| 2026 | ICTIR | Adaptive Re-Ranking. | Ata Cinar Genc, Emir Kaan Korukluoglu, James Allan |
| 2026 | SIGIR | Second Workshop on Explainability in Information Retrieval. | Catherine Chen, Maria Heuss, Tanya Chowdhury, James Allan, Avishek Anand, Carsten Eickhoff, Suzan Verberne |
| 2026 | SIGIR | Exploring and Improving Cross- and Multi-Domain Personalized Question Answering via a Dual Retrieval Augmentation Approach. | Ozel Yilmazel, Hamed Zamani, James Allan |
| 2025 | ICLR | RankSHAP: Shapley Value Based Feature Attributions for Learning to Rank. | Tanya Chowdhury, Yair Zick, James Allan |
| 2025 | ICTIR | Probing Ranking LLMs: A Mechanistic Analysis for Information Retrieval. | Tanya Chowdhury, Atharva Nijasure, James Allan |
| 2024 | CaiSE | A Hierarchical Knowledge Framework for Digital Twins of Buildings and Their Energy Systems (Position Paper). | James Allan, Edrisi Munoz, Sergio Acero Gonzlez, Hassan Bazazzadeh, Federica Bellizio, Hanmin Cai, Reto Fricker, Philipp Heer, Mina Montazeri, Sascha Stoller, Georgios Mavromatidis |
| 2024 | CaiSE | An Ontology-Based Meta-modelling Approach for Semantic-Driven Building Management Systems. | Emanuele Laurenzi, James Allan, Nathalie Campos, Sascha Stoller |
| 2024 | EMNLP | Language Concept Erasure for Language-invariant Dense Retrieval. | Zhiqi Huang, Puxuan Yu, Shauli Ravfogel, James Allan |
| 2024 | EMNLP | Discovering Biases in Information Retrieval Models Using Relevance Thesaurus as Global Explanation. | Youngwoo Kim, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan |
| 2024 | ICTIR | Target Span Detection for Implicit Harmful Content. | Nazanin Jafari, James Allan, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar |
| 2023 | CIKM | Search Result Diversification Using Query Aspects as Bottlenecks. | Puxuan Yu, Razieh Rahimi, Zhiqi Huang, James Allan |
| 2023 | EACL | AutoTriggER: Label-Efficient and Robust Named Entity Recognition with Auxiliary Trigger Extraction. | Dong-Ho Lee, Ravi Kiran Selvam, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Bill Yuchen Lin, Fred Morstatter, Jay Pujara, Elizabeth Boschee, James Allan, Xiang Ren |
| 2023 | EMNLP | Conditional Natural Language Inference. | Youngwoo Kim, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan |
| 2023 | ICTIR | Rank-LIME: Local Model-Agnostic Feature Attribution for Learning to Rank. | Tanya Chowdhury, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan |
| 2023 | ICTIR | Hierarchical Transformer-based Query by Multiple Documents. | Zhiqi Huang, Shahrzad Naseri, Hamed R. Bonab, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, James Allan |
| 2023 | SIGIR | Cross-Market Product-Related Question Answering. | Negin Ghasemi, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Hamed R. Bonab, Evangelos Kanoulas, Arjen P. de Vries, James Allan, Djoerd Hiemstra |
| 2023 | SIGIR | Soft Prompt Decoding for Multilingual Dense Retrieval. | Zhiqi Huang, Hansi Zeng, Hamed Zamani, James Allan |
| 2023 | WSDM | Improving Cross-lingual Information Retrieval on Low-Resource Languages via Optimal Transport Distillation. | Zhiqi Huang, Puxuan Yu, James Allan |
| 2022 | KDD | Extracting Relevant Information from User's Utterances in Conversational Search and Recommendation. | Ali Montazeralghaem, James Allan |
| 2022 | SIGIR | Alignment Rationale for Query-Document Relevance. | Youngwoo Kim, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan |
| 2022 | SIGIR | Towards Explainable Search Results: A Listwise Explanation Generator. | Puxuan Yu, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan |
| 2022 | WSDM | Learning Relevant Questions for Conversational Product Search using Deep Reinforcement Learning. | Ali Montazeralghaem, James Allan |
| 2021 | CIKM | Cross-Market Product Recommendation. | Hamed R. Bonab, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Ali Vardasbi, Evangelos Kanoulas, James Allan |
| 2021 | CIKM | Mixed Attention Transformer for Leveraging Word-Level Knowledge to Neural Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval. | Zhiqi Huang, Hamed R. Bonab, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan |
| 2021 | CIKM | Query-driven Segment Selection for Ranking Long Documents. | Youngwoo Kim, Razieh Rahimi, Hamed R. Bonab, James Allan |
| 2021 | ECIR | CEQE: Contextualized Embeddings for Query Expansion. | Shahrzad Naseri, Jeff Dalton, Andrew Yates, James Allan |
| 2021 | ICTIR | Passage Similarity and Diversification in Non-factoid Question Answering. | Lakshmi Vikraman, Ali Montazeralghaem, Helia Hashemi, W. Bruce Croft, James Allan |
| 2021 | RecSys | XMRec: Workshop on Cross-Market Recommendation. | Mohammad Aliannejadi, Hamed R. Bonab, Ali Vardasbi, Evangelos Kanoulas, James Allan, Vanessa Murdock |
| 2021 | RecSys | Large-scale Interactive Conversational Recommendation System using Actor-Critic Framework. | Ali Montazeralghaem, James Allan, Philip S. Thomas |
| 2021 | RecSys | Interactive Visualization of the Polarity-based Stance of News Websites using News Genres (short paper). | Masaharu Yoshioka, Norihiko Tatsunami, Masahiko Itoh, Noriko Kando, James Allan |
| 2021 | SIGIR | AutoName: A Corpus-Based Set Naming Framework. | Zhiqi Huang, Razieh Rahimi, Puxuan Yu, Jingbo Shang, James Allan |
| 2021 | SIGIR | Utility of Missing Concepts in Query-biased Summarization. | Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Felipe Moraes, Jiepu Jiang, James Allan |
| 2020 | ECIR | Relevance Ranking Based on Query-Aware Context Analysis. | Ali Montazeralghaem, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan |
| 2020 | ICTIR | Search Result Diversification with Guarantee of Topic Proportionality. | Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Raghavendra Addanki, Ali Montazeralghaem, Soumyabrata Pal, James Allan |
| 2020 | ICTIR | Learning to Rank Entities for Set Expansion from Unstructured Data. | Puxuan Yu, Razieh Rahimi, Zhiqi Huang, James Allan |
| 2020 | SIGIR | Training Effective Neural CLIR by Bridging the Translation Gap. | Hamed R. Bonab, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, James Allan |
| 2020 | SIGIR | A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Relevance Feedback. | Ali Montazeralghaem, Hamed Zamani, James Allan |
| 2020 | SIGIR | Query by Example for Cross-Lingual Event Retrieval. | Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, James Allan |
| 2020 | SIGIR | A Study of Neural Matching Models for Cross-lingual IR. | Puxuan Yu, James Allan |
| 2019 | ACL | A Multi-Task Architecture on Relevance-based Neural Query Translation. | Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Hamed R. Bonab, James Allan |
| 2019 | ECIR | Local and Global Query Expansion for Hierarchical Complex Topics. | Jeffrey Dalton, Shahrzad Naseri, Laura Dietz, James Allan |
| 2019 | ECIR | Unsupervised Explainable Controversy Detection from Online News. | Youngwoo Kim, James Allan |
| 2019 | ICTIR | Incorporating Hierarchical Domain Information to Disambiguate Very Short Queries. | Hamed R. Bonab, Mohammad Aliannejadi, John Foley, James Allan |
| 2019 | ICTIR | Simulating CLIR Translation Resource Scarcity using High-resource Languages. | Hamed R. Bonab, James Allan, Ramesh K. Sitaraman |
| 2019 | ICTIR | Term Discrimination Value for Cross-Language Information Retrieval. | Ali Montazeralghaem, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan |
| 2019 | ICTIR | Listwise Neural Ranking Models. | Razieh Rahimi, Ali Montazeralghaem, James Allan |
| 2019 | ICTIR | SearchIE: A Retrieval Approach for Information Extraction. | Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, James Allan |
| 2019 | ICTIR | Sentence Retrieval for Entity List Extraction with a Seed, Context, and Topic. | Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, John Foley, Liu Yang, James Allan |
| 2019 | SIGIR | Corpus-based Set Expansion with Lexical Features and Distributed Representations. | Puxuan Yu, Zhiqi Huang, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan |
| 2018 | CHIIR | Term Relevance Feedback for Contextual Named Entity Retrieval. | Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, John Foley, James Allan |
| 2018 | CIKM | Exploring Summary-Expanded Entity Embeddings for Entity Retrieval. | Shahrzad Naseri, John Foley, James Allan, Brendan T. O'Connor |
| 2018 | ECIR | Visualizing Polarity-based Stances of News Websites. | Masaharu Yoshioka, Myungha Jang, James Allan, Noriko Kando |
| 2018 | SIGIR | Citation Worthiness of Sentences in Scientific Reports. | Hamed R. Bonab, Hamed Zamani, Erik G. Learned-Miller, James Allan |
| 2018 | SIGIR | Universal Approximation Functions for Fast Learning to Rank: Replacing Expensive Regression Forests with Simple Feed-Forward Networks. | Daniel Cohen, John Foley, Hamed Zamani, James Allan, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2018 | SIGIR | Explaining Controversy on Social Media via Stance Summarization. | Myungha Jang, James Allan |
| 2017 | CHIIR | Understanding Ephemeral State of Relevance. | Jiepu Jiang, Daqing He, Diane Kelly, James Allan |
| 2017 | CIKM | Similarity-based Distant Supervision for Definition Retrieval. | Jiepu Jiang, James Allan |
| 2017 | CIKM | Adaptive Persistence for Search Effectiveness Measures. | Jiepu Jiang, James Allan |
| 2017 | ICTIR | Modeling Controversy within Populations. | Myungha Jang, Shiri Dori-Hacohen, James Allan |
| 2017 | SIGIR | Comparing In Situ and Multidimensional Relevance Judgments. | Jiepu Jiang, Daqing He, James Allan |
| 2016 | CHIIR | Correlation Between System and User Metrics in a Session. | Jiepu Jiang, James Allan |
| 2016 | CIKM | Improving Entity Ranking for Keyword Queries. | John Foley, Brendan O'Connor, James Allan |
| 2016 | CIKM | Probabilistic Approaches to Controversy Detection. | Myungha Jang, John Foley, Shiri Dori-Hacohen, James Allan |
| 2016 | CIKM | Precision-Oriented Query Facet Extraction. | Weize Kong, James Allan |
| 2016 | ECIR | Retrieving Hierarchical Syllabus Items for Exam Question Analysis. | John Foley, James Allan |
| 2016 | ECIR | Adaptive Effort for Search Evaluation Metrics. | Jiepu Jiang, James Allan |
| 2016 | ECIR | On Cross-Script Information Retrieval. | Nada Naji, James Allan |
| 2016 | SIGIR | Controversy Detection in Wikipedia Using Collective Classification. | Shiri Dori-Hacohen, David D. Jensen, James Allan |
| 2016 | SIGIR | Improving Automated Controversy Detection on the Web. | Myungha Jang, James Allan |
| 2016 | WSDM | Reducing Click and Skip Errors in Search Result Ranking. | Jiepu Jiang, James Allan |
| 2015 | ECIR | Automated Controversy Detection on the Web. | Shiri Dori-Hacohen, James Allan |
| 2015 | ECIR | Navigating Controversy as a Complex Search Task. | Shiri Dori-Hacohen, Elad Yom-Tov, James Allan |
| 2015 | ECIR | Retrieving Time from Scanned Books. | John Foley, James Allan |
| 2015 | ICTIR | Balancing Aspects in Retrieved Search Results. | David Wemhoener, James Allan |
| 2015 | SIGIR | Predicting Search Intent Based on Pre-Search Context. | Weize Kong, Rui Li, Jie Luo, Aston Zhang, Yi Chang, James Allan |
| 2014 | CIKM | Extending Faceted Search to the General Web. | Weize Kong, James Allan |
| 2014 | SIGIR | Entity query feature expansion using knowledge base links. | Jeffrey Dalton, Laura Dietz, James Allan |
| 2014 | SIGIR | Necessary and frequent terms in queries. | Jiepu Jiang, James Allan |
| 2014 | SIGIR | Searching, browsing, and clicking in a search session: changes in user behavior by task and over time. | Jiepu Jiang, Daqing He, James Allan |
| 2013 | CIKM | Zero-shot video retrieval using content and concepts. | Jeffrey Dalton, James Allan, Pranav Mirajkar |
| 2013 | CIKM | Detecting controversy on the web. | Shiri Dori-Hacohen, James Allan |
| 2013 | CIKM | Using CrowdLogger for in situ information retrieval system evaluation. | Henry Allen Feild, James Allan |
| 2013 | CIKM | Improving passage ranking with user behavior information. | Weize Kong, Elif Aktolga, James Allan |
| 2013 | SIGIR | Sentiment diversification with different biases. | Elif Aktolga, James Allan |
| 2013 | SIGIR | Task-aware query recommendation. | Henry Allen Feild, James Allan |
| 2013 | SIGIR | Extracting query facets from search results. | Weize Kong, James Allan |
| 2012 | CIKM | Search and exploration of scanned books. | Marc-Allen Cartright, Jeffrey Dalton, James Allan |
| 2012 | SIGIR | A framework for manipulating and searching multiple retrieval types. | Marc-Allen Cartright, Ethem F. Can, William Dabney, Jeff Dalton, Logan Giorda, Kriste Krstovski, Xiaoye Wu, Ismet Zeki Yalniz, James Allan, R. Manmatha, David A. Smith |
| 2012 | SIGIR | Task-aware search assistant. | Henry Allen Feild, James Allan |
| 2011 | CIKM | Reranking search results for sparse queries. | Elif Aktolga, James Allan |
| 2011 | CIKM | Efficiency optimizations for interpolating subqueries. | Marc-Allen Cartright, James Allan |
| 2011 | CIKM | Evidence finding using a collection of books. | Marc-Allen Cartright, Henry Allen Feild, James Allan |
| 2011 | CIKM | Passage retrieval for incorporating global evidence in sequence labeling. | Jeffrey Dalton, James Allan, David A. Smith |
| 2011 | CIKM | Mining relational structure from millions of books: position paper. | David A. Smith, R. Manmatha, James Allan |
| 2011 | CIKM | Discovering missing click-through query language information for web search. | Xing Yi, James Allan |
| 2011 | ECIR | Passage Reranking for Question Answering Using Syntactic Structures and Answer Types. | Elif Aktolga, James Allan, David A. Smith |
| 2011 | SIGIR | CrowdLogging: distributed, private, and anonymous search logging. | Henry Allen Feild, James Allan, Joshua Glatt |
| 2010 | CIKM | Fast query expansion using approximations of relevance models. | Marc-Allen Cartright, James Allan, Victor Lavrenko, Andrew McGregor |
| 2010 | SIGIR | Learning to select rankers. | Niranjan Balasubramanian, James Allan |
| 2010 | SIGIR | Predicting searcher frustration. | Henry Allen Feild, James Allan, Rosie Jones |
| 2010 | SIGIR | A content based approach for discovering missing anchor text for web search. | Xing Yi, James Allan |
| 2009 | CIKM | Incident threading for news passages. | Ao Feng, James Allan |
| 2009 | ECIR | If I Had a Million Queries. | Ben Carterette, Virgiliu Pavlu, Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam, James Allan |
| 2009 | ECIR | Regression Rank: Learning to Meet the Opportunity of Descriptive Queries. | Matthew Lease, James Allan, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2009 | ECIR | A Comparative Study of Utilizing Topic Models for Information Retrieval. | Xing Yi, James Allan |
| 2009 | ICTIR | A New Measure of the Cluster Hypothesis. | Mark D. Smucker, James Allan |
| 2009 | SIGIR | Agreement among statistical significance tests for information retrieval evaluation at varying sample sizes. | Mark D. Smucker, James Allan, Ben Carterette |
| 2009 | SPIRE | Syntactic Query Models for Restatement Retrieval. | Niranjan Balasubramanian, James Allan |
| 2008 | CIKM | Cross-document cross-lingual coreference retrieval. | Elif Aktolga, Marc-Allen Cartright, James Allan |
| 2008 | CIKM | Joke retrieval: recognizing the same joke told differently. | Lisa Friedland, James Allan |
| 2008 | CIKM | Simultaneous multilingual search for translingual information retrieval. | Kristen Parton, Kathleen R. McKeown, James Allan, Enrique Henestroza |
| 2008 | CIKM | Evaluating topic models for information retrieval. | Xing Yi, James Allan |
| 2008 | SIGIR | Evaluation over thousands of queries. | Ben Carterette, Virgiliu Pavlu, Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam, James Allan |
| 2008 | SIGIR | Effective and efficient user interaction for long queries. | Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan |
| 2008 | SIGIR | A cluster-based resampling method for pseudo-relevance feedback. | Kyung-Soon Lee, W. Bruce Croft, James Allan |
| 2007 | CIKM | Semiautomatic evaluation of retrieval systems using document similarities. | Ben Carterette, James Allan |
| 2007 | CIKM | Finding and linking incidents in news. | Ao Feng, James Allan |
| 2007 | CIKM | Selective user interaction. | Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan |
| 2007 | CIKM | A comparison of statistical significance tests for information retrieval evaluation. | Mark D. Smucker, James Allan, Ben Carterette |
| 2007 | IJCAI | Interactive Clustering of Text Collections According to a User-Specified Criterion. | Ron Bekkerman, Hema Raghavan, James Allan, Koji Eguchi |
| 2007 | IJCAI | Web Page Clustering Using Heuristic Search in the Web Graph. | Ron Bekkerman, Shlomo Zilberstein, James Allan |
| 2007 | NAACL | A Case For Shorter Queries, and Helping Users Create Them. | Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan |
| 2007 | NAACL | Information Retrieval On Empty Fields. | Victor Lavrenko, Xing Yi, James Allan |
| 2007 | NAACL | Question Answering Using Integrated Information Retrieval and Information Extraction. | Barry Schiffman, Kathleen R. McKeown, Ralph Grishman, James Allan |
| 2007 | SIGIR | A comparison of sentence retrieval techniques. | Niranjan Balasubramanian, James Allan, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2007 | SIGIR | An interactive algorithm for asking and incorporating feature feedback into support vector machines. | Hema Raghavan, James Allan |
| 2007 | SIGIR | Using similarity links as shortcuts to relevant web pages. | Mark D. Smucker, James Allan |
| 2007 | SIGIR | Matching resumes and jobs based on relevance models. | Xing Yi, James Allan, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2006 | SIGIR | Minimal test collections for retrieval evaluation. | Ben Carterette, James Allan, Ramesh K. Sitaraman |
| 2006 | SIGIR | Simple questions to improve pseudo-relevance feedback results. | Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan |
| 2006 | SIGIR | Find-similar: similarity browsing as a search tool. | Mark D. Smucker, James Allan |
| 2006 | SIGIR | Lightening the load of document smoothing for better language modeling retrieval. | Mark D. Smucker, James Allan |
| 2005 | CIKM | Incremental test collections. | Ben Carterette, James Allan |
| 2005 | NAACL | Using Names and Topics for New Event Detection. | Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan |
| 2005 | NAACL | Matching Inconsistently Spelled Names in Automatic Speech Recognizer Output for Information Retrieval. | Hema Raghavan, James Allan |
| 2005 | SIGIR | When will information retrieval be "good enough"? | James Allan, Ben Carterette, Joshua Lewis |
| 2004 | CIKM | Event threading within news topics. | Ramesh Nallapati, Ao Feng, Fuchun Peng, James Allan |
| 2004 | ECIR | A User-Centered Approach to Evaluating Topic Models. | Diane Kelly, Fernando Diaz, Nicholas J. Belkin, James Allan |
| 2004 | NAACL | Cross-Document Coreference on a Large Scale Corpus. | Chung Heong Gooi, James Allan |
| 2004 | SIGIR | Text classification and named entities for new event detection. | Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan |
| 2003 | CIKM | Flexible intrinsic evaluation of hierarchical clustering for TDT. | James Allan, Ao Feng, Alvaro Bolivar |
| 2003 | CIKM | Relevant query feedback in statistical language modeling. | Ramesh Nallapati, W. Bruce Croft, James Allan |
| 2003 | SIGIR | Stemming in the language modeling framework. | James Allan, Giridhar Kumaran |
| 2003 | SIGIR | Retrieval and novelty detection at the sentence level. | James Allan, Courtney Wade, Alvaro Bolivar |
| 2002 | CIKM | Capturing term dependencies using a language model based on sentence trees. | Ramesh Nallapati, James Allan |
| 2002 | SIGIR | Using part-of-speech patterns to reduce query ambiguity. | James Allan, Hema Raghavan |
| 2002 | SIGIR | Improving realism of topic tracking evaluation. | Anton Leuski, James Allan |
| 2002 | SIGIR | A critical examination of TDT's cost function. | R. Manmatha, Ao Feng, James Allan |
| 2001 | NAACL | Monitoring the News: a TDT demonstration system. | David Frey, Rahul Gupta, Vikas Khandelwal, Victor Lavrenko, Anton Leuski, James Allan |
| 2001 | NAACL | An Evaluation Corpus For Temporal Summarization. | Vikas Khandelwal, Rahul Gupta, James Allan |
| 2001 | SIGIR | Perspectives on Information Retrieval and Speech. | James Allan |
| 2001 | SIGIR | Temporal Summaries of News Topics. | James Allan, Rahul Gupta, Vikas Khandelwal |
| 2000 | CIKM | First Story Detection In TDT Is Hard. | James Allan, Victor Lavrenko, Hubert Jin |
| 2000 | CIKM | Language Models for Financial News Recommendation. | Victor Lavrenko, Matthew D. Schmill, Dawn J. Lawrie, Paul Ogilvie, David D. Jensen, James Allan |
| 2000 | SIGIR | Automatic generation of overview timelines. | Russell C. Swan, James Allan |
| 2000 | SIGIR | TimeMine: visualizing automatically constructed timelines. | Russell C. Swan, James Allan |
| 1999 | CIKM | Extracting Significant Time Varying Features from Text. | Russell C. Swan, James Allan |
| 1998 | CIKM | Document Classification Using Multiword Features. | Ron Papka, James Allan |
| 1998 | SIGIR | On-Line New Event Detection and Tracking. | James Allan, Ron Papka, Victor Lavrenko |
| 1998 | SIGIR | Visual Interactions with a Multidimensional Ranked List. | Anton Leuski, James Allan |
| 1998 | SIGIR | Aspect Windows, 3-D Visualizations, and Indirect Comparisons of Information Retrieval Systems. | Russell C. Swan, James Allan |
| 1996 | SIGIR | Incremental Relevance Feedback for Information Filtering. | James Allan |
| 1995 | SIGIR | Relevance Feedback With Too Much Data. | James Allan |
| 1994 | SIGIR | The Effect of Adding Relevance Information in a Relevance Feedback Environment. | Chris Buckley, Gerard Salton, James Allan |
| 1993 | NAACL | The SMART Information Retrieval Project. | Chris Buckley, Gerard Salton, James Allan |
| 1993 | SIGIR | Approaches to Passage Retrieval in Full Text Information Systems. | Gerard Salton, James Allan, Chris Buckley |