Publications 2022

• F. Tomasi, M. Lalmas & Z. Dai. Efficient Inference for Dynamic Topic Modeling with Large Vocabularies, 38th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), Eindhoven, Netherlands, August 1-5, 2022.
• E. Bugliarello, R. Mehrotra, J. Kirk and M. Lalmas. Mostra: A Flexible Balancing Framework to Trade-off User, Artist and Platform Objectives for Music Sequencing, The 31th The Web Conference (WWW), 25-29 April 2022.
• Z. Nazari, P. Chandar, G. Fazelnia, C. Edwards, B. Carterette and M. Lalmas. Choice of Implicit Signal Matters: Accounting for User Aspirations in Podcast Recommendations, The 31th The Web Conference (WWW), 25-29 April 2022.
• P. Chandar, B. St. Thomas, L. Maystre, V. Pappu, R. Sanchis Ojeda, T. Wu, B. Carterette, M. Lalmas and T. Jebara. Estimating Long-Term Engagement in Online Experiments using Survival Models, The 31th The Web Conference (WWW), 25-29 April 2022.
• G. Fazelnia, E. Simon, I. Anderson, B. Carterette and M. Lalmas. Variational User Modeling with Slow and Fast Features, 15th International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 21-25 February 2022.

Publications 2021

• M. Aziz, A. Wang, A. Pappu, H. Bouchard, Y. Zhao, B. Carterette and M. Lalmas. Leveraging Semantic Information to Facilitate the Discovery of Underserved Podcasts, 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (Applied Research Track), 1-5 November 2021, Online.
• A. Saravanou, F. Tomasi, R Mehrotra and M. Lalmas. Multi-Task Learning of Graph-based Inductive Representations of Music Content, International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2021), Online, November 8-12, 2021.
• H. Hashemi, A Pappu, M. Tian, P. Chandar, M. Lalmas and B. Carterette. Neural Instant Search for Music and Podcast, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (Applied Data Science Track), August 14-18, 2021.
• J. Bütepage, L. Maystre and M. Lalmas. Gaussian Process encoders: VAEs with Reliable Latent-Space Uncertainty, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD), Bilbao, Spain, September 13-17, 2021.
• L. Maystre, N. Kumarappan, J. Bütepage and M. Lalmas.  Collaborative Classification from Noisy Labels, 24th International Conference on  Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 13 -15 April 2021
• F.  Sanna Passino, L. Maystre, D. Moor, A. Anderson and M. Lalmas. Where to Next? A Dynamic Model of User Preferences, The 30th The Web Conference (WWW), April 19-23, 2021.
• C. Hansen, R. Methrora, C. Hansen, B. Brost, L. Maystre and M. Lalmas. Shifting Consumption towards Diverse Content on Music Streaming Platforms, 14th ACM International Web Search and Data Mining conference (WSDM), March 8-12, 2021.

Publications 2020

• Z. Dai, P. Ravichandran, G. Fazelnia, B. Carterette and M. Lalmas. Model Selection for Production System via Automated Online Experiments, 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 6-12, 2020.
• R. Mehrotra, P. Bhattacharya & M. Lalmas. Inferring the Causal Impact of New Track Releases on Music Recommendation Platforms through Counterfactual Predictions, 14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (Late Breaking Results), Online, September  22-26, 2020.
• F. Tomasi, R. Mehrotra, A. Pappu, J. Bütepage, B. Brost, H. Galvão & M. Lalmas. Query Understanding for Surfacing Under-served Music Content, 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2020), Online, Applied Research Track, October, 19-23, 2020.
• C. Hanser, C. Hansen, L. Maystre, R. Mehrotra, B. Brost, F. Tomasi & M. Lalmas. Contextual and Sequential User Embeddings for Large-Scale Music Recommendation,14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Online, September  22-26, 2020.
• R. Mehrotra, M. Lalmas & N. Xue. Bandit based Optimization of Multiple Objectives on a Music Streaming Platform, 26th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (Applied Data Science Track), San Diego, USA, August 23-27, 2020.
• F. Tomasi, P. Ravichandran, G. Levy-Fix, M. Lalmas & Z. Dai. Stochastic Variational Inference for Dynamic Correlated Topic Models, 36th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), Toronto, Canada, August 3-6, 2020.
• Y. Tian, K. Zhou, M. Lalmas & D. Pelleg. Identifying Tasks from Mobile App Usage Patterns, 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (Industry Track), Xi’an, China, July 25-30, 2020.
• E. Graells-Garrido, R. Baeza-Yates & M. Lalmas. Every Colour You Are: Stance Prediction and Turnaround in Controversial Issues, 12th International ACM Conference on Web Science, Southampton, UK, 7-10 July 2020.
• Y. Tian, K. Zhou, M. Lalmas, Y. Liu & D. Pelleg. Cohort Modeling Based App Category Usage Prediction, 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), Genova, Italy, 14-17 July 2010.
• A. Anderson, L. Maystre, I. Anderson, R. Mehrotra  & M Lalmas. Algorithmic Effects on the Diversity of Consumption on Spotify, The Web Conference, Taipei, 20-24 April 2020.
• K. Roitero, B. Carterette, R. Mehrotra & M Lalmas. Leveraging Behavioral Heterogeneity Across Markets for Cross-Market Training of Recommender Systems, LocWeb2020 Workshop @ WWW2020, The Web Conference, Taipei, 20-24 April 2020.
• E. Graells-Garrido, R. Baeza-Yates & M. Lalmas. Representativeness of Abortion Legislation Debate on Twitter: A Case Study in Argentina and Chile, FATES on the Web 2020 Workshop @ WWW2020 , The Web Conference, Taipei, 20-24 April  2020.

Publications 2019

• R. Mehrotra, M. Lalmas, D. Kenney, T. Lim-Meng & G. Hashemian. Jointly Leveraging Intent and Interaction Signals to Predict User Satisfaction with Slate Recommendations, The Web Conference, May 13-17, 2019, San Francisco, USA.
• P. Dragone, R. Mehrotra & M. Lalmas. Deriving User- and Content-specific Rewards for Contextual Bandits, The Web Conference, 13 May 2019, San Francisco, USA (short paper).
• M. Bron, Ke Zhou, A. Haines and M. Lalmas. Uncovering Bias in Ad Feedback Data: Analyses & Applications, 3rd International workshop on Augmenting Intelligence with Bias-Aware Humans­-in-­the-­Loop, The Web Conference, 13 May 2019, San Francisco, USA.

Publications 2018

• R. Mehrotra, J. McInerney, H. Bouchard, M. Lalmas and F. Diaz. Towards a Fair Marketplace: Counterfactual Evaluation of the trade-off between Relevance, Fairness & Satisfaction in Recommendation Systems, 27th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018), October 22–26, 2018, Torino, Italy.
• D. Nikolov, M. Lalmas, A. Flammini and F. Menczer. Quantifying Biases in Online Information Exposure, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2018 (link to JASIST)
• G. Tolomei, M. Lalmas, A. Farahat and A. Haines. You must have clicked on this ad by mistake! Data-driven identification of accidental clicks on mobile ads with applications to advertiser cost discounting and click-through rate prediction. International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, April 2018.
• N.Goyal, M. Bron, M. Lalmas, A. Haines and H. Cramer. Designing for Mobile Experience Beyond the Native Ad Click: Exploring Landing Page Presentation Style & Media Usage, American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) 69(7): 913-923, 2018.

Publications 2017

• G. Tolomei, F. Silvestri, A. Haines and M. Lalmas. Interpretable Predictions of Tree-based Ensembles via Actionable Feature Tweaking, 23rd SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, August 13-17, 2017.
• M. Bron, M. Redi, F. Silvestri, H. Evans, M. Chute and M. Lalmas. Friendly, Appealing or Both? Characterising User Experience in Sponsored Search Landing Pages, 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2017), Perth, Australia, 3-7 April, 2017.
• S. Van Canneyt, M. Bron, A. Haines and M. Lalmas. Describing Patterns and Disruptions in Large Scale Mobile App Usage Data, 7th Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb), International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2017), Industrial Track, Perth, Australia, 3-7 April, 2017.

Publications 2016

• I. Arapakis, B. Barla Cambazoglu, and M. Lalmas. On the Feasibility of Predicting News Popularity at Cold Start, In Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2016.
• I. Bordino, M. Lalmas, Y. Mejova and O. van Laere. Beyond entities: promoting explorative search with bundles, Journal of Information Retrieval, , 447-486:5(19), 2016.
• K. Zhou, M. Redi, A. Haines and M. Lalmas. Predicting Pre-click Quality for Native Advertisements, 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016), Montreal, Canada, April 11 to 15, 2016.
• N. Barbieri, F. Silvestri and M. Lalmas. Improving Post-Click User’s Engagement on Native Ads via Survival Analysis, 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016), Montreal, Canada, April 11 to 15, 2016.
• E. Graells, M. Lalmas and R. Baeza-Yates. Encouraging Diversity- and Representation-Awareness in Geographically Centralized Content, ACM International Conference On Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2016), Sonoma, USA, March 7-10, 2016.
• E. Graells, M. Lalmas and R. Baeza-Yates. Data Portraits and Intermediary Topics: Encouraging Exploration of Politically Diverse Profiles, ACM International Conference On Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2016), Sonoma, USA, March 7-10, 2016.
• D. Lagun and M. Lalmas. Understanding and Measuring User Engagement and Attention in Online News Reading, International Conference On Web Search And Data Mining (WSDM 2016), San Francisco, USA, 22-24 Fabruary 2016.
• J. Lehmann, C. Castillo, M. lalmas and R. Baeza-Yates. Story-focused Reading in Online News and its Potential for User Engagement, Journal Of The Association For Information Science And Technology (JASIST), 2016.

Publications 2015

• J. Lehmann, M. Lalmas, and R. Baeza-Yates. Measuring Inter-Site Engagement, In V. Go-vindaraju, V. V. Raghavan, and C. R. Rao (Eds.), Handbook of Statistics: Big Data Analytics, Elsevier, 2015.
• M. Lalmas, J. Lehmann, G. Shaked, F. Silvestri and G. Tolomei. Promoting Positive Post-click Experience for In-Stream Yahoo Gemini Users, 21th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (Indutsry Track), Sydney, Australia, 10-13 August 2015.
• E. Graells-Garrido, M. Lalmas and F. Menczer. First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia, 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Cyprus, 1-4 September 2015.
• I. Miliaraki, R. Blanco and M. Lalmas. From “Selena Gomez” to “Marlon Brando”: Understanding Explorative Entity Search, 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015), Florence, Italy, May 18-22, 2015.
• D. Warnock and M. Lalmas. An Exploration of Cursor tracking Data, arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.00317, 2015.

Publications 2014

• M. Lalmas, H. O’Brien and E. Yom-Tov. Measuring User Engagement, Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2014 (a pre-prodcution PDF version can be found here).
• I. Bordino, M. Lalmas, Y. Mejova, and O. Van Laere. Driving curiosity in search with large-scale entity networks, ACM SIGWEB Newsletter, Issue Autumn, Article No. 5, 2014.
• I. Arapakis, B. Cambazoglu, M. Lalmas. On the Feasibility of Predicting News Popularity at Cold Start, 6th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2014), Barcelona, Spain, November 10-13, 2014 (Short Paper).
• N. Bidwell, S. Robinson, E. Vartiainen, M. Jones, M. Jay Siya, T. Reitmaier, G. Mardsen, M. Lalmas. Designing social-media for community information sharing in rural South Africa, ACM Conference of South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists (SAICSIT), University of Pretoria, South Africa, September 28 – October 1, 2014.
• I. Arapakis, M. Lalmas and G. Valkanas.Understanding Within-Content Engagement through Pattern Analysis of Mouse Gestures, 23rd International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Shanghai, China, November 3-7, 2014.
• O. Van Laere, I. Bordino, Y. Mejova and M. Lalmas. DEESSE: entity-Driven Exploratory and sErendipitous Search SystEm, 23rd International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Shanghai, China, November 3-7, 2014 (Demo).
• E. Graells-Garrido, M. Lalmas and R. Baeza-Yates. Sentiment Visualisation Widgets for Exploratory Search, 1st International Workshop on Social Personalisation (SP 2014), 1–4 September 2014, Santiago, Chile.
• J. Lehmann, C. Müller-Birn, D. Laniado, M. Lalmas and A. Kaltenbrunner, Readers Preference and Behavior on Wikipedia, 25th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, 1-4 September 2014, Santiago, Chile – Ted Nelson Newcomer Best Paper Award.
• E. Graells-Garrido and M. Lalmas. Balancing Diversity to Counter-measure Geographical Centralization in Microblogging Platform, 25th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, 1-4 September 2014, Santiago, Chile (Short Paper).
• E. Graells-Garrido, M. Lalmas and D. Quercia. People of Opposing Views can Share Common Interests, International World-Wide Web Conference (WWW), Seoul, South Korea, 7-11 April 2014 (Poster).
• H. Bota, K. Zhou, J. Jose and M. Lalmas. Composite Retrieval of Heterogeneous Web Search, International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Seoul, South Korea, 7-11 April 2014.

Publications 2013

• E. Yom-Tov, M. Lalmas, R. Baeza-Yates, G. Dupret, J. Lehmann and Pinar Donmez. Measuring Inter-Site Engagement, IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData 2013), October 6-9, 2013, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
• T. Roelleke, H. Azzam, M. Bonzanini, M. Martinez-Alvarez and M. Lalmas. The D2Q2 Framework: On the Relationship and Combination of Language Modelling and TF-IDF, German Computer Science Society (GI) Joint Forum on “Lernen, Wissen, Adaption” (Learning, Knowledge, Adaptation) (LAW 2013), Bamberg, Germany, 7-9 October 2013.
• I. Arapakis, M. Lalmas, B. Cambazoglu,
  M.-C. Marcos, J.M. Jose. User Engagement in Online News: Under the Scope of Sentiment, Interest, Affect, and Gaze, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 2013 (In Press).
• J. Lehmann, M. Lalmas, R. Baeza-Yates and E. Yom-Tov. Networked User Engagement, CIKM workshop on User Engagement Optimization, 2013, San Francisco, USA.
• J. Lehmann, M. Lalmas and R. Baeza-Yates. Temporal variations in networked user engagement, Temporal Networks in Human Dynamics, Satellite Meeting ECCS’13, Barcelona, 16-20 September 2013 (Abstract).
• I. Bordino, Y. Mejova and M. Lalmas. Penguins in Sweaters, or Serendipitous Entity Search on User-generated Content, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013), 27 October – 1 November 2013, San Francisco, USA – Best Paper Award.
• J. Lehmann, M. Lalmas, G. Dupret and R. Baeza-Yates. Online Multitasking and User Engagement, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013), 27 October – 1 November 2013, San Francisco, USA.
• D. Sáez Trumper, C. Castillo and M. Lalmas. Social Media News Communities: Gatekeeping, Coverage, and Statement Bias, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013), 27 October – 1 November 2013, San Francisco, USA (Short Paper).
• K. Zhou, M. Lalmas, T. Sakai, R. Cummins and J. Jose. On the Reliability and Intuitiveness of Aggregated Search Metrics, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013), 27 October – 1 November 2013, San Francisco, USA.
• K. Zhou, T. Sakai, M. Lalmas, Z. Dou and J. Jose. Evaluating Heterogeneous Information Access (Position Paper) , SIGIR 2013 Workshop on Modeling User Behavior for
  Information Retrieval Evaluation (MUBE 2013), July 2013, Dublin, Ireland.
• S. Whiting, K. Zhou, J. M. Jose and M. Lalmas. Temporal Variance of Intents in Multi-faceted Event-driven Information Needs, 36th ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2013), Dublin, Ireland, 2013 (Short Paper).
• Y. Mejova, I. Bordino, M. Lalmas and A. Gionis. Searching for Interestingness in Wikipedia and Yahoo! Answers, International World-Wide Web Conference (WWW), 13-17 May 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Poster).
• J. Lehmann, C. Castillo, M. Lalmas and E. Zucherman. Finding News Curators in Twitter, WWW Workshop on Social News On the Web (SNOW), 13 May 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• J. Lehmann, C. Castillo, M. Lalmas and E. Zucherman. Transient News Crowds in Social Media, Seventh International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 8-10 July 2013, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• I. Arapakis, M. Lalmas, H. Ceylan, P. Donmez. Automatically Embedding Newsworthy Links to Articles: From Implementation to Evaluation, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 2013.
• K. Zhou, R. Cummins, M. Lalmas and J. Jose. Which Vertical Search Engines are Relevant? Understanding Vertical Relevance Assessments for Web Queries, International World-Wide Web Conference (WWW), 13-17 May 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• K. Zhou, S. Whiting, J. Jose and M. Lalmas. The Impact of Temporal Intent Variability on Diversity Evaluation, 35th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Moscow, Russia, 24-27 March 2013 (Short Paper).
• G. Dupret and M. Lalmas. Absence time and user engagement: Evaluating Ranking Functions, Sixth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Rome, Italy, February 6-8, 2013.

Publications 2012

• A. Zhou, R. Cummins, M. Lalmas and J. Jose. Evaluating Reward and Risk for Vertical Selection, 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), October 29 – November 2,2012, Maui, Hawaii, USA (Poster).
• S. Sushmita, M. Halvey, M. Lalmas and R. Villa. Revisiting User Information Needs in Aggregated Search, 2nd European Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (EuroHCIR 2012), at IIiX 2012, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 24-25th August 2012.
• H. Ceylan, I. Arapakis, P. Donmez and M. Lalmas. Automatically Embedding Newsworthy Links to Articles, 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), October 29 – November 2, 2012, Maui, Hawaii, USA (Short Paper).
• A. Zhou, R. Cummins, M. Lalmas and J. Jose. Evaluating Aggregated Search Pages, 35th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Portland, 2012.
• J. Lehmann, M. Lalmas, E. Yom-Tov and G. Dupret. Models of User Engagement, 20th conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2012), Montreal, 16-20 July 2012.
• E. Yom-Tov, M. Lalmas, G. Dupret, R. Baeza-Yates, P. Donmez and J. Lehmann. The Effect of Links on Networked User Engagement, World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2012), 16-20 April 2012, Lyon, France (Poster).
• T. Blanke, M. Lalmas and T. Huibers. A Framework for the Theoretical Evaluation of XML Retrieval, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 63(12):2463-2473, 2012.
• M.S. Ali, M.P. Consens and M. Lalmas. Extended Structural Relevance Framework: A Framework for Evaluating Structured Document Retrieval, Journal of Information Retrieval (IR), 15(6):558-590, 2012.
• L. McCay-Peet, M. Lalmas, V. Navalpakkam. On Saliency, Affect and Focused Attention, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 5-10 May, Austin, Texas, 2012 – Honorable Mention.
• K. Zhou, R. Cummins, M. Halvey, M. Lalmas and J. Jose. Assessing and Predicting Vertical Intent for Web Queries, 34th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2012), Barcelona, Spain, 1-5 April 2012 (Poster).
• Z. Szlavik, A. Tombros and M. Lalmas. Summarisation of the logical structure of XML documents, Information Processing & Management (IP&M), 48(5):956-968, 2012.
• B. Piwowarski, M.R. Amini and M. Lalmas. On using a Quantum Physics formalism for Multi-document Summarisation, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 63(5):865-888, 2012.

Publications 2011

• K. Zhou, R. Cummins, M. Lalmas and J. Jose. Evaluating Large-Scale Distributed Vertical Search, CIKM 2011 Workshop on Large-Scale and Distributed Information Retrieval (LSDS-IR 2011), Friday 28 October 2011, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
• R. Cummins, M. Lalmas, C. O’Riordan and J. Jose. Navigating the User Query Space, 18th String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2011), 17-21 Octob er 2011, Pisa, Italy.
• N.J. Bidwell, M. Lalmas, G. Marsden, B. Dlutu, S. Ntlangano, A. Manjingolo, W.D. Tucker, M. Jones, S. Robinson, E. Vartiainen and I. Klampanos. Please call ME.N.U.4EVER: Designing for ʻCallbackʼ in Rural Africa, International Workshop on Internationalisation of Products and Systems (IWIPS 2011), 11-14 July, 2011, Malaysia.
• M. Lalmas. Aggregated Search, Advanced Topics on Information Retrieval, edited by M. Melucci and R. Baeza-Yates, Springer, 2011.
• S. Attfield, G. Kazai, M. Lalmas and B. Piwowarski. Towards a science of user engagement (Position Paper), WSDM Workshop on User Modelling for Web Applications, Hong Kong, China, 9 February 2011.
• A. Caputo, B. Piwowarski and M. Lalmas. A Query Algebra for Quantum Information Retrieval, 2nd Italian Information Retrieval (IIR), University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, January 26-28, 2011.
• R. Cummins, M. Lalmas and C. O’Riordian. The Limits of Retrieval Effectivenessi, 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Dublin, Ireland, 18-21 April (Short Paper).
• D. Zellhofer, I. Frommholz, I. Schmitt, M. Lalmas and C.J. van Risjbergen. Towards Quantum-based DB+IR Processing based on the Principle of Polyrepresentation, 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Dublin, Ireland, 18-21 April (Poster) – Short-listed for Best Poster Award.
• I. Frommholz, B. Piwowarski, M. Lalmas, and C.J. van Risjbergen. Processing Queries in Session in a Quantum-inspired IR Framework, 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Dublin, Ireland, 18-21 April (Poster) – Short-listed for Best Poster Award.

Publications 2010

• M. Lalmas, J.M. Jose, A. Rauber, F. Sebastiani and I. Frommholz (eds). Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 14th European Conference, ECDL 2010, Glasgow, UK, September 6-10, 2010.
• M. Lalmas and R. Baeza-Yates. Chapter on Structured text retrieval in Modern Information Retrieval, 2nd Edition, Springer, edited by R. Baeza-Yates and B. Ribeiro-Neto, November 2010.
• T. Blanke and M. Lalmas. Specificity Aboutness in XML Retrieval, Special Issue of the second international conference on the theory of information retrieval, Journal of Information Retrieval, September 2010.
• S. Sushmita, B. Piwowarski and M. Lalmas. Dynamics of Genre and Domain Intentsi, 6th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference（AIRS), 1-3 December 2010, Taipei, Taiwan (Poster).
• B. Piwowarski, I. Frommholz, M. Lalmas, C.J. van Rijsbergen. What can Quantum Theory Bring to Information Retrieval?, ACM CIKM Nineteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Toronto, Canada, 26-30 October 2010.
• S. Sushmita, H. Joho, M. Lalmas and R. Villa. Factors Affecting Click-Through Behavior in Aggregated Search Interfaces, ACM CIKM Nineteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Toronto, Canada, 26-30 October 2010.
• R. Cummins, M. Lalmas, C. O’Riordan. Examining the Information Retrieval Process from an Inductive Perspective, ACM CIKM Nineteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Toronto, Canada, 26-30 October 2010 – Short-listed for Best Inter-disciplinary Paper Award.
• I. Frommholz, C.J. van Rijsbergen, F. Crestani and M. Lalmas. Towards a Geometrical Cognitive Framework, The Janus Faced Scholari – A Festschrift in Honour of Peter Ingwersen, vol. 06-S, June 2010.
• D. Song, M. Lalmas, C.J. van Rijsbergen, I. Frommholz, B. Piwowarski, J. Wang, P. Zhang, G. Zuccon, P.D. Bruza, S. Arafat, L. Azzopardi, E. Di Buccio, A. Huertas-Rosero, Y. Hou, M. Melucci, S. Rueger. How quantum theory is developing the field of information retrieval, AAAI-Fall (QI) Symposium on Quantum Informatics for Cognitive, Social, and Semantic Processes, Washington, DC, November 2010.
• A. Trotman, S. Geva, J. Kamps, M. Lalmas and V. Murdock (eds). Current research in focused retrieval and result aggregation, Special Issue in the Journal of Information Retrieval, Springer, June 2010.
• I. Frommholz, B. Larsen, B. Piwowarski, M. Lalmas, P. Ingwersen, C.J. van Rijsbergen. Supporting Polyrepresentation in a Quantum-inspired Geometrical Retrieval Framework, Information Interaction in Context conference (IIiX 2010), New Brunswick NJ USA, August 18-22, 2010 – Short-listed for Best Paper Award.
• C. Ronan, M. Lalmas, C. O’Riordan. Learning Aggregation Functions for Expert Search, 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2010), Lisbon, Portugal, August 16-20, 2010.
• A.J. McHugh and M. Lalmas. Rethinking Preservation Validation with the Preserved Object and Repository Risks Ontology (PORRO), ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2010), Surfers Paradise, Australia, June 21-25, 2010 (Poster).
• E. Graf, I. Frommholz, M. Lalmas and C.J. van Rijsbergen. Knowledge Modeling In Prior Art Search, First Information Retrieval Facility Conference, Vienna, Austria, 31 May 2010.
• B. Piwowarski, I. Frommholz, M. Lalmas and C.J. van Rijsbergen. Exploring a Multidimensional Representation of Documents and Queries, 9th international conference on Adaptivity, Personalization and Fusion of Heterogeneous Information (RIAO 2010), Paris, France, 28-30 April 2010 (Short Paper). (Extended Version)
• R. Cummins, C. O’Riordan and M. Lalmas. An Analysis of Learned Proximity Functions, 9th international conference on Adaptivity, Personalization and Fusion of Heterogeneous Information (RIAO 2010), Paris, France, 28-30 April 2010 (Short Paper).
• E. Di Buccio, M. Lalmas and M. Melucci. From Entities to Geometry: Towards exploiting Multiple Sources to support Relevance Prediction, First Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2010), Padova, Italy, 27-28 January 2010.
• B. Piwowarski, I. Frommholz, Y. Moshfeghi, M. Lalmas and C.J. van Rijsbergen. Filtering document with subspaces, (ECIR 2010) 32th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, 28-31 March 2010, Milton Keynes, UK (Poster) – Best Poster.

Publications 2009

• M. Frohlich, R. Bhat, M. Jones, M. Lalmas, M. Frank, D. Rachovides, R. Tucker and K. Riga. Democracy, Design, and Development in Community Content Creation: Lessons from the StoryBank Project, HCI4D Special Issue, Journal of Information Technologies and International Development, 5(4), December 2009.
• L. Azzopardi, R. Glassey, M. Lalmas, T. Polajnar and I. Ruthven.
  PuppyIR: Designing an Open Source Framework for
  Interactive Information Services for Childreni, 3rd Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2009), Catholic University of America, Washington DC, USA, 23 October 2009.
• M. Lalmas. XML Retrieval, Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services, Vol. 1, No. 1, Pages 1-111, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2009 (a pre-prodcution PDF version can be found here).
• T. Blanke and M. Lalmas. Specificity Aboutness in XML Retrieval, 2nd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR), Cambridge, UK, 10-12 September 2009 – Short-listed for Best Paper Award.
• B. Piwowarski and M. Lalmas. An Interactive Quantum Perspective for Information Retrieval, 2nd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR), Cambridge, UK, 10-12 September 2009 (Short Paper).
• S. Sushmita, H. Joho and M. Lalmas. A Task-Based
  Evaluation of an Aggregated Search Interface, 16th String Processing and
  Information Retrieval Symposium (SPIRE), Saariselkä, Finland, 25–27 August 2009.
• J. Kamps, M. Lalmas and B. Larsen. Evaluation in Context, 13th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009), Corfu, Greece, 27 September – 2 October, 2009.
• A. Trotman, M. del Rocio Gomez Crisostomo and M. Lalmas. Visualizing the Problems with the INEX Topics, 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Boston, USA, July 19-23 2009 (Poster).
• S. Sushmita, H. Joho, M. Lalmas and J.M. Jose. Understanding domain “relevance” in web search, WWW 2009 Workshop on Web Search Result Summarization and Presentation, Madrid, Spain, 20 April 2009.
• M. Lalmas. XML Information Retrieval, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences,
  M. J. Bates and M.N. Maack (Eds),
  Taylor & Francis Group, 2009.
• B. Piwowarski and M. Lalmas. Structured Information Retrieval and Quantum Theory, 3rd
  Quantum Interaction Symposium, DFKI, Saarbruecken, 2009 (Position Paper).
• M. Lalmas and R. Baeza-Yates. Structured Document Retrieval, Encyclopedia of Database Systems, O.M. Tamer and L. Ling (Eds.), Springer, May 2009.
• M. Lalmas and A. Trotman. XML retrieval, Encyclopedia of Database Systems, O.M. Tamer and L. Ling (Eds.), Springer, May 2009.
• M. Lalmas. Term statistics for Structured Text Retrieval, Encyclopedia of Database Systems, O.M. Tamer and L. Ling (Eds.), Springer, May 2009.
• M. Lalmas. Structure Weight, Encyclopedia of Database Systems, O.M. Tamer and L. Ling (Eds.), Springer, May 2009.
• M. Lalmas. Relationships in Structured Text Retrieval, Encyclopedia of Database Systems, O.M. Tamer and L. Ling (Eds.), Springer, May 2009.

Publications 2008

• B. Piwowarski, A. Trotman and M. Lalmas. Sound and Complete Relevance Assessment for XML Retrieval, ACM Transactions in Information Systems, 27(1), Article 1, 37 pages, 2008.
• M. Lalmas, A. Tombros, P. Borlund, J. W. Schneider, D. Kelly, J. Feather, A.P. de Vries and L. Azzopardi (eds). Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Interaction in Context, IIiX 2008, London, UK, October 14-17, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 2008.
• S. Ali, M. Consens, G. Kazai, M. Lalmas. Structural Relevance: A Common Basis for the Evaluation of Structured Document Retrieval, 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), pages 1153-1162, Napa Valley, California, 2008 – Runner Up: Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award.
• M. Lalmas and V. Murdock (eds). SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Aggregated Search, Singapore, 24 January 2008.
• S. Sushmita, M. Lalmas, and A. Tombros. Using digest pages to increase user result space: Preliminary designs, SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Aggregated Search, Singapore, 24 July 2008.
• N. Fuhr, J. Kamps, M. Lalmas, and A. Trotman (eds). Focused access to XML documents: Sixth Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2007, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, December 17-19, 2007, Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science , Vol. 4862, August 2008.
• J Kamps, M. Koolen and M. Lalmas. Retrieving Relevant Text within Articles, 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 847-848, Singapore, 20-24 July 2008 (Poster).
• J. Kamps, J. Pehcevski, G. Kazai, M. Lalmas, and S. Robertson. INEX 2007 evaluation measures. Focused access to XML documents: Sixth Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2007), 2008 (To Appear).
• N. Fuhr, J. Kamps, M. Lalmas, S. Malik, and A. Trotman. Overview of the INEX 2007 ad hoc track. Focused access to XML documents: Sixth Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2007), 2008 (To Appear).
• A. P. de Vries, A.-M. Vercoustre, J. A. Thom, N. Craswell, and M. Lalmas. Overview of the INEX 2007 Entity Ranking Track. Focused access to XML documents: Sixth Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2007), 2008 (To Appear).
• Y. Chang, J. Wang, M. Lalmas. Generation of query-biased concepts using content and structure for query reformulation, 13th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB2008), pages 136-141, London, June 2008 (Short Paper).
• M. Jones, W. Harwood, G. Buchanan, D. Frohlich, D. Rachovides, M. Lalmas and M. Frank. Narrowcast yourself: Designing for Community Storytelling in a Rural Indian Context, ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, Cape Town, South Africa, February 2008.
• B.D. Davison, M. Lalmas, D.D. Lewis. ACM SIGIR Annual Business Meeting 2008: Secretary’s Notes, SIGIR Forum, 42(2):3-8, December 2008.
• V. Murdock and M. Lalmas. Workshop on Aggregated Search, SIGIR Forum, 42(2):80-83, December 2008.

Publications 2007

• Z. Szlavik, A. Tombros and M. Lalmas. Content and structure summarisation of XML documents for effective information access. Second DELOS Conference on Digital Libraries, Tirrenia, Pisa, Italy, 5-7 December 2007.
• E. Ashoori, M. Lalmas and T. Tsikrika. Examining Topic Shifts in Content-Oriented XML Retrieval, International Journal on Digital Libraries, 8(1):39-60, November 2007.
• M.S. Ali, M.P. Consens and M. Lalmas. Structural Relevance in XML Retrieval Evaluation, SIGIR 2007 Workshop on Focused Retrieval, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 27, 2007.
• M. Lalmas and A. Tombros. Evaluating XML Retrieval Effectiveness at INEX, SIGIR Forum 41(1):40-57, June 2007.
• N. Fuhr, M. Lalmas, and A. Trotman (editors). Comparative Evaluation of XML Information Retrieval Systems: 5th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2006, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, December 17-20, 2006, Revised and Selected Papers Springer 2007.
• S. Malik, A. Trotman, M. Lalmas, N. Fuhr. Overview of INEX 2006. In Comparative Evaluation of XML Information Retrieval Systems: Fifth Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2006), pp 1-11, 2007.
• M. Lalmas, G. Kazai, J. Kamps, J. Pehcevski, B. Piwowarski, and S. Robertson. INEX 2006 evaluation measures. In Comparative Evaluation of XML Information Retrieval Systems: Fifth Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2006), pp 20-34, 2007.
• E. Ashoori and M. Lalmas. Using Topic-shifts in XML Retrieval at INEX 2006. In Comparative Evaluation of XML Information Retrieval Systems: Fifth Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2006), pp 261-270, 2007.
• J. Kamps, M. Lalmas and J. Pehcevski. Evaluating Relevant in Context: Document Retrieval with a Twist, ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp 749-750, July 2007 (Poster).
• J. Kamps, M. Koolen, M. Lalmas. Where to Start Reading a Textual XML Document?, ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp 723-724, July 2007 (Poster).
• Z. Kong and M. Lalmas. Using XML Logical Structure to Retrieve (Multimedia) Objectsi, 11th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2007), pp 100-111, Budapest, Hungary, September 2007.
• M. Lalmas, R. Bhat, M. Frank, D. Frohlich, M. Jones. Bridging the digital divide: Understanding information access practices in an Indian village, ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp 741-742, July 2007 (Poster).
• M. Jones, W. Harwood, G. Buchanan and M. Lalmas. StoryBank: an Indian Village Community Digital Library, ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, pp 257-258, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 2007 (Short Paper).
• M. Lalmas and A. Tombros. INEX 2002 – 2006: Understanding XML Retrieval Evaluation, First International DELOS Conference, Pisa, Italy, Revised Selected Papers, February 13-14, 2007.
• T. Blanke and M. Lalmas. Theoretical Benchmarks of Evaluation Methodologies in XML Retrieval, 7th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2007), K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, March 2007 – Best student paper.
• E. Ashoori and M. Lalmas. Using Topic-shift for Focussed Access to XML Repositories, 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), pp 444-455, April 2007.
• T. Tsikrika and M. Lalmas. Combining evidence for relevance criteria: a framework and experiments in web retrieval, 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), pp 481-493, April 2007.
• Z. Szlavik, A. Tombros and M. Lalmas. Feature- and query-based table of contents generation for XML documents, 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), pp 456-467, April 2007.
• Z. Kong and M. Lalmas. Combining Multiple Sources of Evidence in XML Multimedia Documents: an Inference Network Incorporating Element Language Models, 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), pp 16-719, April 2007 (Poster).
• M. Amini, A. Tombros, N, Usunier and M. Lalmas. Learning-based summarisation of XML documents, Information Retrieval, 10(3): 233 – 255, June 2007.

Publications 2006

• N. Fuhr and M. Lalmas. Advances in XML Retrieval: The INEX Inititative, Proceedings of International Workshop On Research Issues in Digital Libraries (IWRIDL 2006), Kolkata, India, December 2006.
• S. Amer-Yahia and M. Lalmas. XML Search: Languages, INEX and scoring, SIGMOD Record, 35(4):16-23, December 2006.
• P. Anick and M. Lalmas. The SIGIR 2006 Workshop Program, ACM SIGIR Forum 40(2):25-26, December 2006.
• P. Ogilvie and M. Lalmas. Investigating the Exhaustivity Dimension in Content-Oriented XML Element Retrieval Evaluation, 15th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2006), pp 84-93, Arlington, VA, 6-11 November, 2006.
• Y. Raimond, S. Abdallah, M. Sandler, M. Lalmas. A Scalable Framework for Multimedia Knowledge Management, 1st international conference on Semantics And digital Media Technology (SAMT 2006), pp 11-25, December 2006, Athens, Greece.
• Z. Szlavik, A. Tombros and M Lalmas. The use of summaries in XML retrieval, 10th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2006), pp 75-86, Alicante, Spain, September 2006.
• M. Lalmas and G. Kazai. Report on the ad-hoc track of the INEX 2005 workshop, ACM SIGIR Forum 40(1):49-57, June 2006.
• G. Kazai and M. Lalmas. eXtended Cumulated Gain Measures for the Evaluation of Content-oriented XML Retrieval, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 24(4):503 – 542, October 2006.
• A. Trotman and M. Lalmas. Strict and Vague Interpretation of XML-Retrieval Queries, ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp 709-710, Seattle, USA, August 2006 (Poster).
• A. Trotman and M. Lalmas. Why Structural Hints in Queries do not Help XML Retrieval, ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp 711-712, Seattle, USA, August 2006 (Poster).
• T. Blanke and M. Lalmas. Theoretical Benchmarks of XML retrieval, ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp 613-614, Seattle, USA, August 2006 (Poster).
• S. Betsi, M. Lalmas, A. Tombros, T. Tsikrika. User Expectations from XML Element Retrieval, ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp 611-612, Seattle, USA, August 2006 (Poster).
• M. Lalmas, A. MacFarlane, S. Rueger, A. Trombos, T. Tsikrika and A. Yavlinsky (eds). Advances in Information Retrieval – 28th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2006, London, UK, April 10-12, 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 3936, Springer-Verlag, 2006.
• M. Lalmas, S. Rueger,T. Tsikrika and A. Yavlinsky. Progress in Information Retrieval, Advances in Information Retrieval – 28th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2006, pp 1-11, London, UK, April 10-12, 2006.
• N. Fuhr, M. Lalmas, S. Malik and G. Kazai (eds). Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation: Fourth Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2005), Dagstuhl 28-30 November 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 3977, Springer-Verlag, 2006.
• N. Goevert, N. Fuhr, M. Lalmas and G. Kazai. Evaluating the effectiveness of content-oriented XML retrieval methods, Journal of Information Retrieval, 9(6):699-722, December 2006.
• Z. Szlavik, A. Tombros and M Lalmas. Investigating the use of summarisation for interactive XML retrieval. Proceedings of the 21st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Information Access and Retrieval Track (SAC-IARS’06), pp 1068-1072, Dijon, France, April 2006.
• N. Fuhr, C.-P. Klas, M Lalmas and C. Peters. Progress Report I on DL Evaluation. Delos Deliverable D7.4.2, 2006.
• S. Dominich, M. Lalmas and C.J. van Rijsbergen (eds). Model Design, Formulation and Explanation in Information Retrieval Using Mathematics, Special Issue of Information Processing & Management, 42(1), 2006.
• A. Trotman and M. Lalmas. Report on the INEX 2005 Workshop on Element Retrieval Methodology, SIGIR Forum 40(1):49-57:2006.
• J. Reid, M. Lalmas, K. Finesilver and M. Hertzum. Best Entry Points for Structured Document Retrieval Part I: Characteristics, Information Processing & Management, 42(1):74-88, 2006.
• J. Reid, M. Lalmas, K. Finesilver and M. Hertzum. Best Entry Points for Structured Document Retrieval Part II: Types, Usage and Effectiveness, Information Processing & Management, 42(1):89-105, 2006.

Publications 2005

• S. Malik, G. Kazai, M. Lalmas and N. Fuhr. Overview of INEX 2005, Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation: Fourth Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2005), pp 1-15, 2006.
• G. Kazai and M. Lalmas INEX 2005 Evaluation Metrics, Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation: Fourth Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2005), pp 16-29, 2006.
• A. Trotman and M. Lalmas. The Interpretation of CAS, Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation: Fourth Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2005), pp 58-71, 2006.
• Roelof van Zwol, G. Kazai and M. Lalmas. The Multimedia Track at INEX 2005: Overview, Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation: Fourth Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2005), pp 497-510, 2006.
• M.-R. Amini, Tombros, N. Usunier, M. Lalmas and P. Gallinari. Learning to Summarize XML Documents by Combining Content and Structure Features, 14th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2005), pp 297-298, Bremen, Germany, October 2005 (Poster).
• Z. Kong and M. Lalmas. XML Multimedia Retrieval, Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2005), pp 218-223, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2005 (Short Paper).
• A. Trotman, M. Lalmas and N. Fuhr (eds). INEX 2005 Workshop on Element Retrieval Methodology, Univerisity of Glasgow, Information Retrieval Festival, 30 July 2005.
• G. Kazai and M. Lalmas. Notes on what to measure in INEX, Proceedings of the INEX 2005 Workshop on Element Retrieval Methodology, Glasgow, July 2005.
• M Lalmas. INEX: Evaluating XML Retrieval Effectiveness, ERCIM News No 63, October 2005.
• M Lalmas, N. Bryan-Kinns and A. Pearmain. Personalised Enriched Broadcast Experience, ERCIM News No 52, Special Theme Multimedia Informatics, July 2005.
• N. Fuhr, M. Lalmas, S. Malik and Z. Szlavik (eds). Advances in XML Information Retrieval, Third International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2004), Springer, 2005.
• N. Fuhr and M. Lalmas (eds). Special issue on INEX, Special Issue of Information Retrieval, 8(4), December 2005.
• T. Tsikrika and M. Lalmas. Modelling Good Entry Pages on the Web, 15th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, pp 257-265, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA, 25-28 May 2005.
• S. Dominich, M. Lalmas and C.J. van Rijsbergen (eds). Spaces, Logic, and Link Analysis in IR: Recent Advances From A Mathematical and Logical Perspective, Special Issue of Information Retrieval, 8(2), 2005.
• A. Trotman and M. Lalmas. Report on the INEX 2005 workshop on element retrieval methodology, SIGIR Forum 39(2): 46-51, 2005.
• G. Durand, G. Kazai, M. Lalmas, U. Rauschenbach and P. Wolf. A metadata model supporting scalable interactive TV services, The Eleventh International Multimedia Modelling Conference (MMM2005), pp 386-391, Melbourne, Australia, 12-14 January 2005.

Publications 2004

• S. Malik, M. Lalmas and N. Fuhr. Overview of INEX 2004, Advances in XML Information Retrieval, Third International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2004), pp 1-15, 2005.
• G. Kazai, M. Lalmas and A. de Vries. Reliability Tests for the XCG and inex-2002 Metrics, Advances in XML Information Retrieval, Third International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2004), pp 60-72, 2005.
• B. Piwowarski and M. Lalmas. Ensuring consistent and exhaustive relevance assessments for XML retrieval evaluation, 13th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Washington D.C., USA, November 2004.
• M. Lalmas, T. Roelleke, Z. Szlavik and A. Tombros. Accessing XML documents: the INEX initiative, Notes of the DELOS WP7 Workshop on the Evaluation of Digital Libraries, eds. M. Agosti and N. Fuhr, University of Padua, Italy, 4-5 October 2004.
• N. Fatemi, M. Lalmas and T. Roelleke. How to retrieve multimedia documents described by MPEG-7, to appear in a book on Semantic Web and Information Retrieval, eds., C.J. van Rijsbergen, I. Ounis, J. Jose and Y. Ding, 2004.
• G. Kazai, M. Lalmas and A. de Vries. The overlap problem in content-oriented XML retrieval evaluation, ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Sheffield, UK, July 2004.
• N. Fuhr, M. Lalmas and S. Malik, editors. Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX). Proceedings of the Second INEX Workshop, Dagstuhl, Germany, March 2004.
• N. Fuhr, S. Maalik and M. Lalmas. Overview of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX) 2003, Proceedings of the Second INEX Workshop. Dagstuhl, Germany, December 15-17, March 2004.
• N. Fuhr and M. Lalmas. Report on the INEX 2003 Workshop, Schloss Dagstuhl, 15-17 December 2003, SIGIR FORUM, 38(1):42-47, June 2004.
• M. Lalmas and T. Roelleke. Modelling vague content and structure querying in XML retrieval with a probabilistic object-relational framework, FQAS, 6th International Conference On Flexible Query Answering Systems, Lyon, France, June 2004.
• A. de Vries, G. Kazai and M. Lalmas. Tolerance to Irrelevance: A User-effort Oriented Evaluation of Retrieval Systems without Predefined Retrieval Unit, RIAO 2004 Conference on Coupling approaches, coupling media and coupling languages for information retrieval, University of Avignon (Vaucluse), France, April 2004.
• J. Bywater, M-L Bourguet, G. Kazai, M. Lalmas and A. Pearmain. Scalable and personalised broadcast service. EuroITV 2004 European Conference on Interactive Television: Enhancing the experience, Brighton, U.K, March-April 2004.
• T. Tsikrika and M. Lalmas. Combining evidence from web retrieval using the inference network model – an experimental study. Information Processing & Management, Special Issue in Bayesian Networks and Information Retrieval, Eds L.M. de Campos, J.M. Fernandez-Luna and J.F. Huete, 40(5):751-772, 2004.
• Z Kong and M. Lalmas. Integrating XLink and XPath to Retrieve Structured Multimedia Documents in Digital Libraries, RIAO 2004 Conference on Coupling approaches, coupling media and coupling languages for information retrieval, University of Avignon (Vaucluse), France, April 2004.
• M. Lalmas and P. Vannoorenberghe. Indexation et recherche de documents XML par les fonctions de croyance (Modelling XML retrieval with belief functions), Premiere COnference en Recherche d’Information et Applications (CORIA’O4), Toulouse, France, March 2004 (in French).
• B. Piwowarski and M. Lalmas. Interface pour l’evaluation de systemes de recherche sur des documents XML (Interface for the evaluation of XML retrieval systems), Premiere COnference en Recherch e d’Information et Applications (CORIA’O4), Toulouse, France, March 2004 (in French).
• G. Kazai, M. Lalmas, A. Pearmain and M-L Bourget. Searching annotated broadcast content on mobile and stationary devices, IADIS International Conference in Applied Computing, Lisbon, Portugal, March 2004.
• G. Kazai, S. Masood and M. Lalmas. A study of the assessment of relevance for the INEX’02 test collection, 26th European Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR’2004, University of Sunderland, UK, April 2004.
• G. Kazai, M. Lalmas, N. Fuhr, and N. Govert. A Report on the First Year of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX’02), European Research Letter, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(6):551-556, April 2004.

Publications 2003

• G. Kazai, N. Goevert, M. Lalmas and N. Fuhr. The INEX evaluation initiative, Book Chapter in Intelligent XML Retrieval, H.M. Blanken, T. Grabs, H.-J. Schek, R. Schenkel and G. Weikum (eds), Springer, 2003.
• M. Lalmas and J. Reid. Automatic Identification of Best Entry Points for Focussed Structured Document Retrieval, Poster, CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November 2003.
• I. Ruthven and M. Lalmas. A survey on the use of relevance feedback for information access systems, Knowledge Engineering Review, 18(1):2003.
• I. Ruthven, M. Lalmas and T. Roelleke. Abductive retrieval for multimedia information seeking, 10th International Conference on Human – Computer Interaction, HCI International, Vol 4, pp 740-744, Crete, Greece, June 2003.
• G. Kazai, M. Lalmas and J. Reid. Construction of a test collection for the focussed retrieval of structured documents, 25th European Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research (ECIR’03), Pisa, Italy, April 2003.
• F. Crestani, S. Dominich, M. Lalmas and C.J. van Rijsbergen, eds. Mathematical Models in Information Retrieval, Special Issue, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(4) , 2003.
• N. Fuhr, N. Goevert, G. Kazai, and M. Lalmas, eds. Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (I NEX). Proceedings of the First INEX Workshop. Dagstuhl, Germany, December 8-11, 2002. ERCIM Workshop Proceedings, Sophia Antipolis, France, ERCIM, 2003.
• Mounia L. and T. Roelleke. Four-valued knowledge augme ntation for st ructured document retrieval, International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-B ased Systems (IJUFKS), special issue on Management of uncertainty and imprecision in multimedia information systems, 11(1):67-86, February 2003.
• G. Kazai, M. Lalmas, M-L. Bourguet and A. Pearmain. Using Metadata to Provide Scalable Broadcast and Internet Content and Services, Proceedings of WIAMIS 2003, 4th European Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, London, April 2003.
• I. Ruthven, M. Lalmas and C.J. van Rijsbergen. Incorporating User Search Behaviour in Relevance Feedback, Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, 54(6):528-548, 2003.

Publications 2002

• M. Lalmas. A formal model for data fusion, Fifth International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS 2002), Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2002.
• I. Ruthven, M. Lalmas and C.J. van Rijsbergen. Combining and selecting characteristics of information use, Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, 53(5):378-396, 2002.
• S. Dominich, M. Lalmas and C.J. van Rijsbergen, eds. SIGIR Workshop on Formal/Mathematical Methods for Information Retrieval, Tampere, 2002.
• I. Ruthven and M. Lalmas.
  Using Dempster-Shafer’s Theory of Evidence to Combine Aspects of Information Use, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 19(3):267-301, 2002.
• G. Kazai, A. Pearmain, M-L. Bourguet and M. Lalmas. SAVANT: Synchronised and Scalable AV content Across NeTworks. Position Paper in Usability and Evaluation Issues for Interactive Television: Developing a Research Agenda, Workshop at HCI2002, Southbank University, London, U.K. Tuesday 3 September 2002.
• M. Lalmas, B. Mory, K. Moutogianni, W. Putz and T. Roelleke. Searching multimedia data using MPEG-7 description in a broadcast terminal, Technical Report, Queen Mary University of London, 2002.
• N. Fuhr, N. Goevert, G. Kazai and M. Lalmas. INEX: Intitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, ACM SIGIR Workshop on XML and Information Retrieval, Tamper e, Finland, 15 August 2002.
• G. Kazai, M. Lalmas and T. Roelleke. Focussed Structured Document Retrieval, 9th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2002.
• A. Graves and M. Lalmas. Video Retrieval using an MPEG-7 Based Inference Network, ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Tampere, Finland, August 2002.
• M. Lalmas and T. Roelleke. Four-valued Knowledge Augmentation for Representing Structured Documents, 13th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS02), pp 158-166, Lyon, France, June 2002 (Full version).
• G. Jeschke and M. Lalmas. Hierarchical Text Categorisation based on Neural Network and Dempster-Shafer’s Theory of Evidence, EUROFUSE Workshop on Information Systems, Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy, 23-25 September 2002.
• A. Pearmain, M. Lalmas, E. Moutogianni, D. Papworth, P. Healey and T. Roelleke. Using MPEG7 at the Consumer Terminal in Broadcasting, EURASIP (European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing) Journal on Applied Signal Processing, 2002.
• M. Lalmas, T. Roelleke and N. Fuhr. Intelligent Retrieval of Hypermedia Documents, Chapter in Intelligent Exploration of the Web, P.S.Szczepaniak, F.Segovia, J. Kacprzyk, and L.A.Zadeh (eds), Springer-Verlag Group (Physica-Verlag), 2002.
• I. Ruthven, M. Lalmas and C.J. van Risjbergen. Ranking expansion terms with partial and ostensive evidence, 4th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science: Emerging Frameworks and Methods (COLIS 4), Seattle, WA, USA, July 2002.
• T. Tsikrika and M. Lalmas. Combining Web document representations in a Bayesian Inference Network model using Link & Content-based evidence, 24th European Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research, (ECIR 2002), pp 53-72, Glasgow, Scotland, March 2002.
• T. Roelleke, M. Lalmas G. Kazai, I Ruthven and S. Quicker. The Accessibility Dimension for Structured Document Retrieval, 24th European Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research, (ECIR 2002), pp 284-302, Glasgow, Scotland, March 2002 (this is a corrected version to the one published in the proceedings).

Publications 2001

• T. Tsikrika and M. Lalmas. Merging Techniques for Performing Data Fusion on the Web, Tenth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM 2001), pp 181-189, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2001
• S. Dominich, M. Lalmas and C.J. van Rijsbergen, eds. SIGIR Workshop on Formal/Mathematical Methods for Information Retrieval, New Orleans, 2001.
• F. Crestani, M. Lalmas, and J-Y. Nie, eds. LUMIS 2001 Workshop on Logic and Uncertainty Models for Information Systems, Munich, Germany, September 2001. In: Proceeding of DEXA 2001 Workshops.
• G Kazai, M Lalmas and T Roelleke. A Model for the Representation and Focussed Retrieval of Structured Documents based on Fuzzy Aggregation, SPIRE’2001, pp 123-135, Laguna de San Rafael, Chile, 2001.
• I. Ruthven, M. Lalmas and C.J. van Rijsbergen. Empirical investigations on query modification using abductive explanations, ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp 181-189, New Orleans, USA, 2001.
• G Kazai, M Lalmas and T Roelleke. Aggregated Representation for the Focussed Retrieval of Structured Documents, SIGIR 2001 Workshop, Mathematical/Formal Methods in IR, New Orleans, 13 September 2001, 2001
• A. Pearmain, M. Lalmas, E. Moutogianni, D. Papworth, P. Healey and T. Roelleke. Using MPEG7 at the Consumer Terminal in Broadcasting, Proceedings WIAMIS 2001 workshop on image analysis for multimedia services, pp 165-170, Tampere, Finland, 2001.
• M. Hertzum, M. Lalmas and E. Frokjer. How Are Searching and Reading Intertwined during Retrieval from Hierarchically Structured Documents?, INTERACT 2001, Japan, July 2001.
• C.J van Rijsbergen, M. Lalmas and I. Ruthven. Retrieval through explanation: an abduction inference approach to relevance feedback, LIC (The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries) Research Report 124, December 2001.
• J. Cosmas, T. Itagaki, A. Lucas, M. Akhtar, G. Thomas, J. Chandaria, W. Putz, A. Everts, M. Probst, P. Stammnitz, J. Guether, W. Liebsch, G. Stoll, C. Dosh, R. Soeker, R. Mies, T. van der Geer, B. Mory, N. Santini, A. Pearmain, Y. Paker, M. Lalmas, D. Papworth, E. Moutogianni, G-K. Klungsoeyr, L. Pedersen, P.S. Hansen, K. Illgner and F. Sanahuja. A Novel Broadcast and IT Service, Proceedings of International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archeology and Cultural Heritage (VAST 2001), Glyfada, Greece, November 2001.
• D. Ileperuma, M. Lalmas and T. Roelleke. MPEG7 for an integrated access to broadcast and internet data, Proceedings of the International Conference on Media Futures, pp 235-238, Florence, Italy, May 2001. P.G.T. Healey, E. Moutogianni, M. Lalmas, Y. Paker, D. Papworth and A. Pearmain.
• P. Healey, E. Moutogianni, M. Lalmas, Y. Paker, D. Papworth and A. Pearmain. Requirements for Broadcast and Internet Integration, Proceedings of the International Conference on Media Futures, pp 129-132, Florence, Italy, May 2001.

Publications 2000

• M. Lalmas. Uniform representation of content and structure for structured document retrieval, 20th SGES International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, UK, December 2000.
• F. Crestani and M. Lalmas. Logical and Uncertainty Models for Informa tion Access: Current Trends, The Knowledge Engneering Review, 15(2):171-179, 2000.
• D. Sandor, M. Lalmas and C.J. van Rijsbergen, eds. SIGIR Workshop on Formal/Mathematical Methods for Information Retrieval, Technology Letters, 4(1):2000.
• P. Bruza, F. Crestani and M. Lalmas, eds. LUMIS 2000 Workshop on Logic and Uncertainty Models for Information Systems, London, UK, September 2000. In: Proceeding of DEXA 2000.
• J. Reid and M. Lalmas, eds. Workshop on Evaluation of Information Management Systems, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, UK, 15 September 2000.
• M. Dunlop and M. Lalmas, eds. Improving Formal Models and Usability: Research in IR at Glasgow University, Information Retrieval, 2(1):5-11, 2000.
• M. Lalmas. Combining document representations, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, 9(4):427-447, 2000.
• M. Lalmas, T. Roelleke, F. Turra and N Fuhr. Concepts for a Graphical User Interface for Hypermedia Retrieval, Fourth International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS2000), pp 301-314, Warsaw, Poland, October 2000.
• P. Healey, M. Lalmas, E. Moutogianni, Y. Paker and A. Pearmain. Integrating internet and digital video broadcast data, 4th world multiconference on systemics, cybernetics and informatics (SCI 2000), Information Systems, Vol I, pp 624-627, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A, July 2000.
• M. Lalmas and E. Moutogianni. A Dempster-Shafer indexing for the focussed retrieval of a hierarchically structured document space: Implementation and experiments on a web museum collection, 6th RIAO Conference, Content-Based Multimedia Information Access, Paris, France, April, 2000.
• F. Crestani and M. Lalmas. Logic and Uncertainty in Information Retrieval. In M.Agosti, F.Crestani and G.Pasi, editors, “Lectures on Information Retrieval”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science n. 1980, 179-206, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2000.
• S. Dominich, M. Lalmas, C.J. van Rijsbergen. ACM SIGIR 2000 Workshop on Mathematical/Formal Methods in Information Retrieval, SIGIR Forum 34(1): 18-23, 2000.

Publications 1999

• Ekaterini Moutogianni and Mounia Lalmas. A Dempster-Shafer indexing for structured document retrieval: Implementation and experiments on a museum web collection, Poster presented at the IEE seminar “Searching information: Information retrieval and artificial intelligence approaches” Glasgow, November 1999.
• F. Crestani and M. Lalmas, eds. LUMIS’99, Workshop on Logical and Uncertainty Models for Information Systems, London, July 1999.
• M. Lalmas. A model for representing and retrieving heterogeneous structured documents based on evidential reasoning, The Computer Journal, 42(7):547-568, 1999.
• M. Braschler, M. Lalmas, L. Madella and C. Peters. Eurosearch: a Federation of European Search Engines. Ercim News 136, Online edition, January 1999.
• I. Ruthven, M. Lalmas and C.J. van Rijsbergen. Retrieval through explanation: Inference approach to relevance feedback. Proceedings of 10th Annual Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Science (AICS), Cork, Ireland, September 1999.
• N. Goevert, M. Lalmas and N. Fuhr. A probabilistic description-oriented approach for categorising Web documents. Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp 475-482, Kansas City, Missouri, November 1999.
• M. Lalmas and I. Ruthven. A framework for investigating the interaction in information retrieval, Proceedings of the 9th European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases (EJ-IMKB), Iwate, Japan, 1999.
• I. Ruthven and M. Lalmas. Selective relevance feedback using term characteristics, 3rd International Conference on Concepts in Library and Information Science (CoLIS3), Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 1999.
• N. Goevert, M. Lalmas and N. Fuhr. EuroSearch: Automatic categorisation of web documents, 1999.

Publications 1998

• M. Theophylactou and M. Lalmas. A Dempster-Shafer belief model for document retrieval using noun phrases, 20th Information Retrieval Colloquium British Computing Society: Discovering new worlds of IR, Grenoble, March 1998 – Best student paper.
• M. Lalmas and I. Ruthven. Representing and Retrieving Structured Documents using the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence: Modelling and Evaluation. Journal of Documentation, 54(5):529-565, December 1998.
• M. Lalmas. Formal combination of document representations based on evidential reasoning. ECAI’98 workshop on Intelligent Information Integration, pp 67-81, Brighton, August 1998.
• F. Crestani, M. Lalmas and C.J. van Rijsbergen, eds. Information Retrieval: Uncertainty and Logics – Advanced models for the representation and retrieval of information. Kluwer Academic Publishers, October 1998.
• M. Lalmas. The flow of information in information retrieval: Towards a general framework for the modelling of information retrieval. Information Retrieval: Uncertainty and Logics – Advanced models for the representation and retrieval of information, Chapter 6, October 1998.
• M. Lalmas. Logical Models in Information Retrieval: Introduction and Overview. Information Processing and Management, 34(1):19-33, February 1998.
• M. Lalmas and P.D. Bruza. The use of Logic in Information Retrieval Modelling. Knowledge Engineering Review, 13(2):1-33, 1998.
• F. Crestani, M. Lalmas, C.J. van Rijsbergen and I. Campbell. Is this document relevant? … probably. A survey of probabilistic models in Information Retrieval. Computing Surveys, 30(4): 528-552, 1998.
• M. Lalmas. Information retrieval and Dempster-Shafer’s theory of evidence. Applications of Uncertainty Formalisms, Chapter 8, edited by A. Hunter and S. Parson, Springer LNCS series 1455, pp 157-176, 1998.

Publications 1997

• F. Crestani, M. Sanderson and M. Theophylactou and M. Lalmas. Short queries, Natural language and Spoken document retrieval: Experiments at Glasgow University. TREC6, Washington D.C., November 1997.
• M. Lalmas and I. Ruthven. A model for structured document retrieval: empirical investigations. Hypermedia – Information Retrieval – Multimedia, pp 53-66, Dortmund, September 1997.
• M. Lalmas. Dempster-Shafer’s Theory of Evidence applied to Structured Documents: modelling Uncertainty. ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp 110-118, Philadelphia, PA, July 1997.

Publications 1996

• P.D. Bruza and M. Lalmas. Logic-based information retrieval: Is it really worth it?. EUFIT’96, Fourth European Congress on Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing, pp 841-845, Aachen, September 1996.
• T.W.C. Huibers, M. Lalmas and C.J. van Rijsbergen. Information Retrieval and Situation Theory. SIGIR Forum, 30(1):11-25, July 1996.
• M. Lalmas. Modelling information retrieval with Dempster-Shafer’s theory of evidence: a case study. ECAI Workshop on Uncertainty in Information Systems: Questions of Viability, pp 29-36, Budapest, July 1996.
• M. Lalmas. The Flow of Information in Information Retrieval. Second Workshop on Information Retrieval, Logic and Uncertainty, University of Glasgow, July 1996.
• C.J. van Rijsbergen and M. Lalmas. An Information Calculus for Information Retrieval. Journal of the American Society of Information Science, 47(5):385-398, April 1996.
• F. Crestani and M. Lalmas, eds. Proceedings of the Second workshop on Information Retrieval, Logic and Uncertainty, University of Glasgow, July 1996.
• M. Lalmas. Theories of Information and Uncertainty for the Modelling of Information Retrieval: an Application to Situation Theory and Dempster-Shafer’s Theory of Evidence, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Glasgow, July 1996.
• M. Gardner, M. Lalmas and I. Ruthven. Effect of noise reduction using rough set theory on the accuracy of K-NN classification of radiological reports. University of Glasgow, September 1996.

Publications 1995

• M. Lalmas, ed. Proceedings of the First workshop on Information Retrieval, Logic and Uncertainty, University of Glasgow, September 1995.
• M. Lalmas. From a qualitative towards a quantitative representation of uncertainty on a situation theory based model of an information retrieval system. First Workshop on Information Retrieval, Logic and Uncertainty, University of Glasgow, September 1995.

Publications 1993

• M. Lalmas and C.J. van Rijsbergen. A model of an information retrieval system based on Situation Theory and Dempster-Shafer’s Theory of Evidence. Workshop on Incompleteness and Uncertainty in Information Systems, pp 62-67, Concordia University, Montreal, October 1993.

Publications 1992

• M. Lalmas and C.J. van Rijsbergen. A logical model of information retrieval based on Situation Theory. 14th Information Retrieval Colloquium British Computing Society, pp 1-13, Lancaster University, March 1992.

Publications 1991

• M. Lalmas. Specification of the Macintosh User Interface in Z, Master of Applied Science Thesis, University of Glasgow, July 1991.

Publications 1989

• S.A. Laribi and M. Lalmas. FOLKS 2 – An expert system based on fuzzy logic. IASTED International Symposium on Expert Systems – Theory and applications, Zurich, Switzerland, pp 98-101, June 1989.
• M. Lalmas. Implementation of the Treatment of Uncertainty and Imprecision in a First Order Logic Expert System, using Possibility and Fuzzy Sets Theories, Diploma Thesis, Universite des Sciences et Technologies Houari Boumedienne, Algiers, June 1989.