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BRUCE CROFT Distinguished Professor and Chair, 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 |
Department Chair and 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
- Lisa Ballesteros
- Warren Greiff
- Jiwoon Jeon
- Victor Lavrenko
- Dawn Lawrie
- Xiaoyan Li
- Xiaoyong Liu
- Donald Metzler
- Vanessa Murdock
- Jeremy Pickens
- Jay Ponte
- Trevor Strohman
- Xing Wei
- Jinxi Xu
- Yun Zhou