| 2023 | ICTIR | Dense Retrieval Adaptation using Target Domain Description. | Helia Hashemi, Yong Zhuang, Sachith Sri Ram Kothur, Srivas Prasad, Edgar Meij, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2022 | CIKM | Stochastic Optimization of Text Set Generation for Learning Multiple Query Intent Representations. | Helia Hashemi, Hamed Zamani, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2022 | SIGIR | A Non-Factoid Question-Answering Taxonomy. | Valeria Bolotova, Vladislav Blinov, Falk Scholer, W. Bruce Croft, Mark Sanderson |
| 2021 | CHIIR | Quantifying Human-Perceived Answer Utility in Non-factoid Question Answering. | Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Valeria Bolotova-Baranova, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson, Leila Tavakoli, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2021 | CHIIR | An Intent Taxonomy for Questions Asked in Web Search. | Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Leila Tavakoli, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2021 | CIKM | Evaluating Fairness in Argument Retrieval. | Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2021 | CIKM | Learning Multiple Intent Representations for Search Queries. | Helia Hashemi, Hamed Zamani, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2021 | EACL | AREDSUM: Adaptive Redundancy-Aware Iterative Sentence Ranking for Extractive Document Summarization. | Keping Bi, Rahul Jha, W. Bruce Croft, Asli Celikyilmaz |
| 2021 | ECIR | Weakly-Supervised Open-Retrieval Conversational Question Answering. | Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Cen Chen, W. Bruce Croft, Kalpesh Krishna, Mohit Iyyer |
| 2021 | ICTIR | Asking Clarifying Questions Based on Negative Feedback in Conversational Search. | Keping Bi, Qingyao Ai, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2021 | ICTIR | Passage Similarity and Diversification in Non-factoid Question Answering. | Lakshmi Vikraman, Ali Montazeralghaem, Helia Hashemi, W. Bruce Croft, James Allan |
| 2021 | SIGIR | Learning a Fine-Grained Review-based Transformer Model for Personalized Product Search. | Keping Bi, Qingyao Ai, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2021 | SIGIR | Passage Retrieval for Outside-Knowledge Visual Question Answering. | Chen Qu, Hamed Zamani, Liu Yang, W. Bruce Croft, Erik G. Learned-Miller |
| 2020 | CIKM | Providing Direct Answers in Search Results: A Study of User Behavior. | Zhijing Wu, Mark Sanderson, Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, W. Bruce Croft, Falk Scholer |
| 2020 | CIKM | Do People and Neural Nets Pay Attention to the Same Words: Studying Eye-tracking Data for Non-factoid QA Evaluation. | Valeria Bolotova, Vladislav Blinov, Yukun Zheng, W. Bruce Croft, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson |
| 2020 | ECIR | ANTIQUE: A Non-factoid Question Answering Benchmark. | Helia Hashemi, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Hamed Zamani, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2020 | WWW | IART: Intent-aware Response Ranking with Transformers in Information-seeking Conversation Systems. | Liu Yang, Minghui Qiu, Chen Qu, Cen Chen, Jiafeng Guo, Yongfeng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, Haiqing Chen |
| 2020 | SIGIR | A Transformer-based Embedding Model for Personalized Product Search. | Keping Bi, Qingyao Ai, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2020 | SIGIR | Guided Transformer: Leveraging Multiple External Sources for Representation Learning in Conversational Search. | Helia Hashemi, Hamed Zamani, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2020 | SIGIR | Recipe Retrieval with Visual Query of Ingredients. | Yen-Chieh Lien, Hamed Zamani, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2020 | SIGIR | Open-Retrieval Conversational Question Answering. | Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Cen Chen, Minghui Qiu, W. Bruce Croft, Mohit Iyyer |
| 2020 | SIGIR | Contextual Re-Ranking with Behavior Aware Transformers. | Chen Qu, Chenyan Xiong, Yizhe Zhang, Corby Rosset, W. Bruce Croft, Paul N. Bennett |
| 2020 | WSDM | Learning a Joint Search and Recommendation Model from User-Item Interactions. | Hamed Zamani, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2019 | CHIIR | Answer Interaction in Non-factoid Question Answering Systems. | Chen Qu, Liu Yang, W. Bruce Croft, Falk Scholer, Yongfeng Zhang |
| 2019 | CHIIR | User Intent Prediction in Information-seeking Conversations. | Chen Qu, Liu Yang, W. Bruce Croft, Yongfeng Zhang, Johanne R. Trippas, Minghui Qiu |
| 2019 | CIKM | A Hybrid Retrieval-Generation Neural Conversation Model. | Liu Yang, Junjie Hu, Minghui Qiu, Chen Qu, Jianfeng Gao, W. Bruce Croft, Xiaodong Liu, Yelong Shen, Jingjing Liu |
| 2019 | CIKM | A Zero Attention Model for Personalized Product Search. | Qingyao Ai, Daniel N. Hill, S. V. N. Vishwanathan, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2019 | CIKM | Conversational Product Search Based on Negative Feedback. | Keping Bi, Qingyao Ai, Yongfeng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2019 | CIKM | A Study of Context Dependencies in Multi-page Product Search. | Keping Bi, Choon Hui Teo, Yesh Dattatreya, Vijai Mohan, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2019 | CIKM | Correcting for Recency Bias in Job Recommendation. | Ruey-Cheng Chen, Qingyao Ai, Gaya Jayasinghe, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2019 | CIKM | Attentive History Selection for Conversational Question Answering. | Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Minghui Qiu, Yongfeng Zhang, Cen Chen, W. Bruce Croft, Mohit Iyyer |
| 2019 | ECIR | Iterative Relevance Feedback for Answer Passage Retrieval with Passage-Level Semantic Match. | Keping Bi, Qingyao Ai, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2019 | ECIR | How do Computer Scientists Use Google Scholar?: A Survey of User Interest in Elements on SERPs and Author Profile Pages. | Jaewon Kim, Johanne R. Trippas, Mark Sanderson, Zhifeng Bao, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2019 | EMNLP | The Challenges of Optimizing Machine Translation for Low Resource Cross-Language Information Retrieval. | Constantine Lignos, Daniel Cohen, Yen-Chieh Lien, Pratik Mehta, W. Bruce Croft, Scott Miller |
| 2019 | ICTIR | Learning a Better Negative Sampling Policy with Deep Neural Networks for Search. | Daniel Cohen, Scott M. Jordan, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2019 | ICTIR | Performance Prediction for Non-Factoid Question Answering. | Helia Hashemi, Hamed Zamani, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2019 | ICTIR | An Assumption-Free Approach to the Dynamic Truncation of Ranked Lists. | Yen-Chieh Lien, Daniel Cohen, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2019 | SIGIR | Asking Clarifying Questions in Open-Domain Information-Seeking Conversations. | Mohammad Aliannejadi, Hamed Zamani, Fabio Crestani, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2019 | SIGIR | Leverage Implicit Feedback for Context-aware Product Search. | Keping Bi, Choon Hui Teo, Yesh Dattatreya, Vijai Mohan, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2019 | SIGIR | The Importance of Interaction for Information Retrieval. | W. Bruce Croft |
| 2019 | SIGIR | BERT with History Answer Embedding for Conversational Question Answering. | Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Minghui Qiu, W. Bruce Croft, Yongfeng Zhang, Mohit Iyyer |
| 2019 | WSDM | Learning to Selectively Transfer: Reinforced Transfer Learning for Deep Text Matching. | Chen Qu, Feng Ji, Minghui Qiu, Liu Yang, Zhiyu Min, Haiqing Chen, Jun Huang, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2018 | ACL | Transfer Learning for Context-Aware Question Matching in Information-seeking Conversations in E-commerce. | Minghui Qiu, Liu Yang, Feng Ji, Wei Zhou, Jun Huang, Haiqing Chen, W. Bruce Croft, Wei Lin |
| 2018 | CIKM | Unbiased Learning to Rank: Theory and Practice. | Qingyao Ai, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2018 | CIKM | In Situ and Context-Aware Target Apps Selection for Unified Mobile Search. | Mohammad Aliannejadi, Hamed Zamani, Fabio Crestani, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2018 | CIKM | From Neural Re-Ranking to Neural Ranking: Learning a Sparse Representation for Inverted Indexing. | Hamed Zamani, Mostafa Dehghani, W. Bruce Croft, Erik G. Learned-Miller, Jaap Kamps |
| 2018 | CIKM | Towards Conversational Search and Recommendation: System Ask, User Respond. | Yongfeng Zhang, Xu Chen, Qingyao Ai, Liu Yang, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2018 | ECIR | A Neural Passage Model for Ad-hoc Document Retrieval. | Qingyao Ai, Brendan O'Connor, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2018 | ECIR | A Hybrid Embedding Approach to Noisy Answer Passage Retrieval. | Daniel Cohen, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2018 | ICTIR | Unbiased Learning to Rank: Theory and Practice. | Qingyao Ai, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2018 | ICTIR | Understanding the Representational Power of Neural Retrieval Models Using NLP Tasks. | Daniel Cohen, Brendan O'Connor, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2018 | ICTIR | Exploring Diversification In Non-factoid Question Answering. | Lakshmi Vikraman, W. Bruce Croft, Brendan O'Connor |
| 2018 | ICTIR | On the Theory of Weak Supervision for Information Retrieval. | Hamed Zamani, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2018 | SIGIR | Learning a Deep Listwise Context Model for Ranking Refinement. | Qingyao Ai, Keping Bi, Jiafeng Guo, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2018 | SIGIR | Unbiased Learning to Rank with Unbiased Propensity Estimation. | Qingyao Ai, Keping Bi, Cheng Luo, Jiafeng Guo, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2018 | SIGIR | Target Apps Selection: Towards a Unified Search Framework for Mobile Devices. | Mohammad Aliannejadi, Hamed Zamani, Fabio Crestani, W. Bruce Croft |
| 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 | Cross Domain Regularization for Neural Ranking Models using Adversarial Learning. | Daniel Cohen, Bhaskar Mitra, Katja Hofmann, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2018 | SIGIR | WikiPassageQA: A Benchmark Collection for Research on Non-factoid Answer Passage Retrieval. | Daniel Cohen, Liu Yang, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2018 | SIGIR | Analyzing and Characterizing User Intent in Information-seeking Conversations. | Chen Qu, Liu Yang, W. Bruce Croft, Johanne R. Trippas, Yongfeng Zhang, Minghui Qiu |
| 2018 | SIGIR | Response Ranking with Deep Matching Networks and External Knowledge in Information-seeking Conversation Systems. | Liu Yang, Minghui Qiu, Chen Qu, Jiafeng Guo, Yongfeng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, Jun Huang, Haiqing Chen |
| 2018 | SIGIR | Ranking Documents by Answer-Passage Quality. | Evi Yulianti, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Falk Scholer, W. Bruce Croft, Mark Sanderson |
| 2018 | SIGIR | Neural Query Performance Prediction using Weak Supervision from Multiple Signals. | Hamed Zamani, W. Bruce Croft, J. Shane Culpepper |
| 2017 | CIKM | Joint Representation Learning for Top-N Recommendation with Heterogeneous Information Sources. | Yongfeng Zhang, Qingyao Ai, Xu Chen, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2017 | SIGIR | Learning a Hierarchical Embedding Model for Personalized Product Search. | Qingyao Ai, Yongfeng Zhang, Keping Bi, Xu Chen, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2017 | SIGIR | On the Benefit of Incorporating External Features in a Neural Architecture for Answer Sentence Selection. | Ruey-Cheng Chen, Evi Yulianti, Mark Sanderson, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2017 | SIGIR | SIGIR 2017 Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval (Neu-IR'17). | Nick Craswell, W. Bruce Croft, Maarten de Rijke, Jiafeng Guo, Bhaskar Mitra |
| 2017 | SIGIR | Neural Ranking Models with Weak Supervision. | Mostafa Dehghani, Hamed Zamani, Aliaksei Severyn, Jaap Kamps, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2017 | SIGIR | Relevance-based Word Embedding. | Hamed Zamani, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2016 | CIKM | A Deep Relevance Matching Model for Ad-hoc Retrieval. | Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Qingyao Ai, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2016 | CIKM | Semantic Matching by Non-Linear Word Transportation for Information Retrieval. | Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Qingyao Ai, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2016 | CIKM | Iterative Search using Query Aspects. | Manmeet Singh, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2016 | CIKM | aNMM: Ranking Short Answer Texts with Attention-Based Neural Matching Model. | Liu Yang, Qingyao Ai, Jiafeng Guo, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2016 | CIKM | Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Based on Matrix Factorization. | Hamed Zamani, Javid Dadashkarimi, Azadeh Shakery, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2016 | ECIR | Beyond Factoid QA: Effective Methods for Non-factoid Answer Sentence Retrieval. | Liu Yang, Qingyao Ai, Damiano Spina, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Liang Pang, W. Bruce Croft, Jiafeng Guo, Falk Scholer |
| 2016 | ECIR | Modeling User Interests for Zero-Query Ranking. | Liu Yang, Qi Guo, Yang Song, Sha Meng, Milad Shokouhi, Kieran McDonald, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2016 | ICTIR | Analysis of the Paragraph Vector Model for Information Retrieval. | Qingyao Ai, Liu Yang, Jiafeng Guo, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2016 | ICTIR | End to End Long Short Term Memory Networks for Non-Factoid Question Answering. | Daniel Cohen, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2016 | ICTIR | Estimating Embedding Vectors for Queries. | Hamed Zamani, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2016 | ICTIR | Embedding-based Query Language Models. | Hamed Zamani, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2016 | SIGIR | Improving Language Estimation with the Paragraph Vector Model for Ad-hoc Retrieval. | Qingyao Ai, Liu Yang, Jiafeng Guo, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2016 | SIGIR | Neu-IR: The SIGIR 2016 Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval. | Nick Craswell, W. Bruce Croft, Jiafeng Guo, Bhaskar Mitra, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2015 | CIKM | Harnessing Semantics for Answer Sentence Retrieval. | Ruey-Cheng Chen, Damiano Spina, W. Bruce Croft, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer |
| 2015 | CIKM | An Optimization Framework for Merging Multiple Result Lists. | Chia-Jung Lee, Qingyao Ai, W. Bruce Croft, Daniel Sheldon |
| 2015 | ICTIR | On Divergence Measures and Static Index Pruning. | Ruey-Cheng Chen, Chia-Jung Lee, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2015 | ICTIR | Improving Patent Search by Search Result Diversification. | Youngho Kim, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2015 | SIGIR | An Aspect-driven Social Media Explorer. | Nedim Lipka, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2015 | SIGIR | Using Key Concepts in a Translation Model for Retrieval. | Jae Hyun Park, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2014 | ADCS | Retrieving Passages and Finding Answers. | Mostafa Keikha, Jae Hyun Park, W. Bruce Croft, Mark Sanderson |
| 2014 | CIKM | A Comparison of Retrieval Models using Term Dependencies. | Samuel J. Huston, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2014 | ECIR | Cross-Language Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Techniques for Informal Text. | Chia-Jung Lee, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2014 | SIGIR | Incorporating query-specific feedback into learning-to-rank models. | Ethem F. Can, W. Bruce Croft, R. Manmatha |
| 2014 | SIGIR | Evaluating answer passages using summarization measures. | Mostafa Keikha, Jae Hyun Park, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2014 | SIGIR | Diversifying query suggestions based on query documents. | Youngho Kim, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2013 | ACL | Feature-Based Selection of Dependency Paths in Ad Hoc Information Retrieval. | K. Tamsin Maxwell, Jon Oberlander, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2013 | CIKM | Retrieving opinions from discussion forums. | Laura Dietz, Ziqi Wang, Samuel J. Huston, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2013 | CIKM | Generalizing diversity detection in blog feed retrieval. | Mostafa Keikha, Fabio Crestani, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2013 | ECIR | Two-Stage Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval. | Van Dang, Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2013 | SIGIR | Term level search result diversification. | Van Dang, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2013 | SIGIR | Building a web test collection using social media. | Chia-Jung Lee, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2013 | SIGIR | Compact query term selection using topically related text. | K. Tamsin Maxwell, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2012 | CIKM | Temporal models for microblogs. | Jaeho Choi, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2012 | CIKM | Quality models for microblog retrieval. | Jaeho Choi, W. Bruce Croft, Jin Young Kim |
| 2012 | CIKM | Sketch-based indexing of n-words. | Samuel J. Huston, J. Shane Culpepper, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2012 | CIKM | Diversity in blog feed retrieval. | Mostafa Keikha, Fabio Crestani, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2012 | ECIR | A Field Relevance Model for Structured Document Retrieval. | Jin Young Kim, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2012 | SIGIR | Modeling higher-order term dependencies in information retrieval using query hypergraphs. | Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2012 | SIGIR | Dependency trigram model for social relation extraction from news articles. | Maengsik Choi, Harksoo Kim, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2012 | SIGIR | Diversity by proportionality: an election-based approach to search result diversification. | Van Dang, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2012 | SIGIR | Generating reformulation trees for complex queries. | Xiaobing Xue, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2012 | WSDM | Effective query formulation with multiple information sources. | Michael Bendersky, Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2012 | WSDM | Evaluating search in personal social media collections. | Chia-Jung Lee, W. Bruce Croft, Jin Young Kim |
| 2011 | ACL | Joint Annotation of Search Queries. | Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft, David A. Smith |
| 2011 | CIKM | Inferring query aspects from reformulations using clustering. | Van Dang, Xiaobing Xue, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2011 | CIKM | Predicting document effectiveness in pseudo relevance feedback. | Mostafa Keikha, Jangwon Seo, W. Bruce Croft, Fabio Crestani |
| 2011 | CIKM | Evaluating an associative browsing model for personal information. | Jin Young Kim, W. Bruce Croft, David A. Smith, Anton Bakalov |
| 2011 | CIKM | A quasi-synchronous dependence model for information retrieval. | Jae Hyun Park, W. Bruce Croft, David A. Smith |
| 2011 | CIKM | User oriented tweet ranking: a filtering approach to microblogs. | Ibrahim Uysal, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2011 | ECIR | Smoothing Click Counts for Aggregated Vertical Search. | Jangwon Seo, W. Bruce Croft, Kwang Hyun Kim, Joon Ho Lee |
| 2011 | SIGIR | Parameterized concept weighting in verbose queries. | Michael Bendersky, Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2011 | SIGIR | Automatic boolean query suggestion for professional search. | Youngho Kim, Jangwon Seo, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2011 | SIGIR | Modeling subset distributions for verbose queries. | Xiaobing Xue, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2011 | WSDM | Quality-biased ranking of web documents. | Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft, Yanlei Diao |
| 2011 | WSDM | Efficient indexing of repeated n-grams. | Samuel J. Huston, Alistair Moffat, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2010 | CIKM | Structural annotation of search queries using pseudo-relevance feedback. | Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft, David A. Smith |
| 2010 | CIKM | Building a semantic representation for personal information. | Jin Young Kim, Anton Bakalov, David A. Smith, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2010 | CIKM | Modeling reformulation using passage analysis. | Xiaobing Xue, W. Bruce Croft, David A. Smith |
| 2010 | CIKM | Improving verbose queries using subset distribution. | Xiaobing Xue, Samuel J. Huston, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2010 | SIGIR | Learning to rank query reformulations. | Van Dang, Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2010 | SIGIR | Evaluating verbose query processing techniques. | Samuel J. Huston, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2010 | SIGIR | Ranking using multiple document types in desktop search. | Jin Young Kim, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2010 | SIGIR | Query term ranking based on dependency parsing of verbose queries. | Jae Hyun Park, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2010 | SIGIR | Geometric representations for multiple documents. | Jangwon Seo, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2010 | SIGIR | Unsupervised estimation of dirichlet smoothing parameters. | Jangwon Seo, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2010 | WSDM | Learning concept importance using a weighted dependence model. | Michael Bendersky, Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2010 | WSDM | Query reformulation using anchor text. | Van Dang, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2009 | CIKM | A unified relevance model for opinion retrieval. | Xuanjing Huang, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2009 | CIKM | Retrieval experiments using pseudo-desktop collections. | Jin Young Kim, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2009 | CIKM | Online community search using thread structure. | Jangwon Seo, W. Bruce Croft, David A. Smith |
| 2009 | CIKM | Automatic query generation for patent search. | Xiaobing Xue, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2009 | ECIR | Query Evolution. | W. Bruce Croft |
| 2009 | ECIR | A Probabilistic Retrieval Model for Semistructured Data. | Jin Young Kim, Xiaobing Xue, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2009 | ECIR | Regression Rank: Learning to Meet the Opportunity of Descriptive Queries. | Matthew Lease, James Allan, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2009 | ECIR | Refining Keyword Queries for XML Retrieval by Combining Content and Structure. | Desislava Petkova, W. Bruce Croft, Yanlei Diao |
| 2009 | SIGIR | Two-stage query segmentation for information retrieval. | Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft, David A. Smith |
| 2009 | SIGIR | Transforming patents into prior-art queries. | Xiaobing Xue, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2009 | WSDM | Finding text reuse on the web. | Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2009 | WSDM | Analysis of long queries in a large scale search log. | Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2008 | CIKM | Unsolved problems in search: (and how we approach them). | W. Bruce Croft |
| 2008 | CIKM | Blog site search using resource selection. | Jangwon Seo, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2008 | ECIR | Evaluating Text Representations for Retrieval of the Best Group of Documents. | Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2008 | ECIR | A Statistical View of Binned Retrieval Models. | Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2008 | SIGIR | Discovering key concepts in verbose queries. | Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2008 | SIGIR | A cluster-based resampling method for pseudo-relevance feedback. | Kyung-Soon Lee, W. Bruce Croft, James Allan |
| 2008 | SIGIR | Local text reuse detection. | Jangwon Seo, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2008 | SIGIR | Retrieval models for question and answer archives. | Xiaobing Xue, Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2007 | CIKM | Proximity-based document representation for named entity retrieval. | Desislava Petkova, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2007 | ECIR | Modeling Term Associations for Ad-Hoc Retrieval Performance Within Language Modeling Framework. | Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2007 | MOBICOM | Web search from a bus. | Aruna Balasubramanian, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft, Brian Neil Levine, Arun Venkataramani |
| 2007 | SIGIR | A comparison of sentence retrieval techniques. | Niranjan Balasubramanian, James Allan, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2007 | SIGIR | Latent concept expansion using markov random fields. | Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2007 | SIGIR | Efficient document retrieval in main memory. | Trevor Strohman, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2007 | SIGIR | Recommending citations for academic papers. | Trevor Strohman, W. Bruce Croft, David D. Jensen |
| 2007 | SIGIR | Matching resumes and jobs based on relevance models. | Xing Yi, James Allan, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2007 | SIGIR | Query performance prediction in web search environments. | Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2006 | AAAI | Beyond Bags of Words: Modeling Implicit User Preferences in Information Retrieval. | Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2006 | CIKM | Boosting relevance model performance with query term dependence. | Koji Eguchi, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2006 | CIKM | Improving novelty detection for general topics using sentence level information patterns. | Xiaoyan Li, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2006 | CIKM | Representing documents with named entities for story link detection (SLD). | Chirag Shah, W. Bruce Croft, David D. Jensen |
| 2006 | CIKM | Ranking robustness: a novel framework to predict query performance. | Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2006 | ICTAI | Hierarchical Language Models for Expert Finding in Enterprise Corpora. | Desislava Petkova, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2006 | SIGIR | A framework to predict the quality of answers with non-textual features. | Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft, Joon Ho Lee, Soyeon Park |
| 2006 | SIGIR | Representing clusters for retrieval. | Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2006 | SIGIR | LDA-based document models for ad-hoc retrieval. | Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2005 | CIKM | Finding similar questions in large question and answer archives. | Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft, Joon Ho Lee |
| 2005 | CIKM | Novelty detection based on sentence level patterns. | Xiaoyan Li, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2005 | CIKM | Finding experts in community-based question-answering services. | Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft, Matthew B. Koll |
| 2005 | CIKM | Similarity measures for tracking information flow. | Donald Metzler, Yaniv Bernstein, W. Bruce Croft, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel |
| 2005 | CIKM | Document quality models for web ad hoc retrieval. | Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2005 | NAACL | A Translation Model for Sentence Retrieval. | Vanessa Murdock, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2005 | SIGIR | Finding semantically similar questions based on their answers. | Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft, Joon Ho Lee |
| 2005 | SIGIR | The recap system for identifying information flow. | Donald Metzler, Yaniv Bernstein, W. Bruce Croft, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel |
| 2005 | SIGIR | A Markov random field model for term dependencies. | Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2005 | SIGIR | Optimization strategies for complex queries. | Trevor Strohman, Howard R. Turtle, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2004 | CIKM | A framework for selective query expansion. | Stephen Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2004 | SIGIR | Answer models for question answering passage retrieval. | Andrs Corrada-Emmanuel, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2004 | SIGIR | Cluster-based retrieval using language models. | Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2004 | SIGIR | Automatic recognition of reading levels from user queries. | Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft, Paul Oh, David M. Hart |
| 2004 | SIGIR | Formal multiple-bernoulli models for language modeling. | Donald Metzler, Victor Lavrenko, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2004 | SIGIR | Evaluating high accuracy retrieval techniques. | Chirag Shah, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2003 | CIKM | Time-based language models. | Xiaoyan Li, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2003 | CIKM | Relevant query feedback in statistical language modeling. | Ramesh Nallapati, W. Bruce Croft, James Allan |
| 2003 | ICDE | Language Models for Information Retrieval. | W. Bruce Croft |
| 2003 | SIGIR | Salton Award Lecture - Information retrieval and computer science: an evolving relationship. | W. Bruce Croft |
| 2003 | SIGIR | Generating hierarchical summaries for web searches. | Dawn J. Lawrie, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2003 | SIGIR | Table extraction using conditional random fields. | David Pinto, Andrew McCallum, Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2002 | CIKM | Features of documents relevant to task- and fact-oriented questions. | Diane Kelly, Xiaojun Yuan, Nicholas J. Belkin, Vanessa Murdock, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2002 | CIKM | Passage retrieval based on language models. | Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2002 | SIGIR | Predicting query performance. | Stephen Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2002 | SIGIR | Cross-lingual relevance models. | Victor Lavrenko, Martin Choquette, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2002 | SIGIR | Task orientation in question answering. | Vanessa Murdock, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2001 | NAACL | Evaluating Question-Answering Techniques in Chinese. | Xiaoyan Li, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2001 | SIGIR | Relevance-Based Language Models. | Victor Lavrenko, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2001 | SIGIR | Finding Topic Words for Hierarchical Summarization. | Dawn J. Lawrie, W. Bruce Croft, Arnold L. Rosenberg |
| 2000 | ISMIS | Information Retrieval Based on Statistical Language Models. | W. Bruce Croft |
| 1999 | CIKM | A General Language Model for Information Retrieval. | Fei Song, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1999 | SIGIR | Deriving Concept Hierarchies from Text. | Mark Sanderson, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1999 | SIGIR | A General Language Model for Information Retrieval (poster abstract). | Fei Song, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1999 | SIGIR | Cluster-Based Language Models for Distributed Retrieval. | Jinxi Xu, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1998 | SIGIR | Resolving Ambiguity for Cross-Language Retrieval. | Lisa Ballesteros, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1998 | SIGIR | A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval. | Jay M. Ponte, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1997 | SIGIR | Phrasal Translation and Query Expansion Techniques for Cross-language Information Retrieval. | Lisa Ballesteros, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1997 | SIGIR | Computationally Tractable Probabilistic Modeling of Boolean Operators. | Warren R. Greiff, W. Bruce Croft, Howard R. Turtle |
| 1996 | DEXA | Dictionary Methods for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval. | Lisa Ballesteros, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1996 | SIGIR | Combining Classifiers in Text Categorization. | Leah S. Larkey, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1996 | SIGIR | Query Expansion Using Local and Global Document Analysis. | Jinxi Xu, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1995 | ICML | Machine Learning and Information Retrieval (Abstract). | W. Bruce Croft |
| 1995 | SIGIR | Searching Distributed Collections with Inference Networks. | James P. Callan, Zhihong Lu, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1995 | SIGIR | Integrating IR and RDBMS Using Cooperative Indexing. | Samuel DeFazio, Amjad M. Daoud, Lisa Ann Smith, Jagannathan Srinivasan, W. Bruce Croft, James P. Callan |
| 1994 | EDBT | Supporting Full-Text Information Retrieval with a Persistent Object Store. | Eric W. Brown, James P. Callan, W. Bruce Croft, J. Eliot B. Moss |
| 1994 | VLDB | Fast Incremental Indexing for Full-Text Information Retrieval. | Eric W. Brown, James P. Callan, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1993 | NAACL | Query Processing for Retrieval from Large Text Bases. | John Broglio, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1993 | NAACL | Text Retrieval and Routing Techniques Based on an Inference Net. | W. Bruce Croft |
| 1993 | SIGIR | Effect of Multiple Query Representations on Information Retrieval System Performance. | Nicholas J. Belkin, Colleen Cool, W. Bruce Croft, James P. Callan |
| 1993 | SIGIR | An Evaluation of Query Processing Strategies Using the TIPSTER Collection. | James P. Callan, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1993 | SIGIR | A Comparison of Indexing Techniques for Japanese Text Retrieval. | Hideo Fujii, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1993 | SIGIR | Relevance Feedback and Inference Networks. | David Haines, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1992 | DEXA | The INQUERY Retrieval System. | James P. Callan, W. Bruce Croft, Stephen M. Harding |
| 1992 | EDBT | Retrieval of Complex Objects. | W. Bruce Croft, Howard R. Turtle |
| 1992 | SIGIR | Experience with Large Document Collections (Panel). | W. Bruce Croft |
| 1992 | SIGIR | A Loosely-Coupled Integration of a Text Retrieval System and an Object-Oriented Database System. | W. Bruce Croft, Lisa Ann Smith, Howard R. Turtle |
| 1991 | SIGIR | The Use of Phrases and Structured Queries in Information Retrieval. | W. Bruce Croft, Howard R. Turtle, David D. Lewis |
| 1990 | SIGIR | Experiments with Query Acquisition and Use in Document Retrieval Systems. | W. Bruce Croft, Raj Das |
| 1990 | SIGIR | Term Clustering of Syntactic Phrases. | David D. Lewis, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1990 | SIGIR | Inference Networks for Document Retrieval. | Howard R. Turtle, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1989 | SIGIR | Word Sense Disambiguation Using Machine-Readable Dictionaries. | Robert Krovetz, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1988 | CHI | Retrieval systems for the information seeker: can the role of the intermediary be automated? | Christine L. Borgman, Nicholas J. Belkin, W. Bruce Croft, Michael E. Lesk, Thomas K. Landauer |
| 1988 | Group | Interactive retrieval office documents. | W. Bruce Croft, Robert Krovetz |
| 1988 | Group | Using a planner to support office work. | W. Bruce Croft, Lawrence S. Lefkowitz |
| 1988 | SIGIR | Retrieving Documents by Plausible Inference: A Preliminary Study. | W. Bruce Croft, T. J. Lucia, Paul R. Cohen |
| 1987 | AAAI | Reasoning about Exceptions during Plan Execution Monitoring. | Carol A. Broverman, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1987 | SIGIR | An Approach to Natural Language Processing for Document Retrieval. | W. Bruce Croft, David D. Lewis |
| 1987 | SIGMOD | Supporting Offics Document Architectures with Constrained Types. | W. Bruce Croft, David W. Stemple |
| 1986 | SIGIR | User-Specified Domain Knowledge for Document Retrieval. | W. Bruce Croft |
| 1985 | VLDB | A Knowledge-Based Approach to Data Management for Intelligent User Interfaces. | Carol A. Broverman, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1984 | SIGIR | The Use of Adaptive Mechanisms for Selection of Search Strategies in Document Retrieval Systems. | W. Bruce Croft, Roger Thompson |
| 1983 | SIGIR | Applications for Information Retrieval Techniques in the Office. | W. Bruce Croft |
| 1983 | SIGIR | A Network Organization Used for Document Retrieval. | W. Bruce Croft, R. Wolf, Roger Thompson |
| 1982 | SIGIR | The Implementation of a Document Retrieval System. | W. Bruce Croft, Lynn Ruggles |
| 1981 | SIGIR | Incorporating Different Search Models into One Document Retrieval System. | W. Bruce Croft |
| 1979 | SIGIR | On the Implementation of Some Models of Document Retrieval. | W. Bruce Croft |
| 1978 | SIGIR | A File Organization for Cluster-Based Retrieval. | W. Bruce Croft |