CIIR publications authored by John Foley


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-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-1182: (2019) Foley, J., "Poetry: Identification, Entity Recognition, and Retrieval," Ph.D. Thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, May 2019. [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-1158: (2018) Dalton, J. and Foley, J., "Search Agent Model: A Conceptual Framework for Search by Algorithms and Agent Systems," in Proceedings of Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems (DESIRES 2018). Bertinoro, Italy. 28-31 August 2018, pp. 22-28. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-1154: (2018) Foley, J., "Explainable Agreement through Simulation for Tasks with Subjective Labels," 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-1147: (2018) Foley, J.,  Zhang, M.,  Bendersky, M. and Najork, M., "Semantic Location in Email Query Suggestion," in the Proceedings of The 41st Inter-national ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018), July 8–12, 2018, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA. [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-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-1115: (2017) Dietz, L. and Foley, J., "On the Equivalence of Generative and Discriminative Formulations of the Sequential Dependence Model," Workshop on Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval and Related Tasks (ATIR) at SIGIR 2017. August 11, 2017. Tokyo, Japan. [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-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-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-1022: (2015) Foley, J.,  Bendersky, M. and Josifovski, V., "Learning to Extract Local Events from the Web," Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2015), Santiago, Chile, August 9-13, 2015, pp. 423-432. [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-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]