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Overview

Nick Craswell is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States and specializes in computer science, with a focus on artificial intelligence and information systems among other subfields. Their research has contributed extensively to areas including topic modeling, natural language processing techniques, information retrieval and search behavior, semantic web and ontologies, advanced text analysis techniques, speech and dialogue systems, and data quality and management.

Their frequent collaboration network features coauthors such as Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Daniel Campos, Bodo Billerbeck, and David Hawking. Craswell's work is represented in a variety of publication venues, with a significant number of papers appearing on arXiv (Cornell University), as well as contributions to the Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, ACM SIGIR Forum, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, and Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services.

Among recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Craswell are:

  • Overview of the TREC 2020 deep learning track, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Overview of the TREC 2019 deep learning track, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Overview of the TREC 2021 deep learning track, 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

Other publications in the field include:

  • Analysis of Points of Interests Recommended for Leisure Walk Descriptions, 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Report on the future conversations workshop at CHIIR 2021, 2021, ACM SIGIR Forum

Craswell has also contributed to book publications including titles such as Neural Approaches to Conversational Information Retrieval published in 2023 under The "information retrieval series" and Simulating Information Retrieval Test Collections published in 2020 by Morgan & Claypool Publishers.

Best Publications

  • MS MARCO: A Human Generated MAchine Reading COmprehension Dataset

    Payal Bajaj;Daniel Campos;Nick Craswell;Li Deng

  • An experimental comparison of click position-bias models

    Nick Craswell;Onno Zoeter;Michael Taylor;Bill Ramsey

  • Overview of the TREC-8 Web Track.

    David Hawking;Ellen M. Voorhees;Nick Craswell;Peter Bailey

  • Random walks on the click graph

    Nick Craswell;Martin Szummer

  • Overview of the TREC-2002 Web Track.

    Nick Craswell;David Hawking

  • Learning to Match using Local and Distributed Representations of Text for Web Search

    Bhaskar Mitra;Fernando Diaz;Nick Craswell

  • Overview of the TREC 2009 Web Track

    Charles L. A. Clarke;Nick Craswell;Ian Soboroff

  • A Theoretical Framework for Conversational Search

    Filip Radlinski;Nick Craswell

  • Overview of the TREC-2005 Enterprise Track

    Nick Craswell;Arjen P. de Vries;Ian Soboroff

  • Effective site finding using link anchor information

    Nick Craswell;David Hawking;Stephen Robertson

  • Query Expansion with Locally-Trained Word Embeddings

    Fernando Diaz;Bhaskar Mitra;Nick Craswell

  • Measuring Search Engine Quality

    David Hawking;Nick Craswell;Peter Bailey;Kathleen Griffihs

  • Overview of the TREC 2003 Web Track.

    Nick Craswell;David Hawking;Ross Wilkinson;Mingfang Wu

  • Results and challenges in Web search evaluation

    David Hawking;Nick Craswell;Paul Thistlewaite;Donna Harman

  • An Introduction to Neural Information Retrieval

    Bhaskar Mitra;Nick Craswell

  • Microsoft Cambridge at TREC 13: Web and Hard Tracks.

    Hugo Zaragoza;Nick Craswell;Michael J. Taylor;Suchi Saria

  • Engineering a multi-purpose test collection for web retrieval experiments

    Peter Bailey;Nick Craswell;David Hawking

  • Relevance assessment: are judges exchangeable and does it matter

    Peter Bailey;Nick Craswell;Ian Soboroff;Paul Thomas

  • Mean Reciprocal Rank.

    Nick Craswell

  • Overview of the TREC 2006 Enterprise Track.

    Ian Soboroff;Arjen P. de Vries;Nick Craswell

Frequent Co-Authors

David Hawking
David Hawking Microsoft (United States)
Ian Soboroff
Ian Soboroff National Institute of Standards and Technology
Filip Radlinski
Filip Radlinski Google (United States)
Stephen Robertson
Stephen Robertson University College London
Charles L. A. Clarke
Charles L. A. Clarke University of Waterloo
Fernando Diaz
Fernando Diaz Microsoft (United States)
Ellen M. Voorhees
Ellen M. Voorhees National Institute of Standards and Technology
Hang Li
Hang Li ByteDance
Marc Najork
Marc Najork Google (United States)
Susan T. Dumais
Susan T. Dumais Microsoft (United States)

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