Publications

2019 Short

Sentence Retrieval for Entity List Extraction with a Seed, Context and Topic

Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar John Foley Liu Yang James Allan

In the Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2019). Santa Clara, CA. 4 pages.

2019 Short

Incorporating Hierarchical Domain Information to Disambiguate Very Short Queries

Hamed Bonab Mohammad Aliannejadi John Foley James Allan

In the Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2019). Santa Clara, CA. 4 pages.

2019 Dissertation

Poetry: Identification, Entity Recognition, and Retrieval CIIR

John Foley

Dissertation. College of Information and Computer Sciences: University of Massachusetts Amherst (PhD Thesis.). Amherst, MA. 129 pages.

Committee: James Allan W Bruce Croft Brendan O'Connor Joe Pater

2018 Workshop

ToyBox: Better Atari Environments for Testing Reinforcement Learning Agents ArXiv code

John Foley Emma Tosch Kaleigh Clary David Jensen

(Systems for ML Workshop at NeurIPS 2018). Montreal, Canada. 6 pages.

2018 Workshop

Let's Play Again: Variability of Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents in Atari Environments code

Kaleigh Clary Emma Tosch John Foley David Jensen

Critiquing and Correcting Trends in Machine Learning Workshop at Neural Information Processing Systems (Critiquing and Correcting Trends in Machine Learning Workshop at NeurIPS 2018). Montreal, Canada. 4 pages.

2018 Workshop

UMass TREC 2018 Notebook URL code

Shahrzad Naseri John Foley James Allan

In the Notebook Proceedings of Text REtrieval Conference (TREC '18) (In Proceedings of TREC 2018, NIST). Gaithersburg, MD. 9 pages.

2018 Workshop

Exploring Summary-Expanded Entity Embeddings for Entity Retrieval URL

Shahrzad Naseri John Foley James Allan Brendan O'Connor

1st International Workshop on EntitY REtrieval (EYRE '18 workshop at CIKM'18). Turin, Italy. 7 pages.

2018 Workshop

Mocking Atari for Deep Reinforcement Learning URL code

Emma Tosch Akanksha Atrey John Foley Sam Witty Kaleigh Clary David Jensen

Presented at IBM AI Systems Day 2018. (IBM AI-Systems Day 2018). Cambridge, MA. 2 pages.

2018 Long

Search Agent Model: A Conceptual Framework for Search by Algorithms and Agent Systems CIIR

Jeffrey Dalton John Foley

In Proceedings of Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems (DESIRES 2018). Bertinoro, Italy. 6 pages.

2018 Workshop

Named Entity Recognition with Extremely Limited Data ArXiv CIIR code

John Foley Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar James Allan

In the Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2018 Workshop on Learning from Limited or Noisy Data (LND4IR 2018). Ann Arbor, MI. 6 pages.

2018 Workshop

Explainable Agreement through Simulation for Tasks with Subjective Labels CIIR

John Foley

In the Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2018 Workshop on Learning from Limited or Noisy Data (LND4IR 2018). Ann Arbor, MI. 2 pages.

2018 Short

Semantic Location in Email Query Suggestion ACMDL CIIR

John Foley Mingyang Zhang Michael Bendersky Marc Najork

In the Proceedings of The 41st Inter-national ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018). Ann Arbor, MI. 4 pages.

2018 Short

Universal Approximation Functions for Fast Learning to Rank ACMDL CIIR code

Daniel Cohen John Foley Hamed Zamani James Allan W Bruce Croft

In the Proceedings of The 41st Inter-national ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018). Ann Arbor, MI. 4 pages.

2018 Short

Term Relevance Feedback for Contextual Named Entity Retrieval ACMDL CIIR

Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar John Foley James Allan

In the Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval (CHIIR 2018). New Brunswick, NJ. 4 pages.

2017 Workshop

On the Equivalence of Generative and Discriminative Formulations of the Sequential Dependence Model ACMDL CIIR code

Laura Dietz John Foley

Workshop on Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval and Related Tasks at SIGIR 2017 (ATIR 2017). Tokyo, Japan. 10 pages.

2016 Short

Probabilistic Approaches to Controversy Detection CIIR code

Myung-ha Jang John Foley Shiri Dori-Hacohen James Allan

In the Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016). Indianapolis, IN. 4 pages.

2016 Short

Improving Entity Ranking for Keyword Queries ACMDL CIIR

John Foley Brendan O'Connor James Allan

In the Proceedings of The 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016). Indianapolis, IN. 4 pages.

2016 Long

Retrieving Hierarchical Syllabus Items for Exam Question Analysis CIIR code

John Foley James Allan

In Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2016). Padova, Italy. 12 pages.

2016 Workshop

Toward Reproducible Baselines: The Open-Source Information Retrieval Reproducibility Challenge code

Jimmy Lin Matt Crane Andrew Trotman Jamie Callan Ishan Chattopadhyaya John Foley Grant Ingersoll Craig Macdonald Sebastiano Vigna

In Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2016). Padova, Italy. 12 pages.

2015 Long

Learning to Extract Local Events from the Web ACMDL CIIR

John Foley Michael Bendersky Vanja Josifovski

In Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2015). Santiago, Chile. 10 pages.

2015 Long

Retrieving Time from Scanned Books CIIR code

John Foley James Allan

In Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2015). Vienna, Austria. 12 pages.

2013 Workshop

Short Text Queries for Video Retrieval CIIR

James Allan Jeffrey Dalton John Foley R. Manmatha Venkatesh Murthy David Wemhoener

In Proceedings of TRECVid 2013, NIST (TRECVid 2013). Gaithersburg, MD. 7 pages.