Journals Books Conferences Workshops Posters Evaluation Conferences Other Tech Reports Theses

Journals

Baeza-Yates, R., A. Gionis, F. Junqueira, V. Murdock, V. Plachouras, F. Silvestri (2008). Design trade-offs for search engine caching. Transactions on the Web (TWEB) – Special issue on Query Log Analysis: Technology & Ethics, 2(4):1-28.

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Ciaramita, M., V. Murdock, V. Plachouras (2008). Semantic Associations for Contextual Advertising. International Journal of Electronic Commerce Research - Special Issue on Online Advertising and Sponsored Search, 9(1):1-15.

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Cacheda, F., V. Carneiro, V. Plachouras, I. Ounis (2007). Performance Analysis of Distributed Information Retrieval Architectures Using an Improved Network Simulation Model. Information Processing and Management, 43(1): 204-224.

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Ounis, I., C. Lioma, C. Macdonald, and V. Plachouras (2007). Research Directions in Terrier: a Search Engine for Advanced Retrieval on the Web. Novatica/UPGRADE Special Issue on Web Information Access.

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Plachouras, V., F. Cacheda and I. Ounis. A Decision Mechanism for the Selective Combination of Evidence in Topic Distillation (2006). Information Retrieval, 9(2):139-163.

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Plachouras, V., I. Ounis and G. Amati (2005). The Static Absorbing Model for Hyperlink Analysis on the Web. Journal of Web Engineering, 4(2):165-186.

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Plachouras, V. and I. Ounis (2005). Dempster-Shafer theory for a query-biased combination of evidence on the Web. Information Retrieval, 8(2):197-218.

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Cacheda, F., V. Plachouras and I. Ounis (2005). A case study of distributed information retrieval architectures to index one terabyte of text. Information Processing and Management, 41(5):1141-1161.

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Books and Refereed Contributions in Books

Macdonald C., I. Ounis, V. Plachouras, I. Ruthven, R. White (2008). Advances in Information Retrieval, 30th European Conference on IR Research (ECIR 2008), Glasgow, UK, March 30 – April 3, 2008. Proceedings Springer.

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Plachouras, V. (2008). Field-based Information Retrieval Models. In Tamer, O. M., L. Liu (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer Reference.

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Conference Papers

Baeza-Yates, R., A. Gionis, F. Junqueira, V. Plachouras, L. Telloli (2009). On the feasibility of multi-site web search engines. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Hong Kong, China.

Cambazoglu, B. B., V. Plachouras, R. Baeza-Yates (2009). Quantifying Performance and Quality Gains in Distributed Web Search Engines. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Boston, USA.

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Sarigiannis, C., V. Plachouras, R. Baeza-Yates (2009). A study of the Impact of Index Updates on Distributed Query Processing for Web Search. In Proceedings of 31st European Conference on IR Research (ECIR), LNCS 5478, Toulouse, France.

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Broder, A., M. Ciaramita, M. Fontoura, E. Gabrilovich, V. Josifovski, D. Metzler, V. Murdock, V. Plachouras (2008). To Swing or not to Swing: Learning when (not) to Advertise. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Napa Valley, California, USA.

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Ciaramita, M., V. Murdock and V. Plachouras (2008). Online Learning from Click Data for Sponsored Search. In Proceedings of the 17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Beijing, China.

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Skobeltsyn G., F. Junqueira, V. Plachouras, R. Baeza-Yates (2008). ResIn: a combination of results caching and index pruning for high-performance Web search engines. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Singapore.

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Cambazoglu, B., F. Junqueira, V. Plachouras, L. Telloli (2008). On the feasibility of geographically distributed Web crawling. In Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE), 2008, Napoli, Italy.

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Baeza-Yates, R., A. Gionis, F. Junqueira, V. Murdock, V. Plachouras, F. Silvestri (2007). The Impact of Caching on Search Engines. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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Baeza-Yates, R., C. Castillo, F. Junqueira, V. Plachouras and F. Silvestri (2007). Challenges in Distributed Information Retrieval (invited paper). In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Istanbul, Turkey.

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Baeza-Yates, R., F. Junqueira, V. Plachouras and H.F. Witschel (2007). Admission Policies for Caches of Search Engine Results. In Proceedings of the 14th String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium, Santiago, Chile.

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Plachouras, V. and I. Ounis (2007). Multinomial Randomness Models for Retrieval with Document Fields. In Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval. Rome, Italy.

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Cacheda, F., V. Carneiro, V. Plachouras and I. Ounis (2007). Performance Comparison of Clustered and Replicated Information Retrieval Systems. In Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval. Rome, Italy.

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Plachouras, V. and I. Ounis (2004). Usefulness of hyperlink structure for query-biased topic distillation. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Sheffield, UK.

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Plachouras, V., I. Ounis and F. Cacheda (2004). Selective Combination of Evidence for Topic Distillation using Document and Aggregate-level Information. In Proceedings of RIAO 2004 (Recherche d'Information Assistée par Ordinateur - Computer assisted information retrieval), Avignon, France.

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Cacheda, F., V. Plachouras and I. Ounis (2004). Performance Analysis of Distributed Architectures to Index One Terabyte of Text. In Proceedings of the 26th BCS-IRSG European Colloquium on IR Research (ECIR’04), Sunderland, UK.

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Plachouras, V., I. Ounis and G. Amati (2003). A Utility-oriented Hyperlink Analysis Model for the Web. In Proceedings of the First Latin Web Conference, pp. 123-131 Santiago, Chile.

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Plachouras, V. and I. Ounis (2003). Information Theoretic Query Context Detection for Web Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet, electronic edition, Algarve, Portugal.

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Poster Papers

Tatikonda, S., F. Junqueira, B. B. Cambazoglu, V. Plachouras. On Efficient Posting List Intersection with Multicore Processors. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Boston, USA.

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Peng, J., C. Macdonald, B. He, V. Plachouras and I. Ounis (2007). Incorporating Term Dependency in the DFR Framework. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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Ounis, I., G. Amati, V. Plachouras, B. He, C. Macdonald and D. Johnson (2005). Terrier Information Retrieval Platform. In Proceedings of the 27th BCS-IRSG European Conference on IR Research (ECIR’05), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

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Cacheda, F., V. Carneiro, V. Plachouras and I. Ounis. Network Analysis for Distributed Information Retrieval Architectures. In Proceedings of the 27th BCS-IRSG European Conference on IR Research (ECIR’05), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

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Plachouras, V. and I. Ounis (2004). Distribution of Relevant Documents in Domain-level Aggregates for Topic Distillation. In Proceedings of the 13th International World Wide Web Conference, New York, NY, USA.

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Evaluation Conference Papers

Macdonald, C., B. He, V. Plachouras and I. Ounis (2005). University of Glasgow at TREC 2005: Experiments in Terabyte and Enterprise Tracks with Terrier. In Proceedings of the 14th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2005), Gaithersburg MD, USA.

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Lioma, C., C. Macdonald, B. He, V. Plachouras and I. Ounis (2005). Applying Light Natural Language Processing to Ad-Hoc Cross Language Information Retrieval. In Working Notes for the CLEF 2005 Workshop, Vienna, Austria, 2005.

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Macdonald, C., V. Plachouras, B. He, C. Lioma and I. Ounis. University of Glasgow at WebCLEF 2005: Experiments in per-field normalisation and language specific stemming. In Working Notes for the CLEF 2005 Workshop, Vienna, Austria, 2005.

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Plachouras, V, B. He and I. Ounis (2004) University of Glasgow at TREC2004: Experiments in Web, Robust and Terabyte tracks with Terrier. In Proceedings of the 13th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2004), Gaithersburg MD, USA.

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Lioma, C., B. He, V. Plachouras and I. Ounis (2004). The University of Glasgow at CLEF 2004: French Monolingual Information Retrieval with Terrier. In Proceedings of the CLEF 2004 Workshop, Bath, UK.

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Plachouras, V., F. Cacheda, I. Ounis and C. J. van Rijsbergen (2003). University of Glasgow at the Web Track: Dynamic Application of Hyperlink Analysis using the Query Scope. In Proceedings of the 12thText REtrieval Conference (TREC 2003), pp. 248-254, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.

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Plachouras, V., I. Ounis, G. Amati and C. J. van Rijsbergen (2002). University of Glasgow at the Web track of TREC 2002. In Proceedings of the 11th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2002), pp. 645-651, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.

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Workshop Papers

Murdock, V., M. Ciaramita and V. Plachouras (2007). A Noisy Channel Approach to Contextual Advertising. In Proceedings of the The First International Workshop on Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising (ADKDD'07), San Jose, USA.

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Ounis. I., G. Amati, V. Plachouras, B. He, C. Macdonald and C. Lioma (2006). Terrier: A High Performance and Scalable Information Retrieval Platform. In Proceedings of ACM SIGIR'06 Workshop on Open Source Information Retrieval (OSIR 2006). Seattle, Washington, USA.

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Plachouras, V. and I. Ounis (2002). Query-Biased Combination of Evidence on the Web. In Proceedings of ACM SIGIR Workshop on Mathematical / Formal Methods in Information Retrieval, Tampere, Finland.

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Other Publications

Ounis, I., I. Ruthven and V. Plachouras (2008). 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2008). SIGIR Forum 42(1):44-46.

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Junqueira, F., V. Plachouras, F. Silvestri and I. Podnar (2007). Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval. SIGIR Forum 41(2):83-88.

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Technical Reports

Amati, G., I. Ounis and V. Plachouras (2003). The Dynamic Absorbing Model for the Web. Technical Report TR-2003-137, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow.

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Theses

Plachouras, V. (2006). Selective Web Information Retrieval. PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.

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