About Me: Xiaohui Xie (谢晓晖)

I am now a fifth year Ph.D. student in THUIR group, Department of Computer Science and Technology in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. My supervisor is Prof. Yiqun Liu. My research interests are multimedia search, user behavior modeling, evaluation metrics and etc.

Recent Professional Activities

  • Our paper “Models Versus Satisfaction: Towards a Better Understanding of Evaluation Metrics” won the Best Paper Honorable Mention at SIGIR 2020.
  • I gave a tutorial on “Modeling user behavior for vertical search: Images, Apps and Products” on SIGIR 2020.
  • I serve as reviewer of IPM, TOIS, CIKM 2019, theWebConf 2020.
  • I serve as Student Liaison of SIGIR.
  • Our paper “A search engine click model based on deep neural network” won the Best Student Paper Award at CCIR 2016.

Publications

  • Fan Zhang, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Xiaohui Xie, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Models Versus Satisfaction: Towards a Better Understanding of Evaluation Metrics. The 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (SIGIR 2020).
  • Xiaohui Xie, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Maarten de Rijke. Modeling user behavior for vertical search: Images, Apps and Products. The 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (SIGIR 2020).
  • Xiaohui Xie, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Maarten de Rijke, Haitian Chen, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Preference-based Evaluation Metrics for Web Image Search. The 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (SIGIR 2020).
  • Xiaohui Xie, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Maarten de Rijke, Qingyao Ai, Yufei Huang, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Improving Web Image Search with Contextual Information. The 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. (CIKM 2019).
  • Xiaohui Xie, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Maarten de Rijke, Yunqiu Shao, Zixin Ye, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Grid-based Evaluation Metrics for Web Image Search. The Web Conference 2019 (theWebConf 2019).
  • Xiaohui Xie. User Behavior Modeling for Web Image Search. The Twelfth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2019).
  • Zhijing Wu, Xiaohui Xie, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. A Study of User Image Search Behavior Based on Log Analysis. The 23rd China Conference on Information Retrieval (CCIR 2017).
  • Xiaohui Xie, Jiaxin Mao, Maarten de Rijke, Ruizhe Zhang, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Constructing an interaction behavior model for web image search. The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018).
  • Xiaohui Xie, Yiqun Liu, Maarten De Rijke, Jiyin He, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Why people search for images using web search engines? The Eleventh ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2018).
  • Xiaohui Xie, Yiqun Liu, Xiaochuan Wang, Meng Wang, Zhijing Wu, Yingying Wu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Investigating Examination Behavior of Image Search Users. The 40th ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017).
  • Yiqun Liu, Xiaohui Xie, Chao Wang, Jian-Yun Nie, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. Time-aware click model. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
  • Xiaohui Xie, Chao Wang, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. A search engine click model based on deep neural network. The 22rd China Conference on Information Retrieval (CCIR 2016).

Experiences

  • Oct. 2018 - Apr. 2019. Visiting PhD student, Information and Language Processing Systems group, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • Sep. 2017 - Sep. 2018. Intern, Search Department, Sogou Incorporation, Beijing, China.