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W. Bruce Croft

Papers on DiSC'04


Relevant query feedback in statistical language modeling

Time-based language models

Language Models for Information Retrieval

Salton Award Lecture - Information retrieval and computer science: an evolving relationship

Table extraction using conditional random fields

Generating hierarchical summaries for web searches

Challenges in Information Retrieval and Language Modeling

Publications


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W. Bruce Croft

W. Bruce Croft, Rajeev Sangal : Thirteenth International Work Shop on Research Issues in Data Engineering: Multi-lingual Information Management, RIDE-MLIM 2003, Hyderabad, India, March 10-11, 2003 IEEE Computer Society 2003

Xiaoyan Li , W. Bruce Croft: Time-based language models. CIKM 2003 : 469-475

Ramesh Nallapati , W. Bruce Croft, James Allan : Relevant query feedback in statistical language modeling. CIKM 2003 : 560-563

W. Bruce Croft: Language Models for Information Retrieval. ICDE 2003 : 3-7

W. Bruce Croft: Salton Award Lecture - Information retrieval and computer science: an evolving relationship. SIGIR 2003 : 2-3

David Pinto , Andrew McCallum , Xing Wei , W. Bruce Croft: Table extraction using conditional random fields. SIGIR 2003 : 235-242

Dawn J. Lawrie , W. Bruce Croft: Generating hierarchical summaries for web searches. SIGIR 2003 : 457-458

Xiaoyong Liu , W. Bruce Croft: Passage retrieval based on language models. CIKM 2002 : 375-382

Diane Kelly , Xiao-Jun Yuan , Nicholas J. Belkin , Vanessa Murdock , W. Bruce Croft: Features of documents relevant to task- and fact-oriented questions. CIKM 2002 : 645-647

David Pinto , Michael Branstein , Ryan Coleman , W. Bruce Croft, Matthew King , Wei Li , Xing Wei : QuASM: a system for question answering using semi-structured data. JCDL 2002 : 46-55

Victor Lavrenko , Martin Choquette , W. Bruce Croft: Cross-lingual relevance models. SIGIR 2002 : 175-182

Stephen Cronen-Townsend , Yun Zhou , W. Bruce Croft: Predicting query performance. SIGIR 2002 : 299-306

Vanessa Murdock , W. Bruce Croft: Task orientation in question answering. SIGIR 2002 : 355-356

Robert W. P. Luk , Hong Va Leong , Tharam S. Dillon , Alvin T. S. Chan , W. Bruce Croft, James Allan : A survey in indexing and searching XML documents. JASIST 53 (6): 415-437 (2002)

W. Bruce Croft, David J. Harper , Donald H. Kraft , Justin Zobel : SIGIR 2001: Proceedings of the 24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, September 9-13, 2001, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA ACM 2001

W. Bruce Croft, Stephen Cronen-Townsend , Victor Larvrenko : Relevance Feedback and Personalization: A Language Modeling Perspective. DELOS Workshop: Personalisation and Recommender Systems in Digital Libraries 2001

Victor Lavrenko , W. Bruce Croft: Relevance-Based Language Models. SIGIR 2001 : 120-127

Dawn Lawrie , W. Bruce Croft, Arnold L. Rosenberg : Finding Topic Words for Hierarchical Summarization. SIGIR 2001 : 349-357

Fangfang Feng , W. Bruce Croft: Probabilistic techniques for phrase extraction. Inf. Process. Manage. 37 (2): 199-220 (2001)

W. Bruce Croft: Combining Approaches to IR (invited talk). DELOS Workshop: Information Seeking, Searching and Querying in Digital Libraries 2000

W. Bruce Croft: Information Retrieval Based on Statistical Language Models. ISMIS 2000 : 1-11

James Allan , Margaret E. Connell , W. Bruce Croft, Fangfang Feng , David Fisher , Xioayan Li : INQUERY and TREC-9. TREC 2000

Jinxi Xu , W. Bruce Croft: Improving the effectiveness of information retrieval with local context analysis. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 18 (1): 79-112 (2000)

Fei Song , W. Bruce Croft: A General Language Model for Information Retrieval. CIKM 1999 : 316-321

Mark Sanderson , W. Bruce Croft: Deriving Concept Hierarchies from Text. SIGIR 1999 : 206-213

Jinxi Xu , W. Bruce Croft: Cluster-Based Language Models for Distributed Retrieval. SIGIR 1999 : 254-261

Fei Song , W. Bruce Croft: A General Language Model for Information Retrieval (poster abstract). SIGIR 1999 : 279-280

Warren R. Greiff , W. Bruce Croft, Howard R. Turtle : PIC matrices: a computationally tractable class of probabilistic query operators. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 17 (4): 367-405 (1999)

Jay M. Ponte , W. Bruce Croft: A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval. SIGIR 1998 : 275-281

Lisa Ballesteros , W. Bruce Croft: Resolving Ambiguity for Cross-Language Retrieval. SIGIR 1998 : 64-71

Jinxi Xu , W. Bruce Croft: Corpus-Based Stemming Using Cooccurrence of Word Cariants. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 16 (1): 61-81 (1998)

Ben Shneiderman , Donald Byrd , W. Bruce Croft: Sorting Out Searching: A User-Interface Framework for Text Searches. Commun. ACM 41 (4): 95-98 (1998)

Pallavi Pyreddy , W. Bruce Croft: TINTIN: A System for Retrieval in Text Tables. ACM DL 1997 : 193-200

Jay M. Ponte , W. Bruce Croft: Text Segmentation by Topic. ECDL 1997 : 113-125

Stephen M. Harding , W. Bruce Croft, C. Weir : Probabilistic Retrieval of OCR Degraded Text Using N-Grams. ECDL 1997 : 345-359

Warren R. Greiff , W. Bruce Croft, Howard R. Turtle : Computationally Tractable Probabilistic Modeling of Boolean Operators. SIGIR 1997 : 119-128

Lisa Ballesteros , W. Bruce Croft: Phrasal Translation and Query Expansion Techniques for Cross-language Information Retrieval. SIGIR 1997 : 84-91

James Allan , James P. Callan , W. Bruce Croft, Lisa Ballesteros , Donald Byrd , Russell C. Swan , Jinxi Xu : INQUERY Does Battle With TREC-6. TREC 1997 : 169-206

Lisa Ballesteros , W. Bruce Croft: Dictionary Methods for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval. DEXA 1996 : 791-801

R. Manmatha , Chengfeng Han , Edward M. Riseman , W. Bruce Croft: Indexing Handwriting Using Word Matching. Digital Libraries 1996 : 151-159

W. Bruce Croft, John Broglio , Hideo Fujii : Applications of Multilingual Text Retrieval. HICSS (5) 1996 : 98-

Leah S. Larkey , W. Bruce Croft: Combining Classifiers in Text Categorization. SIGIR 1996 : 289-297

Jinxi Xu , W. Bruce Croft: Query Expansion Using Local and Global Document Analysis. SIGIR 1996 : 4-11

James Allan , James P. Callan , W. Bruce Croft, Lisa Ballesteros , John Broglio , Jinxi Hu , Hongming Shu : INQUERY at TREC-5. TREC 1996

Howard R. Turtle , W. Bruce Croft: Uncertainty in Information Retrieval Systems. Uncertainty Management in Information Systems 1996 : 189-224

S. R. Vasanthakumar , James P. Callan , W. Bruce Croft: Integrating INQUERY with an RDBMS to Support Text Retrieval. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 19 (1): 24-33 (1996)

W. Bruce Croft, Robert Cook , Dean Wilder : Providing Government Information on the Internet: Experiences with THOMAS. DL 1995 : 0-

W. Bruce Croft: Machine Learning and Information Retrieval (Abstract). ICML 1995 : 587

James P. Callan , Zhihong Lu , W. Bruce Croft: Searching Distributed Collections with Inference Networks. SIGIR 1995 : 21-28

Samuel DeFazio , Amjad M. Daoud , Lisa Ann Smith , Jagannathan Srinivasan , W. Bruce Croft, James P. Callan : Integrating IR and RDBMS Using Cooperative Indexing. SIGIR 1995 : 84-92

James Allan , Lisa Ballesteros , James P. Callan , W. Bruce Croft, Zhihong Lu : Recent Experiments with INQUERY. TREC 1995

W. Bruce Croft: NSF Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval. Commun. ACM 38 (4): 42-43 (1995)

Dirk E. Mahling , Noël Craven , W. Bruce Croft: From Office Automation to Intelligent Workflow Systems. IEEE Expert 10 (3): 41-47 (1995)

W. Bruce Croft: Effective Text Retrieval Based on Combining Evidence from the Corpus and Users. IEEE Expert 10 (6): 59-63 (1995)

James P. Callan , W. Bruce Croft, John Broglio : TREC and Tipster Experiments with Inquery. Inf. Process. Manage. 31 (3): 327-343 (1995)

T. B. Rajashekar , W. Bruce Croft: Combining Automatic and Manual Index Representations in Probabilistic Retrieval. JASIS 46 (4): 272-283 (1995)

W. Bruce Croft: Lab Report Special Section: The University of Massachusetts Center for Intelligent Information Retrival. SIGIR Forum 29 (1): 1-7 (1995)

W. Bruce Croft, C. J. van Rijsbergen : Proceedings of the 17th Annual International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Dublin, Ireland, 3-6 July 1994 (Special Issue of the SIGIR Forum) ACM/Springer 1994

Eric W. Brown , James P. Callan , W. Bruce Croft, J. Eliot B. Moss : Supporting Full-Text Information Retrieval with a Persistent Object Store. EDBT 1994 : 365-378

W. Bruce Croft: Integrating Text and Database Systems: Possibilities and Challenges. East/West Database Workshop 1994 : 194-205

John Broglio , James P. Callan , W. Bruce Croft, Daniel W. Nachbar : Document Retrieval and Routing Using the INQUERY System. TREC 1994 : 0-

Eric W. Brown , James P. Callan , W. Bruce Croft: Fast Incremental Indexing for Full-Text Information Retrieval. VLDB 1994 : 192-202

David Haines , W. Bruce Croft: Relevance Feedback and Inference Networks. SIGIR 1993 : 2-11

Hideo Fujii , W. Bruce Croft: A Comparison of Indexing Techniques for Japanese Text Retrieval. SIGIR 1993 : 237-246

Nicholas J. Belkin , Colleen Cool , W. Bruce Croft, James P. Callan : Effect of Multiple Query Representations on Information Retrieval System Performance. SIGIR 1993 : 339-346

James P. Callan , W. Bruce Croft: An Evaluation of Query Processing Strategies Using the TIPSTER Collection. SIGIR 1993 : 347-355

W. Bruce Croft, James P. Callan , John Broglio : TREC-2 Routing and Ad-Hoc Retrieval Evaluation using the INQUERY System. TREC 1993 : 75-84

Dik Lun Lee , W. Bruce Croft: Guest Editor's Introduction. IEEE Expert 8 (2): 6-7 (1993)

W. Bruce Croft: Knowledge-Based and Statistical Approaches to Text Retrieval. IEEE Expert 8 (2): 8-12 (1993)

W. Bruce Croft, Howard R. Turtle : Retrieval Strategies for Hypertext. Inf. Process. Manage. 29 (3): 313-324 (1993)

James P. Callan , W. Bruce Croft, Stephen M. Harding : The INQUERY Retrieval System. DEXA 1992 : 78-83

W. Bruce Croft, Howard R. Turtle : Retrieval of Complex Objects. EDBT 1992 : 217-229

W. Bruce Croft, Lisa Ann Smith , Howard R. Turtle : A Loosely-Coupled Integration of a Text Retrieval System and an Object-Oriented Database System. SIGIR 1992 : 223-232

W. Bruce Croft: Experience with Large Document Collections (Panel). SIGIR 1992 : 347

W. Bruce Croft: TIPSTER Panel - The University of Massachusetts TIPSTER Project. TREC 1992 : 101-106

Robert Krovetz , W. Bruce Croft: Lexical Ambiguity and Information Retrieval. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 10 (2): 115-141 (1992)

Nicholas J. Belkin , W. Bruce Croft: Information Filtering and Information Retrieval: Two Sides of the Same Coin? Commun. ACM 35 (12): 29-38 (1992)

Howard R. Turtle , W. Bruce Croft: A Comparison of Text Retrieval Models. Comput. J. 35 (3): 279-290 (1992)

W. Bruce Croft: The University of Massachusetts TIPSTER Project. SIGIR Forum 26 (2): 29-33 (1992)

Krithi Ramamritham , J. Eliot B. Moss , John A. Stankovic , David W. Stemple , W. Bruce Croft, Donald F. Towsley : Summary of Database Research Activities at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. SIGMOD Record 21 (1): 139-143 (1992)

W. Bruce Croft, Howard R. Turtle , David D. Lewis : The Use of Phrases and Structured Queries in Information Retrieval. SIGIR 1991 : 32-45

W. Bruce Croft: Editorial. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 9 (3): 185 (1991)

Howard R. Turtle , W. Bruce Croft: Evaluation of an Inference Network-Based Retrieval Model. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 9 (3): 187-222 (1991)

W. Bruce Croft, Nicholas J. Belkin , Marie-France Bruandet , Rainer Kuhlen : Hypertext and Information Retrieval: What are the Fundamental Concepts? (Panel). ECHT 1990 : 362-366

Howard R. Turtle , W. Bruce Croft: Inference Networks for Document Retrieval. SIGIR 1990 : 1-24

W. Bruce Croft, Raj Das : Experiments with Query Acquisition and Use in Document Retrieval Systems. SIGIR 1990 : 349-368

David D. Lewis , W. Bruce Croft: Term Clustering of Syntactic Phrases. SIGIR 1990 : 385-404

Dirk E. Mahling , Oddmar A. Sandvik , W. Bruce Croft: Visual Interaction Between End Users and Goal Based Systems. VL 1990 : 182-186

W. Bruce Croft: Towards Intelligent Information Retrieval: An Overview of IR Research at U. Mass. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 13 (1): 17-24 (1990)

L. S. Gay , W. Bruce Croft: Interpreting nominal compounds for information retrieval. Inf. Process. Manage. 26 (1): 21-38 (1990)

W. Bruce Croft, Robert Krovetz , Howard R. Turtle : Interactive retrieval of complex documents. Inf. Process. Manage. 26 (5): 593-613 (1990)

W. Bruce Croft, Howard R. Turtle : A Retrieval Model for Incorporating Hypertext Links. Hypertext 1989 : 213-224

Robert Krovetz , W. Bruce Croft: Word Sense Disambiguation Using Machine-Readable Dictionaries. SIGIR 1989 : 127-136

W. Bruce Croft, T. J. Lucia , Janey K. Cringean , Peter Willett : Retrieving documents by plausible inference: An experimental study. Inf. Process. Manage. 25 (6): 599-614 (1989)

R. H. Thompson , W. Bruce Croft: Support for Browsing in an Intelligent Text Retrieval System. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 30 (6): 639-668 (1989)

Dirk E. Mahling , W. Bruce Croft: Relating Human Knowledge of Tasks to the Requirements of Plan Libraries. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 31 (1): 61-97 (1989)

W. Bruce Croft: Chairman's Message. SIGIR Forum 23 (3-4): 2 (1989)

W. Bruce Croft, T. J. Lucia , Paul R. Cohen : Retrieving Documents by Plausible Inference: A Preliminary Study. SIGIR 1988 : 481-494

W. Bruce Croft, Pasquale Savino : Implementing Ranking Strategies Using Text Signatures. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 6 (1): 42-62 (1988)

W. Bruce Croft: Chairman's Message. SIGIR Forum 22 (1-2): 1 (1988)

Carol A. Broverman , W. Bruce Croft: Reasoning about Exceptions during Plan Execution Monitoring. AAAI 1987 : 190-195

W. Bruce Croft, David D. Lewis : An Approach to Natural Language Processing for Document Retrieval. SIGIR 1987 : 26-32

W. Bruce Croft, David W. Stemple : Supporting Offics Document Architectures with Constrained Types. SIGMOD Conference 1987 : 504-509

W. Bruce Croft: Approaches to Intelligent Information Retrieval. Inf. Process. Manage. 23 (4): 249-254 (1987)

W. Bruce Croft: Approaches to intelligent information retrieval. Inf. Process. Manage. 23 (4): 249-254 (1987)

Nicholas J. Belkin , Christine L. Borgman , Helen M. Brooks , Tom Bylander , W. Bruce Croft, Penny J. Daniels , Scott C. Deerwester , Edward A. Fox , Peter Ingwersen , Roy Rada : Distributed Expert-Based Information Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Inf. Process. Manage. 23 (5): 395-409 (1987)

W. Bruce Croft: User-Specified Domain Knowledge for Document Retrieval. SIGIR 1986 : 201-206

Carol A. Broverman , W. Bruce Croft: A Knowledge-Based Approach to Data Management for Intelligent User Interfaces. VLDB 1985 : 96-104

W. Bruce Croft: Task Management for an Intelligent Interface. IEEE Database Eng. Bull. 8 (4): 8-13 (1985)

W. Bruce Croft, Thomas J. Parenty : A comparison of a network structure and a database system used for document retrieval. Inf. Syst. 10 (4): 377-390 (1985)

W. Bruce Croft, Roger Thompson : The Use of Adaptive Mechanisms for Selection of Search Strategies in Document Retrieval Systems. SIGIR 1984 : 95-110

W. Bruce Croft, Lawrence S. Lefkowitz : Task Support in an Office System. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 2 (3): 197-212 (1984)

W. Bruce Croft: The Role of Context and Adaptation in User Interfaces. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 21 (4): 283-292 (1984)

W. Bruce Croft, R. Wolf , R. Thompson : A Network Organization Used for Document Retrieval. SIGIR 1983 : 178-188

W. Bruce Croft: Applications for Information Retrieval Techniques in the Office. SIGIR 1983 : 18-23

W. Bruce Croft, Lynn Ruggles : The Implementation of a Document Retrieval System. SIGIR 1982 : 28-37

W. Bruce Croft: Experiments with Automatic Text Filing and Retrieval in the Office Environment. SIGIR Forum 16 (4): 2-9 (1982)

W. Bruce Croft: Incorporating Different Search Models into One Document Retrieval System. SIGIR 1981 : 40-45

W. Bruce Croft: A model of cluster searching bases on classification. Inf. Syst. 5 (3): 189-195 (1980)

W. Bruce Croft: On the Implementation of Some Models of Document Retrieval. SIGIR 1979 : 71-77

W. Bruce Croft: A File Organization for Cluster-Based Retrieval. SIGIR 1978 : 65-82

W. Bruce Croft, C. J. van Rijsbergen : An evaluation of Goffman's indirect retrieval method. Inf. Process. Manage. 12 (5): 327-331 (1976)

C. J. van Rijsbergen , W. Bruce Croft: Document clustering: An evaluation of some experiments with the cranfield 1400 collection. Inf. Process. Manage. 11 (5-7): 171-182 (1975)

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