W. White
16th Annual ACM CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2007)
Lisbon, Portugal, November 2007


23
 

Discovering Hidden Contextual Factors for Implicit Feedback
Massimo Melucci and Ryen W. White
Workshop on Contextual Information Retrieval (part of the 6th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, CONTEXT 2007)
Roskilde, Denmark, August 2007


22
 

Studying the Use of Popular Destinations to Enhance Web Search Interaction (Best Paper Award)
Ryen W. White, Mikhail Bilenko, and Silviu Cucerzan
30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


21
 

Investigating the Querying and Browsing Behavior of Advanced Search Engine Users
Ryen W. White and Dan Morris
30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


20
 

The Influence of Caption Features on Clickthrough Patterns in Web Search
Charles L.A. Clarke, Eugene Agichtein, Susan Dumais, and Ryen W. White
30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007


19

 

Investigating Behavioral Variability in Web Search
Ryen W. White and Steven M. Drucker
16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2007)
Banff, Canada, May 2007
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


18

 

Exploratory Search and HCI: Designing and Evaluating Interfaces to Support Exploratory Search Interaction
Ryen W. White, Steven M. Drucker, Gary Marchionini, Marti Hearst, and mc schraefel
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2007)
San Jose, CA, USA April 2007


2006

17
 

Overview of the CLEF-2006 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval Track
Douglas W. Oard, Jianqiang Wang, Gareth J.F. Jones, Ryen W. White, Pavel Pecina,
Dagobert Soergel, Xiaoli Huang, and Izhak Shafran
Cross-Language Evaluation Forum
Alicante, Spain, September 2006


16
 

A Study on the Effects of Personalization and Task Information on Implicit Feedback Performance
Ryen W. White and Diane Kelly
15th Annual ACM CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2006)
Alexandria, Virginia, November 2006


15
 

Concept Maps for Oral History Search and Use
Ryen W. White, Hyun Young Song, Jay Liu
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2006)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, June 2006


14
 

Measuring the Utility of Gaze Detection for Task Modeling: A Study Design
Penelope Brooks, Khoo Yit Phang, Douglas W. Oard, Ryen W. White, Rachael Bradley, and François Gumbretière
Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces for Intelligence Analysis (part of IUI 2006)
Sydney, Australia, January 2006


2005

13
 

Overview of the CLEF2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval Track
Ryen W. White, Douglas W. Oard, Dagobert Soergel, Xiaoli Huang, and Gareth Jones
Cross-Language Evaluation Forum
Vienna, Austria, September 2005


12
 

Contextual Simulations for Information Retrieval Evaluation
Ryen W. White
Information Retrieval in Context Workshop (IRiX 2005, part of SIGIR 2005)
Salvador, Brazil, August 2005


11
 

A Study of Factors Affecting the Utility of Implicit Relevance Feedback
Ryen W. White, Ian Ruthven, and Joemon M. Jose
28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2005)
Salvador, Brazil, August 2005

2004

10
 

A Simulated Study of Implicit Feedback Models
(Best Student Paper Award)
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, C.J. van Rijsbergen, and Ian Ruthven
26th Annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2004)
Sunderland, United Kingdom, April 2004

2003

9
 

A Granular Approach to Web Search Result Presentation
(Brian Shackel Best Paper Award)
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, Ian Ruthven
9th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2003)
Zurich, Switzerland, September 2003


8
 

Clustering the Information Space Using Top-Ranking Sentences: A Study of User Interaction
Anastasios Tombros, Ian Ruthven, Joemon M. Jose, Ryen W. White
9th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2003)
Zurich, Switzerland, September 2003


7
 

NewsFlash: Adaptive TV News Delivery on the Web
Alan Haggerty, Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose
1st Interational Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2003, part of KI 2003)

2002

6
 

Using Hierarchical Clustering and Summarisation Approaches for Web Retrieval: Glasgow at the TREC 2002 Interactive Track
Richard Osdin, Iadh Ounis, Ryen W. White
Text REtrieval Conference - 11 (TREC 2002)
Gaithersburg, Maryland, U.S.A., November 2002


5
 

Implicit Contextual Modelling for Information Seeking
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, Ian Ruthven
Glasgow Context Group 1st Colloquium: "Building Bridges: Interdisciplinary Context-Sensitive Computing"
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, September 2002


4
 

Finding Relevant Documents using Top-Ranking Sentences: An Evaluation of Two Alternative Schemes
Ryen W. White, Ian Ruthven, Joemon M. Jose
25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2002)
Tampere, Finland, August 2002


3
 

The use of implicit evidence for relevance feedback in web retrieval
Ryen W. White, Ian Ruthven, Joemon M. Jose
24th BSC-IRSG European Colloquium on IR Research (ECIR 2002)
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, March 2002

2001

2
 

Comparing Implicit and Explicit Feedback Techniques for Web Retrieval: TREC-10 Interactive Track Report
Ryen W. White, Ian Ruthven, Joemon M. Jose
Text REtrieval Conference - 10 (TREC 2001)
Gaithersburg, Maryland, U.S.A., November 2001


1
 

Web Document Summarisation: A Task-Oriented Evaluation
Ryen W. White, Ian Ruthven, and Joemon M. Jose
1st International Workshop on Digital Libraries (DLib 2001, part of DEXA 2001)
Munich, Germany, September 2001


Posters

2008

16

 

Talking the Talk vs. Walking the Walk: Salience of Information Needs in Querying vs. Browsing
Mikhail Bilenko, Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson, and G. Craig Murray
31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2008)
Singapore, July 2008


15
 

How Medical Expertise Influences Web Search Interaction
Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, and Jaime Teevan
31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2008)
Singapore, July 2008


14

 

Defection Detection: Predicting Search Engine Switching
Allison Heath and Ryen W. White
17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008)
Beijing, China, April 2008


2007

13
 

Information Retrieval Test Collection for Spontaneous Conversational Speech
Pavel Ircing, Pavel Pecina, Douglas W. Oard, Jianqiang Wang, and Ryen W. White
10th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialog (TSD 2007)
Pilsen, Czech Republic, September 2007


12
 

Comparing Query Logs and Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for Web-Search Query Refinement
Ryen W. White, Charles L.A. Clarke, and Silviu Cucerzan
30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007


11
 

Query Suggestion based on User Landing Pages
Silviu Cucerzan and Ryen W. White
30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007


2006

10
 

A Study of Real-Time Query Expansion Effectiveness
Ryen W. White and Gary Marchionini
29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006)
Seattle, USA, August 2006


9
 

PygmyBrowse: A Small Screen Tree Browser
Zvi Band and Ryen W. White
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2006)
Montreal, Canada, April 2006

2005

8
 

Policy Capturing Models for Multi-faceted Relevance Assessments
Xiaoli Huang and Ryen W. White
68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST 2005)
Charlotte, North Carolina, October 2005


7
 

An Interface to Search Human Movements Based on Geographic and Chronological Metadata
Wilma Bainbridge, Ryen W. White, and Douglas W. Oard
28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2005)
Salvador, Brazil, August 2005

2004

6
 

A Study of Topic Similarity Measures
Ryen W. White and Joemon M. Jose
27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2004)
Sheffield, United Kingdom, July 2004


5
 

A Visualisation Technique to Communicate Implicit Feedback Decisions
Ryen W. White
26th Annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2004)
Sunderland, United Kingdom, April 2004

2003

4
 

An Approach for Implicitly Detecting Information Needs
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, and Ian Ruthven
12th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2003)
New Orleans, U.S.A., November 2003


3
 

Adapting to Evolving Needs: Evaluating a Behaviour-Based Search Interface
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, and Ian Ruthven
17th Annual Human-Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2003)
Bath, United Kingdom, September 2003


2
 

Using Top-Ranking Sentences for Web Search Result Presentation
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, and Ian Ruthven
12th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2003)
Budapest, Hungary, May 2003

2001

1
 

Query-biased Web Page Summarisation: A Task-Oriented Evaluation
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, and Ian Ruthven
24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2001)
New Orleans, U.S.A., September 2003


Demonstrations

2004

2
 

An Implicit System for Predicting Interests
Ryen W. White and Joemon M. Jose
27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2004)
Sheffield, United Kingdom, July 2004

2002

1
 

A System using Implicit Feedback and Top-Ranking Sentences to Help Users Find Relevant Web Documents
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, and Ian Ruthven
25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2002)
Tampere, Finland, August 2002


Thesis

2004


 

Implicit Feedback for Interactive Information Retrieval
(BCS/CPHC Distinguished Dissertation Award for best CS PhD in the UK)
Ryen W. White
Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
United Kingdom, October 2004
Also available as Doctoral Dissertation Abstract, SIGIR Forum, June 2005


Book Reviews

2006

1

 

"Information Retrieval Design"
by James Anderson and Jose Perez-Carballo

Ryen W. White
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Vol: 57, Issue: 10, Pages: 1412-1413.


Others

2007

3

 

Report on ACM SIGIR 2007 Workshop on Web Information Seeking and Interaction
Kerry Rodden, Ian Ruthven, and Ryen W. White
SIGIR Forum, Vol: 41, Issue: 2, Pages: 63-67

2006

2

 

Report on ACM SIGIR 2006 Workshop on Evaluating Exploratory Search Systems
Ryen W. White, Gheorghe Muresan, and Gary Marchionini
SIGIR Forum, Vol: 40, Issue: 2, Pages: 52-60

2005

1

 

Exploratory search interfaces: categorization, clustering and beyond: report on the XSI 2005 workshop at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland
Ryen W. White, Bill Kules, and Ben Bederson
SIGIR Forum, Vol: 39, Issue: 2, Pages: 52-56


Last Update: 20 January 2005