Donald Metzler | publications

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General Information Retrieval

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

Markov Random Fields for IR

Bendersky, M., Metzler, D., and Croft, W.B. "Learning Concept Importance Using a Weighted Dependence Model," to appear in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2010), 2010. [pdf][abstract][slides soon]
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]

Indri

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]

TREC (Terabyte Track, Robust Track, Legal Track)

Lin, J., Metzler, D., Elsayed, T., and Wang, L. "Of Ivory and Smurfs: Loxodontan MapReduce Experiments for Web Search," to appear in the online Proceedings of the 2009 Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2009), 2010.[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]

Parameter Estimation, Features, and Modeling

Wang, L., Metzler, D., and Lin, J. "Learning to Efficiently Rank," to appear in the Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2010), 2010. [pdf soon][abstract soon][slides soon]
Diaz, F., Metzler, D., and Amer-Yahia, S. "Relevance and Ranking in Online Dating Systems," to appear in the Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2010), 2010. [pdf soon][abstract soon][slides soon]
Cui, H., Reddy, S., and Metzler, D. "QueryText -- Using Queries and Clicks to Improve Text Matching for Web Search," Yahoo! Labs Technical Report, 2009. [pdf][abstract]
Metzler, D., Zaragoza, H. "Semi-Parametric and Non-Parametric Term Weighting for Information Retrieval," to appear in the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2009), 2009. [pdf][abstract][slides soon]
Metzler, D. "Generalized Inverse Document Frequency," in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), 2008. [pdf][abstract][slides]
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]

Evaluation

Carterette, B., Gabrilovich, E., Josifovski, V., and Metzler, D. "Measuring the Reusability of Test Collections," to appear in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2010), 2010. [pdf][abstract][slides soon]
Chapelle, O., Zhang, Y., Metzler, D., and Grinspan, P. "Expected Reciprocal Rank for Graded Relevance," to appear in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009), 2009. [pdf][abstract][slides soon]

Computational Advertising

Bendersky, M., Gabrilovich, E., Josifovski, V., and Metzler, D., "The Anatomy of an Ad: Structured Indexing and Retrieval for Sponsored Search," to appear in the Proceedings of the 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2010), 2010. [pdf soon][abstract soon]
Broder, A. Ciccolo, P., Gabrilovich, Josifovski, V., Metzler, D., Riedel, L., and Yuan, J. "Online Expansion of Rare Queries for Sponsored Search," to appear in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the World Wide Web (WWW 2009), 2009. [pdf][abstract][slides soon]
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," in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), 2008. [pdf][abstract][slides]

Temporal Queries

Metzler, D., Jones, R., Peng, F., and Zhang, R. "An Analysis of Implicitly Year Qualified Queries," Yahoo! Labs Technical Report, 2009. [pdf][abstract]
Metzler, D., Jones, R., Peng, F., and Zhang, R. "Improving Search Relevance for Implicitly Temporal Queries," to appear as a poster in the Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2009), 2009. [pdf][abstract][poster soon]
Zhang, R., Chang, Y., Zheng, Z., Metzler, D., and Nie, J. "Search Result Re-ranking by Feedback Control Adjustment for Time-sensitive Query," to appear as a short paper in the Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2009), 2009. [pdf][abstract]

Information Flow (The RECAP System)

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]

Enriched Query and Document Representations

Metzler, D., Novak, J., Cui, H., and Reddy, S. "Building Enriched Document Representations using Aggregated Anchor Text," to appear in the Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2009), 2009. [pdf][abstract][slides soon]
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]
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]

Summarization

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

Question Answering

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]

Image Retrieval

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]

Multilingual Corpora Alignment

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: Tue Dec 15 01:49:52 EST 2009