Oren Kurland

Orcid: 0000-0002-0669-0431

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  • Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel


According to our database1, Oren Kurland authored at least 102 papers between 2004 and 2023.

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2023
Content-Based Relevance Estimation in Retrieval Settings with Ranking-Incentivized Document Manipulations.
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2023

Revisiting Condorcet Fusion.
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2023

Entity-Based Relevance Feedback for Document Retrieval.
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2023

Sentence Retrieval for Open-Ended Dialogue Using Dual Contextual Modeling.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2023

2022
Topic Difficulty: Collection and Query Formulation Effects.
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2022

From Cluster Ranking to Document Ranking.
Proceedings of the SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11, 2022

Competitive Search.
Proceedings of the SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11, 2022

A Dataset for Sentence Retrieval for Open-Ended Dialogues.
Proceedings of the SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11, 2022

2021
Do Hard Topics Exist? A Statistical Analysis.
Proceedings of the 11th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop 2021, 2021

Recommending Search Queries in Documents Using Inter N-Gram Similarities.
Proceedings of the ICTIR '21: The 2021 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2021

Driving the Herd: Search Engines as Content Influencers.
Proceedings of the CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, November 1, 2021

2020
A passage-based approach to learning to rank documents.
Inf. Retr. J., 2020

Studying Ranking-Incentivized Web Dynamics.
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2020

Query Reformulation in E-Commerce Search.
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2020

Ranking-Incentivized Quality Preserving Content Modification.
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2020

Cluster-Based Document Retrieval with Multiple Queries.
Proceedings of the ICTIR '20: The 2020 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2020

2019
Relevance Feedback: The Whole Is Inferior to the Sum of Its Parts.
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2019

Rethinking search engines and recommendation systems: a game theoretic perspective.
Commun. ACM, 2019

Information Needs, Queries, and Query Performance Prediction.
Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2019

On Topic Difficulty in IR Evaluation: The Effect of Systems, Corpora, and System Components.
Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2019

Query Performance Prediction for Pseudo-Feedback-Based Retrieval.
Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2019

A Comparative Analysis of Human and Automatic Query Variants.
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2019

Relevance Modeling with Multiple Query Variations.
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2019

Cluster-Based Focused Retrieval.
Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2019

2018
Selective Cluster Presentation on the Search Results Page.
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2018

Clustering small-sized collections of short texts.
Inf. Retr. J., 2018

Testing the Cluster Hypothesis with Focused and Graded Relevance Judgments.
Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, 2018

Fusion in Information Retrieval: SIGIR 2018 Half-Day Tutorial.
Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, 2018

Ranking Robustness Under Adversarial Document Manipulations.
Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, 2018

Improving Search Effectiveness with Field-based Relevance Modeling.
Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Document Computing Symposium, 2018

2017
A Game Theoretic Analysis of the Adversarial Retrieval Setting.
J. Artif. Intell. Res., 2017

Information Retrieval Meets Game Theory: The Ranking Competition Between Documents? Authors.
Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2017

Kullback-Leibler Divergence Revisited.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2017

Information Retrieval Meets Game Theory.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2017

2016
Query Performance Prediction Using Reference Lists.
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2016

Document Retrieval Using Entity-Based Language Models.
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016

New Collection Announcement: Focused Retrieval Over the Web.
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016

Utilizing Focused Relevance Feedback.
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016

Query Anchoring Using Discriminative Query Models.
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2016

Supporting Human Answers for Advice-Seeking Questions in CQA Sites.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2016

Selective Cluster-Based Document Retrieval.
Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2016

Query Expansion Using Word Embeddings.
Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2016

A Probabilistic Fusion Framework.
Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2016

2015
Learning Asymmetric Co-Relevance.
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on The Theory of Information Retrieval, 2015

The Probability Ranking Principle is Not Optimal in Adversarial Retrieval Settings.
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on The Theory of Information Retrieval, 2015

2014
Using the cross-entropy method to re-rank search results.
Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2014

Query performance prediction for entity retrieval.
Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2014

The correlation between cluster hypothesis tests and the effectiveness of cluster-based retrieval.
Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2014

Query-performance prediction: setting the expectations straight.
Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2014

Utilizing relevance feedback in fusion-based retrieval.
Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2014

Wikipedia-based query performance prediction.
Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2014

The search duel: a response to a strong ranker.
Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2014

The Cluster Hypothesis in Information Retrieval.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2014

2013
The Technion at TREC 2013 Web Track: Cluster-based Document Retrieval.
Proceedings of The Twenty-Second Text REtrieval Conference, 2013

Estimating query representativeness for query-performance prediction.
Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

The cluster hypothesis for entity oriented search.
Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

Ranking document clusters using markov random fields.
Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

Shame to be sham: addressing content-based grey hat search engine optimization.
Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

Query-Performance Prediction Using Minimal Relevance Feedback.
Proceedings of the International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2013

Using Document-Quality Measures to Predict Web-Search Effectiveness.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2013

Position-based contextualization for passage retrieval.
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2013

2012
Predicting Query Performance by Query-Drift Estimation.
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2012

Experimental methods for information retrieval.
Proceedings of the 35th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2012

Utilizing inter-document similarities in federated search.
Proceedings of the 35th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2012

Clarity re-visited.
Proceedings of the 35th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2012

Query performance prediction for IR.
Proceedings of the 35th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2012

Content-based relevance estimation on the web using inter-document similarities.
Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2012

Exploring the cluster hypothesis, and cluster-based retrieval, over the web.
Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2012

Predicting query performance for fusion-based retrieval.
Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2012

Back to the roots: a probabilistic framework for query-performance prediction.
Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2012

Query-performance prediction and cluster ranking: two sides of the same coin.
Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2012

Predicting the performance of passage retrieval for question answering.
Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2012

2011
The Opposite of Smoothing: A Language Model Approach to Ranking Query-Specific Document Clusters.
J. Artif. Intell. Res., 2011

From "Identical" to "Similar": Fusing Retrieved Lists Based on Inter-Document Similarities.
J. Artif. Intell. Res., 2011

Re-ranking search results using an additional retrieved list.
Inf. Retr., 2011

A study of the integration of passage-, document-, and cluster-based information for re-ranking search results.
Inf. Retr., 2011

Utilizing minimal relevance feedback for ad hoc retrieval.
Proceedings of the Proceeding of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2011

Cluster-based fusion of retrieved lists.
Proceedings of the Proceeding of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2011

A Unified Framework for Post-Retrieval Query-Performance Prediction.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval Theory, 2011

2010
PageRank without hyperlinks: Structural reranking using links induced by language models.
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2010

Utilizing inter-passage and inter-document similarities for reranking search results.
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2010

Utilizing passage-based language models for ad hoc document retrieval.
Inf. Retr., 2010

Using statistical decision theory and relevance models for query-performance prediction.
Proceedings of the Proceeding of the 33rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2010

On identifying representative relevant documents.
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2010

2009
Clusters, language models, and ad hoc information retrieval.
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2009

Re-ranking search results using language models of query-specific clusters.
Inf. Retr., 2009

Integrating clusters created offline with query-specific clusters for document retrieval.
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2009

Cluster-based query expansion.
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2009

Navigating in the Dark: Modeling Uncertainty in Ad Hoc Retrieval Using Multiple Relevance Models.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval Theory, 2009

Predicting Query Performance by Query-Drift Estimation.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval Theory, 2009

Utilizing inter-passage and inter-document similarities for re-ranking search results.
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2009

2008
Query-drift prevention for robust query expansion.
Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2008

A rank-aggregation approach to searching for optimal query-specific clusters.
Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2008

The opposite of smoothing: a language model approach to ranking query-specific document clusters.
Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2008

Re-ranking search results using document-passage graphs.
Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2008

Utilizing Passage-Based Language Models for Document Retrieval.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval , 2008

2007
Towards robust query expansion: model selection in the language modeling framework.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2007

2006
Inter-Document Similiarities, Language Models, and Ad Hoc Information Retrieval.
PhD thesis, 2006

Respect my authority!: HITS without hyperlinks, utilizing cluster-based language models.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2006

2005
Better than the real thing?: iterative pseudo-query processing using cluster-based language models.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2005: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2005

PageRank without hyperlinks: structural re-ranking using links induced by language models.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2005: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2005

2004
Corpus structure, language models, and ad hoc information retrieval.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2004: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2004


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