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2024

Learning to Rank Salient Content for Query-focused Summarization
Sajad Sotudeh, Nazli Goharian
EMNLP '24: Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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LexBoost: Improving Lexical Document Retrieval with Nearest Neighbors
Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder, Sean MacAvaney
DocEng '24: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, 2024
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Genetic Approach to Mitigate Hallucination in Generative IR
Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder, Sean MacAvaney
The Second Workshop on Generative Information Retrieval (GenIR@SIGIR'24)
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SigBart: Enhanced Pre-training via Salient Content Representation Learning for Social Media Summarization
Sajad Sotudeh, and Nazli Goharian
Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media (SocialNLP@WWW 2024)
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2023

OntG-Bart: Ontology-Infused Clinical Abstractive Summarization
Sajad Sotudeh, and Nazli Goharian
DocEng '23: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, 2023
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Genetic Generative Information Retrieval
Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Zachary Young, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder, Sean MacAvaney
DocEng '23: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, 2023
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QontSum: On Contrasting Salient Content for Query-focused Summarization
Sajad Sotudeh, and Nazli Goharian
The First Workshop on Generative Information Retrieval (GenIR@SIGIR'23)
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Lexically-Accelerated Dense Retrieval
Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Sean MacAvaney, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2023)
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Curriculum-Guided Abstractive Summarization
Sajad Sotudeh, Hanieh Deilamsalehy, Franck Dernoncourt, Nazli Goharian
CoRR, 2023
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Knowledge Augmentation for Early Depression Detection
Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Sean MacAvaney, Nazli Goharian and Ophir Frieder
The 7th International Workshop on Health Intelligence (W3PHIAI-23) Feb 2023, Washington DC, USA.
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2022

Reconstruction of Artifacts from Digital Image Repositories
Cristopher Flagg, Ophir Frieder
ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage
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Caching Historical Embeddings in Conversational Search
Ophir Frieder, Ida Mele, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto
ACM Transactions on the Web
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Curriculum-guided Abstractive Summarization for Mental Health Online Posts
Sajad Sotudeh, Nazli Goharian, Hanieh Deilamsalehy, Franck Dernoncourt
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (LOUHI 2022)
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Self-supervised Representation Learning on Electronic Health Records with Graph Kernel Infomax
Hao-Ren Yao, Nairen Cao, Katina Russell, Der-Chen Chang, Ophir Frieder, Jeremy Fineman
CoRR (2022)
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Goldilocks: Just-right tuning of bert for technology-assisted review
Eugene Yang, Sean MacAvaney, David D Lewis, Ophir Frieder
Advances in Information Retrieval: 44th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2022
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GUIR@ MuP 2022: Towards Generating Topic-aware Multi-perspective Summaries for Scientific Documents
Sajad Sotudeh, Nazli Goharian
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP 2022)
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TSTR: Too Short to Represent, Summarize with Details! Intro-Guided Extended Summary Generation
Sajad Sotudeh, Nazli Goharian
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: (NAACL 2022)
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TBD3: A Thresholding-Based Dynamic Depression Detection from Social Media for Low-Resource Users
Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Sean MacAvaney, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022)
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MentSum: A Resource for Exploring Summarization of Mental Health Online Posts
Sajad Sotudeh, Nazli Goharian, Zachary Young
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022)
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ABNIRML: Analyzing the Behavior of Neural IR Models
Sean MacAvaney, Sergy Feldman, Nazli Goharian, Doug Downey, Arman Cohan
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)
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2021

TLDR9+: A Large Scale Resource for Extreme Summarization of Social Media Posts
Sajad Sotudeh, Hanieh Deilamsalehy, Franck Dernoncourt, and Nazli Goharian
Proceedings of the Workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization
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Adaptive utterance rewriting for conversational search
Ida Mele, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto, Ophir Frieder
Information Processing & Management
Simplified Data Wrangling with ir_datasets
Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Sergey Feldman, Doug Downey, Arman Cohan, and Nazli Goharian
ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2021)
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Certifying One-Phase Technology-Assisted Reviews
David D. Lewis, Eugene Yang, Ophir Frieder
30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2021) (To be appeared)
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TAR on Social Media: A Framework for Online Content Moderation
Eugene Yang, David D. Lewis, Ophir Frieder
Proceddings of Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems 2021 (DESIRES 2021) (To be appeared)
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Heuristic Stopping Rules For Technology-Assisted Review
Eugene Yang, David D. Lewis, Ophir Frieder
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2021 (DocEng '21)
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On Minimizing Cost in Legal Document Review Workflows
Eugene Yang, David D. Lewis, Ophir Frieder
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2021 (DocEng '21)
(DocEng 2021 Best Student Paper Award)
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ToxCCIn: Toxic Content Classification with Interpretability
Tong Xiang, Sean MacAvaney, Eugene Yang, Nazli Goharian
11th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2021)
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On Generating Extended Summaries of Long Documents
Sajad Sotudeh, Arman Cohan, and Nazli Goharian
The AAAI-21 Workshop on Scientific Document Understanding (SDU 2021)
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Interaction Matching for Long-Tail Multi-Label Classification
Sean MacAvaney, Franck Dernoncourt, Walter Chang, Nazli Goharian, and Ophir Frieder
The AAAI-21 Workshop on Scientific Document Understanding (SDU 2021)
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Real-time Streaming of Gait Assessment for Parkinson’s Disease
Cristopher Flagg, Ophir Frieder, Sean MacAvaney, and Gholam Motamedi
Web Search and Data Mining 2021 (WSDM 2021, demo)
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2020

GUIR @ LongSumm 2020: Learning to Generate Long Summaries from Scientific Documents
Sajad Soutdeh, Arman Cohan, and Nazli Goharian
Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP 2020)
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SLEDGE-Z: A Zero-Shot Baseline for COVID-19 Literature Search
Sean MacAvaney, Arman Cohan, and Nazli Goharian
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020)
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Direct Sampling of Multiview Line Drawings for Document Retrieval
Cristopher Flagg and Ophir Frieder
ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2020 (DocEng '20)
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Cross-Global Attention Graph Kernel Network Prediction of Drug Prescription
Hao-Ren Yao, Der-Chen Chang, Ophir Frieder, Wendy Huang, I-Chia Liang and Chi-Feng Hung
ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB 2020)
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GUIR at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Domain-Tuned Contextualized Models for Offensive Language Detection
Sajad Sotudeh*, Tong Xiang*, Hao-Ren Yao, Sean MacAvaney, Eugene Yang, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2020)
*Equal contribution
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Expansion via Prediction of Importance with Contextualization.
Sean MacAvaney, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020)
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Efficient Document Re-Ranking for Transformers by Precomputing Term Representations .
Sean MacAvaney, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020)
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Training Curricula for Open Domain Answer Re-Ranking.
Sean MacAvaney, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020)
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Brief Announcement: Improved Work Span Tradeoff for Single Source Reachability and Approximate Shortest Paths.
Nairen Cao, Jeremy T. Fineman, and Katina Russell
ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA 2020)
Attend to Medical Ontologies: Content Selection for Clinical Abstractive Summarization.
Sajad Sotudeh and Nazli Goharian
Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020)
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Efficient Construction of Directed Hopsets and Parallel Approximate Shortest Paths.
Nairen Cao, Jeremy T. Fineman, and Katina Russell
ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2020)
Toward RSA-OAEP Without Random Oracles.
Nairen Cao, Adam O'Neill and Mohammad Zaheri
IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography (PKC 2020)
Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks: Resurrecting Multilingual Retrieval Using Zero-shot Learning.
Sean MacAvaney, Luca Soldaini, and Nazli Goharian
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2020)
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Ranking Significant Discrepancies in Clinical Reports.
Sean MacAvaney, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian, and Ross Filice
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2020)
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Streaming Gait Assessment for Parkinson's Disease.
Cristopher Flagg, Ophir Frieder, Sean MacAvaney, and Gholam Motamedi
Health Search and Data Mining Workshop 2020
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OpenNIR: A Complete Neural Ad-Hoc Ranking Pipeline.
Sean MacAvaney
Web Search and Data Mining 2020 (WSDM 2020, demo)
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Topical Result Caching in Web Search Engines.
Ida Mele, Nicola Tonellotto, Ophir Frieder, and Raffaele Perego
Information Processing & Management
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2019

I/O-Efficient Algorithms for Topological Sort and Related Problems.
Nairen Cao, Jeremy T. Fineman, Katina Russell, Eugene Yang
ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2019)
Hate speech detection: Challenges and solutions.
Sean MacAvaney, Hao-Ren Yao, Eugene Yang, Katina Russell, Nazli Goharian, and Ophir Frieder
PLoS ONE
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Searching Document Repositories using 3D Model Reconstruction.
Cristopher Flagg and Ophir Frieder
ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2019 (DocEng 2019)
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Multiple Graph Kernel Fusion Prediction of Drug Prescription.
Hao-Ren Yao, Der-Chen Chang, Ophir Freider, Wendy Huang, and Tian-Shyug Lee
ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB 2019)
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CEDR: Contextualized Embeddings for Document Ranking.
Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Arman Cohan, and Nazli Goharian
ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019)
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Text Retrieval Priors for Bayesian Logistic Regression.
Eugene Yang, David Lewis, and Ophir Frieder
ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019)
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Ontology-Aware Clinical Abstractive Summarization.
Sean MacAvaney*, Sajad Sotudeh Gharebagh*, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian, Ish Talati, and Ross Filice
ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019)
*Equal contribution
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Enhanced News Retrieval: Passages Lead the Way!
Matteo Catena, Ophir Frieder, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, and Nicola Tonellotto
ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019)
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Content-Based Weak Supervision for Ad-Hoc Re-Ranking.
Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Kai Hui, and Ophir Frieder
ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019)
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A Regularization Approach to Combining Keywords and Training Data in Technology-Assisted Review
Eugene Yang, David D. Lewis, and Ophir Frieder
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2019)
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Graph Kernel Prediction of Drug Prescription
Hao-Ren Yao, Der-Chen Chang, Ophir Frieder, Wendy Huang, and Tian-Shyug Lee
IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI 2019)
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Overcoming Low-Utility Facets for Complex Answer Retrieval
Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Kai Hui, Nazli Goharian, and Ophir Frieder
Information Retrieval Journal, Special Issue on Knowledge Graphs and Semantics in Text Analysis and Retrieval
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2018

PACRR Gated Expansion for TREC CAR 2018
Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Nazli Goharian, and Ophir Frieder
Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), 2018.
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Efficient Energy Management in Distributed Web Search
Matteo Catena, Ophir Frieder, and Nicola Tonellotto
27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018)
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Retrieval and Richness When Query By Document.
Eugene Yang, David D. Lewis, Ophir Frieder, David Grossman, and Roman Yurchak
Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems (DESIRES 2018)
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SMHD: a Large-Scale Resource for Exploring Online Language Usage for Multiple Mental Health Conditions.
Arman Cohan*, Bart Desmet*, Andrew Yates*, Luca Soldaini, Sean MacAvaney and Nazli Goharian
COLING 2018
*Equal contribution
(Nominated for best paper award and selected as "Area Chair Favorite")
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Characterizing Question Facets for Complex Answer Retrieval.
Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Kai Hui, Nazli Goharian, and Ophir Frieder
ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018)
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A Discourse-Aware Attention Model for Abstractive Summarization of Long Documents.
Arman Cohan, Franck Dernoncourt, Doo Soon Kim, Trung Bui, Seokhwan Kim, Walter Chang, and Nazli Goharian
NAACL-HLT 2018
Helping or Hurting? Predicting Changes in Users’ Risk of Self-Harm Through Online Community Interactions.
Luca Soldaini, Timothy Walsh, Arman Cohan, Julien Han, and Nazli Goharian.
CLPsych 2018
RSDD-Time: Temporal Annotation of Self-Reported Mental Health Diagnoses.
Sean MacAvaney, Bart Desmet, Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Andrew Yates, Ayah Zirikly, and Nazli Goharian
CLPsych 2018
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A Deeper Look into Dependency-Based Word Embeddings.
Sean MacAvaney and Amir Zeldes
NAACL-HLT Student Research Workshop 2018
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Tree-LSTMs for Scientific Relation Classification.
Sean MacAvaney, Luca Soldaini, Arman Cohan, and Nazli Goharian
International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2018)
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Co-PACRR: A Context-Aware Neural IR Model for Ad-hoc Retrieval.
Kai Hui, Andrew Yates, Klaus Berberich, Gerard de Melo
International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2018)
Scientific Document Summarization via Citation Contextualization and Scientific Discourse
Arman Cohan, and Nazli Goharian
International Journal on Digital Libaries (IJDL)
Special Issue on Bibliometric-Enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing
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2017

Contextualized PACRR for Complex Answer Retrieval
Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, and Kai Hui
Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), 2017.
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Denoising Clinical Notes for Medical Literature Retrieval with Convolutional Neural Model
Luca Soldaini, Andrew Yates, Nazli Goharian
26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017)
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Depression and Self-Harm Risk Assessment in Online Forums
Andrew Yates*, Arman Cohan*, Nazli Goharian
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2017)
*Equal contribution
(EMNLP 2017 Best Long Paper Award)
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PACRR: A Position-Aware Neural IR Model for Relevance Matching
Kai Hui, Andrew Yates, Klaus Berberich, Gerard de Melo
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2017)
Coughing, sneezing, and aching online: Twitter and the volume of influenza-like illness in a pediatric hospital
David M. Hartley , Courtney M. Giannini, Stephanie Wilson, Ophir Frieder, Peter A. Margolis, Uma R. Kotagal, Denise L. White, Beverly L. Connelly, Derek S. Wheeler, Dawit G. Tadesse, Maurizio Macaluso
PLOS ONE, 2017
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An Approach for Weakly-Supervised Deep Information Retrieval
Sean MacAvaney, Kai Hui, Andrew Yates
Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval (Neu-IR '17) at SIGIR 2017
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Identifying Harm Events in Clinical Care through Medical Narratives
Arman Cohan, Allan Fong, Raj Ratwani, and Nazli Goharian
ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB 2017)
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Learning to Reformulate Long Queries for Clinical Decision Support
Luca Soldaini, Andrew Yates, Nazli Goharian
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)
Special Issue on Biomedical Information Retrieval
Volume 68, Issue 11, November 2017
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Contextualizing Citations for Scientific Summarization using Word Embeddings and Domain Knowledge
Arman Cohan, and Nazli Goharian
ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017)
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Eectiveness Results for Popular e-Discovery Algorithms
Eugene Yang, David Grossman, Ophir Frieder, Roman Yurchak
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2017)
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A Framework for Cross-Domain Clinical Temporal Information Extraction
Sean MacAvaney, Arman Cohan, and Nazli Goharian
International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2017).
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Inferring Individual Attributes from Search Engine Queries and Auxiliary Information
Luca Soldaini and Elad Yom-Tov
Proceedings of the 26th international conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2017)
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Triaging Content Severity in Online Mental-Health Forums
Arman Cohan, Sydney Young, Andrew Yates, Nazli Goharian
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)
Special Issue on Biomedical Information Retrieval
Volume 68, Issue 11, November 2017
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A Neural Attention Model for Categorizing Patient Safety Events
Arman Cohan, Allan Fong, Nazli Goharian, and Raj Ratwani
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2017)
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Learning to Rank for Consumer Health Search: a Semantic Approach
Luca Soldaini and Nazli Goharian
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2017)
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2016

QuickUMLS: a fast, unsupervised approach for medical concept extraction
Luca Soldaini and Nazli Goharian
Medical Information Retrieval (MedIR) workshop at SIGIR, July 2016
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Temporal Information Processing for Clinical Narratives
Arman Cohan, Kevin Meurer, and Nazli Goharian
International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2016)
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Triaging Mental Health Forum Posts
Arman Cohan, Sydney Young, and Nazli Goharian
Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych) at NAACL 2016
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Revisiting Summarization Evaluation for Scientific Articles
Arman Cohan and Nazli Goharian
Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016)
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Effects of Sampling on Twitter Trend Detection
Andrew Yates, Alek Kolcz, Nazli Goharian and Ophir Frieder
Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016).
The news cycle's influence on social media activity
Andrew Yates, Jonah Joselow, Nazli Goharian
International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2016).
Learning the relationships between drug, symptom, and medical condition mentions in social media
Andrew Yates, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2016).
Identifying Significance of Discrepancies in Radiology Reports
Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Nazli Goharian, Allan Fong, Ross Filice, Raj Ratwani
Workshop on data Mining for Medicine and Healthcare (DMMH) at SDM 2016
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Searching Corrupted Document Collections
Jason Soo and Ophir Frieder
In International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS) XII, April 2016.
Enhancing web search in the medical domain via query clarification,
Luca Soldaini, Andrew Yates, Elad Yom-Tov, Ophir Frieder, and Nazli Goharian
Information Retrieval Journal, Volume 19, Issue 1, April 2016.
Revisiting Known-Item Retrieval in Degraded Document Collections
Jason Soo and Ophir Frieder
Document Recognition and Retrieval (DRR) XXIII, February 2016.

2015

Scientific Article Summarization Using Citation-Context and Article's Discourse Structure
Arman Cohan and Nazli Goharian
Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2015)
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Matching Citation Text and Cited Spans in Biomedical Literature: a Search-Oriented Approach,
Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, and Nazli Goharian
North American chapter of ACL (NAACL 2015)
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Health Related Hypothesis Generation using Social Media Data,
Jon Parker, Andrew Yates, Nazli Goharian, and Ophir Frieder
Social Network Analysis and Mining, Springer, December 2015.
Retrieving Medical Literature for Clinical Decision Support
Luca Soldaini, Arman Cohan, Andrew Yates, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), April 2015.
Extracting Adverse Drug Reactions from Social Media
Andrew Yates, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
"AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2015.
Query Reformulation for Clinical Decision Support Search
Luca Soldaini, Arman Cohan, Andrew Yates, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), 2015.

2014

Towards Citation-Based Summarization of Biomedical Literature,
Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, S. Mengle, and Nazli Goharian
Text Analysis Conference (TAC), 2014.
Robust Binarization of Degraded Document Images Using Heuristics.
Jon Parker, Ophir Frieder, and Gideon Frieder
Document Recognition and Retrieval XXI, 2014.
Infectious disease: Mobilizing Ebola survivors to curb the epidemic.
J. M. Epstein, L. M. Sauer, J. Chelen, E. Hatna, J. Parker, R. E. Rothman, and L. Rubinson.
Nature 516, no. 7531 (2014): 323.
On clinical decision support
Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Andrew Yates, Nazli Goharian, and Ophir Frieder
Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (BCB), 2014
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On searching misspelled collections
Jason Soo and Ophir Frieder
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 2014
A Framework for Public Health Surveillance
Andrew Yates, Jon Parker, Nazli Goharian, and Ophir Frieder
Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), May 2014.
Relevance-Ranked Domain-Specific Synonym Discovery
Andrew Yates, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), April 2014.

2013

Rank-Energy Selective Query Forwarding for Distributed Search Systems
Amin Teymorian, Ophir Frieder, Mark Maloof
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Nov. 2013.
Semi-supervised Sentiment Analysis: Merging Labeled Sentences with Unlabeled Reviews to Identify Sentiment
Andrew Yates, Nazli Goharian, Wai Gen Yee
American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), Nov 2013.
A Framework for Detecting Public Health Trends with Twitter
Jon Parker, Wai Gen Yee, Andrew Yates, Ophir Frieder, and Nazli Goharian
Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Aug. 2013.
Automatic Enhancement and Binarization of Degraded Document Images,
Jon Parker, Ophir Frieder, and Gideon Frieder. " International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2013.
Extracting Adverse Drug Reactions from Forum Posts and Linking them to Drugs
Andrew Yates, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
SIGIR Workshop on Health Search and Discovery, Aug. 2013.
A Non-Learning Approach to Spelling Correction in Web Queries
Jason Soo
World Wide Web (WWW), 2013.
Graded Relevance Ranking for Synonym Discovery
Andrew Yates, Nazli Goharian and Ophir Frieder
World Wide Web (WWW), 2013.
To Follow or Not to Follow: A Feature Evaluation
Yanan Zhu and Nazli Goharian
World Wide Web (WWW), 2013.
ADRTrace: Detecting Expected and Unexpected Adverse Drug Reactions from User Reviews on Social Media Sites
Andrew Yates and Nazli Goharian
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2013.

2012

Generalized Sentiment-Bearing Expression Features for Sentiment Analysis
S. Liu, G. Agam, D. Grossman
Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) , 2012.
Interactive and Context-Aware Tag Spell Check and Correction
F. Bonchi, O. Frieder, F. M. Nardini, F. Silvestri, H. Vahabi
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) , Nov. 2012.
(Not Too) Personalized Learning to Rank for Contextual Suggestion
A. Yates, D. DeBoer, H. Yang, N. Goharian, S. Kunath, O. Frieder
TREC 2012 Contextual Suggestion Track, Nov. 2012.
Effective Structured Query Formulation for Session Search,
D. Guan, H. Yang, N. Goharian
TREC 2012, Nov. 2012.
RESQ: Rank-Energy Selective Query Forwarding for Distributed Search Systems
A. Teymorian, X. Qin, O. Frieder
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'12) , Nov. 2012.
Extracting Information Networks from the Blogosphere
Y. Merhav, F. Mesquita, D. Barbosa, W. G. Yee, O. Frieder
In ACM Trans. Web 6, 3, Article 11, September 2012.
$100,000 Prize Jackpot. Call Now! Identifying the Pertinent Features of SMS Spam
Z. Tan, N. Goharian, M. Sherr
Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Aug. 2012.
Efficient Estimation of Aspect Weights
J. Parker, A. Yates, N. Goharian
Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Aug. 2012.

2010

N. Goharian, S. Mengle
"Networked Hierarchies for Web Directories"
World Wide Web (WWW), March 2011.
"Incremental Algorithms for Effective and Efficient Query Recommendation
D. Broccolo, O. Frieder, F. M. Nardini, R. Perego, F. Silvestri
String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE'10) 13-24, October 2010.
"On Tag Spell Checking"
F. M. Nardini, F. Silvestri, H. Vahabi, P. Vahabi, O. Frieder
String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE'10) 37-42, October 2010.
"Experiences with using SVM-based learning for multi-objective ranking"
L. Nguyen, W. G. Yee, R. Liew, O. Frieder
Conference on Information and knowledge management (CIKM '10), October 2010.
"Context Aware Query Classification Using Dynamic Query Window and Relationship Net"
N. Goharian, S. Mengle
In proceedings of 33rd Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR), July 2010.
"Incorporating Global Information into Named Entity Recognition Systems using Relational Context"
Y. Merhav, F. Mesquita, D. Barbosa, W. G. Yee, O. Frieder
In proceedings of 33rd Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR), July 2010.
"Detecting Relationships among Categories using Text Classification"
S. Mengle, N. Goharian
Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 61 (5), May 2010 (pp 1046-1061).
"On Foreign Name Search"
Jason Soo, O. Frieder
32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'10)
Milton Keynes, UK, March 2010.
"Enriching Peer-to-Peer File Descriptors Using Association Rules on Query Logs,"
N. Goharian, O. Frieder, W. G. Yee, J. Mudrawala
32nd European Conference On Information Retrieval (ECIR), March 2010.
Mining Temporal Relationships Among Categories
S. Mengle, N. Goharian
In proceedings of ACM 25th Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC) March 2010.

2009

Twitter power: Tweets as electronic word of mouth
B. Jansen, M. Zhang, K. Sobel, A. Chowdury
JASIST 60(11): 2169-2188 (2009).
"Ambiguity Measure Feature Selection Algorithm"
S. Mengle, N. Goharian
Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 60 (5), May 2009 (pp. 1037-1050).
"Passage Detection Using Text Classification"
S. Mengle and N. Goharian
Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 60 (4), March 2009.
"Passage relevance models for genomics search"
J. Urbain, O. Frieder, N. Goharian
(Journal of) BMC Bioinformatics, 10(Suppl 3):S3 (19 March 2009).
"Alternatives to conjunctive query processing in peer-to-peer file-sharing systems"
W. G. Yee, L. Nguyen, O. Frieder
ACM 24th Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), March 2009.
"Improving Classification Based Off-topic Search Detection via Category Relationships"
A. Platt, S. Mengle, N. Goharian
ACM 24th Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), March 2009.
"A Dimensional Retrieval Model for Integrating Semantics and Statistical Evidence in Context for Genomics Literature Search"
J. Urbain, O. Frieder, and N. Goharian
(Journal of) Computers in Biology and Medicine 39 (1), January 2009.

2008

Lexicon randomization for near-duplicate detection with I-Match
A. Kolcz, A. Chowdhury
The Journal of Supercomputing 45(3): 255-276 (2008).
"Spam characterization and detection in peer-to-peer file-sharing systems,
D. Jia, W. G. Yee, O. Frieder
ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Napa Valley, California, October 2008.
"Passage relevance models for genomics search,"
J. Urbain, O. Frieder, N.Goharian
ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Napa Valley, California, October 2008.
"Yizkor Books: A Voice for the Silent Past,"
Jason Soo, R. Cathey, O. Frieder, M. Amir, and G. Frieder
ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Napa Valley, California, October 2008.
"On Document Splitting in Passage Detection,"
N. Goharian, S. Mengle
In proceedings of 31st Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR 2008), July 2008.
"On multiword entity ranking in peer-to-peer search"
Y. Merhav, O. Frieder
Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR 2008), July 2008.
"Detecting Hidden Passages from Documents"
S. Mengle, N. Goharian
In proceedings of SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2008) Workshop., April 2008
"Discovering Relationships among Categories using Misclassification Information"
S. Mengle, N. Goharian, A. Platt
ACM 23rd Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), March 2008.
"Using Ambiguity Measure Feature Selection Algorithm for Support Vector Machine Classifier"
S. Mengle, N. Goharian
ACM 23rd Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), March 2008.
"Probabilistic passage models for semantic search of genomics literature"
J. Urbain, N. Ghoarian, O. Frieder
Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 59 (12), 2008 (pp 2008-2023).

2007

"Repeatable Evaluation of Search Services in Dynamic Environments,"
E. Jensen, S. Beitzel, A. Chowdhury, and O. Frieder
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 26(1), November 2007.
"IIT TREC 2007 Genomics Track: Using Concept-Based Semantics in Context for Genomics Literature Passage Retrieval,"
J. Urbain, N. Goharian, and O. Frieder
Overview of the Sixteenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-16), NIST Special Publication 500-274, November 2007.
"Analysis of Query Logs in Gnutella Peer-to-Peer Network,"
L. Nguyen, D. Jia, W. G. Yee, and O. Frieder
ACM Thirtieth Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2007.
"Varying Approaches to Topical Web Query Classification,"
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, A. Chowdhury, and O. Frieder
ACM Thirtieth Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2007.
"Automatic Classification of Web Queries Using Very Large Unlabeled Query Logs"
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, D. Lewis, A. Chowdhury, O. Frieder
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (ACM-TOIS), April 2007.
"Using User Query Sequence to Detect Off-Topic Search"
A. Platt, N. Goharian, S. Mengle
ACM 22nd Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), March 2007
"Temporal Analysis of a Very Large Topically Categorized Web Query Log"
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, A. Chowdhury, O. Frieder, D. Grossman
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Volume 58, Number 2, pp. 166-178, 2007.
"Exploiting Parallelism to Support Scalable Hierarchical Clustering"
R. Cathey, E. Jensen, S. Beitzel, O. Frieder, D. Grossman
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 2007.
"Combining Semantics, Context, and Statistical Evidence in Genomics Literature Search"
J. Urbain, N. Goharian O. Frieder
The 7th IEEE Int. Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE), 2007.

2006

"IIT TREC 2006: Genomics Track,"
J. Urbain, N. Goharian, and O. Frieder
Overview of the Fifteenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-15), NIST Special Publication 500-272, November 2006.
"The Effect of OCR on Stylistic Text Classification,"
S. Stein, S. Argamon, and O. Frieder
ACM Twenty-Ninth Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Seattle, Washington, August 2006.
"Building a Test Collection for Complex Document Information Processing,"
D. Lewis, G. Agam, S. Argamon, O. Frieder, D. Grossman, and J. Heard
ACM Twenty-Ninth Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Seattle, Washington, August 2006.
"A Complex Document Information Processing Prototype,"
S. Argamon, G. Agam, O. Frieder, D. Grossman, D. Lewis, G. Sohn,, and K. Voorhees
ACM Twenty-Ninth Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Seattle, Washington, August 2006.
"On the Development of Name Search Techniques for Arabic,"
S. Aqeel, S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, D. Grossman and O. Frieder
Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 57(6), April 2006.

2005

"IIT TREC 2005: Genomics Track,"
J. Urbain, N. Goharian, and O. Frieder
Overview of the Fourteenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-14), NIST Special Publication 500-266, November 2005.
"Improving Automatic Query Classification via Semi-supervised Learning,"
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, D. Lewis, A. Chowdhury, A. Kolcz, O. Frieder
The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, November 2005.
"Off-Topic Access Detection In Information Systems,"
N. Goharian, L. Ma
ACM 14th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), November 2005.
"Surrogate Scoring for Improved Metasearch Precision"
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, A. Chowdhury, G. Pass, O. Frieder
In Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM-SIGIR), Salvador, Brazil, pp. 583, August 2005.
"Predicting Query Difficulty on the Web by Learning Visual Clues"
E. Jensen, S. Beitzel, A. Chowdhury, O. Frieder, D. Grossman
In Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM-SIGIR), Salvador, Brazil, pp. 615, August 2005.
"Automatic Web Query Classification Using Labeled and Unlabeled Training Data"
S. Beitzel, D. Lewis, A. Chowdhury, A. Kolcz, E. Jensen, O. Frieder, D. Grossman
In Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM-SIGIR), Salvador, Brazil, pp. 581, August 2005.
"A Framework for Determining Necessary Query Set Sizes to Evaluate Web Search Effectiveness"
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, Abdur Chowdhury, O. Frieder
In Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on the World Wide Web (WWW-2005), Chiba, Japan, pp. 1176, May 2005.
"Query Length Impact on Misuse Detection in Information Retrieval Systems."
N. Goharian, L. Ma
ACM 20th Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) March 2005.
"On Search in Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems,"
W. G. Yee and O. Frieder
The ACM Symposium for Applied Computing, Santa Fe, NM, March, 2005.

2004

"IIT at TREC 2004 Standard Retrieval Models Over Partitioned Indices for the Terabyte Track,"
J. Heard, O. Frieder, and D. Grossman
Overview of the Thirteenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-13), NIST Special Publication 500-261, November 2004.
"Using Relevance Feedback to Detect Misuse in Information Retrieval Systems,"
L. Ma and N. Goharian
ACM 13th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), November 2004.
"Evaluation of Filtering Current News Search Results"
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, A. Chowdhury, D. Grossman
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM-SIGIR), Sheffield, UK, July 2004.
"Hourly Analysis of a Very Large Topically Categorized Web Query Log"
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, A. Chowdhury, D. Grossman, O. Frieder
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM-SIGIR), Sheffield, UK, July 2004.
"On Fusion of Effective Retrieval Strategies in the Same Information Retrieval System"
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, A. Chowdhury, D. Grossman, O. Frieder, and N. Goharian
Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 55(10), July 2004.

2003

"IIT at TREC-2003: Task Classification & Document Structure for Known-Item Search"
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, R. Cathey, L. Ma, D. Grossman, O. Frieder, A. Chowdhury, G. Pass, H. Vandermolen
Overview of the Twelfth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-12), NIST Special Publication 500-255, November 2003.
"Using Titles and Category Names from Editor-driven Taxonomies for Automatic Evaluation"
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, A. Chowdhury, D. Grossman
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM-CIKM), New Orleans, LA, November 2003.
"Misuse Detection for Information Retrieval Systems"
R. Cathey, L. Ma, N. Goharian, D. Grossman
ACM 12th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), November 2003.
"Extracting Unstructured Data From Template Generated Web Documents"
L. Ma, N. Goharian, A. Chowdhury, M. Chung
ACM 12th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), November 2003.
"HAT: A Hardware Assisted Top-Doc Inverted Index Component,"
S. K. Agun and O. Frieder
ACM Twenty-Sixth SIGIR, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 2003.
"Using Manually-built Web Directories for Automatic Evaluation of Known-Item Retrieval"
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, A. Chowdhury, D. Grossman, O. Frieder
ACM Twenty-Sixth SIGIR, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 2003.
"Disproving the Fusion Hypothesis: An Analysis of Data Fusion via Effective Information Retrieval Stategies,"
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, A. Chowdhury, O. Frieder, D. Grossman, and N. Goharian
ACM Eighteenth Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Melbourne, Florida, March 2003.

2002

"IIT at TREC-2002: Linear Combinations Based on Document Structure and Varied Stemming for Arabic Retrieval,"
A. Chowdhury, M. Aljlayl, E. Jensen, S. Beitzel, D. Grossman, and O. Frieder
Overview of the Eleventh Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-11), NIST Special Publication 500-251, November 2002.
"On Bidirectional English-Arabic Search,"
M. Aljlayl, O. Frieder, and D. Grossman
Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 53(13), November 2002.
"Parallelizing the Buckshot Algorithm for Efficient Document Clustering,"
E. Jensen, S. Beitzel, A. Pilotto, N. Goharian, O. Frieder
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-2002), Washington D.C., November 2002.
" On Arabic Search: Improving the Retrieval Effectiveness via a Light Stemmer Approach. "
M. Aljlayl, O. Frieder
ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, November 2002.
"Automatic Evaluation of World Wide Web Search Services"
A. Chowdhury, I. Soboroff
SIGIR, August 2002.
A. Chowdhury, D. Grossman, O. Frieder, C. McCabe
"Document Normalization Revisited"
SIGIR, August 2002.
A. Chowdhury, O. Frieder, D. Grossman, M. McCabe
"Collection Statistics for Fast Duplicate Document Detection,"
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 20(2), April 2002.

2001

"IIT at TREC-10,"
M. Aljlayl, S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, A. Chowdhury, Holmes, M. Lee, D. Grossman, and O. Frieder, D.
Overview of the Tenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-10), NIST Special Publication 500-250, November 2001.
"Effective Arabic-English Cross-Language Information Retrieval via Machine Readable Dictionaries and Machine Translation,"
M. Aljlayl and O. Frieder
ACM Tenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2001.
"Query Optimization for Vector Space Problems,"
K. Goda, T. Tamura, M. Kitsuregawa, A. Chowdhury, and O. Frieder
ACM Twentieth SIGIR, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 2001.
"Analyses of Multiple-Evidence Combinations for Retrieval Strategies,"
A. Chowdhury, O. Frieder, D. Grossman, M.C. McCabe.
ACM-SIGIR, September 2001

2000

"IIT at TREC-9: Entity Based Feedback with Fusion,"
A. Chowdhury, S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, M. Sai-lee, D. Grossman, O. Frieder, M. C. McCabe, and D. Holmes
Overview of the Ninth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-9), NIST Special Publication 500-249, November 2000.
"On the Integration of Structured Data and Text: A Review of the SIRE Architecture."
O. Frieder, A. Chowdhury, D. Grossman, M.C. McCabe
DELOS Network of Excellence Workshop on Information Seeking, Searching and Querying in Digital Libraries, December 11, 2000.
"On the Design and Evaluation of a MultiDimensional Approach to Information Retrieval,"
M.C. McCabe, J. Lee, A. Chowdhury, D. Grossman, O. Frieder
Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 24, 2000.

1999

"IIT at TREC-8: Improving Baseline Precision,"
M. C. McCabe, D. Holmes, K. Alford, A. Chowdhury, D. Grossman, and O. Frieder
Overview of the Eighth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-8), NIST Special Publication 500-246, November 1999.
A Unified Environment for Fusion of Information Retrieval Approaches,"
M.C. McCabe, A. Chowdhury, D. Grossman
Proceedings of the ACM Eighth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '99)November, 1999.
"SENTINEL: A Multiple Engine Information Retrieval and Visualization System,"
K. Fox, O. Frieder, M. Knepper, and E. Snowberg
Journal of the American Society of Information Science (JASIST), 50(7), May 1999.
"A Parallel Relational Database Management System Approach to Relevance Feedback In Information Retrieval,"
C. Lundquist, O. Frieder, D. Grossman, and D. O. Holmes
Journal of the American Society of Information Science, 50(5), April 1999.