Author: Eugene Agichtein

Eugene Agichtein is an Assistant Professor in the Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Emory University. Previously, Eugene was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Text Mining, Search, and Navigation group at Microsoft Research, working on text and web mining for information retrieval. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University in 2005, and a B.S. in Engineering from The Cooper Union in 1998. Eugene is a recipient of the “Best Student Paper” award at the ICDE 2003 conference, and the “Best Paper Award” at SIGMOD 2006 conference. Dr. Agichtein's research interests are in discovering and managing information in large unstructured datasets, with emphasis on the web and life sciences domains.

Publications

Publication period start: 2012
Number of co-authors: 42

Co-authors

Number of publications with favourite co-authors
Dmitry Lagun
4
Yandong Liu
6
Qi Guo
11

Productive Colleagues

Most productive colleagues in number of publications
Charles L. A. Clarke
35
Ryen W. White
59
Susan Dumais
74

Publications

Agichtein, Eugene, Lawrence, Steve, Gravano, Luis (2004): Learning to find answers to questions on the Web. In ACM Trans. Internet Techn., 4 (2) pp. 129-162. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/990301.990303

Agichtein, Eugene, Gravano, Luis (2000): Snowball: Extracting Relations from Large Plain-Text Collections. In: DL00: Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries , 2000, . pp. 85-94. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/dl/336597/p85-agichtein/p85-agichtein.pdf

Agichtein, Eugene, Cucerzan, Silviu, Brill, Eric (2005): Analysis of factoid questions for effective relation extraction. In: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2005, . pp. 567-568. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1076034.1076131

Agichtein, Eugene, Brill, Eric, Dumais, Susan, Ragno, Robert (2006): Learning user interaction models for predicting web search result preferences. In: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2006, . pp. 3-10. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1148170.1148175

Agichtein, Eugene, Brill, Eric, Dumais, Susan (2006): Improving web search ranking by incorporating user behavior information. In: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2006, . pp. 19-26. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1148170.1148177

Clarke, Charles L. A., Agichtein, Eugene, Dumais, Susan, White, Ryen W. (2007): The influence of caption features on clickthrough patterns in web search. In: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2007, . pp. 135-142. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1277741.1277767

Jurczyk, Pawel, Agichtein, Eugene (2007): Hits on question answer portals: exploration of link analysis for author ranking. In: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2007, . pp. 845-846. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1277741.1277938

Liu, Yandong, Bian, Jiang, Agichtein, Eugene (2008): Predicting information seeker satisfaction in community question answering. In: Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2008, . pp. 483-490. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1390334.1390417

Guo, Qi, Agichtein, Eugene (2008): Exploring mouse movements for inferring query intent. In: Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2008, . pp. 707-708. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1390334.1390462

Li, Baoli, Liu, Yandong, Ram, Ashwin, Garcia, Ernest V., Agichtein, Eugene (2008): Exploring question subjectivity prediction in community QA. In: Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2008, . pp. 735-736. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1390334.1390477

Liu, Yandong, Agichtein, Eugene (2008): On the evolution of the yahoo! answers QA community. In: Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2008, . pp. 737-738. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1390334.1390478

Agichtein, Eugene, Cucerzan, Silviu (2005): Predicting accuracy of extracting information from unstructured text collections. In: Herzog, Otthein, Schek, Hans-Jorg, Fuhr, Norbert (eds.) Proceedings of the 2005 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management October 31 - November 5, 2005, Bremen, Germany. pp. 413-420. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1099554.1099678

Jurczyk, Pawel, Agichtein, Eugene (2007): Discovering authorities in question answer communities by using link analysis. In: Silva, Mario J., Laender, Alberto H. F., Baeza-Yates, Ricardo A., McGuinness, Deborah L., Olstad, Bjørn, Olsen, Øystein Haug, Falcão, André O. (eds.) Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management - CIKM 2007 November 6-10, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal. pp. 919-922. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1321440.1321575

Agichtein, Eugene, Burges, Chris, Brill, Eric (2007): Question Answering over Implicitly Structured Web Content. In: 2007 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence WI 2007 2-5 November, 2007, Silicon Valley, CA, USA. pp. 18-25. https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WI.2007.88

Agichtein, Eugene, Lawrence, Steve, Gravano, Luis (2001): Learning search engine specific query transformations for question answering. In: Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on the World Wide Web , 2001, . pp. 169-178. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/371920.371976

Bian, Jiang, Liu, Yandong, Agichtein, Eugene, Zha, Hongyuan (2008): Finding the right facts in the crowd: factoid question answering over social media. In: Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on the World Wide Web , 2008, . pp. 467-476. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1367497.1367561

Bian, Jiang, Liu, Yandong, Zhou, Ding, Agichtein, Eugene, Zha, Hongyuan (2009): Learning to recognize reliable users and content in social media with coupled mutual reinf. In: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on the World Wide Web , 2009, . pp. 51-60. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1526709.1526717

Guo, Qi, Agichtein, Eugene (2010): Towards predicting web searcher gaze position from mouse movements. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2010 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2010, . pp. 3601-3606. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1753846.1754025

Guo, Qi, Agichtein, Eugene (2010): Ready to buy or just browsing?: detecting web searcher goals from interaction data. In: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2010, . pp. 130-137. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1835449.1835473

Guo, Qi, Agichtein, Eugene (2010): Exploring searcher interactions for distinguishing types of commercial intent. In: Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on the World Wide Web , 2010, . pp. 1107-1108. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1772690.1772827

Kiseleva, Julia, Guo, Qi, Agichtein, Eugene, Billsus, Daniel, Chai, Wei (2010): Unsupervised query segmentation using click data: preliminary results. In: Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on the World Wide Web , 2010, . pp. 1131-1132. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1772690.1772839

Guo, Qi, Kelly, Ryan P., Deemer, Selden, Murphy, Arthur, Smith, Joan A., Agichtein, Eugene (2009): EMU: the emory user behavior data management system for automatic library search evaluatio. In: JCDL09 Proceedings of the 2009 Joint International Conference on Digital Libraries , 2009, . pp. 389-390. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1555400.1555477

Guo, Qi, Agichtein, Eugene (2009): Beyond session segmentation: predicting changes in search intent with client-side user int. In: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2009, . pp. 636-637. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1571941.1572053

Liu, Yandong, Narasimhan, Nitya, Vasudevan, Venu, Agichtein, Eugene (2009): Is this urgent?: exploring time-sensitive information needs in collaborative question answ. In: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2009, . pp. 712-713. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1571941.1572091

Radinsky, Kira, Agichtein, Eugene, Gabrilovich, Evgeniy, Markovitch, Shaul (2011): A word at a time: computing word relatedness using temporal semantic analysis. In: Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on the World Wide Web , 2011, . pp. 337-346. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1963405.1963455

Lagun, Dmitry, Agichtein, Eugene (2011): ViewSer: a tool for large-scale remote studies of web search result examination. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2011, . pp. 2035-2040. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979936

Ashkan, Azin, Clarke, Charles L. A., Agichtein, Eugene, Guo, Qi (2009): Classifying and Characterizing Query Intent. In: Boughanem, Mohand, Berrut, Catherine, Mothe, Josiane, Soulé-Dupuy, Chantal (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 31th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2009 April 6-9, 2009, 2009, Toulouse, France. pp. 578-586. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00958-7_53

Ageev, Mikhail, Guo, Qi, Lagun, Dmitry, Agichtein, Eugene (2011): Find it if you can: a game for modeling different types of web search success using intera. In: Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2011, . pp. 345-354. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2009916.2009965

Lagun, Dmitry, Agichtein, Eugene (2011): ViewSer: enabling large-scale remote user studies of web search examination and interactio. In: Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2011, . pp. 365-374. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2009916.2009967

Liu, Qiaoling, Agichtein, Eugene, Dror, Gideon, Gabrilovich, Evgeniy, Maarek, Yoelle, Pelleg, Dan, Szpektor, Idan (2011): Predicting web searcher satisfaction with existing community-based answers. In: Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2011, . pp. 415-424. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2009916.2009974

Wang, Yu, Agichtein, Eugene (2011): Temporal latent semantic analysis for collaboratively generated content: preliminary resul. In: Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2011, . pp. 1145-1146. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2009916.2010091

Guo, Qi, Yuan, Shuai, Agichtein, Eugene (2011): Detecting success in mobile search from interaction. In: Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2011, . pp. 1229-1230. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2009916.2010133

Agichtein, Eugene, Gabrilovich, Evgeniy (2011): Information organization and retrieval with collaboratively generated content. In: Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2011, . pp. 1307-1308. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2009916.2010173

Agichtein, Eugene, White, Ryen W., Dumais, Susan T., Bennet, Paul N. (2012): Search, interrupted: understanding and predicting search task continuation. In: Proceedings of the 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2012, . pp. 315-324. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2348283.2348328

Liu, Qiaoling, Agichtein, Eugene, Dror, Gideon, Maarek, Yoelle, Szpektor, Idan (2012): When web search fails, searchers become askers: understanding the transition. In: Proceedings of the 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2012, . pp. 801-810. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2348283.2348390

Lagun, Dmitry, Agichtein, Eugene (2012): Re-examining search result snippet examination time for relevance estimation. In: Proceedings of the 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2012, . pp. 1141-1142. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2348283.2348509

Guo, Qi, Agichtein, Eugene (2012): Beyond dwell time: estimating document relevance from cursor movements and other post-clic. In: Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on the World Wide Web , 2012, . pp. 569-578. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2187836.2187914

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