Omar Alonso

Orcid: 0009-0009-2515-4771

Affiliations:
  • Amazon, Santa Clara, CA, USA
  • Microsoft (former)
  • University of California, Davis, USA (former)


According to our database1, Omar Alonso authored at least 134 papers between 1996 and 2024.

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2024
Product Query Recommendation for Enriching Suggested Q&As.
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2024

A General Model for Aggregating Annotations AcrossSimple, Complex, and Multi-object Annotation Tasks (Abstract Reprint).
Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024

2023
Report on the 13th Workshop on Temporal Web Analytics (TempWeb 2023) at WWW 2023.
SIGIR Forum, December, 2023

Building a large gene expression-cancer knowledge base with limited human annotations.
Database J. Biol. Databases Curation, September, 2023

A General Model for Aggregating Annotations Across Simple, Complex, and Multi-Object Annotation Tasks.
J. Artif. Intell. Res., 2023

13th Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb) Overview.
Proceedings of the Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, 2023

Searching for Reliable Facts over a Medical Knowledge Base.
Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2023

CoreKB: A Web-based Platform for Searching Reliable Facts over a Medical Knowledge Base.
Proceedings of the 31st Symposium of Advanced Database Systems, 2023

Some Useful Things to Know When Combining IR and NLP: the Easy, the Hard and the Ugly.
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2023

2022
Report on the 12th Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2022) at WWW 2022.
SIGIR Forum, December, 2022

12th Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb) Overview.
Proceedings of the Companion of The Web Conference 2022, Virtual Event / Lyon, France, April 25, 2022

On Reliability Scores for Knowledge Graphs.
Proceedings of the Companion of The Web Conference 2022, Virtual Event / Lyon, France, April 25, 2022

Measuring Annotator Agreement Generally across Complex Structured, Multi-object, and Free-text Annotation Tasks.
Proceedings of the WWW '22: The ACM Web Conference 2022, Virtual Event, Lyon, France, April 25, 2022

ClozeSearch: A Collocation Retrieval Application to Assist in Scientific Writing.
Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, 2022

2021
Report on the 2nd international conference on design of experimental search & information retrieval systems (DESIRES 2021).
SIGIR Forum, 2021

Report on the 11th international workshop on location and the web (LocWeb 2021) and the 11th temporal web analytics workshop (TempWeb2021) at WWW2021.
SIGIR Forum, 2021

Preface.
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems, 2021

2020
Answering recreational web searches with relevant things to do results.
Inf. Process. Manag., 2020

2019
The Practice of Crowdsourcing
Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, ISBN: 978-3-031-02318-7, 2019

Report on the International Conference on Design of Experimental Search & Information Retrieval Systems (DESIRES 2018).
SIGIR Forum, 2019

Local versus Global Strategies in Social Query Expansion.
CoRR, 2019

Scalable Knowledge Graph Construction from Twitter.
CoRR, 2019

The Power of Temporal Features for Classifying News Articles.
Proceedings of the Companion of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference, 2019

Exploration of Product Search Intents via Clustering of Query Clusters.
Proceedings of the Companion of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference, 2019

The Practice of Labeling: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Labeling (But Were Afraid to Ask).
Proceedings of the Companion of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference, 2019

Large Scale Human Sensing Over Time. Challenges and Lessons Learned.
Proceedings of the Companion of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference, 2019

Social Knowledge Graph Explorer.
Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2019

Unsupervised Construction of a Product Knowledge Graph.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2019 Workshop on eCommerce, 2019

2018
Crowdsourcing and Human Computation: Introduction.
Proceedings of the Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2nd Edition, 2018

Time and Information Retrieval.
Proceedings of the Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Second Edition, 2018

Quantitative Information Extraction From Social Data.
Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, 2018

How it Happened: Discovering and Archiving the Evolution of a Story Using Social Signals.
Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE on Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2018

Urban Maps of Social Activity.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Web and Social Media, 2018

Automatic Story Evolution Wikification from Social Data.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Web and Social Media, 2018

2017
Automatic Generation of Event Timelines from Social Data.
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Web Science Conference, 2017

What's Happening and What Happened: Searching the Social Web.
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Web Science Conference, 2017

The Practice of Crowdsourcing: Things to Know about Using Humans and Machines for Labeling.
Proceedings of the 13th NTCIR Conference, 2017

Event Evolution and Archiving.
Proceedings of the 8th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, 2017

2016
Introduction to the Special Issue on Crowd in Intelligent Systems.
ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol., 2016

Report on ECIR 2016: 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval.
SIGIR Forum, 2016

Data-Driven Information Retrieval.
SIGIR Forum, 2016

Label Visualization and Exploration in IR.
CoRR, 2016

Time to ship: Some Examples from the Real-World.
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2016

Automated question generation for quality control in human computation tasks.
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science, 2016

SOGOU-2012-CRAWL: A Crawl of Search Results in the Sogou 2012 Chinese Query Log.
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016

SGT Framework: Social, Geographical and Temporal Relevance for Recreational Queries in Web Search.
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016

The Data Stack in Information Retrieval.
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016

How Many Workers to Ask?: Adaptive Exploration for Collecting High Quality Labels.
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016


e#: Sharper Expertise Detection from Microblogs.
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, 2016

Industry Day Overview.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2016

2015
Report on the Seventh Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval (ESAIR'14).
SIGIR Forum, 2015

Report on the First SIGIR Workshop on Graph Search and Beyond (GSB'15).
SIGIR Forum, 2015

Challenges with Label Quality for Supervised Learning.
ACM J. Data Inf. Qual., 2015

Time and information retrieval: Introduction to the special issue.
Inf. Process. Manag., 2015

The World Conversation: Web Page Metadata Generation From Social Sources.
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion, 2015

Overview of Graph Search and Beyond.
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Graph Search and Beyond, 2015

Graph Search and Beyond: SIGIR 2015 Workshop Summary.
Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2015

Practical Lessons for Gathering Quality Labels at Scale.
Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2015

Debugging a Crowdsourced Task with Low Inter-Rater Agreement.
Proceedings of the 15th ACM/IEEE-CE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2015

Raimond: Quantitative Data Extraction from Twitter to Describe Events.
Proceedings of the Engineering the Web in the Big Data Era - 15th International Conference, 2015

CrowdSTAR: A Social Task Routing Framework for Online Communities.
Proceedings of the Engineering the Web in the Big Data Era - 15th International Conference, 2015

Beyond Graph Search: Exploring and Exploiting Rich Connected Data Sets.
Proceedings of the Engineering the Web in the Big Data Era - 15th International Conference, 2015

2014
Crowdsourcing and Human Computation, Introduction.
Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2014

Visualization for Relevance Assessments.
SIGIR Forum, 2014

Follow the money: A study of cashtags on Twitter.
First Monday, 2014

A Study on Placement of Social Buttons in Web Pages.
CoRR, 2014

Wikipedia as a time machine.
Proceedings of the 23rd International World Wide Web Conference, 2014

Analyzing temporal characteristics of check-in data.
Proceedings of the 23rd International World Wide Web Conference, 2014

Insights from brands in Facebook.
Proceedings of the ACM Web Science Conference, 2014

Building a query log via crowdsourcing.
Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2014

Content ordering based on commuting patterns.
Proceedings of the Eighth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2014

Finding Users we Trust: Scaling up Verified Twitter Users Using their Communication Patterns.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2014

Kondenzer: Exploration and visualization of archived social media.
Proceedings of the IEEE 30th International Conference on Data Engineering, Chicago, 2014

Using Worker Quality Scores to Improve Stopping Rules.
Proceedings of the Seconf AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 2014

Seventh Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval (ESAIR'14): CIKM 2014 Workshop.
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2014

2013
Implementing crowdsourcing-based relevance experimentation: an industrial perspective.
Inf. Retr., 2013

A Data Management Approach for Dataset Selection Using Human Computation.
CoRR, 2013

Timelines as summaries of popular scheduled events.
Proceedings of the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference, 2013

Stuff happens continuously: exploring web contents with temporal information.
Proceedings of the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference, 2013

Evaluation with Respect to Usefulness - Some Perspectives from Industry.
Proceedings of the Bridging Between Information Retrieval and Databases, 2013

Automating Crowdsourcing Tasks in an Industrial Environment.
Proceedings of the Human Computation and Crowdsourcing: Works in Progress and Demonstration Abstracts, 2013

A Human-Centered Framework for Ensuring Reliability on Crowdsourced Labeling Tasks.
Proceedings of the Human Computation and Crowdsourcing: Works in Progress and Demonstration Abstracts, 2013

Are Some Tweets More Interesting Than Others? #HardQuestion.
Proceedings of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, 2013

Adaptive Crowdsourcing Algorithms for the Bandit Survey Problem.
Proceedings of the COLT 2013, 2013

Exploiting entities in social media.
Proceedings of the ESAIR'13, 2013

Duplicate News Story Detection Revisited.
Proceedings of the Information Retrieval Technology, 2013

2012
Report on the fourth workshop on exploiting semantic annotations in information retrieval (ESAIR'11).
SIGIR Forum, 2012

Using crowdsourcing for TREC relevance assessment.
Inf. Process. Manag., 2012

Identification of top relevant temporal expressions in documents.
Proceedings of the 2nd Temporal Web Analytics Workshop, 2012

User Taglines: Alternative Presentations of Expertise and Interest in Social Media.
Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Social Informatics (SocialInformatics), 2012

Social annotations: utility and prediction modeling.
Proceedings of the 35th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2012

Crowdsourcing for search evaluation and social-algorithmic search.
Proceedings of the 35th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2012

Classical vs. Crowdsourcing Surveys for Eliciting Geographic Relevance Criteria.
Proceedings of the 3rd Italian Information Retrieval Workshop, 2012

Retro: Time-Based Exploration of Product Reviews.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2012

CrowdTiles: presenting crowd-based information for event-driven information needs.
Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2012

2011
Temporal Information Retrieval: Challenges and Opportunities.
Proceedings of the WWW2011 Workshop on Linked Data on the Web, 2011

Crowdsourcing 101: putting the WSDM of crowds to work for you.
Proceedings of the Forth International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, 2011

Enhancing Document Snippets Using Temporal Information.
Proceedings of the String Processing and Information Retrieval, 2011

Crowdsourcing for information retrieval: principles, methods, and applications.
Proceedings of the Proceeding of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2011

Design and Implementation of Relevance Assessments Using Crowdsourcing.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2011

Crowdsourcing for Information Retrieval Experimentation and Evaluation.
Proceedings of the Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation, 2011

Fourth workshop on exploiting semantic annotations in information retrieval (ESAIR).
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2011

2010
SIGIR 2010 workshop program overview.
SIGIR Forum, 2010

Introduction.
Inf. Process. Manag., 2010

Temporal Analysis of Document Collections: Framework and Applications.
Proceedings of the String Processing and Information Retrieval, 2010

A Language Modeling Approach for Temporal Information Needs.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2010

Crowdsourcing Assessments for XML Ranked Retrieval.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2010

NEAT: News Exploration Along Time.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2010

Generating document summaries from user annotations.
Proceedings of the third workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval, 2010

2009
Time and Information Retrieval.
Proceedings of the Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 2009

Relevance criteria for e-commerce: a crowdsourcing-based experimental analysis.
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2009

Clustering and exploring search results using timeline constructions.
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2009

2008
Exploiting semantic annotations in information retrieval: ESAIR '08.
SIGIR Forum, 2008

Crowdsourcing for relevance evaluation.
SIGIR Forum, 2008

Structuring collections with Scatter/Gather extensions.
Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2008

Expertise identification and visualization from CVS.
Proceedings of the 2008 International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2008

Collaborative Topic Tracking in an Enterprise Environment.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval , 2008

Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval , 2008

2007
On the value of temporal information in information retrieval.
SIGIR Forum, 2007

Search results using timeline visualizations.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2007

Enterprise People and Skill Discovery Using Tolerant Retrieval and Visualization.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2007

2006
GIO: a semantic web application using the information grid framework.
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web, 2006

Clustering of search results using temporal attributes.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2006

2004
Database Techniques for the Analysis and Exploration of Software Repositories.
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories, 2004

2003
Generating Text Search Applications for Databases.
IEEE Softw., 2003

Alternative Implementation Techniques for Web Text Visualization
Proceedings of the 1st Latin American Web Congress (LA-WEB 2003), 2003

2002
Generation of Text Search Applications for Databases. An Exercise on Domain Engineering.
Proceedings of the Software Reuse: Methods, 2002

2001
Integration of Search Engines with User Interfaces.
Proceedings of the Poster Proceedings of the Tenth International World Wide Web Conference, 2001

2000
A Model and Software Architecture for Search Results Visualization on the WWW.
Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, 2000

Visualization of Reusable Software Assets.
Proceedings of the Software Reuse: Advances in Software Reusability, 2000

1998
A Model for Visualizing Large Answers in WWW Retrieval.
Proceedings of 18th International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC '98), 1998

1997
GUI Evaluation Through Web.
Proceedings of the Design of Computing Systems: Social and Ergonomic Considerations, 1997

1996
A Web-based tool for evaluating user-computer interaction.
Proceedings of WebNet 96, 1996


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