IR-1313: (2023) Huang, Z., Yu, P. and Allan, J., "UMass at TREC 2023 NeuCLIR Track," in Notebook Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2023), Rockville MD, USA, November 14-17, 2023. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1310: (2023) Yu, P., Rahimi, N., Huang, Z. and Allan, J., "Search Result Diversification Using Query Aspects as Bottlenecks," in the Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’23), October 21–25, 2023, Birmingham, United Kingdom, pp. 3040-3051. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1298: (2023) Huang, Z., Zeng, H., Allan, J. and Zamani, H., "Soft Prompt Decoding for Multilingual Dense Retrieval," in Proceedings of The 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-27, 2023, pp. 1208-1218. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1295: (2022) Huang, Z., Yu, P. and Allan, J., "Improving Cross-lingual Information Retrieval on Low-Resource Languages via Optimal Transport Distillation," in the Proceedings of Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM ’23), Singapore, February 27-March 3, 2023, pp. 1048-1056. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1290: (2022) Huang, Z., Naseri, S., Bonab, H., Sarwar, S. and Allan, J., "Hierarchical Transformer-based Query by Multiple Documents," in Proceedings of The 13th International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2023), Taipei, Taiwan, July 23, 2023, pp. 105–115. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1281: (2022) Montazeralghaem, A. and Allan, J., "Extracting Relevant Information from User’s Utterances in Conversational Search and Recommendation," in Proceedings of ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD'22), Washington, DC Convention Center, August 14-18, 2022, pp. 1275–1283. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1278: (2022) Kim, Y., Rahimi, R. and Allan, J., "Alignment Rationale for Query-Document Relevance," in Proceedings of The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 22), Madrid, Spain, July 11-15, 2022, pp.2489–2494. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1276: (2022) Yu, P., Rahimi, N. and Allan, J., "Towards Explainable Search Results: A Listwise Explanation Generator," in Proceedings of The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2022), Madrid, Spain, July 11-15, 2022, pp. 669–680. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1275: (2022) Ghasemi, N., Aliannejadi, M., Bonab, H., de Vries, A., Kanoulas, E., Allan, J. and Hiemstra, D., "Cross-Market Product-Related Question Answering," in Proceedings of The 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-27, 2023 pp. 1293-1302. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1271: (2021) Chowdhury, T., Rahimi, N. and Allan, J., "Rank-LIME: Local Model-Agnostic Feature Attribution for Learning to Rank," in Proceedings of The 9th ACM SIGIR / The 13th International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2023), held jointly with ACM SIGIR Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23, 2023. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1261: (2021) Huang, Z., Bonab, H., Sarwar, S., Rahimi, N. and Allan, J., "Mixed Attention Transformer for Leveraging Word-Level Knowledge to Neural Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval," in Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’21), Queensland, Australia November 1–5, 2021, pp.760-770. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1260: (2021) Jafari, N., Allan, J., Sung, K., Dori-Hacohen, S. and Rattigan, M., "CoMID: COVID-19 Misinformation Alignment Detection Using Content and User Data," in Proceedings of the NEATCLasS Workshop at the 17th International Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2023), Hybrid: Cyprus, Limassol, June 5, 2023. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1253: (2021) Sarwar, S., Moraes, F., Jiang, J. and Allan, J., "Utility of Missing Concepts in Query Biased Summarization," in the Proceedings of The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 21), July 11-15, 2021, pp. 2056–2060. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1252: (2021) Kim, Y., Bonab, H., Rahimi, R. and Allan, J., "Query-driven Segment Selection for Ranking Long Documents," in the Proceedings of The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '21), Virtual Event, Australia, November 1-5, 2021, pp. 3147–3151. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1248: (2021) Lee, D., Selvam, R., Sarwar, S., Lin, B., Pujara, J., Boschee, E., Allan, J. and Ren, X., "AutoTriggER:Named Entity Recognition with Auxiliary Trigger Extraction," presented at TrustNLP workshop of the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (online), June 6-11, 2021. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1247: (2021) Bonab, H., Aliannejadi, M., Vardasbi, A., Kanoulas, E. and Allan, J., "Cross-Market Product Recommendation," in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 1-5 November 2021, pp.110–119. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1246: (2021) Montazeralghaem, A. and Allan, J., "Learning Relevant Questions for Conversational Product Search using Reinforcement Learning," in Proceedings of The 15th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'22), Tempe, Arizona, February 21-25, 2022, pp. 746-754. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1245: (2021) Montazeralghaem, A., Allan, J. and Thomas, P., "Large-scale Interactive Conversational Recommendation System using Actor-Critic Framework ," in the Proceedings of The 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems - RecSys 2021, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 9/27/21-10/1/21, pp. 220-229. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1244: (2021) Chowdhury, T., Rahimi, N. and Allan, J., "Equi-explanation Maps: Concise and Informative Global Summary Explanations," in the Proceedings of the ACM FAccT* conference, Seoul, South Korea on June 21-24 2022, pp. 464–472. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1243: (2021) Vikraman, L., Montazeralghaem, A., Hashemi, H., Croft, W. B. and Allan, J., "Passage Similarity and Diversification in Non-factoid Question Answering," in Proceedings of The 11th International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, July 11, 2021, pp. 271–280. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1232: (2020) Kim, Y., Jang, M. and Allan, J., "Explaining Text Matching on Neural Natural Language Inference," in ACM Transactions on Information Systems 38, 4 (October 2020), 23 pages. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1231: (2020) Ramezani, S., Rahimi, R. and Allan, J., "Aspect Category Detection in Product Reviews using Contextual Representation," in the Proceedings of ACM SIGIR Workshop on eCommerce (SIGIR eCom’20) ACM, SIGIR eCom’20, July 30, 2020, Virtual Event, China. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1230: (2020) Huang, Z., Rahimi, N., Yu, P., Shang, J. and Allan, J., "AutoName: A Corpus-Based Set Naming Framework ," in the Proceedings of The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 21), July 11-15, 2021, pp. 2101–2105. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1227: (2020) Rahimi, N., Kim, Y., Zamani, H. and Allan, J., "Explaining Documents’ Relevance to Search Queries," arXiv:2111.01314 [cs.IR] [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1224: (2020) Yu, P. and Allan, J., "A Study of Neural Matching Models for Cross-lingual IR," in Proceedings of the 43nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’20), July 21–25, 2020, Xi’an, China. pp. 1637-1640. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1223: (2020) Naseri, S., Dalton, J., Yates, A. and Allan, J., "CEQE to SQET: A Study of Contextualized Embeddings for Query Expansion," in Information Retrieval Journal, volume 25, issue 2, June 2022, Special Issue on ECIR 2021, pp. 184-208. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1222: (2020) Sarwar, S. and Allan, J., "Query by Example for Cross-Lingual Event Retrieval," in Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2020), Xi'an, China, July 25-30, 2020, pp. 1601–1604. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1217: (2020) Naseri, S., Dalton, J., Yates, A. and Allan, J., "CEQE: Contextualized Embeddings for Query Expansion," in the Proceedings of the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) Lucca, Tuscany online event, 3/28/21-4/1/21, LNCS 12656, pp. 1–16. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1212: (2019) Montazeralghaem, A., Rahimi, N. and Allan, J., "Relevance Ranking based on Query-Aware Context Analysis," in the Proceedings of the 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2020), Lisbon, Portugal, April 14-17, 2020, pp. 446-460. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1211: (2020) Yu, P., Rahimi, N., Huang, Z. and Allan, J., "Learning to Rank Entities for Set Expansion from Unstructured Data ," in the Proceedings of the International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2020), Stavanger, Norway, September 14-18, 2020, pp. 21-28. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1209: (2019) Kim, Y. and Allan, J., "FEVER Breaker’s Run of Team NbAuzDrLqg," in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER), held at EMNLP 2019, Hong Kong, Nov. 1-6, 2019, pp. 99–104. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1208: (2018) Naseri, S., Foley, J. and Allan, J., "UMass TREC 2018 Notebook," in the Proceedings of TREC 2018 Notebook. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1206: (2019) Sarwar, S., Addanki, R., Montazeralghaem, A., Pal, S. and Allan, J., "Search Result Diversification with Guarantee of Topic Proportionality," in Proceedings of the International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2020), Stavanger, Norway, September 14-18, 2020, pp.53-60. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1200: (2019) Rahimi, N., Montazeralghaem, A. and Allan, J., "Listwise Neural Ranking Models," in the Proceedings of he 5th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2019), Santa Clara, CA, October 2-5, 2019, pp. 101-104. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1191: (2019) Montazeralghaem, A., Rahimi, N. and Allan, J., "Term Discrimination Value for Cross-Language Information Retrieval," in the Proceedings of International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval Conference (ICTIR 2019), Santa Clara, California, October 2-9, 2019, pp. 137-140. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1189: (2018) Naseri, S., Foley, J., Allan, J. and OConnor, B., "Exploring Summary-Expanded Entity Embeddings for Entity Retrieval," presented at The EntitY REtrieval (EYRE) Workshop Co-located with CIKM 2018, Turin, Italy, October 22-26, 2018. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1188: (2018) Naseri, S., Sarwar, S. and Allan, J., "Semantic Driven Fielded Entity Retrieval," presented at The Entity Retrieval Workshop (EYRE18) Co-located with CIKM 2018, Turin, Italy, October 22-26, 2018. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1186: (2019) Sarwar, S. and Allan, J., "SearchIE: A Retrieval Approach for Information Extraction," in the Proceedings of ICTIR '19: International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, October 02-05, 2019, Santa Clara, California, pp. 249-252. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1184: (2019) Bonab, H., Allan, J. and Sitaraman, R., "Simulating CLIR Translation Resource Scarcity using High-resource Languages," in the Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR), Santa Clara, CA, USA, October 2-5, 2019, pp 129-136. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1178: (2019) Sarwar, S., Bonab, H. and Allan, J., "A Multi-Task Architecture on Relevance-based Neural Query Translation," in the Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, Florence, Italy, July 28 - August 2, 2019, pp. 6339-6344. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1177: (2019) Yu, P., Huang, Z., Rahimi, N. and Allan, J., "Corpus-based Set Expansion with Lexical Features and Distributed Representations," in the Proceedings of The 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Paris, France, July 21-25, 2019, pp. 1153-1156. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1176: (2019) Sarwar, S., Foley, J., Yang, L. and Allan, J., "Sentence Retrieval for Entity List Extraction with a Seed, Context and Topic," in the Proceedings of ICTIR '19: International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, October 02-05, 2019, Santa Clara, California, pp. 209-212. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1174: (2019) Dalton, J., Naseri, S., Dietz, L. and Allan, J., "Local and Global Query Expansion for Hierarchical Complex Topics," in the Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2019), Cologne, Germany, April 14-18, 2019. pp. 290-303. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1173: (2019) Montazeralghaem, A., Zamani, H. and Allan, J., "A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Relevance Feedback," to appear in Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2020), Xi'an, China, July 25-30, 2020, pp. 59-68. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1165: (2020) Bonab, H., Sarwar, S. and Allan, J., "Training Effective Neural CLIR by Bridging the Translation Gap," in Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Xi'an, China. July 25-30, 2020, pp.9–18. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1164: (2019) Kim, Y. and Allan, J., "Unsupervised Explainable Controversy Detection from Online News," in the Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval. Cologne, Germany, 14th - 18th April 2019, pp. 836-843. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1144: (2018) Bonab, H., Zamani, H., Learned-Miller, E. and Allan, J., "Citation Worthiness of Sentences in Scientific Reports," in the Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '18) Ann Arbor, MI, USA, July 8-12, 2018, pp. 1061-1064. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1143: (2018) Bonab, H., Aliannejadi, M., Foley, J. and Allan, J., "Incorporating Hierarchical Domain Information to Disambiguate Very Short Queries," in the Proceedings of ICTIR '19: International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, October 02--05, 2019, Santa Clara, California, pp. 51-54. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1139: (2018) Cohen, D., Foley, J., Zamani, H., Allan, J. and Croft, W. B. , "Universal Approximation Functions for Fast Learning to Rank," in the Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Ann Arbor, MI, Jul. 8-12 2018 (SIGIR’18), pp. 1017-1020. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1136: (2018) Jang, M. and Allan, J., "Explaining Controversy via Stance Summarization," in The Proceedings ofthe 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '18) Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, July 8-12, 2018, pp. 1221-1224. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1124: (2018) Sarwar, S., Foley, J. and Allan, J., "Term Relevance Feedback for Contextual Named Entity Retrieval," in the Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval (CHIIR ’18), New Brunswick, NJ, March 11-15, 2018, pp. 301-304. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1118: (2017) Ai, Q., Zamani, H., Harding, S., Naseri, S., Allan, J. and Croft, W. B. , "UMass at TREC 2017 Common Core Track," the Notebook Proceedings of Text REtrieval Conference (TREC '17), November 15-17, 2017. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1105: (2017) Jang, M., Dori-Hacohen, S. and Allan, J., "Modeling Controversy Within Populations," in the Proceedings of the International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval,(ICTIR’17), Amsterdam, NL, October 1-4, 2017, pp. 141-149. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1103: (2017) Jiang, J., He, D. and Allan, J., "Comparing In Situ and Multidimensional Relevance Judgments," in the Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '17) Tokyo, Japan, August 7-11, 2017, pp. 405-414. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1102: (2017) Jiang, J., He, D., Kelly, D. and Allan, J., "Understanding Ephemeral State of Relevance," in the Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 17), Oslo, Norway, March 07-11, 2017, pp. 137-146. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1092: (2018) Foley, J., Sarwar, S. and Allan, J., "Named Entity Recognition with Extremely Limited Data," In the Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2018 Workshop on Learning from Limited or Noisy Data (LND4IR ’18), Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, July 12, 2018. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1068: (2016) Jang, M., Foley, J., Dori-Hacohen, S. and Allan, J., "Probabilistic Approaches to Controversy Detection," in the Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016), Indianapolis, United States, October 24-28, 2016, pp. 2069-2072. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1064: (2016) Dori-Hacohen, S., Jensen, D. and Allan, J., "Controversy Detection in Wikipedia Using Collective Classification," Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2016), Pisa, July 18-20, 2016, pp. 797-800. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1062: (2016) Jiang, J. and Allan, J., "Adaptive Persistence for Search Effectiveness Measures," in the Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), November 6-10, 2017, Singapore, pp. 747-756. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1061: (2016) Jang, M. and Allan, J., "Improving Automated Controversy Detection on the Web," Proceedings of The International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’16), Pisa, Italy, July 17-21, 2016, pp. 865-868. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1054: (2016) Foley, J., OConnor, B. and Allan, J., "Improving Entity Ranking for Keyword Queries," in the Proceedings of The 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016), Indianapolis, IN, Oct. 24-28. 2016, pp. 2061-2064. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1053: (2016) Jiang, J. and Allan, J., "Correlation Between System and User Metrics in a Session," in Proceedings of the first ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval(CHIIR 2016), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, March 13-17, 2016, pp. 285-288. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1052: (2016) Jiang, J. and Allan, J., "Similarity-based Distant Supervision for Definition Retrieval," in the Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), November 6-10, 2017, Singapore, pp. 527-536. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1051: (2016) Kong, W. and Allan, J., "Precision-Oriented Query Facet Extraction," in the Proceedings of the 25rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, October 24-28, 2016, Indianapolis, IN, pp. 1433-1442. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1039: (2015) Allan, J. and Wemhoener, D., "Balancing Aspects in Retrieved Search Results," Proceedings of the International Conference on Theoretical Information Retrieval (ICTIR) Northampton, Massachusetts, September 27 - October 1, 2015, pp. 305-308. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1033: (2016) Jiang, J. and Allan, J., "Adaptive Effort for Search Evaluation Metrics," in Proceedings of the 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2016), Padova, Italy, March 20-23, 2016, pp. 187-199. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1027: (2015) Dori-Hacohen, S., Yom-Tov, E. and Allan, J., "Navigating Controversy as a Complex Search Task," in Proceedings of the first international workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks, volume 1338 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR-WS.org, 2015. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1024: (2015) Jiang, J. and Allan, J., "Reducing click and skip errors in search result ranking," in Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM '16), San Francisco, California, USA. February 22-25, 2016, pp. 183-192. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1023: (2015) Foley, J. and Allan, J., "Retrieving Hierarchical Syllabus Items for Exam Question Analysis ," Proceedings of 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2016), Padova, Italy, March 20-23, 2016, pp. 575-586. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1014: (2014) Jang, M., Allan, J. and Choi, J., "Identification of Non-textual Components in Technical Documents," presented as a workshop at The 3rd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT) at EMNLP, Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept. 7-11, 2017. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1013: (2016) Naji, N. and Allan, J., "On Cross-script Information Retrieval," Proceedings of the 38th Annual European Conference on Information Retrieval, Padua, Italy, March 20-23, 2016, pp. 796-802. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1012: (2014) Kong, W. and Allan, J., "Predicting Search Intent Based on Pre-search Context," Proceedings of the 38th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR'15). Santiago, Chile, August 9-13, 2015, pp. 503-512. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1006: (2015) Dori-Hacohen, S. and Allan, J., "Automated Controversy Detection on the Web," Proceedings of the 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2015), Vienna, Austria, March 29 - April 2, 2015, pp 423-434. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-999: (2014) Foley, J. and Allan, J., "Retrieving Time from Scanned Books," Proceedings of the 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2015), Vienna, Austria, March 29 - April 2, 2015, pp. 221-232. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-997: (2014) Kong, W. and Allan, J., "Extending Faceted Search to the General Web," Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'14), Shanghai, China, November 3-7, 2014, pp. 839-848. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-991: (2014) Allan, J., Dalton, J., Foley, J., Manmatha, R., Murthy, V. and Wemhoener, D., "Short Text Queries for Video Retrieval," In Proceedings of TRECVID 2013, Gaithersburg, MD, November 20-22, 2013. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-985: (2014) Jiang, J. and Allan, J., "Necessary and Frequent Terms in Queries," Proceedings of the 37th Annual International ACM SIGIR conference (SIGIR 2014), Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, July 6-11, 2014, pp. 1167-1170. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-981: (2014) Jiang, J., He, D. and Allan, J., "Searching, Browsing, and Clicking in a Search Session: Changes in User Behavior by Task and Over Time," Proceedings of the 37th Annual International ACM SIGIR conference, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, July 6-11, 2014, pp. 607-616. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-977: (2014) Dalton, J., Dietz, L. and Allan, J., "Entity Query Feature Expansion using Knowledge Base Links," Proceedings of the 37th Annual International ACM SIGIR conference, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, July 6-11, 2014, pp. 365-374. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-953: (2013) Dori-Hacohen, S. and Allan, J., "Detecting Controversy on the Web," Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), San Francisco, CA, Oct. 27-Nov. 1, 2013, pp. 1845-1848. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-952: (2013) Kong, W., Aktolga, E. and Allan, J., "Improving Passage Ranking with User Behavior Information," Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), San Francisco, CA, Oct. 27-Nov. 1, 2013, pp. 1999-2008. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-931: (2013) Dalton, J., Allan, J. and Mirajkar, P., "Zero-Shot Video Retrieval Using Content and Concepts," Proceedings of CIKM 2013, San Francisco, October 27-28, 2013, pp. 1857-1860. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-930: (2013) Kong, W. and Allan, J., "Extracting Query Facets from Search Results," Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2013), Dublin, Ireland, July 28-August 1, 2013, pp. 93-102. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-926: (2013) Feild, H. and Allan, J., "Task-aware query recommendation," Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2013), Dublin, Ireland, July 28-August 1, 2013, pp. 83-92. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-925: (2013) Aktolga, E. and Allan, J., "Sentiment Diversification With Different Biases," Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2013), July 28-August 1, 2013, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 593-602. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-914: (2012) Cartright, M., Dalton, J. and Allan, J., "Search and Exploration of Scanned Books," BooksOnline Workshop 2012 (co-located with CIKM 2012, Maui, Hawaii) pp. 9-10. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-912: (2012) Cartright, M., Can, E., Dabney, W., Dalton, J., Krstovski, K., Wu, X., Yalniz, I., Allan, J., Manmatha, R. and Smith, D., "A Framework for Manipulating and Searching Multiple Retrieval Types," Proceedings of the 35th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2012), pp. 1001. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-904: (2012) Feild, H. and Allan, J., "Task Aware Search Assistant," Proceedings of the 35th International ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2012), pp. 1015. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-898: (2012) Allan, J., Croft, W. B. , Moffat, A. and Sanderson, M., "Frontiers, Challenges, and Opportunities for Information Retrieval: Report from SWIRL 2012," SIGIR Forum, 46(1):2-32, June 2012 (Allan et al, editors). [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-882: (2012) Feild, H., Cartright, M. and Allan, J., "The University of Massachusetts Amherst’s participation in the INEX 2011 Prove It Track," In the Proceedings of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval workshop (INEX'2011) Saarland, Germany, December 12-14, 2011. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-853: (2011) Smith, D., Manmatha, R. and Allan, J., "Mining Relational Structure from Millions of Books: Position Paper," CIKM Books Online Workshop, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K., October 24, 2011. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-843: (2011) Cartright, M., Feild, H. and Allan, J., "Evidence Finding using a Collection of Books," Proceedings of The International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management BooksOnline workshop (BooksOnline'11), pp. 11-18. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-823: (2011) Dalton, J., Allan, J. and Smith, D., "Passage Retrieval for Incorporating Global Evidence in Sequence Labeling," Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '11), pp. 355-364. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-812: (2011) Cartright, M. and Allan, J., "Efficiency Optimizations for Interpolating Subqueries," Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '11),pp. 297-306. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-809: (2011) Feild, H., Allan, J. and Glatt, J., "CrowdLogging: Distributed, private, and anonymous search logging," Proceedings of the International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'11), pp. 375-384. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-808: (2011) Balasubramanian, N. and Allan, J., "Modeling Relative Effectiveness to Leverage Multiple Ranking Algorithms," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-803: (2011) Aktolga, E. and Allan, J., "Reranking Search Results for Sparse Queries," Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '11), pp. 173-183. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-802: (2011) Yi, X. and Allan, J., "Discovering Missing Click-through Query Language Information for Web Search," Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '11), pp. 153-162. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-781: (2010) Cartright, M., Allan, J., Lavrenko, V. and McGregor, A., "Fast Query Expansion Using Approximations of Relevance Models," Proceedings of the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2010), pp. 1573-1576. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-775: (2010) Balasubramanian, N. and Allan, J., "Learning to Select Rankers," Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, pp. 855-856. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-756: (2010) Feild, H., Allan, J. and Jones, R., "Predicting Searcher Frustration," Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2010), pp. 34-41. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-755: (2010) Balasubramanian, N., Bendersky, M. and Allan, J., "Cost-Effective Combination of Multiple Rankers: Learning When Not To Query," NESCAI 2010, Amherst, MA, April 15-17, 2010. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-750: (2010) Aktolga, E., Allan, J. and Smith, D., "Passage Reranking for Question Answering Using Syntactic Structures and Answer Types," Proceedings of the 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2011), Dublin, Ireland, April 18-21, 2011, pp. 617-628. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-745: (2009) Yi, X. and Allan, J., "A Content based Approach for Discovering Missing Anchor Text for Web Search," Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, pp. 427-434. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-735: (2009) Feild, H. and Allan, J., "Modeling Searcher Frustration," Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2009), pp. 5-8. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-723: (2009) Smucker, M., Allan, J. and Carterette, B., "Agreement Among Statistical Significance Tests for Information Retrieval Evaluation at Varying Sample Sizes," Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2009) Boston, MA, pp. 630-631. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-722: (2009) Smucker, M. and Allan, J., "A New Measure of the Cluster Hypothesis," Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR'09), pp. 281-288. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-716: (2009) Yi, X., Feild, H. and Allan, J., "Spelling Correction Based on User Search Contextual Analysis and Domain Knowledge," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-708: (2009) Feng, A. and Allan, J., "Incident Threading for News Passages," Proceedings of CIKM 2009, pp. 1307-1316. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-707: (2009) Smucker, M., Allan, J. and Dachev, B., "Human Question Answering Performance Using an Interactive Document Retrieval System," Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium (IIiX 2012), pp. 35-44. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-706: (2009) Balasubramanian, N., Venkataramani, A. and Allan, J., "Energy Aware Search from Mobile Phones," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-703: (2009) Feild, H. and Allan, J., "Evaluating query log segmentation for frustration detection," CIIR technical report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-693: (2008) Armstrong, B., Yi, X. and Allan, J., "Indri at TREC 2008: Million Query (1MQ) Track," TREC 2008, Gaithersburg MD, Nov. 18-21, 2008. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-692: (2008) Allan, J., Aslam, J., Carterette, B., Pavlu, V. and Kanoulas, E., "Million Query Track 2008 Overview," TREC 2008, Gaithersburg MD, Nov. 18-21, 2008. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-691: (2008) Lease, M., Allan, J. and Croft, W. B. , "Regression Rank: Learning to Meet the Opportunity of Descriptive Queries," Proceedings of ECIR'09: 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval, pp. 90-101. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-690: (2009) Carterette, B., Pavlu, V., Kanoulas, E., Aslam, J. and Allan, J., "If I Had a Million Queries," Proceedings of ECIR'09: 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval, pp. 288-300. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-689: (2009) Yi, X. and Allan, J., "A Comparative Study of Utilizing Topic Models for Information Retrieval," Proceedings of ECIR'09: 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval, LNCS 5478, pp.29-41. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-681: (2008) Balasubramanian, N. and Allan, J., "Syntactic Query Models for Restatement Retrieval," Proceedings of SPIRE 2009, pp. 143-155. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-680: (2008) Aktolga, E., Cartright, M. and Allan, J., "Cross-Document Cross-Lingual Coreference Retrieval," Proceedings of the ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp. 1359-1360. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-676: (2008) Parton, K., McKeown, K., Allan, J. and Henestroza, E., "Simultaneous Multilingual Search for Translingual Information Retrieval," Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), pp. 719-728. [View bibtex]
IR-675: (2008) Friedland, L. and Allan, J., "Joke Retrieval: Recognizing the Same Joke Told Differently," Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), pp. 883-892. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-673: (2008) Allan, J., Carterette, B., Aslam, J., Pavlu, V., Dachev, B. and Kanoulas, E., "Million Query Track 2007 Overview," Proceedings of TREC 2007, pp. 85-104. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-655: (2008) Smucker, M., Allan, J. and Dachev, B., "Human Question Answering Performance using an Interactive Information Retrieval System," CIIR Technical Report. See IR-707 for published version of this work. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-654: (2008) Lee, K., Croft, W. B. and Allan, J., "A Cluster-Based Resampling Method for Pseudo- Relevance Feedback," Proceedings of the 31st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 08), pp. 235-242. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-650: (2008) Carterette, B., Pavlu, V., Kanoulas, E., Aslam, J. and Allan, J., "Evaluation Over Thousands of Queries," Proceedings of the 31st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 08), pp. 651-658. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-648: (2008) Yi, X. and Allan, J., "Evaluating Topic Models for Information Retrieval," Proceedings of CIKM 2008, pp. 1431-1432. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-647: (2008) Kumaran, G. and Allan, J., "Effective and Efficient User Interaction for Long Queries," Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, pp. 11-18. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-642: (2007) Allan, J., Carterette, B., Aslam, J., Pavlu, V., Dachev, B. and Kanoulas, E., "Million Query Track 2007 Overview," TREC 2007 Notebook. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-631: (2007) Yi, X. and Allan, J., "Indri at TREC 2007: Million Query (1MQ) Track," in the electronic Notebook Proceedings of TREC 2007, November 6-9, 2007, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland USA. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-629: (2007) Smucker, M., Allan, J. and Dachev, B., "UMass Complex Interactive Question Answering (ciQA) 2007: Human Performance as Question Answerers [Notebook Version]," in the electronic Notebook Proceedings of TREC 2007. [View bibtex]
IR-628: (2009) Kumaran, G. and Allan, J., "Adapting Information Retrieval Systems to User Queries," in the Special Topic Issue on Adaptive Information Retrieval, Information Processing & Management, vol. 44, no. 6, pp.1838–1862. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-621: (2007) Carterette, B. and Allan, J., "Semiautomatic Evaluation of Retrieval Systems Using Document Similarities," a poster presentation at the ACM Sixteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), November 6-8, 2007, Lisboa, Portugal. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-613: (2007) Smucker, M. and Allan, J., "Measuring the Navigability of Document Networks," a workshop at SIGIR’07 Web Information-Seeking and Interaction Workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 23-27, 2007. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-595: (2007) Balasubramanian, N., Allan, J. and Croft, W. B. , "A Comparison of Sentence Retrieval Techniques," in the Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR-07) , pp. 513-514. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-594: (2007) Yi, X., Allan, J. and Croft, W. B. , "Matching Resumes and Jobs Based on Relevance Models," in the Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007), pp. 809-810. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-593: (2007) Smucker, M. and Allan, J., "Using Similarity Links as Shortcuts to Relevant Web Pages," in the Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR-07), pp. 863-864. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-591: (2007) Smucker, M., Allan, J. and Carterette, B., "A Comparison of Statistical Significance Tests for Information Retrieval Evaluation," in the Proceedings of the ACM Sixteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2007), pp. 623-632. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-560: (2007) Raghavan, H. and Allan, J., "An InterActive Algorithm For Asking And Incorporating Feature Feedback into Support Vector Machines," in the Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 07), pp. 79-86. [View bibtex]
IR-559: (2007) Kumaran, G. and Allan, J., "Selective User Interaction," in the Proceedings of the ACM Sixteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp. 923-926. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-558: (2007) Feng, A. and Allan, J., "Finding and Linking Incidents in News," in the Proceedings of the ACM Sixteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp. 821-829. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-556: (2007) Carterette, B. and Allan, J., "Research Methodology in Studies of Information Retrieval Evaluation," in the Proceedings of RIAO 2007 - 8th Conference - Large-Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound), paper number 112. [View bibtex]
IR-555: (2006) Yi, X., Allan, J. and Lavrenko, V., "Discovering Missing Values in Semi-Structured Databases," in the Proceedings of RIAO 2007 - 8th Conference - Large-Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound), paper number 113. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-554: (2007) Kumaran, G. and Allan, J., "Information Retrieval Techniques for Templated Queries ," in the Proceedings of RIAO 2007 - 8th Conference - Large-Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound), paper number 104. [View bibtex]
IR-548: (2006) Smucker, M. and Allan, J., "An Investigation of Dirichlet Prior Smoothing's Performance Advantage," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-545: (2006) Kumaran, G. and Allan, J., "UMASS at TREC ciQA," in the TREC 2006 Conference Notebook, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 14-17, 2006. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-541: (2007) Lavrenko, V., Yi, X. and Allan, J., "Information Retrieval On Empty Fields," in the Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2007), pp. 89-96. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-538: (2006) Kumaran, G. and Allan, J., "A Case for Shorter Queries, and Helping User Create Them," in the Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2007), pp. 220–227. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-534: (2006) Kumaran, G. and Allan, J., "Eliciting Information for Adaptive Retrieval," in the Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Adaptive Information Retrieval (AIR), pp. 18-19. [View bibtex]
IR-530: (2006) Bekkerman, R., Raghavan, H., Allan, J. and Eguchi, K., "Interactive Clustering of Text Collections According to a User-Specified Criterion," in the Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 07), pp.684-689. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-507: (2006) Kumaran, G. and Allan, J., "Simple Questions for Interactive Information Retrieval," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-506: (2006) Allan, J., "HARD Track Overview in TREC 2005: High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents," in the Proceedings of TREC 2006, pp. 52-68. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-486: (2006) Feng, A. and Allan, J., "Combining Evidence from Homologous Datasets," Proceedings the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006) Workshop, pp. 4-7. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-485: (2006) Kumaran, G. and Allan, J., "Simple Questions to Improve Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Results," in the Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), pp. 661-662. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-483: (2006) Smucker, M. and Allan, J., "Lightening the Load of Document Smoothing for Better Language Modeling Retrieval," the Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), pp. 699-700. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-482: (2006) Bekkerman, R., Zilberstein, S. and Allan, J., "Web Page Clustering using Heuristic Search in the Web Graph," in the Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 07), pp.2280-2285. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-481: (2006) Diaz, F. and Allan, J., "When Less is More: Relevance Feedback Falls Short and Term Expansion Succeeds at HARD 2005," the Online Proceedings of 2005 Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2005). For an earlier version, see IR-453. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-475: (2006) Carterette, B., Allan, J. and Sitaraman, R., "Minimal Test Collections for Retrieval Evaluation," Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), pp. 268-283. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-473: (2006) Lavrenko, V. and Allan, J., "Real-time Query Expansion in Relevance Models," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-472: (2006) Bekkerman, R., Eguchi, K. and Allan, J., "Unsupervised Non-topical Classification of Documents," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-470: (2006) Smucker, M. and Allan, J., "Find-Similar: Similarity Browsing as a Search Tool," Proceedings of SIGIR 2006, pp. 461-468. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-459: (2005) Raghavan, H. and Allan, J., "Passage Feedback for News Tracking," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-453: (2005) Diaz, F. and Allan, J., "When Less is More: Relevance Feedback Falls Short and Term Expansion Succeeds at HARD 2005 (Notebook Version) ," the Notebook Proceedings of Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2005) pp. 833-838. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-446: (2005) Allan, J., Croft, W. B. and Callan, J., "The University of Massachusetts and a Dozen TRECs," TREC Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval, Ellen M. Voorhees and Donna K. Harman, ed., MIT Press, chapter 11, pp. 261-286. (Online version not available.) [View bibtex]
IR-445: (2005) Smucker, M., Kulp, D. and Allan, J., "Dirichlet Mixtures for Query Estimation in Information Retrieval," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-441: (2005) Carterette, B. and Allan, J., "Incremental Test Collections," Proceedings of ACM Fourteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp. 680-687. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-436: (2005) Raghavan, H. and Allan, J., "Matching Inconsistently Spelled Names in Automatic Speech Recognizer Output for Information Retrieval," the Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP 2005, pp. 451-458. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-408: (2005) Bekkerman, R. and Allan, J., "Using Bigrams in Text Categorization,," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-405: (2005) AbdulJaleel, N., Allan, J., Croft, W. B. , Diaz, F., Larkey, L., Li, X., Smucker, M. and Wade, C., "UMass at TREC 2004: Novelty and HARD," the Online Proceedings of 2004 Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2004) http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec13/t13_proceedings.html [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-396: (2005) Wade, C. and Allan, J., "Passage Retrieval and Evaluation," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-395: (2005) Allan, J., Carterette, B. and Lewis, J., "When Will Information Retrieval Be "Good Enough?": User Effectiveness as a Function of Retrieval Accuracy," Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, pp. 433-440. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-392: (2005) Kumaran, G. and Allan, J., "Using Names and Topics for New Event Detection," Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference/Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pp. 121-128. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-390: (2005) Diaz, F., Smucker, M. and Allan, J., "High Precision Retrieval via User Interaction and Metadata," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-389: (2005) Feng, A. and Allan, J., "Hierarchical Topic Detection in TDT-2004," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
MM-386: (2007) Kornfield, E., Manmatha, R. and Allan, J., "Further Explorations in Text Alignment with Handwritten Documents," IJDAR Journal. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-379: (2004) Allan, J., "HARD Track Overview in TREC 2004 (Notebook): High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents," the Online Proceedings of 2004 Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2004) http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec13/t13_proceedings.html. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-378: (2004) AbdulJaleel, N., Allan, J., Croft, W. B. , Diaz, F., Larkey, L., Li, X., Metzler, D., Smucker, M., Strohman, T., Turtle, H. and Wade, C., "UMass at TREC 2004: Notebook ," Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2004). [View bibtex]
IR-369: (2004) Raghavan, H., Allan, J. and McCallum, A., "An Exploration of Entity Models, Collective Classification and Relation Description," Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Link Analysis and Group Detection, LinkKDD2004, August 22, 2004 in conjunction with the tenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Seattle, WA, USA, pp 1-10. [View bibtex]
IR-365: (2005) Allan, J., Harding, S., Fisher, D., Bolivar, A., Guzman-Lara, S. and Amstutz, P., "Taking Topic Detection From Evaluation to Practice," CD Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 3-6 January 2005, p. 101 (abstract). [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-362: (2004) Kumaran, G., Allan, J. and McCallum, A., "Classification Models for New Event Detection," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-361: (2005) Raghavan, H. and Allan, J., "Proper Names and their Spelling Variations in Automatic Speech recognition output," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-360: (2004) Nallapati, R., Feng, A., Peng, F. and Allan, J., "Event Threading within News Topics," Proceedings of CIKM 2004 conference, pp. 446-453. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-357: (2004) Connell, M., Feng, A., Kumaran, G., Raghavan, H., Shah, C. and Allan, J., "UMass at TDT 2004," the Proceedings of TDT 2004, Gaithersburg, MD. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-356: (2003) Allan, J., Aslam, J., Belkin, N., Buckley, C., Callan, J., Croft, W. B. , Dumais, S., Fuhr, N., Harman, D., Harper, D., Hiemstra, D., Hofmann, T., Hovy, E., Kraaij, W., Lafferty, J., Lavrenko, V., Lewis, D., Liddy, L., Manmatha, R., McCallum, A., Ponte, J., Prager, J., Radev, D., Resnik, P., Robertson, S., Rosenfeld, R., Roukos, S., Sanderson, M., Schwartz, R., Singhal, A., Smeaton, A., Turtle, H., Voorhees, E., Weischedel, R., Xu, J. and Zhai, C., "Challenges in Information Retrieval Language Modeling," SIGIR Forum, Spring 2003, Volume 37 Number 1. [View bibtex]
IR-350: (2004) Raghavan, H. and Allan, J., "Using Soundex Codes for indexing ASR documents," Proceedings of the Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Speech Indexing and Retrieval at HLT-NAACL 2004, pp. 22-27. [View bibtex]
IR-345: (2004) Nallapati, R., Allan, J. and Mahadevan, S., "Extraction of Key-Words from News Stories," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-342: (2004) Raghavan, H. and Allan, J., "Evaluating Entity Models on the TREC Question Answering Task," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-340: (2004) Kumaran, G. and Allan, J., "Text Classification and Named Entities for New Event Detection," Proceedings of SIGIR '04, pp. 297-304. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-327: (2003) Carterette, B., Allan, J. and Croft, W. B. , "Ranking Document Retrieval Systems with BLEU," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-324: (2004) Gooi, C. and Allan, J., "Cross-Document Coreference on a Large Scale Corpus," Proceedings of HLT 2004 conference, pp. 9-16. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-322: (2003) Allan, J., "HARD Track Overview in TREC 2003 High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents," Proceedings of TREC 2003, NIST special publication number 500-255, pp. 24-37. [View bibtex]
IR-321: (2003) AbdulJaleel, N., Corrada-Emmanuel, A., Li, Q., Liu, X., Wade, C. and Allan, J., "UMass at TREC 2003: HARD and QA (Notebook version) ," Notebook Proceedings of TREC 2003, NIST special publication number 500-255, pp. 715-725. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
MM-320: (2003) Kornfield, E., Manmatha, R. and Allan, J., "Text Alignment with Handwritten Documents," the Proceedings of Document Image Analysis for Libraries (DIAL) 2004,pp. 195-209. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-317: (2003) Allan, J., Lavrenko, V. and Connell, M., "A Month to Topic Detection and Tracking in Hindi," ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, pp. 85-100. [View bibtex]
IR-315: (2003) Allan, J., Lavrenko, V. and Nallapati, R., "UMass at TDT 2002," Notebook Proceedings of TDT 2002 Workshop. [View bibtex]
IR-302: (2003) Nallapati, R. and Allan, J., "An Adaptive Local Dependency language Model: Relaxing the Naïve Bayes’ Assumption ," the Workshop on Mathematical/FormalMethods Information Retrieval held in conjunction with SIGIR 03, Toronto, Canada, Aug 1, 2003. [View bibtex]
IR-299: (2003) Nallapati, R., Croft, W. B. and Allan, J., "Relevant Query Feedback in Statistical Language Modeling," Proceedings of CIKM ’03, pp. 560-563. [View bibtex]
IR-298: (2003) Allan, J., Feng, A. and Bolivar, A., "Flexible Intrinsic Evaluation of Hierarchical Clustering for TDT," Proceedings of CIKM ’03, pp. 263-270. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-295: (2003) Kelly, D., Diaz, F., Belkin, N. and Allan, J., "A User-center Approach to Evaluating Topic Models," the Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Information Retrieval, 5th - 7th April 2004, University of Sunderland, U.K. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-289: (2003) Allan, J. and Kumaran, G., "Stemming in the Language Modeling Framework," SIGIR 03 Conference, pp.455-456, presented as a poster. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-287: (2003) Allan, J., "Modeling Topics for Detection and Tracking," Pattern Recognition Speech and Language Processing, Wu Chou and Biing Hwang Juang, eds., pp. 353-376. CRC Press, 2003. No electronic copy available. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-284: (2003) Allan, J. and Kumaran, G., "Details on Stemming in the Language Modeling Framework," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-281: (2003) Nallapati, R. and Allan, J., "Sentence-Forest Language Model: A Graph-theoretic Framework to Capture Local Term Dependencies," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-280: (2003) Allan, J., Wade, C. and Bolivar, A., "Retrieval and Novelty Detection at the Sentence Level," Proceedings of SIGIR ’03 Conference, pp. 314-321. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-279: (2003) Diaz, F. and Allan, J., "Browsing-based User Language Models for Information Retrieval," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-275: (2003) Allan, J. and Raghavan, H., "Entity Models: Construction and Applications," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-272: (2002) Larkey, L., Allan, J., Connell, M., Bolivar, A. and Wade, C., "UMass at TREC 2002: Cross Language and Novelty Tracks, ," Proceedings (notebook version) of the TREC 2002 , pp. 43-55. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-267: (2002) Allan, J., Lavrenko, V. and Swan, R., "Explorations within Topic Tracking and Detection," Topic Detection and Tracking, Event-based Information Organization, James Allan, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, chapter 10, pp. 197-224. [View bibtex]
IR-266: (2002) Allan, J., "Introduction to Topic Detection and Tracking," Topic Detection and Tracking, Event-based Information Organization, James Allan, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, chapter 1, pp. 1-16. No electronic copy available. [View bibtex]
IR-265: (2002) Nallapati, R. and Allan, J., "Capturing Term Dependencies using a Sentence Tree based Language Model," Proceedings of CIKM ’02 conference, pp. 383-390. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-264: (2002) Allan, J., Bolivar, A. and Wade, C., "Using Text Categorization to Measure the Impact of News on Public Opinion," CIIR Technical Report. [View bibtex]
IR-262: (2002) Manmatha, R., Feng, A. and Allan, J., "A Critical Examination of TDT's Cost Function," Proceedings of SIGIR 2002, pp. 403-404. [View bibtex]
IR-260: (2002) Allan, J., "Robust Techniques for Organizing and Retrieving Spoken Documents," the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing. [View bibtex]
IR-257: (2002) Leuski, A. and Allan, J., "Interactive Information Retrieval Using Clustering and Spatial Proximity," UMUAI (User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction Journal) 14(2-3), pp. 259-288, June 2004. Electronic copy available at: http://journals.kluweronline.com/article.asp?PIPS=5124938 http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:USER.0000028978.09823.47. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-256: (2002) Allan, J., Gupta, R. and Khandelwal, V., "Summarizing Topic Changes in News," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-248: (2002) Leuski, A. and Allan, J., "Improving Realism of Topic Tracking Evaluation," Proceedings of SIGIR 2002, pp. 89-96. [View bibtex]
IR-247: (2002) Allan, J. and Raghavan, H., "Using Part-of-speech Patterns to Reduce Query Ambiguity," Proceedings of SIGIR 2002, pp. 307-314. [View bibtex]
IR-243: (2002) Lavrenko, V., Allan, J., DeGuzman, E., LaFlamme, D., Pollard, V. and Thomas, S., "Relevance Models for Topic Detection and Tracking," Proceedings of HLT 2002, pp. 104-110. [View bibtex]
IR-237: (2001) Allan, J., "Knowledge Management and Speech Recognition," Computer magazine, pp. 46-47. [View bibtex]
IR-236: (2001) Allan, J., "Perspectives on Information Retrieval and Speech," Information Retrieval Techniques for Speech Applications, Coden, Brown and Srinivasan, editors. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 2273, pp. 1-10, 2002. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-233: (2001) Allan, J., "Detection As Multi-topic Tracking," Information Retrieval, no. 5, pp. 139-157. [View bibtex]
IR-231: (2001) Allan, J., Gupta, R. and Khandelwal, V., "Topic Models for Summarizing Novelty," the Workshop on Language Modeling and Information Retrieval, pp.66-71. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-228: (2001) Khandelwal, V., Gupta, R. and Allan, J., "An Evaluation Corpus For Temporal Summarization," Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference (HLT 2001), pp. 102-106. [View bibtex]
IR-226: (2001) Allan, J., Gupta, R. and Khandelwal, V., "Temporal Summaries of News Topics," Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR 01 conference, pp. 10-18. [View bibtex]
IR-219: (2001) Frey, D., Gupta, R., Khandelwal, V., Lavrenko, V., Leuski, A. and Allan, J., "Monitoring the News: a TDT demonstration system," Notebook Proceedings of HLT 2001, pp. 351-355. [View bibtex]
IR-218: (2000) Allan, J., Lavrenko, V., Frey, D. and Khandelwal, V., "UMass at TDT 2000," Topic Detection and Tracking Workshop notebook, November 2000, pp. 109-115. [View bibtex]
IR-217: (2000) Allan, J., Connell, M., Croft, W. B. , Feng, F., Fisher, D. and Li, X., "INQUERY and TREC-9," Proceedings of TREC-9, pp. 551-577. [View bibtex]
IR-207: (2000) Lavrenko, V., Schmill, M., Lawrie, D., Ogilvie, P., Jensen, D. and Allan, J., "Language Models for Financial News Recommendation," Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Washington, pp. 389 - 396. [View bibtex]
IR-206: (2000) Allan, J., Lavrenko, V. and Jin, H., "First Story Detection in TDT Is Hard," Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp. 374-381. [View bibtex]
IR-205: (2000) Leuski, A. and Allan, J., "Lighthouse: Showing the Way to Relevant Information," Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2000 (InfoVis 2000), pp. 125-130. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-204: (2000) Allan, J., Leuski, A., Swan, R. and Byrd, D., "Evaluating Combinations of Ranked Lists and Visualizations of Inter-document Similarity," Information Processing and Management (IP&M), vol. 37, pp. 435-458. No electronic copy available. [View bibtex]
IR-203: (2000) Lavrenko, V., Schmill, M., Lawrie, D., Ogilvie, P., Jensen, D. and Allan, J., "Mining of Concurent Text and Time Series," Proceedings of KDD 2000 Conference, pp. 37-44. [View bibtex]
IR-201: (2000) Allan, J., Lavrenko, V., Malin, D. and Swan, R., "Detections, Bounds, and Timelines: UMass and TDT-3," Proceedings of Topic Detection and Tracking Workshop (TDT-3), pp. 167-174. [View bibtex]
IR-198: (2000) Swan, R. and Allan, J., "Automatic Generation of Overview Timelines," Proceedings of SIGIR 2000 Conference, pp. 49-56. (Online version not available.) [View bibtex]
IR-197: (2000) Allan, J., Lavrenko, V. and Jin, H., "Comparing Effectiveness in TDT and IR," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-191: (2000) Papka, R. and Allan, J., "Topic Detection and Tracking: Event Clustering as a Basis for First Story Detection," Advances Information Retrieval: Recent Research from the CIIR, W. Bruce Croft, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, chapter 4, pp. 96-126. (Online version not available.). [View bibtex]
IR-185: (1999) Leuski, A. and Allan, J., "Improving Interactive Retrieval by Combining Ranked List and Clustering," Proceedings of RIAO 2000 Conference, Paris, pp. 665-681. [View bibtex]
IR-182: (1999) Allan, J., Callan, J., Feng, F. and Malin, D., "INQUERY and TREC-8," Proceedings of TREC-8, pp. 637-644. [View bibtex]
IR-176: (1999) Swan, R. and Allan, J., "Extracting Significant Time Varying Features from Text," Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM99), pp. 38-45. [View bibtex]
IR-172: (1999) Leuski, A. and Allan, J., "The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Ranked List and Clustering," CIIR Technical Report. [View bibtex]
IR-166: (1999) Papka, R., Allan, J. and Lavrenko, V., "UMASS Approaches to Detection and Tracking at TDT2," Proceedings of the DARPA Broadcast News Workshop, Herndon, VA, February 28-March 3, 1999, pp. 111-125. [View bibtex]
IR-158: (1999) Allan, J., Lavrenko, V. and Mularski, P., "Measuring Query-focused Web Crawlers," CIIR Technical Report. [View bibtex]
IR-152: (1998) Leuski, A. and Allan, J., "Strategy-based Interactive Cluster Visualization for Information Retrieval," International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 3 (2000) 2, 170-184. [View bibtex]
IR-150: (1998) Allan, J., Callan, J., Sanderson, M., Xu, J. and Wegmann, S., "INQUERY and TREC -7," Proceedings of the Seventh Text REtrieval Conference, (TREC-7), pp. 201-216. [View bibtex]
IR-142: (1998) Leouski, A. and Allan, J., "Evaluating a Visual Navigation System for a Digital Library," the Second European Conference on Research and Technology for Digital Libraries, pp. 535-554. [View bibtex]
IR-139: (1998) Papka, R. and Allan, J., "Document Classification using Multiword Features," The Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Bethesda, MD, Nov. 3-7,1998. [View bibtex]
IR-138: (1998) Allan, J., Papka, R. and Lavrenko, V., "On-line New Event Detection and Tracking," Proceedings of SIGIR98, pp. 37-45. [View bibtex]
IR-137: (1998) Allan, J., Carbonell, J., Doddington, G., Yamron, J. and Yang, Y., "Topic Detection and Tracking Pilot Study: Final Report," Proceedings of the Broadcast News Understanding and Transcription Workshop, pp. 194-218. [View bibtex]
IR-134: (1998) Swan, R., Allan, J. and Byrd, D., "Evaluating a Visual Information ‘Retrieval Interface: AspInquery at TREC-6," , Workshop on Information Exploaration at CHI 98 conference, April 17-18, 1998, http://www.fxpal.com/CHI98IE/submissions/index.htm. [View bibtex]
IR-133: (1998) Swan, R., Allan, J. and Byrd, D., "Evaluating a Task-specific Information Retrieval Interface," CIIR Technical Report. [View bibtex]
IR-128: (1998) Allan, J., Lavrenko, V. and Papka, R., "Event Tracking," CIIR technical report. [View bibtex]
IR-127: (1998) Leouski, A. and Allan, J., "Visual Interactions with Multidimensional Ranked List," the Proceedings of SIGIR 98, pp. 353-354. [View bibtex]
IR-126: (1998) Swan, R. and Allan, J., "Aspect Windows, 3-D Visualizations, and Indirect Comparisons of Information Retrieval Systems," SIGIR 98, pp. 173-181. [View bibtex]
IR-123: (1998) Papka, R. and Allan, J., "On-Line New Event Detection using Single Pass Clustering," UMass Computer Science Technical Report # TR98-21. [View bibtex]
IR-118: (1997) Allan, J., Callan, J., Croft, W. B. , Ballesteros, L., Byrd, D., Swan, R. and Xu, J., "INQUERY does battle with TREC-6," Proceedings of TREC-6 , pp. 169-206. [View bibtex]
IR-117: (1997) Byrd, D., Swan, R. and Allan, J., "TREC-6 Interactive Track Report PartI: Experimental Procedure and Initial Results," CIIR Technical Report. [View bibtex]
IR-116: (1997) Allan, J., Leouski, A. and Swan, R., "Interactive Cluster Visualization for Information Retrieval," CIIR technical report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-114: (1997) Hirsch, M. and Allan, J., "A Graphic Interface for User DirectedClustering of Retrieved Documents," Proceedings of the 1997 Spring Congress, American Medical Informatics Association, p 95. [View bibtex]
IR-111: (1997) Allan, J., Callan, J., Croft, W. B. , Ballesteros, L., Broglio, J., Xu, J. and Shu, H., "INQUERY at TREC-5," The Fifth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-5), NIST special publication 500-238, pp. 119-132, November 1997. [View bibtex]
IR-110: (1997) Allan, J., "Building Hypertext Using Information Retrieval," Information Processing and Management, vol.33 :2, pp. 133-144. [View bibtex]
IR-100: (1996) Swan, R. and Allan, J., "Improving Interactive Information Retrieval Effectiveness with 3-D Graphics," CIIR Technical Report. [View bibtex]
IR-84: (1996) Allan, J., Ballesteros, L., Callan, J., Croft, W. B. and Lu, Z., "Recent Experiments with INQUERY," Proceedings of the Fourth TREC Retrieval Conference (TREC-4), to be published Spring 1996. [View bibtex]
IR-80: (1996) Allan, J., "Incremental Relevance Feedback," inProceedings of the 19th International Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval (SIGIR 96) , Zurich,pp. 270-278. [View bibtex]
IR-56: (1995) Allan, J., "Relevance Feedback With Too Much Data," Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval, pp 337-343. UMass Technical Report 95-6. ,. [View bibtex]