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Eugene Agichtein
Researcher at Emory University
Publications - 166
Citations - 11564
Eugene Agichtein is an academic researcher from Emory University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Question answering & Web search query. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 166 publications receiving 10917 citations. Previous affiliations of Eugene Agichtein include Amazon.com & Microsoft.
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SIGIR 2016 Workshop WebQA II: Web Question Answering Beyond Factoids
Alessandro Moschitti,Lluiís Márquez,Preslav Nakov,Eugene Agichtein,Charles L. A. Clarke,Idan Szpektor +5 more
TL;DR: The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers in diverse areas working on this problem, including those from NLP, IR, social media and recommender systems communities, to conduct a more focused and open discussion.
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Real-Time Community Question Answering: Exploring Content Recommendation and User Notification Strategies
TL;DR: RealQA, a real-time CQA system with a mobile interface, is developed and the findings of the prevalent information needs and types of responses users provided and of the effectiveness of the recommendation and notification strategies on user experience and satisfaction are reported.
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Exploring searcher interactions for distinguishing types of commercial intent
Qi Guo,Eugene Agichtein +1 more
TL;DR: This work presents a new search behavior model that incorporates fine-grained user interactions with the search results, and shows that mining these interactions can enable more effective detection of the user's search intent.
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Crowdsourcing for (almost) Real-time Question Answering
TL;DR: This work explores two ways crowdsourcing can assist a question answering system that operates in (near) real time: by providing answer validation, which could be used to filter or re-rank the candidate answers, and by creating the answer candidates directly.
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The importance of being socially-savvy: quantifying the influence of social networks on microblog retrieval
Alexander Kotov,Eugene Agichtein +1 more
TL;DR: Experimental results on a large sample of Twitter data indicate that retrieval models discriminatively leveraging social network content for document expansion outperform both traditional, socially-unaware retrieval models and retrieval models that indiscriminatively utilize all social connections.