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. UMass Amherst and UT Austin @ The TREC 2009 Relevance Feedback Track http://maroo.cs.umass.edu/pub/web/getpdf.php?id=909 IR-747: Marc-Allen Cartright, Jangwon Seo, Matthew Lease. "UMass Amherst and UT Austin @ The TREC 2009 Relevance Feedback Track " Notebook Proceedings of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2009) Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, Nov 17-20, 2009. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 GMT Training Factor Graphs with Reinforcement Learning for Efficient MAP Inference http://maroo.cs.umass.edu/pub/web/getpdf.php?id=908 IR-746: Michael Wick, Khashayar Rohanimanesh, Sameer Singh, Andrew McCallum. "Training Factor Graphs with Reinforcement Learning for Efficient MAP Inference" Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). Vancouver, British Columbia 2009. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 GMT FACTORIE: Probabilistic Programming via Imperatively Defined Factor Graphs http://maroo.cs.umass.edu/pub/web/getpdf.php?id=906 IR-744: Andrew McCallum, Karl Schultz, Sameer Singh. "FACTORIE: Probabilistic Programming via Imperatively Defined Factor Graphs" Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NIPS 09) Vancouver, Canada, December 7-10, 2009. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 GMT Energy Consumption in Mobile Phones: A Measurement Study and Implications for Network Applications http://maroo.cs.umass.edu/pub/web/getpdf.php?id=904 IR-742: Niranjan Balasubramanian, Aruna Balasubramanian, Arun Venkataramani. "Energy Consumption in Mobile Phones: A Measurement Study and Implications for Network Applications" the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 09), Chicago, USA, November 4-6, 2009. Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 GMT Rethinking LDA: Why Priors Matter http://maroo.cs.umass.edu/pub/web/getpdf.php?id=903 IR-741: Hanna Wallach, David Mimno, Andrew McCallum. "Rethinking LDA: Why Priors Matter" Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, Canada, 2009. Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 GMT Polylingual Topic Models http://maroo.cs.umass.edu/pub/web/getpdf.php?id=902 IR-740: David Mimno, Hanna Wallach, Jason Naradowsky, David Smith, Andrew McCallum. "Polylingual Topic Models" Proceedings of EMNLP 2009, pp. 880-889. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 GMT Query Reformulation Using Anchor Text http://maroo.cs.umass.edu/pub/web/getpdf.php?id=900 IR-738: Van Dang, W. Croft. "Query Reformulation Using Anchor Text" to appear in the Proceedings of the Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2010. Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 GMT Bi-directional Joint Inference for Entity Resolution and Segmentation Using Imperatively-Defined Factor Graphs http://maroo.cs.umass.edu/pub/web/getpdf.php?id=898 IR-736: Sameer Singh, Karl Schultz, Andrew McCallum. "Bi-directional Joint Inference for Entity Resolution and Segmentation Using Imperatively-Defined Factor Graphs" Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2009), pp. 414-429. Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 GMT Modeling Searcher Frustration http://maroo.cs.umass.edu/pub/web/getpdf.php?id=897 IR-735: Henry Feild, James Allan. "Modeling Searcher Frustration" Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2009), pp. 5-8. Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000 GMT Automatic Query Generation for Patent Search http://maroo.cs.umass.edu/pub/web/getpdf.php?id=896 IR-734: Xiaobing Xue, W. Croft. "Automatic Query Generation for Patent Search" Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009), pp. 2037-2040. Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000 GMT