Publications
2019
Short
Sentence Retrieval for Entity List Extraction with a Seed, Context and Topic
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
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.
2018
Workshop
ToyBox: Better Atari Environments for Testing Reinforcement Learning Agents
ArXiv
code
(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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Universal Approximation Functions for Fast Learning to Rank
ACMDL
CIIR
code
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
Semantic Location in Email Query Suggestion
ACMDL
CIIR
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
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
Workshop on Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval and Related Tasks at SIGIR 2017 (ATIR 2017). Tokyo, Japan. 10 pages.
2016
Short
Improving Entity Ranking for Keyword Queries
ACMDL
CIIR
In the Proceedings of The 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016). Indianapolis, IN. 4 pages.
2016
Short
Probabilistic Approaches to Controversy Detection
CIIR
code
In the Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016). Indianapolis, IN. 4 pages.
2016
Workshop
Toward Reproducible Baselines: The Open-Source Information Retrieval Reproducibility Challenge
code
In Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2016). Padova, Italy. 12 pages.
2016
Long
Retrieving Hierarchical Syllabus Items for Exam Question Analysis
CIIR
code
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
In Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2015). Santiago, Chile. 10 pages.
2015
Long
Retrieving Time from Scanned Books
CIIR
code
In Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2015). Vienna, Austria. 12 pages.
2013
Workshop
Short Text Queries for Video Retrieval
CIIR
In Proceedings of TRECVid 2013, NIST (TRECVid 2013). Gaithersburg, MD. 7 pages.