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Publications

Keynotes

2023

1
 

Tasks, Copilots, and the Future of Search
Ryen W. White
46th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2023), Pages: 5-6
Taipei, Taiwan, July 2023  [Slides: PPTX]


Books

2021

3 Table of Contents
 

Task Intelligence for Search and Recommendation
Chirag Shah and Ryen W. White
Morgan & Claypool Series on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
[Morgan & Claypool website]


2016

2 Download full-text of book
 

Interactions with Search Systems
(2017 ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award)
Ryen W. White
Cambridge University Press
[Book website (incl. PDF download)]


2009

1 Table of Contents
 

Exploratory Search: Beyond the Query-Response Paradigm
Ryen W. White and Resa A. Roth
Morgan & Claypool Series on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
[Morgan & Claypool website]


Book Chapters

2010

1  

Interactive Techniques
Ryen W. White
Chapter in Interactive Information Retrieval (Ian Ruthven and Diane Kelly, editors)
[Facet Publishing website]


Editorials

2017

1   Making Connections:
Advancing Healthcare Research Via Consumer Mobile Devices

Eric Horvitz and Ryen W. White
Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, Vol: 10, Issue: 3

Editor

2019

13   Proceedings of the 28th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2019)
Ling Liu, Ryen W. White, Amin Mantrach, Fabrizio Silvestri, Julian McAuley, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, and Leila Zia
[ACM website]

2017

12   Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017)
Noriko Kando, Tetsuya Sakai, Hideo Joho, Hang Li, Arjen P. de Vries, and Ryen W. White
[ACM website]

2015

11   Contextual Search and Recommendation:
Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Paul N. Bennett, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Diane Kelly, Ryen W. White, and Yi Zhang

2012

10   Human-Computer Information Retrieval:
A Special Topic Issue of Information Processing and Management

Ryen W. White, Rob Capra, Gene Golovchinsky, Bill Kules, Daniel Tunkelang, and Catherine Smith

2010

9  

Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Human-Computer Information Retrieval (HCIR 2010)
Rob Capra, Bill Kules, Daniel Tunkelang, and Ryen W. White
[Workshop website]


2009

8  

Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Human-Computer Information Retrieval (HCIR 2009)
Bill Kules, Daniel Tunkelang, and Ryen W. White
[Workshop website] [SIGIR Forum Report available below]


7 Guest editors' introduction  

Information-Seeking Support Systems:
A Theme Issue of IEEE Computer

Gary Marchionini and Ryen W. White
IEEE Computer, Vol: 42, Issue: 3


2008

7 Guest editors' introduction  

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Human-Computer Information Retrieval (HCIR 2008)
Ryen W. White, Daniel Tunkelang, and Bill Kules
[Workshop website]


6  

Advances in Information Retrieval:
Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on IR Research (ECIR 2008)

Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, Vassilis Plachouras, Ian Ruthven, and Ryen W. White
[Springer website]


2007

5 Proceedings
 

Web Information Seeking and Interaction:
Proceedings of SIGIR 2007 workshop

Kerry Rodden, Ian Ruthven, and Ryen W. White
[Workshop website] [SIGIR Forum Report available below]


4 Introduction
 

Evaluating Exploratory Search Systems:
A Special Topic Issue of Information Processing and Management

Ryen W. White, Gheorghe Muresan, and Gary Marchionini
Information Processing and Management (IP&M) [special issue website]


3 Proceedings
 

Exploratory Search and HCI:
Proceedings of SIGCHI 2007 Workshop

Ryen W. White, Steven M. Drucker, Gary Marchionini, Marti Hearst, and m.c. schraefel
[Workshop website]


2006

2 Introduction
Proceedings
 

Evaluating Exploratory Search Systems:
Proceedings of SIGIR 2006 Workshop

Ryen W. White, Gheorghe Muresan, and Gary Marchionini
[Workshop website] [SIGIR Forum Report available below]


1 Editorial  

Supporting Exploratory Search:
A Special Section of the Communications of the ACM

Ryen W. White, Bill Kules, Steven Drucker, and m.c. schraefel
Communications of the ACM (CACM), Vol: 49, Issue: 4, Pages: 36-39


Journal Articles (ordered by submission date)

2024

51  

Advancing the Search Frontier with AI Agents
Ryen W. White
Communications of the ACM (CACM), To Appear


50  

Toward Robust Graph Semi-Supervised Learning against Extreme Data Scarcity
Kaize Ding, Elnaz Nouri, Guoqing Zheng, Huan Liu, and Ryen W. White
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), Vol: NA, Issue: NA, Pages: 1-10


2023

49  

Human-AI Cooperation to Tackle Misinformation and Polarization
Damiano Spina, Mark Sanderson, Daniel Angus, Gianluca Demartini, Dana McKay, Lauren L. Saling, and Ryen W. White
Communications of the ACM (CACM), Vol: 66, Issue: 7, Pages: 40-45


48  

Managing Tasks Across the Work-Life Boundary: Opportunities, Challenges, and Directions
Alex C. Williams, Shamsi Iqbal, Julia Kiseleva, and Ryen W. White
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), Vol: 30, Issue: 3, Pages: 1-31


2022

47  

App Usage On-the-Move: Context- and Commute-Aware Next App Prediction
Yufan Kang, Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman, Yongli Ren, Mark Sanderson, Ryen W. White, and Flora D. Salim
Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC), Vol: 87, Article: 101704


46  

Disparate Impacts on Online Information Access During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Editors' Highlight)
Jina Suh, Eric Horvitz, Ryen W. White, and Tim Althoff
Nature Communications, Vol:13, Article: 7094


45  

Imagining Future Digital Assistants at Work: A Study of Task Management Needs
Yonchanok Khaokaew, Indigo Holcombe-James, Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman, Jonathan Liono, Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Peter Bailey, Nicholas Belkin, Paul N. Bennett, Yongli Ren, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Ryen W. White, and Flora D. Salim
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), Vol: 168, Article: 102905


44  

Intelligent Futures in Task Assistance
Ryen W. White
Communications of the ACM (CACM), Vol: 65, Issue: 11, Pages: 35-39


43  

Population-scale Dietary Interests During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Editors' Highlight)
Kristina Gligorić, Arnaud Chiolero, Emre Kiciman, Ryen W. White, and Robert West
Nature Communications, Vol: 13, Article: 1073


2021

42  

Grounded Task Prioritization with Context-Aware Sequential Ranking
Chuxu Zhang, Julia Kiseleva, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, and Ryen W. White
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (ACM TOIS), Vol: 40, Issue: 4, Article: 68


2020

41  

Microtask Detection
Ryen W. White, Elnaz Nouri, James Woffinden-Luey, Mark Encarnación, and Sujay Kumar Jauhar
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (ACM TOIS), Vol: 39, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-29


2019

40  

Investigating Searchers' Mental Models to Inform Search Explanations
Paul Thomas, Bodo Billerbeck, Nick Craswell, and Ryen W. White
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (ACM TOIS), Vol: 38, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-25


39  

Population-Scale Hand Tremor Analysis via Anonymized Mouse Cursor Signals
Ryen W. White and Eric Horvitz
npj Digital Medicine, Vol: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-7


38  

Multi-Device Digital Assistance
Ryen W. White, Adam Fourney, Allen Herring, Paul Bennett, Niru Chandrasekaran, Robert Sim, Elnaz Nouri, and Mark Encarnación
Communications of the ACM (CACM), Vol: 62, Issue: 10, Pages: 28-31


2018

37  

Modeling Behaviors and Lifestyle with Online and Social Data for Prediction and Analysis of Sleep and Exercise Quality
Mehrdad Farajtabar, Emre Kiciman, Girish Nathan, and Ryen W. White
International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (IJDSA), Vol: 8, Issue: 4, Pages: 367-383


36  

Opportunities and Challenges in Search Interaction
Ryen W. White
Communications of the ACM (CACM), Vol: 61, Issue: 12, Pages: 36-38. [Related slides: PPTX]


35  

Skill Discovery in Virtual Assistants
Ryen W. White
Communications of the ACM (CACM), Vol: 61, Issue: 11, Pages: 106-113


34  

Detecting Neurodegenerative Disorders from Web Search Signals
Ryen W. White, P. Murali Doraiswamy, and Eric Horvitz
npj Digital Medicine, Vol: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-4


2017

33  

Toward Multimodal Signal Detection of Adverse Drug Reactions
Rave Harpaz, William DuMouchel, Martijn Martijn Schuemie, Olivier Bodenreider, Carol Friedman, Eric Horvitz, Anna Ripple, Alfred Sorbello, Ryen W. White, Rainer Winnenburg, and Nigam Shah
Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Vol: 76, Pages: 41-49


32  

Psychomotor Function Measured via Online Activity Predicts Motor Vehicle Fatality Risk
Tim Althoff, Eric Horvitz, and Ryen W. White
npj Digital Medicine, Vol: 1, Article: 1, Pages 1-2


2016

31  

Influence of Pokémon Go on Physical Activity: Study and Implications
Tim Althoff, Ryen W. White, and Eric Horvitz
Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), Vol: 18, Issue: 12, Pages: e315


30  

Search Result Prefetching on Desktop and Mobile
Ryen W. White, Fernando Diaz, and Qi Guo
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (ACM TOIS), Vol: 35, Issue: 3, Pages: 1-34


29  

Evaluation of the Feasibility of Screening Patients for Early Signs of Lung Carcinoma in Web Search Logs
Ryen W. White and Eric Horvitz
JAMA Oncology, Vol: 3, Issue: 3, Pages: 398-401


28  

Screening for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma using Signals from Web Search Logs: Feasibility Study and Results
John Paparrizos, Ryen W. White, and Eric Horvitz
Journal of Oncology Practice, Vol: 12, Issue: 8, Pages: 737-744


27  

Search and Breast Cancer:
On Episodic Shifts of Attention over Life Histories of an Illness

Michael J. Paul, Ryen W. White, and Eric Horvitz
ACM Transactions on the Web (ACM TWEB), Vol: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-46
[Breast Cancer Search Term Ontology]


26  

Early Identification of Adverse Drug Reactions from Search Log Data (Editors' Choice)
Ryen W. White, Sheng Wang, Apurv Pant, Rave Harpaz, Pushpraj Shukla, Walter Sun, William DuMouchel, and Eric Horvitz
Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Vol: 59, Pages: 42-48


2015

25  

Belief Dynamics and Biases in Web Search
Ryen W. White and Eric Horvitz
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (ACM TOIS), Vol: 33, Issue: 4, Pages: 1-46


2014

24  

A Time-indexed Reference Standard of Adverse Drug Reactions
Rave Harpaz, David Odgers, Greg Gaskin, William DuMouchel, Rainer Winnenburg, Olivier Bodenreider, Anna Ripple, Ana Szarfman, Alfred Sorbello, Eric Horvitz, Ryen W. White, and Nigam Shah
Nature Scientific Data, Vol: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-10


23  

Content Bias in Online Health Search
Ryen W. White and Ahmed Hassan
ACM Transations on the Web (ACM TWEB), Vol: 8, Issue: 4, Pages: 1-33


22  

Slow Search
Jaime Teevan, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Ryen W. White, and Susan Dumais
Communications of the ACM (CACM), Vol: 57, Issue: 8, Pages: 36-38


21  

Toward Enhanced Pharmacovigilance using Patient-Generated Data on the Internet
Ryen W. White*, Rave Harpaz*, Nigam Shah, William DuMouchel, and Eric Horvitz
Nature Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (Nature CPT), Vol: 96, Issue:2, Pages: 239-246.
(* = shared first authorship)


20  

Capturing Collabportunities: A Method to Evaluate Collaboration Opportunities in Information Search Using Pseudo-Collaboration
Roberto González-Ibáñez, Chirag Shah, and Ryen W. White
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Vol: 66, Issue: 9, Pages: 1897-1912


19  

Seeking Insights About Cycling Mood Disorders
via Anonymized Search Logs

Elad Yom-Tov, Ryen W. White, and Eric Horvitz
Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), Vol: 16, Issue: 2, Pages: e65


2013

18 Preprint version  

Belief Dynamics in Web Search
Ryen W. White
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Vol: 65, Issue: 11, Pages: 2165-2178


17 Preprint version  

Captions and Biases in Diagnostic Search
Ryen W. White and Eric Horvitz
ACM Transactions on the Web (ACM TWEB), Vol: 7, Issue: 4, Pages: 1-28


16 Preprint version  

From Health Search to Health Care: Explorations of Intention and Utilization via Query Logs and User Surveys
Ryen W. White and Eric Horvitz
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), Vol: 21, Issue: 1, Pages: 49-55


2012

15 Preprint version  

Web-Scale Pharmacovigilance: Listening to Signals from the Crowd
Ryen W. White, Nicholas P. Tatonetti, Nigam H. Shah, Russ B. Altman, and Eric Horvitz
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), Vol: 20, Issue: 3, Pages: 404-408


14 Preprint version  

From Web Search to Healthcare Utilization:
Privacy-Sensitive Studies from Mobile Data

Ryen W. White and Eric Horvitz
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), Vol: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 61-68


2009

13 Preprint version  

Mining Past Query Trails to Label Long and Rare Search Engine Queries
Peter Bailey, Ryen W. White, Han Liu, and Giridhar Kumaran
ACM Transactions on the Web (ACM TWEB), Vol: 4, Issue: 4, Pages: 1-27


12 Final version  

Cyberchondria: Studies of the Escalation of Medical Concerns in Web Search
Ryen W. White and Eric Horvitz
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (ACM TOIS), Vol: 27, Issue: 4, Pages: 1-37


2008

11 Final version  

Leveraging Popular Destinations to Enhance Web Search Interaction
Ryen W. White, Mikhail Bilenko, and Silviu Cucerzan
ACM Transactions on the Web (ACM TWEB), Vol: 2, Issue: 3, Pages: 1-30


2007

10 Revised version  

Evaluating Advanced Search Interfaces using Established Information-Seeking Models (2010 Best JASIST Paper Award)
Max Wilson, m.c. schraefel, and Ryen W. White
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Vol: 60, Issue: 7, Pages: 1407-1422


9  

Instrumenting the Dynamic Web
Andy Edmonds, Ryen W. White, Dan Morris, and Steven M. Drucker
Journal of Web Engineering (JWE), Vol: 6, Issue: 3, Pages: 243-260


8  

Find What You Need, Understand What You Find
Gary Marchionini and Ryen W. White
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI),
Vol: 23, Issue: 3, Pages: 205-237


7  

Examining the Effectiveness of Real-Time Query Expansion
Ryen W. White and Gary Marchionini
Information Processing and Management (IP&M), Vol: 43, Issue: 3, Pages: 685-704


2006

6  

Using Searcher Simulations to Redesign a Polyrepresentative Implicit Feedback Interface
Ryen W. White
Information Processing and Management (IP&M), Vol: 42, Issue: 5, Pages: 1185-1202


5  

A Study of Interface Support Mechanisms for Interactive Information Retrieval
Ryen W. White and Ian Ruthven
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Vol: 57, Issue: 7, Pages: 933-948


2005

4  

Evaluating Implicit Feedback Models Using Searcher Simulations
Ryen W. White, Ian Ruthven, Joemon M. Jose, and C. J. van Rijsbergen
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (ACM TOIS), Vol: 23, Issue: 3, Pages: 325-361


3
 

Using Top-Ranking Sentences to Facilitate Effective Information Access
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, and Ian Ruthven
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Vol: 56, Issue: 10, Pages: 1113-1125


2004

2
 

An Implicit Feedback Approach for Interactive Information Retrieval
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, and Ian Ruthven
Information Processing and Management (IP&M), Vol: 42, Issue: 1, Pages: 166-190


2003

1
 

A Task-oriented Study on the Influencing Effects of Query-biased Summarisation in Web Searching
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, and Ian Ruthven
Information Processing and Management (IP&M), Vol: 39, Issue: 5, Pages: 707-733


Papers

2024

129
 

AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation
Qingyun Wu, Gagan Bansal, Jieyu Zhang, Yiran Wu, Beibin Li, Erkang Zhu, Li Jiang, Xiaoyun Zhang, Shaokun Zhang, Jiale Liu, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Ryen W. White, Doug Burger, and Chi Wang
LLMAgents Workshop at International Conference on Learning Research (LLMAgents @ ICLR 2024), Pages: NA
Vienna, Austria, May 2024


2023

128
 

Making Large Language Models Better Data Creators
Dong-Ho Lee, Jay Pujara, Mohit Sewak, Ryen W. White, and Sujay Kumar Jauhar
2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023), Pages: NA
Singapore, December 2023


127
 

Algorithmic Vibe in Information Retrieval
Ali Montazeralghaem, Nick Craswell, Ryen W. White, Ahmed H. Awadallah, and Byungki Byun
32nd ACM Web Conference (TheWebConf 2023), Pages: 3278-3287
Austin, USA, April-May 2023


126
 

Taking Search to Task
Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White, Paul Thomas, Bhaskar Mitra, Shawon Sarkar, and Nicholas Belkin
8th ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2023), Pages: 1-13
Austin, USA, March 2023


2022

125
 

Where Do Queries Come From?
Marwah Alaofi, Luke Gallagher, Dana Mckay, Lauren L. Saling, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Damiano Spina, and Ryen W. White
45th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2022), Pages: 2850-2862
Madrid, Spain, July 2022


124
 

MS-LaTTE: A Dataset of Where and When To-do Tasks are Completed
Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Nirupama Chandrasekaran, Michael Gamon and Ryen W. White
13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022), Pages: 5393-5403
Marseille, France, June 2022


123
 

Understanding Questions That Arise When Working with Business Documents
Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, Elnaz Nouri, Robert Sim, Ryen W White, and Adam Fourney
25th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2022), Pages: 1-24
Virtual Event, April 2022


122
 

The Crowd is Made of People:
Observations from Large-Scale Crowd Labelling

Paul Thomas, Gabriella Kazai, Ryen White and Nick Craswell
6th ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2022), Pages: 25-35.
Regensburg, Bavaria, March 2022


2021

121
 

Learning to Decompose and Organize Complex Tasks
Yi Zhang, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Julia Kiseleva, Ryen W. White, and Dan Roth
2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2021), Pages: 2726-2735.
Virtual Event, June 2021


120
 

Formation of Social Ties Predicts Food Choice: A Campus-wide Longitudinal Study (Best Paper Honorable Mention)
Kristina Gligorić, Ryen W. White, Emre Kiciman, Eric Horvitz, Arnaud Chiolero, and Robert West
24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2021), Pages: 1-25.
Virtual Event, April 2021


119
 

Population-Scale Study of Human Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis and Implications
Jina Suh, Eric Horvitz, Ryen W. White, and Tim Althoff
14th Annual International ACM WSDM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2021), Pages: 4-12.
Virtual Event, March 2021


2020

118
 

Characterizing Stage-aware Writing Assistance for Collaborative Document Authoring
Bahareh Sarrafzadeh, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Michael Gamon, Edward Lank, and Ryen W. White
23rd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2020), Vol: 4 (CSCW3), Pages: 1-29
Virtual Event, October 2020


117
 

Managing Tasks Across the Work-Life Boundary: Opportunities, Challenges, and Directions
Alex C. Williams, Shamsi Iqbal, Julia Kiseleva, and Ryen W. White
The New Future of Work Symposium (NFW 2020), Pages: NA
Virtual Event, August 2020


116
 

Intelligent Task Recognition: Towards Enabling Productivity Assistance in Daily Life
Jonathan Liono, Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman, Flora D. Salim, Yongli Ren, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, Johanne R. Trippas, Mark Sanderson, Paul N. Bennett, and Ryen W. White
10th ACM Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2020), Pages: 472-478
Dublin, Ireland, June 2020


115
 

Conversations with Documents: An Exploration of Document-Centered Assistance
Maartje ter Hoeve, Robert Sim, Elnaz Nouri, Adam Fourney, Maarten de Rijke, and Ryen W. White
5th ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2020), Pages: 43-52
Vancouver, Canada, March 2020
[Supplementary Material: PDF]


114
 

Step-wise Recommendation for Complex Task Support
Elnaz Nouri, Robert Sim, Adam Fourney, and Ryen W. White
5th ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2020), Pages: 203�212
Vancouver, Canada, March 2020


113
 

Data-Driven Evaluation Metrics for Heterogeneous Search Engine Result Pages
Leif Azzopardi, Ryen W. White, Paul Thomas, and Nick Craswell
5th ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2020), Pages: 213�222
Vancouver, Canada, March 2020


2019

112
 

VERSE: Bridging Screen Readers and Voice Assistants for Enhanced Eyes-Free Web Search (Best Paper Honorable Mention)
Alexandra Vtyurina, Adam Fourney, Meredith Morris, Leah Findlater, and Ryen W. White
21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2019), Pages: 414-426
Pittsburgh, U.S.A., October 2019


111
 

Mercury: Empowering Programmers' Mobile Practices with Microproductivity
Alex C. Williams, Adam Fourney, Shamsi Iqbal, Ryen W. White, Jaime Teevan, and Harmanpreet Kaur
32nd ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2019), Pages: 81-94
New Orleans, U.S.A., October 2019


110
 

Task Completion Detection
Ryen W. White, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah and Robert Sim
42nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019), Pages: 405-414
Paris, France, July 2019
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


109
 

Learning 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, and Mark Sanderson
ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2019), Pages: 5-14
Glasgow, Scotland, March 2019


108
 

Task Duration Estimation
Ryen W. White and Ahmed Hassan Awadallah
12th Annual International ACM WSDM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2019), Pages: 636-644
Melbourne, Australia, February 2019


107
 

Domain Adaptation for Commitment Detection in Email
Hosein Azarbonyad, Robert Sim, and Ryen W. White
12th Annual International ACM WSDM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2019), Pages: 672-680
Melbourne, Australia, February 2019


2018

106
 

Natural Language Interfaces with Fine-Grained User Interaction: A Case Study on Web APIs
Yu Su, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Miaosen Wang, and Ryen W. White
41st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018), Pages: 855-864
Ann Arbor, USA, July 2018


2017

105
 

An Insight Extraction System on BioMedical Literature with Deep Neural Networks
Hua He, Kris Ganjam, Navendu Jain, Jessica Lundin, Ryen W. White, and Jimmy Lin
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2017), Pages: 2691-2701
Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2017


104
 

Harnessing the Web for Population-Scale Physiological Sensing: A Case Study of Sleep and Performance
Tim Althoff, Eric Horvitz, Ryen W. White, and Jamie Zeitzer
26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2017), Pages: 113-122
Perth, Australia, April 2017


103
 

Web Search as a Linguistic Tool
Adam Fourney, Meredith Ringel Morris, and Ryen W. White
26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2017), Pages: 549-557
Perth, Australia, April 2017


2016

102
 

Detecting Devastating Diseases in Search Logs
John Paparrizos, Ryen W. White, and Eric Horvitz
22nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2016), Pages: 559-568
San Francisco, USA, August 2016


101
 

Analyzing and Predicting Task Reminders (Best Student Paper Award)
David Graus, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. White, and Eric Horvitz
24th Annual ACM UMAP Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2016), Pages: 7-15
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, July 2016


100
 

Search Result Prefetching Using Cursor Movement
Fernando Diaz, Qi Guo, and Ryen W. White
39th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2016), Pages: 609-618
Pisa, Italy, July 2016


99
 

Where Can I Buy a Boulder? Searching for Offline Retail Locations
Sandro Bauer, Filip Radlinski, and Ryen W. White
25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016), Pages: 1225-1235
Montreal, Canada, April 2016


2015

98
 

Struggling and Success in Web Search (Best Student Paper Award)
Daan Odijk, Ryen W. White, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, and Susan Dumais
24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2015), Pages: 1551-1560
Melbourne, Australia, November 2015


97
 

Personalizing Search on Shared Devices
Ryen W. White and Ahmed Hassan Awadallah
38th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2015), Pages: 523-532
Santiago, Chile, August 2015
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


96
 

Information Gathering in Networks via Active Exploration
Adish Singla, Eric Horvitz, Pushmeet Kohli, Ryen W. White, and Andreas Krause
International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2015), Pages: 981-988
Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2015


95
 

Diagnoses, Decisions, and Outcomes: Web Search as Medical Decision Support for Cancer
Michael Paul, Ryen W. White, and Eric Horvitz
24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015), Pages: 831-841
Florence, Italy, May 2015
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


94
 

Exploring Time-Dependent Concerns about Pregnancy and Childbirth from Search Logs (Best Paper Honorable Mention)
Adam Fourney, Ryen W. White, and Eric Horvitz
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2015), Pages: 737-746
Seoul, South Korea, April 2015


93
 

Understanding and Predicting Graded Search Satisfaction
Jiepu Jiang, Ahmed Hassan, Xiaolin Shi, and Ryen W. White
8th Annual International ACM WSDM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2015), Pages: 57-66
Shanghai, China, February 2015


2014

92
 

Cross-Device Search (Best Paper Award)
George Montanez, Ryen W. White, and Xiao Huang
23rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2014), Pages: 1669-1678
Shanghai, China, November 2014
 [Slides: PDF]


91
 

Supporting Complex Search Tasks
Ahmed Hassan, Ryen W. White, Patrick Pantel, Susan Dumais, and Yi-Min Wang
23rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2014), Pages: 829-838
Shanghai, China, November 2014


90
 

Interactions between Health Searchers and Search Engines
Georg P. Schoenherr and Ryen W. White
37th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2014), Pages: 143-152
Gold Coast, Australia, July 2014


89
 

Cohort Modeling for Enhanced Personalized Search
Jinyun Yan, Wei Chu, and Ryen W. White
37th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2014), Pages: 505-514
Gold Coast, Australia, July 2014
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


88
 

Time-Critical Search
Nina Mishra, Ryen W. White, Samuel Ieong, and Eric Horvitz
37th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2014), Pages: 747-756
Gold Coast, Australia, July 2014


87
 

Modeling Action-level Satisfaction for Search Task Satisfaction Prediction
Hongning Wang, Yang Song, Ming-Wei Chang, Xiaodong He, Ahmed Hassan, and Ryen W. White
37th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2014), Pages: 123-132
Gold Coast, Australia, July 2014


86
 

Context-Aware Web Search Abandonment Prediction
Yang Song, Xiaolin Shi, Ryen W. White, and Ahmed Hassan
37th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2014), Pages: 93-102
Gold Coast, Australia, July 2014


85
 

Stochastic Privacy
Adish Singla, Eric Horvitz, Ece Kamar, and Ryen W. White
28th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2014), Pages: 152-158
Quebec City, Canada, July 2014
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


84
 

From Devices to People:
Attribution of Search Activity in Multi-User Settings

Ryen W. White, Ahmed Hassan, Adish Singla, and Eric Horvitz
23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2014), Pages: 431-442
Seoul, South Korea, April 2014
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


83
 

Seeking and Sharing Health Information Online: Comparing Search Engines and Social Media
Munmun De Choudhury, Meredith Ringel Morris, and Ryen W. White
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2014), Pages: 1365-1376
Toronto, Canada, April 2014


82
 

Lessons from the Journey:
A Query Log Analysis of Within-Session Learning

Carsten Eickhoff, Jaime Teevan, Ryen W. White and Susan Dumais
7th Annual International ACM WSDM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
(WSDM 2014), Pages: 223-232
New York City, USA, February 2014


81
 

Struggling or Exploring? Disambiguating Long Search Sessions
Ahmed Hassan, Ryen W. White, Susan Dumais and Yi-Min Wang
7th Annual International ACM WSDM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
(WSDM 2014), Pages: 53-62
New York City, USA, February 2014


80
 

Modeling Dwell Time to Predict Click-level Satisfaction
Youngho Kim, Ahmed Hassan, Ryen W. White, and Imed Zitouni
7th Annual International ACM WSDM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
(WSDM 2014), Pages: 193-202
New York City, USA, February 2014


2013

79
 

Slow Search: Information Retrieval without Time Constraints
Jaime Teevan, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Ryen W. White, Susan Dumais, and Yubin Kim
7th Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2013)
Vancouver, Canada, October 2013


78
 

Personalized Models of Search Satisfaction
Ahmed Hassan and Ryen W. White
22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013), Pages: 2009-2018
San Francisco, USA, October 2013


77
 

Robust Models of Mouse Movement on Dynamic Web Search Results Pages
Fernando Diaz, Ryen W. White, Dan Liebling, and Georg Buscher
22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013), Pages: 1451-1460
San Francisco, USA, October 2013


76
 

Beliefs and Biases in Web Search
(Best Paper Award) (Test of Time Award)
Ryen W. White
36th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2013), Pages: 3-12
Dublin, Ireland, July 2013
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


75
 

Fighting Search Engine Amnesia: Reranking Repeated Results
Milad Shokouhi, Ryen W. White, Paul Bennett, and Filip Radlinski
36th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2013), Pages: 273-282
Dublin, Ireland, July 2013


74
 

Personalized Ranking Model Adaptation for Web Search
Hongning Wang, Xiaodong He, Ming-Wei Chang, Yang Song, Ryen W. White, and Wei Chu
36th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2013), Pages: 323-332
Dublin, Ireland, July 2013


73
 

Toward Self-Correcting Search Engines: Using Underperforming Queries to Improve Search
Ahmed Hassan, Ryen W. White, and Yi-Min Wang
36th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2013), Pages: 263-272
Dublin, Ireland, July 2013


72
 

From Cookies to Cooks:
Insights on Dietary Patterns via Analysis of Web Usage Logs

Bob West, Ryen W. White, and Eric Horvitz
22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013), Pages: 1399-1410
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2013


71
 

Enhancing Personalized Search by Mining and Modeling Task Behavior
Ryen W. White, Wei Chu, Ahmed Hassan, Xiaodong He, Yang Song, and Hongning Wang
22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013), Pages: 1411-1420
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2013
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


70
 

Learning to Extract Cross-Session Search Tasks
Hongning Wang, Yang Song, Ming-Wei Chang, Xiaodong He, Ryen W. White, and Wei Chu
22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013), Pages: 1353-1364
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2013


69
 

Supporting Orientation During Search Result Examination
Henry Feild, Ryen W. White, and Xin Fu
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013), Pages: 2999-3008
Paris, France, April 2013
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


68
 

Characterizing and Supporting Cross-Device Search Tasks
Yu Wang, Xiao Huang, and Ryen W. White
6th Annual International ACM WSDM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
(WSDM 2013), Pages: 707-716
Rome, Italy, February 2013
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


67
 

Playing by the Rules:
Mining Query Associations to Predict Search Performance

Youngho Kim, Ahmed Hassan, Ryen W. White, and Yi-Min Wang
6th Annual International ACM WSDM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
(WSDM 2013), Pages: 133-142
Rome, Italy, February 2013


2012

66
 

Leaving So Soon?
Understanding and Predicting Web Search Abandonment

Abdigani Diriye, Ryen W. White, Georg Buscher, and Susan Dumais
21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012), Pages: 1025-1034
Maui, Hawaii, U.S.A., October 2012


65
 

Task Tours: Helping Users Tackle Complex Search Tasks
Ahmed Hassan and Ryen W. White
21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012), Pages: 1885-1889
Maui, Hawaii, U.S.A., October 2012


64
 

On the Onset and Persistence of Medical Concerns in Search Logs
Ryen W. White and Eric Horvitz
35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2012), Pages: 265-274
Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., August 2012
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


63
 

Improving Searcher Models Using Mouse Cursor Activity
Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White, Georg Buscher, and Kuansan Wang
35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2012), Pages: 195-204
Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., August 2012


62
 

Modeling the Impact of Short- and Long-Term Behavior on Search Personalization (Test of Time Award)
Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. White, Wei Chu, Susan Dumais, Peter Bailey, Fedor Borisyuk, and Xiaoyuan Cui
35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2012), Pages: 185-194
Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., August 2012


61
 

Search, Interrupted:
Understanding and Predicting Search Task Continuation

Eugene Agichtein, Ryen W. White, Susan Dumais, and Paul N. Bennett
35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2012), Pages: 315-324
Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., August 2012


60
 

Building the Trail Best Traveled:
Effects of Domain Knowledge on Web Search Trailblazing

Xiaojun Yuan and Ryen W. White
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012),
Pages: 1795-1804
Austin, USA, May 2012


59
 

User See, User Point: Gaze and Cursor Alignment in Web Search
Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White, and Georg Buscher
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012),
Pages: 1341-1350
Austin, USA, May 2012


58
 

The Search Dashboard:
How Reflection and Comparison Impact Search Behavior

Scott Bateman, Jaime Teevan, and Ryen W. White
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012),
Pages: 1785-1794
Austin, USA, May 2012


57
 

Characterizing Local Interests and Local Knowledge
Ryen W. White and Georg Buscher
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012),
Pages: 1607-1610
Austin, USA, May 2012


56
 

No Search Result Left Behind: Branching Behavior with Browser Tabs
Jeff Huang, Tom Lin, and Ryen W. White
5th Annual International ACM WSDM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
(WSDM 2012), Pages: 203-212
Seattle, USA, February 2012


55
 

Probabilistic Models for Personalizing Web Search
David Sontag, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul Bennett, Ryen W. White, Susan Dumais, and Bodo Billerbeck
5th Annual International ACM WSDM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
(WSDM 2012), Pages: 433-442
Seattle, USA, February 2012


54
 

Large-Scale Analysis of Individual and Task Differences in Search Result Page Examination Strategies
Georg Buscher, Ryen W. White, Susan Dumais, and Jeff Huang
5th Annual International ACM WSDM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
(WSDM 2012), Pages: 373-382
Seattle, USA, February 2012


2011

53
 

Effects of Search Success on Search Engine Re-Use
Victor Hu, Maria Stone, Jan Pedersen, and Ryen W. White
20th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM 2011), Pages: 1841-1846
Glasgow, Scotland, October 2011


52
 

Personalizing Web Search Results by Reading Level
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. White, Sebastian de la Chica,
and David Sontag
20th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM 2011), Pages: 403-412
Glasgow, Scotland, October 2011


51
 

Intentions and Attention in Exploratory Health Search
Marc-Allen Cartright, Ryen W. White, and Eric Horvitz
34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2011), Pages: 65-74
Beijing, China, July 2011


50
 

Modeling and Analysis of Cross-Session Search Tasks
Alex Kotov, Paul Bennett, Ryen W. White, Susan Dumais, and Jaime Teevan
34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2011), Pages: 5-14
Beijing, China, July 2011


49
 

Inferring and Using Location Metadata to Personalize Web Search
Paul Bennett, Filip Radlinski, Ryen W. White, and Emine Yilmaz
34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2011), Pages: 135-144
Beijing, China, July 2011


48
 

Why Searchers Switch: Understanding and Predicting Engine Switching Rationales
Qi Guo, Ryen W. White, Yunqiao Zhang, Blake Anderson, and Susan Dumais
34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2011), Pages: 335-344
Beijing, China, July 2011


47
 

Effects of Community Size and Contact Rate in Synchronous Social Q&A (Best Paper Award)
Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson, and Yandong Liu
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011), Pages: 2837-2846
Vancouver, Canada, May 2011 [IM an Expert Documentation]
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


46
 

No Clicks, No Problem: Using Cursor Movements to Understand and Improve Search (Best Paper Honorable Mention)
Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White, and Susan Dumais
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011), Pages: 1225-1234
Vancouver, Canada, May 2011


45
 

Supporting Synchronous Social Q&A Throughout the Question Lifecycle
Matthew Richardson and Ryen W. White
20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011), Pages: 755-764
Hyderabad, India, March 2011 [Download IM an Expert]
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


44
 

Automatic People Tagging for Expertise Profiling in the Enterprise
Pavel Serdyukov, Mike Taylor, Vishwa Vinay, Matthew Richardson, and Ryen W. White
33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2011)
Dublin, Ireland, April 2011
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


43
 

Expressing Well-Being Online: Towards Self-Reflection and Social Awareness
Paul André, m.c. schraefel, Alan Dix and Ryen W. White
iConference 2011
Seattle WA, USA, February 2011


2010

42
 

Web to World: Predicting Transitions from Self-Diagnosis to the Pursuit of Local Medical Assistance in Web Search
Ryen W. White and Eric Horvitz
Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2010), Pages: 882-886
Washington DC, USA, November 2010
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


41
 

Predicting Short-Term Interests Using Activity-Based Search Context
Ryen W. White, Paul Bennett, and Susan Dumais
19th Annual ACM CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2010), Pages: 1009-1018
Toronto, Canada, October 2010


40
 

Evaluating Search Systems Using Result Page Context
(Best Paper Finalist)
Peter Bailey, Nick Craswell, Ryen W. White, Liwei Chen, Ashwin Satyanarayana,
and S.M.M. Tahaghoghi
3rd Symposium on Information Interaction in Context (IIiX 2010), Pages: 105-114
New Brunswick, USA, August 2010


39
 

Studying Trailfinding Algorithms for Enhanced Web Search
Adish Singla, Ryen W. White, and Jeff Huang
33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2010), Pages: 443-450
Geneva, Switzerland, July 2010
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


38
 

Understanding Web Browsing Behaviors through Weibull Analysis of Dwell Time
Chao Liu, Ryen W. White, and Susan Dumais
33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2010), Pages: 379-386
Geneva, Switzerland, July 2010


37
 

Assessing the Scenic Route:
Measuring the Value of Search Trails in Web Logs
 (Best Paper Award)
Ryen W. White and Jeff Huang
33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2010), Pages: 587-594
Geneva, Switzerland, July 2010
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


36
 

Parallel Browsing Behavior on the Web
Jeff Huang and Ryen W. White
21st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext 2010), Pages: 13-17
Toronto, Canada, June 2010


35
 

Modeling Long-Term Search Engine Usage (Best Paper Finalist)
Ryen W. White, Susan Dumais, and Ashish Kapoor
19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
(UMAP 2010), Pages: 28-39
Hawaii, USA, June 2010
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


34
 

Predicting Query Performance Using Query, Result, and User Interaction Features
Qi Guo, Ryen W. White, Susan Dumais, Jue Wang, and Blake Anderson
9th International Conference on Adaptivity, Personalization and Fusion of Heterogeneous Information (RIAO 2010)
Paris, France, April 2010
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


33
 

Experience in Social Affective Applications: Methodologies and Case Study
Paul André, m.c. schraefel, Alan Dix, and Ryen W. White
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ALT.CHI 2010), Pages: 2755-2764
Atlanta, USA, April 2010


2009

32
 

Characterizing and Predicting Search Engine Switching Behavior
Ryen W. White and Susan Dumais
18th Annual ACM CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009), Pages: 87-96
Hong Kong, China, November 2009
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


31
 

Experiences with Web Search on Medical Concerns and Self Diagnosis
Ryen W. White and Eric Horvitz
Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2009), Pages: 696-700
San Francisco, USA, November 2009
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF] [Survey Questions: XLS]


30
 

Predicting User Interests from Contextual Information
Ryen W. White, Peter Bailey, and Liwei Chen
32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2009), Pages: 363-370
Boston, USA, July 2009
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


29
 

Enhancing Expert Finding Using Organizational Hierarchies
Maryam Karimzadehgan, Ryen W. White, and Matthew Richardson
31st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2009), Pages: 177-188
Toulouse, France, April 2009
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


28
 

Characterizing the Influence of Domain Expertise on Web Search Behavior
Ryen W. White, Susan Dumais, and Jaime Teevan
2nd Annual International ACM WSDM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
(WSDM 2009), Pages: 132-141
Barcelona, Spain, February 2009
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


2008

27
 

Stream Prediction Using a Generative Model Based on Frequent Episodes in Event Sequences
Srivatsan Laxman, Vikram Tankasali, and Ryen W. White
14th Annual International ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2008), Pages: 453-461
Las Vegas, USA, August 2008


26
 

Enhancing Web Search by Promoting Multiple Search Engine Use
Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson, Mikhail Bilenko, and Allison P. Heath
31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2008), Pages: 43-50
Singapore, July 2008
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


25
 

Mining the Search Trails of Surfing Crowds: Identifying Relevant Websites From User Activity
Mikhail Bilenko and Ryen W. White
17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008), Pages: 51-60
Beijing, China, April 2008
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


2007

24
 

Utilizing a Geometry of Context For Enhanced Implicit Feedback
Massimo Melucci and Ryen W. White
16th Annual ACM CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2007), Pages: 273-282
Lisbon, Portugal, November 2007


23
 

Discovering Hidden Contextual Factors for Implicit Feedback
Massimo Melucci and Ryen W. White
Workshop on Contextual Information Retrieval (part of the 6th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, CONTEXT 2007)
Roskilde, Denmark, August 2007


22
 

Studying the Use of Popular Destinations to Enhance Web Search Interaction (Best Paper Award)
Ryen W. White, Mikhail Bilenko, and Silviu Cucerzan
30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007), Pages: 159-166
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


21
 

Investigating the Querying and Browsing Behavior of Advanced Search Engine Users
Ryen W. White and Dan Morris
30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007), Pages: 255-262
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


20
 

The Influence of Caption Features on Clickthrough Patterns in Web Search
Charles L.A. Clarke, Eugene Agichtein, Susan Dumais, and Ryen W. White
30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007), Pages: 135-142
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007


19

 

Investigating Behavioral Variability in Web Search
Ryen W. White and Steven M. Drucker
16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2007), Pages: 21-30
Banff, Canada, May 2007
 [Slides: PPTX | PPT | PDF]


18

 

Exploratory Search and HCI: Designing and Evaluating Interfaces to Support Exploratory Search Interaction
Ryen W. White, Steven M. Drucker, Gary Marchionini, Marti Hearst, and mc schraefel
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2007), Pages: 2877-2880
San Jose, CA, USA April 2007


2006

17
 

Overview of the CLEF-2006 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval Track
Douglas W. Oard, Jianqiang Wang, Gareth J.F. Jones, Ryen W. White, Pavel Pecina,
Dagobert Soergel, Xiaoli Huang, and Izhak Shafran
Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2006), Pages: 744-758
Alicante, Spain, September 2006


16
 

A Study on the Effects of Personalization and Task Information on Implicit Feedback Performance
Ryen W. White and Diane Kelly
15th Annual ACM CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2006), Pages: 297-306
Alexandria, Virginia, November 2006


15
 

Concept Maps to Support Oral History Search and Use
Ryen W. White, Hyun Young Song, Jay Liu
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2006), Pages: 192-193
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, June 2006


14
 

Measuring the Utility of Gaze Detection for Task Modeling: A Study Design
Penelope Brooks, Khoo Yit Phang, Douglas W. Oard, Ryen W. White, Rachael Bradley, and Fran�ois Gumbreti�re
Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces for Intelligence Analysis (part of IUI 2006)
Sydney, Australia, January 2006


2005

13
 

Overview of the CLEF2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval Track
Ryen W. White, Douglas W. Oard, Dagobert Soergel, Xiaoli Huang, and Gareth Jones
Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2005), Pages: 744-759
Vienna, Austria, September 2005


12
 

Contextual Simulations for Information Retrieval Evaluation
Ryen W. White
Information Retrieval in Context Workshop (IRiX 2005, part of SIGIR 2005)
Salvador, Brazil, August 2005


11
 

A Study of Factors Affecting the Utility of Implicit Relevance Feedback
Ryen W. White, Ian Ruthven, and Joemon M. Jose
28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2005), Pages: 35-42
Salvador, Brazil, August 2005


2004

10
 

A Simulated Study of Implicit Feedback Models
(Best Student Paper Award)
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, C.J. van Rijsbergen, and Ian Ruthven
26th Annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2004), Pages: 311-326
Sunderland, United Kingdom, April 2004


2003

9
 

A Granular Approach to Web Search Result Presentation
(Brian Shackel Best Paper Award)
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, Ian Ruthven
9th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2003), Pages: 213-220
Zurich, Switzerland, September 2003


8
 

Clustering the Information Space Using Top-Ranking Sentences: A Study of User Interaction
Anastasios Tombros, Ian Ruthven, Joemon M. Jose, Ryen W. White
9th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2003), Pages: 928-931
Zurich, Switzerland, September 2003


7
 

NewsFlash: Adaptive TV News Delivery on the Web
Alan Haggerty, Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose
1st Interational Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2003, part of KI 2003)


2002

6
 

Using Hierarchical Clustering and Summarisation Approaches for Web Retrieval: Glasgow at the TREC 2002 Interactive Track
Richard Osdin, Iadh Ounis, Ryen W. White
Text REtrieval Conference - 11 (TREC 2002)
Gaithersburg, Maryland, U.S.A., November 2002


5
 

Implicit Contextual Modelling for Information Seeking
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, Ian Ruthven
Glasgow Context Group 1st Colloquium: "Building Bridges: Interdisciplinary Context-Sensitive Computing"
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, September 2002


4
 

Finding Relevant Documents using Top-Ranking Sentences: An Evaluation of Two Alternative Schemes
Ryen W. White, Ian Ruthven, Joemon M. Jose
25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2002), Pages: 57-64
Tampere, Finland, August 2002


3
 

The use of implicit evidence for relevance feedback in web retrieval
Ryen W. White, Ian Ruthven, Joemon M. Jose
24th BSC-IRSG European Colloquium on IR Research (ECIR 2002), Pages: 93-109
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, March 2002


2001

2
 

Comparing Implicit and Explicit Feedback Techniques for Web Retrieval: TREC-10 Interactive Track Report
Ryen W. White, Ian Ruthven, Joemon M. Jose
Text REtrieval Conference - 10 (TREC 2001)
Gaithersburg, Maryland, U.S.A., November 2001


1
 

Web Document Summarisation: A Task-Oriented Evaluation
Ryen W. White, Ian Ruthven, and Joemon M. Jose
1st International Workshop on Digital Libraries (DLib 2001, part of DEXA 2001)
Munich, Germany, September 2001


Posters & Short Papers

2021

47
 

CoSEM: Contextual and Semantic EMbedding for App Usage Prediction
Yonchanok Khaokaew, Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman, Ryen W. White and Flora D. Salim
30th ACM CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2021), Pages: 3137-3141
Gold Coast, Australia, November 2021


46

 

Bridging Task Expressions and Search Queries
Chirag Shah and Ryen W. White
6th ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2021), Pages: 319-323
Canberra, Australia, March 2021


2020

45

 

Proactive Suggestion Generation: Data and Methods for Stepwise Task Assistance
Elnaz Nouri, Robert Sim, Adam Fourney, and Ryen W. White
43rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Pages: 1585�1588
Xi'an, China, July 2020


44

 

Smart To-Do : Automatic Generation of To-Do Lists from Emails
Sudipto Mukherjee, Subhabrata Mukherjee, Marcello Hasegawa, Ahmed Awadallah, and Ryen W. White
Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020)
Seattle, USA, July 2020


2019

43

 

Building a Benchmark for Task Progress in Digital Assistants
Jonathan Liono, Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Mohammad S. Rahaman, Yongli Ren, Flora D. Salim, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, and Ryen W. White
Task Intelligence Workshop at WSDM (TI@WSDM 2019)
Melbourne, Australia, February 2019


42

 

Supporting Complex Tasks Using Multiple Devices
Elnaz Nouri, Adam Fourney, Robert Sim, and Ryen W. White
Task Intelligence Workshop at WSDM (TI@WSDM 2019)
Melbourne, Australia, February 2019

2017

41

 

Improving Search Engines via Large-Scale Physiological Sensing
Ryen W. White and Ryan Ma
40th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017), Pages: 881=884
Tokyo, Japan, August 2017


2015

40

 

Building Effective Query Classifiers:
A Case Study in Self-harm Intent Detection

Ashiqur KhudaBukhsh, Paul N. Bennett, and Ryen W. White
24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2015), Pages: 1735-1738
Melbourne, Australia, November 2015


39

 

Anchoring and Adjustment in Relevance Estimation
Milad Shokouhi, Ryen W. White, and Emine Yilmaz
38th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2015), Pages: 963-966
Santiago, Chile, August 2015


38

 

Questions vs. Queries in Informational Search Tasks
Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson, and Wen-tau Yih
24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015), Pages: 135-136
Florence, Italy, May 2015
 [Poster: PDF]


2014

37

 

Building Collaborative Teams: A Local Navigation-Based Approach
Adish Singla, Eric Horvitz, Pushmeet Kohli, Ryen W. White, and Andreas Krause
NIPS 2014 Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Machine Learning, Pages: NA
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, December 2014


36

 

Comparing Client and Server Dwell Time Estimates for Click-Level Satisfaction Prediction
Youngho Kim, Ahmed Hassan, Ryen W. White, and Imed Zitouni
37th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2014), Pages: 895-898
Gold Coast, Australia, July 2014


35

 

Enhancing Personalization via Search Activity Attribution
Adish Singla, Ryen W. White, Ahmed Hassan, and Eric Horvitz
37th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2014), Pages: 1063-1066
Gold Coast, Australia, July 2014


2013

34

 

Personalization via Probabilistic Adaptation
David Sontag, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul Bennett, Ryen W. White, Susan Dumais, and Bodo Billerbeck
NIPS 2013 Workshop on Personalization, Pages: NA
Lake Tahoe, USA, December 2013


33

 

Here and There: Goals, Activities, and Predictions about Location from Geotagged Queries
Robert West, Ryen W. White, and Eric Horvitz
36th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2013), Pages: 817-820
Dublin, Ireland, July 2013


32

 

Pursuing Insights about Healthcare Utilization via Geocoded Search Queries
Shuang-Hong Yang, Ryen W. White, and Eric Horvitz
36th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2013), Pages: 993-996
Dublin, Ireland, July 2013


31

 

Explicit Feedback in Local Search Tasks
Dmitry Lagun, Peter Bailey, Georg Buscher, Avneesh Sud, and Ryen W. White
36th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2013), Pages: 1065-1068
Dublin, Ireland, July 2013


30

 

Clarifications and Question Specificity in Synchronous Social Q&A
Makoto Kato, Ryen W. White, Jaime Teevan, and Susan Dumais
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013), Pages: 913-918
Paris, France, April 2013


2012

29

 

Pseudo-Collaboration as a Method to Perform Selective Algorithmic Mediation in Collaborative IR Systems
Roberto González-Ibáñez, Chirag Shah, and Ryen W. White
75th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T 2012)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., October 2012


28

 

Text Selections as Implicit Relevance Feedback
Ryen W. White and Georg Buscher
35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2012), Pages: 1151-1152
Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., August 2012
 [Poster: PDF]


27

 

Anticipatory Search: Using Context to Initiate Search
Dan Liebling, Paul N. Bennett, and Ryen W. White
35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2012), Pages: 1035-1036
Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., August 2012


26

 

Effects of Expertise Differences in Synchronous Social Q&A
Ryen W. White and Matthew Richardson
35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2012), Pages: 1055-1056
Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., August 2012
 [Poster: PDF]


25

 

Mining for Insights in the Search Engine Query Stream
Ovi Dan, Pavel Dmitriev, and Ryen W. White
21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2012), Pages: 489-490
Lyon, France, May 2012


2011

24

 

Recommending Interesting Activity-Related Local Entities
Jie Tang, Ryen W. White, and Peter Bailey
34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2011), Pages: 1161-1162
Beijing, China, July 2011
 [Poster: PDF]


23

 

Finding Our Way on the Web:
Exploring the Role of Waypoints in Search Interaction

Ryen W. White and Adish Singla
20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011), Pages: 147-148
Hyderabad, India, March 2011


2010

22

 

Evaluating Whole-Page Relevance
Peter Bailey, Nick Craswell, Ryen W. White, Liwei Chen, Ashwin Satyanarayana,
and S.M.M. Tahaghoghi
33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2010), Pages: 767-768
Geneva, Switzerland, July 2010


21

 

Predicting Escalations of Medical Queries Based on Web Page Structure and Content
Ryen W. White and Eric Horvitz
33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2010), Pages: 769-770
Geneva, Switzerland, July 2010
 [Poster: PDF]


20

 

Exploring the Use of Labels to Shortcut Search Trails
Ryen W. White and Raman Chandrasekar
33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2010), Pages: 811-812
Geneva, Switzerland, July 2010
 [Poster: PDF]


19

 

Sampling High-Quality Clicks from Noisy Click Data
Adish Singla and Ryen W. White
19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2010), Pages: 1187-1188
Raleigh, USA, April 2010


2009

18

 

Usefulness of Click-through Data in Expert Search
Craig Macdonald and Ryen W. White
32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2009), Pages: 816-817
Boston, USA, July 2009


17


 

Investigating Web Search Strategies and Forum Use to Support Diet and Weight Loss
m.c. schraefel, Ryen W. White, Paul André, and Desney Tan
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2009), Pages: 3829-3834
Boston, April 2009


2008

16

 

Talking the Talk vs. Walking the Walk: Salience of Information Needs in Querying vs. Browsing
Mikhail Bilenko, Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson, and G. Craig Murray
31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2008), Pages: 705-706
Singapore, July 2008


15
 

How Medical Expertise Influences Web Search Interaction
Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, and Jaime Teevan
31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2008), Pages: 791-792
Singapore, July 2008


14

 

Defection Detection: Predicting Search Engine Switching
Allison Heath and Ryen W. White
17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008), Pages: 1173-1174
Beijing, China, April 2008


2007

13
 

Information Retrieval Test Collection for Spontaneous Conversational Speech
Pavel Ircing, Pavel Pecina, Douglas W. Oard, Jianqiang Wang, and Ryen W. White
10th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialog (TSD 2007)
Pilsen, Czech Republic, September 2007


12
 

Comparing Query Logs and Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for Web-Search Query Refinement
Ryen W. White, Charles L.A. Clarke, and Silviu Cucerzan
30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007), Pages: 831-832
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007


11
 

Query Suggestion based on User Landing Pages
Silviu Cucerzan and Ryen W. White
30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007), Pages: 875-876
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007


2006

10
 

A Study of Real-Time Query Expansion Effectiveness
Ryen W. White and Gary Marchionini
29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), Pages: 715-716
Seattle, USA, August 2006


9
 

PygmyBrowse: A Small Screen Tree Browser
Zvi Band and Ryen W. White
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2006), Pages: 514-519
Montreal, Canada, April 2006


2005

8
 

Policy Capturing Models for Multi-faceted Relevance Assessments
Xiaoli Huang and Ryen W. White
68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST 2005)
Charlotte, North Carolina, October 2005


7
 

An Interface to Search Human Movements Based on Geographic and Chronological Metadata
Wilma Bainbridge, Ryen W. White, and Douglas W. Oard
28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2005), Pages: 579-580
Salvador, Brazil, August 2005


2004

6
 

A Study of Topic Similarity Measures
Ryen W. White and Joemon M. Jose
27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2004), Pages: 520-521
Sheffield, United Kingdom, July 2004


5
 

A Visualisation Technique to Communicate Implicit Feedback Decisions
Ryen W. White
26th Annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2004)
Sunderland, United Kingdom, April 2004


2003

4
 

An Approach for Implicitly Detecting Information Needs
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, and Ian Ruthven
12th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2003), Pages: 504-507
New Orleans, U.S.A., November 2003


3
 

Adapting to Evolving Needs: Evaluating a Behaviour-Based Search Interface
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, and Ian Ruthven
17th Annual Human-Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2003)
Bath, United Kingdom, September 2003


2
 

Using Top-Ranking Sentences for Web Search Result Presentation
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, and Ian Ruthven
12th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2003)
Budapest, Hungary, May 2003


2001

1
 

Query-biased Web Page Summarisation: A Task-Oriented Evaluation
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, and Ian Ruthven
24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2001), Pages: 412-413
New Orleans, U.S.A., September 2003


Tutorials

2020

18

 

Tutorial on Task-Based Search and Assistance
Chirag Shah and Ryen W. White
43rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Pages: 2436�2439
Xi'an, China, July 2020 [Resources: Slides | Video | References]


Panels

2009

1
 

Interacting with eHealth
m.c. schraefel, Paul André, Ryen W. White, Desney Tan, Tim Berners-Lee, Sunny Consolvo, Robert Jacobs, Christopher A La Dantec, Gary Marsden, Ben Shneiderman, and Daniel Weitzner
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2009), Pages: 3309-3312
Boston, U.S.A., April 2009


Demonstrations

2019

3
 

Bridging Screen Readers and Voice Assistants for Enhanced Eyes-Free Web Search
Alexandra Vtyurina, Adam Fourney, Meredith Ringel Morris, Leah Findlater and Ryen W. White
The Web Conference (TheWebConf 2019), Pages: 3590-3594
San Francisco, USA, May 2019


2004

2
 

An Implicit System for Predicting Interests
Ryen W. White and Joemon M. Jose
27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2004), Page: 595
Sheffield, United Kingdom, July 2004


2002

1
 

A System using Implicit Feedback and Top-Ranking Sentences to Help Users Find Relevant Web Documents
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, and Ian Ruthven
25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2002), Page: 446
Tampere, Finland, August 2002


Thesis

2004


 

Implicit Feedback for Interactive Information Retrieval
(BCS/CPHC Distinguished Dissertation Award for best CS PhD in the UK)
Ryen W. White
Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
United Kingdom, October 2004
Also available as Doctoral Dissertation Abstract, SIGIR Forum, June 2005


Book Reviews

2006

1

 

"Information Retrieval Design"
by James Anderson and Jose Perez-Carballo

Ryen W. White
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Vol: 57, Issue: 10, Pages: 1412-1413


Others

2023

20

 

Report on the Workshop on
Task Focused IR in the Era of Generative AI

Chirag Shah and Ryen W. White
SIGIR Forum, Vol: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: NA


19

 

Tasks, Copilots, and the Future of Search: A Keynote at SIGIR 2023
Ryen W. White
SIGIR Forum, Vol: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: NA


2020

18

 

Announcement and Call for Nominations: ACM SIGIR Academy
Ryen W. White
SIGIR Forum, Vol: 54, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-2 [Slides | Video]


2019

17

 

Task Intelligence Workshop @ WSDM 2019
Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Cathal Gurrin, Mark Sanderson, and Ryen W. White
12th Annual International ACM WSDM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2019), Pages: 848-849
Melbourne, Australia, February 2019


2018

16

 

Perspectives from a New Editor-in-Chief of a Computer Science Journal
Ryen W. White
Science Editor, Vol: 41, Issue: 2. Pages: 45-47


15
 

Building Breakthrough Products Using AI Research
Nick Ghotbi and Ryen W. White
Microsoft Research Technical Report, MSR-TR-2018-21


2015

14

 

Mining Tasks from the Web Anchor Text Graph:
MSR Notebook Paper for the TREC 2015 Tasks Track

Paul N. Bennett and Ryen W. White
Text Retrieval Conference (TREC)


2014

13

 

ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR)
Ryen W. White
SIGIR Forum, Vol: 48, Issue: 2, Pages: 12-13


12

 

Questions vs. Queries in Informational Search Tasks
Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson, and Wen-tau Yih
Microsoft Research Technical Report, MSR-TR-2014-96


2013

11

 

HCIR 2013: The Seventh International Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval
Robert Capra, Luanne Freund, Catherine L. Smith, Mark D. Smucker, and Ryen W. White
SIGIR Forum, Vol: 47, Issue: 2, Pages: 33-40


10

 

Report on the SIGIR 2013 Workshop on Health Search and Discovery
Ryen W. White, Elad Yom-Tov, Eric Horvitz, Eugene Agichtein, and William Hersh
SIGIR Forum, Vol: 47, Issue: 2, Pages: 101-108


9

 

Symposium on Human-Computer Information Retrieval
Daniel Tunkelang, Robert Capra, Gene Golovchinsky, Bill Kules, Catherine L. Smith,
and Ryen W. White
Big Data, Vol: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 65-70


2012

8

 

HCIR 2012: The Sixth International Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval
Robert Capra, Gene Golovchinsky, Bill Kules, Catherine L. Smith, Daniel Tunkelang,
and Ryen W. White
SIGIR Forum, Vol: 46, Issue: 2, Pages: 42-49


2011

7

 

HCIR 2011: The Fifth International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval
Robert Capra, Gene Golovchinsky, Bill Kules, Dan Russell, Catherine L. Smith,
Daniel Tunkelang, and Ryen W. White
SIGIR Forum, Vol: 45, Issue: 2, Pages: 102-106


2010

6

 

HCIR 2010: The Fourth International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval
Robert Capra, Bill Kules, Catherine L. Smith, Daniel Tunkelang, and Ryen W. White
SIGIR Forum, Vol: 44, Issue: 2, Pages: 73-77


2009

5

 

HCIR 2009: The Third International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval
Bill Kules, Daniel Tunkelang, and Ryen W. White
SIGIR Forum, Vol: 43, Issue: 2, Pages: 83-87


2008

4

 

Cyberchondria: Studies of the Escalation of Medical Concerns in Web Search
Ryen W. White and Eric Horvitz
Microsoft Research Technical Report (MSR-TR-2008-178), November 2008.


2007

3

 

Report on ACM SIGIR 2007 Workshop on Web Information Seeking and Interaction
Kerry Rodden, Ian Ruthven, and Ryen W. White
SIGIR Forum, Vol: 41, Issue: 2, Pages: 63-67


2006

2

 

Report on ACM SIGIR 2006 Workshop on Evaluating Exploratory Search Systems
Ryen W. White, Gheorghe Muresan, and Gary Marchionini
SIGIR Forum, Vol: 40, Issue: 2, Pages: 52-60


2005

1

 

Exploratory search interfaces: categorization, clustering and beyond: report on the XSI 2005 workshop at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland
Ryen W. White, Bill Kules, and Ben Bederson
SIGIR Forum, Vol: 39, Issue: 2, Pages: 52-56