Kevyn Collins-Thompson

Orcid: 0000-0002-8178-5035

According to our database1, Kevyn Collins-Thompson authored at least 69 papers between 2001 and 2024.

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2024
Generation and Assessment of Multiple-Choice Questions from Video Transcripts using Large Language Models.
Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, 2024

Finding Educationally Supportive Contexts for Vocabulary Learning with Attention-Based Models.
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024

2022
An Attention-Based Model for Predicting Contextual Informativeness and Curriculum Learning Applications.
CoRR, 2022

2020
Improving Learning Outcomes with Gaze Tracking and Automatic Question Generation.
Proceedings of the WWW '20: The Web Conference 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, April 20-24, 2020, 2020

2018
Predicting Students' Disengaged Behaviors in an Online Meaning-Generation Task.
IEEE Trans. Learn. Technol., 2018

Human Perception of Surprise: A User Study.
CoRR, 2018

Demographic Inference Via Knowledge Transfer in Cross-Domain Recommender Systems.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2018

Exploring Document Retrieval Features Associated with Improved Short- and Long-term Vocabulary Learning Outcomes.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2018

2017
Optimizing search results for human learning goals.
Inf. Retr. J., 2017

Search as Learning (Dagstuhl Seminar 17092).
Dagstuhl Reports, 2017

Retrieval Algorithms Optimized for Human Learning.
Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2017

What does student writing tell us about their thinking on social justice?
Proceedings of the Seventh International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference, 2017

Predicting Short- and Long-Term Vocabulary Learning via Semantic Features of Partial Word Knowledge.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2017

Social work in the classroom? A tool to evaluate topical relevance in student writing.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2017

2016
Using the Crowd to Improve Search Result Ranking and the Search Experience.
ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol., 2016

Towards searching as a learning process: A review of current perspectives and future directions.
J. Inf. Sci., 2016

Assessing the readability of ClinicalTrials.gov.
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2016

Optimizing Search Results for Educational Goals: Incorporating Keyword Density as a Retrieval Objective.
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Search as Learning, 2016

User Behavior in Asynchronous Slow Search.
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016

Predicting the Relative Difficulty of Single Sentences With and Without Surrounding Context.
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2016

Assessing Learning Outcomes in Web Search: A Comparison of Tasks and Query Strategies.
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2016

2015
Overview of the Special Issue on Contextual Search and Recommendation.
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2015

Query Suggestion and Data Fusion in Contextual Disambiguation.
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2015

Evaluating Learning Language Representations.
Proceedings of the Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction, 2015

2014
Understanding Intrinsic Diversity in Web Search: Improving Whole-Session Relevance.
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2014

Slow search.
Commun. ACM, 2014

TREC 2014 Web Track Overview.
Proceedings of The Twenty-Third Text REtrieval Conference, 2014

Searching as learning: Novel measures for information interaction research.
Proceedings of the Connecting Collections, Cultures, and Communities, 2014

2013
Personalizing atypical web search sessions.
Proceedings of the Sixth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2013

Pairwise ranking aggregation in a crowdsourced setting.
Proceedings of the Sixth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2013

Crowdsourcing for Robustness in Web Search.
Proceedings of The Twenty-Second Text REtrieval Conference, 2013

TREC 2013 Web Track Overview.
Proceedings of The Twenty-Second Text REtrieval Conference, 2013

Toward whole-session relevance: exploring intrinsic diversity in web search.
Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

Shame to be sham: addressing content-based grey hat search engine optimization.
Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

Copulas for information retrieval.
Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

Robust Cost-Sensitive Confidence-Weighted Classification.
Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, 2013

Slow Search: Information Retrieval without Time Constraints.
Proceedings of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, 2013

Designing Human-Readable User Profiles for Search Evaluation.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2013

Enriching the web by modeling reading difficulty.
Proceedings of the ESAIR'13, 2013

2012
Probabilistic models for personalizing web search.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, 2012

Characterizing web content, user interests, and search behavior by reading level and topic.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, 2012

Robust ranking models via risk-sensitive optimization.
Proceedings of the 35th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2012

2011
Statistical information retrieval modelling: from the probability ranking principle to recent advances in diversity, portfolio theory, and beyond.
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2011

Personalizing web search results by reading level.
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2011

2010
Personalization of Reading Passages Improves Vocabulary Acquisition.
Int. J. Artif. Intell. Educ., 2010

Visualizing differences in web search algorithms using the expected weighted hoeffding distance.
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2010

Predicting Query Performance via Classification.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2010

A unified optimization framework for robust pseudo-relevance feedback algorithms.
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2010

2009
Estimating query performance using class predictions.
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2009

Robust Word Similarity Estimation Using Perturbation Kernels.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval Theory, 2009

Tutorial summary: Machine learning in IR: recent successes and new opportunities.
Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Machine Learning, 2009

Statistical Estimation of Word Acquisition with Application to Readability Prediction.
Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2009

Reducing the risk of query expansion via robust constrained optimization.
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2009

2008
Estimating Robust Query Models with Convex Optimization.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21, 2008

2007
Estimation and use of uncertainty in pseudo-relevance feedback.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2007

Combining Lexical and Grammatical Features to Improve Readability Measures for First and Second Language Texts.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2007

Automatic and Human Scoring of Word Definition Responses.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2007

2006
Classroom success of an intelligent tutoring system for lexical practice and reading comprehension.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2006

2005
Predicting reading difficulty with statistical language models.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2005

Query expansion using random walk models.
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Bremen, Germany, October 31, 2005

2004
Initial Results with Structured Queries and Language Models on Half a Terabyte of Text.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2004

Prominence prediction for supersentential prosodic modeling based on a new database.
Proceedings of the Fifth ISCA ITRW on Speech Synthesis, 2004

The effect of document retrieval quality on factoid question answering performance.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2004: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2004

Information retrieval for language tutoring: an overview of the REAP project.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2004: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2004

A Language Modeling Approach to Predicting Reading Difficulty.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2004

2003
The JAVELIN Question-Answering System at TREC 2003: A Multi-Strategh Approach with Dynamic Planning.
Proceedings of The Twelfth Text REtrieval Conference, 2003

2002

Information Filtering, Novelty Detection, and Named-Page Finding.
Proceedings of The Eleventh Text REtrieval Conference, 2002

2001
Improved String Matching Under Noisy Channel Conditions.
Proceedings of the 2001 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2001


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