W. Bruce Croft W. BRUCE CROFT

Distinguished University Professor,
Department of Computer Science
and Director, Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval

Department of Computer Science
140 Governors Drive, Box 9264
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003-9264

Office: 202 Computer Science Research Center
Phone:(413) 545-0463
Fax: (413) 545-1789
Email: croft@cs.umass.edu



Faculty member in the Department of Computer Science

Director of the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval.

Research interests:  Information retrieval and digital libraries.

Some Recent Publications:
  • Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice, Addison Wesley, 2009.
  • Jeon, J., Croft, W.B., Lee, J. and Park, S. , "A Framework to Predict the Quality of Answers with Non-Textual Features," to appear in the Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), 2006.
  • Wei, X. and Croft, W.B., "LDA-Based Document Models for Ad-hoc Retrieval," to appear in the Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), 2006.
  • Jeon, J., Croft, W.B. and Lee, J., "Finding Similar Questions in Large Question and Answer Archives," in the Proceedings of ACM Fourteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2005) , pp. 84-90, 2005.
  • Strohman, T., Turtle, H. and Croft, W.B., "Optimization Strategies for Complex Queries," in the Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR '05), pp. 219-225, 2005.
  • Metzler, D. and Croft, W.B., "A Markov Random Field Model for Term Dependencies," in the Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR '05), pp. 472-479, 2005.
  • Metzler, D., Bernstein, Y., Croft, W.B., Moffat, A. and Zobel, J., "Similarity Measures for Tracking Information Flow," in the Proceedings of the ACM Fourteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2005), pp. 517-524, 2005.


Selected Publications


Awards, etc.:

  • ACM SIGIR Salton Award, 2003
  • ASIST Research Award, 2000
  • ACM Fellow, 1996
Recent Ph.D. Students:
  • Jiwoon Jeon
  • Victor Lavrenko
  • Dawn Lawrie
  • Xiaoyan Li
  • Xiaoyong Liu
  • Donald Metzler
  • Vanessa Murdock
  • Trevor Strohman
  • Xing Wei
  • Yun Zhou

Biography