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# SIGIR 2009: all accepted papers

207 papers · page 1 of 3 · the most cited first · [← SIGIR 2009](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-acm-sigir-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information/2009/)

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1. **[Learning to recommend with social trust ensemble ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571978)**Hao Ma, Irwin King, Michael Rung-Tsong Lyu*859 citations*
2. **[Reciprocal rank fusion outperforms condorcet and individual rank learning methods](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cormack-2009-reciprocal-rank-fusion-outperforms/)**Gordon V. Cormack, Charles L. A. Clarke, Stefan Büttcher*756 citations · our summary*
3. **[On social networks and collaborative recommendation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571977)**Ioannis Konstas, Vassilios Stathopoulos, Joemon M. Jose*604 citations*
4. **[Named entity recognition in query ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571989)**Jiafeng Guo, Gu Xu, Xueqi Cheng et al.*379 citations*
5. **[Placing flickr photos on a map ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572025)**Pavel Serdyukov, Vanessa Murdock, Roelof van Zwol*277 citations*
6. **[Portfolio theory of information retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571963)**Yi-Xiang Wang, Jianhan Zhu*239 citations*
7. **[Positional language models for information retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571994)**Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai*229 citations*
8. **[A syntactic tree matching approach to finding similar questions in community-based qa services ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571975)**Kai Wang, Zhaoyan Ming, Tat‐Seng Chua*217 citations*
9. **[Query dependent pseudo-relevance feedback based on wikipedia ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571954)**Yang Xu, Gareth J. F. Jones, Bin Wang*214 citations*
10. **[Predicting user interests from contextual information ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572005)**Ryen W. White, Peter Bailey, Liwei Chen*213 citations*
11. **[Detecting spammers and content promoters in online video social networks ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572047)**Fabrí­cio Benevenuto, Tiago Rodrigues, Virgilio A. F. Almeida et al.*211 citations*
12. **[Sources of evidence for vertical selection ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571997)**Jaime Arguello, Fernando Díaz, Jamie Callan et al.*200 citations*
13. **[Reducing long queries using query quality predictors ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572038)**Giridhar Kumaran, Vitor R. Carvalho*171 citations*
14. **[Fast nonparametric matrix factorization for large-scale collaborative filtering ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571979)**Kai Yu, Shenghuo Zhu B, John Lafferty et al.*165 citations*
15. **[Good abandonment in mobile and PC internet search ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571951)**Jane Li, Scott B. Huffman, Akihito Tokuda*158 citations*
16. **[Context-aware query classification ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571945)**Huanhuan Cao, Derek Hao Hu, Dou Shen et al.*155 citations*
17. **[The wisdom of the few ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572033)**Xavier Amatriain, Neal Lathia, Josep M. Pujol et al.*143 citations*
18. **[A ranking approach to keyphrase extraction ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572113)**Xin Jiang, Yunhua Hu, Hang Li*142 citations*
19. **[Enhancing cluster labeling using wikipedia ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571967)**David Carmel, Haggai Roitman, Naama Zwerdling*141 citations*
20. **[Improving search relevance for implicitly temporal queries ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572085)**Donald Metzler, Rosie Jones, Fuchun Peng et al.*136 citations*
21. **[Personalized tag recommendation using graph-based ranking on multi-type interrelated objects ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572034)**Ziyu Guan, Jiajun Bu, Qiaozhu Mei et al.*132 citations*
22. **[Automatic video tagging using content redundancy ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572010)**Stefan Siersdorfer, José San Pedro, Mark Sanderson*117 citations*
23. **[Refined experts ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571946)**Paul N. Bennett, Nam Hoang Nguyen*113 citations*
24. **[A comparison of query and term suggestion features for interactive searching ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572006)**Diane Kelly, Karl Gyllstrom, Earl W. Bailey*108 citations*
25. **[Ranking community answers by modeling question-answer relationships via analogical reasoning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571974)**Xinjing Wang, Xudong Tu, Dan Feng et al.*106 citations*
26. **[Temporal collaborative filtering with adaptive neighbourhoods ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572133)**Neal Lathia, Stephen M. V. Hailes, Licia Capra*101 citations*
27. **[Brute force and indexed approaches to pairwise document similarity comparisons with MapReduce ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571970)**Jimmy Lin*99 citations*
28. **[Extracting structured information from user queries with semi-supervised conditional random fields ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572039)**Xiao Li, Ye‐Yi Wang, Alex Acero*97 citations*
29. **[On the local optimality of LambdaRank ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572021)**Pınar Dönmez, Krysta M. Svore, Christopher J. C. Burges*97 citations*
30. **[A classification-based approach to question answering in discussion boards ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571973)**Liangjie Hong, Brian D. Davison*96 citations*
31. **[When more is less ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572030)**Antti Oulasvirta, Janne P. Hukkinen, Barry N. Schwartz*96 citations*
32. **[Smoothing clickthrough data for web search ranking ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572003)**Jianfeng Gao, Wei Yuan, Xiao Li et al.*91 citations*
33. **[Multiview clustering ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572103)**Éric Bruno, Stéphane Marchand‐Maillet*85 citations*
34. **[On rank correlation and the distance between rankings ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572017)**Ben Carterette*83 citations*
35. **[A bayesian learning approach to promoting diversity in ranking for biomedical information retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571995)**Xiangji Huang, Qinmin Hu*79 citations*
36. **[A proximity language model for information retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571993)**Jinglei Zhao, Yeogirl Yun*79 citations*
37. **[CrowdReranking ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572027)**Yuan Liu, Tao Mei, Xian‐Sheng Hua*76 citations*
38. **[Where to stop reading a ranked list? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572031)**Avi Arampatzis, Jaap Kamps, Stephen E. Robertson*69 citations*
39. **[Combining audio content and social context for semantic music discovery ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572009)**Douglas Turnbull, Luke Barrington, Gert R. G. Lanckriet et al.*68 citations*
40. **[Telling experts from spammers ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572046)**Michael G. Noll, Ching‐man Au Yeung, Nicholas M. Gibbins et al.*67 citations*
41. **[Building enriched document representations using aggregated anchor text ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571981)**Donald Metzler, Jasmine Novak, Hang Cui et al.*65 citations*
42. **[Click-through prediction for news queries ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572002)**Arnd Christian König, Michael Gamon, Qiang Wu*65 citations*
43. **[Document selection methodologies for efficient and effective learning-to-rank ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572022)**Javed Aslam, Evangelos Kanoulas, Virgil Pavlu et al.*65 citations*
44. **[SUSHI ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572014)**Paul Thomas, Milad Shokouhi*65 citations*
45. **[Transforming patents into prior-art queries ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572139)**Xiaoibng Xue, W. Bruce Croft*65 citations*
46. **[Topic set size redux ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572138)**Ellen M. Voorhees*63 citations*
47. **[Learning in a pairwise term-term proximity framework for information retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571986)**Ronan Cummins, Colm O’Riordan*62 citations*
48. **[Entropy-biased models for query representation on the click graph ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572001)**Hongbo Deng, Irwin King, Michael Rung-Tsong Lyu*59 citations*
49. **[Knowledge transformation for cross-domain sentiment classification ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572093)**Tao Li, Vikas Sindhwani, Chris H. Q. Ding et al.*57 citations*
50. **[Including summaries in system evaluation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572029)**Andrew H. Turpin, Falk Scholer, Kalvero Järvelin et al.*56 citations*
51. **[Towards methods for the collective gathering and quality control of relevance assessments ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572019)**Gabriella Kazai, Nataša Milić-Frayling, Jamie Costello*56 citations*
52. **[Score adjustment for correction of pooling bias ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572018)**William Webber, Laurence A. F. Park*54 citations*
53. **[Compressing term positions in web indexes ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571969)**Hao Yan, Shuai Ding, Torsten Suel*53 citations*
54. **[Segment-level display time as implicit feedback ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571955)**Georg Buscher, Ludger van Elst, Andreas R. Dengel*53 citations*
55. **[EvaluatIR ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572153)**Timothy G. Armstrong, Alistair Moffat, William Webber et al.*51 citations*
56. **[Quantifying performance and quality gains in distributed web search engines ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572013)**Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Vassilis Plachouras, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates*45 citations*
57. **[Two-stage query segmentation for information retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572140)**Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft, David A. Smith*45 citations*
58. **[An improved markov random field model for supporting verbose queries ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572023)**Matthew Lease*44 citations*
59. **[Efficiency trade-offs in two-tier web search systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571971)**Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Vanessa Murdock, Claudia Hauff*44 citations*
60. **[It pays to be picky ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572092)**Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime Carbonell*44 citations*
61. **[Dynamicity vs. effectiveness ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571947)**Weimao Ke, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Javed Mostafa*43 citations*
62. **[Query side evaluation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572037)**Leif A. Azzopardi*42 citations*
63. **[The ESA retrieval model revisited ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572070)**Maik Anderka, Benno Stein*42 citations*
64. **[Using anchor texts with their hyperlink structure for web search ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571982)**Zhicheng Dou, Ruihua Song, Jian‐Yun Nie et al.*42 citations*
65. **[Adaptation of offline vertical selection predictions in the presence of user feedback ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571998)**Fernando Díaz, Jaime Arguello*41 citations*
66. **[Addressing morphological variation in alphabetic languages ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571957)**Paul McNamee, Charles Nicholas, James Mayfield*41 citations*
67. **[CompositeMap ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572011)**Bingjun Zhang, Jialie Shen, Qiao-Liang Xiang et al.*40 citations*
68. **[Global ranking by exploiting user clicks ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571950)**Shihao Ji, Ke Zhou, C. Y. Liao et al.*40 citations*
69. **[A statistical comparison of tag and query logs ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571965)**Mark Carman, Mark Baillie, Robert Gwadera et al.*38 citations*
70. **[Optimizing search engine revenue in sponsored search ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572042)**Yunzhang Zhu, Gang Alan Wang, Junli Yang et al.*36 citations*
71. **[Social networks and discovery in the enterprise (SaND) ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572156)**Inbal Ronen, Elad Shahar, Sigalit Ur et al.*36 citations*
72. **[Evaluating web search using task completion time ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572073)**Ya Xu, David Mease*35 citations*
73. **[Mining product reviews based on shallow dependency parsing ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572098)**Qi Zhang, Yuanbin Wu, Tao Li et al.*35 citations*
74. **[Multiple approaches to analysing query diversity ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572102)**Paul David Clough, Mark Sanderson, Murad Abouammoh et al.*35 citations*
75. **[Agreement among statistical significance tests for information retrieval evaluation at varying sample sizes ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572050)**Mark D. Smucker, James Allan, Ben Carterette*34 citations*
76. **[Simultaneously modeling semantics and structure of threaded discussions ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571966)**Chen Lin, Jiang-Ming Yang, Rui Cai et al.*34 citations*
77. **[On single-pass indexing with MapReduce ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572106)**Richard McCreadie, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis*33 citations*
78. **[A study of inter-annotator agreement for opinion retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572127)**Adam Bermingham, Alan F. Smeaton*32 citations*
79. **[Robust sparse rank learning for non-smooth ranking measures ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571987)**Zhengya Sun, Tao Qin, Qing Tao et al.*32 citations*
80. **[Using dynamic markov compression to detect vandalism in the wikipedia ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572146)**Kelly Y. Itakura, Charles L. A. Clarke*32 citations*
81. **[Deep versus shallow judgments in learning to rank ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572066)**Emine Yılmaz, Stephen E. Robertson*29 citations*
82. **[Sifting micro-blogging stream for events of user interest ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572157)**Maxim Grinev, Maria Grineva, Alexander Boldakov et al.*29 citations*
83. **[Efficient query expansion for advertisement search ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571953)**Haofen Wang, Liang Wen Yan, Linyun Fu et al.*26 citations*
84. **[Has adhoc retrieval improved since 1994? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572081)**Timothy G. Armstrong, Alistair Moffat, William Webber et al.*26 citations*
85. **[Learning to rank for quantity consensus queries ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571985)**Somnath Banerjee, Soumen Chakrabarti, Ganesh Ramakrishnan*26 citations*
86. **[Relevance criteria for e-commerce ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572115)**Omar Alonso, Stefano Mizzaro*25 citations*
87. **[A probabilistic topic-based ranking framework for location-sensitive domain information retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571999)**Huajing Li, Zhisheng Li, Wang-Chien Lee et al.*24 citations*
88. **[Risky business ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571961)**Jianhan Zhu, Yi-Xiang Wang, Ingemar Johansson Cox et al.*23 citations*
89. **[A case for improved evaluation of query difficulty prediction ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572055)**Falk Scholer, Steven Garcia*22 citations*
90. **[Effective query expansion for federated search ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572015)**Milad Shokouhi, Leif A. Azzopardi, Paul Thomas*22 citations*
91. **[An automatic translation of tags for multimedia contents using folksonomy networks ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572026)**Tae-Gil Noh, Seong-Bae Park, Hee-Geun Yoon et al.*21 citations*
92. **[Generic similarity search engine demonstrated by an image retrieval application ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572160)**David Novák, Michal Batko, Pavel Zezula*21 citations*
93. **[The impact of crawl policy on web search effectiveness ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572041)**Dennis Fetterly, Nick Craswell, Vishwa Vinay*21 citations*
94. **[AdOn ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572049)**Jinlian Guo, Tao Mei, Falin Liu et al.*20 citations*
95. **[On efficient posting list intersection with multicore processors ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572104)**Shirish Tatikonda, Flavio Junqueira, Berkant Barla Cambazoglu et al.*20 citations*
96. **[Personalized music emotion recognition ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572109)**Yi‐Hsuan Yang, Yu‐Ching Lin, Homer H. Chen*20 citations*
97. **[Term-based commercial intent analysis ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572135)**Azin Ashkan, Charles L. A. Clarke*20 citations*
98. **[A latent topic model for linked documents ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572095)**Zhen Guo, Shenghuo Zhu B, Yun Chi et al.*19 citations*
99. **[Incorporating prior knowledge into a transductive ranking algorithm for multi-document summarization ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572087)**Massih-Reza Amini, Nicolas Usunier*19 citations*
100. **[Measuring the descriptiveness of web comments ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572097)**Martin Potthast*19 citations*

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