SIGIR 2013 Workshop on Modeling User Behavior for Information Retrieval Evaluation (MUBE 2013)

Welcome to the SIGIR 2013 Workshop on Modeling User Behavior for Information Retrieval Evaluation (MUBE 2013). The goal of this workshop is to bring together people to discuss new and existing approaches to improving information retrieval evaluation through the modeling of user behavior. We invited participants to submit 2 page poster papers that could range from position papers to new research results. Each paper was reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Papers were evaluated in terms of their relevance to the workshop, their correctness, and their potential to generate discussion. The submissions were very high quality, and we accepted 10 of the 11 submitted papers. The workshop consists of 3 main parts: invited talks, short paper presentations, and breakout groups and their presentations. The invited talks from Ben Carterette and Leif Azzopardi will provide participants with two alternate looks at modeling user behavior for IR evaluation from two of the leading researchers in this area. The short papers will allow participants to see a diverse set of work. Following the invited and short paper talks, the workshop participants will select the topics of discussion for the remainder of the workshop. We will form breakout groups around these discussion topics and each breakout group will present their group’s findings at the end of the workshop. We thank SIGIR for hosting the workshop, and in particular, we thank the conference organizers for their many efforts to make the workshop a success. We thank Ben Carterette and Leif Azzopardi for accepting our invitations to speak. We thank our excellent program committee for writing …