James Allan

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1992-2024
Publications (10 Years): 102

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Tanya Chowdhury, Yair Zick, James Allan
RankSHAP: a Gold Standard Feature Attribution Method for the Ranking Task. CoRR (2024)
Nazanin Jafari, James Allan
Robust Claim Verification Through Fact Detection. CoRR (2024)
James Allan, Edrisi Munoz, Sergio Acero González, Hassan Bazazzadeh, Federica Bellizio, Hanmin Cai, Reto Fricker, Philipp Heer, Mina Montazeri, Sascha Stoller, Georgios Mavromatidis
A Hierarchical Knowledge Framework for Digital Twins of Buildings and Their Energy Systems (Position Paper). CAiSE Workshops (2024)
Nazanin Jafari, James Allan, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar
Target Span Detection for Implicit Harmful Content. ICTIR (2024)
Nazanin Jafari, James Allan
Target Span Detection for Implicit Harmful Content. CoRR (2024)
Emanuele Laurenzi, James Allan, Nathalie Campos, Sascha Stoller
An Ontology-Based Meta-modelling Approach for Semantic-Driven Building Management Systems. CAiSE Workshops (2024)
Negin Ghasemi, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Hamed R. Bonab, Evangelos Kanoulas, Arjen P. de Vries, James Allan, Djoerd Hiemstra
Cross-Market Product-Related Question Answering. SIGIR (2023)
Zhiqi Huang, Shahrzad Naseri, Hamed R. Bonab, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, James Allan
Hierarchical Transformer-based Query by Multiple Documents. ICTIR (2023)
Dong-Ho Lee, Ravi Kiran Selvam, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Bill Yuchen Lin, Fred Morstatter, Jay Pujara, Elizabeth Boschee, James Allan, Xiang Ren
AutoTriggER: Label-Efficient and Robust Named Entity Recognition with Auxiliary Trigger Extraction. EACL (2023)
Tanya Chowdhury, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan
Rank-LIME: Local Model-Agnostic Feature Attribution for Learning to Rank. ICTIR (2023)
Zhiqi Huang, Puxuan Yu, James Allan
Improving Cross-lingual Information Retrieval on Low-Resource Languages via Optimal Transport Distillation. CoRR (2023)
Zhiqi Huang, Hansi Zeng, Hamed Zamani, James Allan
Soft Prompt Decoding for Multilingual Dense Retrieval. SIGIR (2023)
Youngwoo Kim, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan
Conditional Natural Language Inference. EMNLP (Findings) (2023)
James Allan, JongGwan An, Reto Fricker, Sascha Stoller, Philipp Heer
An open endpoint and framework for the development of linked data for building energy systems. LDAC (2023)
Abhishek Madaan, Tanya Chowdhury, Neha Rana, James Allan, Tanmoy Chakraborty
Uncertainty in Additive Feature Attribution methods. CoRR (2023)
Ali Montazeralghaem, James Allan
Evaluating the Robustness of Conversational Recommender Systems by Adversarial Examples. CoRR (2023)
Puxuan Yu, Razieh Rahimi, Zhiqi Huang, James Allan
Search Result Diversification Using Query Aspects as Bottlenecks. CIKM (2023)
Zhiqi Huang, Puxuan Yu, James Allan
Cross-lingual Knowledge Transfer via Distillation for Multilingual Information Retrieval. CoRR (2023)
Zhiqi Huang, Puxuan Yu, James Allan
Improving Cross-lingual Information Retrieval on Low-Resource Languages via Optimal Transport Distillation. WSDM (2023)
Zhiqi Huang, Hansi Zeng, Hamed Zamani, James Allan
Soft Prompt Decoding for Multilingual Dense Retrieval. CoRR (2023)
Ali Montazeralghaem, James Allan
Extracting Relevant Information from User's Utterances in Conversational Search and Recommendation. KDD (2022)
Edward Kai Fung Dang, Robert Wing Pong Luk, James Allan
A Comparison between Term-Independence Retrieval Models for Ad Hoc Retrieval. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 40 (3) (2022)
Kristina Orehounig, Leonie Fierz, James Allan, Sven Eggimann, Natasa Vulic, Aaron Bojarski
CESAR-P: A dynamic urban building energy simulation tool. J. Open Source Softw. 7 (78) (2022)
Ali Montazeralghaem, James Allan
Learning Relevant Questions for Conversational Product Search using Deep Reinforcement Learning. WSDM (2022)
Tanya Chowdhury, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan
Rank-LIME: Local Model-Agnostic Feature Attribution for Learning to Rank. CoRR (2022)
Youngwoo Kim, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan
Alignment Rationale for Query-Document Relevance. SIGIR (2022)
Shahrzad Naseri, Jeffrey Dalton, Andrew Yates, James Allan
CEQE to SQET: A study of contextualized embeddings for query expansion. Inf. Retr. J. 25 (2) (2022)
Tanya Chowdhury, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan
Equi-explanation Maps: Concise and Informative Global Summary Explanations. FAccT (2022)
Edward Kai Fung Dang, Robert Wing Pong Luk, James Allan
A retrieval model family based on the probability ranking principle for ad hoc retrieval. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 73 (8) (2022)
Puxuan Yu, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan
Towards Explainable Search Results: A Listwise Explanation Generator. SIGIR (2022)
Youngwoo Kim, Razieh Rahimi, Hamed R. Bonab, James Allan
Query-driven Segment Selection for Ranking Long Documents. CIKM (2021)
Dong-Ho Lee, Ravi Kiran Selvam, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Bill Yuchen Lin, Mahak Agarwal, Fred Morstatter, Jay Pujara, Elizabeth Boschee, James Allan, Xiang Ren
AutoTriggER: Named Entity Recognition with Auxiliary Trigger Extraction. CoRR (2021)
Edward Kai Fung Dang, Robert Wing Pong Luk, James Allan
A Principled Approach Using Fuzzy Set Theory for Passage-Based Document Retrieval. IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Syst. 29 (7) (2021)
Hamed R. Bonab, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Ali Vardasbi, Evangelos Kanoulas, James Allan
Cross-Market Product Recommendation. CoRR (2021)
Zhiqi Huang, Razieh Rahimi, Puxuan Yu, Jingbo Shang, James Allan
AutoName: A Corpus-Based Set Naming Framework. SIGIR (2021)
Masaharu Yoshioka, Norihiko Tatsunami, Masahiko Itoh, Noriko Kando, James Allan
Interactive Visualization of the Polarity-based Stance of News Websites using News Genres (short paper). INRA@RecSys (2021)
Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Felipe Moraes, Jiepu Jiang, James Allan
Utility of Missing Concepts in Query-biased Summarization. SIGIR (2021)
Mohammad Aliannejadi, Hamed R. Bonab, Ali Vardasbi, Evangelos Kanoulas, James Allan, Vanessa Murdock
XMRec: Workshop on Cross-Market Recommendation. RecSys (2021)
Zhiqi Huang, Hamed R. Bonab, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan
Mixed Attention Transformer for Leveraging Word-Level Knowledge to Neural Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval. CoRR (2021)
Hamed R. Bonab, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Ali Vardasbi, Evangelos Kanoulas, James Allan
Cross-Market Product Recommendation. CIKM (2021)
Razieh Rahimi, Youngwoo Kim, Hamed Zamani, James Allan
Explaining Documents' Relevance to Search Queries. CoRR (2021)
Zhiqi Huang, Hamed R. Bonab, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan
Mixed Attention Transformer for Leveraging Word-Level Knowledge to Neural Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval. CIKM (2021)
Shahrzad Naseri, Jeffrey Dalton, Andrew Yates, James Allan
CEQE: Contextualized Embeddings for Query Expansion. CoRR (2021)
Ali Montazeralghaem, James Allan, Philip S. Thomas
Large-scale Interactive Conversational Recommendation System using Actor-Critic Framework. RecSys (2021)
Youngwoo Kim, Razieh Rahimi, Hamed R. Bonab, James Allan
Query-driven Segment Selection for Ranking Long Documents. CoRR (2021)
Lakshmi Vikraman, Ali Montazeralghaem, Helia Hashemi, W. Bruce Croft, James Allan
Passage Similarity and Diversification in Non-factoid Question Answering. ICTIR (2021)
Shahrzad Naseri, Jeff Dalton, Andrew Yates, James Allan
CEQE: Contextualized Embeddings for Query Expansion. ECIR (1) (2021)
Edward Kai Fung Dang, Robert Wing Pong Luk, James Allan
Context-Dependent Feature Values in Text Categorization. Int. J. Softw. Eng. Knowl. Eng. 30 (9) (2020)
Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, James Allan
Query by Example for Cross-Lingual Event Retrieval. SIGIR (2020)
Ali Montazeralghaem, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan
Relevance Ranking Based on Query-Aware Context Analysis. ECIR (1) (2020)
Puxuan Yu, Razieh Rahimi, Zhiqi Huang, James Allan
Learning to Rank Entities for Set Expansion from Unstructured Data. ICTIR (2020)
Puxuan Yu, James Allan
A Study of Neural Matching Models for Cross-lingual IR. SIGIR (2020)
Hamed R. Bonab, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, James Allan
Training Effective Neural CLIR by Bridging the Translation Gap. SIGIR (2020)
Ali Montazeralghaem, Hamed Zamani, James Allan
A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Relevance Feedback. SIGIR (2020)
Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Raghavendra Addanki, Ali Montazeralghaem, Soumyabrata Pal, James Allan
Search Result Diversification with Guarantee of Topic Proportionality. ICTIR (2020)
Youngwoo Kim, Myungha Jang, James Allan
Explaining Text Matching on Neural Natural Language Inference. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 38 (4) (2020)
Puxuan Yu, James Allan
A Study of Neural Matching Models for Cross-lingual IR. CoRR (2020)
Ali Montazeralghaem, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan
Term Discrimination Value for Cross-Language Information Retrieval. ICTIR (2019)
Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Hamed R. Bonab, James Allan
A Multi-Task Architecture on Relevance-based Neural Query Translation. ACL (1) (2019)
Youngwoo Kim, James Allan
Unsupervised Explainable Controversy Detection from Online News. ECIR (1) (2019)
Jeffrey Dalton, Shahrzad Naseri, Laura Dietz, James Allan
Local and Global Query Expansion for Hierarchical Complex Topics. ECIR (1) (2019)
Hamed R. Bonab, James Allan, Ramesh K. Sitaraman
Simulating CLIR Translation Resource Scarcity using High-resource Languages. ICTIR (2019)
Puxuan Yu, Zhiqi Huang, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan
Corpus-based Set Expansion with Lexical Features and Distributed Representations. SIGIR (2019)
Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Hamed R. Bonab, James Allan
A Multi-Task Architecture on Relevance-based Neural Query Translation. CoRR (2019)
Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, John Foley, Liu Yang, James Allan
Sentence Retrieval for Entity List Extraction with a Seed, Context, and Topic. ICTIR (2019)
Shahrzad Naseri, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, James Allan
Semantic Driven Fielded Entity Retrieval. CoRR (2019)
Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, James Allan
SearchIE: A Retrieval Approach for Information Extraction. ICTIR (2019)
Razieh Rahimi, Ali Montazeralghaem, James Allan
Listwise Neural Ranking Models. ICTIR (2019)
Hamed R. Bonab, Mohammad Aliannejadi, John Foley, James Allan
Incorporating Hierarchical Domain Information to Disambiguate Very Short Queries. ICTIR (2019)
Myungha Jang, James Allan
Explaining Controversy on Social Media via Stance Summarization. CoRR (2018)
Daniel Cohen, John Foley, Hamed Zamani, James Allan, W. Bruce Croft
Universal Approximation Functions for Fast Learning to Rank: Replacing Expensive Regression Forests with Simple Feed-Forward Networks. SIGIR (2018)
Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, John Foley, James Allan
Term Relevance Feedback for Contextual Named Entity Retrieval. CHIIR (2018)
Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, John Foley, James Allan
Term Relevance Feedback for Contextual Named Entity Retrieval. CoRR (2018)
Myungha Jang, James Allan
Explaining Controversy on Social Media via Stance Summarization. SIGIR (2018)
Hamed R. Bonab, Hamed Zamani, Erik G. Learned-Miller, James Allan
Citation Worthiness of Sentences in Scientific Reports. SIGIR (2018)
Masaharu Yoshioka, Myungha Jang, James Allan, Noriko Kando
Visualizing Polarity-based Stances of News Websites. NewsIR@ECIR (2018)
Shahrzad Naseri, John Foley, James Allan, Brendan T. O'Connor
Exploring Summary-Expanded Entity Embeddings for Entity Retrieval. CIKM Workshops (2018)
John Foley, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, James Allan
Named Entity Recognition with Extremely Limited Data. CoRR (2018)
Shahrzad Naseri, John Foley, James Allan
UMass at TREC 2018: CAR, Common Core and News Tracks. TREC (2018)
Myungha Jang, Jinho D. Choi, James Allan
Improving Document Clustering by Eliminating Unnatural Language. CoRR (2017)
James Allan, Nicholas J. Belkin, Paul N. Bennett, Jamie Callan, Charles L. A. Clarke, Fernando Diaz, Susan T. Dumais, Nicola Ferro, Donna Harman, Djoerd Hiemstra, Ian Ruthven, Tetsuya Sakai, Mark D. Smucker, Justin Zobel
Overview of Special Issue. SIGIR Forum 51 (2) (2017)
Jiepu Jiang, Daqing He, Diane Kelly, James Allan
Understanding Ephemeral State of Relevance. CHIIR (2017)
Shiri Dori-Hacohen, Myungha Jang, James Allan
Is Climate Change Controversial? Modeling Controversy as Contention Within Populations. CoRR (2017)
Jiepu Jiang, James Allan
Adaptive Persistence for Search Effectiveness Measures. CIKM (2017)
Myungha Jang, Jinho D. Choi, James Allan
Improving Document Clustering by Removing Unnatural Language. NUT@EMNLP (2017)
Jiepu Jiang, Daqing He, James Allan
Comparing In Situ and Multidimensional Relevance Judgments. SIGIR (2017)
Qingyao Ai, Hamed Zamani, Stephen M. Harding, Shahrzad Naseri, James Allan, W. Bruce Croft
UMass at TREC 2017 Common Core Track. TREC (2017)
Myungha Jang, Shiri Dori-Hacohen, James Allan
Modeling Controversy within Populations. ICTIR (2017)
Jiepu Jiang, James Allan
Similarity-based Distant Supervision for Definition Retrieval. CIKM (2017)
James Allan, Donna Harman, Evangelos Kanoulas, Dan Li, Christophe Van Gysel, Ellen M. Voorhees
TREC 2017 Common Core Track Overview. TREC (2017)
James Allan, Ron Papka, Victor Lavrenko
On-Line New Event Detection and Tracking. SIGIR Forum 51 (2) (2017)
Myungha Jang, James Allan
Improving Automated Controversy Detection on the Web. SIGIR (2016)
Edward Kai Fung Dang, Robert W. P. Luk, James Allan
A context-dependent relevance model. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 67 (3) (2016)
John Foley, James Allan
Retrieving Hierarchical Syllabus Items for Exam Question Analysis. ECIR (2016)
Weize Kong, James Allan
Precision-Oriented Query Facet Extraction. CIKM (2016)
John Foley, Brendan O'Connor, James Allan
Improving Entity Ranking for Keyword Queries. CIKM (2016)
Jiepu Jiang, James Allan
Correlation Between System and User Metrics in a Session. CHIIR (2016)
Nada Naji, James Allan
On Cross-Script Information Retrieval. ECIR (2016)
Jiepu Jiang, James Allan
Reducing Click and Skip Errors in Search Result Ranking. WSDM (2016)
Shiri Dori-Hacohen, David D. Jensen, James Allan
Controversy Detection in Wikipedia Using Collective Classification. SIGIR (2016)

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