2014
A. Yates, J. Parker, N. Goharian, and O. Frieder, "A Framework for Public Health Surveillance", In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), May 2014.
A. Yates, N. Goharian, O. Frieder, "Relevance-Ranked Domain-Specific Synonym Discovery", in Proceedings of the 36th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR '14), April 2014.
2013
A. Teymorian, O. Frieder, M. Maloof, "Rank-Energy Selective Query Forwarding for Distributed Search Systems", In Proceedings of the 22st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'13), November 2013.
A. Yates, N. Goharian, W. Yee, "Semi-supervised Sentiment Analysis: Merging Labeled Sentences with Unlabeled Reviews to Identify Sentiment", American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), Nov 2013.
E. W. Burger, H. Federoff, O. Frieder, N. Goharian, A. Yates, "Social Media Communications Networks and Pharmacovigilance: SequelAE-2.0'), IEEE 15th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), Oct 2013, (short).
J. Parker, Y. Wei, A. Yates, O.Frieder, and N. Goharian, "A Framework for Detecting Public Health Trends with Twitter", The 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining, Aug. 2013.
A. Yates, N. Goharian, O. Frieder, "Extracting Adverse Drug Reactions from Forum Posts and Linking them to Drugs", SIGIR Workshop on Health Search and Discovery, July-Aug 2013.
J. Soo, "A Non-Learning Approach to Spelling Correction in Web Queries", Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web (WWW'13), 2013.
A. Yates, N. Goharian and O. Frieder, "Graded Relevance Ranking for Synonym Discovery", Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web (WWW'13), 2013.
Y. Zhu and N. Goharian, "To Follow or Not to Follow: A Feature Evaluation", Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web (WWW'13), 2013.
A. Yates and N. Goharian, "ADRTrace: Detecting Expected and Unexpected Adverse Drug Reactions from User Reviews on Social Media Sites", In Proceedings of the 35th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2013), 2013.
2012
S. Liu, G. Agam, D. Grossman, "Generalized Sentiment-Bearing Expression Features for Sentiment Analysis", In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012), 2012.
F. Bonchi, O. Frieder, F. M. Nardini, F. Silvestri, H. Vahabi, "Interactive and Context-Aware Tag Spell Check and Correction", In Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'12), November 2012.
A. Yates, D. DeBoer, H. Yang, N. Goharian, S. Kunath, O. Frieder, "(Not Too) Personalized Learning to Rank for Contextual Suggestion", In Proceedings of TREC 2012 Contextual Suggestion Track, November 2012.
A. Teymorian, X. Qin, O. Frieder, "RESQ: Rank-Energy Selective Query Forwarding for Distributed Search Systems", In Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'12), November 2012.
Y. Merhav, F. Mesquita, D. Barbosa, W. G. Yee, O. Frieder, "Extracting Information Networks from the Blogosphere", In ACM Trans. Web 6, 3, Article 11, September 2012.
Z. Tan, N. Goharian, M. Sherr, "$100,000 Prize Jackpot. Call Now! Identifying the Pertinent Features of SMS Spam", In proceedings of ACM 35th Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'12), August 2012.
J. Parker, A. Yates, N. Goharian, "Efficient Estimation of Aspect Weights", In proceedings of ACM 35th Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'12), August 2012.
2011
N. Goharian, S. Mengle "Networked Hierarchies for Web Directories", 20th International World Wide Web conference (WWW'11), March 2011.
2010
D. Broccolo, O. Frieder, F. M. Nardini, R. Perego, F. Silvestri, "Incremental Algorithms for Effective and Efficient Query Recommendation", String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE'10) 13-24, October 2010.
F. M. Nardini, F. Silvestri, H. Vahabi, P. Vahabi, O. Frieder, "On Tag Spell Checking", String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE'10) 37-42, October 2010.
L. Nguyen, W. G. Yee, R. Liew, O. Frieder, "Experiences with using SVM-based learning for multi-objective ranking", In Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management (CIKM '10), October 2010.
N. Goharian, S. Mengle, Context Aware Query Classification Using Dynamic Query Window and Relationship Net, In proceedings of 33rd Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR), July 2010.
Y. Merhav, F. Mesquita, D. Barbosa, W. G. Yee, O. Frieder, "Incorporating Global Information into Named Entity Recognition Systems using Relational Context", In proceedings of 33rd Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR), July 2010.
S. Mengle, N. Goharian, Detecting Relationships among Categories using Text Classification, Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 61 (5), May 2010 (pp 1046-1061).
J. Soo, O. Frieder, "On Foreign Name Search", 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'10), Milton Keynes, UK, March 2010.
N. Goharian, O. Frieder, W. G. Yee, J. Mudrawala, "Enriching Peer-to-Peer File Descriptors Using Association Rules on Query Logs," 32nd European Conference On Information Retrieval (ECIR), March 2010.
S. Mengle, N. Goharian, Mining Temporal Relationships Among Categories, In proceedings of ACM 25th Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC), March 2010.
2009
B. Jansen, M. Zhang, K. Sobel, A. Chowdury, Twitter power: Tweets as electronic word of mouth, JASIST 60(11): 2169-2188 (2009).
S. Mengle, N. Goharian, "Ambiguity Measure Feature Selection Algorithm", Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 60 (5), May 2009 (pp. 1037-1050).
S. Mengle and N. Goharian,"Passage Detection Using Text Classification", Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 60 (4), March 2009.
J. Urbain, O. Frieder, N. Goharian, "Passage relevance models for genomics search", (Journal of) BMC Bioinformatics, 10(Suppl 3):S3 (19 March 2009).
W. G. Yee, L. Nguyen, O. Frieder, "Alternatives to conjunctive query processing in peer-to-peer file-sharing systems", ACM 24th Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), March 2009.
A. Platt, S. Mengle, N. Goharian, "Improving Classification Based Off-topic Search Detection via Category Relationships", ACM 24th Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), March 2009.
J. Urbain, O. Frieder, and N. Goharian, "A Dimensional Retrieval Model for Integrating Semantics and Statistical Evidence in Context for Genomics Literature Search", (Journal of) Computers in Biology and Medicine 39 (1), January 2009.
2008
A. Kolcz, A. Chowdhury, "Lexicon randomization for near-duplicate detection with I-Match, The Journal of Supercomputing 45(3): 255-276 (2008).
D. Jia, W. G. Yee, O. Frieder, "Spam characterization and detection in peer-to-peer file-sharing systems," ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Napa Valley, California, October 2008.
J. Urbain, O. Frieder, N.Goharian, "Passage relevance models for genomics search," ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Napa Valley, California, October 2008.
J. Soo, R. Cathey, O. Frieder, M. Amir, and G. Frieder, "Yizkor Books: A Voice for the Silent Past," ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Napa Valley, California, October 2008.
N. Goharian, S. Mengle, "On Document Splitting in Passage Detection," In proceedings of 31st Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR 2008), July 2008.
Y. Merhav, O. Frieder, "On multiword entity ranking in peer-to-peer search", In proceedings of 31st Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR 2008), July 2008.
S. Mengle, N. Goharian, Detecting Hidden Passages from Documents. In proceedings of SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2008) Workshop., April 2008
S. Mengle, N. Goharian, A. Platt, Discovering Relationships among Categories using Misclassification Information., ACM 23rd Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), March 2008.
S. Mengle, N. Goharian, Using Ambiguity Measure Feature Selection Algorithm for Support Vector Machine Classifier, ACM 23rd Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), March 2008.
J. Urbain, N. Ghoarian, O. Frieder, "Probabilistic passage models for semantic search of genomics literature", Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 59 (12), 2008 (pp 2008-2023).
2007
E. Jensen, S. Beitzel, A. Chowdhury, and O. Frieder "Repeatable Evaluation of Search Services in Dynamic Environments," ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 26(1), November 2007.
J. Urbain, N. Goharian, and O. Frieder, "IIT TREC 2007 Genomics Track: Using Concept-Based Semantics in Context for Genomics Literature Passage Retrieval," Overview of the Sixteenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-16), NIST Special Publication 500-274, November 2007.
L. Nguyen, D. Jia, W. G. Yee, and O. Frieder, "Analysis of Query Logs in Gnutella Peer-to-Peer Network," ACM Thirtieth Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2007.
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, A. Chowdhury, and O. Frieder, "Varying Approaches to Topical Web Query Classification," ACM Thirtieth Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2007.
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, D. Lewis, A. Chowdhury, O. Frieder, "Automatic Classification of Web Queries Using Very Large Unlabeled Query Logs", ACM Transactions on Information Systems (ACM-TOIS), April 2007.
A. Platt, N. Goharian, S. Mengle, "Using User Query Sequence to Detect Off-Topic Search" ACM 22nd Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), March 2007
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, A. Chowdhury, O. Frieder, D. Grossman, "Temporal Analysis of a Very Large Topically Categorized Web Query Log", Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Volume 58, Number 2, pp. 166-178, 2007.
R. Cathey, E. Jensen, S. Beitzel, O. Frieder, D. Grossman, "Exploiting Parallelism to Support Scalable Hierarchical Clustering" Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 2007.
J. Urbain, N. Goharian O. Frieder, "Combining Semantics, Context, and Statistical Evidence in Genomics Literature Search", The 7th IEEE Int. Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE), 2007.
2006
J. Urbain, N. Goharian, and O. Frieder, "IIT TREC 2006: Genomics Track," Overview of the Fifteenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-15), NIST Special Publication 500-272, November 2006.
S. Stein, S. Argamon, and O. Frieder, "The Effect of OCR on Stylistic Text Classification," ACM Twenty-Ninth Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Seattle, Washington, August 2006.
D. Lewis, G. Agam, S. Argamon, O. Frieder, D. Grossman, and J. Heard, "Building a Test Collection for Complex Document Information Processing," ACM Twenty-Ninth Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Seattle, Washington, August 2006.
S. Argamon, G. Agam, O. Frieder, D. Grossman, D. Lewis, G. Sohn,, and K. Voorhees, "A Complex Document Information Processing Prototype," ACM Twenty-Ninth Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Seattle, Washington, August 2006.
S. Aqeel, S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, D. Grossman and O. Frieder, "On the Development of Name Search Techniques for Arabic," Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 57(6), April 2006.
2005
J. Urbain, N. Goharian, and O. Frieder, "IIT TREC 2005: Genomics Track," Overview of the Fourteenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-14), NIST Special Publication 500-266, November 2005.
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, D. Lewis, A. Chowdhury, A. Kolcz, O. Frieder, "Improving Automatic Query Classification via Semi-supervised Learning," The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., November 27-30, 2005.
N. Goharian, L. Ma, "Off-Topic Access Detection In Information Systems," ACM 14th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), November 2005.
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, A. Chowdhury, G. Pass, O. Frieder, "Surrogate Scoring for Improved Metasearch Precision", In Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM-SIGIR), Salvador, Brazil, pp. 583, August 2005.
E. Jensen, S. Beitzel, A. Chowdhury, O. Frieder, D. Grossman, "Predicting Query Difficulty on the Web by Learning Visual Clues", In Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM-SIGIR), Salvador, Brazil, pp. 615, August 2005.
S. Beitzel, D. Lewis, A. Chowdhury, A. Kolcz, E. Jensen, O. Frieder, D. Grossman, "Automatic Web Query Classification Using Labeled and Unlabeled Training Data", In Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM-SIGIR), Salvador, Brazil, pp. 581, August 2005.
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, Abdur Chowdhury, Ophir Frieder, "A Framework for Determining Necessary Query Set Sizes to Evaluate Web Search Effectiveness", In Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on the World Wide Web (WWW-2005), Chiba, Japan, pp. 1176, May 2005.
N. Goharian, L. Ma: Query Length Impact on Misuse Detection in Information Retrieval Systems. ACM 20th Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) March 2005.
W. G. Yee and O. Frieder, "On Search in Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems," The ACM Symposium for Applied Computing, Santa Fe, NM, March, 2005.
2004
J. Heard, O. Frieder, and D. Grossman, "IIT at TREC 2004 Standard Retrieval Models Over Partitioned Indices for the Terabyte Track," Overview of the Thirteenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-13), NIST Special Publication 500-261, November 2004.
L. Ma and N. Goharian, "Using Relevance Feedback to Detect Misuse in Information Retrieval Systems," ACM 13th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), November 2004.
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, A. Chowdhury, D. Grossman, "Evaluation of Filtering Current News Search Results", Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM-SIGIR), Sheffield, UK, July 2004.
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, A. Chowdhury, D. Grossman, O. Frieder "Hourly Analysis of a Very Large Topically Categorized Web Query Log", Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM-SIGIR), Sheffield, UK, July 2004.
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, A. Chowdhury, D. Grossman, O. Frieder, and N. Goharian, "On Fusion of Effective Retrieval Strategies in the Same Information Retrieval System", Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 55(10), July 2004.
2003
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, R. Cathey, L. Ma, D. Grossman, O. Frieder, A. Chowdhury, G. Pass, H. Vandermolen, "IIT at TREC-2003: Task Classification & Document Structure for Known-Item Search", Overview of the Twelfth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-12), NIST Special Publication 500-255, November 2003.
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, A. Chowdhury, D. Grossman, "Using Titles and Category Names from Editor-driven Taxonomies for Automatic Evaluation", Proceedings of the 2003 ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM-CIKM), New Orleans, LA, November 2003.
R. Cathey, L. Ma, N. Goharian, D. Grossman, "Misuse Detection for Information Retrieval Systems", ACM 12th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), November 2003.
L. Ma, N. Goharian, A. Chowdhury, M. Chung, "Extracting Unstructured Data From Template Generated Web Documents", ACM 12th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), November 2003.
S. K. Agun and O. Frieder, "HAT: A Hardware Assisted Top-Doc Inverted Index Component," ACM Twenty-Sixth SIGIR, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 2003.
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, A. Chowdhury, D. Grossman, O. Frieder, "Using Manually-built Web Directories for Automatic Evaluation of Known-Item Retrieval", ACM Twenty-Sixth SIGIR, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 2003.
S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, A. Chowdhury, O. Frieder, D. Grossman, and N. Goharian, "Disproving the Fusion Hypothesis: An Analysis of Data Fusion via Effective Information Retrieval Stategies," ACM Eighteenth Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Melbourne, Florida, March 2003.
2002
A. Chowdhury, M. Aljlayl, E. Jensen, S. Beitzel, D. Grossman, and O. Frieder, "IIT at TREC-2002: Linear Combinations Based on Document Structure and Varied Stemming for Arabic Retrieval," Overview of the Eleventh Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-11), NIST Special Publication 500-251, November 2002.
M. Aljlayl, O. Frieder, and D. Grossman, "On Bidirectional English-Arabic Search," Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 53(13), November 2002.
E. Jensen, S. Beitzel, A. Pilotto, N. Goharian, Ophir Frieder. "Parallelizing the Buckshot Algorithm for Efficient Document Clustering," Proceedings of the 2002 ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-2002), Washington D.C., November 2002.
M. Aljlayl, O. Frieder, "On Arabic Search: Improving the Retrieval Effectiveness via a Light Stemmer Approach, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, November 2002.
A. Chowdhury, I. Soboroff, "Automatic Evaluation of World Wide Web Search Services", ACM-SIGIR, August 2002.
A. Chowdhury, D. Grossman, O. Frieder, C. McCabe, "Document Normalization Revisited", ACM-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
M. Aljlayl, S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, A. Chowdhury, Holmes, M. Lee, D. Grossman, and O. Frieder, D. "IIT at TREC-10," Overview of the Tenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-10), NIST Special Publication 500-250, November 2001.
M. Aljlayl and O. Frieder, "Effective Arabic-English Cross-Language Information Retrieval via Machine Readable Dictionaries and Machine Translation," ACM Tenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2001.
K. Goda, T. Tamura, M. Kitsuregawa, A. Chowdhury, and O. Frieder, "Query Optimization for Vector Space Problems," ACM Twentieth SIGIR, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 2001.
A. Chowdhury, O. Frieder, D. Grossman, M.C. McCabe., "Analyses of Multiple-Evidence Combinations for Retrieval Strategies," ACM-SIGIR, September 2001
2000
A. Chowdhury, S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, M. Sai-lee, D. Grossman, O. Frieder, M. C. McCabe, and D. Holmes, "IIT at TREC-9: Entity Based Feedback with Fusion," Overview of the Ninth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-9), NIST Special Publication 500-249, November 2000.
O. Frieder, A. Chowdhury, D. Grossman, M.C. McCabe. "On the Integration of Structured Data and Text: A Review of the SIRE Architecture." Proceedings of the First DELOS Network of Excellence Workshop on Information Seeking, Searching and Querying in Digital Libraries, December 11, 2000.
M.C. McCabe, J. Lee, A. Chowdhury, D. Grossman, O. Frieder. "On the Design and Evaluation of a MultiDimensional Approach to Information Retrieval," Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 24, 2000.
1999
M. C. McCabe, D. Holmes, K. Alford, A. Chowdhury, D. Grossman, and O. Frieder, "IIT at TREC-8: Improving Baseline Precision," Overview of the Eighth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-8), NIST Special Publication 500-246, November 1999.
M.C. McCabe, A. Chowdhury, D. Grossman. A Unified Environment for Fusion of Information Retrieval Approaches," Proceedings of the ACM Eighth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '99), November, 1999.
K. Fox, O. Frieder, M. Knepper, and E. Snowberg "SENTINEL: A Multiple Engine Information Retrieval and Visualization System," Journal of the American Society of Information Science (JASIST), 50(7), May 1999.
C. Lundquist, O. Frieder, D. Grossman, and D. O. Holmes, "A Parallel Relational Database Management System Approach to Relevance Feedback In Information Retrieval," Journal of the American Society of Information Science, 50(5), April 1999.