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Oren Kurland

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0669-0431
    • 2076
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    20042024

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    • 2014

      Wikipedia-based query performance prediction

      Katz, G., Shtok, A., Kurland, O., Shapira, B. & Rokach, L., 2014, SIGIR 2014 - Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 1235-1238 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

    • 2013

      Estimating query representativeness for query-performance prediction

      Sondak, M., Shtok, A. & Kurland, O., 2013, SIGIR 2013 - Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 853-856 4 p. (SIGIR 2013 - Proceedings of the 36th 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

    • International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR '13, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 29 - October 02, 2013

      Kurland, O. (Editor), Metzler, D. (Editor), Lioma, C. (Editor), Larsen, B. (Editor) & Ingwersen, P. (Editor), 2013

      Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › peer-review

    • Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics): Preface

      Kurland, O., Lewenstein, M. & Porat, E., 2013, In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 8214 LNCS, p. V-VI

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

    • Preface

      Lioma, C., Larsen, B., Ingwersen, P., Van Rijsbergen, K., Kurland, O. & Metzler, D., 2013, In: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. p. I-II

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

    • Query-performance prediction using minimal relevance feedback

      Butman, O., Shtok, A., Kurland, O. & Carmel, D., 2013, International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2013 Proceedings. p. 14-21 8 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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

      Open Access

    • Shame to be Sham: Addressing content-based grey hat search engine optimization

      Raiber, F., Collins-Thompson, K. & Kurland, O., 2013, SIGIR 2013 - Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 1013-1016 4 p. (SIGIR 2013 - Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

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

    • String Processing and Information Retrieval - 20th International Symposium, SPIRE 2013, Jerusalem, Israel, October 7-9, 2013, Proceedings

      Kurland, O. (Editor), Lewenstein, M. (Editor) & Porat, E. (Editor), 2013, (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

      Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › peer-review

    • The cluster hypothesis for entity oriented search

      Raviv, H., Kurland, O. & Carmel, D., 2013, SIGIR 2013 - Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 841-844 4 p. (SIGIR 2013 - Proceedings of the 36th 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., 2013, SIGIR 2013 - Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 1126 1 p. (SIGIR 2013 - Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

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

    • The Technion at TREC 2013 Web Track: Cluster-based Document Retrieval

      Raiber, F. & Kurland, O., 2013.

      Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

    • The Technion at TREC 2013 Web Track: Cluster-based Document Retrieval

      Raiber, F. & Kurland, O., 2013, Proceedings of The Twenty-Second Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2013, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 19-22, 2013. Voorhees, E. M. (ed.). Vol. 500-302. (NIST Special Publication).

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

    • 2012

      A ranking framework for entity oriented search using Markov Random fields

      Raviv, H., Carmel, D. & Kurland, O., 2012, Proceedings of 1st Joint International Workshop on Entity-Oriented and Semantic Search, JIWES'12 - Co-located with the 35th ACM SIGIR Conference. 1. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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

    • Back to the roots: A probabilistic framework for query-performance prediction

      Kurland, O., Shtok, A., Hummel, S., Raiber, F., Carmel, D. & Rom, O., 2012, CIKM 2012 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 823-832 10 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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

    • Clarity re-visited

      Hummel, S., Shtok, A., Raiber, F., Kurland, O. & Carmel, D., 2012, SIGIR'12 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 1039-1040 2 p. (SIGIR'12 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

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

    • Content-based relevance estimation on the web using inter-document similarities

      Raiber, F., Kurland, O. & Tennenholtz, M., 2012, CIKM 2012 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 1769-1773 5 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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

    • Experimental methods for information retrieval

      Metzler, D. & Kurland, O., 2012, SIGIR'12 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 1185-1186 2 p. (SIGIR'12 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

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

    • Exploring the cluster hypothesis, and cluster-based retrieval, over the web

      Raiber, F. & Kurland, O., 2012, CIKM 2012 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 2507-2510 4 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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

    • Predicting query performance by query-drift estimation

      Shtok, A., Kurland, O., Carmel, D., Raiber, F. & Markovits, G., May 2012, In: ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 30, 2, 11.

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

    • Predicting query performance for fusion-based retrieval

      Markovits, G., Shtok, A., Kurland, O. & Carmel, D., 2012, CIKM 2012 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 813-822 10 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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

    • Predicting the performance of passage retrieval for question answering

      Krikon, E., Carmel, D. & Kurland, O., 2012, CIKM 2012 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 2451-2454 4 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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

    • Query-performance prediction and cluster ranking: Two sides of the same coin

      Kurland, O., Raiber, F. & Shtok, A., 2012, CIKM 2012 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 2459-2462 4 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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

    • SIGIR 2012 tutorial: Query performance prediction for IR

      Carmel, D. & Kurland, O., 2012, SIGIR'12 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 1196-1197 2 p. (SIGIR'12 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

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

    • Utilizing inter-document similarities in federated search

      Khalaman, S. & Kurland, O., 2012, SIGIR'12 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 1169-1170 2 p. (SIGIR'12 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

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

    • 2011

      A study of the integration of passage-, document-, and cluster-based information for re-ranking search results

      Krikon, E. & Kurland, O., Dec 2011, In: Information Retrieval. 14, 6, p. 593-616 24 p.

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

    • A unified framework for post-retrieval query-performance prediction

      Kurland, O., Shtok, A., Carmel, D. & Hummel, S., 2011, Advances in Information Retrieval Theory - Third International Conference, ICTIR 2011, Proceedings. p. 15-26 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 6931 LNCS).

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

    • Cluster-based fusion of retrieved lists

      Kozorovitsky, A. K. & Kurland, O., 2011, SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 893-902 10 p. (SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th 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

    • From "identical" to "similar": Fusing retrieved lists based on inter-document similarities

      Kozorovitsky, A. K. & Kurland, O., May 2011, In: Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. 41, p. 267-296 30 p.

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

      Open Access

    • Re-ranking search results using an additional retrieved list

      Meister, L., Kurland, O. & Kalmanovich, I. G., Aug 2011, In: Information Retrieval. 14, 4, p. 413-437 25 p.

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

    • The opposite of smoothing: A language model approach to ranking query-specific document clusters

      Kurland, O. & Krikon, E., May 2011, In: Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. 41, p. 367-395 29 p.

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

      Open Access

    • Utilizing minimal relevance feedback for ad hoc retrieval

      Krikon, E. & Kurland, O., 2011, SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 1099-1100 2 p. (SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

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

    • 2010

      On identifying representative relevant documents

      Raiber, F. & Kurland, O., 2010, CIKM'10 - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management and Co-located Workshops. p. 99-108 10 p. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

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

      Open Access

    • PageRank without hyperlinks: Structural reranking using links induced by language models

      Technion, O. K. & Lee, L., Nov 2010, In: ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 28, 4, 18.

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

    • Using statistical decision theory and relevance models for query-performance prediction

      Shtok, A., Kurland, O. & Carmel, D., 2010, SIGIR 2010 Proceedings - 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. p. 259-266 8 p. (SIGIR 2010 Proceedings - 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

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

    • Utilizing inter-passage and inter-document similarities for reranking search results

      Krikon, E., Kurland, O. & Bendersky, M., Dec 2010, In: ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 29, 1, 3.

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

      Open Access

    • Utilizing passage-based language models for ad hoc document retrieval

      Bendersky, M. & Kurland, O., Apr 2010, In: Information Retrieval. 13, 2, p. 157-187 31 p.

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

    • 2009

      Cluster-based query expansion

      Gelfer Kalmanovich, I. & Kurland, O., 2009, Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009. p. 646-647 2 p. (Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009).

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

      Open Access

    • Clusters, language models, and ad hoc information retrieval

      Kurland, O. & Lee, L., 1 May 2009, In: ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 27, 3, 13.

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

    • From "identical" to "similar": Fusing retrieved lists based on inter-document similarities

      Kozorovitzky, A. K. & Kurland, O., 2009, Advances in Information Retrieval Theory - Second International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2009, Proceedings. p. 212-223 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 5766 LNCS).

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

    • Integrating clusters created offline with query-specific clusters for document retrieval

      Meister, L., Kurland, O. & Gelfer Kalmanovich, I., 2009, Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009. p. 706-707 2 p. (Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009).

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

      Open Access

    • Navigating in the dark: Modeling uncertainty in ad hoc retrieval using multiple relevance models

      Soskin, N., Kurland, O. & Domshlak, C., 2009, Advances in Information Retrieval Theory - Second International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2009, Proceedings. p. 79-91 13 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 5766 LNCS).

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

    • Predicting query performance by query-drift estimation

      Shtok, A., Kurland, O. & Carmel, D., 2009, Advances in Information Retrieval Theory - Second International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2009, Proceedings. p. 305-312 8 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 5766 LNCS).

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

      Open Access

    • Re-ranking search results using language models of query-specific clusters

      Kurland, O., Aug 2009, In: Information Retrieval. 12, 4, p. 437-460 24 p.

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

    • Utilizing inter-passage and inter-document similarities for re-ranking search results

      Krikon, E., Kurland, O. & Bendersky, M., 2009, ACM 18th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2009. p. 1597-1600 4 p. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

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

      Open Access
    • 2008

      A rank-aggregation approach to searching for optimal query-specific clusters

      Kurland, O. & Domshlak, C., 2008, ACM SIGIR 2008 - 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Proceedings. p. 547-554 8 p. (ACM SIGIR 2008 - 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Proceedings).

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

    • Query-drift prevention for robust query expansion

      Zighelnic, L. & Kurland, O., 2008, ACM SIGIR 2008 - 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Proceedings. p. 825-826 2 p. (ACM SIGIR 2008 - 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Proceedings).

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

    • Re-ranking search results using document-passage graphs

      Bendersky, M. & Kurland, O., 2008, ACM SIGIR 2008 - 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Proceedings. p. 853-854 2 p. (ACM SIGIR 2008 - 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Proceedings).

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

      Open Access

    • The opposite of smoothing: A language model approach to ranking query-specific document clusters

      Kurland, O., 2008, ACM SIGIR 2008 - 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Proceedings. p. 171-178 8 p. (ACM SIGIR 2008 - 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Proceedings).

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

    • Utilizing passage-based language models for document retrieval

      Bendersky, M. & Kurland, O., 2008, Advances in Information Retrieval - 30th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2008, Proceedings. p. 162-174 13 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 4956 LNCS).

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

      Open Access
    • 2007

      Towards robust query expansion: Model selection in the language modeling framework

      Winaver, M., Kurland, O. & Domshlak, C., 2007, Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR'07. p. 729-730 2 p. (Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR'07).

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