
About
The SIGIR (Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval) Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017) is the premier international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in information retrieval.
Microsoft is proud to be a silver sponsor of the 2017 SIGIR event in Tokyo, Japan on August 8–10, 2017.
Committee Chairs
- Program Chair, Ryen White, Microsoft Cortana
- Symposium on IR in practice (SIRIP) chair, Vanessa Murdock, Microsoft
Invited speakers
- Session 3A: Search Interaction 2
August 9 @ 10:30 AM – 12:10 PM | 5F Concord Ballroom A
Chair: Jaime Teevan, Microsoft Research - Session 6B: Conversations and Question Answering
August 10 @ 11:10 AM – 12:30 PM | 5F Concord Ballroom C
Chair: Peter Bailey, Microsoft
SIRIP
- MAPping the Probability of Start-up Success
August 10 @ 11:10 AM – 12:30 PM | 42F Fuji
Speaker: David Hawking, Microsoft Bing - Search Without a Query – Powering Job Recommendations via Search Index at LinkedIn
August 10 @ 11:10 AM – 12:30 PM | 42F Fuji
Speakers: Dhruv Arya, LinkedIn; Ganesh Venkataraman, LinkedIn
Tutorials & Workshops
Tutorials
- Candidate Selection for Large Scale Personalized Search and Recommender Systems | morning
Dhruv Arya, LinkedIn; Ganesh Venkataraman, LinkedIn; Aman Grover, LinkedIn; Krishnaram Kenthapadi, LinkedIn - Neural Networks for Information Retrieval (NN4IR) | morning + afternoon
Presenters: Tom Kenter, University of Amsterdam; Alexey Borisov, University of Amsterdam; Christophe Van Gysel, University of Amsterdam; Mostafa Dehghani, University of Amsterdam; Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam; Bhaskar Mitra, Microsoft, University College London - A/B Testing at Scale: Accelerating Software Innovation | afternoon
Presenters: Alex Deng, Microsoft; Pavel Dmitriev, Microsoft; Somit Gupta, Microsoft; Ron Kohavi, Microsoft; Paul Raff, Microsoft; Lukas Vermeer, Booking.com
Workshops
- CAIR’17: Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval
Organizers: Jaime Arguello, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Lawrence Cavedon, RMIT University; Hideo Joho, University of Tsukuba; Filip Radlinski, Google; Milad Shokouhi, Microsoft - Neu-IR’17: Neural Information Retrieval
Organizers: Nick Craswell, Microsoft; W. Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Jiafeng Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Bhaskar Mitra, Microsoft; Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam
Accepted Papers
Long papers
Leveraging Contextual Sentence Relations for Extractive Summarization Using a Neural Attention Model
Pengjie Ren, Shandong University; Zhumin Chen, Shandong University; Zhaochun Ren, Data Science Lab, JD.com; Furu Wei, Microsoft Research Asia; Jun Ma, Shandong University; Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam
User Interaction Sequences for Search Satisfaction Prediction
Rishabh Mehrotra, University College London & Microsoft Research; Imed Zitouni, Microsoft; Ahmed Hassan, Microsoft Research; Ahmed El Kholy, Microsoft; Madian Khabsa, Microsoft Research
Deep Semantic Hashing with Generative Adversarial Networks
Zhaofan Qiu, University of Science and Technology of China; Yingwei Pan, University of Science and Technology of China; Ting Yao, Microsoft Research Asia; Tao Mei, Microsoft Research Asia
Characterizing and Predicting Enterprise Email Reply Behavior
Liu Yang, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Susan T. Dumais, Microsoft Research; Paul N. Bennett, Microsoft Research; Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Microsoft Research
Understanding and Modeling Success in Email Search
Jinyoung Kim, Snap Inc.; Nick Craswell, Microsoft; Susan Dumais, Microsoft; Filip Radlinski, Microsoft; Fang Liu, Microsoft
Accounting for the Correspondence in Commented Data
Renqin Cai, University of Virginia; Chi Wang, Microsoft Research; Hongning Wang, University of Virginia
Retrieval Consistency in the Presence of Query Variations
Peter Bailey, Microsoft; Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne; Falk Scholer, RMIT University
BitFunnel: Revisiting Signatures for Search
Bob Goodwin, Microsoft; Michael Hopcroft, Microsoft; Dan Luu, Microsoft; Alex Clemmer, Heptio; Mihaela Curmei, Microsoft; Sameh Elnikety, Microsoft; Yuxiong He, Microsoft
Word-Entity Duet Representations for Document Ranking
Chenyan Xiong, Carnegie Mellon University; Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University; Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft Research
Short papers
Improving Search Engines via Large-Scale Physiological Sensing
Ryen W. White, Microsoft Cortana; Ryan Ma, Microsoft Bing
LiveMaps – Converting Map Images into Interactive Maps
Michael R Evans, Microsoft; Dragomir Yankov, Microsoft; Pavel Berkhin, Microsoft; Pavel Yudin, Microsoft; Florin Teodorescu, Microsoft; Wei Wu, Microsoft
Sentence-level Sentiment Classification with Weak Supervision
Fangzhao Wu, Tsinghua University; Jia Zhang, Tsinghua University; Zhigang Yuan, Tsinghua University; Sixing Wu, Tsinghua University; Yongfeng Huang, Tsinghua University; Jun Yan, Microsoft Research Asia
Generalized Mixed Effect Models for Personalizing Job Search
Ankan Saha, LinkedIn Corporation; Dhruv Arya, LinkedIn Corporation
Luandri: A Clean Lua Interface to the Indri Search Engine
Bhaskar Mitra, Microsoft; Fernando Diaz, Spotify; Nick Craswell, Microsoft
Demo papers
Seeing Bot
Yingwei Pan, University of Science and Technology of China; Zhaofan Qiu, University of Science and Technology of China; Ting Yao, Microsoft Research Asia; Houqiang Li, University of Science and Technology of China; Tao Mei, Microsoft Research Asia