Stephen Robertson

60 papers A* 10A 10Misc 3Journal 18Unranked 14
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 A* conf
BM25 and all that - a look back.
SIGIR
Stephen Robertson
2025 — conf
Stress-Testing Flagship Smartphone Models With Real-World GNSS RFI to Determine Real-Time Emitter Localization Capabilities.
PLANS
Benon Gattis, Ethan Pyke, Dennis Akos, Mark Crews, Stephen Robertson
2019 J jnl
A Brief History of Search Results Ranking.
IEEE Ann. Hist. Comput.
Stephen Robertson
2018 — ch.
Average Precision at n.
Encyclopedia of Database Systems (2nd ed.)
Nick Craswell, Stephen Robertson
2018 — ch.
Probabilistic Retrieval Models and Binary Independence Retrieval (BIR) Model.
Encyclopedia of Database Systems (2nd ed.)
Thomas Roelleke, Jun Wang, Stephen Robertson
2017 A* conf
Forward to the Past: Notes towards a Pre-history of Web Search.
SIGIR
Stephen Robertson
2014 J jnl
Probabilistic models in IR and their relationships.
Inf. Retr.
Robin Aly, Thomas Demeester, Stephen Robertson
2013 Misc conf
Modelling Score Distributions Without Actual Scores.
ICTIR
Stephen Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas, Emine Yilmaz
2013 Misc conf
On Using Fewer Topics in Information Retrieval Evaluations.
ICTIR
Andrea Berto, Stefano Mizzaro, Stephen Robertson
2013 A* conf
Probabilistic group recommendation via information matching.
WWW
Jagadeesh Gorla, Neal Lathia, Stephen Robertson, Jun Wang
2012 J jnl
A Theory of Information Matching
CoRR
Jagadeesh Gorla, Stephen Robertson, Jun Wang, Tamas Jambor
2012 A conf
On Smoothing Average Precision.
ECIR
Stephen Robertson
2012 — ch.
The Web, the Home and the Search Engine.
The Connected Home - The Future of Domestic Life
Stephen Robertson
2011 J jnl
A Unified Relevance Retrieval Model by Eliteness Hypothesis
CoRR
Jagadeesh Gorla, Stephen Robertson, Jun Wang
2011 J jnl
Introduction to special issue on the second international conference on the theory of information retrieval.
Inf. Retr.
Leif Azzopardi, Dawei Song, Gabriella Kazai, Stephen Robertson, Stefan M. Rüger, Milad Shokouhi, Emine Yilmaz
2011 J jnl
Modeling score distributions in information retrieval.
Inf. Retr.
Avi Arampatzis, Stephen Robertson
2011 A conf
On the Contributions of Topics to System Evaluation.
ECIR
Stephen Robertson
2010 A conf
Expected browsing utility for web search evaluation.
CIKM
Emine Yilmaz, Milad Shokouhi, Nick Craswell, Stephen Robertson
2010 J jnl
On the choice of effectiveness measures for learning to rank.
Inf. Retr.
Emine Yilmaz, Stephen Robertson
2010 — conf
Simple Evaluation Metrics for Diversified Search Results.
EVIA@NTCIR
Tetsuya Sakai, Nick Craswell, Ruihua Song, Stephen Robertson, Zhicheng Dou, Chin-Yew Lin
2009 J jnl
A few good topics: Experiments in topic set reduction for retrieval evaluation.
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst.
John Guiver, Stefano Mizzaro, Stephen Robertson
2009 — ch.
Average Precision at n.
Encyclopedia of Database Systems
Nick Craswell, Stephen Robertson
2009 A* conf
Deep versus shallow judgments in learning to rank.
SIGIR
Emine Yilmaz, Stephen Robertson
2009 — conf
Incorporating User Behavior Information in IR Evaluation.
UIIR@SIGIR
Emine Yilmaz, Milad Shokouhi, Nick Craswell, Stephen Robertson
2009 — conf
Microsoft Research at TREC 2009: Web and Relevance Feedback Track.
TREC
Nick Craswell, Dennis Fetterly, Marc Najork, Stephen Robertson, Emine Yilmaz
2009 — ch.
Probabilistic Retrieval Models and Binary Independence Retrieval (BIR) Model.
Encyclopedia of Database Systems
Thomas Roelleke, Jun Wang, Stephen Robertson
2009 — conf
Rethinking the ESP game.
CHI Extended Abstracts
Stephen Robertson, Milan Vojnovic, Ingmar Weber
2009 Misc conf
Score Distributions in Information Retrieval.
ICTIR
Avi Arampatzis, Stephen Robertson, Jaap Kamps
2009 A* conf
Where to stop reading a ranked list?: threshold optimization using truncated score distributions.
SIGIR
Avi Arampatzis, Jaap Kamps, Stephen Robertson
2008 A* conf
A new interpretation of average precision.
SIGIR
Stephen Robertson
2008 A* conf
A new rank correlation coefficient for information retrieval.
SIGIR
Emine Yilmaz, Javed A. Aslam, Stephen Robertson
2008 A conf
Comparing citation contexts for information retrieval.
CIKM
Anna Ritchie, Stephen Robertson, Simone Teufel
2008 J jnl
Karen Spärck Jones.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.
Stephen Robertson, John Tait
2008 — conf
Modelling A User Population for Designing Information Retrieval Metrics.
EVIA@NTCIR
Tetsuya Sakai, Stephen Robertson
2008 J jnl
On the history of evaluation in IR.
J. Inf. Sci.
Stephen Robertson
2008 J jnl
Probabilistic relevance ranking for collaborative filtering.
Inf. Retr.
Jun Wang, Stephen Robertson, Arjen P. de Vries, Marcel J. T. Reinders
2008 — conf
Relevance Feedback Track Overview: TREC 2008.
TREC
Chris Buckley, Stephen Robertson
2008 A* conf
Selecting Query Term Alternations for Web Search by Exploiting Query Contexts.
ACL
Guihong Cao, Stephen Robertson, Jian-Yun Nie
2008 A* conf
Selecting good expansion terms for pseudo-relevance feedback.
SIGIR
Guihong Cao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jianfeng Gao, Stephen Robertson
2008 A conf
SoftRank: optimizing non-smooth rank metrics.
WSDM
Michael J. Taylor, John Guiver, Stephen Robertson, Tom Minka
2008 — conf
The study of information retrieval: a long view.
IIiX
Stephen Robertson
2008 A conf
Using Terms from Citations for IR: Some First Results.
ECIR
Anna Ritchie, Simone Teufel, Stephen Robertson
2007 — conf
Expanding a Test Collection for Citation-based IR Experiments.
RIAO
Anna Ritchie, Stephen Robertson, Simone Teufel
2007 A* conf
Hits hits TREC: exploring IR evaluation results with network analysis.
SIGIR
Stefano Mizzaro, Stephen Robertson
2007 — conf
INEX 2007 Evaluation Measures.
INEX
Jaap Kamps, Jovan Pehcevski, Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Stephen Robertson
2007 J jnl
In Memoriam: Karen Spärck Jones.
Inf. Process. Manag.
Stephen Robertson, John Tait
2007 J jnl
In memoriam: Karen Spärck Jones.
J. Documentation
Peter Willett, Stephen Robertson
2007 J jnl
In memoriam: Karen Spärck Jones.
J. Inf. Sci.
Peter Willett, Stephen Robertson
2007 A conf
On Score Distributions and Relevance.
ECIR
Stephen Robertson
2007 J jnl
On rank-based effectiveness measures and optimization.
Inf. Retr.
Stephen Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza
2007 A conf
The Last Half-Century: A Perspective on Experimentation in Information Retrieval.
ECIR
Stephen Robertson
2006 — conf
Creating a Test Collection for Citation-based IR Experiments.
HLT-NAACL
Anna Ritchie, Simone Teufel, Stephen Robertson
2006 — conf
INEX 2006 Evaluation Measures.
INEX
Mounia Lalmas, Gabriella Kazai, Jaap Kamps, Jovan Pehcevski, Benjamin Piwowarski, Stephen Robertson
2006 A conf
On GMAP: and other transformations.
CIKM
Stephen Robertson
2006 — conf
On the science of search: statistical approaches, evaluation, optimisation.
IWRIDL
Stephen Robertson
2006 A conf
Optimisation methods for ranking functions with multiple parameters.
CIKM
Michael J. Taylor, Hugo Zaragoza, Nick Craswell, Stephen Robertson, Chris Burges
2005 — conf
Microsoft Cambridge at TREC 14: Enterprise Track.
TREC
Nick Craswell, Hugo Zaragoza, Stephen Robertson
2004 J jnl
Understanding inverse document frequency: on theoretical arguments for IDF.
J. Documentation
Stephen Robertson
2002 J jnl
A tool for comparative evaluation in an interactive environment.
J. Inf. Sci.
Susan Jones, Olga Vechtomova, Stephen Robertson
2002 J jnl
Challenges posed by web-based retrieval of scientific papers: Okapi participation in TIPS.
J. Inf. Sci.
Murat Karamuftuoglu, Susan Jones, Stephen Robertson, Fabio Venuti, Xinkun Wang