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Here's the slides from my SIGIR keynote talk ciir.cs.umass.edu/downloads/sigi…

European Summer School lecture on tips for doing research in IR ciir.cs.umass.edu/downloads/essi…

Slides of Bruce Croft's keynote at #CLEF2019, entitled "The Relevance of Answers": bit.ly/2m0r6vx

In case you missed the retweet, here are my slides for the #CLEF2019 keynote ciir.cs.umass.edu/downloads/clef… - hardly any overlap with the #SIGIR2019 one!

UMass just announced that we are looking for an IR faculty person - apply early and often! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/…

Our paper on learning a joint search and recommendation model from user-item interactions has been accepted to #WSDM2020. Joint work with Bruce Croft Bruce Croft

RecSys meets IR: Modeling Pseudo-Relevance Feedback as a Collaborative Recommendation Problem bit.ly/2bIZHIq #CIKM2016

Sorry for self-promotion but my google h-index hit 100 last week!

"Universal Approximation Functions for Fast Learning to Rank" accepted as a short paper ACM SIGIR 2018 w/ Daniel Cohen, @johnfoleyiv, James Allan Bruce Croft #SIGIR2018

2 (out of 2) short papers accepted at #sigir2018 "Optimizing Query Evaluations using Reinforcement Learning for Web Search" w/ Corbin Rosset, Ghosh, Jose, Tiwary "Cross Domain Regularization for Neural Ranking Models using Adversarial Learning" w/ Daniel Cohen, Katja Hofmann, Bruce Croft

"Analyzing and Characterizing User Intent in Information-seeking Conversations" accepted as a short paper ACM SIGIR 2018 w/ @liuyangumass Bruce Croft Johanne @EvisonZhang QIU Minghui #SIGIR2018

"Neural Query Performance Prediction with Weak Supervision" accepted as a full paper ACM SIGIR 2018 w/ Bruce Croft and J. Shane Culpepper #SIGIR2018

"Target Apps Selection: Towards a Unified Search Framework for Mobile Devices" accepted as a full paper ACM SIGIR 2018 w/ Mohammad Aliannejadi Fabio Crestani Bruce Croft #SIGIR2018

"Response Ranking with Deep Matching Networks and External Knowledge in Information-seeking Conversation Systems" accepted as a Full Paper by #SIGIR2018 with Bruce Croft Jiafeng Guo QIU Minghui Chen Qu @EvisonZhang

"Learning a Deep Listwise Context Model for Ranking Refinement" has been accepted as a full paper by ACM SIGIR 2018 with Keping Bi Jiafeng Guo Bruce Croft #sigir2018

"Unbiased Learning to Rank with Unbiased Propensity Estimation" has been accepted as a full paper by ACM SIGIR 2018 with Keping Bi @Luo_Cheng Jiafeng Guo Bruce Croft #sigir2018

A preprint of the final report from the 3rd Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval in Lorne (SWIRL3) can be found here: culpepper.io/publications/s…

"Transfer Learning for Context-Aware Question Matching in Information-seeking Conversation Systems in E-commerce" has been accepted by #ACL2018 with QIU Minghui Bruce Croft and collaborators from Alibaba Group Alibaba Group ACL2018