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It is with great sadness that we announce that Michael Zarozinski passed away unexpectedly on December 9, 2019. Michael was a Senior Software Engineer who has been working in the CIIR (including IESL) since 2013. He will be greatly missed. To... more
Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) researchers within the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences are providing a dataset that consists of Swahili and Somali queries translated from the... more
At the ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2019) held in Santa Clara, CA in October, CIIR researchers received a best full paper award and a best short paper honorable mention.
CIIR doctoral... more
A number of our CIIR alums from the Silicon Valley gathered for an evening social with current CIIR researchers and CIIR alums who were attending ICTIR 2019 in Santa Clara, CA.
Pictured at the event: Front row (l. to r.): Hamed “Rab”... more