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Oren Kurland

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0669-0431
    20042024

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    • 2024

      Analyzing Fusion Methods Using the Condorcet Rule

      Tyomkin, L. & Kurland, O., 10 Jul 2024, SIGIR 2024 - Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 2281-2285 5 p. (SIGIR 2024 - Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Old IR Methods Meet RAG

      Huly, O., Pogrebinsky, I., Carmel, D., Kurland, O. & Maarek, Y., 10 Jul 2024, SIGIR 2024 - Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 2559-2563 5 p. (SIGIR 2024 - Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Ranking-Incentivized Document Manipulations for Multiple Queries

      Nachimovsky, H., Tennenholtz, M., Raiber, F. & Kurland, O., 2 Aug 2024, ICTIR 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval. p. 61-70 10 p. (ICTIR 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Sponsored Question Answering

      Mordo, T., Tennenholtz, M. & Kurland, O., 2 Aug 2024, ICTIR 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval. p. 167-173 7 p. (ICTIR 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access
    • 2023

      Content-Based Relevance Estimation in Retrieval Settings with Ranking-Incentivized Document Manipulations

      Vasilisky, Z., Kurland, O., Tennenholtz, M. & Raiber, F., 9 Aug 2023, ICTIR 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval. p. 205-214 10 p. (ICTIR 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Entity-Based Relevance Feedback for Document Retrieval

      Sheetrit, E., Raiber, F. & Kurland, O., 9 Aug 2023, ICTIR 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval. p. 177-187 11 p. (ICTIR 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Revisiting Condorcet Fusion

      Tyomkin, L. & Kurland, O., 9 Aug 2023, ICTIR 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval. p. 199-204 6 p. (ICTIR 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Sentence Retrieval for Open-Ended Dialogue Using Dual Contextual Modeling

      Harel, I., Taitelbaum, H., Szpektor, I. & Kurland, O., 2023, Advances in Information Retrieval - 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2023, Proceedings. Kamps, J., Goeuriot, L., Crestani, F., Maistro, M., Joho, H., Davis, B., Gurrin, C., Caputo, A. & Kruschwitz, U. (eds.). p. 426-440 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 13980 LNCS).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • 2022

      A Dataset for Sentence Retrieval for Open-Ended Dialogues

      Harel, I., Taitelbaum, H., Szpektor, I. & Kurland, O., 6 Jul 2022, SIGIR 2022 - Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 2960-2969 10 p. (SIGIR 2022 - Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access

    • Competitive Search

      Kurland, O. & Tennenholtz, M., 6 Jul 2022, SIGIR 2022 - Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 2838-2849 12 p. (SIGIR 2022 - Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • From Cluster Ranking to Document Ranking

      Markovskiy, E., Raiber, F., Sabach, S. & Kurland, O., 6 Jul 2022, SIGIR 2022 - Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 2137-2141 5 p. (SIGIR 2022 - Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Topic Difficulty: Collection and Query Formulation Effects

      Culpepper, J. S., Faggioli, G., Ferro, N. & Kurland, O., Jan 2022, In: ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 40, 1, 19.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    • 2021

      Do hard topics exist? A statistical analysis

      Culpepper, J. S., Faggioli, G., Ferro, N. & Kurland, O., 2021, In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 2947

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review

    • Driving the Herd: Search Engines as Content Influencers

      Goren, G., Kurland, O., Tennenholtz, M. & Raiber, F., 26 Oct 2021, CIKM 2021 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 586-595 10 p. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access
    • 2020

      A passage-based approach to learning to rank documents

      Sheetrit, E., Shtok, A. & Kurland, O., 1 Apr 2020, In: Information Retrieval Journal. 23, 2, p. 159-186 28 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

      Open Access

    • Query Reformulation in E-Commerce Search

      Hirsch, S., Guy, I., Nus, A., Dagan, A. & Kurland, O., 25 Jul 2020, SIGIR 2020 - Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 1319-1328 10 p. (SIGIR 2020 - Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Ranking-Incentivized Quality Preserving Content Modification

      Goren, G., Kurland, O., Tennenholtz, M. & Raiber, F., 25 Jul 2020, SIGIR 2020 - Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 259-268 10 p. (SIGIR 2020 - Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access

    • Studying Ranking-Incentivized Web Dynamics

      Vasilisky, Z., Tennenholtz, M. & Kurland, O., 25 Jul 2020, SIGIR 2020 - Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 2093-2096 4 p. (SIGIR 2020 - Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access
    • 2019

      A comparative analysis of human and automatic query variants

      Liu, B., Craswell, N., Lu, X., Kurland, O. & Culpepper, J. S., 23 Sep 2019, ICTIR 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval. p. 47-50 4 p. (ICTIR 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Cluster-based focused retrieval

      Sheetrit, E. & Kurland, O., 3 Nov 2019, CIKM 2019 - Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 2305-2308 4 p. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Information needs, queries, and query performance prediction

      Zendel, O., Shtok, A., Rabier, F., Kurland, O. & Shane Culpepper, J., 18 Jul 2019, SIGIR 2019 - Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 395-404 10 p. (SIGIR 2019 - Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • On topic difficulty in IR evaluation: The effect of systems, corpora, and system components

      Zampieri, F., Roitero, K., Shane Culpepper, J., Kurland, O. & Mizzaro, S., 18 Jul 2019, SIGIR 2019 - Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 909-912 4 p. (SIGIR 2019 - Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Query performance prediction for pseudo-feedback-based retrieval

      Roitman, H. & Kurland, O., 18 Jul 2019, SIGIR 2019 - Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 1261-1264 4 p. (SIGIR 2019 - Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Relevance feedback: The whole is inferior to the sum of its parts

      Raiber, F. & Kurland, O., Oct 2019, In: ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 37, 4, 44.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    • Relevance modeling with multiple query Variations

      Lu, X., Kurland, O., Culpepper, J. S., Craswell, N. & Rom, O., 23 Sep 2019, ICTIR 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval. p. 27-34 8 p. (ICTIR 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Rethinking search engines and recommendation systems: A game theoretic perspective

      Tennenholtz, M. & Kurland, O., Dec 2019, In: Communications of the ACM. 62, 12, p. 66-75 10 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

    • 2018

      Clustering small-sized collections of short texts

      Kotlerman, L., Dagan, I. & Kurland, O., 1 Aug 2018, In: Information Retrieval Journal. 21, 4, p. 273-306 34 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    • Fusion in information retrieval: SIGIR 2018 half-day tutorial

      Kurland, O. & Culpepper, J. S., 27 Jun 2018, 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018. p. 1383-1386 4 p. (41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Improving search effectiveness with field-based relevance modeling

      Liu, B., Kurland, O., Lu, X. & Culpepper, J. S., 11 Dec 2018, Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ADCS 2018. Trotman, A., Koopman, B. & Thomas, P. (eds.). 11. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Ranking robustness under adversarial document manipulations

      Goren, G., Kurland, O., Tennenholtz, M. & Raiber, F., 27 Jun 2018, 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018. p. 395-404 10 p. (41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access

    • Selective cluster presentation on the search results page

      Levi, O., Guy, I., Raiber, F. & Kurland, O., 2018, In: ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 36, 3, 28.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    • Testing the cluster hypothesis with focused and graded relevance judgments

      Sheetrit, E., Shtok, A., Kurland, O. & Shprincis, I., 27 Jun 2018, 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018. p. 1173-1176 4 p. (41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • 2017

      A game theoretic analysis of the adversarial retrieval setting

      Basat, R. B., Tennenholtz, M. & Kurland, O., 1 Dec 2017, In: Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. 60, p. 1127-1164 38 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

      Open Access

    • Information retrieval meets game theory: The ranking competition between documents' authors

      Raifer, N., Raiber, F., Tennenholtz, M. & Kurland, O., 7 Aug 2017, SIGIR 2017 - Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 465-474 10 p. (SIGIR 2017 - Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • 2016

      A probabilistic fusion framework

      Anava, Y., Shtok, A., Kurland, O. & Rabinovich, E., 24 Oct 2016, CIKM 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 1463-1472 10 p. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings; vol. 24-28-October-2016).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Document retrieval using entity-based language models

      Raviv, H., Kurland, O. & Carmel, D., 7 Jul 2016, SIGIR 2016 - Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 65-74 10 p. (SIGIR 2016 - Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • New collection announcement: Focused retrieval over the web

      Habernal, I., Sukhareva, M., Raiber, F., Shtok, A., Kurland, O., Ronen, H., Bar-Ilan, J. & Gurevych, I., 7 Jul 2016, SIGIR 2016 - Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 701-704 4 p. (SIGIR 2016 - Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access

    • Query anchoring using discriminative query models

      Kuzi, S., Shtok, A. & Kurland, O., 12 Sep 2016, ICTIR 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval. p. 219-228 10 p. (ICTIR 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Query expansion using word embeddings

      Kuzi, S., Shtok, A. & Kurland, O., 24 Oct 2016, CIKM 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 1929-1932 4 p. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings; vol. 24-28-October-2016).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Query performance prediction using reference lists

      Shtok, A., Kurland, O. & Carmel, D., Jun 2016, In: ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 34, 4, 19.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    • Selective cluster-based document retrieval

      Levi, O., Raiber, F., Kurland, O. & Guy, I., 24 Oct 2016, CIKM 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 1473-1482 10 p. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings; vol. 24-28-October-2016).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Utilizing focused relevance feedback

      Brondwine, E., Shtok, A. & Kurland, O., 7 Jul 2016, SIGIR 2016 - Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 1061-1064 4 p. (SIGIR 2016 - Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • 2015

      The probability ranking principle is not optimal in adversarial retrieval settings

      Ben Basat, R., Tennenholtz, M. & Kurland, O., 27 Sep 2015, ICTIR 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval. p. 51-60 10 p. (ICTIR 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • 2014

      Query-performance prediction: Setting the expectations straight

      Raiber, F. & Kurland, O., 2014, SIGIR 2014 - Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 13-22 10 p. (SIGIR 2014 - Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Query performance prediction for entity retrieval

      Raviv, H., Kurland, O. & Carmel, D., 2014, SIGIR 2014 - Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 1099-1102 4 p. (SIGIR 2014 - Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access

    • The cluster hypothesis in information retrieval

      Kurland, O., 2014, Advances in Information Retrieval - 36th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2014, Proceedings. p. 823-826 4 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 8416 LNCS).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • The correlation between cluster hypothesis tests and the effectiveness of cluster-based retrieval

      Raiber, F. & Kurland, O., 2014, SIGIR 2014 - Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 1155-1158 4 p. (SIGIR 2014 - Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • The search duel: A response to a strong ranker

      Izsak, P., Raiber, F., Kurland, O. & Tennenholtz, M., 2014, SIGIR 2014 - Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 919-922 4 p. (SIGIR 2014 - Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Using the Cross-Entropy method to re-rank search results

      Roitman, H., Hummel, S. & Kurland, O., 2014, SIGIR 2014 - Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 839-842 4 p. (SIGIR 2014 - Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Utilizing relevance feedback in fusion-based retrieval

      Rabinovich, E., Rom, O. & Kurland, O., 2014, SIGIR 2014 - Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 313-322 10 p. (SIGIR 2014 - Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review