W. Bruce Croft
Distinguished University Professor Emeritus,
College of Information and Computer Sciences,
and Former Director, Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval
College of Information and Computer Sciences
140 Governors Drive, Box 9264
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003-9264
Office: 370 Computer Science Research Center
Phone: (413) 545-0463
Fax: (413) 545-1789
Email: croft@cs.umass.edu
Faculty member and former Dean in the College of Information and Computer Sciences.
Former Director of the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval.
Research interests: Information retrieval.
Some Recent Publications:
- Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice, Addison Wesley, 2010.
- Guo, J., Ai, Q., Fan, Y. and Croft, W. B., "Semantic Matching by Non-Linear Word Transportation for Information Retrieval," Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016), pp. 701-710, 2016.
- Ai, Q., Yang, L., Guo, J. and Croft, W. B. , "Analysis of the Paragraph Vector Model for Information Retrieval," Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2016), pp. 133-142, 2016.
- Cohen, D. and Croft, W. B., "End to End Long Short Term Memory Networks for Non-Factoid Question Answering," Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2016), pp. 143-146, 2016.
- Zamani, H. and Croft, W. B., "Estimating Embedding Vectors for Queries," Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2016), pp. 123-132, 2016.
- Yang, L., Ai, Q., Spina, D., Chen, R., Pang, L., Croft, W. B. , Guo, J. and Scholer, F., "Beyond Factoid QA: Effective Methods for Non-factoid Answer Sentence Retrieval," Proceedings of the 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2016), pp. 115-128, 2016.
- Chen, R., Lee, C. and Croft, W. B., "On Divergence Measures and Static Index Pruning," Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theoretical Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2015), pp. 151-160, 2015.
- Kim, Y. and Croft, W. B., "Improving Patent Search by Search Result Diversification," Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theoretical Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2015), pp.201-210, 2015.
- Lee, C., Ai, Q., Croft, W. B. and Sheldon, D., "An Optimization Framework for Merging Multiple Result Lists," Proceedings of the 24th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2015), pp. 303-312, 2015.
- Keikha, M., Park, J. and Croft, W. B., "Evaluating Answer Passages using Summarization Measures," Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2014), pp. 963-966, 2014.
Link to Google Scholar citation profile
Awards, etc.:
● IEEE Fellow, 2021
● ACM SIGIR Academy Inductee, 2021
● IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, 2014
● UMass Amherst Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity, 2014
● UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award, 2013
● ACM SIGIR Salton Award, 2003
● ASIST Research Award, 2000
● ACM Fellow, 1996
Recent Ph.D. Graduates:
● Qingyao Ai
● Michael Bendersky
● Van Dang
● Samuel Huston
● Jiwoon Jeon
● Jinyoung Kim
● Youngho Kim
● Victor Lavrenko
● Dawn Lawrie
● Chia-Jung Lee
● Xiaoyan Li
● Xiaoyong Liu
● Donald Metzler
● Vanessa Murdock
● Jae Hyun Park
● Jangwon Seo
● Trevor Strohman
● Xing Wei
● Xiaobing Xue
● Liu Yang
● Hamed Zamani
● Yun Zhou