W Bruce Croft - Publications

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University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA 

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2019 Ai Q, Zhang Y, Bi K, Croft WB. Explainable Product Search with a Dynamic Relation Embedding Model Acm Transactions On Information Systems. 38: 1-29. DOI: 10.1145/3361738  0.445
2019 Guo J, Fan Y, Pang L, Yang L, Ai Q, Zamani H, Wu C, Croft WB, Cheng X. A Deep Look into neural ranking models for information retrieval Information Processing and Management. 102067. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ipm.2019.102067  0.409
2018 Yulianti E, Chen R, Scholer F, Croft WB, Sanderson M. Document Summarization for Answering Non-Factoid Queries Ieee Transactions On Knowledge and Data Engineering. 30: 15-28. DOI: 10.1109/Tkde.2017.2754373  0.719
2018 Bhattacharya T, Retzlaff N, Blasi DE, Croft W, Cysouw M, Hruschka D, Maddieson I, Müller L, Smith E, Stadler PF, Starostin G, Youn H. Studying language evolution in the age of big data Journal of Language Evolution. 3: 94-129. DOI: 10.1093/Jole/Lzy004  0.36
2017 Lavrenko V, Croft WB. Relevance-Based Language Models Acm Sigir Forum. 51: 260-267. DOI: 10.1145/3130348.3130376  0.457
2017 Ponte JM, Croft WB. A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval Acm Sigir Forum. 51: 202-208. DOI: 10.1145/3130348.3130368  0.388
2017 Xu J, Croft WB. Quary Expansion Using Local and Global Document Analysis Acm Sigir Forum. 51: 168-175. DOI: 10.1145/3130348.3130364  0.32
2017 Liang S, Yilmaz E, Shen H, Rijke MD, Croft WB. Search Result Diversification in Short Text Streams Acm Transactions On Information Systems. 36: 8. DOI: 10.1145/3057282  0.457
2016 Youn H, Sutton L, Smith E, Moore C, Wilkins JF, Maddieson I, Croft W, Bhattacharya T. On the universal structure of human lexical semantics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 26831113 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1520752113  0.347
2016 Cohen D, Croft WB. End to end long short term memory networks for non-factoid question answering Ictir 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 Acm International Conference On the Theory of Information Retrieval. 143-146. DOI: 10.1145/2970398.2970438  0.306
2015 Chen RC, Spina D, Croft WB, Sanderson M, Scholer F. Harnessing semantics for answer sentence retrieval Esair 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 Workshop On Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval, Co-Located With: Cikm 2015. 21-27. DOI: 10.1145/2810133.2810136  0.372
2015 Park JH, Croft WB. Using key concepts in a translation model for retrieval Sigir 2015 - Proceedings of the 38th International Acm Sigir Conference On Research and Development in Information Retrieval. 927-930. DOI: 10.1145/2766462.2767768  0.305
2014 Kim Y, Croft WB. Diversifying query suggestions based on query documents Sigir 2014 - Proceedings of the 37th International Acm Sigir Conference On Research and Development in Information Retrieval. 891-894. DOI: 10.1145/2600428.2609467  0.376
2014 Huston S, Culpepper JS, Croft WB. Indexing word sequences for ranked retrieval Acm Transactions On Information Systems. 32. DOI: 10.1145/2559168  0.685
2014 Kim Y, Seo J, Croft WB, Smith DA. Automatic suggestion of phrasal-concept queries for literature search Information Processing and Management. 50: 568-583. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ipm.2014.03.003  0.684
2013 Xue X, Croft WB. Modeling reformulation using query distributions Acm Transactions On Information Systems. 31. DOI: 10.1145/2457465.2457466  0.752
2013 Lee KS, Croft WB. A deterministic resampling method using overlapping document clusters for pseudo-relevance feedback Information Processing and Management. 49: 792-806. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ipm.2013.01.001  0.433
2012 Bendersky M, Croft WB. Modeling higher-order term dependencies in information retrieval using query hypergraphs Sigir'12 - Proceedings of the International Acm Sigir Conference On Research and Development in Information Retrieval. 941-950. DOI: 10.1145/2348283.2348408  0.314
2011 Kim Y, Seo J, Croft WB. Automatic boolean query suggestion for professional search Sigir'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International Acm Sigir Conference On Research and Development in Information Retrieval. 825-834. DOI: 10.1145/2009916.2010026  0.35
2011 Croft WB, Bendersky M, Li H, Xu G. Query representation and understanding workshop Acm Sigir Forum. 44: 48-53. DOI: 10.1145/1924475.1924485  0.306
2011 Seo J, Croft WB, Smith DA. Online community search using conversational structures Information Retrieval. 14: 547-571. DOI: 10.1007/S10791-011-9166-8  0.632
2010 Bendersky M, Croft WB, Smith DA. Structural annotation of search queries using pseudo-relevance feedback International Conference On Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings. 1537-1540. DOI: 10.1145/1871437.1871666  0.304
2010 Park JH, Croft WB. Query term ranking based on dependency parsing of verbose queries Sigir 2010 Proceedings - 33rd Annual International Acm Sigir Conference On Research and Development in Information Retrieval. 829-830. DOI: 10.1145/1835449.1835637  0.322
2010 Dang V, Croft WB. Query reformulation using anchor text Wsdm 2010 - Proceedings of the 3rd Acm International Conference On Web Search and Data Mining. 41-50. DOI: 10.1145/1718487.1718493  0.376
2009 Xue X, Croft WB. Automatic query generation for patent search International Conference On Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings. 2037-2040. DOI: 10.1145/1645953.1646295  0.335
2009 Huang X, Croft WB. A unified relevance model for opinion retrieval International Conference On Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings. 947-956. DOI: 10.1145/1645953.1646075  0.346
2009 Eguchi K, Croft WB. Query structuring and expansion with two-stage term dependence for Japanese web retrieval Information Retrieval. 12: 251-274. DOI: 10.1007/S10791-009-9092-1  0.473
2009 Petkova D, Croft WB, Diao Y. Refining keyword queries for xml retrieval by combining content and structure Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 5478: 662-669. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00958-7_63  0.325
2008 Croft W, Poole KT. Inferring universals from grammatical variation: Multidimensional scaling for typological analysis Theoretical Linguistics. 34: 1-37. DOI: 10.2139/Ssrn.1154073  0.302
2008 Bendersky M, Croft WB. Discovering key concepts in verbose queries Acm Sigir 2008 - 31st Annual International Acm Sigir Conference On Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Proceedings. 491-498. DOI: 10.1145/1390334.1390419  0.307
2008 Xue X, Jeon J, Croft WB. Retrieval models for question and answer archives Acm Sigir 2008 - 31st Annual International Acm Sigir Conference On Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Proceedings. 475-482. DOI: 10.1145/1390334.1390416  0.342
2008 Petkova D, Croft WB. Hierarchical language models for expert finding in enterprise corpora International Journal On Artificial Intelligence Tools. 17: 5-18. DOI: 10.1142/S0218213008003741  0.543
2008 Li X, Croft WB. An information-pattern-based approach to novelty detection Information Processing and Management. 44: 1159-1188. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ipm.2007.09.013  0.411
2008 Zhou Y, Croft WB. Measuring ranked list robustness for query performance prediction Knowledge and Information Systems. 16: 155-171. DOI: 10.1007/S10115-007-0100-8  0.576
2008 Liu X, Croft WB. Evaluating text representations for retrieval of the best group of documents Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 4956: 454-462. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_43  0.558
2008 Metzler D, Strohman T, Croft WB. A statistical view of binned retrieval models Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 4956: 175-186. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_18  0.316
2007 Vihman M, Croft W. Phonological development: Toward a "radical" templatic phonology Linguistics. 45: 683-725. DOI: 10.1515/Ling.2007.021  0.334
2007 Murdock V, Kelly D, Croft WB, Belkin NJ, Yuan X. Identifying and improving retrieval for procedural questions Information Processing and Management. 43: 181-203. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ipm.2006.05.009  0.772
2007 Metzler D, Croft WB. Linear feature-based models for information retrieval Information Retrieval. 10: 257-274. DOI: 10.1007/S10791-006-9019-Z  0.727
2006 Eguchi K, Croft WB. Boosting relevance model performance with query term dependence International Conference On Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings. 792-793. DOI: 10.1145/1183614.1183733  0.322
2006 Cronen-Townsend S, Zhou Y, Croft WB. Precision prediction based on ranked list coherence Information Retrieval. 9: 723-755. DOI: 10.1007/S10791-006-9006-4  0.557
2006 Liu X, Croft WB. Statistical language modeling for information retrieval Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. 39: 1-31. DOI: 10.1002/Aris.1440390108  0.666
2005 Jeon J, Croft WB, Lee JH. Finding semantically similar questions based on their answers Sigir 2005 - Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Acm Sigir Conference On Research and Development in Information Retrieval. 617-618. DOI: 10.1145/1076034.1076156  0.369
2005 Metzler D, Croft WB. Analysis of statistical question classification for fact-based questions Information Retrieval. 8: 481-504. DOI: 10.1007/S10791-005-6995-3  0.722
2004 Metzler D, Croft WB. Combining the language model and inference network approaches to retrieval Information Processing and Management. 40: 735-750. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ipm.2004.05.001  0.739
2003 Croft WB. Language models for information retrieval Proceedings - International Conference On Data Engineering. 3-7. DOI: 10.1109/ICDE.2003.1260777  0.366
2002 Luk RWP, Leong HV, Dillon TS, Chan ATS, Croft WB, Allan J. A survey in indexing and searching XML documents Journal of the Association For Information Science and Technology. 53: 415-437. DOI: 10.1002/Asi.10056  0.492
2001 Croft W, Taoka C, Wood EJ. Argument linking and the commercial transaction frame in English, Russian and Japanese Language Sciences. 23: 579-602. DOI: 10.1016/S0388-0001(00)00037-1  0.313
2001 Feng F, Croft WB. Probabilistic techniques for phrase extraction Information Processing and Management. 37: 199-220. DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(00)00029-7  0.432
2000 Xu J, Croft WB. Improving the effectiveness of information retrieval with local context analysis Acm Transactions On Information Systems. 18: 79-112. DOI: 10.1145/333135.333138  0.441
1999 Aronow DB, Fangfang F, Croft WB. Ad hoc classification of radiology reports. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : Jamia. 6: 393-411. PMID 10495099 DOI: 10.1136/Jamia.1999.0060393  0.442
1999 Greiff WR, Croft WB, Turtle H. PIC matrices: a computationally tractable class of probabilistic query operators Acm Transactions On Information Systems. 17: 367-405. DOI: 10.1145/326440.326444  0.347
1998 Shneiderman B, Byrd D, Croft WB. Sorting out searching: a user-interface framework for text searches Communications of the Acm. 41: 95-98. DOI: 10.1145/273035.273069  0.389
1998 Xu J, Croft WB. Corpus-based stemming using cooccurrence of word variants Acm Transactions On Information Systems. 16: 61-81. DOI: 10.1145/267954.267957  0.488
1996 Manmatha R, Han C, Riseman EM, Croft WB. Indexing handwriting using word matching Proceedings of the Acm International Conference On Digital Libraries. 151-159.  0.364
1995 Croft WB, Callan JP, Aronow DB. Effective access to distributed heterogeneous medical text databases. Medinfo. Medinfo. 8: 1719. PMID 8591570  0.436
1995 Rajashekar TB, Croft WB. Combining automatic and manual index representations in probabilistic retrieval Journal of the Association For Information Science and Technology. 46: 272-283. DOI: 10.1002/(Sici)1097-4571(199505)46:4<272::Aid-Asi4>3.0.Co;2-T  0.545
1994 Croft W. Semantic universals in classifier systems Word. 45: 145-171. DOI: 10.1080/00437956.1994.11435922  0.303
1993 Croft W. A Noun is a Noun is a Noun – Or is It? Some Reflections on the Universality of Semantics Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 19: 369. DOI: 10.3765/BLS.V19I1.1494  0.313
1993 Croft W. Knowledge-based and statistical approaches to text retrieval Ieee Expert. 8: 8-12. DOI: 10.1109/64.207424  0.309
1993 Mahling DE, Croft WB. Acquisition and support of goal-based tasks Knowledge Acquisition. 5: 37-77. DOI: 10.1006/Knac.1993.1002  0.384
1992 Krovetz R, Croft WB. Lexical ambiguity and information retrieval Acm Transactions On Information Systems. 10: 115-141. DOI: 10.1145/146802.146810  0.483
1992 Belkin NJ, Croft WB. Information filtering and Information retrieval: Two Sides of the Same Coin? Communications of the Acm. 35: 29-38. DOI: 10.1145/138859.138861  0.321
1992 Turtle HR, Croft WB. A comparison of text retrieval models The Computer Journal. 35: 279-290. DOI: 10.1093/Comjnl/35.3.279  0.504
1992 Mahling DE, Sandvik OA, Croft WB. Visual interaction between end users and goal-based systems Journal of Visual Languages and Computing. 3: 239-256. DOI: 10.1016/1045-926X(92)90018-H  0.348
1989 Thompson R, Croft W. Support for browsing in an intelligent text retrieval system International Journal of Man-Machine Studies. 30: 639-668. DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7373(89)80014-8  0.306
1989 Lewis DD, Croft WB, Bhandaru N. Language-oriented information retrieval Journal of Intelligent Systems. 4: 285-318. DOI: 10.1002/Int.4550040305  0.477
1988 Croft WB, Krovetz R. Interactive retrieval office documents Acm Sigois Bulletin. 9: 228-235. DOI: 10.1145/966861.45435  0.38
1988 Croft WB, Savino P. Implementing ranking strategies using text signatures Acm Transactions On Information Systems. 6: 42-62. DOI: 10.1145/42279.45947  0.472
1987 Croft WB, Stemple DW. Supporting office document architectures with constrained types Acm Sigmod Record. 16: 504-509. DOI: 10.1145/38714.38764  0.33
1986 Croft WB. Boolean Queries and Term Dependencies in Probabilistic Retrieval Models. Journal of the Association For Information Science and Technology. 37: 71-77. DOI: 10.1002/(Sici)1097-4571(198603)37:2<71::Aid-Asi3>3.0.Co;2-4  0.547
1985 Croft WB. Modelling offices and supporting office work Acm Sigoa Newsletter. 6: 10-12. DOI: 10.1145/1022368.1022370  0.306
1984 Croft WB. The role of context and adaptation in user interfaces International Journal of Human-Computer Studies \/ International Journal of Man-Machine Studies. 21: 283-292. DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7373(84)80049-8  0.376
1982 Croft WB. Experiments with automatic text filing and retrieval in the office environment Acm Sigir Forum. 16: 2-9. DOI: 10.1145/1095450.1095451  0.301
1981 Croft WB. Incorporating different search models into one document retrieval system Acm Sigir Forum. 16: 40-45. DOI: 10.1145/1013228.511760  0.372
1981 Croft WB. Document representation in probabilistic models of information retrieval Journal of the Association For Information Science and Technology. 32: 451-457. DOI: 10.1002/Asi.4630320609  0.435
1980 Croft WB. A model of cluster searching based on classification Information Systems. 5: 189-195. DOI: 10.1016/0306-4379(80)90010-1  0.421
1979 Croft WB. On the implementation of some models of document retrieval Acm Sigir Forum. 14: 71-77. DOI: 10.1145/1013232.511717  0.354
1979 Croft WB, Harper DJ. Using probabilistic models of document retrieve without relevance information Journal of Documentation. 35: 285-295. DOI: 10.1108/eb026683  0.407
1979 Croft WB. Using Boolean Queries with a Clustered File Organization. Journal of the Association For Information Science and Technology. 30: 358-360. DOI: 10.1002/Asi.4630300612  0.302
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