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David Smith to join CIIR in September
David Smith, a Ph.D. candidate from Johns Hopkins University, will join the CIIR as a Research Assistant Professor in September. Smith will bring his experience in the areas of natural language processing and machine translation to the CIIR.CIIR to present 8 papers and 2 posters at SIGIR 2008
The 31st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '08) will feature 8 papers and 2 posters from the CIIR. SIGIR 2008 received 496 submissions and accepted 85 papers (a 17% acceptance rate). CIIR attendees at SIGIR '08 will include Bruce Croft, James Allan, Michael Bendersky, Ben Carterette, Greg Druck, Giridhar Kumaran, Kyung Soon Lee (CIIR Visiting Researcher, '07-'08), Jangwon Seo, Mark Smucker, and Xiaobing Xue.New IR Textbook
A new textbook,SIGIR 2009 to be held in Boston, MA
James Allan, UMass Amherst CS Professor and CIIR co-director, and Northeastern University's Jay Aslam are the General co-Chairs of SIGIR '09 to be held in Boston, Massachusetts in July 2009. See sigir2009.org for details.Carterette receives Microsoft Live Labs Fellowship (2007-2008)
Microsoft announced that CIIR graduate student Ben Carterette was selected for a Microsoft Live Labs Fellowship. In the 2007-2008 competition, Microsoft chose only four Live Labs fellows and 12 Microsoft Research fellows.Best Paper Award at SIGIR 2006
CIIR graduate student Ben Carterette along with co-authors James Allan and Ramesh Sitaraman received the Best Paper Award at SIGIR 2006 in Seattle, Washington for their paper "Minimal Test Collections for Retrieval Evaluation."Two of 22 Microsoft Fellowships (2006-2007) go to CIIR students
Microsoft selected Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) graduate students Aron Culotta and Don Metzler as Microsoft Research Fellows for the next two years in recognition of their research accomplishments. According to Microsoft, “competition for the Fellowship was extremely intense.” They received over 150 very highly qualified applicants from across the United States and Canada for 22 awards in 2006.Best Student Paper Award at SIGIR 2005
Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval graduate student Don Metzler received the Best Student Paper Award at the SIGIR 2005 in Salvador Brazil in August for his paper “A Markov Random Field Model for Term Dependencies.”Leuski and Allan receive James Chen Award for Best Journal Article
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI) announced that the paper "Interactive Information Retrieval Using Clustering and Spatial Proximity" by Anton Leuski (Ph.D. '01) and Associate Professor James Allan (UMUAI 14(2-3), pp. 259-288, June 2004) has been elected as the winner of the 2004 James Chen Annual Award for Best Journal Article. It was selected based on nominations from journal reviewers, editorial board members and guest editors, and a subsequent comparative review of the shortlisted papers by an award committee.The UMUAI annual best paper award has been donated by the Chen family in commemoration of James R. Chen, a creative researcher in the area of user modeling and information retrieval, and twice a UMUAI author.
UMUAI provides an interdisciplinary forum for the dissemination of new research results on interactive computer systems that can be adapted or adapt themselves to their current users, and on the role of user models in the adaptation process. Based on the ISI impact factor, the journal currently ranks #6 among 451 Computer Science journals. More information including a free electronic copy of the Tenth Anniversary Issue is available from http://www.umuai.org or the publisher's website at http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0924-1868.
Handwriting Retrieval
From Slashdot (12/3/04) to the New York Times ("A New Script for Searching Texts Written by Hand," by Ian Austen, 12/30/04), the CIIR's handwriting retrieval research led by Research Assistant Professor R. Manmatha has been getting quite a bit of press lately. More on the handwritten historical document retrieval system can be found at http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/research/wordspotting/.Indri Released
As part of the Carnegie Mellon University/UMass Amherst Lemur project, the CIIR has built a new Lemur configuration called Indri. Indri is a scalable language modeling search engine that supports structured queries. More details on the Indri application and downloading the software can be found here.
CIIR Alumni Reunion Reception
View photos from the Department of Computer Science Alumni & Friends Reception that was held on Friday, June 4, 2004. It was great to see some of our CIIR Alumni here. We hope that even more CIIR alumni/friends can attend the next event.
Croft receives major research award
IR Book Released (2003)
Stemming Tables
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