2026 Jamie Callan: 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	81	1037	1004	551	530	272	23299

Overview

Jamie Callan is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their academic work is focused primarily within the field of Computer Science, with particular emphasis on Artificial Intelligence and its applications. The main areas of study include Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications, and Management Science and Operations Research.

Their research covers several topics related to language processing, machine learning, and information retrieval. Key themes in their work include:

Topic Modeling
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Information Retrieval and Search Behavior
Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
Expert finding and Q&A systems

Some notable recent publications by Jamie Callan include:

"Unsupervised Corpus Aware Language Model Pre-training for Dense Passage Retrieval," 2022, published in Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
"Document Representation and Query Expansion Models for Blog Recommendation," 2021, appearing in Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"PAL: Program-aided Language Models," 2022, available on arXiv (Cornell University)
"Complementing Lexical Retrieval with Semantic Residual Embedding," 2020, also published on arXiv (Cornell University)
"ClueWeb22: 10 Billion Web Documents with Rich Information," 2022, from Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jamie Callan include:

Luyu Gao
Zhuyun Dai
Chenyan Xiong
Zhen Fan
Bruno Martins

Their work has been published in a variety of venues, ranging from highly visible conferences to preprint archives. Frequent publication venues are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Best Publications

Searching distributed collections with inference networks

James P. Callan;Zhihong Lu;W. Bruce Croft

1002
Citations
Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

William Hersh;Jamie Callan;Yoelle Maarek;Mark Sanderson

900
Citations
The INQUERY Retrieval System

James P. Callan;W. Bruce Croft;Stephen M. Harding

895
Citations
Training algorithms for linear text classifiers

David D. Lewis;Robert E. Schapire;James P. Callan;Ron Papka

894
Citations
Searching distributed collections with inference networks

Unknown

698
Citations
Novelty and redundancy detection in adaptive filtering

Yi Zhang;Jamie Callan;Thomas Minka

625
Citations
DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

Jamie Callan

606
Citations
End-to-End Neural Ad-hoc Ranking with Kernel Pooling

Chenyan Xiong;Zhuyun Dai;Jamie Callan;Zhiyuan Liu

592
Citations
Query-based sampling of text databases

Jamie Callan;Margaret Connell

494
Citations
Deeper Text Understanding for IR with Contextual Neural Language Modeling

Zhuyun Dai;Jamie Callan

428
Citations
Explicit Semantic Ranking for Academic Search via Knowledge Graph Embedding

Chenyan Xiong;Russell Power;Jamie Callan

427
Citations
Convolutional Neural Networks for Soft-Matching N-Grams in Ad-hoc Search

Zhuyun Dai;Chenyan Xiong;Jamie Callan;Zhiyuan Liu

365
Citations
Unsupervised Corpus Aware Language Model Pre-training for Dense Passage Retrieval

Unknown

348
Citations
Combining document representations for known-item search

Paul Ogilvie;Jamie Callan

334
Citations
PAL: Program-aided Language Models

Unknown

323
Citations
A statistical model for scientific readability

Luo Si;Jamie Callan

311
Citations
COIL: Revisit Exact Lexical Match in Information Retrieval with Contextualized Inverted List

Unknown

306
Citations
Relevant document distribution estimation method for resource selection

Luo Si;Jamie Callan

304
Citations
The effect multiple query representations on information retrieval system performance

Nicholas J. Belkin;C. Cool;W. Bruce Croft;James P. Callan

302
Citations
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

291
Citations
Content-based retrieval in hybrid peer-to-peer networks

Jie Lu;Jamie Callan

276
Citations
Combining Lexical and Grammatical Features to Improve Readability Measures for First and Second Language Texts

Michael Heilman;Kevyn Collins-Thompson;Jamie Callan;Maxine Eskenazi

272
Citations
Effective retrieval with distributed collections

Jinxi Xu;Jamie Callan

238
Citations
Predicting reading difficulty with statistical language models

Kevyn Collins-Thompson;Jamie Callan

237
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Luo Si Alibaba Group (China)

Kevyn Collins-Thompson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Mark Sanderson RMIT University

Jaime G. Carbonell Carnegie Mellon University

William W. Cohen Carnegie Mellon University

W. Bruce Croft University of Massachusetts Amherst

Maxine Eskenazi Carnegie Mellon University

Charles L. A. Clarke University of Waterloo

Eduard Hovy Carnegie Mellon University

Fabio Crestani Universita della Svizzera Italiana

External Links

Personal website of Jamie Callan Google Scholar page

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