Biography

Ke (Adam) Zhou is an assistant professor in School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, and an academic consultant for Yahoo! Research. His research interests and expertise lie in web search and analytics, user engagement modeling, evaluation metrics, text mining and human computer interaction. He has published in reputable conferences and journals (SIGIR, WWW, CIKM, TOIS, PLOS ONE), and served as PC member or reviewer for SIGIR, CIKM, WSDM, ECIR, AIRS, TOIS, IP&M and TKDE. He has also won the best paper award in ECIR'15 and CHIIR'16, and best paper honorable mention in SIGIR'15.

He served as a co-organizer for NTCIR-11/12 IMine task, TREC FedWeb 2014 task, Heterogeneous Information Access (HIA) workshop at WSDM'15 & SIGIR'16, and Poster & Demo Chair at AIRS'16. His current research interests focuses on information retrieval, i.e. how to form search result pages that best help users in satisfying their information needs.

Prior to joining Nottingham, he was a research scientist working in user engagement/ad quality science team in Yahoo Research. Before joining Yahoo, he was previously a research associate in Language Technology Group in University of Edinburgh, working on text mining and information retrieval from 2013. Prior to this, he has conducted his PhD research on aggregated search at the Information Retrieval Group in University of Glasgow.

Recruitment I'm always interested in recruiting passionate PhD candidates who want to explore Information Retrieval, Text/Data Mining and Machine Learning. Please contact me if you are interested in working with me!

News I'm serving as a Senior PC member at WSDM 2017 and ECIR 2017, and a PC member at WWW 2017 and SIGIR 2017.

News I'm serving as a Poster & Demo chair at AIRS 2016, welcome to submit your papers!

News I'm organizing the Second Workshop of Heterogeneous Information Access in SIGIR 2016, welcome to submit your paper!

News Our paper on "Playing Your Cards Right: The Effect of Entity Cards on Search Behaviour and Workload" has won the best paper award in CHIIR 2016!

News I am co-organizing NTCIR-12 IMine Task (Search Intent Mining Task), welcome to participate!

Publications

2017

• Y. Chen, K. Zhou, Y. Liu, M. Zhang, S. Ma. Meta-evaluation of Online and Offline Web Search Evaluation Metrics., to appear in 39th ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017), Tokyo, Japan 2017. Full Paper
• Y. Liu, Y. Liu, K. Zhou, M. Zhang, S. Ma. Detecting Collusive Spamming Activities in Community Question Answering, to appear in the 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2017), Perth, Australia, 2017. Full Paper
• C. Luo, Y. Liu, T. Sakai, K. Zhou, F. Zhang, X. Li and S. Ma. Does Document Relevance Affect the Searcher’s Perception of Time?, to appear in the 10th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2017), Cambridge, UK, 2017. Full Paper

2016

• Y. Liu, Y. Liu, K. Zhou, M. Zhang, S. Ma. Detecting Promotion Campaigns in Query Auto Completion, to appear in The 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016), Indianapolis, USA, 2016. Full Paper
• Y. Liu, Z. Liu, K. Zhou, M. Wang, C. Wang, J. Mao, M. Zhang, S. Ma. Predicting Search User Examination with Visual Saliency Information, to appear in 39th ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2016), Pisa, Italy, 2016. Full Paper
• J. Mao, Y. Liu, K. Zhou, J. Nie, M. Zhang, S. Ma. When does Relevance Mean Usefulness and User Satisfaction in Web Search?, to appear in 39th ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2016), Pisa, Italy, 2016. Full Paper
• K. Zhou, M. Redi, A. Haines, M. Lalmas. Predicting Pre-click Quality for Native Advertisements, 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016), Montreal, Canada, 2016. Full Paper
• T. Yamamoto, Y. Liu, M. Zhang, Z. Dou, K. Zhou, I. Markov, M. Kato, H. Ohshima, S. Fujita. Overview of the NTCIR-12 IMine2 Task, Proceedings of the 12th NTCIR conference (NTCIR 2016), Tokyo, Japan, 2016. Overview Paper
• (Best Paper Award) H. Bota, K. Zhou and J. M. Jose. Playing Your Cards Right: The Effect of Entity Cards on Search Behaviour and Workload, The ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2016), Chapel Hill, USA, 2016. Full Paper

2015

• Y. Chen, Y. Liu, K. Zhou, M. Zhang, S. Ma. Does Vertical Bring more Satisfaction? Predicting Search Satisfaction in a Heterogeneous Environment. The 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2015), Australia, 2015. Full Paper
• Z. Liu, Y. Liu, K. Zhou, M. Zhang, S. Ma. Influence of Vertical Result in Web Search Examination, The 38th ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2015), Santiago, Chile, 2015. Full Paper
• (Best Paper Honorable Mention Award) C. Wang, Y. Liu, M. Yang, K. Zhou, J. Nie, S. Ma. Incorporating Non-sequential Behavior into Click Models, The 38th ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2015), Santiago, Chile, 2015. Full Paper
• K. Zhou, C. Grover, M. Klein and R. Tobin. No More 404s: Predicting Referenced Link Rot in Scholarly Articles for Pro-Active Archiving, Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2015 (JCDL 2015), Knoxville, USA, 2015. Short Paper
• K. Zhou, R. Luo, D. Hiemstra and J. Jose. HIA'15: Heterogeneous Information Access Workshop at WSDM 2015, Proceedings of the Eighth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2015), Shanghai, China, 2015. Overview Paper
• T. Demeester, D. Trieschnigg, K. Zhou, D. Nguyen and D. Hiemstra. FedWeb Greatest Hits: Presenting the New Test Collection for Federated Web Search, International World-Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015), Pisa, Italy, 2015. Short Paper
• B. Alex, C. Grover, K. Zhou and U. Hinrichs. Palimpsest: Improving Assisted Curation of Loco-specific Literature, to appear in Digital Humanities 2015 (DH 2015), Sydney, Australia, 2015. Full Paper
• (Best Paper Award) H. Bota, K. Zhou and J. M. Jose. Exploring Composite Retrieval from Users' Perspective, to appear in 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2015), Vienna, Austria, 2015. Full Paper
• A. Chuklin, A. Schuth, K. Zhou, M. de Rijke. A Comparative Analysis of Interleaving Methods for Aggregated Search, to appear in ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS). Journal Paper
• M. Klein, H.Sompel, R. Sanderson, H. Shankar, L.Balakireva, K. Zhou, R. Tobin. Scholarly Context Not Found: One in Five Articles Suffers from Reference Rot, to appear in Public Library of Science PLOS ONE (PLOS ONE). Journal Paper

2014

• Y. Liu, R. Song, M. Zhang, Z. Dou, T. Yamamoto, M. Kato, H. Ohshima, K. Zhou. Overview of the NTCIR-11 IMine Task, Proceedings of the 11th NTCIR conference (NTCIR 2014), Tokyo, Japan, 2014. Overview Paper
• T. Demeester, D. Trieschnigg, D. Nguyen, K. Zhou and D. Hiemstra. Overview of the TREC 2014 Federated Web Search Track, Proceeding of Text REtrieval Conference 2014 (TREC 2014), Gaithersburg, USA, 2014. Overview Paper
• Y. Liu, C. Wang, K. Zhou, J. Nie, M. Zhang, S. Ma. From Skimming to Reading: A Two-stage Examination Model for Web Search, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2014), Shanghai, China, 2014. Full Paper
• K. Zhou, T. Demeester, D. Nguyen, D. Hiemstra and D. Trieschnigg. Aligning Vertical Collection Relevance with User Intent, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2014), Shanghai, China, 2014. Short Paper
• K. Zhou, R. Tobin, C. Grover. Extraction and Analysis of Referenced Web Links in Large-Scale Scholarly Articles, Digital Libraries 2014 (ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries and the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries Conference series) (JCDL 2014), London, UK, 2014. Short Paper
• A. Chuklin, K. Zhou, A. Schuth, F. Sietsma, M. de Rijke. Evaluating Intuitiveness of Vertical-Aware Click Models, to appear in 37th ACM Conference on Special Interest Groupon Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2014), Queensland, Australia, 2014. Short Paper
• H. Bota, K. Zhou, J. M. Jose and M. Lalmas. Composite Retrieval of Heterogeneous Web Search, to appear in International World-Wide Web Conference (WWW 2014), Seoul, Korea, 2014. Full Paper

2013

• K. Zhou, M. Lalmas, T. Sakai, R. Cummins and J. M. Jose. On the Reliability and Intuitiveness of Aggregated Search Metrics, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013), San Francisco, USA, 2013. Full Paper
• K. Zhou, T. Sakai, M. Lalmas, Z. Dou and J. M. Jose. Evaluating Heterogeneous Information Access (Position Paper), SIGIR 2013 Workshop on Modeling User Behavior for Information Retrieval Evaluation (MUBE 2013), Dublin, Ireland, 2013. Position Paper
• S. Whiting, K. Zhou, J. M. Jose, M. Lalmas, Temporal Variance of Intents in Multi-faceted Event-driven Information Needs, to appear in 36th ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2013), Dublin, Ireland, 2013. Short Paper
• K. Zhou, R. Cummins, M. Lalmas and J. M. Jose. Which Vertical Search Engines are Relevant? Understanding Vertical Relevance Assessments for Web Queries, to appear in International World-Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2013. Full Paper
• K. Zhou, S. Whiting, J. M. Jose and M. Lalmas. The Impact of Temporal Intent Variability on Diversity Evaluation, 35th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2013), Moscow, Russia, 2013. Short Paper

2012

• K. Zhou, R. Cummins, M. Lalmas and J. M. Jose. Evaluating Aggregated Search Pages, 35th ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2012), Portland, 2012. Full Paper
• K. Zhou, R. Cummins, M. Lalmas and J. M. Jose. Evaluating Reward and Risk for Vertical Selection, 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012), Hawaii, USA, 2012. Short Paper
• S. Whiting, K. Zhou, J. M. Jose, O. Alonso, T. Leelanupab. CrowdTiles: Presenting Crowd-based information for Event-driven Information Needs, 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012), Hawaii, USA, 2012. Demo
• K. Zhou, R. Cummins, M. Halvey, M. Lalmas and J. M. Jose. Assessing and Predicting Vertical Intent for Web Queries, 34th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2012), Barcelona, Spain, 2012. Short Paper

Before 2012

• K. Zhou, R. Cummins, M. Lalmas and J. M. Jose. Evaluating Large-Scale Distributed Vertical Search, CIKM Workshop on Large-Scale and Distributed Information Retrieval (LSDS-IR 2011), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 2011. Full Paper
• K. Zhou, M. Lalmas and R. Cummins. Building a Test Collection for Aggregated Search, Technical Report, University of Glasgow, October 2010. Technical Report
• T. Xiao, T. Li, G. Song, K. Zhou, J. Zhu and H. Wang. KNN and Re‐ranking Models for English Patent Mining at NTCIR‐7, Proceedings of NTCIR‐7 Workshop Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, 2008. Full Paper