CIIR publications authored by Jamie Callan


IR-446: (2005) Allan, J., Croft, W. B. and Callan, J., "The University of Massachusetts and a Dozen TRECs," TREC Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval, Ellen M. Voorhees and Donna K. Harman, ed., MIT Press, chapter 11, pp. 261-286. (Online version not available.) [View bibtex]

IR-356: (2003) Allan, J.,  Aslam, J.,  Belkin, N.,  Buckley, C.,  Callan, J., Croft, W. B. ,  Dumais, S.,  Fuhr, N.,  Harman, D.,  Harper, D.,  Hiemstra, D.,  Hofmann, T.,  Hovy, E.,  Kraaij, W.,  Lafferty, J.,  Lavrenko, V.,  Lewis, D.,  Liddy, L.,  Manmatha, R.,  McCallum, A.,  Ponte, J.,  Prager, J.,  Radev, D.,  Resnik, P.,  Robertson, S.,  Rosenfeld, R.,  Roukos, S.,  Sanderson, M.,  Schwartz, R.,  Singhal, A.,  Smeaton, A.,  Turtle, H.,  Voorhees, E.,  Weischedel, R.,  Xu, J. and Zhai, C., "Challenges in Information Retrieval Language Modeling," SIGIR Forum, Spring 2003, Volume 37 Number 1. [View bibtex]

IR-215: (2000) Larkey, L.,  Connell, M. and Callan, J., "Collection Selection and Results Merging with Topically Organized U.S. Patents and TREC Data," Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information Knowledge and Management, pp. 282-289. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-199: (2000) Powell, A.,  French, J.,  Callan, J.,  Connell, M. and Viles, C., "The Impact of Database Selection on Distributed Searching," SIGIR 2000, pp. 232-239. [View bibtex]

IR-192: (2000) Callan, J., "Distributed Information Retrieval," Advances Information Retrieval: Recent Research from the CIIR, W. Bruce Croft, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Chapter 5, pp. 127-150. (Online version not available.). [View bibtex]

IR-182: (1999) Allan, J.,  Callan, J.,  Feng, F. and Malin, D., "INQUERY and TREC-8," Proceedings of TREC-8, pp. 637-644. [View bibtex]

IR-181: (1999) Callan, J.,  Powell, A.,  French, J. and Connell, M., "The Effects of Query-Based Sampling on Automatic Database Selection Algorithms," CIIR Technical Report. No electronic copy available. [View bibtex]

IR-180: (1999) Callan, J. and Connell, M., "Query-Based Sampling of Text Databases," ACM TOIS April 2001. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-167: (1999) French, J.,  Powell, A. and Callan, J., "Effective and efficient automatic database selection," CIIR Technical Report. [View bibtex]

IR-161: (1999) French, J.,  Powell, A.,  Callan, J.,  Viles, C.,  Emmitt, T.,  Prey, K. and Mou, Y., "Comparing the Performance of Database Selection Algorithms," Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval (SIGIR 99), pp. 238-245. [View bibtex]

IR-154: (1999) Callan, J.,  Connell, M. and Du, A., "Query-Based Sampling of Text Databases," CIIR Technical Report. [View bibtex]

IR-151: (1998) Callan, J.,  Connell, M. and Du, A., "Automated Discovery of Language Models for Text Databases," Proceedings of the ACM-SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, pp. 479-490. [View bibtex]

IR-150: (1998) Allan, J.,  Callan, J.,  Sanderson, M.,  Xu, J. and Wegmann, S., "INQUERY and TREC -7," Proceedings of the Seventh Text REtrieval Conference, (TREC-7), pp. 201-216. [View bibtex]

IR-147: (1998) Du, A. and Callan, J., "Improving Efficiency of Indexing by Using a Hierarchical Merge Approach," CIIR Technical Report. [View bibtex]

IR-146: (1998) Du, A. and Callan, J., "Probing A Collection to Discover its Language Model," UMass Technical Report number 98-29. [View bibtex]

IR-125: (1998) Callan, J., "Learning While Filtering Documents," SIGIR 98, pp. 224-231. [View bibtex]

IR-124: (1998) Xu, J. and Callan, J., "Effective Retrieval with Distributed Collections," SIGIR 98, pp. 112-120. [View bibtex]

IR-118: (1997) Allan, J.,  Callan, J., Croft, W. B. ,  Ballesteros, L.,  Byrd, D.,  Swan, R. and Xu, J., "INQUERY does battle with TREC-6," Proceedings of TREC-6 , pp. 169-206. [View bibtex]

IR-111: (1997) Allan, J.,  Callan, J., Croft, W. B. ,  Ballesteros, L.,  Broglio, J.,  Xu, J. and Shu, H., "INQUERY at TREC-5," The Fifth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-5), NIST special publication 500-238, pp. 119-132, November 1997. [View bibtex]

IR-101: (1996) Papka, R.,  Callan, J. and Barto, A., "Text-Based Information Retrieval Using Exponentiated Gradient Descent," Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of Advances Neural Information Processing Systems, pp 3-9. [View bibtex]

IR-91: (1996) Lu, Z.,  Callan, J. and Croft, W. B. , "Applying InferenceNetworks to Multiple Collection Searching," Umass Technical ReportTR96-42. [View bibtex]

IR-86: (1996) Broglio, J.,  Callan, J. and Croft, W. B. , "Technical Issues in Building an Information Retrieval System for Chinese," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-85: (1996) Lewis, D.,  Schapire, R.,  Callan, J. and Papka, R., "Training Algorithms for Linear Text Classifiers," Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 298-315. [View bibtex]

IR-84: (1996) Allan, J.,  Ballesteros, L.,  Callan, J., Croft, W. B. and Lu, Z., "Recent Experiments with INQUERY," Proceedings of the Fourth TREC Retrieval Conference (TREC-4), to be published Spring 1996. [View bibtex]

IR-79: (1996) Callan, J., "Document Filtering With Inference Networks," Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval (SIGIR 96), Zurich, Switzerland,pp. 262-269. [View bibtex]

IR-69: (1995) DeFazio, S.,  Daoud, A.,  Smith, L.,  Srinivasan, J., Croft, W. B. and Callan, J., "Integrating IR and RDBMS Using Cooperative Indexing," the 18th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval, pp. 84-92. [View bibtex]

IR-65: (1995) Vasanthakumar, S.,  Callan, J. and Croft, W. B. , "Integrating INQUERY with an RDBMS to Support Text Retrieval," the Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information RetrievalPost-Conference Workshop on Information Retrieval and Databases,Seattle, WA, July 9-13, 1995. [View bibtex]

IR-62: (1995) Croft, W. B.,  Callan, J. and Aronow, D., "Effective Access to DistributedHeterogeneous Medical Text Databases," Proceedings of the Eighth World Congress on Medical Informatics 8:1719, CIIR Technical Report. [View bibtex]

IR-58: (1995) Callan, J.,  Lu, Z. and Croft, W. B. , "Searching Distributed Collections With Inference Networks," Proceedings from the 18th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval, Seattle, WA. July 9-13,1995. [View bibtex]

IR-51: (1994) Callan, J., Croft, W. B. and Broglio, J., "TREC and TIPSTER Experiments with INQUERY," Information Processing and Management, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 327-343. [View bibtex]

IR-50: (1994) Callan, J. and Lewis, D., "The Efficiency Issues Workshop Report.," in Proceedings of the Second Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-2),Gaithersburg, MD. National Institute of Standards and Technology. [View bibtex]

IR-49: (1994) Brown, E.,  Callan, J. and Croft, W. B. , "Fast incremental indexing for full-text information retrieval.," Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Santiago, Chile. [View bibtex]

IR-46: (1994) Callan, J., "Passage-Level Evidence in Document Retrieval.," Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval, pp. 302-310 [View bibtex]

IR-44: (1994) Broglio, J.,  Callan, J. and Croft, W. B. , "INQUERY System Overview," Proceedings of the TIPSTER Text Program (Phase I), San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 47-67. [View bibtex]

IR-43: (1994) Croft, W. B.,  Callan, J. and Broglio, J., "TREC-2 Routing and Ad-Hoc Retrieval Evaluation using the INQUERY System," Proceedings of the Second Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-2) Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Special Publication, pp.75-84. [View bibtex]

IR-41: (1994) Brown, E.,  Callan, J., Croft, W. B. and Moss, J., "Supporting Full-Text Information Retrieval with a Persistent Object Store," (EDBT94). [View bibtex]

IR-37: (1993) Broglio, J.,  Callan, J.,  Chmaj, J. and Croft, W. B. , "Information Retrieval in a Customer Support Situation," Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence: AI Service and Support - Bridging the Gap between Research and Applications, 17-23. [View bibtex]

IR-31: (1993) Callan, J. and Croft, W. B. , "An Evaluation of Query Processing Strategies using the TIPSTER Collection," Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval, 347-356. [View bibtex]

IR-30: (1993) Callan, J. and Croft, W. B. , "An Approach to Incorporating CBR Concepts in IR Systems," AAAI Spring Symposium: Case-Based Reasoning and Information Retrieval - Exploring the Opportunities for Technology Sharing, 28-34. [View bibtex]

IR-29: (1993) Belkin, N.,  Cool, C., Croft, W. B. and Callan, J., "The Effect of Multiple Query Representations on Information Retrieval System Performance," Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval, pp. 339-346. [View bibtex]

IR-21: (1992) Callan, J., Croft, W. B. and Harding, S., "The INQUERY Retrieval System," Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Application, 78-83. [View bibtex]

DB-6: (1994) Brown, E.,  Callan, J., Croft, W. B. and Moss, J., "Supporting Full-Text Information Retrieval with a Persistent Object Store," (EDBT94). [View bibtex]