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CIIR doctoral student, Hamed Zamani, was chosen as one of six ACM SIGIR Student Liaisons. Laura Deitz, the ACM SIGIR Student Affairs Chair, announced the students on July 26, 2017. The students were chosen from regions across the world and will... more
Former CIIR Assistant Director and CICS alum, Jamie Callan (Ph.D. '93) received an Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research during the UMass Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences 2017 Outstanding Achievement and Advocacy... more
The IR Lab gathered on November 4, 2016 for a research talk by Damiano Spina, a Research Fellow in the School of Science at RMIT University in Melbourne Australia. Dr. Spina is spending two weeks in the CIIR to collaborate with Distinguished... more
The CIIR paper, "A Deep Relevance Matching Model for Ad-hoc Retrieval," was one of the three top "liked" papers of the first day of CIKM 2016, as identified by social media. The paper was co-authored by Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Qingyao Ai, and W... more