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Falk Scholer

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

110

Venues

17

Active years

2002–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

110 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026ICTIRReasoning with Large Language Models for Relevance Judgements.Louis Geiger, Danula Hettiachchi, Falk Scholer, Johanne R. Trippas
2026SIGIRUnderstanding and Modeling Heterogeneous Search Behavior.Nuha Abu Onq, Chenglong Ma, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer
2025CIKMA Comparative Analysis of Linguistic and Retrieval Diversity in LLM-Generated Search Queries.Oleg Zendel, Sara Fahad Dawood Al Lawati, Lida Rashidi, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson
2025ICTIRDemographically-Inspired Query Variants Using an LLM.Marwah Alaofi, Nicola Ferro, Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson
2025ICTIRPreaching to the ChoIR: Lessons IR Should Share with AI.Gianluca Demartini, Claudia Hauff, Matthew Lease, Stefano Mizzaro, Kevin Roitero, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Chirag Shah, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Arjen P. de Vries, Guido Zuccon
2025RecSysStairway to Fairness: Connecting Group and Individual Fairness.Theresia Veronika Rampisela, Maria Maistro, Tuukka Ruotsalo, Falk Scholer, Christina Lioma
2025WWWMulti-stage Large Language Model Pipelines Can Outperform GPT-4o in Relevance Assessment.Julian A. Schnabel, Johanne R. Trippas, Falk Scholer, Danula Hettiachchi
2025SIGIRClassifying Term Variants in Query Formulation.Nuha Abu Onq, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer
2025SIGIRThe Effects of Demographic Instructions on LLM Personas.Angel Felipe Magnosso de Paula, J. Shane Culpepper, Alistair Moffat, Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Falk Scholer, Johanne R. Trippas
2024CHIIRWalert: Putting Conversational Information Seeking Knowledge into Action by Building and Evaluating a Large Language Model-Powered Chatbot.Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Lin Tian, Futoon M. Abushaqra, Angel Felipe Magnosso de Paula, Kaixin Ji, Halil Ali, Danula Hettiachchi, Johanne R. Trippas, Falk Scholer, Damiano Spina
2024CHIIREnhancing Human Annotation: Leveraging Large Language Models and Efficient Batch Processing.Oleg Zendel, J. Shane Culpepper, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
2024ICMITowards Investigating Biases in Spoken Conversational Search.Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Falk Scholer, Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina
2024SIGIRCharacterizing Information Seeking Processes with Multiple Physiological Signals.Kaixin Ji, Danula Hettiachchi, Flora D. Salim, Falk Scholer, Damiano Spina
2023ACLWikiHowQA: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multi-Document Non-Factoid Question Answering.Valeria Bolotova-Baranova, Vladislav Blinov, Sofya Filippova, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson
2023CIKMDesigning and Evaluating Presentation Strategies for Fact-Checked Content.Danula Hettiachchi, Kaixin Ji, Jenny Kennedy, Anthony McCosker, Flora D. Salim, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Damiano Spina
2023ECIREntropy-Based Query Performance Prediction for Neural Information Retrieval Systems.Oleg Zendel, Binsheng Liu, J. Shane Culpepper, Falk Scholer
2023SIGIRCan Generative LLMs Create Query Variants for Test Collections? An Exploratory Study.Marwah Alaofi, Luke Gallagher, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
2023SIGIRExamining the Impact of Uncontrolled Variables on Physiological Signals in User Studies for Information Processing Activities.Kaixin Ji, Damiano Spina, Danula Hettiachchi, Flora Dilys Salim, Falk Scholer
2022SIGIRWhere Do Queries Come From?Marwah Alaofi, Luke Gallagher, Dana McKay, Lauren L. Saling, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Damiano Spina, Ryen W. White
2022SIGIRA Non-Factoid Question-Answering Taxonomy.Valeria Bolotova, Vladislav Blinov, Falk Scholer, W. Bruce Croft, Mark Sanderson
2022SIGIRMIMICS-Duo: Offline & Online Evaluation of Search Clarification.Leila Tavakoli, Johanne R. Trippas, Hamed Zamani, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson
2022SIGIRCan Users Predict Relative Query Effectiveness?Oleg Zendel, Melika P. Ebrahim, J. Shane Culpepper, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer
2021ADCSCrowdsourcing Backstories for Complex Task-Based Search.Manuel Steiner, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, Lawrence Cavedon
2021CHIIRQuantifying Human-Perceived Answer Utility in Non-factoid Question Answering.Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Valeria Bolotova-Baranova, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson, Leila Tavakoli, W. Bruce Croft
2021CHIIRAn Intent Taxonomy for Questions Asked in Web Search.Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Leila Tavakoli, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson, W. Bruce Croft
2021CIKMEvaluating Fairness in Argument Retrieval.Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, W. Bruce Croft
2021ECIRAn Enhanced Evaluation Framework for Query Performance Prediction.Guglielmo Faggioli, Oleg Zendel, J. Shane Culpepper, Nicola Ferro, Falk Scholer
2021SIGIRIs Query Performance Prediction With Multiple Query Variations Harder Than Topic Performance Prediction?Oleg Zendel, J. Shane Culpepper, Falk Scholer
2020CIKMProviding Direct Answers in Search Results: A Study of User Behavior.Zhijing Wu, Mark Sanderson, Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, W. Bruce Croft, Falk Scholer
2020CIKMDo People and Neural Nets Pay Attention to the Same Words: Studying Eye-tracking Data for Non-factoid QA Evaluation.Valeria Bolotova, Vladislav Blinov, Yukun Zheng, W. Bruce Croft, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson
2020DSAAWatch 'n' Check: Towards a Social Media Monitoring Tool to Assist Fact-Checking Experts.Assunta Cerone, Elham Naghizade, Falk Scholer, Devi Mallal, Russell Skelton, Damiano Spina
2019CHIIRAnswer Interaction in Non-factoid Question Answering Systems.Chen Qu, Liu Yang, W. Bruce Croft, Falk Scholer, Yongfeng Zhang
2019CHIIRLearning About Work Tasks to Inform Intelligent Assistant Design.Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Peter Bailey, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. White, Jonathan Liono, Yongli Ren, Flora D. Salim, Mark Sanderson
2019CIKMInvestigating the Learning Process in Job Search: A Longitudinal Study.Jiaxin Mao, Damiano Spina, Sargol Sadeghi, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson
2019ECIRMeta-evaluation of Dynamic Search: How Do Metrics Capture Topical Relevance, Diversity and User Effort?Ameer Albahem, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, Lawrence Cavedon
2018ADCSDesirable Properties for Diversity and Truncated Effectiveness Metrics.Ameer Albahem, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, Alistair Moffat, Lawrence Cavedon
2018ADCSBetter Effectiveness Metrics for SERPs, Cards, and Rankings.Paul Thomas, Alistair Moffat, Peter Bailey, Falk Scholer, Nick Craswell
2018CHIIRQWERTY: The Effects of Typing on Web Search Behavior.Kevin Ong, Kalervo Jrvelin, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer
2018CIKMPresentation Ordering Effects On Assessor Agreement.Tadele Tedla Damessie, J. Shane Culpepper, Jaewon Kim, Falk Scholer
2018ECIROn the Cost of Negation for Dynamic Pruning.Joel M. Mackenzie, Craig Macdonald, Falk Scholer, J. Shane Culpepper
2018SIGIRA2A: Benchmark Your Clinical Decision Support Search.Sarvnaz Karimi, Vincent Nguyen, Falk Scholer, Brian Jin, Sara Falamaki
2018SIGIRA Living Lab Study of Query Amendment in Job Search.Bahar Salehi, Damiano Spina, Alistair Moffat, Sargol Sadeghi, Falk Scholer, Timothy Baldwin, Lawrence Cavedon, Mark Sanderson, Wilson Wong, Justin Zobel
2018SIGIRRanking Documents by Answer-Passage Quality.Evi Yulianti, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Falk Scholer, W. Bruce Croft, Mark Sanderson
2017ADCSEarly Termination Heuristics for Score-at-a-Time Index Traversal.Joel M. Mackenzie, Falk Scholer, J. Shane Culpepper
2017ADCSTasks, Queries, and Rankers in Pre-Retrieval Performance Prediction.Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat
2017CIKMAn Empirical Analysis of Pruning Techniques: Performance, Retrievability and Bias.Ruey-Cheng Chen, Leif Azzopardi, Falk Scholer
2017ECIRLanguage Influences on Tweeter Geolocation.Ahmed Mourad, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson
2017IJCAIConcurrence of Word Concepts in Cooking Recipe Search.Michiko Yasukawa, Falk Scholer
2017OZCHIOnly forward?: toward understanding human visual behaviour when examining search results.George Buchanan, Dana McKay, Eduardo Velloso, Alistair Moffat, Andrew Turpin, Falk Scholer
2017SIGIRRetrieval Consistency in the Presence of Query Variations.Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
2017SIGIRGauging the Quality of Relevance Assessments using Inter-Rater Agreement.Tadele Tedla Damessie, Thao P. Nghiem, Falk Scholer, J. Shane Culpepper
2017SIGIRUsing Information Scent to Understand Mobile and Desktop Web Search Behavior.Kevin Ong, Kalervo Jrvelin, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer
2017SIGIRUnderstanding User Behavior in Job and Talent Search: An Initial Investigation.Damiano Spina, Maria Maistro, Yongli Ren, Sargol Sadeghi, Wilson Wong, Timothy Baldwin, Lawrence Cavedon, Alistair Moffat, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Justin Zobel
2016ADCSThe Influence of Topic Difficulty, Relevance Level, and Document Ordering on Relevance Judging.Tadele Tedla Damessie, Falk Scholer, J. Shane Culpepper
2016ADCSUsing Semantic and Context Features for Answer Summary Extraction.Evi Yulianti, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson
2016CIKMOn the Effectiveness of Query Weighting for Adapting Rank Learners to New Unlabelled Collections.Pengfei Li, Mark Sanderson, Mark James Carman, Falk Scholer
2016ECIRBeyond Factoid QA: Effective Methods for Non-factoid Answer Sentence Retrieval.Liu Yang, Qingyao Ai, Damiano Spina, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Liang Pang, W. Bruce Croft, Jiafeng Guo, Falk Scholer
2016ICTIRThe Effect of Document Order and Topic Difficulty on Assessor Agreement.Tadele Tedla Damessie, Falk Scholer, Kalervo Jrvelin, J. Shane Culpepper
2016SIGIRUQV100: A Test Collection with Query Variability.Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
2015ADCSINST: An Adaptive Metric for Information Retrieval Evaluation.Alistair Moffat, Peter Bailey, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
2015ADCSData Fusion for Japanese Term and Character N-gram Search.Michiko Yasukawa, J. Shane Culpepper, Falk Scholer
2015CIKMHarnessing Semantics for Answer Sentence Retrieval.Ruey-Cheng Chen, Damiano Spina, W. Bruce Croft, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer
2015CIKMPooled Evaluation Over Query Variations: Users are as Diverse as Systems.Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas, Peter Bailey
2015ECIRDifferent Rankers on Different Subcollections.Timothy Jones, Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin, Stefano Mizzaro, Mark Sanderson
2015ECIRJudging Relevance Using Magnitude Estimation.Eddy Maddalena, Stefano Mizzaro, Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin
2015ECIRPredicting Re-finding Activity and Difficulty.Sargol Sadeghi, Roi Blanco, Peter Mika, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, David Vallet
2015SIGIRUser Variability and IR System Evaluation.Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
2015SIGIRFeatures of Disagreement Between Retrieval Effectiveness Measures.Timothy Jones, Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson
2015SIGIRThe Benefits of Magnitude Estimation Relevance Assessments for Information Retrieval Evaluation.Andrew Turpin, Falk Scholer, Stefano Mizzaro, Eddy Maddalena
2014ADCSA Study of Querying Behaviour of Expert and Non-expert Users of Biomedical Search Systems.Sadegh Kharazmi, Sarvnaz Karimi, Falk Scholer, Adam Clark
2014ADCSAssessing the Cognitive Complexity of Information Needs.Alistair Moffat, Peter Bailey, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
2014ADCSIdentifying Re-finding Difficulty from User Query Logs.Sargol Sadeghi, Roi Blanco, Peter Mika, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, David Vallet
2014CIKMSize and Source Matter: Understanding Inconsistencies in Test Collection-Based Evaluation.Timothy Jones, Andrew Turpin, Stefano Mizzaro, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson
2014SIGIRTREC: topic engineering exercise.J. Shane Culpepper, Stefano Mizzaro, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer
2014SIGIRUsing score differences for search result diversification.Sadegh Kharazmi, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, David Vallet
2013ADCSUsing eye tracking for evaluating web search interfaces.Hilal Al Maqbali, Falk Scholer, James A. Thom, Mingfang Wu
2013ADCSChoices in batch information retrieval evaluation.Falk Scholer, Alistair Moffat, Paul Thomas
2013CIKMAugmenting web search surrogates with images.Robert Capra, Jaime Arguello, Falk Scholer
2013CIKMUsers versus models: what observation tells us about effectiveness metrics.Alistair Moffat, Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer
2013SIGIRThe effect of threshold priming and need for cognition on relevance calibration and assessment.Falk Scholer, Diane Kelly, Wan-Ching Wu, Hanseul S. Lee, William Webber
2012ADCSSentence length bias in TREC novelty track judgements.Lorena Leal Bando, Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin
2012ADCSModels and metrics: IR evaluation as a user process.Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
2012CIKMDifferences in effectiveness across sub-collections.Mark Sanderson, Andrew Turpin, Ying Zhang, Falk Scholer
2012SIGIREfficient in-memory top-k document retrieval.J. Shane Culpepper, Matthias Petri, Falk Scholer
2012SIGIRPhonetic Matching in Japanese.Michiko Yasukawa, J. Shane Culpepper, Falk Scholer
2011SIGIRDomain expert topic familiarity and search behavior.Sarvnaz Karimi, Falk Scholer, Adam Clark, Sadegh Kharazmi
2011SIGIRQuantifying test collection quality based on the consistency of relevance judgements.Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin, Mark Sanderson
2010ADCHow consistent are human judgments of whether an open resource is educational material?Michael C. Harris, James A. Thom, Falk Scholer
2010CIKMAssessor error in stratified evaluation.William Webber, Douglas W. Oard, Falk Scholer, Bruce Hedin
2009CIKMThe challenge of high recall in biomedical systematic search.Sarvnaz Karimi, Justin Zobel, Stefan Pohl, Falk Scholer
2009OZCHIUser interaction with novel web search interfaces.Hilal Ali, Falk Scholer, James A. Thom, Mingfang Wu
2009SIGIRA case for improved evaluation of query difficulty prediction.Falk Scholer, Steven Garcia
2009SIGIRIncluding summaries in system evaluation.Andrew Turpin, Falk Scholer, Kalervo Jrvelin, Mingfang Wu, J. Shane Culpepper
2008ADCA Comparative Study of Probabalistic and Language Models for Information Retrieval.Graham Bennett, Falk Scholer, Alexandra L. Uitdenbogerd
2008ECIRUsing Clicks as Implicit Judgments: Expectations Versus Observations.Falk Scholer, Milad Shokouhi, Bodo Billerbeck, Andrew Turpin
2008ECIRInvestigating the Effectiveness of Clickthrough Data for Document Reordering.Milad Shokouhi, Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin
2008ECIREffective Pre-retrieval Query Performance Prediction Using Similarity and Variability Evidence.Ying Zhao, Falk Scholer, Yohannes Tsegay
2008SIGIRRelevance thresholds in system evaluations.Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin
2008SIGIRUser preference choices for complex question answering.Mingfang Wu, Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin
2007ACLCollapsed Consonant and Vowel Models: New Approaches for English-Persian Transliteration and Back-Transliteration.Sarvnaz Karimi, Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin
2007ACLCorpus Effects on the Evaluation of Automated Transliteration Systems.Sarvnaz Karimi, Andrew Turpin, Falk Scholer
2006APWEBSample Sizes for Query Probing in Uncooperative Distributed Information Retrieval.Milad Shokouhi, Falk Scholer, Justin Zobel
2006EMNLPCapturing Out-of-Vocabulary Words in Arabic Text.Abdusalam F. A. Nwesri, Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi, Falk Scholer
2006SIGIRCapturing collection size for distributed non-cooperative retrieval.Milad Shokouhi, Justin Zobel, Falk Scholer, Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi
2006SIGIRUser performance versus precision measures for simple search tasks.Andrew Turpin, Falk Scholer
2006SPIREEnglish to Persian Transliteration.Sarvnaz Karimi, Andrew Turpin, Falk Scholer
2005SPIREStemming Arabic Conjunctions and Prepositions.Abdusalam F. A. Nwesri, Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi, Falk Scholer
2003CIKMQuery expansion using associated queries.Bodo Billerbeck, Falk Scholer, Hugh E. Williams, Justin Zobel
2002CIKMQuery association for effective retrieval.Falk Scholer, Hugh E. Williams
2002SIGIRCompression of inverted indexes for fast query evaluation.Falk Scholer, Hugh E. Williams, John Yiannis, Justin Zobel