Abstract UMass Robust 2005 Notebook: Using Mixtures of Relevance Models for Query Expansion (2008)
Donald Metzler, O Diaz, Trevor Strohman, W. B. Croft
Track experiments. We focus on approaches that use term proximity and pseudo-relevance feedback using external collections. Our results indicate both approaches are highly effective. 1
Task Management for an Intelligent Interface 8 (2008)
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Synthesis of Reo Circuits for Implementation of Component-Connector automata specifications. (2008)
In K. Aardal, G. L. Nemhauser, R. Weismantel, Book On Discrete, S. Abiteboul, R. Agrawal, ...
Note that many of these publications are available electronically at
In K. Aardal, G. L. Nemhauser, R. Weismantel, Book On Discrete, K. Aardal, A. K. Lenstra, ...
[1] K. Aardal. Comments on the paper: Attacking the market split problem with lattice point
IS1 Collected Scientific Publications: 2004 – 2007 References (2008)
S. Abiteboul, R. Agrawal, P. A. Bernstein, M. J. Carey, S. Ceri, W. B. Croft, ...
G. Weikum, J. Widom, and S. B. Zdonik. The Lowell database research self-assessment.
cwi.nl/CWIreports/PNA/PNA-E0421.pdf. (2008)
In K. Aardal, G. L. Nemhauser, R. Weismantel, Book On Discrete, S. Abiteboul, R. Agrawal, ...
[1] K. Aardal. Comments on the paper: Attacking the market split problem with lattice point
[10] Eric K.Y. Ho Arno J. Knobbe. Numbers in Multi-Relational Data Mining. In Knowledge (2008)
In K. Aardal, G. L. Nemhauser, R. Weismantel, Book On Discrete, S. Abiteboul, R. Agrawal, ...
Note that many of these publications are available electronically at
Abstract Indexing Handwriting Using Word Matching (2008)
R. Manmatha, Chengfeng Han, E. M. Riseman, W. B. Croft
There are many historical manuscripts written in a single hand which it would be useful to index. Examples include the W. B. DuBois collection at the University of Massachusetts and the early...
AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION OF ENCOUNTER NOTES IN A COMPUTER BASED MEDICAL RECORD (2007)
D. B. Aronow, S. Soderl, J. M. Ponte, Feng F, W. B. Croft, W. G. Lehnert
Harvard Community Health Plan is exploring emerging information technologies for means to use the text portion of its 25 year old computerized medical record system. The Center for Intelligent...
UMass at TREC 2004: Novelty and HARD (2007)
Abdul-Jaleel, Nasreen, Allan, James, Croft, W. B., Diaz, Fernando, Larkey, Leah, Li, Xiaoyan, ...
For the TREC 2004 Novelty track, UMass participated in all four tasks. Although finding relevant sentences was harder this year than last, we continue to show marked improvements over the baseline of...
Indri at TREC 2004: Terabyte Track (2007)
Metzler, Donald, Strohman, Trevor, Turtle, Howard, Croft, W. B.
This paper provides an overview of experiments carried out at the TREC 2004 Terabyte Track using the Indri search engine. Indri is an efficient, effective distributed search engine. Like INQUERY, it...
Conference Publications (2007)
Aruna Balasubramanian, A. Balasubramanian, Y. Zhou, W. B. Croft, B. N. Levine, A. Venkataramani, ...
My research interests are broadly in systems. I am interested in using mathematical tools to develop practical systems. Currently, I am involved in developing algorithms to enable web search, games...
Conference Publications (2007)
Aruna Balasubramanian, A. Balasubramanian, Y. Zhou, W. B. Croft, B. N. Levine, A. Venkataramani, ...
My research interests are broadly in systems. I am interested in using mathematical tools to develop practical systems. Currently, I am involved in developing algorithms to enable web search, games...
An Evaluation of Techniques for Clustering Search Results (2006)
Leouski, Anton V., Croft, W. B.
The ability to effectively organize retrieval results becomes more important as the focus of Information Retrieval (IR) shifts towards interactive search processes. Automatic classification...
Allan, James, Connell, Margaret E., Croft, W. B., Feng, Fang-Fang, Fisher, David, Li, Xiaoyan
This year the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) at the University of Massachusetts participated in three of the tracks: the cross-language, question answering, and query tracks. We...
UMass Robust 2005: Using Mixtures of Relevance Models for Query Expansion (2006)
Metzler, Donald, Diaz, Fernando, Strohman, Trevor, Croft, W. B.
This paper describes the UMass TREC 2005 Robust Track experiments. For the 2005 Robust Track, we explore whether or not term proximity information and advanced pseudo- relevance feedback methods can...
Retrieval Using Plausible Inference (2006)
The goal of this project was basic research and development in the area of text-based information systems. A new probabilistic model of text retrieval using Bayesian inference nets was proposed and...
Evaluating Question-Answering Techniques in Chinese (2006)
An important first step in developing a cross-lingual question answering system is to understand whether techniques developed with English text will also work with other languages, such as Chinese....
UMass Robust 2005: Using Mixtures of Relevance Models for Query Expansion (2005)
Donald Metzler, Fernando Diaz, O Diaz, Trevor Strohman, W. B. Croft
This paper describes the UMass TREC 2005 Robust Track experiments. We focus on approaches that use term proximity and pseudo-relevance feedback using external collections. Our results indicate both...
Indri at TREC 2005: Terabyte Track (2004)
Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman, Yun Zhou, W. B. Croft
This work details the experiments carried out using the Indri search engine during the TREC 2005 Terabyte Track. Results are presented for each of the three tasks, including e#ciency, ad hoc, and...
Challenges in Information Retrieval and Language Modeling (2003)
Allen, J., Aslam, J., Belkin, N., Buckley, C., Callan, J., Croft, W.B., ...
Information retrieval (IR) research has reached a point where it is appropriate to assess progress and to define a research agenda for the next five to ten years. This report summarizes a discussion...
Lesser, Victor, Croft, W. B., Woolf, Beverly
The Northeast Artificial Intelligence Consortium (NAIC) was created by the Air Force Systems Command, Rome Air Development Center, and the Office of Scientific Research. Its purpose is to conduct...
Lesser, Victor, Croft, W. B., Woolf, Beverly
The Northeast Artificial Intelligence Consortium (NAIC) was created to conduct pertinent research in artificial intelligence and to perform activities ancillary to this research. The topics covered...
Lesser, Victor R., Croft, W. B., Woolf, Beverly
The Northeast Artificial Intelligence Consortium (NAIC) was created by the Air Force Systems Command, Rome Air Development Center, and the Office of Scientific Research. Its purpose is to conduct...
Lesser, Victor R., Croft, W. B.
The Northeast Artificial Intelligence Consortium (NAIC) was created by the Air Force Systems Command, Rome Air Development Center, and the Office of Scientific Research. Its purpose was to conduct...
The Northeast Artificial Intelligence Consortium (NAIC) was created by the Air Force Systems Command, Rome Air Development Center, and the Office of Scientific Research. Its purpose was conduct...
Retrieval Using Plausible Inference. (1998)
Retrieval is a crucial function in information systems, but the algorithms used in many systems are not effective in locating the required information. For example, text-based systems are an...
This project aims to integrate powerful, new techniques for interactive browsing, discovery, and retrieval in very large, distributed databases of complex and scanned documents. Emphasis is placed on...
This project aims to integrate powerful, new techniques for interactive browsing, discovery, and retrieval in very large, distributed databases of complex and scanned documents. Emphasis is placed on...
This project aims to integrate powerful, new techniques for interactive browsing, discovery, and retrieval in very large, distributed databases of complex and scanned documents. Emphasis is placed on...
This project aims to integrate powerful, new techniques for interactive browsing, discovery, and retrieval in very large, distributed databases of complex and scanned documents. Emphasis is placed on...
This project aims to integrate powerful, new techniques for interactive browsing, discovery, and retrieval in very large, distributed databases of complex and scanned documents. Emphasis is placed on...
This project aims to integrate powerful, new techniques for interactive browsing, discovery, and retrieval in very large, distributed databases of complex and scanned documents. Emphasis is placed on...
This project aims to integrate powerful, new techniques for interactive browsing, discovery and retrieval in very large, distributed databases of complex and scanned documents. Emphasis is placed on...
This project aims to integrate powerful, new techniques for interactive browsing, discovery, and retrieval in very large, distributed databases of complex and scanned documents. Emphasis is placed on...
Infrastructure of Large Scale Multimedia Information Indexing Retrieval and Organization (1998)
Manmatha, R., Allan, J., Croft, W. B., Callan, J.
The equipment acquired through DURIP has enabled NSF's National Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) at the University of Massachusetts to further its mission of carrying out leading...
Retrieval of Trademark and Gray-Scale Images Using Global Similarity (1998)
Ravela, S., Manmatha, R., Croft, W. B.
Content-based image retrieval is an important area of research. Here, a method to characterize visual appearance for determining global similarity in images is described. Images are filtered with...
Statistical Language Modeling for Information Retrieval (1998)
This chapter reviews research and applications in statistical language modeling for information retrieval (IR) that has emerged within the past several years as a new probabilistic framework for...
This project aims to integrate powerful, new techniques for interactive browsing, discovery, and retrieval in very large, distributed databases of complex and scanned documents. Emphasis is placed on...
This project aims to integrate powerful, new techniques for interactive browsing, discovery, and retrieval in very large, distributed databases of complex and scanned documents. Emphasis is placed on...
This project aims to integrate powerful, new techniques for interactive browsing, discovery, and retrieval in very large, distributed databases of complex and scanned documents. Emphasis is placed on...
This project aims to integrate powerful, new techniques for interactive browsing, discovery, and retrieval in very large, distributed databases of complex and scanned documents. Emphasis is placed on...
Word Spotting: Indexing Handwritten Archives (1997)
There are many single author, handwritten historical manuscripts which would be useful to index. Examples include the early Presidential papers at the Library of Congress and the collected works of...
Probabilistic Retrieval of OCR Degraded Text Using N-Grams (1997)
S.M. Harding, W. B. Croft, C. Weir
. The retrieval of OCR degraded text using n-gram formulations within a probabilistic retrieval system is examined in this paper. Direct retrieval of documents using n-gram databases of 2 and 3-grams...
Indexing Handwriting Using Word Matching (1996)
R. Manmatha, Chengfeng Han, E. M. Riseman, W. B. Croft
There are many historical manuscripts written in a single hand which it would be useful to index. Examples include the W. B. DuBois collection at the University of Massachusetts and the early...
Indexing Handwriting Using Word Matching (1996)
R. Manmatha, Chengfeng Han, E. M. Riseman, W. B. Croft
There are many historical manuscripts written in a single hand which it would be useful to index. Examples include the W. B. DuBois collection at the University of Massachusetts and the early...
Automated Classification Of Encounter Notes In A Computer Based Medical Record (1994)
D.B. Aronow, S. Soderl, J. M. Ponte, Feng F, W. B. Croft, W. G. Lehnert
Harvard Community Health Plan is exploring emerging information technologies for means to use the text portion of its 25 year old computerized medical record system. The Center for Intelligent...
An Evaluation of Information Retrieval Accuracy with Simulated OCR Output (1992)
Croft And, W. B. Croft, S. Harding, K. Taghva, J. Borsack
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a critical part of many text-based applications. Although some commercial systems use the output from OCR devices to index documents without editing, there is...
An Evaluation of Information Retrieval Accuracy with Simulated OCR Output (1992)
W. B. Croft, S. M. Harding, K. Taghva, J. Borsack
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a critical part of many text-based applications. Although some commercial systems use the output from OCR devices to index documents without editing, there is...
A network organization used for document retrieval (1983)
W. B. Croft, R. Wolf, R. Thompson
A network organization for implementing a document retrieval system is proposed. This organization has significant advantages in terms of the range of searches that can be used when compared to...