Our paper Lucchese C., Nardini F.M., Orlando S., Perego R., Tonellotto N.,Venturini R., QuickScorer: a Fast Algorithm to Rank Documents with Additive Ensembles of Regression Trees won the Best Paper Award at the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval [1].
[1] Claudio Lucchese, Franco Maria Nardini, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto, and Rossano Venturini. Quickscorer: a fast algorithm to rank documents with additive ensembles of regression trees. In SIGIR ’15: Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2015.