| 1993 | NAACL | Machine Learning Techniques for Document Filtering. | Richard M. Tong, Lee A. Appelbaum |
| 1992 | MuC | Text filtering in MUC-3 and MUC-4. | David D. Lewis, Richard M. Tong |
| 1991 | ICML | Classification Trees for Information Retrieval. | Stuart L. Crawford, Robert M. Fung, Lee A. Appelbaum, Richard M. Tong |
| 1991 | MuC | Advanced decision systems' CODEX: MUC-3 test results and analysis. | Laura Blumer Balcom, Richard M. Tong |
| 1991 | MuC | Advanced Decision Systems: description of the CODEX system as used for MUC-3. | Laura Blumer Balcom, Richard M. Tong |
| 1990 | SIGIR | An Architecture for Probabilistic Concept-Based Information Retrieval. | Robert M. Fung, Stuart L. Crawford, Lee A. Appelbaum, Richard M. Tong |
| 1987 | ICAIL | Conceptual Legal Document Retrieval Using the RUBRIC System. | Richard M. Tong, C. A. Reid, G. J. Crowe, P. R. Douglas |
| 1987 | SIGIR | Conceptual Information Retrieval Using RUBRIC. | Richard M. Tong, Lee A. Appelbaum, Victor N. Askman, James F. Cunningham |
| 1986 | UAI | Experiments with interval-valued uncertainty. | Richard M. Tong, Lee A. Appelbaum |
| 1985 | SIGIR | RUBRIC - An Environment for Full Text Information Retrieval. | Richard M. Tong, Victor N. Askman, James F. Cunningham, Carl J. Tollander |
| 1983 | AAAI | A Rule-Based Approach to Information Retrieval: Some Results and Comments. | Richard M. Tong, Daniel G. Shapiro, Brian P. McCune, Jeffrey S. Dean |
| 1983 | IJCAI | A Comparison of Uncertainty Calculi in an Expert System for Information Retrieval. | Richard M. Tong, Daniel G. Shapiro, Jeffrey S. Dean, Brian P. McCune |