| 2006 | SIGIR | Quantative analysis of the impact of judging inconsistency on the performance of relevance feedback. | Xiangyu Jin, James C. French, Jonathan Michel |
| 2001 | CIKM | Exploiting A Controlled Vocabulary to Improve Collection Selection and Retrieval Effectiveness. | James C. French, Allison L. Powell, Fredric C. Gey, Natalia Perelman |
| 2000 | SIGIR | The impact of database selection on distributed searching. | Allison L. Powell, James C. French, James P. Callan, Margaret E. Connell, Charles L. Viles |
| 1999 | ICDE | Clustering Large Datasets in Arbitrary Metric Spaces. | Venkatesh Ganti, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke, Allison L. Powell, James C. French |
| 1999 | SIGIR | Comparing the Performance of Database Selection Algorithms. | James C. French, Allison L. Powell, James P. Callan, Charles L. Viles, Travis Emmitt, Kevin J. Prey, Yun Mou |
| 1998 | SIGIR | Evaluating Database Selection Techniques: A Testbed and Experiment. | James C. French, Allison L. Powell, Charles L. Viles, Travis Emmitt, Kevin J. Prey |
| 1998 | SSDBM | Scalable, Parallel, Scientific Databases. | John L. Pfaltz, Russell F. Haddleton, James C. French |
| 1997 | CIKM | Applications of Approximate Word Matching in Information Retrieval. | James C. French, Allison L. Powell, Eric Schulman |
| 1996 | SAC | A systematic approach to creating and maintaining software documentation. | Allison L. Powell, James C. French, John C. Knight |
| 1995 | CIKM | On the Update of Term Weights in Dynamic Information Retrieval Systems. | Charles L. Viles, James C. French |
| 1995 | SIGIR | Dissemination of Collection Wide Information in a Distributed Information Retrieval System. | Charles L. Viles, James C. French |
| 1994 | OOPSLA | Extensible File Systems (ELFS): An Object-Oriented Approach to High Performance File I/O. | John F. Karpovich, Andrew S. Grimshaw, James C. French |
| 1994 | SSDBM | High Performance Access to Radio Astronomy Data: A Case Study. | John F. Karpovich, James C. French, Andrew S. Grimshaw |
| 1991 | SIGMETRICS | Performance Measurement of a Parallel Input/Output System for the Intel iPSC/2 Hypercube. | James C. French, Terrence W. Pratt, Mriganka Das |
| 1990 | SSDBM | Implementing Subscripted Identifiers in Scientific Databases. | John L. Pfaltz, James C. French |