2026 Douglas W. Oard: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	56	4136	4021	1953	1886	373	10508

Overview

Douglas W. Oard is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research principally spans the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Information Systems, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Human-Computer Interaction.

Their work addresses various topics within their disciplines, notably:

Topic Modeling
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Mathematics, Computing, and Information Processing
Information Retrieval and Search Behavior
Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques
Text and Document Classification Technologies
Semantic Web and Ontologies

Douglas W. Oard has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage
Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management

Best Publications

Implicit Feedback for Recommender Systems

Douglas W Oard;Jinmook Kim

576
Citations
A survey of information retrieval and filtering methods

Christos Faloutsos;Douglas W. Oard

346
Citations
Pairwise Document Similarity in Large Collections with MapReduce

Tamer Elsayed;Jimmy Lin;Douglas Oard

312
Citations
Cross-Language Information Retrieval.

Douglas W. Oard;Anne R. Diekema

287
Citations
ENSM-SE at CLEF 2006 : Fuzzy Proximity Method with an Adhoc Influence Function in Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, Alicante, Spain

Carol Peters;Paul Clough;Fredric C. Gey;Jussi Karlgren

286
Citations
Confidentiality-preserving rank-ordered search

Ashwin Swaminathan;Yinian Mao;Guan-Ming Su;Hongmei Gou

273
Citations
Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval

Carol Peters;Valentin Jijkoun;Thomas Mandl;Henning Müller

247
Citations
Textual Data Mining to Support Science and Technology Management

Paul Losiewicz;Douglas W. Oard;Ronald N. Kostoff

236
Citations
A survey of multilingual text retrieval

Douglas W. Oard;Bonnie J. Dorr

230
Citations
The State of the Art in Text Filtering

Douglas W. Oard

212
Citations
Modeling Information Content Using Observable Behavior

Douglas W Oard;Jinmook Kim

200
Citations
A Comparative Study of Query and Document Translation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval

Douglas W. Oard

193
Citations
A Conceptual Framework for Text Filtering Process

Douglas W. Oard;Gary Marchionini

188
Citations
Automatic recognition of spontaneous speech for access to multilingual oral history archives

W. Byrne;D. Doermann;M. Franz;S. Gustman

168
Citations
Dictionary-based techniques for cross-language information retrieval

Gina-Anne Levow;Douglas W. Oard;Philip Resnik

165
Citations
Alternative Approaches for Cross-Language Text Retrieval

Douglas W. Oard

163
Citations
Probabilistic structured query methods

Kareem Darwish;Douglas W. Oard

156
Citations
CLEF Experiments at Maryland: Statistical Stemming and Backoff Translation

Douglas W. Oard;Gina-Anne Levow;Clara I. Cabezas

107
Citations
Serving Users in Many Languages: Cross-Language Information Retrievalfor Digital Libraries

Douglas W. Oard

106
Citations
The Multilingual TEDx Corpus for Speech Recognition and Translation

Elizabeth Salesky;Matthew Wiesner;Jacob Bremerman;Roldano Cattoni

88
Citations
Overview of the CLEF-2006 cross-language speech retrieval track

Douglas W. Oard;Jianqiang Wang;Gareth J. F. Jones;Ryen W. White

61
Citations
Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Mari Ostendorf;Michael Collins;Shri Narayanan;Douglas W. Oard

35
Citations
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

Tat-Seng Chua;Mun-Kew Leong;Syung Hyon Myaeng;Douglas W. Oard

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Bonnie J. Dorr University of Florida

Philip Resnik University of Maryland, College Park

David Doermann University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Dina Demner-Fushman National Institutes of Health

Jimmy Lin University of Waterloo

Sanjeev Khudanpur Johns Hopkins University

Kareem Darwish Hamad bin Khalifa University

Bhuvana Ramabhadran Google (United States)

Julio Gonzalo National University of Distance Education

Judith L. Klavans University of Maryland, College Park

External Links

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