Microsoft @ SIGIR 2019
Location: Paris, France
Microsoft session schedule
Sunday, July 21, 2019
9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Building Economic Models and Measures of Search
Leif Azzopardi, Alistair Moffat, Paul Thomas, Guido Zuccon
9:00 AM–12:30 PM
Deep Chit-Chat: Deep Learning for Chatbots
Wei Wu, Rui Yan
1:30 PM–5:00 PM
Fairness and Discrimination in Retrieval and Recommendation
Michael D. Ekstrand, Fernando Diaz, Robin Burke
Monday, July 22, 2019
10:20 AM–11:20 AM and 3:10 PM–4:40 PM | Salle A
From Text to Sound: a Preliminary Study on Retrieving Sound Effects to Radio Stories
Songwei Ge, Curtis Xuan, Ruihua Song, Chao Zou, Wei Liu, Jin Zhou
Embedding Edge-attributed Relational Hierarchies
Muhao Chen, Chris Quirk
10:20 AM–11:20 AM and 3:10 PM–4:40 PM | Salle C
An Axiomatic Approach to Regularizing Neural Ranking Models
Corby Rosset, Bhaskar Mitra, Chenyan Xiong, Nick Craswell, Xia Song, Saurabh Tiwary
11:20 AM–12:20 PM | Auditorium
Generic Intent Representation in Web Search
Hongfei Zhang, Xia Song, Chenyan Xiong, Corby Rosset, Paul Bennett, Nick Craswell, Saurabh Tiwary
4:40 PM–6:00 PM | Auditorium
A Neural Influence Diffusion Model for Social Recommendation
Le Wu, Peijie Sun, Richang Hong, Yanjie Fu, Xiting Wang, Meng Wang
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
10:00 AM–11:00 AM and 3:10 PM–4:40 PM | Salle A
Social Knowledge Graph Explorer
Omar Alonso, Vasilis Kandylas, Serge-Eric Tremblay
cwl_eval: An Evaluation Tool for Information Retrieval
Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas, Alistair Moffat
10:00 AM–11:00 AM and 3:10 PM–4:40 PM | Salle B
The Emotion Profile of Web Search
Gabriella Kazai, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell
10:00 AM–11:00 AM and 3:10 PM–4:40 PM | Salle C
NRPA: Neural Recommendation with Personalized Attention
Hongtao Liu, Fangzhao Wu, Wenjun Wang, Xianchen Wang, Pengfei Jiao, Chuhan Wu, Xing Xie
Automatically Learning Topics and Difficulty Levels of Problems in Online Judge Systems
Wayne Xin Zhao, Wenhui Zhang, Yulan He, Xing Xie, Ji-Rong Wen
10:00 AM–11:00 AM and 3:10 PM–4:40 PM | Salle D
Automatic Task Completion Flows from Web APIs
Kyle Williams, Seyyed Hadi Hashemi, Imed Zitouni
11:00 AM–12:20 PM | Louis Armand 1
Task Completion Detection
Ryen White, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Robert Sim
1:30 PM–3:10 PM | Louis Armand 1
Optimal Freshness Crawl Under Politeness Constraints
Andrey Kolobov, Yuval Peres, Eyal Lubetzky, Eric Horvitz
4:40 PM–6:00 PM | Auditorium
Context-Aware Intent Identification in Email Conversations
Wei Wang, Saghar Hosseini, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Paul Bennett, Chris Quirk
Thursday, July 25, 2019
9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, Confidentiality, Transparency, and Safety in Information Retrieval (FACTS-IR)
Co-organizer: Alexandra Olteanu
ECOM’19: The SIGIR 2019 Workshop on eCommerce
Accepted Paper: Unsupervised Construction of a Product Knowledge Graph
Omar Alonso, Vasileios Kandylas, Rukmini Iyer