Donald Metzler | publications

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General Information Retrieval

Croft, W.B., Metzler, D., and Strohman, T. "Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice," to appear in 2009. [web site]

Metzler, D. "Beyond Bags of Words: Effectively Modeling Dependence and Features in Information Retrieval," Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Massachusetts Amherst. Amherst, MA, 2007.[pdf][abstract][slides][slides (4up)]
Metzler, D. "Automatic Feature Selection in the Markov Random Field Model for Information Retrieval," in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2007), 253-262, 2007. [pdf][abstract][slides]
Metzler, D and Croft, W.B. "Latent Concept Expansion Using Markov Random Fields," in the Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007), 311-318, 2007. [pdf][abstract][slides]
Metzler, D., and Croft, W.B. "Beyond Bags of Words: Modeling Implicit User Preferences in Information Retrieval," in the Proceedings of AAAI'06 (Nectar Track), 2006. [pdf][abstract][slides]
Metzler, D. "Direct Maximization of Rank-based Metrics," CIIR Technical report. [pdf][abstract]
Metzler, D. and Croft, W.B., "A Markov Random Field Model for Term Dependencies," Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR 2005), 472-479, 2005. [pdf][abstract][slides][Best Student Paper]

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, 2005. [pdf][abstract]
Strohman, T., Metzler, D., Turtle, H., Croft, W.B., "Indri: A language model-based serach engine for complex queries" in the online Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligence Analysis. [pdf][abstract]
Metzler, D. and Croft, W.B., "Combining the Language Model and Inference Network Approaches to Retrieval," Information Processing and Management Special Issue on Bayesian Networks and Information Retrieval, 40(5), 735-750, 2004. [pdf][abstract]

Turtle, H. and Metzler, D. "CIIR Experiments for TREC Legal 2007," in the online Proceedings of the 2007 Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2007), 2007.[pdf][abstract]
Metzler, D., Strohman, T., and Croft, W.B. "Indri at TREC 2006: Lessons Learned from Three Terabyte Tracks," in the online Proceedings of 2006 Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006), 2006. [pdf][abstract][slides]
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), 2006. [pdf][abstract][slides][poster]
Metzler, D., Diaz, F., Strohman, T., and Croft, W.B., "UMass Robust 2005: Using Mixture of Relevance Models for Query Expansion," in the online Proceedings of the 2005 Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2005), 2006. [pdf][abstract][poster]
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), 2005. [pdf][abstract]

Metzler, D. "Generalized Inverse Document Frequency," to appear in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), 2008. [pdf][abstract][slides soon]
Metzler, D., Strohman, T., and Croft, W.B., "A Statistical View of Binned Retrieval Models", in the Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2008), 175-186, 2008. [pdf][abstract][slides]
Metzler, D. "Using Gradient Descent to Optimize Language Modeling Smoothing Parameters" in the Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007), 687-688, 2007. [pdf][poster]
Metzler, D. and Croft, W.B. "Linear Feature-Based Models for Information Retrieval," in Information Retrieval, 10(3), 257-274, 2007. [pdf][abstract]
Metzler, D., "Estimation, Sensitivity, and Generalization in Parameterized Retrieval Models (Extended Version)," CIIR Technical Report, 2006. [pdf soon][abstract soon][poster soon]
Metzler, D., "Estimation, Sensitivity, and Generalization in Parameterized Retrieval Models," in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2006), 2006. [pdf][abstract][poster]
Metzler, D., Lavrenko, V., and Croft, W. B., "Formal Multiple-Bernoulli Models for Language Modeling," Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2004, 540-541, 2004. [pdf][abstract][poster]

Broder, A. Ciaramita, M., Fontoura, M., Gabrilovich, E., Josifovski, V., Metzler, D., Murdock, V., and Plachouras, V. "To Swing or not to Swing: Learning when (not) to Advertise," to appear in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), 2008. [pdf][abstract][slides soon]

Metzler, D., Bernstein, Y., Croft, W.B., Moffat, A., and Zobel, J. "Similarity Measures for Tracking Information Flow," Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2005), 517-524, 2005. [pdf][abstract][slides]
Metzler, D., Bernstein, Y., Croft, W.B., Moffat, A., and Zobel, J., "The Recap System for Identifying Information Flow," Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR 2005), 678-678, 2005.[pdf]

Metzler, D., Dumais, S., and Meek, C. "Similarity Measures for Short Segments of Text," in the Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2007), 16-27, 2007. [pdf][abstract][slides]

Metzler, D. and Kanungo, T. "Machine Learned Sentence Selection Strategies for Query-Biased Summarization," to appear in the SIGIR Learning to Rank Workshop (LR4IR 2008), 2008. [pdf][abstract][slides soon]

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 and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), 154-161, 2006. [pdf][abstract][CIIR lab meeting slides]

Metzler, D. and Croft, W.B., "Analysis of Statistical Question Classification for Fact-based Questions," in Information Retrieval, 8(3), 481-504, 2005. [pdf][abstract]

Metzler, D., and Manmatha, R., "An Inference Network Approach to Image Retrieval," Proceedings of the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2004), 42-50, 2004. [pdf][abstract][slides]

Diaz, F., and Metzler, D. "Pseudo-Aligned Multilingual Corpora," in the Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007), 2727-2732, 2007. [pdf][abstract]

Last updated: Wed Aug 13 23:36:59 EDT 2008