James Allan
Orcid: 0000-0003-0132-5694Affiliations:
- University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
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James Allan
authored at least 252 papers
between 1992 and 2024.
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ACM Fellow
ACM Fellow 2020, "For contributions to information retrieval, including topic detection and tracking".
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2024
CoRR, 2024
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2024
An Ontology-Based Meta-modelling Approach for Semantic-Driven Building Management Systems.
Proceedings of the Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops, 2024
A Hierarchical Knowledge Framework for Digital Twins of Buildings and Their Energy Systems (Position Paper).
Proceedings of the Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops, 2024
2023
Evaluating the Robustness of Conversational Recommender Systems by Adversarial Examples.
CoRR, 2023
Cross-lingual Knowledge Transfer via Distillation for Multilingual Information Retrieval.
CoRR, 2023
Improving Cross-lingual Information Retrieval on Low-Resource Languages via Optimal Transport Distillation.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2023
Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2023
Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2023
An open endpoint and framework for the development of linked data for building energy systems.
Proceedings of the 11th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop, 2023
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2023
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2023
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023
AutoTriggER: Label-Efficient and Robust Named Entity Recognition with Auxiliary Trigger Extraction.
Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2023
2022
J. Open Source Softw., October, 2022
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2022
A retrieval model family based on the probability ranking principle for ad hoc retrieval.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2022
Inf. Retr. J., 2022
Learning Relevant Questions for Conversational Product Search using Deep Reinforcement Learning.
Proceedings of the WSDM '22: The Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Virtual Event / Tempe, AZ, USA, February 21, 2022
Proceedings of the SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11, 2022
Proceedings of the SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11, 2022
Extracting Relevant Information from User's Utterances in Conversational Search and Recommendation.
Proceedings of the KDD '22: The 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Washington, DC, USA, August 14, 2022
Proceedings of the FAccT '22: 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, Seoul, Republic of Korea, June 21, 2022
2021
IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Syst., 2021
Proceedings of the SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2021
Proceedings of the SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2021
Interactive Visualization of the Polarity-based Stance of News Websites using News Genres (short paper).
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on News Recommendation and Analytics (INRA 2021) co-located with 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2021), 2021
Large-scale Interactive Conversational Recommendation System using Actor-Critic Framework.
Proceedings of the RecSys '21: Fifteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 27 September 2021, 2021
Proceedings of the RecSys '21: Fifteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 27 September 2021, 2021
Proceedings of the ICTIR '21: The 2021 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2021
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2021
Proceedings of the CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, November 1, 2021
Mixed Attention Transformer for Leveraging Word-Level Knowledge to Neural Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval.
Proceedings of the CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, November 1, 2021
Proceedings of the CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, November 1, 2021
2020
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2020
Int. J. Softw. Eng. Knowl. Eng., 2020
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2020
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2020
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2020
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2020
Proceedings of the ICTIR '20: The 2020 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2020
Proceedings of the ICTIR '20: The 2020 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2020
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2020
2019
Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2019
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2019
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2019
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2019
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2019
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2019
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2019
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2019
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2019
Proceedings of the 57th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019
2018
Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Text REtrieval Conference, 2018
Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, 2018
Universal Approximation Functions for Fast Learning to Rank: Replacing Expensive Regression Forests with Simple Feed-Forward Networks.
Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, 2018
Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, 2018
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Recent Trends in News Information Retrieval co-located with 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2018), 2018
Proceedings of the CIKM 2018 Workshops co-located with 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018), 2018
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2018
2017
Is Climate Change Controversial? Modeling Controversy as Contention Within Populations.
CoRR, 2017
Proceedings of The Twenty-Sixth Text REtrieval Conference, 2017
Proceedings of The Twenty-Sixth Text REtrieval Conference, 2017
Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2017
Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2017
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2017
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2017
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2017
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text, 2017
2016
Proceedings of the Ninth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2016
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2016
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2016
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2016
Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2016
Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2016
Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2016
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2016
2015
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2015
Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2015
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on The Theory of Information Retrieval, 2015
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2015
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks co-located with the 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2015), 2015
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2015
2014
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2014
Proceedings of the 2014 TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation, 2014
Searching, browsing, and clicking in a search session: changes in user behavior by task and over time.
Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2014
Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2014
Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2014
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2014
2013
Proceedings of the 2013 TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation, 2013
Proceedings of the 2013 TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation, 2013
Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013
Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013
Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2013
Proceedings of the 2013 workshop on Living labs for information retrieval evaluation, 2013
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2013
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2013
2012
Frontiers, challenges, and opportunities for information retrieval: Report from SWIRL 2012 the second strategic workshop on information retrieval in Lorne.
SIGIR Forum, 2012
Proceedings of the 2012 TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation, 2012
Proceedings of the 35th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2012
Proceedings of the 35th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2012
Proceedings of the Information Interaction in Context: 2012, 2012
Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories and Complementary Media, 2012
2011
Proceedings of the 2011 TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation, 2011
Proceedings of the Proceeding of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2011
The University of Massachusetts Amherst's Participation in the INEX 2011 Prove It Track.
Proceedings of the Focused Retrieval of Content and Structure, 2011
Passage Reranking for Question Answering Using Syntactic Structures and Answer Types.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2011
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2011
Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Online books, 2011
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2011
Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Online books, 2011
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2011
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2011
2010
A new context-dependent term weight computed by boost and discount using relevance information.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2010
Proceedings of the Proceeding of the 33rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2010
Proceedings of the Proceeding of the 33rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2010
Proceedings of the Proceeding of the 33rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2010
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2010
2009
Proceedings of the String Processing and Information Retrieval, 2009
Agreement among statistical significance tests for information retrieval evaluation at varying sample sizes.
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2009
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval Theory, 2009
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2009
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2009
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2009
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2009
2008
Evaluating a Novel Kind of Retrieval Models Based on Relevance Decision Making in a Relevance Feedback Environment.
Proceedings of The Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2008
Proceedings of The Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2008
Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2008
Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2008
Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2008
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on e-Science, 2008
Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2008
Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2008
Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2008
Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2008
2007
Int. J. Document Anal. Recognit., 2007
Proceedings of The Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2007
UMass Complex Interactive Question Answering (ciQA) 2007: Human Performance as Question Answerers.
Proceedings of The Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2007
Proceedings of The Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2007
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2007
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2007
An interactive algorithm for asking and incorporating feature feedback into support vector machines.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2007
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2007
Proceedings of the Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval (Recherche d'Information et ses Applications) - RIAO 2007, 8th International Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 30, 2007
Proceedings of the Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval (Recherche d'Information et ses Applications) - RIAO 2007, 8th International Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 30, 2007
Proceedings of the Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval (Recherche d'Information et ses Applications) - RIAO 2007, 8th International Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 30, 2007
Question Answering Using Integrated Information Retrieval and Information Extraction.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2007
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2007
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2007
Proceedings of the IJCAI 2007, 2007
Proceedings of the IJCAI 2007, 2007
Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2007
Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2007
Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2007
Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2007
2006
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2006
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2006
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2006
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2006
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2006
2005
When Less is More: Relevance Feedback Falls Short and Term Expansion Succeeds at HARD 2005.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2005
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2005
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2005: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2005
Matching Inconsistently Spelled Names in Automatic Speech Recognizer Output for Information Retrieval.
Proceedings of the HLT/EMNLP 2005, 2005
Proceedings of the HLT/EMNLP 2005, 2005
Proceedings of the 38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38 2005), 2005
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Bremen, Germany, October 31, 2005
2004
User Model. User Adapt. Interact., 2004
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2004
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2004
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2004: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2004
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2004
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2004
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries (DIAL 2004), 2004
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2004
2003
ACM Trans. Asian Lang. Inf. Process., 2003
Challenges in information retrieval and language modeling: report of a workshop held at the center for intelligent information retrieval, University of Massachusetts Amherst, September 2002.
SIGIR Forum, 2003
EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process., 2003
Proceedings of The Twelfth Text REtrieval Conference, 2003
Proceedings of The Twelfth Text REtrieval Conference, 2003
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2003: Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 28, 2003
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2003: Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 28, 2003
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2003
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2003
2002
Core Services in the Architecture of the National Digital Library for Science Education (NSDL)
CoRR, 2002
Proceedings of The Eleventh Text REtrieval Conference, 2002
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2002: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2002
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2002: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2002
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2002: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2002
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2002
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2002
2001
Evaluating combinations of ranked lists and visualizations of inter-document similarity.
Inf. Process. Manag., 2001
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2001: Proceedings of the 24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2001
Proceedings of the Information Retrieval Techniques for Speech Applications [this book is based on the workshop "Information Retrieval Techniques for Speech Applications", 2001
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, 2001
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, 2001
2000
Int. J. Digit. Libr., 2000
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2000: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2000
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2000: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2000
Proceedings of the Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval (Recherche d'Information et ses Applications), 2000
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2000 (INFOVIS'00), 2000
Proceedings of the 2000 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2000
Proceedings of the 2000 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2000
1999
Proceedings of the 1999 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 1999
1998
Book Review: Readings in Information Retrieval edited by K. Sparck Jones and P. Willett.
Inf. Process. Manag., 1998
INQUERY and TREC-7.
Proceedings of The Seventh Text REtrieval Conference, 1998
Aspect Windows, 3-D Visualizations, and Indirect Comparisons of Information Retrieval Systems.
Proceedings of the SIGIR '98: Proceedings of the 21st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 1998
Proceedings of the SIGIR '98: Proceedings of the 21st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 1998
Proceedings of the Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 1998
Proceedings of the 1998 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 1998
1997
Introduction to the Special Issue on Methods and Tools for the Automatic Construction of Hypertext.
Inf. Process. Manag., 1997
Proceedings of The Sixth Text REtrieval Conference, 1997
Proceedings of The Sixth Text REtrieval Conference, 1997
1996
Proceedings of the 19th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 1996
1995
Proceedings of The Fourth Text REtrieval Conference, 1995
1994
Proceedings of The Third Text REtrieval Conference, 1994
Proceedings of the 17th Annual International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Dublin, 1994
Proceedings of the Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval (Recherche d'Information et ses Applications), 1994
1993
Proceedings of The Second Text REtrieval Conference, 1993
Proceedings of the 16th Annual International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 27, 1993
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Plainsboro, 1993
1992
Automatic Structuring of Text Files.
Electron. Publ., 1992
Proceedings of The First Text REtrieval Conference, 1992