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  • 2020 - ACM Fellow For contributions to information retrieval, including topic detection and tracking

Overview

James Allan is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States and has a research focus primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their work extensively covers subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Signal Processing, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Computer Science Applications.

The scientist's research includes significant contributions to topics like Topic Modeling, Information Retrieval and Search Behavior, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), Web Data Mining and Analysis, Speech and Dialogue Systems, and Data Management and Algorithms.

James Allan has published notable papers, including:

  • Towards Explainable Search Results (2022), Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
  • A Principled Approach Using Fuzzy Set Theory for Passage-Based Document Retrieval (2020), IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
  • Explaining Text Matching on Neural Natural Language Inference (2020), ACM Transactions on Information Systems
  • CEQE: Contextualized Embeddings for Query Expansion (2021), Lecture notes in computer science
  • Learning Relevant Questions for Conversational Product Search using Deep Reinforcement Learning (2022), Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Co-authors frequently collaborating with James Allan include Razieh Rahimi, Tanya Chowdhury, Ali Montazeralghaem, Edward Kai Fung Dang, and Robert W. P. Luk.

Publishing venues where James Allan has appeared more than once include arXiv (Cornell University), Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

James Allan has also published a book titled A Principled Constitution? through Lexington Books in 2022.

An award received by James Allan is the ACM Fellow distinction, granted in 2020 for contributions to information retrieval, including topic detection and tracking.

Best Publications

  • Topic Detection and Tracking Pilot Study Final Report

    James Allan;Jaime Carbonell;George Doddington;Jonathan Yamron

  • Topic detection and tracking: event-based information organization

    James Allan

  • On-line new event detection and tracking

    James Allan;Ron Papka;Victor Lavrenko

  • A comparison of statistical significance tests for information retrieval evaluation

    Mark D. Smucker;James Allan;Ben Carterette

  • Automatic Query expansion using SMART : TREC 3

    Chris Buckley;Gerard Salton;James Allan;Amit Singhal

  • On-line new event detection and tracking

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  • Approaches to passage retrieval in full text information systems

    Gerard Salton;J. Allan;Chris Buckley

  • Text classification and named entities for new event detection

    Giridhar Kumaran;James Allan

  • The effect of adding relevance information in a relevance feedback environment

    Chris Buckley;Gerard Salton;James Allan

  • Introduction to topic detection and tracking

    James Allan

  • Automatic analysis, theme generation, and summarization of machine-readable texts

    Gerard Salton;James Allan;Chris Buckley;Amit Singhal

  • Automatic structuring and retrieval of large text files

    Gerard Salton;James Allan;Chris Buckley

  • Retrieval and novelty detection at the sentence level

    James Allan;Courtney Wade;Alvaro Bolivar

  • Temporal summaries of new topics

    James Allan;Rahul Gupta;Vikas Khandelwal

  • Automatic generation of overview timelines

    Russell Swan;James Allan

  • Event threading within news topics

    Ramesh Nallapati;Ao Feng;Fuchun Peng;James Allan

  • Entity query feature expansion using knowledge base links

    Jeffrey Dalton;Laura Dietz;James Allan

  • Incremental relevance feedback for information filtering

    James Allan

  • UMass at TREC 2004: Novelty and HARD

    Nasreen Abdul-Jaleel;James Allan;W. Bruce Croft;Fernando Diaz

  • Minimal test collections for retrieval evaluation

    Ben Carterette;James Allan;Ramesh Sitaraman

  • Challenges in information retrieval and language modeling: report of a workshop held at the center for intelligent information retrieval, University of Massachusetts Amherst, September 2002

    James Allan;Jay Aslam;Nicholas Belkin;Chris Buckley

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor Lavrenko
Victor Lavrenko University of Edinburgh
Gerard Salton
Gerard Salton Cornell University
W. Bruce Croft
W. Bruce Croft University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ben Carterette
Ben Carterette Spotify, US
Chris Buckley
Chris Buckley Cornell University
Mark Sanderson
Mark Sanderson RMIT University
R. Manmatha
R. Manmatha Amazon (United States)
Fernando Diaz
Fernando Diaz Microsoft (United States)
Ramesh Nallapati
Ramesh Nallapati Amazon (United States)
ChengXiang Zhai
ChengXiang Zhai University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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