UMass CIIR Recent Publications http://maroo.cs.umass.edu/pub/web/rss/publication A listing of the latest publications from the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval at the University of Massachusetts. A Hidden Markov Model for Alphabet-Soup Word Recognition http://maroo.cs.umass.edu/pub/web/getpdf.php?id=832 IR-672: Shaolei Feng, R. Manmatha and Nicholas Howe. "A Hidden Markov Model for Alphabet-Soup Word Recognition" to appear in the Proc. of the International conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, ICFHR'08. Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 GMT Interactive Reformulation of Long Queries http://maroo.cs.umass.edu/pub/web/getpdf.php?id=831 IR-671: Giridhar Kumaran. "Interactive Reformulation of Long Queries" Ph.D. dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, May 2008. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000 GMT A Discrete Direct Retrieval Model for Image and Video Retrieval http://maroo.cs.umass.edu/pub/web/getpdf.php?id=830 IR-670: Shaolei Feng and Manmatha. "A Discrete Direct Retrieval Model for Image and Video Retrieval" to appear in the Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, CIVR'08. Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000 GMT Towards Scalable Data-Driven Authorship Attribution http://maroo.cs.umass.edu/pub/web/getpdf.php?id=829 IR-669: Marc-Allen Cartright, Michael Bendersky. "Towards Scalable Data-Driven Authorship Attribution" CIIR Technical Report. Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000 GMT Intelligent Email: Aiding Users with AI http://maroo.cs.umass.edu/pub/web/getpdf.php?id=828 IR-668: Mark Dredze, Hanna Wallach, Danny Puller, Tova Brooks, Josh Carroll, Joshua Magarick, John Blitzer, Fernando Pereira. "Intelligent Email: Aiding Users with AI" Twenty-Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-08), Chicago, IL, July 13-17, 2008. Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000 GMT Topic Models Conditioned on Arbitrary Features with Dirichlet-multinomial Regression http://maroo.cs.umass.edu/pub/web/getpdf.php?id=826 IR-666: David Mimno, Andrew McCallum. "Topic Models Conditioned on Arbitrary Features with Dirichlet-multinomial Regression" Proceedings of Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), Helsinki, Finland, June 2008. Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000 GMT Evaluation Measures for Preference Judgments http://maroo.cs.umass.edu/pub/web/getpdf.php?id=825 IR-665: Ben Carterette and Paul Bennett. "Evaluation Measures for Preference Judgments" The 31st Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 08), Singapore, July 20-24. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 GMT Re-ranking search results using document-passage graphs http://maroo.cs.umass.edu/pub/web/getpdf.php?id=823 IR-663: Michael Bendersky, Oren Kurland. "Re-ranking search results using document-passage graphs" SIGIR'08, July 20-24, 2008, Singapore. Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 GMT A Note on Semi-Supervised Learning using Markov Random Fields http://maroo.cs.umass.edu/pub/web/getpdf.php?id=822 IR-662: Wei Li, Andrew McCallum. "A Note on Semi-Supervised Learning using Markov Random Fields" CIIR Technical Report, February 2004. Fri, 21 Feb 2003 00:00:00 +0000 GMT Answer Extraction using Language Models and Data-Mining http://maroo.cs.umass.edu/pub/web/getpdf.php?id=821 IR-661: Wei Li. "Answer Extraction using Language Models and Data-Mining " CIIR Technical Report, 2003. Sun, 23 Feb 2003 00:00:00 +0000 GMT