Virgil Pavlu

According to our database, Virgil Pavlu authored at least 55 papers between 2003 and 2021.

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2021

Improving Query Graph Generation for Complex Question Answering over Knowledge Base.

Kechen Qin, Cheng Li, Virgil Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021

2020

A Complex KBQA System using Multiple Reasoning Paths.

Kechen Qin, Yu Wang, Cheng Li, Kalpa Gunaratna, Hongxia Jin, Virgil Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam

CoRR, 2020

2019

Learning to Calibrate and Rerank Multi-label Predictions.

Cheng Li, Virgil Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam, Bingyu Wang, Kechen Qin

Proceedings of the Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, 2019

Adapting RNN Sequence Prediction Model to Multi-label Set Prediction.

Kechen Qin, Cheng Li, Virgil Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam

Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2019

2018

Revealing the Basis: Ordinal Embedding Through Geometry.

Jesse Anderton, Virgil Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam

CoRR, 2018

Measuring Human-perceived Similarity in Heterogeneous Collections.

Jesse Anderton, Pavel Metrikov, Virgil Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam

CoRR, 2018

A Pipeline for Optimizing F1-Measure in Multi-label Text Classification.

Bingyu Wang, Cheng Li, Virgil Pavlu, Jay Aslam

Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2018

2017

Regularizing Model Complexity and Label Structure for Multi-Label Text Classification.

Bingyu Wang, Cheng Li, Virgil Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam

CoRR, 2017

2016

Overview of the NTCIR-12 MobileClick-2 Task.

Makoto P. Kato, Tetsuya Sakai, Takehiro Yamamoto, Virgil Pavlu, Hajime Morita, Sumio Fujita

Proceedings of the 12th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, 2016

Two-layered Summaries for Mobile Search: Does the Evaluation Measure Reflect User Preferences?

Makoto P. Kato, Virgil Pavlu, Tetsuya Sakai, Takehiro Yamamoto, Hajime Morita

Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access, 2016

Conditional Bernoulli Mixtures for Multi-label Classification.

Cheng Li, Bingyu Wang, Virgil Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam

Proceedings of the 33nd International Conference on Machine Learning, 2016

An Empirical Study of Skip-Gram Features and Regularization for Learning on Sentiment Analysis.

Cheng Li, Bingyu Wang, Virgil Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2016

A Study of Realtime Summarization Metrics.

Matthew Ekstrand-Abueg, Richard McCreadie, Virgil Pavlu, Fernando Diaz

Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2016

2015

TREC 2015 Temporal Summarization Track Overview.

Javed A. Aslam, Fernando Diaz, Matthew Ekstrand-Abueg, Richard McCreadie, Virgil Pavlu, Tetsuya Sakai

Proceedings of The Twenty-Fourth Text REtrieval Conference, 2015

Aggregation of Crowdsourced Ordinal Assessments and Integration with Learning to Rank: A Latent Trait Model.

Pavel Metrikov, Virgil Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam

Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2015

2014

TREC 2014 Temporal Summarization Track Overview.

Javed A. Aslam, Matthew Ekstrand-Abueg, Virgil Pavlu, Fernando Diaz, Richard McCreadie, Tetsuya Sakai

Proceedings of The Twenty-Third Text REtrieval Conference, 2014

Overview of the NTCIR-11 MobileClick Task.

Makoto P. Kato, Matthew Ekstrand-Abueg, Virgil Pavlu, Tetsuya Sakai, Takehiro Yamamoto, Mayu Iwata

Proceedings of the 11th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, 2014

2013

Northeastern University Runs at the TREC13 Crowdsourcing Track.

Maryam Bashir, Jesse Anderton, Virgil Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam

Proceedings of The Twenty-Second Text REtrieval Conference, 2013

TREC 2013 Temporal Summarization.

Javed A. Aslam, Matthew Ekstrand-Abueg, Virgil Pavlu, Fernando Diaz, Tetsuya Sakai

Proceedings of The Twenty-Second Text REtrieval Conference, 2013

Exploring semi-automatic nugget extraction for Japanese one click access evaluation.

Matthew Ekstrand-Abueg, Virgil Pavlu, Makoto P. Kato, Tetsuya Sakai, Takehiro Yamamoto, Mayu Iwata

Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

Live nuggets extractor: a semi-automated system for text extraction and test collection creation.

Matthew Ekstrand-Abueg, Virgil Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam

Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

A document rating system for preference judgements.

Maryam Bashir, Jesse Anderton, Jie Wu, Peter B. Golbus, Virgil Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam

Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

Overview of the NTCIR-10 1CLICK-2 Task.

Makoto P. Kato, Matthew Ekstrand-Abueg, Virgil Pavlu, Tetsuya Sakai, Takehiro Yamamoto, Mayu Iwata

Proceedings of the 10th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, 2013

A Modification of LambdaMART to Handle Noisy Crowdsourced Assessments.

Pavel Metrikov, Jie Wu, Jesse Anderton, Virgil Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam

Proceedings of the International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2013

Optimizing nDCG Gains by Minimizing Effect of Label Inconsistency.

Pavel Metrikov, Virgiliu Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2013

An analysis of crowd workers mistakes for specific and complex relevance assessment task.

Jesse Anderton, Maryam Bashir, Virgil Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam

Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2013

2012

IR system evaluation using nugget-based test collections.

Virgiliu Pavlu, Shahzad Rajput, Peter B. Golbus, Javed A. Aslam

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, 2012

Northeastern University Runs at the TREC12 Crowdsourcing Track.

Maryam Bashir, Jesse Anderton, Jie Wu, Matthew Ekstrand-Abueg, Peter B. Golbus, Virgil Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam

Proceedings of The Twenty-First Text REtrieval Conference, 2012

Impact of assessor disagreement on ranking performance.

Pavel Metrikov, Virgiliu Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam

Proceedings of the 35th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2012

Extended Expectation Maximization for Inferring Score Distributions.

Keshi Dai, Virgiliu Pavlu, Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2012

Constructing test collections by inferring document relevance via extracted relevant information.

Shahzad Rajput, Matthew Ekstrand-Abueg, Virgiliu Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam

Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2012

2011

Variational bayes for modeling score distributions.

Keshi Dai, Evangelos Kanoulas, Virgiliu Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam

Inf. Retr., 2011

A large-scale study of the effect of training set characteristics over learning-to-rank algorithms.

Evangelos Kanoulas, Stefan Savev, Pavel Metrikov, Virgiliu Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam

Proceedings of the Proceeding of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2011

A nugget-based test collection construction paradigm.

Shahzad Rajput, Virgiliu Pavlu, Peter B. Golbus, Javed A. Aslam

Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2011

2010

Score distribution models: assumptions, intuition, and robustness to score manipulation.

Evangelos Kanoulas, Keshi Dai, Virgiliu Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam

Proceedings of the Proceeding of the 33rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2010

Reusable test collections through experimental design.

Ben Carterette, Evangelos Kanoulas, Virgiliu Pavlu, Hui Fang

Proceedings of the Proceeding of the 33rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2010

2009

Northeastern University in the TREC 2009 Web Track.

Shahzad Rajput, Evangelos Kanoulas, Virgiliu Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam

Proceedings of The Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2009

Northeastern University in TREC 2009 Million Query Track.

Evangelos Kanoulas, Keshi Dai, Virgiliu Pavlu, Stefan Savev, Javed A. Aslam

Proceedings of The Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2009

Million Query Track 2009 Overview.

Ben Carterette, Virgiliu Pavlu, Hui Fang, Evangelos Kanoulas

Proceedings of The Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2009

Document selection methodologies for efficient and effective learning-to-rank.

Javed A. Aslam, Evangelos Kanoulas, Virgiliu Pavlu, Stefan Savev, Emine Yilmaz

Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2009

Modeling the Score Distributions of Relevant and Non-relevant Documents.

Evangelos Kanoulas, Virgiliu Pavlu, Keshi Dai, Javed A. Aslam

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval Theory, 2009

If I Had a Million Queries.

Ben Carterette, Virgiliu Pavlu, Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam, James Allan

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2009

2008

Million Query Track 2008 Overview.

James Allan, Javed A. Aslam, Virgil Pavlu, Evangelos Kanoulas, Ben Carterette

Proceedings of The Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2008

Evaluation over thousands of queries.

Ben Carterette, Virgiliu Pavlu, Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam, James Allan

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2008

2007

The Hedge Algorithm for Metasearch at TREC 2007.

Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu, Olena Zubaryeva

Proceedings of The Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2007

Million Query Track 2007 Overview.

James Allan, Ben Carterette, Blagovest Dachev, Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu, Evangelos Kanoulas

Proceedings of The Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2007

Query Hardness Estimation Using Jensen-Shannon Divergence Among Multiple Scoring Functions.

Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2007

2006

The Hedge Algorithm for Metasearch at TREC 2006.

Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu, Carlos Rei

Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2006

A statistical method for system evaluation using incomplete judgments.

Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu, Emine Yilmaz

Proceedings of the SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2006

Semi-supervised Data Organization for Interactive Anomaly Analysis.

Javed A. Aslam, Sergey Bratus, Virgiliu Pavlu

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2006

2005

A geometric interpretation of r-precision and its correlation with average precision.

Javed A. Aslam, Emine Yilmaz, Virgiliu Pavlu

Proceedings of the SIGIR 2005: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2005

The maximum entropy method for analyzing retrieval measures.

Javed A. Aslam, Emine Yilmaz, Virgiliu Pavlu

Proceedings of the SIGIR 2005: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2005

Measure-based metasearch.

Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu, Emine Yilmaz

Proceedings of the SIGIR 2005: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2005

2003

A unified model for metasearch and the efficient evaluation of retrieval systems via the hedge algorithm.

Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu, Robert Savell

Proceedings of the SIGIR 2003: Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 28, 2003

A unified model for metasearch, pooling, and system evaluation.

Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu, Robert Savell

Proceedings of the 2003 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2003