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W. Bruce Croft
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Position: Distinguished Professor
Affiliation: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Address: Department of Computer Science 140 Governors Drive, Box 9264 University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst, MA 01003-9264
Phone: (413) 545-0463
Fax: (413) 545-1789
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Homepage: http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/personnel/croft...
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Statistics: H-index: 60 (See all experts' h-index.)
total citation number: 15570
highest-cited paper: A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval (1998) at SIGIR (Cited By 1348)

Research Interest:

information retrieval, Document Retrieval, Document Retrieval Systems, Full-Text Information Retrieval, Probabilistic Retrieval

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National Science Foundation - US

[15] CRI: CRD - Supporting User Data, Privacy, and Evaluation in the Lemur Toolkit (0707801), 2007-09-15 － 2009-08-31
[14] III-COR: Searching Archives of Community Knowledge (0711348), 2007-08-01 － 2010-07-31
[13] Text Reuse and Information Flow (0534383), 2006-04-15 － 2010-03-31
[12] SGER: Breaking the Keyword Bottleneck: Towards More Effective Access of Government Information (0527159), 2005-04-01 － 2006-03-31
[11] Question Triage for Experts and Documents: Expanding the Information Retrieval Function of the NSDL (0226144), 2002-09-01 － 2005-08-31
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2010(1)
[208]Michael Bendersky, Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft. Learning concept importance using a weighted dependence model. 2010. pp.31~40    Cited By 2[Bibtex]
2009(12)
[207]Xuanjing Huang, W. Bruce Croft. A unified relevance model for opinion retrieval.  CIKM'2009. pp.947~956    Cited By 2[Bibtex]
[206]Jangwon Seo, W. Bruce Croft, David A. Smith. Online community search using thread structure.  CIKM'2009. pp.1907~1910    Cited By 6[Bibtex]
[205]Xiaobing Xue, W. Bruce Croft. Automatic query generation for patent search.  CIKM'2009. pp.2037~2040   [Bibtex]
[204]Jinyoung Kim, W. Bruce Croft. Retrieval experiments using pseudo-desktop collections.  CIKM'2009. pp.1297~1306    Cited By 2[Bibtex]
[203]W. Bruce Croft. Query Evolution.  ECIR'2009. pp.1~1   [Bibtex]
[202]Matthew Lease, James Allan, W. Bruce Croft. Regression Rank: Learning to Meet the Opportunity of Descriptive Queries.  ECIR'2009. pp.90~101    Cited By 14[Bibtex]
[201]Desislava Petkova, W. Bruce Croft, Yanlei Diao. Refining Keyword Queries for XML Retrieval by Combining Content and Structure.  ECIR'2009. pp.662~669    Cited By 3[Bibtex]
[200]Jinyoung Kim, Xiaobing Xue, W. Bruce Croft. A Probabilistic Retrieval Model for Semistructured Data.  ECIR'2009. pp.228~239    Cited By 9[Bibtex]
[199]Xiaobing Xue, W. Bruce Croft. Transforming patents into prior-art queries.  SIGIR'2009. pp.808~809    Cited By 2[Bibtex]
[198]Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft, David A. Smith. Two-stage query segmentation for information retrieval.  SIGIR'2009. pp.810~811    Cited By 4[Bibtex]
[197]Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft. Finding text reuse on the web.  WSDM'2009. pp.262~271    Cited By 6[Bibtex]
[196]Koji Eguchi, W. Bruce Croft. Query structuring and expansion with two-stage term dependence for Japanese web retrieval. Inf. Retr., 2009: 251~274    Cited By 2[Bibtex]
2008(13)
[195]Jangwon Seo, W. Bruce Croft. Blog site search using resource selection.  CIKM'2008. pp.1053~1062    Cited By 20[Bibtex]
[194]W. Bruce Croft. Unsolved problems in search: (and how we approach them).  CIKM'2008. pp.1001~1001   [Bibtex]
[193]Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft. Evaluating Text Representations for Retrieval of the Best Group of Documents.  ECIR'2008. pp.454~462    Cited By 8[Bibtex]
[192]Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman, W. Bruce Croft. A Statistical View of Binned Retrieval Models.  ECIR'2008. pp.175~186    Cited By 2[Bibtex]
[191]Jangwon Seo, W. Bruce Croft. Local text reuse detection.  SIGIR'2008. pp.571~578    Cited By 11[Bibtex]
[190]Kyung-Soon Lee, W. Bruce Croft, James Allan. A cluster-based resampling method for pseudo-relevance feedback.  SIGIR'2008. pp.235~242    Cited By 23[Bibtex]
[189]Xiaobing Xue, Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft. Retrieval models for question and answer archives.  SIGIR'2008. pp.475~482    Cited By 28[Bibtex]
[188]Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft. Discovering key concepts in verbose queries.  SIGIR'2008. pp.491~498    Cited By 34[Bibtex]
[187]Jangwon Seo, W. Bruce Croft. UMass at TREC 2008 Blog Distillation Task.  TREC'2008.     Cited By 3[Bibtex]
[186]Desislava Petkova, W. Bruce Croft. Hierarchical Language Models for Expert Finding in Enterprise Corpora. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 2008: 5~18    Cited By 59[Bibtex] [PDF]
[185]Xiaoyan Li, W. Bruce Croft. An information-pattern-based approach to novelty detection. Inf. Process. Manage., 2008: 1159~1188    Cited By 7[Bibtex]
[184]Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft. Measuring ranked list robustness for query performance prediction. Knowl. Inf. Syst., 2008: 155~171    Cited By 3[Bibtex]
[183]W. Bruce Croft, Hans-Jorg Schek. Introduction to the special issue on database and information retrieval integration. VLDB J., 2008: 1~3    Cited By 2[Bibtex]
2007(13)
[182]Desislava Petkova, W. Bruce Croft. Proximity-based document representation for named entity retrieval.  CIKM'2007. pp.731~740    Cited By 39[Bibtex]
[181]Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft. Modeling Term Associations for Ad-Hoc Retrieval Performance Within Language Modeling Framework.  ECIR'2007. pp.52~63    Cited By 7[Bibtex]
[180]Aruna Balasubramanian, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft, Brian Neil Levine, Arun Venkataramani. Web search from a bus.  Challenged Networks'2007. pp.59~66    Cited By 33[Bibtex]
[179]Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft. Query performance prediction in web search environments.  SIGIR'2007. pp.543~550    Cited By 40[Bibtex]
[178]Trevor Strohman, W. Bruce Croft. Efficient document retrieval in main memory.  SIGIR'2007. pp.175~182    Cited By 30[Bibtex]
[177]Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft. Latent concept expansion using markov random fields.  SIGIR'2007. pp.311~318    Cited By 30[Bibtex]
[176]Trevor Strohman, W. Bruce Croft, David Jensen. Recommending citations for academic papers.  SIGIR'2007. pp.705~706    Cited By 11[Bibtex]
[175]Niranjan Balasubramanian, James Allan, W. Bruce Croft. A comparison of sentence retrieval techniques.  SIGIR'2007. pp.813~814    Cited By 6[Bibtex]
[174]Xing Yi, James Allan, W. Bruce Croft. Matching resumes and jobs based on relevance models.  SIGIR'2007. pp.809~810    Cited By 1[Bibtex]
[173]Jangwon Seo, W. Bruce Croft. UMass at TREC 2007 Blog Distillation Task.  TREC'2007.     Cited By 23[Bibtex]
[172]Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft. Investigating Retrieval Performance with Manually-Built Topic Models.  RIAO'2007.     Cited By 8[Bibtex]
[171]Vanessa Murdock, Diane Kelly, W. Bruce Croft, Nicholas J. Belkin, Xiaojun Yuan. Identifying and improving retrieval for procedural questions. Inf. Process. Manage., 2007: 181~203    Cited By 4[Bibtex]
[170]Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft. Linear feature-based models for information retrieval. Inf. Retr., 2007: 257~274    Cited By 18[Bibtex]
2006(14)
[169]Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft. Beyond Bags of Words: Modeling Implicit User Preferences in Information Retrieval.  AAAI'2006.     Cited By 2[Bibtex] [PDF]
[168]Koji Eguchi, W. Bruce Croft. Query Structuring with Two-Stage Term Dependence in the Japanese Language.  AIRS'2006. pp.522~529    Cited By 4[Bibtex]
[167]Koji Eguchi, W. Bruce Croft. Boosting relevance model performance with query term dependence.  CIKM'2006. pp.792~793    Cited By 2[Bibtex]
[166]Chirag Shah, W. Bruce Croft, David Jensen. Representing documents with named entities for story link detection (SLD).  CIKM'2006. pp.868~869    Cited By 8[Bibtex] [PDF]
[165]Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft. Ranking robustness: a novel framework to predict query performance.  CIKM'2006. pp.567~574    Cited By 41[Bibtex]
[164]Xiaoyan Li, W. Bruce Croft. Improving novelty detection for general topics using sentence level information patterns.  CIKM'2006. pp.238~247    Cited By 4[Bibtex] [PDF]
[163]Desislava Petkova, W. Bruce Croft. Hierarchical Language Models for Expert Finding in Enterprise Corpora.  ICTAI'2006. pp.599~608    Cited By 59[Bibtex] [PDF]
[162]Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft. LDA-based document models for ad-hoc retrieval.  SIGIR'2006. pp.178~185    Cited By 166[Bibtex]
[161]Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft. Representing clusters for retrieval.  SIGIR'2006. pp.671~672    Cited By 8[Bibtex]
[160]Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft, Joon Ho Lee, Soyeon Park. A framework to predict the quality of answers with non-textual features.  SIGIR'2006. pp.228~235    Cited By 52[Bibtex]
[159]Desislava Petkova, W. Bruce Croft. UMass at TREC 2006: Enterprise Track.  TREC'2006.     Cited By 2[Bibtex]
[158]Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman, W. Bruce Croft. Indri TREC Notebook 2006: Lessons Learned From Three Terabyte Tracks.  TREC'2006.     Cited By 4[Bibtex]
[157]Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft, Andrew McCallum. Table extraction for answer retrieval. Inf. Retr., 2006: 589~611   [Bibtex]
[156]Steve Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft. Precision prediction based on ranked list coherence. Inf. Retr., 2006: 723~755    Cited By 8[Bibtex]
2005(14)
[155]Xiaoyan Li, W. Bruce Croft. Novelty detection based on sentence level patterns.  CIKM'2005. pp.744~751    Cited By 22[Bibtex] [PDF]
[154]Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft. Document quality models for web ad hoc retrieval.  CIKM'2005. pp.331~332    Cited By 27[Bibtex] [PDF]
[153]Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft, Matthew B. Koll. Finding experts in community-based question-answering services.  CIKM'2005. pp.315~316    Cited By 30[Bibtex]
[152]Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft, Joon Ho Lee. Finding similar questions in large question and answer archives.  CIKM'2005. pp.84~90    Cited By 72[Bibtex] [PDF]
[151]Donald Metzler, Yaniv Bernstein, W. Bruce Croft, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel. Similarity measures for tracking information flow.  CIKM'2005. pp.517~524    Cited By 55[Bibtex] [PDF]
[150]Vanessa Murdock, W. Bruce Croft. A Translation Model for Sentence Retrieval.  HLT/EMNLP'2005.     Cited By 26[Bibtex]
[149]Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft. A Markov random field model for term dependencies.  SIGIR'2005. pp.472~479    Cited By 185[Bibtex]
[148]Donald Metzler, Yaniv Bernstein, W. Bruce Croft, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel. The recap system for identifying information flow.  SIGIR'2005. pp.678~678    Cited By 2[Bibtex]
[147]Trevor Strohman, Howard R. Turtle, W. Bruce Croft. Optimization strategies for complex queries.  SIGIR'2005. pp.219~225    Cited By 28[Bibtex]
[146]Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft, Joon Ho Lee. Finding semantically similar questions based on their answers.  SIGIR'2005. pp.617~618    Cited By 15[Bibtex]
[145]Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft. Indri at TREC 2005: Terabyte Track.  TREC'2005.     Cited By 37[Bibtex]
[144]Donald Metzler, Fernando Diaz, Trevor Strohman, W. Bruce Croft. UMass Robust 2005: Using Mixtures of Relevance Models for Query Expansion.  TREC'2005.    [Bibtex]
[143]Serge Abiteboul, Rakesh Agrawal, Philip A. Bernstein, Michael J. Carey, Stefano Ceri, W. Bruce Croft, David J. DeWitt, Michael J. Franklin, Hector Garcia-Molina, Dieter Gawlick, Jim Gray, Laura M. Haas, Alon Y. Halevy, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Martin L. Kersten, Michael J. Pazzani, Michael Lesk, David Maier, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Hans-Jorg Schek, Timos K. Sellis, Avi Silberschatz, Michael Stonebraker, Richard T. Snodgrass, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Gerhard Weikum, Jennifer Widom, Stanley B. Zdonik. The Lowell database research self-assessment. Commun. ACM, 2005: 111~118    Cited By 115[Bibtex] [PDF]
[142]Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft. Analysis of Statistical Question Classification for Fact-Based Questions. Inf. Retr., 2005: 481~504    Cited By 36[Bibtex]
2004(12)
[141]Haizheng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, Brian Neil Levine, Victor R. Lesser. A Multi-Agent Approach for Peer-to-Peer Based Information Retrieval System.  AAMAS'2004. pp.456~463    Cited By 36[Bibtex]
[140]Stephen Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft. A framework for selective query expansion.  CIKM'2004. pp.236~237    Cited By 32[Bibtex]
[139]W. Bruce Croft, Jamie Callan. A Language Modeling Approach to Metadata for Cross-Database Linkage and Search.  DG.O'2004.    [Bibtex]
[138]Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft, David Pinto. Question Answering Performance on Table Data.  DG.O'2004.     Cited By 1[Bibtex] [PDF]
[137]Donald Metzler, Victor Lavrenko, W. Bruce Croft. Formal multiple-bernoulli models for language modeling.  SIGIR'2004. pp.540~541    Cited By 33[Bibtex] [PDF]
[136]Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft. Cluster-based retrieval using language models.  SIGIR'2004. pp.186~193    Cited By 165[Bibtex]
[135]Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft, Paul Oh, David Hart. Automatic recognition of reading levels from user queries.  SIGIR'2004. pp.548~549    Cited By 19[Bibtex]
[134]Andres Corrada-Emmanuel, W. Bruce Croft. Answer models for question answering passage retrieval.  SIGIR'2004. pp.516~517    Cited By 2[Bibtex]
[133]Chirag Shah, W. Bruce Croft. Evaluating high accuracy retrieval techniques.  SIGIR'2004. pp.2~9    Cited By 39[Bibtex] [PDF]
[132]Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman, Howard R. Turtle, W. Bruce Croft. Indri at TREC 2004: Terabyte Track.  TREC'2004.     Cited By 33[Bibtex]
[131]Nasreen Abdul Jaleel, James Allan, W. Bruce Croft, Fernando Diaz, Leah S. Larkey, Xiaoyan Li, Mark D. Smucker, Courtney Wade. UMass at TREC 2004: Novelty and HARD.  TREC'2004.     Cited By 41[Bibtex]
[130]Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft. Combining the language model and inference network approaches to retrieval. Inf. Process. Manage., 2004: 735~750    Cited By 129[Bibtex]
2003(9)
[129]Ramesh Nallapati, W. Bruce Croft, James Allan. Relevant query feedback in statistical language modeling.  CIKM'2003. pp.560~563    Cited By 6[Bibtex] [PDF]
[128]Xiaoyan Li, W. Bruce Croft. Time-based language models.  CIKM'2003. pp.469~475    Cited By 58[Bibtex] [PDF]
[127]David Pinto, Andrew McCallum, Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft. Table Extraction Using Conditional Random Fields.  DG.O'2003.     Cited By 206[Bibtex] [PDF]
[126]W. Bruce Croft. Language Models for Information Retrieval.  ICDE'2003. pp.3~7    Cited By 211[Bibtex] [PDF]
[125]Dawn J. Lawrie, W. Bruce Croft. Generating hierarchical summaries for web searches.  SIGIR'2003. pp.457~458    Cited By 62[Bibtex] [PDF]
[124]W. Bruce Croft. Salton Award Lecture - Information retrieval and computer science: an evolving relationship.  SIGIR'2003. pp.2~3    Cited By 10[Bibtex]
[123]David Pinto, Andrew McCallum, Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft. Table extraction using conditional random fields.  SIGIR'2003. pp.235~242    Cited By 206[Bibtex] [PDF]
[122]Serge Abiteboul, Rakesh Agrawal, Philip A. Bernstein, Michael J. Carey, Stefano Ceri, W. Bruce Croft, David J. DeWitt, Michael J. Franklin, Hector Garcia-Molina, Dieter Gawlick, Jim Gray, Laura M. Haas, Alon Y. Halevy, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Martin L. Kersten, Michael J. Pazzani, Michael Lesk, David Maier, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Hans-Jorg Schek, Timos K. Sellis, Avi Silberschatz, Michael Stonebraker, Richard T. Snodgrass, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Gerhard Weikum, Jennifer Widom, Stanley B. Zdonik. The Lowell Database Research Self Assessment. CoRR, 2003.     Cited By 115[Bibtex] [PDF]
[121]James Allan, Jay Aslam, Nicholas J. Belkin, Chris Buckley, James P. Callan, W. Bruce Croft, Susan T. Dumais, Norbert Fuhr, Donna Harman, David J. Harper, Djoerd Hiemstra, Thomas Hofmann, Eduard H. Hovy, Wessel Kraaij, John D. Lafferty, Victor Lavrenko, David D. Lewis, Liz Liddy, R. Manmatha, Andrew McCallum, Jay M. Ponte, John M. Prager, Dragomir R. Radev, Philip Resnik, Stephen E. Robertson, Ronald Rosenfeld, Salim Roukos, Mark Sanderson, Richard M. Schwartz, Amit Singhal, Alan F. Smeaton, Howard R. Turtle, Ellen M. Voorhees, Ralph M. Weischedel, Jinxi Xu, ChengXiang Zhai. 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. SIGIR Forum, 2003: 31~47    Cited By 86[Bibtex]
2002(7)
[120]Diane Kelly, Xiao-Jun Yuan, Nicholas J. Belkin, Vanessa Murdock, W. Bruce Croft. Features of documents relevant to task- and fact-oriented questions.  CIKM'2002. pp.645~647    Cited By 10[Bibtex]
[119]Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft. Passage retrieval based on language models.  CIKM'2002. pp.375~382    Cited By 93[Bibtex] [PDF]
[118]David Pinto, Michael Branstein, Ryan Coleman, W. Bruce Croft, Matthew King, Wei Li, Xing Wei. QuASM: a system for question answering using semi-structured data.  JCDL'2002. pp.46~55    Cited By 39[Bibtex] [PDF]
[117]Victor Lavrenko, Martin Choquette, W. Bruce Croft. Cross-lingual relevance models.  SIGIR'2002. pp.175~182    Cited By 125[Bibtex]
[116]Stephen Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft. Predicting query performance.  SIGIR'2002. pp.299~306    Cited By 267[Bibtex] [PDF]
[115]Vanessa Murdock, W. Bruce Croft. Task orientation in question answering.  SIGIR'2002. pp.355~356    Cited By 10[Bibtex] [PDF]
[114]Robert W. P. Luk, Hong Va Leong, Tharam S. Dillon, Alvin T. S. Chan, W. Bruce Croft, James Allan. A survey in indexing and searching XML documents. JASIST, 2002: 415~437    Cited By 62[Bibtex]
2001(5)
[113]W. Bruce Croft, Stephen Cronen-Townsend, Victor Lavrenko. Relevance Feedback and Personalization: A Language Modeling Perspective.  DELOS Workshop: Personalisation and Recommender Systems in Digital Libraries'2001.     Cited By 73[Bibtex] [PDF]
[112]Victor Lavrenko, W. Bruce Croft. Relevance-Based Language Models.  SIGIR'2001. pp.120~127    Cited By 549[Bibtex]
[111]Dawn Lawrie, W. Bruce Croft, Arnold L. Rosenberg. Finding Topic Words for Hierarchical Summarization.  SIGIR'2001. pp.349~357    Cited By 124[Bibtex]
[110]Fangfang Feng, W. Bruce Croft. Probabilistic techniques for phrase extraction. Inf. Process. Manage., 2001: 199~220    Cited By 28[Bibtex]
[109]W. Bruce Croft, James P. Callan, John D. Lafferty. Workshop on language modeling and information retrieval. SIGIR Forum, 2001: 4~6   [Bibtex]
2000(6)
[108]W. Bruce Croft. Combining Approaches to IR (invited talk).  DELOS Workshop: Information Seeking, Searching and Querying in Digital Libraries'2000.     Cited By 1[Bibtex]
[107]W. Bruce Croft. Information Retrieval Based on Statistical Language Models.  ISMIS'2000. pp.1~11    Cited By 1[Bibtex]
[106]James Allan, Margaret E. Connell, W. Bruce Croft, Fangfang Feng, David Fisher, Xiaoyan Li. INQUERY and TREC-9.  TREC'2000.     Cited By 61[Bibtex]
[105]Jeremy Pickens, W. Bruce Croft. An exploratory analysis of phrases in text retrieval.  RIAO'2000. pp.1179~1195    Cited By 23[Bibtex]
[104]Dawn Lawrie, W. Bruce Croft. Discovering and Comparing Topic Hierarchies.  RIAO'2000. pp.314~330    Cited By 50[Bibtex]
[103]Jinxi Xu, W. Bruce Croft. Improving the effectiveness of information retrieval with local context analysis. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2000: 79~112    Cited By 364[Bibtex]
1999(5)
[102]Fei Song, W. Bruce Croft. A General Language Model for Information Retrieval.  CIKM'1999. pp.316~321    Cited By 336[Bibtex] [PDF]
[101]Fei Song, W. Bruce Croft. A General Language Model for Information Retrieval (poster abstract).  SIGIR'1999. pp.279~280    Cited By 336[Bibtex]
[100]Mark Sanderson, W. Bruce Croft. Deriving Concept Hierarchies from Text.  SIGIR'1999. pp.206~213    Cited By 432[Bibtex] [PDF]
[99]Jinxi Xu, W. Bruce Croft. Cluster-Based Language Models for Distributed Retrieval.  SIGIR'1999. pp.254~261    Cited By 212[Bibtex]
[98]Warren R. Greiff, W. Bruce Croft, Howard R. Turtle. PIC matrices: a computationally tractable class of probabilistic query operators. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 1999: 367~405    Cited By 13[Bibtex] [PDF]
1998(4)
[97]Jay M. Ponte, W. Bruce Croft. A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval.  SIGIR'1998. pp.275~281    Cited By 1348[Bibtex]
[96]Lisa Ballesteros, W. Bruce Croft. Resolving Ambiguity for Cross-Language Retrieval.  SIGIR'1998. pp.64~71    Cited By 316[Bibtex]
[95]Ben Shneiderman, Donald Byrd, W. Bruce Croft. Sorting Out Searching: A User-Interface Framework for Text Searches. Commun. ACM, 1998: 95~98    Cited By 121[Bibtex]
[94]Jinxi Xu, W. Bruce Croft. Corpus-Based Stemming Using Cooccurrence of Word Cariants. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 1998: 61~81   [Bibtex]
1997(6)
[93]Pallavi Pyreddy, W. Bruce Croft. TINTIN: A System for Retrieval in Text Tables.  ACM DL'1997. pp.193~200    Cited By 48[Bibtex]
[92]Jay M. Ponte, W. Bruce Croft. Text Segmentation by Topic.  ECDL'1997. pp.113~125    Cited By 169[Bibtex]
[91]Stephen M. Harding, W. Bruce Croft, C. Weir. Probabilistic Retrieval of OCR Degraded Text Using N-Grams.  ECDL'1997. pp.345~359    Cited By 56[Bibtex]
[90]Lisa Ballesteros, W. Bruce Croft. Phrasal Translation and Query Expansion Techniques for Cross-language Information Retrieval.  SIGIR'1997. pp.84~91    Cited By 265[Bibtex]
[89]Warren R. Greiff, W. Bruce Croft, Howard R. Turtle. Computationally Tractable Probabilistic Modeling of Boolean Operators.  SIGIR'1997. pp.119~128    Cited By 13[Bibtex] [PDF]
[88]James Allan, James P. Callan, W. Bruce Croft, Lisa Ballesteros, Donald Byrd, Russell C. Swan, Jinxi Xu. INQUERY Does Battle With TREC-6.  TREC'1997. pp.169~206    Cited By 87[Bibtex]
1996(8)
[87]Howard R. Turtle, W. Bruce Croft. Uncertainty in Information Retrieval Systems.  Uncertainty Management in Information Systems, 1996: 189~224    Cited By 32[Bibtex]
[86]Lisa Ballesteros, W. Bruce Croft. Dictionary Methods for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval.  DEXA'1996. pp.791~801    Cited By 153[Bibtex]
[85]R. Manmatha, Chengfeng Han, Edward M. Riseman, W. Bruce Croft. Indexing Handwriting Using Word Matching.  Digital Libraries'1996. pp.151~159    Cited By 37[Bibtex]
[84]W. Bruce Croft, John Broglio, Hideo Fujii. Applications of Multilingual Text Retrieval.  HICSS (5)'1996. pp.98~98    Cited By 15[Bibtex] [PDF]
[83]Leah S. Larkey, W. Bruce Croft. Combining Classifiers in Text Categorization.  SIGIR'1996. pp.289~297    Cited By 308[Bibtex]
[82]Jinxi Xu, W. Bruce Croft. Query Expansion Using Local and Global Document Analysis.  SIGIR'1996. pp.4~11    Cited By 887[Bibtex] [PDF]
[81]James Allan, James P. Callan, W. Bruce Croft, Lisa Ballesteros, John Broglio, Jinxi Xu, Hongming Shu. INQUERY at TREC-5.  TREC'1996.     Cited By 71[Bibtex]
[80]S. R. Vasanthakumar, James P. Callan, W. Bruce Croft. Integrating INQUERY with an RDBMS to Support Text Retrieval. IEEE Data Eng. Bull., 1996: 24~33    Cited By 30[Bibtex]
1995(11)
[79]W. Bruce Croft, Robert Cook, Dean Wilder. Providing Government Information on the Internet: Experiences with THOMAS.  DL'1995. pp.0~0    Cited By 132[Bibtex] [PDF]
[78]W. Bruce Croft. Machine Learning and Information Retrieval (Abstract).  ICML'1995. pp.587~587    Cited By 11[Bibtex] [PDF]
[77]Samuel DeFazio, Amjad M. Daoud, Lisa Ann Smith, Jagannathan Srinivasan, W. Bruce Croft, James P. Callan. Integrating IR and RDBMS Using Cooperative Indexing.  SIGIR'1995. pp.84~92    Cited By 59[Bibtex]
[76]James P. Callan, Zhihong Lu, W. Bruce Croft. Searching Distributed Collections with Inference Networks.  SIGIR'1995. pp.21~28    Cited By 645[Bibtex] [PDF]
[75]James Allan, Lisa Ballesteros, James P. Callan, W. Bruce Croft, Zhihong Lu. Recent Experiments with INQUERY.  TREC'1995.     Cited By 71[Bibtex]
[74]W. Bruce Croft. NSF Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval. Commun. ACM, 1995: 42~43    Cited By 3[Bibtex]
[73]W. Bruce Croft. Effective Text Retrieval Based on Combining Evidence from the Corpus and Users. IEEE Expert, 1995: 59~63   [Bibtex]
[72]Dirk E. Mahling, Noel Craven, W. Bruce Croft. From Office Automation to Intelligent Workflow Systems. IEEE Expert, 1995: 41~47    Cited By 43[Bibtex]
[71]James P. Callan, W. Bruce Croft, John Broglio. TREC and Tipster Experiments with Inquery. Inf. Process. Manage., 1995: 327~343    Cited By 145[Bibtex]
[70]T. B. Rajashekar, W. Bruce Croft. Combining Automatic and Manual Index Representations in Probabilistic Retrieval. JASIS, 1995: 272~283    Cited By 71[Bibtex] [PDF]
[69]W. Bruce Croft. Lab Report Special Section: The University of Massachusetts Center for Intelligent Information Retrival. SIGIR Forum, 1995: 1~7   [Bibtex]
1994(4)
[68]Eric W. Brown, James P. Callan, W. Bruce Croft, J. Eliot B. Moss. Supporting Full-Text Information Retrieval with a Persistent Object Store.  EDBT'1994. pp.365~378    Cited By 45[Bibtex] [PDF]
[67]W. Bruce Croft. Integrating Text and Database Systems: Possibilities and Challenges.  East/West Database Workshop'1994. pp.194~205   [Bibtex]
[66]John Broglio, James P. Callan, W. Bruce Croft, Daniel W. Nachbar. Document Retrieval and Routing Using the INQUERY System.  TREC'1994. pp.0~0    Cited By 86[Bibtex] [PDF]
[65]Eric W. Brown, James P. Callan, W. Bruce Croft. Fast Incremental Indexing for Full-Text Information Retrieval.  VLDB'1994. pp.192~202    Cited By 134[Bibtex]
1993(8)
[64]Nicholas J. Belkin, Colleen Cool, W. Bruce Croft, James P. Callan. Effect of Multiple Query Representations on Information Retrieval System Performance.  SIGIR'1993. pp.339~346   [Bibtex]
[63]James P. Callan, W. Bruce Croft. An Evaluation of Query Processing Strategies Using the TIPSTER Collection.  SIGIR'1993. pp.347~355    Cited By 37[Bibtex] [PDF]
[62]David Haines, W. Bruce Croft. Relevance Feedback and Inference Networks.  SIGIR'1993. pp.2~11    Cited By 147[Bibtex]
[61]Hideo Fujii, W. Bruce Croft. A Comparison of Indexing Techniques for Japanese Text Retrieval.  SIGIR'1993. pp.237~246    Cited By 84[Bibtex]
[60]W. Bruce Croft, James P. Callan, John Broglio. TREC-2 Routing and Ad-Hoc Retrieval Evaluation using the INQUERY System.  TREC'1993. pp.75~84    Cited By 25[Bibtex]
[59]W. Bruce Croft. Knowledge-Based and Statistical Approaches to Text Retrieval. IEEE Expert, 1993: 8~12    Cited By 92[Bibtex]
[58]Dik Lun Lee, W. Bruce Croft. Guest Editor's Introduction. IEEE Expert, 1993: 6~7   [Bibtex]
[57]W. Bruce Croft, Howard R. Turtle. Retrieval Strategies for Hypertext. Inf. Process. Manage., 1993: 313~324    Cited By 56[Bibtex]
1992(10)
[56]James P. Callan, W. Bruce Croft, Stephen M. Harding. The INQUERY Retrieval System.  DEXA'1992. pp.78~83    Cited By 618[Bibtex]
[55]W. Bruce Croft, Howard R. Turtle. Retrieval of Complex Objects.  EDBT'1992. pp.217~229    Cited By 13[Bibtex]
[54]W. Bruce Croft. Experience with Large Document Collections (Panel).  SIGIR'1992. pp.347~347   [Bibtex]
[53]W. Bruce Croft, Lisa Ann Smith, Howard R. Turtle. A Loosely-Coupled Integration of a Text Retrieval System and an Object-Oriented Database System.  SIGIR'1992. pp.223~232    Cited By 47[Bibtex]
[52]W. Bruce Croft. TIPSTER Panel - The University of Massachusetts TIPSTER Project.  TREC'1992. pp.101~106    Cited By 5[Bibtex]
[51]Nicholas J. Belkin, W. Bruce Croft. Information Filtering and Information Retrieval: Two Sides of the Same Coin?. Commun. ACM, 1992: 29~38    Cited By 1079[Bibtex]
[50]Howard R. Turtle, W. Bruce Croft. A Comparison of Text Retrieval Models. Comput. J., 1992: 279~290    Cited By 157[Bibtex]
[49]W. Bruce Croft. The University of Massachusetts TIPSTER Project. SIGIR Forum, 1992: 29~33    Cited By 5[Bibtex]
[48]Krithi Ramamritham, J. Eliot B. Moss, John A. Stankovic, David W. Stemple, W. Bruce Croft, Donald F. Towsley. Summary of Database Research Activities at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. SIGMOD Record, 1992: 139~143   [Bibtex]
[47]Robert Krovetz, W. Bruce Croft. Lexical Ambiguity and Information Retrieval. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 1992: 115~141    Cited By 302[Bibtex] [PDF]
1991(4)
[46]W. Bruce Croft, Howard R. Turtle, David D. Lewis. The Use of Phrases and Structured Queries in Information Retrieval.  SIGIR'1991. pp.32~45    Cited By 237[Bibtex]
[45]Howard R. Turtle, W. Bruce Croft. Efficient probabilistic Inference for text retrieval.  RIAO'1991. pp.644~662    Cited By 81[Bibtex]
[44]Howard R. Turtle, W. Bruce Croft. Evaluation of an Inference Network-Based Retrieval Model. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 1991: 187~222    Cited By 518[Bibtex]
[43]W. Bruce Croft. Editorial. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 1991: 185~185   [Bibtex] [PDF]
1990(9)
[42]W. Bruce Croft, Nicholas J. Belkin, Marie-France Bruandet, Rainer Kuhlen. Hypertext and Information Retrieval: What are the Fundamental Concepts? (Panel).  ECHT'1990. pp.362~366    Cited By 15[Bibtex]
[41]David D. Lewis, W. Bruce Croft. Term Clustering of Syntactic Phrases.  SIGIR'1990. pp.385~404    Cited By 105[Bibtex]
[40]Howard R. Turtle, W. Bruce Croft. Inference Networks for Document Retrieval.  SIGIR'1990. pp.1~24    Cited By 480[Bibtex]
[39]W. Bruce Croft, Raj Das. Experiments with Query Acquisition and Use in Document Retrieval Systems.  SIGIR'1990. pp.349~368    Cited By 75[Bibtex]
[38]Dirk E. Mahling, Oddmar A. Sandvik, W. Bruce Croft. Visual Interaction Between End Users and Goal Based Systems.  VL'1990. pp.182~186   [Bibtex]
[37]W. Bruce Croft. Towards Intelligent Information Retrieval: An Overview of IR Research at U. Mass. IEEE Data Eng. Bull., 1990: 17~24    Cited By 2[Bibtex]
[36]W. Bruce Croft, Robert Krovetz, Howard R. Turtle. Interactive retrieval of complex documents. Inf. Process. Manage., 1990: 593~613    Cited By 22[Bibtex]
[35]L. S. Gay, W. Bruce Croft. Interpreting nominal compounds for information retrieval. Inf. Process. Manage., 1990: 21~38    Cited By 57[Bibtex]
[34]W. Bruce Croft. Chairman's Message. SIGIR Forum, 1990: 2~2   [Bibtex]
1989(6)
[33]W. Bruce Croft, Howard R. Turtle. A Retrieval Model for Incorporating Hypertext Links.  Hypertext'1989. pp.213~224   [Bibtex] [PDF]
[32]Robert Krovetz, W. Bruce Croft. Word Sense Disambiguation Using Machine-Readable Dictionaries.  SIGIR'1989. pp.127~136    Cited By 73[Bibtex]
[31]Dirk E. Mahling, W. Bruce Croft. Relating Human Knowledge of Tasks to the Requirements of Plan Libraries. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 1989: 61~97   [Bibtex]
[30]R. H. Thompson, W. Bruce Croft. Support for Browsing in an Intelligent Text Retrieval System. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 1989: 639~668    Cited By 152[Bibtex]
[29]W. Bruce Croft, T. J. Lucia, Janey K. Cringean, Peter Willett. Retrieving documents by plausible inference: An experimental study. Inf. Process. Manage., 1989: 599~614   [Bibtex]
[28]W. Bruce Croft. Chairman's Message. SIGIR Forum, 1989: 2~2   [Bibtex]
1988(3)
[27]W. Bruce Croft, T. J. Lucia, Paul R. Cohen. Retrieving Documents by Plausible Inference: A Preliminary Study.  SIGIR'1988. pp.481~494   [Bibtex]
[26]W. Bruce Croft. Chairman's Message. SIGIR Forum, 1988: 1~1   [Bibtex]
[25]W. Bruce Croft, Pasquale Savino. Implementing Ranking Strategies Using Text Signatures. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 1988: 42~62    Cited By 65[Bibtex]
1987(6)
[24]Carol A. Broverman, W. Bruce Croft. Reasoning about Exceptions during Plan Execution Monitoring.  AAAI'1987. pp.190~195    Cited By 28[Bibtex]
[23]W. Bruce Croft, David D. Lewis. An Approach to Natural Language Processing for Document Retrieval.  SIGIR'1987. pp.26~32    Cited By 1[Bibtex] [PDF]
[22]W. Bruce Croft, David W. Stemple. Supporting Offics Document Architectures with Constrained Types.  SIGMOD Conference'1987. pp.504~509   [Bibtex]
[21]W. Bruce Croft. Approaches to Intelligent Information Retrieval. Inf. Process. Manage., 1987: 249~254    Cited By 132[Bibtex]
[20]W. Bruce Croft. Approaches to intelligent information retrieval. Inf. Process. Manage., 1987: 249~254    Cited By 132[Bibtex]
[19]Nicholas J. Belkin, Christine L. Borgman, Helen M. Brooks, Tom Bylander, W. Bruce Croft, Penny J. Daniels, Scott C. Deerwester, Edward A. Fox, Peter Ingwersen, Roy Rada. Distributed Expert-Based Information Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Inf. Process. Manage., 1987: 395~409    Cited By 48[Bibtex]
1986(1)
[18]W. Bruce Croft. User-Specified Domain Knowledge for Document Retrieval.  SIGIR'1986. pp.201~206    Cited By 46[Bibtex]
1985(4)
[17]Carol A. Broverman, W. Bruce Croft. A Knowledge-Based Approach to Data Management for Intelligent User Interfaces.  VLDB'1985. pp.96~104    Cited By 5[Bibtex]
[16]W. Bruce Croft. An expert assistant for document retrieval system.  RIAO'1985. pp.131~149   [Bibtex]
[15]W. Bruce Croft. Task Management for an Intelligent Interface. IEEE Database Eng. Bull., 1985: 8~13    Cited By 3[Bibtex]
[14]W. Bruce Croft, Thomas J. Parenty. A comparison of a network structure and a database system used for document retrieval. Inf. Syst., 1985: 377~390    Cited By 17[Bibtex]
1984(3)
[13]W. Bruce Croft, Roger Thompson. The Use of Adaptive Mechanisms for Selection of Search Strategies in Document Retrieval Systems.  SIGIR'1984. pp.95~110   [Bibtex]
[12]W. Bruce Croft. The Role of Context and Adaptation in User Interfaces. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 1984: 283~292    Cited By 40[Bibtex]
[11]W. Bruce Croft, Lawrence S. Lefkowitz. Task Support in an Office System. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 1984: 197~212    Cited By 80[Bibtex]
1983(2)
[10]W. Bruce Croft. Applications for Information Retrieval Techniques in the Office.  SIGIR'1983. pp.18~23    Cited By 12[Bibtex]
[9]W. Bruce Croft, R. Wolf, R. Thompson. A Network Organization Used for Document Retrieval.  SIGIR'1983. pp.178~188    Cited By 14[Bibtex]
1982(2)
[8]W. Bruce Croft, Lynn Ruggles. The Implementation of a Document Retrieval System.  SIGIR'1982. pp.28~37    Cited By 9[Bibtex]
[7]W. Bruce Croft. Experiments with Automatic Text Filing and Retrieval in the Office Environment. SIGIR Forum, 1982: 2~9    Cited By 7[Bibtex]
1981(1)
[6]W. Bruce Croft. Incorporating Different Search Models into One Document Retrieval System.  SIGIR'1981. pp.40~45    Cited By 8[Bibtex]
1980(1)
[5]W. Bruce Croft. A model of cluster searching bases on classification. Inf. Syst., 1980: 189~195   [Bibtex]
1979(1)
[4]W. Bruce Croft. On the Implementation of Some Models of Document Retrieval.  SIGIR'1979. pp.71~77    Cited By 1[Bibtex]
1978(1)
[3]W. Bruce Croft. A File Organization for Cluster-Based Retrieval.  SIGIR'1978. pp.65~82    Cited By 8[Bibtex]
1976(1)
[2]W. Bruce Croft, C. J. van Rijsbergen. An evaluation of Goffman's indirect retrieval method. Inf. Process. Manage., 1976: 327~331    Cited By 8[Bibtex]
1975(1)
[1]C. J. van Rijsbergen, W. Bruce Croft. Document clustering: An evaluation of some experiments with the cranfield 1400 collection. Inf. Process. Manage., 1975: 171~182    Cited By 70[Bibtex]