CIIR publications authored by Ron Papka


IR-191: (2000) Papka, R. and Allan, J., "Topic Detection and Tracking: Event Clustering as a Basis for First Story Detection," Advances Information Retrieval: Recent Research from the CIIR, W. Bruce Croft, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, chapter 4, pp. 96-126. (Online version not available.). [View bibtex]

IR-179: (1999) Papka, R., "On-line New Event Detection, Clustering, and Tracking," Ph.D. dissertation, Computer Science technical report TR99-45. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-177: (1999) Papka, R., "Learning Threshold Parameters for Event Classification in Broadcast News," CIIR Technical Report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-166: (1999) Papka, R.,  Allan, J. and Lavrenko, V., "UMASS Approaches to Detection and Tracking at TDT2," Proceedings of the DARPA Broadcast News Workshop, Herndon, VA, February 28-March 3, 1999, pp. 111-125. [View bibtex]

IR-160: (1999) Papka, R., "Learning Query Bias for Improved On-Line Document Classification," Proccedings of Snowbird 99 conference, Snowbird, Utah, April 5-10, 1999. [View bibtex]

IR-139: (1998) Papka, R. and Allan, J., "Document Classification using Multiword Features," The Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Bethesda, MD, Nov. 3-7,1998. [View bibtex]

IR-138: (1998) Allan, J.,  Papka, R. and Lavrenko, V., "On-line New Event Detection and Tracking," Proceedings of SIGIR98, pp. 37-45. [View bibtex]

IR-128: (1998) Allan, J.,  Lavrenko, V. and Papka, R., "Event Tracking," CIIR technical report. [View bibtex]

IR-123: (1998) Papka, R. and Allan, J., "On-Line New Event Detection using Single Pass Clustering," UMass Computer Science Technical Report # TR98-21. [View bibtex]

IR-106: (1997) Papka, R., "Why Bigger Windows Are Better Than Smaller Ones," UMass Technical Report #TR97-64. [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-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]