James Allan

Orcid: 0000-0003-0132-5694

Affiliations:
  • University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA


According to our database1, James Allan authored at least 255 papers between 1992 and 2024.

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ACM Fellow 2020, "For contributions to information retrieval, including topic detection and tracking".

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2024
Robust Claim Verification Through Fact Detection.
CoRR, 2024

RankSHAP: a Gold Standard Feature Attribution Method for the Ranking Task.
CoRR, 2024

Target Span Detection for Implicit Harmful Content.
CoRR, 2024

Target Span Detection for Implicit Harmful Content.
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2024

Discovering Biases in Information Retrieval Models Using Relevance Thesaurus as Global Explanation.
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024

Language Concept Erasure for Language-invariant Dense Retrieval.
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 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
Uncertainty in Additive Feature Attribution methods.
CoRR, 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

Soft Prompt Decoding for Multilingual Dense Retrieval.
Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2023

Cross-Market Product-Related Question Answering.
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

Hierarchical Transformer-based Query by Multiple Documents.
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2023

Rank-LIME: Local Model-Agnostic Feature Attribution for Learning to Rank.
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2023

Conditional Natural Language Inference.
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

Search Result Diversification Using Query Aspects as Bottlenecks.
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2023

2022
CESAR-P: A dynamic urban building energy simulation tool.
J. Open Source Softw., October, 2022

A Comparison between Term-Independence Retrieval Models for Ad Hoc Retrieval.
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

CEQE to SQET: A study of contextualized embeddings for query expansion.
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

Towards Explainable Search Results: A Listwise Explanation Generator.
Proceedings of the SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11, 2022

Alignment Rationale for Query-Document Relevance.
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

Equi-explanation Maps: Concise and Informative Global Summary Explanations.
Proceedings of the FAccT '22: 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, Seoul, Republic of Korea, June 21, 2022

2021
A Principled Approach Using Fuzzy Set Theory for Passage-Based Document Retrieval.
IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Syst., 2021

Explaining Documents' Relevance to Search Queries.
CoRR, 2021

AutoTriggER: Named Entity Recognition with Auxiliary Trigger Extraction.
CoRR, 2021

Utility of Missing Concepts in Query-biased Summarization.
Proceedings of the SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2021

AutoName: A Corpus-Based Set Naming Framework.
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

XMRec: Workshop on Cross-Market Recommendation.
Proceedings of the RecSys '21: Fifteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 27 September 2021, 2021

Passage Similarity and Diversification in Non-factoid Question Answering.
Proceedings of the ICTIR '21: The 2021 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2021

CEQE: Contextualized Embeddings for Query Expansion.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2021

Query-driven Segment Selection for Ranking Long Documents.
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

Cross-Market Product Recommendation.
Proceedings of the CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, November 1, 2021

2020
Explaining Text Matching on Neural Natural Language Inference.
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2020

Context-Dependent Feature Values in Text Categorization.
Int. J. Softw. Eng. Knowl. Eng., 2020

A Study of Neural Matching Models for Cross-lingual IR.
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2020

Query by Example for Cross-Lingual Event Retrieval.
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2020

A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Relevance Feedback.
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2020

Training Effective Neural CLIR by Bridging the Translation Gap.
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2020

Learning to Rank Entities for Set Expansion from Unstructured Data.
Proceedings of the ICTIR '20: The 2020 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2020

Search Result Diversification with Guarantee of Topic Proportionality.
Proceedings of the ICTIR '20: The 2020 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2020

Relevance Ranking Based on Query-Aware Context Analysis.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2020

2019
Semantic Driven Fielded Entity Retrieval.
CoRR, 2019

Corpus-based Set Expansion with Lexical Features and Distributed Representations.
Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2019

Sentence Retrieval for Entity List Extraction with a Seed, Context, and Topic.
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2019

SearchIE: A Retrieval Approach for Information Extraction.
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2019

Listwise Neural Ranking Models.
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2019

Term Discrimination Value for Cross-Language Information Retrieval.
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2019

Simulating CLIR Translation Resource Scarcity using High-resource Languages.
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2019

Incorporating Hierarchical Domain Information to Disambiguate Very Short Queries.
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2019

Unsupervised Explainable Controversy Detection from Online News.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2019

Local and Global Query Expansion for Hierarchical Complex Topics.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2019

A Multi-Task Architecture on Relevance-based Neural Query Translation.
Proceedings of the 57th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019

2018
Named Entity Recognition with Extremely Limited Data.
CoRR, 2018

UMass at TREC 2018: CAR, Common Core and News Tracks.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Text REtrieval Conference, 2018

Explaining Controversy on Social Media via Stance Summarization.
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

Citation Worthiness of Sentences in Scientific Reports.
Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, 2018

Visualizing Polarity-based Stances of News Websites.
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

Exploring Summary-Expanded Entity Embeddings for Entity Retrieval.
Proceedings of the CIKM 2018 Workshops co-located with 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018), 2018

Term Relevance Feedback for Contextual Named Entity Retrieval.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2018

2017
On-Line New Event Detection and Tracking.
SIGIR Forum, 2017

Overview of Special Issue.
SIGIR Forum, 2017

Improving Document Clustering by Eliminating Unnatural Language.
CoRR, 2017

Is Climate Change Controversial? Modeling Controversy as Contention Within Populations.
CoRR, 2017

TREC 2017 Common Core Track Overview.
Proceedings of The Twenty-Sixth Text REtrieval Conference, 2017

UMass at TREC 2017 Common Core Track.
Proceedings of The Twenty-Sixth Text REtrieval Conference, 2017

Comparing In Situ and Multidimensional Relevance Judgments.
Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2017

Modeling Controversy within Populations.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2017

Adaptive Persistence for Search Effectiveness Measures.
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2017

Similarity-based Distant Supervision for Definition Retrieval.
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2017

Understanding Ephemeral State of Relevance.
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2017

Improving Document Clustering by Removing Unnatural Language.
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text, 2017

2016
A context-dependent relevance model.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2016

Reducing Click and Skip Errors in Search Result Ranking.
Proceedings of the Ninth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2016

Improving Automated Controversy Detection on the Web.
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016

Controversy Detection in Wikipedia Using Collective Classification.
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016

On Cross-Script Information Retrieval.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2016

Adaptive Effort for Search Evaluation Metrics.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2016

Retrieving Hierarchical Syllabus Items for Exam Question Analysis.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2016

Precision-Oriented Query Facet Extraction.
Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2016

Probabilistic Approaches to Controversy Detection.
Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2016

Improving Entity Ranking for Keyword Queries.
Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2016

Correlation Between System and User Metrics in a Session.
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2016

2015
Fast-Forward Index Methods for Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Retrieval.
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2015

Predicting Search Intent Based on Pre-Search Context.
Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2015

Balancing Aspects in Retrieved Search Results.
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on The Theory of Information Retrieval, 2015

Retrieving Time from Scanned Books.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2015

Navigating Controversy as a Complex Search Task.
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks co-located with the 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2015), 2015

Automated Controversy Detection on the Web.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2015

2014
Beyond bag-of-words: Bigram-enhanced context-dependent term weights.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2014

SRI-Sarnoff AURORA System at TRECVID 2014 Multimedia Event Detection and Recounting.
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

Necessary and frequent terms in queries.
Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2014

Entity query feature expansion using knowledge base links.
Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2014

Extending Faceted Search to the General Web.
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2014

2013
SRI-Sarnoff AURORA System at TRECVID 2013 Multimedia Event Detection and Recounting.
Proceedings of the 2013 TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation, 2013

Short Text Queries for Video Retrieval Multimedia event Detection at TRECVID 2013.
Proceedings of the 2013 TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation, 2013

Extracting query facets from search results.
Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

Task-aware query recommendation.
Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

Sentiment diversification with different biases.
Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

Improving passage ranking with user behavior information.
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2013

Using CrowdLogger for in situ information retrieval system evaluation.
Proceedings of the 2013 workshop on Living labs for information retrieval evaluation, 2013

Detecting controversy on the web.
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2013

Zero-shot video retrieval using content and concepts.
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

SRI-Sarnoff AURORA System at TRECVID 2012 Multimedia Event Detection and Recounting.
Proceedings of the 2012 TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation, 2012

Task-aware search assistant.
Proceedings of the 35th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2012

A framework for manipulating and searching multiple retrieval types.
Proceedings of the 35th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2012

Human question answering performance using an interactive document retrieval system.
Proceedings of the Information Interaction in Context: 2012, 2012

Search and exploration of scanned books.
Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories and Complementary Media, 2012

2011

CrowdLogging: distributed, private, and anonymous search logging.
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

Discovering missing click-through query language information for web search.
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2011

Mining relational structure from millions of books: position paper.
Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Online books, 2011

Passage retrieval for incorporating global evidence in sequence labeling.
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2011

Evidence finding using a collection of books.
Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Online books, 2011

Efficiency optimizations for interpolating subqueries.
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2011

Reranking search results for sparse queries.
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

A content based approach for discovering missing anchor text for web search.
Proceedings of the Proceeding of the 33rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2010

Predicting searcher frustration.
Proceedings of the Proceeding of the 33rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2010

Learning to select rankers.
Proceedings of the Proceeding of the 33rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2010

Fast query expansion using approximations of relevance models.
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2010

2009
Syntactic Query Models for Restatement Retrieval.
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

A New Measure of the Cluster Hypothesis.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval Theory, 2009

A Comparative Study of Utilizing Topic Models for Information Retrieval.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2009

Regression Rank: Learning to Meet the Opportunity of Descriptive Queries.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2009

If I Had a Million Queries.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2009

Incident threading for news passages.
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2009

2008
Adapting information retrieval systems to user queries.
Inf. Process. Manag., 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

Million Query Track 2008 Overview.
Proceedings of The Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2008

A cluster-based resampling method for pseudo-relevance feedback.
Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2008

Effective and efficient user interaction for long queries.
Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2008

Evaluation over thousands of queries.
Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2008

InterNano: e-Science for the Nanomanufacturing Community.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on e-Science, 2008

Evaluating topic models for information retrieval.
Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2008

Simultaneous multilingual search for translingual information retrieval.
Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2008

Joke retrieval: recognizing the same joke told differently.
Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2008

Cross-document cross-lingual coreference retrieval.
Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2008

2007
Meeting of the MINDS: an information retrieval research agenda.
SIGIR Forum, 2007

Further explorations in text alignment with handwritten documents.
Int. J. Document Anal. Recognit., 2007

Indri at TREC 2007: Million Query (1MQ) Track.
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

Million Query Track 2007 Overview.
Proceedings of The Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2007

Matching resumes and jobs based on relevance models.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2007

Using similarity links as shortcuts to relevant web pages.
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

A comparison of sentence retrieval techniques.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2007

Discovering Missing Values in Semi-Structured Databases.
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

Information Retrieval Techniques for Templated Queries.
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

Research Methodology in Studies of Information Retrieval Evaluation.
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

Information Retrieval On Empty Fields.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2007

A Case For Shorter Queries, and Helping Users Create Them.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2007

Web Page Clustering Using Heuristic Search in the Web Graph.
Proceedings of the IJCAI 2007, 2007

Interactive Clustering of Text Collections According to a User-Specified Criterion.
Proceedings of the IJCAI 2007, 2007

A comparison of statistical significance tests for information retrieval evaluation.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2007

Selective user interaction.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2007

Finding and linking incidents in news.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2007

Semiautomatic evaluation of retrieval systems using document similarities.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2007

2006
UMass at TREC ciQA 2006.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2006

Lightening the load of document smoothing for better language modeling retrieval.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2006

Find-similar: similarity browsing as a search tool.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2006

Simple questions to improve pseudo-relevance feedback results.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2006

Minimal test collections for retrieval evaluation.
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

HARD Track Overview in TREC 2005 High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2005

When will information retrieval be "good enough"?
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

Using Names and Topics for New Event Detection.
Proceedings of the HLT/EMNLP 2005, 2005

Taking Topic Detection From Evaluation to Practice.
Proceedings of the 38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38 2005), 2005

Incremental test collections.
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Bremen, Germany, October 31, 2005

2004
Interactive Information Retrieval Using Clustering and Spatial Proximity.
User Model. User Adapt. Interact., 2004

Dynamic Composition of Information Retrieval Techniques.
J. Intell. Inf. Syst., 2004

UMass at TREC 2004: Novelty and HARD.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2004

HARD Track Overview in TREC 2004 - High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2004

Text classification and named entities for new event detection.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2004: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2004

Cross-Document Coreference on a Large Scale Corpus.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2004

A User-Centered Approach to Evaluating Topic Models.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2004

Text Alignment with Handwritten Documents.
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries (DIAL 2004), 2004

Event threading within news topics.
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2004

2003
A month to topic detection and tracking in Hindi.
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

Robust Techniques for Organizing and Retrieving Spoken Documents.
EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process., 2003

UMass at TREC 2003: HARD and QA.
Proceedings of The Twelfth Text REtrieval Conference, 2003

HARD Track Overview in TREC 2003: High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents.
Proceedings of The Twelfth Text REtrieval Conference, 2003

Retrieval and novelty detection at the sentence level.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2003: Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 28, 2003

Stemming in the language modeling framework.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2003: Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 28, 2003

Relevant query feedback in statistical language modeling.
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2003

Flexible intrinsic evaluation of hierarchical clustering for TDT.
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2003

2002
A survey in indexing and searching XML documents.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2002

Detection As Multi-Topic Tracking.
Inf. Retr., 2002

Core Services in the Architecture of the National Digital Library for Science Education (NSDL)
CoRR, 2002

UMass at TREC 2002: Cross Language and Novelty Tracks.
Proceedings of The Eleventh Text REtrieval Conference, 2002

A critical examination of TDT's cost function.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2002: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2002

Improving realism of topic tracking evaluation.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2002: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2002

Using part-of-speech patterns to reduce query ambiguity.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2002: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2002

Core services in the architecture of the national science digital library (NSDL).
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2002

Capturing term dependencies using a language model based on sentence trees.
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

Temporal Summaries of News Topics.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2001: Proceedings of the 24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2001

Perspectives on Information Retrieval and Speech.
Proceedings of the Information Retrieval Techniques for Speech Applications [this book is based on the workshop "Information Retrieval Techniques for Speech Applications", 2001

An Evaluation Corpus For Temporal Summarization.
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, 2001

Monitoring the News: a TDT demonstration system.
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, 2001

2000
Strategy-based interactive cluster visualization for information retrieval.
Int. J. Digit. Libr., 2000

INQUERY and TREC-9.
Proceedings of The Ninth Text REtrieval Conference, 2000

TimeMine: visualizing automatically constructed timelines.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2000: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2000

Automatic generation of overview timelines.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2000: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2000

Improving Interactive Retrieval by Combining Ranked List and Clustering.
Proceedings of the Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval (Recherche d'Information et ses Applications), 2000

Lighthouse: Showing the Way to Relevant Information.
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2000 (INFOVIS'00), 2000

Language Models for Financial News Recommendation.
Proceedings of the 2000 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2000

First Story Detection In TDT Is Hard.
Proceedings of the 2000 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2000

1999
INQUERY and TREC-8.
Proceedings of The Eighth Text REtrieval Conference, 1999

Extracting Significant Time Varying Features from Text.
Proceedings of the 1999 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 1999

1998
Structural Queries in Electronic Corpora.
Multim. Tools Appl., 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

Visual Interactions with a Multidimensional Ranked List.
Proceedings of the SIGIR '98: Proceedings of the 21st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 1998

Evaluating a Visual Navigation System for a Digital Library.
Proceedings of the Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 1998

Document Classification Using Multiword Features.
Proceedings of the 1998 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 1998

1997
Building Hypertext Using Information Retrieval.
Inf. Process. Manag., 1997

Introduction to the Special Issue on Methods and Tools for the Automatic Construction of Hypertext.
Inf. Process. Manag., 1997

Rutgers' TREC-6 Interactive Track Experience.
Proceedings of The Sixth Text REtrieval Conference, 1997

INQUERY Does Battle With TREC-6.
Proceedings of The Sixth Text REtrieval Conference, 1997

1996
Automatic Text Decomposition and Structuring.
Inf. Process. Manag., 1996

INQUERY at TREC-5.
Proceedings of The Fifth Text REtrieval Conference, 1996

Incremental Relevance Feedback for Information Filtering.
Proceedings of the 19th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 1996

1995
Automatic Routing and Retrieval Using Smart: TREC-2.
Inf. Process. Manag., 1995

Selective text utilization and text traversal.
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 1995

Recent Experiments with INQUERY.
Proceedings of The Fourth Text REtrieval Conference, 1995

Relevance Feedback With Too Much Data.
Proceedings of the SIGIR'95, 1995

1994
Automatic Structuring and Retrival of Large Text Files.
Commun. ACM, 1994

Automatic Query Expansion Using SMART: TREC 3.
Proceedings of The Third Text REtrieval Conference, 1994

The Effect of Adding Relevance Information in a Relevance Feedback Environment.
Proceedings of the 17th Annual International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Dublin, 1994

Automatic Text Decomposition and Structuring.
Proceedings of the Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval (Recherche d'Information et ses Applications), 1994

1993
Automatic Routing and Ad-hoc Retrieval Using SMART: TREC 2.
Proceedings of The Second Text REtrieval Conference, 1993

Approaches to Passage Retrieval in Full Text Information Systems.
Proceedings of the 16th Annual International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 27, 1993

The SMART Information Retrieval Project.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Plainsboro, 1993

1992
Automatic Structuring of Text Files.
Electron. Publ., 1992

Automatic Retrieval With Locality Information Using SMART.
Proceedings of The First Text REtrieval Conference, 1992


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