Thursday, July 25, 2019
Cheriton School of Computer Science Professors Charlie Clarke and Gordon Cormack, Management Sciences Professor Olga Vechtomova, along with their former graduate students Maheedhar Kolla, Azin Ashkan, Stefan Büttcher and Ian MacKinnon, have received the 2019 ACM SIGIR Test of Time Award.
Their paper, titled Novelty and Diversity in Information Retrieval Evaluation, demonstrated the feasibility of using novelty and diversity as the evaluation measures that are optimized by an information retrieval system. Learn more about the paper.