| 2019 | ICTIR | Incorporating Hierarchical Domain Information to Disambiguate Very Short Queries. | Hamed R. Bonab, Mohammad Aliannejadi, John Foley, 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 |
| 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 | 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 | Semantic Location in Email Query Suggestion. | John Foley, Mingyang Zhang, Michael Bendersky, Marc Najork |
| 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 | ECIR | Retrieving Hierarchical Syllabus Items for Exam Question Analysis. | John Foley, James Allan |
| 2016 | ECIR | Toward Reproducible Baselines: The Open-Source IR Reproducibility Challenge. | Jimmy Lin, Matt Crane, Andrew Trotman, Jamie Callan, Ishan Chattopadhyaya, John Foley, Grant Ingersoll, Craig MacDonald, Sebastiano Vigna |
| 2015 | ECIR | Retrieving Time from Scanned Books. | John Foley, James Allan |
| 2015 | SIGIR | Learning to Extract Local Events from the Web. | John Foley, Michael Bendersky, Vanja Josifovski |
| 2014 | FDG | An exergame to improve balance in children who are blind. | Tony Morelli, Lauren Lieberman, John Foley, Eelke Folmer |
| 2010 | ASSETS | Vi-bowling: a tactile spatial exergame for individuals with visual impairments. | Tony Morelli, John Foley, Eelke Folmer |
| 2010 | FDG | VI-Tennis: a vibrotactile/audio exergame for players who are visually impaired. | Tony Morelli, John Foley, Luis Columna, Lauren Lieberman, Eelke Folmer |