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Evaluating Fairness in Argument Retrieval
Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer +1
Existing commercial search engines often struggle to represent different perspectives of a search query. Argument retrieval systems address this limitation of search engines and pr…
Towards a Model for Spoken Conversational Search
Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas +3
Conversation is the natural mode for information exchange in daily life, a spoken conversational interaction for search input and output is a logical format for information seeking…
A Formal Account of Effectiveness Evaluation and Ranking Fusion
Enrique Amigó, Fernando Giner, Stefano Mizzaro +1
This paper proposes a theoretical framework which models the information provided by retrieval systems in terms of Information Theory. The proposed framework allows to formalize: (…
An Axiomatic Analysis of Diversity Evaluation Metrics: Introducing the Rank-Biased Utility Metric
Enrique Amigó, Damiano Spina, Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz
Many evaluation metrics have been defined to evaluate the effectiveness ad-hoc retrieval and search result diversification systems. However, it is often unclear which evaluation me…
Real-Time Classification of Twitter Trends
Arkaitz Zubiaga, Damiano Spina, Raquel Martínez +1
Social media users give rise to social trends as they share about common interests, which can be triggered by different reasons. In this work, we explore the types of triggers that…
Towards Real-Time Summarization of Scheduled Events from Twitter Streams
Arkaitz Zubiaga, Damiano Spina, Enrique Amigó +1
This paper explores the real-time summarization of scheduled events such as soccer games from torrential flows of Twitter streams. We propose and evaluate an approach that substant…