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2007
IR-529: (2007) Kanani, P. H., McCallum, A. K., and Pal, C., "Improving Author Coreference by Resource-bounded Information Gathering from the Web," to appear in the Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 07) Hyderabad, India, January 6-12, 2007. [ View Abstract ]
2006
IR-532: (2006) Yun Zhou, Bruce Croft, "Ranking Robustness: A Novel Framework to Predict Query Performance," to appear in ACM 15th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2006). [ View Abstract ]
IR-531: (2006) Li, X., "Sentence Level Information Patterns for Novelty Detection," Ph.D. dissertation. [ View Abstract ]
IR-530: (2006) Bekkerman, R., Raghavan, H., Allan, J., and Eguchi, K., "Active Clustering of Text Collections According to a User-Specified Criterion," to appear in the Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 07) Hyderabad, India, January 6-12, 2007. [ View Abstract ]
IR-528: (2006) Diaz, F., Metzler, D., "Pseudo-Aligned Multilingual Corpora," to appear as a poster presentation in the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 07) Hyderabad, India, January 6-12, 2007. [ View Abstract ]
IR-527: (2006) Petkova, D. and Croft, W.B., "Hierarchical Language Models for Expert Finding in Enterprise Corpora," to appear in the 18th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Washington DC, United States, November 13-15, 2006. [ View Abstract ]
IR-526: (2006) Bekkerman, R., Sahami, M., "Semi-supervised Clustering using Combinatorial MRFs," in Workshop on Learning in Structured Output Spaces, held in conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2006), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2006. [ View Abstract ]
IR-524: (2006) Wang, X., McCallum, A., and Wei, X., "Topical N-grams: Phrase and Topic Discovery, with an Application to Information Retrieval," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-523: (2006) Aron Culotta and Andrew McCallum, "Tractable Learning and Inference with High-Order Representations. ," in an ICML Workshop on Open Problems in Statistical Relational Learning. Pittsburgh, PA. 2006. [ View Abstract ]
IR-521: (2006) Ramesh Nallapati and Chirag Shah, "Evaluating the Quality of Query refinement Suggestions in Information Retrieval," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-519: (2006) Pal, C., Wang, X., Kelm, M., and McCallum, A., "Multi-Conditional Learning for Joint Probability Models with Latent Variables," in as a Workshop at the 19th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Workshop on Advances in Structured Learning for Text and Speech Processing, Whistler British Columbia, Canada. Dec. 9-10, 2005. [ View Abstract ]
IR-517: (2006) McCallum, A., Pal, C., Druck, G., and Wang, X., "Multi-Conditional Learning: Generative/Discriminative Training for Clustering and Classification," in in the Proceedings of AAAI '06: American Association for Artificial Intelligence National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 433-439. [ View Abstract ]
IR-516: (2006) Wang, X., Mohanty, N., and McCallum, A., "Group and Topic Discovery from Relations and Their Attributes," in the Proceedings of NIPS 2005, pp. 1449-1456. [ View Abstract ]
IR-514: (2006) Wang, X., and McCallum, A., "Topics over Time: A Non-Markov Continuous-Time Model of Topical Trends," in the Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp. 424-433. [ View Abstract ]
IR-513: (2006) Li, W., Wang, X. and McCallum, A., "A Continuous-Time Model of Topic Co-occurrence Trends," in the Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 48-53.
IR-512: (2006) Li, W. and McCallum, A., "Pachinko Allocation: DAG-Structured Mixture Models of Topic Correlations," in the Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2006), pp. 577-584. [ View Abstract ]
IR-511: (2006) Bellare, K., and McCallum, A., "Learning Information Extractors by Aligning Databases with Unlabeled Text," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-508: (2006) Eguchi, K. and Croft, W.B., "Boosting Relevance Model Performance with Query Term Dependence," to appear as a poster presentation in ACM 15th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2006), Arlington, VA, USA, November 6-11, 2006. [ View Abstract ]
IR-506: (2006) James Allan, "HARD Track Overview in TREC 2005: High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents," to appear in the Proceedings of TREC 2006, Gaithersburg, MD, November 2006. [ View Abstract ]
IR-505: (2006) Shah, C,,Croft, W.B., and Jensen, D., "Representing Documents with Named Entities for Story Link Detection (SLD)," to appear as a poster presentation in at ACM Fifteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2006. Arlington VA, USA. November 6-11, 2006. [ View Abstract ]
IR-503: (2006) Strohman, T. and Croft, W.B., "Low Latency Index Maintenance in Indri," in in the Proceedings of the Open Source Information Retrieval Workshop (OSIR) 2006, pp. 7-11. [ View Abstract ]
IR-501: (2006) Mann, G.S., "Cascaded Information Synthesis for Timeline Construction," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-500: (2006) Vanessa Murdock, Diane Kelly, W. Bruce Croft, Nicholas J. Belkin and Xiaojun Yuan, "Identifying and Improving Retrieval for Procedural Questions," in Information Processing & Management Volume 43 no. 1, pages 181-203. January 2007. [ View Abstract ]
IR-499: (2006) Bekkerman, R., Sahami, M., Learned-Miller, E., "Combinatorial Markov Random Fields," in the Proceedings of the 17th European Conferenceon Machine Learning (ECML 2006), pp. 30-41. [ View Abstract ]
IR-498: (2006) Eguchi, E. and Lavrenko, V., "Sentiment Retrieval using Generative Models," in the Proceedings of 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing(EMNLP 2006), pp.345 - 354. [ View Abstract ]
IR-496: (2006) Culotta, A. and McCallum, A., "Practical Markov logic containing first-order quantifiers with application to identity uncertainty," in the Proceedings of HLT Workshop on Computationally Hard Problems and Joint Inference in Speech and Language Processing, pp.41-48. [ View Abstract ]
IR-495: (2006) Wick, Michael, Culotta, Aron and McCallum, Andrew, "Learning Field Compatibilities to Extract Database Records from Unstructured Text," in the Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing(EMNLP 2006), pp. 603--611. [ View Abstract ]
IR-494: (2006) Aron Culotta and Andrew McCallum and Jonathan Betz, "Integrating Probabilistic Extraction Models and Data Mining to Discover Relations and Patterns in Text," in the Proceedings of HLT 2006, pp.296-303. [ View Abstract ]
IR-493: (2006) Liu, X. and Croft, W. B., "Representing Clusters for Retrieval," a poster presentation, in the Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), pp. 671-672. [ View Abstract ]
IR-492: (2006) Liu, X., "Cluster-based retrieval from a language-modeling perspective," in the Doctoral Consortium of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), abstract in Proceedings pp.737-738. [ View Abstract ]
IR-491: (2006) Metzler, D., and Croft, W.B., "Beyond Bags of Words: Modeling Implicit User Preferences in Information Retrieval," in the electronic proceedings of AAAI'06 Nectar Track conference. [ View Abstract ]
MM-489: (2006) Feng, S.L., and Manmatha, R, "A Hierarchical, HMM-based Automatic Evaluation of OCR Accuracy for a Digital Library of Books," in the Proceedings of JCDL 06, pp. 109-118. [ View Abstract ]
MM-488: (2006) Feng, S.L., Manmatha, R, and McCallum A., "Exploring the Use of Conditional Random Field Models and HMMs for Historical Handwritten Document Recognition," in the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Document Image Analysis for Libraries (DIAL 06), pp. 30-37. [ View Abstract ]
IR-487: (2006) Carterette, B. and Petkova, D., "Learning a Ranking from Pairwise Preferences," a poster presentation, in the Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), pp. 629-630. [ View Abstract ]
IR-486: (2006) Feng, A. and Allan, J., "Combining Evidence from Homologous Datasets," in the Proceedings the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006) Workshop, pp. 4-7. [ View Abstract ]
IR-485: (2006) Kumaran, G. and Allan, J., "Simple Questions to Improve Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Results," a poster presentation, in the Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), pp. 661-662. [ View Abstract ]
IR-484: (2006) Metzler, D. and Croft, W., "Modeling Query Term Dependencies in Information Retrieval with Markov Random Fields," in NESCAI 2006, April 28-29, 2006, Ithaca, NY. [ View Abstract ]
IR-483: (2006) Smucker, M.D. and Allan, J., "Lightening the Load of Document Smoothing for Better Language Modeling Retrieval," a poster presentation, in the Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), pp. 699-700. [ View Abstract ]
IR-482: (2006) Bekkerman, R., Zilberstein, S. and Allan, J., "Web Page Clustering using Multi-Agent Heuristic Search in the Web Graph," to appear in the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 07) Hyderabad, India, January 6-12, 2007. [ View Abstract ]
IR-481: (2006) Diaz, F. and Allan, J., "When Less is More: Relevance Feedback Falls Short and Term Expansion Succeeds at HARD 2005," in the Online Proceedings of 2005 Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2005). For an earlier version, see IR-453. [ View Abstract ]
IR-480: (2006) Metzler, D., Strohman, T., Zhou, Y. and Croft, W.B., "Indri at TREC 2005: Terabyte Track," in the Online Proceedings of 2005 Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2005). For an earlier version, see IR-449. [ View Abstract ]
IR-479: (2006) Metzler, D., Diaz, F., Strohman, T. and Croft, W.B., "Using Mixtures of Relevance Models for Query Expansion," in the Online Proceedings of 2005 Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2005). For an earlier version, see IR-450. [ View Abstract ]
IR-477: (2006) Eguchi, K. and Croft, W.B., "Query Structuring with Two-stage Term Dependence in the Japanese Language," in Information Retrieval Technology: Third Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2006, Singapore, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.4182, pp.522- 529, Springer (to appear in Oct. 2006). [ View Abstract ]
IR-476: (2006) Mann, G., Mimno, D. and McCallum, A., "Bibliometric Impact Measures Leveraging Topic Analysis," in the Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, pp. 65-74. [ View Abstract ]
IR-475: (2006) Carterette, B., Allan, J. and Sitaraman, R., "Minimal Test Collections for Retrieval Evaluation," in the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), pp. 268-283. [ View Abstract ]
IR-473: (2006) Lavrenko, V. and Allan, J., "Real-time Query Expansion in Relevance Models," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-471: (2006) Li, X. and Croft, W.B., "Improving Novelty Detection for General Topics Using Sentence Level Information Patterns," to appear in ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), November 6-11, 2006, Arlington, VA. [ View Abstract ]
IR-470: (2006) Smucker, M.D. and Allan, J., "Find-Similar: Similarity Browsing as a Search Tool," in the Proceedings of SIGIR 2006, pp. 461-468. [ View Abstract ]
IR-469: (2006) Jeon, J., Croft, W.B., Lee, J. and Park, S. , "A Framework to Predict the Quality of Answers with Non-Textual Features," in the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), pp. 228-235. [ View Abstract ]
IR-468: (2006) Diaz, F. and Metzler, D., "Improving the Estimation of Relevance Models Using Large External Corpora," in the Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), pp. 154-161. [ View Abstract ]
IR-467: (2006) Metzler, D., "Estimation, Sensitivity, and Generalization in Parameterized Retrieval Models," to appear as a poster presentation in CIKM 2006, Arlington, VA, November 6-11, 2006. [ View Abstract ]
IR-465: (2006) Sutton, C. and McCallum, A., "An Introduction to Conditional Random Fields for Relational Learning," to appear in Introduction to Statistical Relational Learning. Edited by Lise Getoor and Ben Taskar. MIT Press. 2006.
IR-464: (2006) Wei, X. and Croft, W.B., "LDA-Based Document Models for Ad-hoc Retrieval," in the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), pp. 178-185. [ View Abstract ]
IR-463: (2006) Raghavan, H., Madani, O. and Jones, R., "Active Learning on Both Features and Documents," in the Journal of Machine Learning Research, August 2006, v. 7, pp. 1655-1686. [ View Abstract ]
IR-457: (2006) Sutton, C., Pal, C. and McCallum, A., "Sparse forward-backward using minimum divergence beams for fast training of conditional random fields," in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), v. 5 pp. 581-584. [ View Abstract ]
2005
IR-515: (2005) Wang, X., and McCallum, A., "A Note on Topical N-grams," UMass Technical Report UM-CS-2005-071. [ View Abstract ]
IR-462: (2005) Sutton, C., Sindelar, M. and McCallum, A., "Reducing Weight Undertraining in Structured Discriminative Learning," in the Proceedings of HLT/NAACL 2006, New York City,pp.89-95. [ View Abstract ]
IR-459: (2005) Raghavan, H. and Allan, J., "Passage Feedback for News Tracking," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
MM-458: (2005) Feng, S.L. and Manmatha, R., "Classification Models for Historical Manuscript Recognition," in the Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) 2005, pp. 528-532. [ View Abstract ]
IR-456: (2005) Sutton, C., Pal, C. and McCallum, A., "Sparse Forward-Backward for Fast Training of Conditional Random Fields," a poster presentation, in NIPS 2005 Workshop on Structured Learning for Text and Speech Processing. Vancouver, 2005. [ View Abstract ]
MM-454: (2005) Rothfeder, J., Rath, T.M. and Manmatha, R., "Aligning Transcripts to Automatically Segmented Handwritten Manuscripts," in the Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, DAS'06, pp. 84-95. [ View Abstract ]
IR-453: (2005) Diaz, F. and Allan, J., "When Less is More: Relevance Feedback Falls Short and Term Expansion Succeeds at HARD 2005 (Notebook Version) ," in the Notebook Proceedings of Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2005) pp. 833-838. [ View Abstract ]
IR-452: (2005) Eguchi, K., "NTCIR-5 Query Expansion Experiments using Term Dependence Models," in the Proceedings of the Fifth NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering and Cross-Lingual Information Access, Tokyo, Japan, December 2005, pp.494-501. [ View Abstract ]
IR-450: (2005) Metzler, D., Diaz, F., Strohman, T. and Croft, W.B., "UMass Robust 2005 Notebook: Using Mixture of Relevance Models for Query Expansion," in the TREC 2005 Notebook, pp. 839-840. [ View Abstract ]
IR-449: (2005) Metzler, D., Strohman, T., Zhou, Y. and Croft, W.B., "Indri at TREC 2005: Terabyte Track (Notebook Version)," in the TREC 2005 Notebook, pp. 175-180. [ View Abstract ]
IR-447: (2005) McCallum, A., "Information Extraction: Distilling Structured Data from Unstructured Text," in ACM Queue. Vol 3, No 9, November 2005, pp. 48-57. [ View Abstract ]
IR-446: (2005) Allan, J., Croft, W.B. and Callan, J., "The University of Massachusetts and a Dozen TRECs," in TREC Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval, Ellen M. Voorhees and Donna K. Harman, ed., MIT Press, chapter 11, pp. 261-286. (Online version not available.)
IR-445: (2005) Smucker, M.D., Kulp D. and Allan, J., "Dirichlet Mixtures for Query Estimation in Information Retrieval," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
MM-444: (2005) Rath, Toni M., "Retrieval of Handwritten Historical Document Images," Ph.D. dissertation. [ View Abstract ]
IR-443: (2005) Culotta, A. and McCallum, A., "A Conditional Model of Deduplication for Multi-type Relational Data ," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-442: (2005) 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), pp. 84-90. [ View Abstract ]
IR-441: (2005) Carterette, B. and Allan, J., "Incremental Test Collections," in the Proceedings of ACM Fourteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp. 680-687. [ View Abstract ]
IR-439: (2005) Murdock, V. and Croft, W.B., "A Translation Model for Sentence Retrieval," in Proceedings of the Conference on Human Language Technologies and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP), pp. 684-691. [ View Abstract ]
IR-438: (2005) Wang, X., Mohanty, N. and McCallum, A., "Group and Topic Discovery from Relations and Text," in the Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Workshop on Link Discovery: Issues, Approaches and Applications(LinkKDD), pp. 28-35. [ View Abstract ]
IR-437: (2005) McCallum, A., Bellare, K. and Pereira, F., "A Conditional Random Field for Discriminatively-trained Finite-state String Edit Distance," in the Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Uncertainty in AI (UAI-2005), pp. 388-395. [ View Abstract ]
IR-436: (2005) Raghavan, H. and Allan, J., "Matching Inconsistently Spelled Names in Automatic Speech Recognizer Output for Information Retrieval," in the Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP 2005, pp. 451,458. [ View Abstract ]
IR-435: (2005) Li, X. and Croft, W.B., "Novelty Detection Based on Sentence Level Patterns," in the Proceedings of ACM Fourteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp. 744-751. [ View Abstract ]
IR-434: (2005) McCallum, A., Wang, X. and Pal, C., "Predictive Random Fields: Multiway Conditional Probability Models for Clustering," CIIR Technical Report, CmpSci Technical Report UM-CS-2005-053. [ View Abstract ]
IR-433: (2005) Pal, C., Sutton, C. and McCallum, A., "Fast Inference and Learning With Sparse Belief Propagation," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-432: (2005) Zhou, Y. and Croft, W.B., "Document Quality Models for Web Ad Hoc Retrieval," a poster presentation, in the Proceedings of CIKM 2005, pp. 331-334. A longer version is also available. [ View Abstract ]
IR-431: (2005) Liu, X., Croft, W.B. and Koll, M., "Finding Experts in Community-based Question-Answering Services," a poster presentation, in the Proceedings of CIKM 2005, pp.315-318. [ View Abstract ]
IR-430: (2005) Culotta, A. and McCallum, A., "Practical Markov Logic Containing First-Order Quantifiers with Application to Identity Uncertainty," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-429: (2005) Metzler, D., Croft, W.B., and McCallum, A., "Direct Maximization of Rank-Based Metrics for Information Retrieval," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-428: (2005) Diaz, F., "Regularizing Ad Hoc Retrieval Scores," in the Proceedings of CIKM 2005, pp. 672-679. [ View Abstract ]
IR-427: (2005) Bekkerman, R., El-Yaniv, R., and McCallum, A., "Multi-Way Distributional Clustering via Pairwise Interactions," in the Proceedings of ICML 2005 conference, pp.41-48. [ View Abstract ]
IR-426: (2005) Strohman, T., "Dynamic Collections in Indri," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-425: (2005) Metzler, D., "Direct Maximization of Rank-based Metrics (draft version)," CIIR Technical report in progress. [ View Abstract ]
IR-424: (2005) Croft, W.B. and Wei, X., "Context-Based Topic Models for Query Modification," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-423: (2005) Sutton, C. and McCallum, A., "Joint Parsing and Semantic Role Labeling," in the Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, pp. 225-228. [ View Abstract ]
IR-422: (2005) Larkey, L., Ballesteros, L., and Connell, M., "Light Stemming for Arabic Information Retrieval," to appear in Arabic Computational Morphology: Knowledge-based and Empirical Methods, A.Soudi, A. van den Bosch, and Neumann, G., Editors. Kluwer/Springer's series on Text, Speech, and Language Technology. [ View Abstract ]
IR-421: (2005) Metzler, D., Bernstein, Y., Croft, W.B., Moffat, A. and Zobel, J., "Similarity Measures for Tracking Information Flow," in the Proceedings of CIKM 2005, pp. 517-524. [ View Abstract ]
IR-420: (2005) Metzler, D., Bernstein, Y., Croft, W.B., Moffat, A. and Zobel, J., "The Recap System for Identifying Information Flow," in Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR 2005), a demonstration, 678-678, 2005. [ View Abstract ]
IR-419: (2005) Culotta, A., Kulp, D. and McCallum, A., "Gene prediction with conditional random fields," CIIR Technical Report, April, 2005. [ View Abstract ]
IR-418: (2005) Bekkerman, R., McCallum, A. and Huang, G., "Automatic Categorization of Email into Folders: Benchmark Experiments on Enron and SRI Corpora," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-417: (2005) Li, W., "Semi-Supervised Sequence Modeling with Syntactic Topic Models," in the Proceedings of the 12th Conference on AI, pp. 813-818. [ View Abstract ]
IR-416: (2005) Strohman, T., Metzler, D., Turtle, H. and Croft, W.B., "Indri: A language model-based search engine for complex queries," in the online proceedings at https://analysis.mitre.org/proceedings_agenda.htm#demos, presented as a poster at the International Conference on Intelligence Analysis, McLean, VA, May 2-6, 2005.
IR-415: (2005) Sutton, C. and McCallum, A., "Piecewise Training for Undirected Models," in the Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence UAU 2005), pp. 568-575. [ View Abstract ]
IR-414: (2005) Culotta, A. and McCallum, A., "Reducing labeling effort for structured prediction tasks," a poster presentation, in the Proceedings of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI05) pp. 746-751. [ View Abstract ]
IR-413: (2005) Sutton, C. and McCallum, A., "Composition of Conditional Random Fields for Transfer Learning," in the Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP 2005, pp. 748-754. [ View Abstract ]
IR-412: (2005) Zhou, Y., Levine, Y. and Croft, W.B., "Distributed Information Retrieval For Disruption-Tolerant Mobile Networks," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-411: (2005) Culotta, A. and McCallum, A., "Joint Deduplication of Multiple Record Types in Relational Data," a poster presentation, in the Proceedings of ACM Fourteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp. 257-258. [ View Abstract ]
IR-410: (2005) Jeon, J., Croft, W.B. and Lee, J., "Finding Semantically Similar Questions Based on Their Answers," a poster presentation, in the Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, pp. 617-618. [ View Abstract ]
MM-409: (2005) Rath, Toni M. and Manmatha, R., "Word Spotting for Historical Documents," to appear in the International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR). [ View Abstract ]
IR-408: (2005) Bekkerman, R. and Allan, J., "Using Bigrams in Text Categorization,," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-407: (2005) Strohman, T., Metzler, D., Turtle, H. and Croft, W.B., "Indri: A language-model based search engine for complex queries (extended version)," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-406: (2005) McCallum, A., Corrada-Emmanuel, A. and Wang, X., "Topic and Role Discovery in Social Networks," in the Proceedings of Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp.786-791. [ View Abstract ]
IR-405: (2005) Abdul-Jaleel, N., Allan, J., Croft, W.B., Diaz, F., Larkey, L., Li, X., Smucker, M., and Wade, C., "UMass at TREC 2004: Novelty and HARD," in the Online Proceedings of 2004 Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2004) http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec13/t13_proceedings.html [ View Abstract ]
IR-404: (2005) Ghamrawi, N. and McCallum. A., "Collective Multi-label Classification," in the Proceedings of CIKM 2005,pp. 195-200. [ View Abstract ]
IR-403: (2005) Sutton, C. and McCallum, A., "Fast, Piecewise Training for Discriminative Finite-state and Parsing Models," EMNLP 2005, Vancouver, Canada, October 6-8, 2005. [ View Abstract ]
IR-401: (2005) Li, X. and Croft, W.B., "Improving the Robustness of Relevance-Based Language Models," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-400: (2005) Raghavan, H., Madani, O. and Jones, R., "InterActive Feature Selection," in the Proceedings of IJCAI-05, pp. 841-846. [ View Abstract ]
MM-399: (2005) Howe, Nicholas R., Rath, Toni M. and Manmatha, R., "Boosted Decision Trees for Word Recognition in Handwritten Document Retrieval," in the Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR2005), pp. 377-383. [ View Abstract ]
IR-398: (2005) Metzler, D., Strohman T., Turtle H., and Croft, W.B., "Indri at TREC 2004: Terabyte Track," in the Online Proceedings of 2004 Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2004). [ View Abstract ]
MM-397: (2005) Iyengar, G., Duygulu, P., Feng, S.L., Ircing, P., Klakow, D., Khudanpur, S., Krause, M., Manmatha, R. and Virga, P., "Joint Visual-Text Modeling for Automatic Retrieval of Multimedia Documents," in the Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2005, pp. 21-30. [ View Abstract ]
IR-396: (2005) Wade, C. and Allan, J., "Passage Retrieval and Evaluation," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-395: (2005) Allan, J., Carterette, B. and Lewis, J., "When Will Information Retrieval Be "Good Enough?": User Effectiveness as a Function of Retrieval Accuracy," in the Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, pp. 433-440. [ View Abstract ]
IR-394: (2005) Strohman, T., Turtle, H. and Croft, W.B., "Optimization Strategies for Complex Queries," in the Proceedings of SIGIR 2005, pp. 219-225. [ View Abstract ]
IR-393: (2005) Kumaran, G., Jones, R. and Madani, O., "Biasing Web Search Results for Topic Familiarity," a poster presentation, in ACM Fourteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) , pp. 271-272. A longer version is also available. [ View Abstract ]
IR-392: (2005) Kumara, G. and Allan, J., "Using Names and Topics for New Event Detection," in the Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference/Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pp. 121-128. [ View Abstract ]
IR-390: (2005) Diaz, F., Smucker, M.D. and Allan, J., "High Precision Retrieval via User Interaction and Metadata," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-389: (2005) Feng, A., and Allan, J., "Hierarchical Topic Detection in TDT-2004," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-387: (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. [ View Abstract ]
MM-385: (2005) Chang, S.-F., Manmatha, R. and Chua, T.-S., "Combining Text and Audio-Visual Features in Video Indexing," in the Proceedings of ICASSP'05, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005, electronic proceedings only. [ View Abstract ]
IR-382: (2005) Bekkerman, R. and McCallum, A., "Disambiguating Web Appearances of People in a Social Network," in the Proceedings of the 14th International World Wide Web Conference 2005, pp.463-470. [ View Abstract ]
MM-380: (2005) Mohanty, Natasha, Rath, Toni M., Lee, Audrey and Manmatha, R., "Learning Shapes for Classification and Retrieval," in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), pp. 589-598. [ View Abstract ]
IR-377: (2005) Welling, M. and Sutton, C., "Learning in Markov Random Fields with Contrastive Free Energies," in the online proceedings of AISTATS 2005, January 6-8, Barbados. [ View Abstract ]
IR-365: (2005) Allan, J., Harding, S., Fisher, D., Bolivar, A., Guzman-Lara, S. and Amstutz, P., "Taking Topic Detection From Evaluation to Practice," in CD Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 3-6 January 2005, p. 101 (abstract). [ View Abstract ]
IR-361: (2005) Raghavan, H. and Allan, J., "Proper Names and their Spelling Variations in Automatic Speech recognition output," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
2004
MM-386: (2004) Kornfield, E.M., Manmatha, R., and Allan, J., "Further Explorations in Text Alignment with Handwritten Documents," to appear in IJDAR Journal. [ View Abstract ]
IR-384: (2004) Weinman, J., Hanson, A. and McCallum, A., "Sign Detection in Natural Images with Conditional Random Fields," in the Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, São Luís, Brazil, Sep. 2004. [ View Abstract ]
IR-383: (2004) McCallum, A. and Sutton, C., "Piecewise Training with Parameter Independence Diagrams: Comparing Globally- and Locally-trained Linear-chain CRFs," in CIIR Technical Report; presented at NIPS 2004 Workshop on Learning with Structured Outputs. [ View Abstract ]
IR-381: (2004) McCallum, A., Corrada-Emmanuel, A. and Wang, X., "The Author-Recipient-Topic Model for Topic and Role Discovery in Social Networks," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-379: (2004) Allan, J, "HARD Track Overview in TREC 2004 (Notebook): High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents," in the Online Proceedings of 2004 Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2004) http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec13/t13_proceedings.html. [ View Abstract ]
IR-378: (2004) Abdul-Jaleel, N., Allan, J., Croft, W.B., Diaz, F., Larkey, L., Li, X., Metzler, D., Smucker, M., Strohman, T., Turtle, H. and Wade, C., "UMass at TREC 2004: Notebook ," in Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2004).
IR-376: (2004) Sutton, C. and McCallum, A., "Collective Segmentation and Labeling of Distant Entities in Information Extraction," in CmpSci Technical Report TR # 04-49, University of Massachusetts, July 2004. Presented at ICML Workshop on Statistical Relational Learning and Its Connections to Other Fields. Banff, Canada. [ View Abstract ]
IR-375: (2004) Cronen-Townsend, S., Zhou, Y. and Croft, W.B., "A Framework for Selective Query Expansion," a poster presentation, in the Proceedings of CIKM'04, pp.236-237. [ View Abstract ]
IR-374: (2004) Culotta, A., Bekkerman, R. and McCallum, A., "Extracting social networks and contact information from email and the Web," in the electronic Proceedings of the First Conference on Email and Spam (CEAS), http://www.ceas.cc/. [ View Abstract ]
MM-373: (2004) Manmatha, R., Feng, S. and R., Lavrenko, V., "Associating Words and Pictures Using Relevance Models," submitted to the Journal of Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. [ View Abstract ]
IR-372: (2004) Corrada-Emmanuel, A. and Croft, W.B., "Answer Models for Question Answering Passage Retrieval," a poster presentation, in the Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, pp. 516-517. [ View Abstract ]
IR-371: (2004) Cronen-Townsend, S., Zhou, Y., and Croft W.B., "Precision Prediction Based on Ranked List Coherence," to appear in the journal Information Retrieval. [ View Abstract ]
IR-370: (2004) Lavrenko, V., "A Generative Theory of Relevance," Ph.D. dissertation. [ View Abstract ]
IR-369: (2004) Raghavan, H., Allan, J. and McCallum, A., "An Exploration of Entity Models, Collective Classification and Relation Description," in Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Link Analysis and Group Detection, LinkKDD2004, August 22, 2004 in conjunction with the tenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Seattle, WA, USA, pp 1-10. [ View Abstract ]
MM-368: (2004) Jeon, Jiwoon and Manmatha, R., "Automatic Image Annotation of News Images with Large Vocabularies and Low Quality Training Data ," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-367: (2004) Zhou, Y., Croft, W.B. and Levine, B., "Content-based search in peer-to-peer networks ," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-366: (2004) Murdock, V. and Croft, W. B. , "Simple Translation Models for Sentence Retrieval in Factoid Question Answering," in the Proceedings of the SIGIR Workshop on Information Retrieval for Question Answering, pp.31-35. [ View Abstract ]
IR-364: (2004) Wei, X., Croft, W.B. and McCallum, A., "Table Extraction for Question Answering," the Journal of Information Retrieval, November, 2006, vol. 9, Number 5, pp. 589-611. [ View Abstract ]
IR-363: (2004) Peng, F., Feng, F. and McCallum, A., "Chinese Segmentation and New Word Detection using Conditional Random Fields," in Proceedings of The 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2004), pp. 562-568. [ View Abstract ]
IR-362: (2004) Kumaran, G., Allan, J. and McCallum, A., "Classification Models for New Event Detection," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-360: (2004) Nallapati, R., Feng, A., Peng, F. and Allan, J. , "Event Threading within News Topics," in the Proceedings of CIKM 2004 conference, pp. 446-453. [ View Abstract ]
IR-359: (2004) Li, X. and Croft, W. B., "An Answer Updating Approach to Novelty Detection," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-358: (2004) Pickens, J., "Harmonic Modeling for Polyphonic Music Retrieval," Ph.D. dissertation. [ View Abstract ]
IR-357: (2004) Connell, M., Feng, A., Kumaran, G., Raghavan, H., Shah, C. and Allan, J., "UMass at TDT 2004," in the Proceedings of TDT 2004, Gaithersburg, MD. [ View Abstract ]
IR-356: (2004) Allan, J., Aslam, J., Belkin, N., Buckley, C., Callan, J., Croft, W.B., Dumais, S., Fuhr, N., Harman, D., Harper, D., Hiemstra, D., Hofmann, T., Hovy, E., Kraaij, W., Lafferty, J., Lavrenko, V., Lewis, D., Liddy, L., Manmatha, R., McCallum, A., Ponte, J., Prager, J., Radev, D., Resnik, P., Robertson, S., Rosenfeld, R., Roukos, S., Sanderson, M., Schwartz, R., Singhal, A., Smeaton, A., Turtle, H., Voorhees,E., Weischedel, R., Xu, J. and Zhai, C., "Challenges in Information Retrieval Language Modeling," in SIGIR Forum Spring 2003, Volume 37 Number 1.
MM-355: (2004) Jeon, Jiwoon and Manmatha, R., "Using Maximum Entropy for Automatic Image Annotation," in the Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, pp. 24-32, 2004.
IR-353: (2004) Culotta, A. and McCallum, A., "Confidence Estimation for Information Extraction," in the Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2004, presented as a poster, pp. 109-112. [ View Abstract ]
IR-352: (2004) Metzler, D., Lavrenko, V., and Croft, W. B., "Formal Multiple-Bernoulli Models for Language Modeling," in the Proceedings of SIGIR '04, pp. 540-541, presented as a poster. [ View Abstract ]
IR-351: (2004) Liu, X., Croft, W.B., Oh, P. and Hart, D., "Automatic Recognition of Reading Levels from User Queries," in Proceedings of SIGIR '04, pp. 548-549, presented a poster. [ View Abstract ]
IR-350: (2004) Raghavan, H. and Allan, J., "Using Soundex Codes for indexing ASR documents," in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Speech Indexing and Retrieval at HLT-NAACL 2004, pp. 22-27. [ View Abstract ]
IR-349: (2004) Wei, X., Croft, W.B. and Pinto, D., "Question Answering Performance on Table Data," in the National Conference on Digital Government Research (Dg.O 2004), pp. 415-416. [ View Abstract ]
IR-348: (2004) Sutton,C., Rohanimanesh, K.and McCallum, A., "Dynamic Conditional Random Fields: Factorized Probabilistic Models for Labeling and Segmenting Sequence Data ," in the Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 783-790. [ View Abstract ]
IR-347: (2004) Liu, X., and Croft, W. B., "Cluster-Based Retrieval Using Language Models," in the Proceedings of SIGIR '04, pp. 186-193. [ View Abstract ]
MM-346: (2004) Metzler, D., and Manmatha, R., "An Inference Network Approach to Image Retrieval," in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR-2004), pp. 42-50. [ View Abstract ]
IR-345: (2004) Nallapati, R., Allan, J. and Mahadevan, S., "Extraction of Key-Words from News Stories," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-344: (2004) Shah, C., and Croft, W. B., "Evaluating High Accuracy Retrieval Techniques," in the Proceedings of SIGIR '04, pp. 2-9. [ View Abstract ]
IR-343: (2004) Larkey, L., Feng, F., Connell, M. and Lavrenko, V., "Language-specific Models in Multilingual Topic Tracking," in the Proceedings of SIGIR '04, pp. 402-409. [ View Abstract ]
IR-342: (2004) Raghavan,H. and Allan, J., "Evaluating Entity Models on the TREC Question Answering Task," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
MM-341: (2004) Rath, T., Manmatha, R. and Lavrenko, V., "A Search Engine for Historical Manuscript Images," in the Proceedings of SIGIR '04, Sheffield, England, pp. 369-376.
IR-340: (2004) Kumaran, G. and Allan, J., "Text Classification and Named Entities for New Event Detection," in the Proceedings of SIGIR '04, pp. 297-304. [ View Abstract ]
IR-339: (2004) Nallapati, R., "Discriminative models for Information Retrieval," in the Proceedings of SIGIR '04, pp. 64-71. [ View Abstract ]
IR-338: (2004) Cronen-Townsend, S., Zhou, Y. and Croft, W.B., "A Language Modeling Framework for Selective Query Expansion.," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-337: (2004) Wei, X., Croft, W.B. and Pinto, D., "Answer Retrieval From Extracted Tables," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-336: (2004) Diaz, F. and Jones, R., "Using Temporal Profiles of Queries for Precision Prediction," in the Proceedings of SIGIR '04, Sheffield, pp. 18-24. [ View Abstract ]
IR-335: (2004) Kristjansson, T., Culotta, A., Viola, P. and McCallum, A., "Interactive Information Extraction with Constrained Conditional Random Fields," in the Proceedings of the Sixteenth Innovative Applications of AI Conference (AAAI 2004),pp. 412-418. [ View Abstract ]
MM-333: (2004) Feng, S.L., Manmatha, R. and Lavrenko, V., "Multiple Bernoulli Relevance Models for Image and Video Annotation," in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2004), vol. II, pp. 1002-1009. [ View Abstract ]
IR-331: (2004) Wang, S., Schuurmans, D., Peng, F. and Zhao, Y., "Learning Mixture Models with the Regularized Latent Maximum Entropy Principle ," in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Vol. 15, No. 4, pages 903 - 916. [ View Abstract ]
IR-330: (2004) Huang, X., Peng, F., An, A. and Schuurmans, D., "Dynamic Web Log Session Identification with Statistical Language Models," to appear in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) , Special Issue on Webometrics (2004). [ View Abstract ]
IR-329: (2004) Peng, F. and McCallum, A., "Accurate Information Extraction from Research Papers using Conditional Random Fields," in Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 04, Boston, Massachusetts, pp. 329-336.
MM-325: (2004) Lavrenko, V., Feng, S.L. and Manmatha, R., "Statistical Models for Automatic Video Annotation and Retrieval," in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing,(ICASSP), Montreal, QC, Canada, (electronic proceedings). [ View Abstract ]
MM-319: (2004) Lavrenko, V., Rath, T. and Manmatha, R., "Holistic Word Recognition for Handwritten Historical Documents," in the Proceedings of Document Image Analysis for Libraries (DIAL) 2004, pp. 278-287. [ View Abstract ]
IR-318: (2004) Liu, X. and Croft, W.B., "Statistical Language Modeling For Information Retrieval," in the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, vol. 39, pp. 3-31. [ View Abstract ]
IR-307: (2004) McCallum, A. and Wellner, B., "Conditional Models of Identity Uncertainty with Application to Noun Coreference ," in the Proceedings of Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2004 Workshops, abstract on p. 56. [ View Abstract ]
2003
IR-440: (2003) Li, W. and McCallum, A., "Rapid Development of Hindi Named Entity Recognition Using Conditional Random Fields and Feature Induction," in ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, 2003. Volume 2, Issue 3, Pages: 290 - 294. [ View Abstract ]
IR-332: (2003) Wang, S., Schuurmans, D., Peng, F. and Zhao, Y., "Combining Statistical Language Models via the Latent Maximum Entropy Principle," to appear in Machine Learning Journal, Special Issue on Learning Speech and Language Technologies.
MM-328: (2003) Rath. T., Lavrenko, V. and Manmatha, R., "Retrieving Historical Manuscripts using Shape," CIIR Technical Report.
IR-327: (2003) Carterette. B., Allan, J. and Croft, W.B., "Ranking Document Retrieval Systems with BLEU," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-326: (2003) Pickens, J., Bello, J.P., Monti, G., Sandler, M., Crawford, T., Dovey, M. and Byrd, D., "Polyphonic Score Retrieval Using Polyphonic Audio Queries: a Harmonic Modeling Approach," the Journal of New Music Research, vol. 32, number 2, June 2003, pp. 223-236. [ View Abstract ]
IR-323: (2003) Metzler, D. and Croft, W.B., "Analysis of Statistical Question Classification for Fact-based Questions," in Information Retrieval, 8(3), 481-504, 2005. [ View Abstract ]
IR-322: (2003) Allan, J., "HARD Track Overview in TREC 2003 High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents," in Proceedings of TREC 2003, NIST special publication number 500-255, pp. 24-37. [ View Abstract ]
IR-321: (2003) AbdulJaleel, N., Corrada-Emmanuel, A., Li, Q., Liu, X., Wade, C. and Allan, J., "UMass at TREC 2003: HARD and QA (Notebook version) ," in Proceedings of TREC 2003, NIST special publication number 500-255, pp. 715-725. [ View Abstract ]
MM-320: (2003) Kornfield, E.M., Manmatha, R. and Allan, J., "Text Alignment with Handwritten Documents," in the Proceedings of Document Image Analysis for Libraries (DIAL) 2004,pp. 195-209. [ View Abstract ]
IR-317: (2003) Allan, J., Lavrenko, V. and Connell, M., "A Month to Topic Detection and Tracking in Hindi," in ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, pp. 85-100.
IR-316: (2003) Metzler, D. and Croft, W.B., "Combining the Language Model and Inference Network Approaches to Retrieval," in Information Processing and Management Special Issue on Bayesian Networks and Information Retrieval, 40(5), pp.735-750. [ View Abstract ]
IR-315: (2003) Allan, J., Lavrenko, V. and Nallapati, R., "UMass at TDT 2002," in the Notebook Proceedings of TDT 2002 Workshop.
IR-314: (2003) Zhang, H., Croft, W.B. and Levine, B., "Efficient Topologies and Search Algorithms For Peer-to-Peer Context Sharing," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-313: (2003) Lawrie, D., "Language Models for Hierarchical Summarization," in Ph.D. dissertation. [ View Abstract ]
IR-312: (2003) Larkey, L., Connell, M. and AbdulJaleel, N. , "Hindi CLIR in Thirty Days," in the Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing Rapid Development of Language Capabilities: The Surprise Languages, issue editor Douglas W. Oard, pp. 130-142. [ View Abstract ]
IR-311: (2003) Peng, F., Schuurmans, D. and Wang, S., "Augumenting Naive Bayes Text Classifier with Statistical Language Models ," to appear in Information Retrieval Journal, 2003. [ View Abstract ]
IR-310: (2003) Hanna, K., Levine, B. and Manmatha, R. , "Mobile Distributed Information Retrieval For Highly-Partitioned Networks ," to appear in the Proceedings of IEEE ICNP 2003.
IR-309: (2003) Pickens, J., "Tracks and Topics: Ideas for Structuring Music Retrieval Test Collections and Avoiding Balkanization," in the Workshop on the Evaluation of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) Systems, Toronto, Aug 1, 2003. [ View Abstract ]
IR-308: (2003) Raina, R., Shen, Y., Ng, A. and McCallum, A., "Classification with Hybrid Generative/Discriminative Models," in the Proceedings of NIPS ’03 conference, Vancouver at Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, December 9-11, 2003. [ View Abstract ]
IR-306: (2003) McCallum, A. and Jensen, D., "A Note on the Unification of Information Extraction and Data Mining using Conditional-Probability, Relational Models ," in the IJCAI Workshop on Learning Statistical Models from Relational Data, pp. 79-86. [ View Abstract ]
IR-305: (2003) McCallum, A. and Wellner, B., "Toward Conditional Models of Identity Uncertainty with Application to Proper Noun Coreference ," in the Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Information Integration on the Web. [ View Abstract ]
IR-304: (2003) McCallum, Andrew, "Efficiently Inducing Features of Conditional Random Fields ," to appear in the Proceedings of the Conference on Uncertainty Artificial Intelligence (UAI). [ View Abstract ]
IR-303: (2003) McCallum, A. and Li, W., "Early Results for Named Entity Extraction with Conditional Random Fields, Feature Induction and Web-Enhanced Lexicons ," in the Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), pp. 288-191.
IR-302: (2003) Nallapati, R. and Allan, J. , "An Adaptive Local Dependency language Model: Relaxing the Naïve Bayes’ Assumption ," in the Workshop on Mathematical/FormalMethods Information Retrieval held in conjunction with SIGIR 03, Toronto, Canada, Aug 1, 2003.
IR-301: (2003) Nallapati, R., "Semantic Language Models for Topic Detection and Tracking," in HLT-NAACL 2003 Student Research Workshop, pp. 1-6.
IR-300: (2003) Raghavan, H., McCallum, A. and Allan, J., "Using Markov Random Fields for Relational Classification in Social Networks Mined from Text," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-299: (2003) Nallapati, R., Croft, W.B. and Allan, J., "Relevant Query Feedback in Statistical Language Modeling," in CIKM ’03, the Proceedings, pp. 560-563.
IR-298: (2003) Allan, J., Feng, A., and Bolivar, A., "Flexible Intrinsic Evaluation of Hierarchical Clustering for TDT," in CIKM ’03, pp. 263-270. [ View Abstract ]
IR-297: (2003) Li, X. and Croft, W.B., "Time-Based Language Models," in CIKM ’03, pp. 469-475. [ View Abstract ]
IR-296: (2003) Allan, J. and Raghavan, H., "A Probabilistic model of named entities: You are what they say you are," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-295: (2003) Kelly, D., Diaz, F., Belkin, N. and Allan, J., "A User-center Approach to Evaluating Topic Models," in the Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Information Retrieval, 5th - 7th April 2004, University of Sunderland, U.K. [ View Abstract ]
IR-294: (2003) Kinuta, Y., Levine, B. and Manmatha, R., "Server Selection Techniques for Distributed Information Retrieval," CIIR Technical Report.
IR-293: (2003) AbdulJaleel, N. and Larkey, L., "Statistical Transliteration for English-Arabic Cross-Language Information Retrieval," in CIKM ’03, pp. 139-146. [ View Abstract ]
IR-292: (2003) Larkey, L. and Connell, M., "Structured Queries, Language Modeling, and Relevance Modeling in Cross-Language Information Retrieval," IP&M journal. [ View Abstract ]
IR-291: (2003) Lavrenko, V. and Pickens, J., "Music Modeling with Random Fields," in SIGIR ’03 Conference, Toronto, Canada, July 28-August 1, 2003. [ View Abstract ]
IR-290: (2003) Li,X., "Syntactic Features in Question Answering," in SIGIR 03 Conference, pp.455-456 and presented as a poster. [ View Abstract ]
IR-289: (2003) Allan, J. and Kumaran, G., "Stemming in the Language Modeling Framework," in SIGIR 03 Conference, pp.455-456 and presented as a poster. [ View Abstract ]
IR-288: (2003) Pickens, J., "Key-specific Shrinkage Techniques for Harmonic Models," to appear in the Proceedings of ISMIR ’03 Conference, Baltimore, MD, Oct. 26-30, 2003. [ View Abstract ]
IR-287: (2003) Allan, J., "Modeling Topics for Detection and Tracking," in Pattern Recognition Speech and Language Processing, Wu Chou and Biing Hwang Juang, eds., pp. 353-376. CRC Press, 2003. No electronic copy available. [ View Abstract ]
IR-286: (2003) Lavrenko, V. and Croft, W.B., "Relevance Models in Information Retrieval," in Language Modeling for Information Retrieval, W. Bruce Croft and John Lafferty, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, chapter 2. No electronic copy available.
IR-285: (2003) Manmatha, R., "Applications of Score Distributions in Information Retrieval," in Language Modeling for Information Retrieval, W. Bruce Croft and John Lafferty, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, chapter 8. No electronic copy available.
IR-284: (2003) Allan, J. and Kumaran, G., "Details on Stemming in the Language Modeling Framework," in CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-283: (2003) Corrada-Emmanuel, A., Croft, W. B. and Murdock, V., "Answer Passage Retrieval for Question Answering," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-282: (2003) Cronen-Townsend, S., Corrada-Emmanuel, A. and Croft, W. B., "Predicting Question Effectiveness," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-281: (2003) Nallapati, R. and Allan, J., "Sentence-Forest Language Model: A Graph-theoretic Framework to Capture Local Term Dependencies," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-280: (2003) Allan, J, Bolivar, A. and Wade, C., "Retrieval and Novelty Detection at the Sentence Level," in SIGIR ’03 Conference, pp. 314-321. [ View Abstract ]
IR-279: (2003) Diaz, F. and Allan, J., "Browsing-based User Language Models for Information Retrieval," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-278: (2003) Larkey, L., AbdulJaleel, N. and Connell, M., "What’s in a Name?: Proper Names in Arabic Cross Language Information Retrieval," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-277: (2003) Li, X. and Croft, W.B., "Time-Based Language Models," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-276: (2003) Pinto, D., McCallum, A., Wei, X. and Croft, W.B., "Table Extraction Using Conditional Random Fields," in SIGIR ’03 Conference, pp. 235-242. [ View Abstract ]
IR-275: (2003) Allan, J. and Raghavan, H., "Entity Models: Construction and Applications," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-274: (2003) Croft, W.B. and Lafferty, J., "Language Modeling for Information Retrieval ," in Kluwer International Series on Information Retrieval, Volume 13, Kluwer Academic Publishers. No hardcopy available, acquisition information web address: http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-1216-0. [ View Abstract ]
MM-46: (2003) Lavrenko, V., Manmatha, R. and Jeon, J., "A Model for Learning the Semantics of Pictures," in the Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, vol. 16, pp. 553-560. [ View Abstract ]
MM-45: (2003) Lavrenko, V. and Pickens, J., "Polyphonic Music Modeling with Random Fields," in the Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2003 Conference,November 4-6, Berkeley, CA, pp. 120-129. [ View Abstract ]
MM-44: (2003) Rothfeder, J., Feng, S. and Rath, T.M., "Using Corner Feature Correspondences to Rank Word Images by Similarity," in the Proceedings of DIAR-03: Workshop on Document Image Analysis and Retrieval,Madison, WI, June 2,1 2003.
MM-43: (2003) Manmatha, R. and Rath, T.M., "Indexing Handwritten Historical Documents - Recent Progress," in the Proc. of the Symposium on Document Image Understanding (SDIUT-03), pp. 77-85. [ View Abstract ]
MM-42: (2003) Rath, T., Lavrenko, V. and Manmatha, R., "A Statistical Approach to Retrieving Historical Manuscript Images," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
MM-41: (2003) Jeon, J., Lavrenko, V. and Manmatha, R., "Automatic Image Annotation and Retrieval using Cross-Media Relevance Models," in the Proceedings of SIGIR ’03 Conference, pp. 119-126. [ View Abstract ]
MM-40: (2003) Rath, T.M. and Manmatha, R., "Lower-Bounding of Dynamic Time Warping Distances for Multivariate Time Series," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
2002
IR-273: (2002) Diaz, F., "Using Wearable Computers to Construct Semantic Representations of Physical Spaces," in the ISWC 02 conference, pp. 197-204. [ View Abstract ]
IR-272: (2002) Larkey, L., Allan. J., Connell, M., Bolivar, A. and Wade, C., "UMass at TREC 2002: Cross Language and Novelty Tracks, ," in (notebook version) the TREC 2002 NOTEBOOK, pp. 43-55. [ View Abstract ]
IR-271: (2002) Lawrie, D., and Croft, W.B., "Generating Hierarchical Summaries for Web Searches," in the Proceedings of SIGIR ’03 Conference, pp. 457-458. [ View Abstract ]
IR-270: (2002) Pickens, J., Pablo Bello, J., Monti, G., Crawford, T., Dovey, M., Sandler, M. and Byrd, D. , "Polyphonic Score Retrieval Using Polyphonic Audio Queries: A Harmonic Modeling Approach," in the Proceedings of ISMIR ‘02 conference, pp. 140-149. [ View Abstract ]
IR-268: (2002) Liu, X. and Croft, W.B., "Passage Retrieval Based On Language Models," in CIKM ’02 conference, pp. 375-382. [ View Abstract ]
IR-267: (2002) Allan, J., Lavrenko, V. and Swan, R., "Explorations within Topic Tracking and Detection," in Topic Detection and Tracking, Event-based Information Organization, James Allan, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, chapter 10, pp. 197-224.
IR-266: (2002) Allan, J., "Introduction to Topic Detection and Tracking," in Topic Detection and Tracking, Event-based Information Organization, James Allan, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, chapter 1, pp. 1-16. No electronic copy available.
IR-265: (2002) Nallapati, R. and Allan, J., "Capturing Term Dependencies using a Sentence Tree based Language Model," to appear in CIKM ’02 conference, pp. 383-390. [ View Abstract ]
IR-264: (2002) Allan, J., Bolivar, A. and Wade,C., "Using Text Categorization to Measure the Impact of News on Public Opinion," CIIR Technical Report.
IR-263: (2002) Kelly, D., Murdock, V., Yuan, X., Croft, W. B. and Belkin, N., "Features of Documents Relevant to Task- and Fact-Oriented Questions," in the Proceedings of CIKM ’02 conference, pp. 645-647. [ View Abstract ]
IR-262: (2002) Manmatha, R., Feng, A and Allan, J., "A Critical Examination of TDT's Cost Function," a poster presentation, in the Proceedings of SIGIR 2002, pp. 403-404.
IR-261: (2002) AbdulJaleel, N. and Larkey, L., "English to Arabic Transliteration for Information Retrieval: A Statistical Approach," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-260: (2002) Allan, J., "Robust Techniques for Organizing and Retrieving Spoken Documents," to appear in the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing.
IR-259: (2002) Li, W., "Question Classification Using Language Modeling," CIIR Technical Report.
IR-258: (2002) Tonta, Y., Bitirim, Y. and Sever, H., "Evaluation of Information Retrieval Performance of Turkish Search Engines,(Summary)," in Ankara: Turkish Library Association (press), pp. 1-147, 2002.
IR-257: (2002) Leuski, A. and Allan, J., "Interactive Information Retrieval Using Clustering and Spatial Proximity," in UMUAI (User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction Journal) 14(2-3), pp. 259-288, June 2004. Electronic copy available at: http://journals.kluweronline.com/article.asp?PIPS=5124938 http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:USER.0000028978.09823.47. [ View Abstract ]
IR-256: (2002) Allan, J., Gupta, R. and Khandelwal, V., "Summarizing Topic Changes in News," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-255: (2002) Manmatha, R., Rath, T. and Feng, F., "Modeling Score Distribution for Meta Search," in CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-254: (2002) Larkey, L. and Connell, M., "Arabic Information Retrieval at UMass in TREC-10 ," in the Proceedings of TREC-10, pp. 562-570. [ View Abstract ]
IR-253: (2002) Pickens, J. and Crawford, T., "Harmonic Models for Polyphonic Music Retrieval," in CIKM ’02 conference, pp. 430-437. [ View Abstract ]
IR-252: (2002) Murdock, V. and Croft, W.B., "Task-Orientation in Question Answering," a poster presentation, in the Proceedings of SIGIR 2002, pp. 355-356. [ View Abstract ]
IR-251: (2002) Lavrenko, V., Choquette, M. and Croft, W.B., "Cross-Lingual Relevance Models," in SIGIR 2002, Tampere, pp. 175-182. [ View Abstract ]
IR-250: (2002) Cronen-Townsend, S., Zhou, Y. and Croft, W.B., "Predicting Query Performance," in SIGIR 2002, pp. 299-306.
IR-249: (2002) Larkey, L., Ballesteros, L. and Connell, M., "Improving Stemming for Arabic Information Retrieval: Light Stemming and Co-occurrence Analysis," in SIGIR 2002, pp. 269-274. [ View Abstract ]
IR-248: (2002) Leuski, A. and Allan, J., "Improving Realism of Topic Tracking Evaluation," in SIGIR 2002, pp. 89-96.
IR-247: (2002) Allan, J. and Raghavan, H., "Using Part-of-speech Patterns to Reduce Query Ambiguity," in SIGIR 2002, pp. 307-314.
IR-246: (2002) Li, X. and Croft, W. B., "The Impact of Syntactic Evidence on the Effectiveness of Question Answering," CIIR Technical Report.
IR-245: (2002) Lavrenko, V., "Optimal Mixture Models in IR," in the 24th European Colloquium on IR Research (ECIR-02), pp. 193 - 212. [ View Abstract ]
IR-244: (2002) Pinto, D., Branstein, M., Coleman, R., King, M., Li, W., Wei, X. and Croft, W.B., "QuASM: A System for Question Answering Using Semi-Structured Data," in the JCDL 2002 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, pp. 46-55.
IR-243: (2002) Lavrenko, V., Allan, J., DeGuzman,. E., LaFlamme, D., Pollard, V. and Thomas, S., "Relevance Models for Topic Detection and Tracking," in HLT 2002, pp. 104-110.
IR-242: (2002) Manmatha, R. and Sever, H., "A Formal Approach to Score Normalization for Metasearch," in the Proceedings of HLT 2002, pp. 88-93.
IR-241: (2002) Cronen-Townsend, S. and Croft, W.B., "Quantifying Query Ambiguity," in HLT 2002, pp. 94-98.
MM-39: (2002) Rath, T. and Manmatha, R., "Features for Word Spotting in Historical Manuscripts," in the Proceedings of ICDAR ’03 conference,vol.1, pp. 218-222. [ View Abstract ]
MM-38: (2002) Rath, T. and Manmatha, R., "Word Image Matching Using Dynamic Time Warping," in the Proceedings of CVPR-03 conference,vol. 2, pp. 521-527. [ View Abstract ]
MM-37: (2002) Das, M. and Manmatha, R., "Automatic Segmentation and Indexing of Specialized Databases," CIIR Technical Report.
MM-36: (2002) Rath, T.M., Kane, S., Lehman, A., Partridge, E. and Manmatha, R., "Indexing for a Digital Library of George Washington’s Manuscripts: A Study of Word Matching Techniques," CIIR Technical Report.
2001
IR-240: (2001) Ballesteros, L., "Resolving Ambiguity for Cross-Language Information Retrieval: A Dictionary Approach," PhD Dissertation.
IR-239: (2001) Li, X. and Croft, W.B., "Incorporating Syntactic Information in Question Answering," CIIR Technical Report.
IR-238: (2001) Pickens, J., "A Survey of Feature Selection Techniques for Music Information Retrieval," CIIR Technical Report.
IR-237: (2001) Allan, J., "Knowledge Management and Speech Recognition," in Computer magazine, pp. 46-47.
IR-236: (2001) Allan, J., "Perspectives on Information Retrieval and Speech," in Information Retrieval Techniques for Speech Applications, Coden, Brown and Srinivasan, editors. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 2273, pp. 1-10, 2002. [ View Abstract ]
IR-235: (2001) Leuski, A., "Evaluating Document Clustering for Interactive Information Retrieval," in the ACM CIKM 2001 Tenth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pp.33-40. [ View Abstract ]
IR-234: (2001) Groeting, P., "A Probabilistic Approach to Crosslingual Information Retrieval," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-233: (2001) Allan, J., "Detection As Multi-topic Tracking," submitted to Information Retrieval, no. 5, pp. 139-157.
IR-232: (2001) Leuski, A., "Interactive Information Organization: Techniques and Evaluation," Ph.D. dissertation. [ View Abstract ]
IR-231: (2001) Allan, J., Gupta, R. and Khandelwal V., "Topic Models for Summarizing Novelty," in the Workshop on Language Modeling and Information Retrieval, pp.66-71. [ View Abstract ]
IR-230: (2001) Croft, W.B., Cronen-Townsend, S. and Lavrenko, V., "Relevance Feedback and Personalization: A Language Modeling Perspective," in the DELOS-NSF Worshop on Personalization and Recommender Systems Digital Libraries,pp. 49-54. [ View Abstract ]
IR-229: (2001) Pickens, J., "Feature Selection for Polyphonic Music Retrieval," in the the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference. proceedings, pp. 428-429. [ View Abstract ]
IR-228: (2001) Khandelwal V., Gupta. R. and Allan. J., "An Evaluation Corpus For Temporal Summarization," in the Human Language Technology Conference (HLT 2001), San Diego, CA, March 18-21, 2001.
IR-227: (2001) Li, X. and Croft, W.B., "Evaluating Question Answering Techniques in Chinese," in HLT 2001, Notebook Proceedings, pp. 201-206.
IR-226: (2001) Allan, J., Gupta, R. and Khandelwal, V., "Temporal Summaries of News Topics," in ACM SIGIR 01 conference, pp. 10-18.
IR-225: (2001) Lavrenko, V. and Croft, W.B., "Relevance-Based Language Models," in ACM SIGIR 01 conference, pp. 120-127. [ View Abstract ]
IR-224: (2001) Manmatha, R., Rath, T. and Feng. F., "Modeling Score Distributions for Combining the Outputs of Search Engines," in ACM SIGIR 01 conference,pp. 267-275. [ View Abstract ]
IR-223: (2001) Lawrie, D., Croft, W.B. and Rosenberg, A., "Finding Topic Words for Hierarchical Summarization," in SIGIR 01 conference, pp. 349-357. [ View Abstract ]
IR-222: (2001) Lavrenko, V., "Localized Smoothing for Multinomial Language Models," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-221: (2001) Lavrenko, V., "A Mathematical Model of Vocabulary Growth," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-220: (2001) Byrd, D., "Music-Notation Searching and Digital Libraries," in JCDL 2001, pp. 239-246. [ View Abstract ]
IR-219: (2001) Frey, D., Gupta, R. Khandelwal, V., Lavrenko, V. Leuski, A. and Allan. J. , "Monitoring the News: a TDT demonstration system," in HLT 2001, Notebook Proceedings, pp. 351-355.
MM-35: (2001) Das, Madirakshi, "Studies in the Use of Color for Image Indexing and Retrieval in Specialized Databases," Ph.D. dissertation, CmpSci TR #02-08.
MM-34: (2001) Kane, S., Lehman, A. and Partridge, E., "Indexing George Washington's Handwritten Manuscripts," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
MM-33: (2001) Holness, Gary, Karuppiah, D., Uppala, S., Grupen, R., Ravela, S. Chandu, "A Service Paradigm for Reconfiguration Agents," in Second International Workshop on Infrastructure for Agents at the Agents 2001 conference Montreal.
MM-32: (2001) Ravela, Chandu S. and Hanson, Allen, "On Multi-scale differential features for face recognition," in VI 2001 Vision Interface, Annual Conference, pp.15-21. [ View Abstract ]
2000
IR-269: (2000) Ehlen, J., Caldwell, D. and Harding, S., "The Semantics of GeoComputation," in the Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on GeoComputation, University of Greenwich, UK. August 23-25, 2000. [ View Abstract ]
IR-218: (2000) Allan, J., Lavrenko, V., Frey, D. and Khandelwal, V., "UMass at TDT 2000," in Topic Detection and Tracking Workshop notebook, November 2000, pp. 109-115.
IR-217: (2000) Allan, J., Connell, M.,Croft, W.B., Feng,F., Fisher, D. and Li, X., "INQUERY and TREC-9," in TREC-9, pp. 551-577.
IR-216: (2000) Kitagawa, C. and Fujii, H., "transitivity Alternations in Japanese," to appear in MIT Working Papers Linguistics, vol. 35, pp. 87-115. Not available electronically. [ View Abstract ]
IR-215: (2000) Larkey, L., Connell, M. and Callan, J., "Collection Selection and Results Merging with Topically Organized U.S. Patents and TREC Data," in Ninth International Conference on Information Knowledge and Management,pp. 282-289. [ View Abstract ]
IR-214: (2000) Byrd, D. and Crawford, T., "Problems of Music Information Retrieval in the Real World," in Information Processing and Management. [ View Abstract ]
IR-213: (2000) Swan, R. and Jensen, D., "TimeMines: Constructing Timelines with Statistical Models of Word Usage," in KDD 2000 Conference, pp. 73-80. [ View Abstract ]
IR-212: (2000) Leuski, A., "Details of Lighthouse," in CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-211: (2000) Pickens, J., "A Comparison of Language Modeling and Probabilistic Text Information Retrieval Approaches to Monophonic Music Retrieval," in the Music IR 2000 Symposium.
IR-210: (2000) Byrd, D. and Podorozhny, R., "Adding Boolean-quality control to best-match searching via an improved user interface," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-209: (2000) Ogilvie, P., "Extracting and Using Relationships Found in Text for Topic Tracking," in Senior Honors Thesis, CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-208: (2000) Leuski, A., "Relevance and Reinforcement in Interactive Browsing," in the Ninth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management CIKM), pp. 119 - 126.
IR-207: (2000) Lavrenko, V., Schmill, M., Lawrie, D., Ogilvie, P., Jensen, D. and Allan, J., "Language Models for Financial News Recommendation," in the Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management CIKM), Washington, pp. 389 - 396.
IR-206: (2000) Allan, J., Lavrenko, V. and Jin, H., "First Story Detection in TDT Is Hard," in the Ninth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp. 374-381.
IR-205: (2000) Leuski, A. and Allan, J., "Lighthouse: Showing the Way to Relevant Information," in the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2000 (InfoVis 2000), pp. 125-130. [ View Abstract ]
IR-204: (2000) Allan, J., Leuski, A., Swan, R. and Byrd, D., "Evaluating Combinations of Ranked Lists and Visualizations of Inter-document Similarity," in Information Processing and Management (IPM), vol. 37, pp. 435-458. No electronic copy available.
IR-203: (2000) Lavrenko, V., Schmill, M., Lawrie, D., Ogilvie, P., Jensen, D. and Allan, J., "Mining of Concurent Text and Time Series," in KDD 2000 Conference, pp. 37-44.
IR-202: (2000) Swan, R. and Jensen, D., "Constructing Topic-Specific Timelines with Statistical Models of Word Usage," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-201: (2000) Allan, J., Lavrenko, V., Malin, D. and Swan, R., "Detections, Bounds, and Timelines: UMass and TDT-3," in Topic Detection and Tracking Workshop (TDT-3), pp. 167-174.
IR-200: (2000) Lu, Z. and McKinley, K., "Partial Collection Replication versus Caching for Information Retrieval Systems," in SIGIR 2000, pp. 248-255. [ View Abstract ]
IR-199: (2000) Powell, A., French, J., Callan J., Connell and M. Viles C. , "The Impact of Database Selection on Distributed Searching," in SIGIR 2000, pp. 232-239.
IR-198: (2000) Swan, R. and Allan, J., "Automatic Generation of Overview Timelines," in SIGIR 2000 Conference, Athens, pp. 49-56.
IR-197: (2000) Allan, J., Lavrenko, V. and Jin, H., "Comparing Effectiveness in TDT and IR," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-196: (2000) Sanderson, M. and Lawrie, D., "Building, Testing, and Applying Concept Hierarchies," in Advances Information Retrieval: Recent Research from the CIIR, W. Bruce Croft, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, chapter 9, pp. 235-266. (Online version not available.). [ View Abstract ]
IR-195: (2000) Ballesteros, L., "Cross-Language Retrieval via Transitive Translation," in Advances Information Retrieval: Recent Research from the CIIR, W. Bruce Croft, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, chapter 8, pp. 203-234.(Online version not available.).
IR-194: (2000) Lu, Z. and McKinley, K., "The Effect of Collection Organization and Query Locality on Information Retrieval System Performance," in Advances Information Retrieval: Recent Research from the CIIR, W. Bruce Croft, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, chapter 7, pp. 173-202. (Online version not available.).
IR-193: (2000) Xu, J. and Croft, W.B., "Topic-Based Language Models for Distributed Retrieval," in Advances Information Retrieval: Recent Research from the CIIR, W. Bruce Croft, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, chapter 6, pp. 151-172. (Online version not available.).
IR-192: (2000) Callan, J., "Distributed Information Retrieval," in , Advances Information Retrieval: Recent Research from the CIIR, W. Bruce Croft, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Chapter 5, pp. 127-150. (Online version not available.).
IR-191: (2000) Papka, R. and Allan, J., "Topic Detection and Tracking: Event Clustering as a Basis for First Story Detection," in Advances Information Retrieval: Recent Research from the CIIR, W. Bruce Croft, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, chapter 4, pp. 96-126. (Online version not available.).
IR-190: (2000) Ponte, J., "Language Models for Relevance Feedback," in Advances Information Retrieval: Recent Research from the CIIR, W. Bruce Croft, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, chapter 3, pp. 73-95. (Online version not available.).
IR-189: (2000) Greiff, W., "The Use of Exploratory Data Analysis in Information Retrieval Research," in Advances Information Retrieval: Recent Research from the CIIR, W. Bruce Croft, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, chapter 2, pp. 37-72. (Online version not available.).
IR-188: (2000) Croft, W.B., "Combining Approaches to Information Retrieval," in Advances Information Retrieval: Recent Research from the CIIR, W. Bruce Croft, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, chapter 1, pp. 1-36. [ View Abstract ]
IR-187: (2000) Feng, F. and Croft, W.B., "Probabalistic Techniques for Phrase Extraction," in Information Process Management, March 2001, vol. 37, No.2, pp. 199-220.
IR-186: (2000) Larkey, L., Ogilvie, P., Price, M. A., Tamilio, B., "Acrophile: An Automated Acronym Extractor and Server," in Digital Libraries 2000 (DL00), pp. 205-214.
MM-31: (2000) Das, M. and Manmatha, R., "Automatic Segmentation and Indexing in a Database of Bird Images," in the Proceedings of ICCV 2001, the 8th IEEE International Conf. on Computer Vision,Vancouver, volume II, pp. 351-358. [ View Abstract ]
IC-17: (2000) Lesser, V., Horling, B., Klassner, F., Raja, A., Wagner, T. and Zhang, S., "BIG: An Agent for Resource-Bounded Information Gathering and Decision Making," submitted to Artificial Intelligence, Special Issue on Internet Information Agents, Volume 118, Number 1-2, Elsevier Science, pp. 197-244, May 2000.
IC-16: (2000) Lesser, V., Horling, B., Raja, A., Wagner, T. and Zhang, S., "Resource-Bounded Searches in an Information Marketplace," submitted to IEEE Internet Computing: Agents on the Net. Volume 4, Number 2, IEEE Computer Society Publications, pp. 49-57, March 2000.
1999
IR-185: (1999) Leuski, A. and Allan, J., "Improving Interactive Retrieval by Combining Ranked List and Clustering," in RIAO 2000 Conference, Paris, pp. 665-681.
IR-184: (1999) Pickens, J. and Croft, W.B. , "An Exploratory Analysis of Phrases in Text Retrieval," in RIAO 2000 Conference, Paris, pp. 1179-1195.
IR-183: (1999) Lawrie, D. and Croft, W.B., "Discovering and Comparing Topic Hierarchies.," in RIAO 2000 Conference, Paris, pp. 314-330. [ View Abstract ]
IR-182: (1999) Allan, J., Callan, J., Feng, F. and Malin, D., "INQUERY and TREC-8," in TREC-8, pp. 637-644.
IR-181: (1999) Callan, J., Powell, A., French, J. and Connell, M., "The Effects of Query-Based Sampling on Automatic Database Selection Algorithms," CIIR Technical Report. No electronic copy available.
IR-180: (1999) Callan, J. and Connell, M., "Query-Based Sampling of Text Databases," in ACM TOIS April 2001. [ View Abstract ]
IR-179: (1999) Papka, R., "On-line New Event Detection, Clustering, and Tracking," Ph.D. dissertation, Computer Science technical report TR99-45. [ View Abstract ]
IR-178: (1999) Greiff, W., "The Maximum Entropy Approach and Probabilistic IR Models," Ph.D. dissertation. [ View Abstract ]
IR-177: (1999) Papka, R., "Learning Threshold Parameters for Event Classification in Broadcast News," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-176: (1999) Swan, R. and Allan, J., "Extracting Significant Time Varying Features from Text," in the Eighth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM99), pp. 38-45.
IR-175: (1999) Leuski, A. , "Studying the Usability of Relevant Proximity Ranking," CIIR Technical Report.
IR-174: (1999) Lawrie, D. and Rus, D., "A Self-Organized File Cabinet," in the Eighth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM99), pp. 499-506. [ View Abstract ]
IR-173: (1999) Aronow, D., Feng, F. and Croft, W.B., "Ad-Hoc Classification of Radiology Reports," in The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association(JAMIA), pp. 393-411. [ View Abstract ]
IR-172: (1999) Leuski, A. and Allan, J. , "The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Ranked List and Clustering," CIIR Technical Report.
IR-171: (1999) Song, F. and Croft, W.B., "A General Language Model for Information Retrieval," in the Proceedings of Eighth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM99), Kansas City, MO, November 2-6, 1999. [ View Abstract ]
IR-168: (1999) Lu, Z., "Scalable Distributed Architectures for Information Retrieval," Ph.D. dissertation. [ View Abstract ]
IR-167: (1999) French, J., Powell, A. and Callan, J., "Effective and efficient automatic database selection," CIIR Technical Report.
IR-166: (1999) Papka, R., Allan, J. and Lavrenko, V., "UMASS Approaches to Detection and Tracking at TDT2," in Proceedings of the DARPA Broadcast News Workshop, Herndon, VA, February 28-March 3, 1999, pp. 111-125.
IR-165: (1999) Lu, Z. and McKinley, K., "Searching a Terabyte of Text Using Partial Replication," CIIR Technical Report.
IR-164: (1999) Lawrie, D. and Rus, D., "Automatic Construction of a Personal Reference Library: A Self-Organized File Cabinet," CIIR Technical Report.
IR-163: (1999) Byrd, D., "A Scrollbar-based Visualization for Document Navigation," in Digital Libraries (DL 99), pp. 122-129.
IR-162: (1999) Larkey, L., "A Patent Search and Classification System," in Digital Libraries (DL 99), pp. 179-187.
IR-161: (1999) French, J., Powell, A., Callan, J., Viles, C., Emmitt, T., Prey, K. and Mou, Y., "Comparing the Performance of Database Selection Algorithms," in the 22nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval (SIGIR 99), pp. 238-245.
IR-160: (1999) Papka, R., "Learning Query Bias for Improved On-Line Document Classification," a poster presentation, in the Proccedings of Snowbird 99 conference, Snowbird, Utah, April 5-10, 1999.
IR-159: (1999) Leuski, A., "Evaluating a Visual Presentation of Retrieved Documents," CIIR Technical Report.
IR-158: (1999) Allan, J., Lavrenko, V. and Mularski, P., "Measuring Query-focused Web Crawlers," CIIR Technical Report.
IR-157: (1999) Lu, Z. and McKinley, K., "Partial Replica Selection Based on Relevance for Information Retrieval," in the 22nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval (SIGIR 99), pp. 97-104.
IR-156: (1999) Sanderson, M. and Croft, W.B., "Deriving structure from texts," to appear in the 22nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval (SIGIR 99), pp. 206-213.
IR-155: (1999) Greiff, W.R., "Empirical Studies of Query/Document Characteristics as Evidence in Favor of Relevance," CIIR Technical Report.
IR-154: (1999) Callan, J., Connell, M. and Du, A., "Query-Based Sampling of Text Databases," CIIR Technical Report.
IR-153: (1999) Xu, J. and Croft, W.B., "Cluster-based Language Models For Distributed Retrieval," in the 22nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval (SIGIR 99), pp. 254-261.
IE-45: (1999) Aseltine, J., "WAVE: An Incremental Algorithm for Information Extraction," to appear in Proceedings of the AAAI 1999 Workshop on Machine Learning for Information Extraction.
MM-30: (1999) Ravela, S. and Luo, C., "Appearance-based Global Similarity Retrieval," Computer Science Technical Report number 99-61.
MM-29: (1999) Das, Madirakshi, Manmatha, R., Riseman, Edward M., "Indexing Flower Patent Images using Domain Knowledge," in the journal IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 14, no.5, pp. 24. [ View Abstract ]
MM-28: (1999) Manmatha, R., "Multimedia Information Retrieval at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval," in the Proceedings of the Symposium on Document Understanding Technology (SDIUT 99), ), pp. 183-198. [ View Abstract ]
MM-27: (1999) Manmatha, R. and Srimal, N., "Scale space technique for word segmentation in handwritten manuscripts," in the Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Scale-Space Theories Computer Vision (Scale Space 99), pp. 22-33. [ View Abstract ]
MM-26: (1999) Ravela, S. and Manmatha, R., "Multi-modal retrieval of trademark images using global similarity," UMass Computer Science Tech Report number TR99-32. [ View Abstract ]
IC-15: (1999) Lesser, V., Horling, B., Klassner, F., Raja, A., Wagner, T. and Zhang, S., "Recent Extensions to BIG: A Resource-Bounded Information Gathering Agent," submitted to Proceedings of AAAI Workshop on Intelligent Information Systems, Orlando, Florida, 1999. (Also available as University of Massachusetts Computer Science Technical Report 1999-13.).
1998
IR-152: (1998) Leuski, A. and Allan, J., "Strategy-based Interactive Cluster Visualization for Information Retrieval," in The International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 3 (2000) 2, 170-184.
IR-151: (1998) Callan, J., Connell, M. and Du, A., "Automated Discovery of Language Models for Text Databases," in the ACM-SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data,pp. 479-490.
IR-150: (1998) Allan, J., Callan, J., Sanderson, M., Xu, J. and Wegman, S. , "INQUERY and TREC -7," in the TREC-7 Conference, Gaithersburg, MD, November 9-11, 1998.
IR-149: (1998) Sanderson, M., "Retrieving with good sense," in Information Retrieval Vol. 2 No. 1, 2000.
IR-148: (1998) Ponte, J., "A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval," Ph.D. dissertation.
IR-147: (1998) Du, A. and Callan, J., "Improving Efficiency of Indexing by Using a Hierarchical Merge Approach," CIIR Technical Report.
IR-146: (1998) Du, A. and Callan, J., "Probing A Collection to Discover its Language Model," UMass Technical Report number 98-29.
IR-145: (1998) Greiff, W. and Ponte, J., "The Maximum Entropy Approach and Probabilistic IR Models," in ACM TOIS, vol.18, number 3, July, 2000, pp. 246-287.
IR-144: (1998) Shneiderman, B., Byrd, D. and Croft, W.B., "Sorting out Searching: A User-Interface Framework for Text Searches," in CACM 41, 4 (April 1998), pp. 95-98.
IR-143: (1998) Xu, J. and Croft, W.B., "Improving the Effectiveness of Informational Retrieval with Local Context Analysis," in ACM TOIS, January 2000, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 79-112.
IR-142: (1998) Leouski, A. and Allan, J., "Evaluating a Visual Navigation System for a Digital Library," in the Second European Conference on Research and Technology for Digital Libraries, pp. 535-554.
IR-141: (1998) Sanderson, M. and Crestani, F. , "Mixing and Merging for Spoken Retrieval," in the 2nd European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries,, pages 397-407. Lecture Notes Computer Science N. 1513, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
IR-140: (1998) Sanderson, M., "Accurate user directed summarization from existing tools," in the 7th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp. 45-51, 1998.
IR-139: (1998) Papka, R. and Allan, J. , "Document Classification using Multiword Features," in The Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Bethesda, MD, Nov. 3-7,1998.
IR-138: (1998) Allan, J., Papka, R. and Lavrenko, V., "On-line New Event Detection and Tracking," in Proceedings of SIGIR98, pp. 37-45.
IR-137: (1998) Allan, J. ,Carbonell, J., Doddington, G., Yamron, J. and Yang, Y., "Topic Detection and Tracking Pilot Study: Final Report," in Proceedings of the Broadcast News Understanding and Transcription Workshop, pp. 194-218.
IR-136: (1998) Lu, Z., McKinley, K. and Cahoon, B., "The Hardware/Software Balancing Act for Information Retrieval on Symmetric Multiprocessors," in EuroPar98, pp. 521-527. UMass technical report TR98-25.
IR-135: (1998) Larkey, L., "Some Issues in the Automatic Classification of US Patents," in Papers from the 1998 Workshop, AAAI Press, Technical Report WS-98-05, pp 87-90.
IR-134: (1998) Swan, R., Allan, J., and Byrd, D., "Evaluating a Visual Information ‘Retrieval Interface: AspInquery at TREC-6," in , Workshop on Information Exploaration at CHI 98 conference, April 17-18, 1998, http://www.fxpal.com/CHI98IE/submissions/index.htm.
IR-133: (1998) Swan, R., Allan, J. and Byrd, D. , "Evaluating a Task-specific Information Retrieval Interface," CIIR Technical Report.
IR-132: (1998) Greiff, W., "PIC Matrices: A Computationally Tractable Class of Probabilistic Query Operators," in ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), vol. 17, number 4, pp. 367-405. [ View Abstract ]
IR-131: (1998) Lu, Z. and McKinley, K. , "Partial Replica Selection Based on Relevance for Information Retrieval," CIIR technical report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-130: (1998) Tombros, A. and Sanderson, M., "Advantages of Query Biased Summaries in Information Retrieval," in SIGIR 98, Melbourne, Australia, August 24-28, 1998, pp. 2-10.
IR-129: (1998) Ballesteros, L. and Croft, W.B. , "Resolving Ambiguity for Cross-Language Retrieval," in SIGIR 98, pp. 64-71.
IR-128: (1998) Allan, J., Lavrenko, V. and Papka, R., "Event Tracking," in CIIR technical report.
IR-127: (1998) Leouski, A. and Allan, J. , "Visual Interactions with Multidimensional Ranked List," a poster presentation, in the Proceedings of SIGIR 98, pp. 353-354.
IR-126: (1998) Swan, R. and Allan, J., "Aspect Windows, 3-D Visualizations, and Indirect Comparisons of Information Retrieval Systems," in SIGIR 98, pp. 173-181.
IR-125: (1998) Callan, J., "Learning While Filtering Documents," in SIGIR 98, pp. 224-231.
IR-124: (1998) Xu, J. and Callan, J., "Effective Retrieval with Distributed Collections," in SIGIR 98, pp. 112-120.
IR-123: (1998) Papka, R. and Allan, J. , "On-Line New Event Detection using Single Pass Clustering," in UMass Computer Science Technical Report # TR98-21.
IR-122: (1998) Greiff, W.R., "A Theory of Term Weighting Based on Exploratory Data Analysis," in SIGIR 98, pp. 11-19.
IR-121: (1998) Larkey, L., "Automated Essay Grading using Text Categorization Techniques," in SIGIR 98, pp. 90-95.
IR-120: (1998) Ponte, J. and Croft, W.B. , "A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval," in SIGIR 98, pp. 275-281.
MM-25: (1998) Ravela, S., Manmatha, R. and Croft, W.B. , "Retrieval of trademark and gray-scale images using global similarity," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
MM-24: (1998) Das, M. and Liou, S., "New Hybrid Approach to Video Organization for Content-Based Indexing," in the Proceedings of IEEE Multimedia Systems 98, Austin, TX, pp. 372-381. [ View Abstract ]
MM-23: (1998) Ravela, S. and Manmatha, R., "Gaussian Filtered Representations of Images," in The Encyclopedia on Electrical & Electronics Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, John G. Webster (Ed.), pp 289-307, 1999.
MM-22: (1998) Das, M., Manmatha, R. and Riseman, E.M. , "Indexing Flowers by Color Names using Domain Knowledge-driven Segmentation," in the Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV98), pages 94-99. [ View Abstract ]
MM-21: (1998) Ravela, S. and Manmatha, R., "On computing global similarity in images," in the Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV98), pp. 82-87. [ View Abstract ]
IC-14: (1998) Lesser, V., Horling, B., Klassner, F., Raja, A., Wagner, T. and Zhang, S. , "A Resource-Bounded Interpretation-Centric Approach to Information Gathering," submitted to AAAI-98 Workshop on Information Integration, 1998.
IC-11: (1998) Lesser, Horling, Klassner, Raja, Wagner and Zhang, S., ", A Resource-Bounded Interpretation-Centric Approach to Information Gathering," submitted to Proceedings of the AAAI98 Workshop on Information Integration, July, 1998.
IC-10: (1998) Lesser, Horling, Klassner, Raja, Wagner and Zhang, S., ", BIG: A Resource-Bounded Information Gathering Agent," submitted to Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 98), July, 1998.
1997
IR-170: (1997) Adriani, M. and Croft, W.B, "The Effectiveness of a Dictionary-Based Technique for Indonesian-English Cross-Language Text Retrieval," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-169: (1997) Adriani, M. and Croft, W. B., "Retrieval Effectiveness of Various Indexing Techniques On Indonesian News Articles," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-119: (1997) Fujii, H., "An Investigation of the Linguistic Characteristics of Japanese Information Retrieval," in Ph.D. Dissertation. [ View Abstract ]
IR-118: (1997) Allan, J., Callan, J., Croft, W.B., Ballesteros, L., Byrd, D., Swan, R. and Xu, J., "INQUERY does battle with TREC-6," in Proceedings of TREC-6 , pp. 169-206.
IR-117: (1997) Byrd, D., Swan, R. and Allan, J., "TREC-6 Interactive Track Report PartI: Experimental Procedure and Initial Results," CIIR Technical Report.
IR-116: (1997) Allan, J., Leouski, A. and Swan, R., "Interactive Cluster Visualization for Information Retrieval," CIIR technical report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-115: (1997) Harding, S.M., Croft, W.B. and Weir, C., "Probabilistic Retrieval of OCRDegraded Text Using N-Grams," in Research and Advanced Technologyfor Digital Libraries , Carol Peters and Costantino Thanos, Editors,1997. pp. 345-359. [ View Abstract ]
IR-114: (1997) Hirsch, M and Allan, J., "A Graphic Interface for User DirectedClustering of Retrieved Documents," in Proceedings of the 1997 Spring Congress, American Medical InformaticsAssociation, p 95.
IR-113: (1997) Lu, Z., McKinley, K. and Cahoon, B., "A Performance Evaluation ofParallel Information Retrieval on Symmetrical Multiprocessors," in 14th International Conference for Data Engineering,(ICDE98), Orlando, FL, February 23-27, 1998.
IR-112: (1997) Xu, J., "Solving the Word Mismatch Problem ThroughAutomatic Text Analysis," in Ph.D. Dissertation.
IR-111: (1997) Allan, J., Callan, J., Croft, W.B., Ballesteros, L., Broglio, J., Xu, J. and Shu, H., "INQUERY at TREC-5," in The Fifth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-5), NIST special publication 500-238, pp. 119-132, November 1997.
IR-110: (1997) Allan, J., "Building Hypertext Using Information Retrieval," submitted to Information Processing and Management, vol.33 :2, pp. 133-144.
IR-109: (1997) Weir, C., Taylor, S.L., Harding, S. and Croft, W.B., "The Skeleton Document Image Retrieval System," in SDIUT ‘97, pp. 8-14.
IR-108: (1997) Aronow, D., "Ad-Hoc Classification of Electronic Clinical Documents," in D-Lib Magazine, an online publication, January 15, 1997, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january97/medical/01aronow.html.
IR-107: (1997) Shneiderman, B., Byrd, D. and Croft, W.B., "Clarifying Search A User-InterfaceFramework for Text Searches," in D-Lib Magazine, January 15,1997. [ View Abstract ]
IR-106: (1997) Papka, R., "Why Bigger Windows Are Better Than Smaller Ones," UMass Technical Report #TR97-64.
IR-105: (1997) Pyreddy, P. and Croft, W. B., "TINTIN: A System for Retrieval in TextTables," in Digital Libraries ‘97, pp. 193-200, Computer Science Technical Report TR97-2.
IR-104: (1997) Ballesteros, L. and Croft, W.B., "PhrasalTranslation and QueryExpansion Techniques for Cross-Language Information Retrieval," in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Research andDevelopment Information Retrieval (SIGIR97), pp. 84-91.
IR-103: (1997) Ponte,J. and Croft, W.B., "Text Segmentation by Topic," in Proceedings of the First European Conference on Research andAdvanced Technology for Digital Libraries pp. 113-125,UMass Computer Science Tech Report number TR97-18.
IE-44: (1997) Soderland, S., Fisher, D. and Lehnert, W., "Automatically Learnedvs. Hand-crafted Text Analysis Rules," submitted to CIIR Technical Report.
CB-30: (1997) Daniels, Jody, "Retrieval of Passages for InformationReduction," submitted to Ph.D. dissertation. [ View Abstract ]
CB-29: (1997) Daniels, Jody J. and Rissland, Edwina L., "Integrating IR and CBR toLocate Relevant Texts and Passages," submitted to Workshop onLegal Systems, Toulouse, France, September 1-2, 1997.
CB-28: (1997) Daniels, Jody J. and Rissland, Edwina L., "What you saw is what you want: Using Cases to Seed Information Retrieval," submitted to the Second International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-97), Providence, RI, July 25-27, 1997.
CB-27: (1997) Daniels, Jody J. and Rissland, Edwina L., "Finding legally relevantpassages in case opinions," submitted to the Proceedings of theSixth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law(ICAIL 97), pp. 52-61.
CB-26: (1997) Daniels, Jody J. and Rissland, Edwina L., "Locating Passages Using a Case-Base ofExcerpts," submitted to 20th International Conference on Research andDevelopment Information Retrieval (SIGIR 97) , Philadelphia, PA,July 27-31, 1997.
CB-25: (1997) Daniels, Jody J. and Rissland, Edwina L., "SPIRE: A hybridCBR-IR system to locate relevant passages within texts," submitted to Submitted to14th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-97) ,Providence, RI, July 27-31, 1997.
MM-20: (1997) Manmatha, R., Ravela, S. and Chitti, Y., "On computing local and global similarity in images," in the Proceedings of The International Society for Optical Engineering, (SPIE ‘98), pp. 540-551. [ View Abstract ]
MM-19: (1997) Wu, V. and Manmatha. R., "Document Image Clean-up and Binarization," in the Proceedings of The International Society for Optical Engineering, (SPIE 98), pp. 263-273.
MM-18: (1997) Wu, V., Manmatha, R. and Riseman, E., "TextFinder: An Automatic System to Detect and Recognize Text in Images," in Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence ,November 1999, pp. 1224-1228.
MM-17: (1997) Ravela, S. and Manmatha, R. , "Retrieving Images by Appearance," in the Proc. of the IEEE International Conf. on Computer Vision, (ICCV 98), pp. 608-613.
MM-16: (1997) Ravela, S. and Manmatha, R. , "Retrieving Images by Similarity of Visual Appearance," in the Proc. of the IEEE Workshop on Content Based Access of Image Databases, Puerto Rico, pp.67-74.
MM-15: (1997) Manmatha, R., "Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval Research at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval," in Proceedings of Symposium on Document Image Understanding SDIUT97 ,pp. 16-30.
MM-14: (1997) Das, M. and Riseman, E., "FOCUS: Searching for Multi-colored Objects in a a Diverse Image Database," in the Proceedings of CVPR Conference, pp. 756-761.
MM-13: (1997) Wu, V., Manmatha, R. and Riseman, E.M., "Finding Text in Images," in the Proceedgins of the 2nd ACM Intl conf. on Digital Libraries(DL 97). [ View Abstract ]
MM-12: (1997) Manmatha, R. and Sawhney, H., "Finding Symmetry in Intensity Images," Computer Science Technical Report TR-97-09. [ View Abstract ]
IC-12: (1997) Lesser, Horling, Klassner, Raja, Wagner and Zhang, S., "Information Gathering as a Resource Bounded Interpretation Task," submitted to UMASS Department of Computer Science Technical Report number =TR-97-34.
MM-11: (1997) Ravela, S. and Manmatha, R. , "Image Retrieval by Appearance," in the Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval (SIGIR 97),pp. 278-285. [ View Abstract ]
1996
IR-102: (1996) Aronow, D. and Shmueli, A., "A PC Classifier of Clinical Text Documents:Advanced Information Retrieval Technology Transfer," in Proceedings ofthe 1996 AMIA Annual Fall Symposium, Journal of the American MedicalInformatics Association, Symposium Supplement , p. 932.
IR-101: (1996) Ron, P., Callan, J. and Barto, A., "Text-Based Information Retrieval Using Exponentiated Gradient Descent," in Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of Advances Neural Information Processing Systems, pp 3-9.
IR-100: (1996) Swan, R. and Allan, J., "Improving Interactive InformationRetrieval Effectiveness with 3-D Graphics," in CIIR Technical Report.
IR-99: (1996) Ballesteros,L. and Croft, W.B., "Statistical Methods forCross-Language Information Retrieval," in a Workshop at the 19th International Conference on Research and Development InformationRetrieval (SIGIR 96), Zurich, Switzerland, August 22, 1996.
IR-98: (1996) Ballesteros, L. and Croft, W.B., "Dictionary Methods forCross-Lingual Information Retrieval," in Proceedings of the 7th International DEXA Conference on Database and Expert System, pp. 791-801.
IR-97: (1996) Greiff, W.R. and Croft, W.B., "Computational Tractable Probalistic Modeling of Boolean Operators," in the 20th International Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval (SIGIR’97), pp. 119-128.
IR-96: (1996) Greiff, W., "Computationally Tractable, ConceptuallyPlausible Classes of Link Matrices for the Inquery InferenceNetwork," in Computer Science Technical ReportTR96-66.
IR-95: (1996) Xu, J. and Croft, W.B., "Corpus-Based Stemming using Co-occurrence of Word Variants," in ACM TOIS, Jan. 1998, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 61-81, Computer Science Technical Report TR96-67.
IR-94: (1996) Hideo Fujii, "On the Transitivity of Japanese Verbal Doublets: A Model for Stemming and other Applications," CIIR Technical report.
IR-93: (1996) Haines, D., "Adaptive Query Modification in a Probabilistic Inforamtion Retrieval Model," in Ph.D. Dissertation, UMass Technical Report,TR96-61.
IR-92: (1996) Aronow, D.B. and Shmueli, A., "A PC classifier of clinical text documents: Advancedinformation retrieval technology transfer," submitted to accepted for presentationat the 1996 American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium(SCAMC).
IR-91: (1996) Lu, Z., Callan, J. and Croft, W.B., "Applying InferenceNetworks to Multiple Collection Searching," Umass Technical ReportTR96-42.
IR-90: (1996) Prasad, M.V. Nagendra and Plaza, E., "Corporate Memories asDistributed Case Libraries," CIIR Technical Report.
IR-89: (1996) Lu, Z., "Measures in Collection Ranking Evaluation," Umass Technical Report TR96-39.
IR-88: (1996) Lee, J., "Analyses of Multiple Evidence Combination," in the 20th International Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval (SIGIR’97), pp. 267-276. [ View Abstract ]
IR-87: (1996) Lee, J., "Combining Multiple Evidence from Different RelevanceFeedback Methods," CIIR Technical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-86: (1996) Broglio, J., Callan, J.P. and Croft, W.B., "Technical Issues in Building an Information Retrieval System for Chinese," in CIIRTechnical Report. [ View Abstract ]
IR-85: (1996) Lewis, D.D., Schapire, R.E., Callan, J.P. and Papka, R., "Training algorithms for linear textclassifiers," in Proceedings of the Nineteenth AnnualInternational ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development inInformation Retrieval , Zurich, Switzerland,pp. 298-315.
IR-84: (1996) Allan, J., Ballesteros, L., Callan, J., Croft, W.B. and Lu, Z., "Recent Experiments with INQUERY," in Proceedings of the Fourth TREC Retrieval Conference (TREC-4), to be published Spring 1996.
IR-83: (1996) Larkey, L. and Croft, W.B., "Combining Classifiers in TextCategorization," in Proceedings of the 19th InternationalConference on Research and Development Information Retrieval (SIGIR96), Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 289-297.
IR-81: (1996) Cahoon, B. and McKinley, K., "An Architecture for DistributedInformation Retrieval," in Proceedings of the 19th InternationalConference on Research and Development Information Retrieval (SIGIR96), Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 110-118.
IR-80: (1996) Allan, J., "Incremental Relevance Feedback," in inProceedings of the 19th International Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval (SIGIR 96) , Zurich,pp. 270-278.
IR-79: (1996) Callan, J., "Document Filtering With Inference Networks," in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval (SIGIR 96), Zurich, Switzerland,pp. 262-269.
IR-78: (1996) Kalt, T., "A New Probabilistic Model of Text Classification and Retrieval," CIIR technical report, UMass Technical report TR98-18.
IR-77: (1996) Xu, J. and Croft, W.B., "Query Expansion Using Local and Global DocumentAnalysis," in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference onResearch and Development Information Retrieval (SIGIR96) ,Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 4-11.
IR-76: (1996) Leouski, "An Evaluation of Techniques for Clustering Search Results," CIIR Technical Report.
IR-75: (1996) Ponte, J. and Croft, W.B., "USeg: A Retargetable Word SegmentationProcedure for Information Retrieval," in Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval 96 (SDAIR),UMass Technical Report TR96-2.
IE-43: (1996) Soderland, Stephen G., "CRYSTAL: Learning Domain-specificText Analysis Rules," submitted to CIIR Technical Report.
IE-42: (1996) Soderland, S., Fisher, D. and Lehnert, W., "Learning Exceptions to Text AnalysisRules," submitted to the American Association for ArtificialIntelligence.
IE-41: (1996) Cowie, J. and Lehnert, W., "Information Extraction," submitted to Communications of theAssociation of Computing Machinery, vol. 39 (1), pp. 80-91.
IE-40: (1996) Fisher, D., Soderland, S., McCarthy, J., Feng, F. and Lehnert, W., "Description of theUMass Systems as Used for MUC-6," submitted to Proceedings of the 6th MessageUnderstanding Conference, November, 1995, pp. 127-140. 1996.
CB-24: (1996) Daniels, J.J., "Retrieval of Passages forInformation Reduction," in Ph.D. Proposal , April1996. (Prof. Rissland advisor).
CB-23: (1996) Daniels, J.J., "Selection of Passages forInformation Retrieval.," to appear in Proceedings of the 13th NationalConference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-96), p. 1360..
CB-22: (1996) Rissland, E.L., Skalak, D.B. and Friedman, M.T. , "Evaluating a Legal Argument Program: The BankXX Experiments.," submitted to Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Law.
CB-21: (1996) Rissland, E.L., Skalak, D.B. and Friedman, M.T., "BankXX: Supporting Legal Arguments throughHeuristic Retrieval.," submitted to Journal ofArtificial Intelligenceand Law .
MM-10: (1996) Manmatha, R. and Ravela, S. , "A Syntactic Characterization of Appearance and its Application to Image Retrieval," in Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Human Vision and Electronic Imaging II , vol 3016, Feb. 1997, SanJose. [ View Abstract ]
MM-9: (1996) Das, M. and Draper, B.A., "A Fast, Background-independent Retrieval Strategy for Color Image Databases," Umass Technical Report TR 96-79.
IC-9: (1996) Oates, Tim, Nagendra Prasad, M. V. and Lesser, Victor R., "Cooperative Information Gathering: A DistributedProblem Solving Approach," submitted to Journal of SoftwareEngineering, Special Issue on Developing Agent Based Systems.
MM-8: (1996) Ravela, S. , Manmatha, S. and Riseman, E.M. , "Image Retrieval Using Scale Space Matching," in Proc. of the European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 96, Cambridge, U.K., April 1996, pages 273-282, Springer. CIIR Technical Report.
IC-8: (1996) Nagendra Prasad, M.V. and Plaza, Enric, "CorporateMemories as Distributed Case Libraries," submitted to the CorporateMemory & Enterprise Modeling track the 10th Knowledge AcquisitionWorkshop, Banff, Canada, November 1996.
DB-8: (1996) Kutlu, G., Draper, B., Moss, J.E.B. and Riseman, E., "Support Tools for VisualInformation Management," submitted to Fifth Symposium on Document Analysis andInformation Retrieval, (SDAIR 96) , Las Vegas, NV, April 1996,101-112.
MM-7: (1996) Ravela, S. , Manmatha, R. and Riseman, E.M. , "Scale SpaceMatching and Image Retrieval," in Proceedings of the ARPA Image Understanding Workshop , 1996.
IC-7: (1996) Garvey, A. and Lesser, V., "Design-to-timeScheduling and Anytime Algorithms.," to appear in SIGART Bulletin, 1996. (Toappear.).
DB-7: (1996) Kutlu, G., Draper, B., Moss, J.E.B., Riseman, E. and Hanson, A., "Persistent Data Management forVisual Applications," submitted to ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, (IUW96) , Palm Springs, CA, February 1996, Volume II, 1519-1523.
MM-6: (1996) Manmatha, R. and Croft, W.B., "Word Spotting: IndexingHandwritten Manuscripts," to appear in book chapter IntelligentMulti-media Information Retrieval Collection, ed. Mark Maybury,Forthcoming book.
1995
IR-82: (1995) Krovetz, R., "Word Sense Disambiguation for Large Text Databases," Ph.D. dissertation.
IR-74: (1995) Croft, W.B., "What Do People Want From Information Retrieval? ," in d-lib Magazine , November, 1995.
IR-73: (1995) Brown, Eric, "Execution Performance Issues in Full-Text Information Retrieval," to appear in Ph.D. dissertation, UMass Technical Report TR95-81.
IR-72: (1995) Croft, W.B., Broglio, J. and Fujii, H. , "Applications of Multilingual Text Retrieval," in the Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Hawai i International Conference on System Sciences,. Digital Document Track, pp. 98-107.
IR-71: (1995) Croft, W.B., "Effective Text Retrieval Based on Combining Evidence from the Corpus and User," in IEEE Expert, December, 1995, pp. 59-63.
IR-70: (1995) Haines, D., "A Probabilistic Interpretation of the Vector Space andRelevant Term Frequency Relevance Feedback Methods," a poster presentation, in a poster presentation at the 18th International ACM SIGIR Conference onResearch and Development Information Retrieval.
IR-69: (1995) Defazio, S., Daoud, A., Smith, L.A., Srinivasan, J., Croft, W.B. and Callan, J., "Integrating IR and RDBMS Using Cooperative Indexing," in the 18th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval, pp. 84-92.
IR-68: (1995) Khode, A. and Croft, W.B., "Noun Phrases for Query Formation," in CIIR Technical Report.
IR-67: (1995) Aronow, D., Soderland, S., Ponte, J.M., Feng, F., Croft, W.B. and Lehnert, W.G., "Automated Classification of Encounter Notes in aComputer Based Medical Record," in Proceedings of the Eighth World Congress on Medical Informatics, Vancouver, Canada. July,1995. pp. 8-12.
IR-66: (1995) Brown, E., "Fast Evaluation of Structured Queries for Information Retrieval," in the Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval, pp. 30-38.
IR-65: (1995) Vasanthakumar, S.R., Callan, J. and Croft, W.B., "Integrating INQUERY with an RDBMS to Support TextRetrieval," in the Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information RetrievalPost-Conference Workshop on Information Retrieval and Databases,Seattle, WA, July 9-13, 1995.
IR-64: (1995) Larkey, L. and Croft, W.B., "Automatic Assignment of ICD9 Codes to DischargeSummaries," in CIIR Technical Report.
IR-63: (1995) Hirsch, M. and Aronow, D., "Suggesting Terms for Query Expansion in a MedicalInformation Retrieval System," in the 19th AnnualSymposium on Computer Applications Medical (SCAMC). JAMIA, p. 965.
IR-62: (1995) Croft, W.B., Callan, J. and Aronow, D.A., "Effective Access to DistributedHeterogeneous Medical Text Databases," in Proceedings of the Eighth World Congress on Medical Informatics 8:1719, CIIR Technical Report.
IR-61: (1995) Aronow, D., Cooley, J. and Soderland, S., "AutomatedIdentification of Episodes ofAsthma Exacerbation for Quality Measurement in a Computer-BasedMedical Record," in Proceedings of the 19th Annual Symposium on Computer Applications Medical (SCAMC),JAMIA, Supplement pp. 309-313.
IR-60: (1995) Cahoon, B. and McKinley, K., "Performance Analysis of Distributed Information Retrieval Architectures," UMass Tech Report #95-54.
IR-59: (1995) Croft, W.B., Cook, R. and Wilder, D., "Providing Government Information on theInternet: Experiences with THOMAS," in Proceedings of the DigitalLibraries Conference DL 95, Austin, TX. June 10-12, 1995, pp. 19-24. UMass Technical Report 95-45.
IR-58: (1995) Callan, J., Lu, Z. and Croft, W.B., "Searching Distributed Collections With Inference Networks," in proceedings from the 18th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval, Seattle, WA. July 9-13,1995.
IR-57: (1995) Han, C., "Automatic Query Expansion of Japanese Text Retrieval," UMass Technical Report.
IR-56: (1995) Allan, J., "Relevance Feedback With Too Much Data," in Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval, pp 337-343. UMass Technical Report 95-6. ,.
IE-39: (1995) Soderland, S., Aronow, D., Fisher, D., Aseltine, J. and Lehnert, W., "Machine Learning of TextAnalysis Rules for Clinical Records," submitted to CIIR TechnicalReport.
IE-38: (1995) Soderland, S., Fisher, D., Aseltine, J. and Lehnert, W., "CRYSTAL: Inducing a Conceptual Dictionary," submitted to Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference onArtificial Intelligence, pp. 1314-1319.
IE-37: (1995) Soderland, S., Fisher, D., Aseltine, J. and Lehnert, W., "Issues in Inductive Learning of Domain-Specific Text Extraction Rules," submitted to Proceedings of the Workshop on New Approaches to Learning forNatural Language Processing at the Fourteenth International Joint Conference onArtificial Intelligence.
IE-36: (1995) McCarthy, J. and Lehnert, W., "Using Decision Trees for CoreferenceResolution," submitted to Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference onArtificial Intelligence.
IE-35: (1995) Soderlandand, S. and Lehnert, W., "LearningDomain-Specific Discourse Rules for Information Extraction," submitted to 1995AAAI Spring Symposium on Empirical Methods Discourse Interpretationand Generation. [161,729 bytes].
CB-20: (1995) Rissland,E.L. and Daniels, J.J., "UsingCBR to Drive IR.," to appear in Proceedings of the Fourteenth InternationalJoint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-95) ,400-407. Montreal, Canada.
CB-19: (1995) Rissland, E.L. and Friedman, M.T., "Detecting Change in Legal Concepts.," submitted to Proceedingsof the Fifth International Conference on AI and Law, (ICAIL-95). 127-136. College Park, MD.
IE-18: (1995) Lehnert, W.G., Cardie, C., Fisher, D., McCarthy, J., Riloff, E. and Soderland, S., "Evaluating anInformation Extraction System," submitted to (Journal of IntegratedComputer-Aided Engineering), 1(6), 453-472.
CB-18: (1995) CIIR, "The Synergistic Application of CBR to IR," submitted to to Artificial Intelligence Review. UMassTechnical Report 95-47.
CB-17: (1995) Rissland, E.L. and Daniels, J., "AHybrid CBR-IR Approach to Legal Information Retrieval.," submitted to InProceedings of the Fifth International Conference on AI and Law,(ICAIL-95) , 52-61. College Park, MD.
CB-16: (1995) Daniels, J. and Rissland, E.L., "ACase-Based Approach to Intelligent Information Retrieval," submitted to inProceedings of the Eighteenth Annual ACM-SIGIR Conference on Researchand Development Information Retrieval (SIGIR-95),238-245. Seattle, WA.
MM-5: (1995) Ravela, S. , Manmatha, R. and Riseman, E. M., "Retrieval from Image DatabasesUsing Scale Space Matching," in Proc. of ECCV 96, UMassTechnical Report, TR95-104.
IC-5: (1995) Nagendra Prasad, M.V., Lesser, V.R. and Lander, S., "Retrieval and Reasoning in DistributedCase Bases," submitted to UMass Technical Report. March 95.
MM-4: (1995) Manmatha, R., Han, C. and Riseman, E., "Word Spotting: A New Approach to IndexingHandwriting," in Proceedings of IEEEComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, CVPR 96 , SanFrancisco, CA, June 1996, longer version available as UMass TechnicalReport, TR95-105.
MM-3: (1995) Wu, V. and Manmatha, R., "Extracting Text From Greyscale Images," UMass Technical Report TR95-88.
MM-2: (1995) Manmatha, R. , Han, C., Riseman, E.M. and Croft, W.B., "Indexing Handwriting Using WordMatching," in Proceedings of the First ACM Internal Conference onDigital Libraries, DL 96, Bethesda, MD, March 1996, pp. 151-159.UMass Technical Report TR95-89.
1994
IR-55: (1994) Brown, E. and Croft, W.B., "An Approach for Improving Performance in Inference Network Based Information Retrieval," in UMass Technical Report #94-73.
IR-54: (1994) Croft, W.B. and Xu, J., "Corpus-Specific Stemming using WordForm Co-occurence," UMass Technical Report 94-72, Proceedings for the Fourth Annual Symposium on Document AnalysisInformation Retrieval, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 24-26,1995. pp. 147-159.
IR-53: (1994) Croft, W.B., "Integrating Text and Database Systems: Possibilities and Challenges," in East/West 2nd International Database Workshop, Klagenfurt, Austria.
IR-52: (1994) Xu, J., Broglio, J. and Croft, W.B., "The Design and Implementation of a Partof Speech Tagger for English," in UMass TechnicalReport.
IR-51: (1994) Callan, J.P., Croft, W.B. and Broglio, J. , "TREC and TIPSTER Experiments with INQUERY," in Information Processing and Management, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 327-343.
IR-50: (1994) Callan, J.P. and Lewis, D.D., "The Efficiency Issues Workshop Report.," in InProceedings of the Second Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-2),Gaithersburg, MD. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
IR-49: (1994) Brown, E.W., Callan, J.P. and Croft, W.B., "Fast incremental indexing forfull-text information retrieval.," in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Santiago, Chile.
IR-48: (1994) Fujii, H. and Croft, W.B., "Comparing the Retrieval Performance English and JapaneseText Databases," in 2nd Annual Workshop on Very Large Corpora,1994.
IR-47: (1994) Jing, Y. and Croft, W.B., "An Association Thesaurus for Information Retrieval," UMass Technical Report 94-17.
IR-46: (1994) Callan, J., "Passage-Level Evidence in Document Retrieval.," in Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval, pp. 302-310.
IR-45: (1994) Conrad, "A System for Discovering Relationships by Feature Extraction from Text Databases," in the Seventeenth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval (SIGIR’94, pp. 260-270.
IR-44: (1994) Broglio, J., Callan, J. and Croft, W.B., "INQUERY System Overview," in Proceedings of the TIPSTER Text Program (Phase I), San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann,pp. 47-67.
IR-43: (1994) Croft, W.B., Callan, J. and Broglio, J., "TREC-2 Routing and Ad-Hoc Retrieval Evaluation using the INQUERY System," in Proceedings of the Second Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-2) Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Special Publication, pp.75-84.
IR-42: (1994) Croft, W.B., Harding, S.M., Taghva, K. and Borsack, J., "An Evaluation of InformationRetrieval Accuracy with Simulated OCR Output," in Symposium of DocumentAnalysis and Information Retrieval, ISRI-UNLV.
IR-41: (1994) Brown, E.W., Callan, J.P., Croft, W.B. and Moss, J.E.B., "Supporting Full-Text Information Retrieval with a Persistent Object Store," in (EDBT94).
IE-34: (1994) Soderland, S. and Lehnert, W.G., "Wrap Up: a Trainable Discourse Module for InformationExtraction," submitted to Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research,1994.
IE-33: (1994) Lehnert, W.G., "Cognition,Computers and Car Bombs: How Yale Prepared Me for the 90 s," to appear in inBeliefs, Reasoning, and Decision Making: Psycho-logic Honor of BobAbelson (eds: Schank & Langer), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,Hillsdale, NJ. pp. 143-173. 12/94.
IE-32: (1994) Lehnert, W., Soderland, S., Aronow, D. Feng, F. and Shmueli, A., "Inductive Text Classification for Medical Applications," submitted to the Journal for Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (JETAI). 7(1),pp. 49-80, 1994.
IE-27: (1994) Riloff, E. and Lehnert, W., "Automatically Constructing a Dictionary for InformationExtraction Tasks," submitted to Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference ofMachine Learning, 25-32.
IE-26: (1994) Soderland, S. and Lehnert, W.G., "Corpus-Driven Knowledge Acquisition forDiscourse Analysis," submitted to Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conferenceon Artificial Intelligence , 827-832.
IE-24: (1994) Riloff, E. and Lehnert, W.G., "Information Extraction as a Basis for High-Precision TextClassification," submitted to (ACM Transactions on Information Systems),vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 276-333.
DB-6: (1994) Brown, E.W., Callan, J.P., Croft, W.B. and Moss, J.E.B., "Supporting Full-Text InformationRetrieval with a Persistent Object Store," submitted to (EDBT94).
IC-4: (1994) Oates, T., Nagendra Prasad, M.V. and Lesser V., "Cooperative Information Gathering: A Distributed Problem SolvingApproach," submitted to UMass Computer Science Technical Report).
MM-1: (1994) Manmatha, R., "A Framework for Recovering AffineTransforms Using Points, Lines or Image Brightnesses," in Proceedingsof IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference , Seattle,Washington, June 21-23, 1994, pp. 141-146.
1993
IR-40: (1993) Croft, W.B., "Knowledge-Based and Statistical Approaches to Text Retrieval," in IEEE Expert, 8-12.
IR-39: (1993) Rajashekar, T.B. and Croft, W.B., "Combining Automatic and Manual Index Representations in Probabilistic Retrieval," in JASIS.
IR-38: (1993) Croft, W.B. and Utt, M.H., "Discovering Relationships by Feature Extractionfrom Text Databases," UMass Technical Report 93-61.
IR-37: (1993) Broglio, J., Callan, J., Chmaj, J. and Croft, B., "Information Retrieval in aCustomer Support Situation," in Eleventh National Conference onArtificial Intelligence: AI Service and Support - Bridging the Gapbetween Research and Applications, 17-23.
IR-36: (1993) Broglio, J. and Croft, W.B., "Query Processing for Retrieval from Large Text Bases," in DARPA Human Language Technology Workshop.
IR-35: (1993) Krovetz, R., "Viewing Morphology as an Inference Process," in Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval, 191-203.
IR-34: (1993) Haines, D. and Croft, W.B., "Relevance Feedback and Inference Networks," in Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval, 2-11.
IR-33: (1993) Fujii, H. and Croft, W.B., "A Comparison of Indexing Techniques for Japanese TextRetrieval," in Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International ACMSIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval,237-247.
IR-32: (1993) CroftW.B. and Turtle H., "Retrieval Strategies for Hypertext," in InformationProcessing and Management, 29(3), 313-324.
IR-31: (1993) Callan, J.P. and Croft, W.B., "An Evaluation of Query Processing Strategies using the TIPSTERCollection," in Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International ACMSIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval,347-356.
IE-31: (1993) Riloff, E. and Lehnert, W.G., "A Dictionary Construction Experiment with DomainExperts," submitted to Proceedings of the TIPSTER Text Program (Phase I),pp. 257-259.
IR-30: (1993) Callan, J.P. and Croft, W.B., "An Approach to Incorporating CBR Concepts in IRSystems," in AAAI Spring Symposium: Case-Based Reasoning and InformationRetrieval - Exploring the Opportunities for Technology Sharing,28-34.
IE-30: (1993) Lehnert, W., McCarthy, J., Soderland, S., Riloff, E., Cardie, C., Peterson, J., Feng, F., Dolan, C., and Goldman, S., "UMASS/HUGHES: Description of the CIRCUS SystemUsed for MUC-5," submitted to Proceedings of the Fifth Message UnderstandingConference, pp. 277-291.
IR-29: (1993) Belkin, N.J., Cool., C., Croft, W.B. and Callan, J.P., "The Effect of Multiple QueryRepresentations on Information Retrieval System Performance," in Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conferenceon Research and Development Information Retrieval, pp. 339-346.
IE-29: (1993) Lehnert, W., McCarthy, J., Soderland, S., Riloff, E., Cardie, C., Peterson, J., Feng, F., Dolan, C. and Goldman, S., "UMASS/HUGHES: Description ofthe CIRCUS System Used for TIPSTER Text Extraction," submitted to Proceedingsof the TIPSTER Text Phase I 24-Month Conference, Executive Review,pp. 69-71.
IE-28: (1993) Lehnert, W., McCarthy, J., Soderland, S., Riloff, E., Cardie, C., Peterson, J., Feng, F., Dolan, C. and Goldman, S., "UMASS/HUGHES: Description ofthe CIRCUS System Used for TIPSTER Text Extraction," submitted to Proceedings ofthe TIPSTER Text Phase I 24-Month Conference, pp. 241-256.
IE-25: (1993) Riloff, E., "Using Cases to Represent Context for Text Classification," submitted to (Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Information andKnowledge Management ), 105-113.
IE-22: (1993) Cowie, J. and Lehnert, W., "Information Extraction," submitted to (Communications of theAssociation of Computing Machinery). Press.
IE-21: (1993) Riloff, E., "Automatically Constructing a Dictionary for Information ExtractionTasks," to appear in Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference onArtificial Intelligence, 811-816.
IE-20: (1993) Cardie, C., "Using Decision Trees to Improve Case-Based Learning," to appear in Proceedings ofthe Tenth International Conference of Machine Learning,25-32.
IE-19: (1993) Cardie, C., "A Case-BasedApproach to Knowledge Acquisition for Domain-Specific SentenceAnalysis," submitted to Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference onArtificial Intelligence ,798-803.
IE-17: (1993) Riloff, E., "Using Cases to Represent Context for Text Classification," to appear in WorkingNotes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Case-Based Reasoning andInformation Retrieval, Palo Alto, CA, 90-97. (note: an updated versionappears as TE-25).
IE-16: (1993) Riloff, E. and Lehnert, W., "Automated Dictionary Construction for InformationExtraction from Text," submitted to Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE Conference onArtificial Intelligence for Applications, 93-99.
CB-15: (1993) Rissland, E.L. and Brodley, C.E., "Training Issues in Incremental Learning," submitted to (Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium , Stanford, CA).
CB-14: (1993) Rissland, E.L., Skalak, D.B. and Friedman, M.T., "Using Heuristic Search to RetrieveCases that Support Arguments," submitted to (Proceedings of the Eleventh NationalConference for Artificial Intelligence, Workshop on Case-BasedReasoning, Washington, DC).
CB-13: (1993) Rissland, E.L., Daniels, J.J., Rubinstein, Z.B. and Skalak, D.B., "Diagnostic CaseRetreival Guided by Evaluation and Feedback," submitted to (Proceedings of theEleventh National Conference for Artifical Intelligence, Workshop onCase-Based Reasoning, Washington, DC). July 1993,pp. 135-140.
CB-12: (1993) Rissland, E.L., Daniels, J., Rubinstein, Z. and Skalak, D.B., "Case-Based DiagnosticAnalysis in a Blackboard Architecture," submitted to (Proceedings of the EleventhNational Conference for Artificial Intelligence, Washington,DC).
CB-11: (1993) Skalak, D.B., "TradingRules and Trading Cases in a Hybrid Architecture," to appear in (Proceedings ofthe Second International Conference for Artificial IntelligenceApplications on Wall Street, New York, NY), 252-258.
CB-10: (1993) Skalak, D.B., "Usinga Genetic Algorithm to Learn Prototypes for Case Retrieval andClassification," to appear in (Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference forArtificial Intelligence, Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning, Washington,D.C.).
CB-9: (1993) Brodley,C.E. and Rissland, E.L., "Measuring Concept Change," to appear in Working Notesof the AAAI-93 Spring Symposium on Training Issues IncrementalLearning, 98-107.
DB-5: (1993) Hosking, A.L., Brown, E.W. and Moss, J.E.B., "Update Logging for Persistent ProgrammingLanguages: A Comparative Performance Evaluation," submitted to VLDB 93 .
IC-3: (1993) Lesser, V.R., Nawab, H. and Klassner, F., "IPUS: An Architecture for theIntegrated Processing and Understanding of Signals," submitted to (AI Journal).
1992
IR-28: (1992) Turtle, H. and Croft, W.B., "A Comparison of Text Retrieval Models," Computer Journal 35(3), 279-290.
IR-27: (1992) Krovetz, R., "Sense-Linking in a Machine Readable Dictionary," in Proceedings of the 30th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 330-332.
IR-26: (1992) Krovetz, R. and Croft, W.B., "Lexical Ambiguity and Information Retrieval," in ACMTransactions on Information Systems, 10(2), 115-141.
IR-25: (1992) Croft, W.B. and Turtle, H., "Text Retrieval and Inference, In Text-Based Intelligent System," in Paul Jacobs (ed.), Lawrence Erlbaum, New Jersey,127-156.
IR-24: (1992) Croft, W.B. and Turtle, H., "Retrieval of Complex Object," submitted to Proceedings of EDBT 92 ,217-229.
IR-23: (1992) Croft, W.B., Smith, L. and Turtle H., "A Loosely Coupled Integration of a TextRetrieval System and an Object-Oriented Database System," in Proceedingsof SIGIR 92, 223-232.
IR-22: (1992) Croft, W.B. , "The University of Massachusetts TIPSTER Project," ACM SIGIR Forum, 26(2), 29-33.
IR-21: (1992) Callan, J.P., Croft, W.B., and Harding, S.M., "The INQUERY Retrieval System, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applicatio," in 78-83.
IR-20: (1992) Belkin, N.J. and Croft, W.B., "Information Filtering and InformationRetrieval: Two Sides of the Same Coin?, Communications of theAC," in 35(12), 29-38.
IE-15: (1992) Fisher, D. and Riloff, E., "Applying Statistical Methods to Small Corpora: Benefitingfrom a Limited Domain," submitted to AAAI Symposium on Probabilistic Approaches toNatural Language, 47-53.
IE-14: (1992) Riloff, E. and Lehnert, W., "Classifying Texts using Relevancy Signatures," submitted to Proceedings of the Tenth National Conference of ArtificialIntelligence, 329-334.
IE-13: (1992) Lehnert, W., Cardie, C., Fisher, D., McCarthy, J., Riloff, E. and Soderland, S., "University of Massachusetts: MUC-4 Test Results and Analysis," submitted to Proceedings of the Fourth Message Understanding Conference,151-158.
IE-12: (1992) Lehnert, W., Cardie, C., Fisher, D., McCarthy, J., Riloff, E. and Soderland, S., "University of Massachusetts: Description of the CIRCUS System as usedfor MUC-4," submitted to Proceedings of the Fourth Message UnderstandingConference, 282-288.
IE-11: (1992) Lehnert, W., "Automating the Construction of a Hypertext System for ScientificLiterature," submitted to Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on CommunicatingScientific and Technical Knowledge, 17-23.
IE-10: (1992) Fisher, D. and Riloff, E., "Applying Statistical Methods to Small Corpora: Benefitingfrom a Limited Domain," submitted to AAAI Symposium on Probabilistic Approaches toNatural Language, 47-53.
IE-9: (1992) Cardie, C., "Learning to Disambiguate Relative Pronouns," submitted to Proceedings of the TenthNational Conference on Artificial Intelligence , 38-43.
IE-8: (1992) Cardie, C., "UsingCognitive Biases to Guide Feature Set Selection," submitted to Proceedings of theFourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,743-748.
CB-8: (1992) Skalak, D.B., "Representing Cases as Knowledge Sources soning," to appear in Washington,D.C.
IE-7: (1992) Cardie, C., "UsingCognitive Biases to Guide Feature Set Selection," submitted to AAAI Workshop onConstrained Learning with Prior Knowledge, 11-18.
CB-7: (1992) Rissland, E.L., Skalak, D.B. and Friedman, M.T., "Case Retrieval through Multiple Indexingand Heuristic Search," submitted to (Proceedings of the Thirteenth InternationalJoint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Chambery, Savoie,France).
IE-6: (1992) Cardie, C., "Corpus-Based Acquisition of Relative Pronoun DisambiguationHeuristics," submitted to Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Associationfor Computational Linguistics, 216-223.
CB-6: (1992) Rissland E.L., Skalak, D.B., and Friedman, M.T., "Case-based Argument Generation as Search," submitted to (AAAI).
CB-5: (1992) Rissland, E.L., Skalak, D.B. and Frieman, M.T., "BankXX: A Program to Generate Argumentthrough Case-based Search," submitted to (Proceedings of the Fourth InternationalConference on AI and Law, Amsterdam, The Netherlands).
CB-4: (1992) Skalak, D.B. and Rissland, E.L., "Using Case-based Reasoning to Extend the Expertise ofExpert Systems," submitted to Expert Systems Law, A. Martino (ed.), ElsevierScience Publishers, 321-338.
CB-3: (1992) Skalak, D.B. and Rissland, E.L., "Arguments and Cases: An Inevitable Intertwining," submitted to Artificial Intelligence and Law 1, 3-44.
DB-1: (1992) Moss, J.E.B., "Working with Persistent Objects: To Swizzle or Not to Swizzle," submitted to IEEE TSE 18(8), 657-673.
1991
IR-19: (1991) Turtle, H. and Croft, W.B., "Evaluation of an Inference Network-Based Retrieval Model, ACM Transactions on Information System," in 9(3),187-222.
IR-18: (1991) Turtle, H. and Croft, W.B., "Efficient Probabilistic Inference for TextRetrieval," in Proceedings of RIAO 3, 644-661.
IR-17: (1991) Turtle, H., "Inference Networks for Document Retrieval," in Ph.D. dissertation.
IR-16: (1991) Lewis, D.D. , "Representation and Learning in Information Retrieval," Ph.D. dissertation.
IR-15: (1991 ) Krovetz, R. , "Lexical Acquisition and Information Retrieval, In Lexical Acquisition: Exploiting On-Line Resources to Build a Lexicon.," in U. Zernik (ed.), Lawrence Erlbaum, New Jersey, 45-64.
IR-14: (1991) Croft, W.B., Turtle, H., and Lewis, D., "The Use of Phrases and Structured Queries in Information Retrieval, Proceedings of SIGIR 9," in 32-45.
IE-5: (1991) Lehnert, W. and Sundheim, B., "APerformance Evaluation of Text-Analysis Technologies," submitted to AIMagazine, 81-94.
IE-4: (1991) Lehnert, W., Cardie, C., Fisher, D., Riloff, E. and Williams, R., "University ofMassachusetts: MUC-3 Test Results and Analysis," submitted to Proceedings of theThird Message Understanding Conference, 116-119.
IE-3: (1991) Lehnert, W., Cardie, C., Fisher, D., Riloff, E. and Williams R., "University ofMassachusetts: Description of the CIRCUS System as used for MUC-3," submitted to Proceedings of the Third Message Understanding Conference,223-233.
IE-2: (1991) Lehnert, W., "Symbolic/Subsymbolic Sentence Analysis: Exploiting the Best of TwoWorlds," submitted to Advances Connectionist and Neural ComputationTheory, Vol. I. John A. Barnden and Jordan Pollack (eds.), AblexPublishing, Norwood, New Jersey, 135-164.
IC-2: (1991) Carver, N. and Lesser, V., "A Planner for the Control ofProblem Solving Systems," submitted to (IEEE SMC).
IE-1: (1991) Cardie, C. and Lehnert, W., "A Cognitively Plausible Approach to UnderstandingComplex Syntax," submitted to Proceedings of the Ninth National Conference onArtificial Intelligence, 117-124.
IC-1: (1991) Carver, N. and Lesser, V., "A New Framework for Sensor Interpretation: Planning to Resolve Sources of Uncertainty," submitted to Proceeding of AAAI.
1990
IR-13: (1990) Lewis, D. and Croft, W.B., "Term Clustering of Syntactic Phrases, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Research and Development inInformation Retrieva," in 385-404.
IR-12: (1990) Krovetz, R., "Viewing the Dictionary as a Classification System, Proceedingsof the First ASIS Classification Worksho," in 87-93.
IR-11: (1990) Gay, L. and Croft, W.B., "Interpreting Nominal Compounds for Information Retrieval, Information Processing and Management," in 26(1),21-38.
IR-10: (1990) Forster, D. and Krovetz, R., "Natural Language Generation and Machine-Readable Dictionaries," in Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference of the UW Center for the New Oxford English Dictionary, Waterloo, 79-94.
IR-9: (1990) Croft, W.B. ,Krovetz, R., and Turtle, H. , "Interactive Retrieval of ComplexDocuments, Information Processing and Management," in 26(5),593-613.
IR-8: (1990) Croft, W.B. and Das, R., "Experiments with Query Acquisition and Use in Document Retrieval Systems, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval," in 349-368.
DB-4: (1990) Moss, J.E.B., "GarbageCollecting Persistent Object Stores," submitted to OOPSLA 90, Garbage CollectionWorkshop.
DB-3: (1990) Moss, J.E.B., "Design of theMneme Persistent Object Store," submitted to ACM Transactions on Office Systems8(2):103-139.
CB-2: (1990) Rissland, E.L., "Artificial Intelligence and Law: Stepping Stones to a Model of LegalReasoning," submitted to The Yale Law Journal 99(8),1957-1982.
DB-2: (1990) Moss, J.E.B., "AddressingLarge Distributed Collections of Persistent Objects: The MnemeProject Approach," submitted to Second International Workshop on DatabaseProgramming Languages , 6/89, 358-374.
1989
IR-7: (1989) Thompson, R. and Croft, W.B., "Support for Browsing in an Intelligent Text Retrieval System, International Journal of Man-Machine Studie," in 30,639-668.
IR-6: (1989) Lewis, D., Croft, W.B., and Bhandaru, N., "Language-Oriented InformationRetrieval, International Journal of Intelligent System," in 4,285-318.
IR-5: (1989) Croft, W.B. and Turtle, H., "A Retrieval Model Incorporating HypertextLinks,Proceedings of Hypertext 89," in 213-224.
IR-4: (1989) Croft, W.B., Lucia, T.J., Cringean, J. and Willett, P., "Retrieving Documents by Plausible Inference: An Experimental Study Information Processing and Management," in 25,599-614.
1988
IR-3: (1988) Croft, W.B. and Savino, P., "Implementing Ranking Strategies using Text Signatures,ACM Transactions on Office Information System," in 6,42-62.
1987
IR-2: (1987) Croft, W.B. and Thompson, R., "13R: A New Approach to the Design of Document Retrieval Systems," in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 58(6) 389-404.
IR-1: (1987) Belkin, N. and Croft, W.B., "Retrieval Techniques," submitted to Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 22 M.E. Williams (ed.) . Elsevier Science Publishers, 109-145.
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