Donald Metzler

2025

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Pre-Trained Models for Search and Recommendation: Introduction to the Special Issue - Part 1.
Wenjie Wang|Zheng Liu|Fuli Feng|Zhicheng Dou|Qingyao Ai|Grace Hui Yang|Defu Lian|Lu Hou|Aixin Sun|Hamed Zamani|Donald Metzler|Maarten de Rijke
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2025 Volume 43 Issue 2
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Pre-Trained Models for Search and Recommendation: Introduction to the Special Issue - Part 2.
Wenjie Wang|Zheng Liu|Fuli Feng|Zhicheng Dou|Qingyao Ai|Grace Hui Yang|Defu Lian|Lu Hou|Aixin Sun|Hamed Zamani|Donald Metzler|Maarten de Rijke
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2025 Volume 43 Issue 5
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Rankers, Judges, and Assistants: Towards Understanding the Interplay of LLMs in Information Retrieval Evaluation.
Krisztian Balog|Don Metzler|Zhen Qin
Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025

2024

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Gen-IR @ SIGIR 2024: The Second Workshop on Generative Information Retrieval.
Gabriel Bénédict|Ruqing Zhang|Donald Metzler|Andrew Yates|Ziyan Jiang
Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2024, Washington DC, USA, July 14-18, 2024

2023

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Report on the 1st Workshop on Generative Information Retrieval (Gen-IR 2023) at SIGIR 2023.
Gabriel Bénédict|Ruqing Zhang|Donald Metzler|Andrew Yates|Romain Deffayet|Philipp Hager|Sami Jullien
SIGIR Forum 2023 Volume 57 Issue 2
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Surprise: Result List Truncation via Extreme Value Theory.
Dara Bahri|Che Zheng|Yi Tay|Donald Metzler|Andrew Tomkins
Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-27, 2023
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[email protected] 2023: The First Workshop on Generative Information Retrieval.
Gabriel Bénédict|Ruqing Zhang|Donald Metzler
Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-27, 2023

2022

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Stochastic Retrieval-Conditioned Reranking.
Hamed Zamani|Michael Bendersky|Donald Metzler|Honglei Zhuang|Xuanhui Wang
ICTIR '22: The 2022 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11 - 12, 2022
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Retrieval-Enhanced Machine Learning.
Hamed Zamani|Fernando Diaz|Mostafa Dehghani|Donald Metzler|Michael Bendersky
SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11 - 15, 2022
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Search and Discovery in Personal Email Collections.
Michael Bendersky|Xuanhui Wang|Marc Najork|Donald Metzler
WSDM '22: The Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Virtual Event / Tempe, AZ, USA, February 21 - 25, 2022

2021

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Search and Discovery in Personal Email Collections.
Michael Bendersky|Xuanhui Wang|Marc Najork|Donald Metzler
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval 2021 Volume 15 Issue 1
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Rethinking search: making domain experts out of dilettantes.
Donald Metzler|Yi Tay|Dara Bahri|Marc Najork
SIGIR Forum 2021 Volume 55 Issue 1
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Generative Models are Unsupervised Predictors of Page Quality: A Colossal-Scale Study.
Dara Bahri|Yi Tay|Che Zheng|Cliff Brunk|Donald Metzler|Andrew Tomkins
WSDM '21, The Fourteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Virtual Event, Israel, March 8-12, 2021

2020

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Choppy: Cut Transformer for Ranked List Truncation.
Dara Bahri|Yi Tay|Che Zheng|Donald Metzler|Andrew Tomkins
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2020, Virtual Event, China, July 25-30, 2020
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Parameter Tuning in Personal Search Systems.
Suming J. Chen|Xuanhui Wang|Zhen Qin|Donald Metzler
WSDM '20: The Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Houston, TX, USA, February 3-7, 2020
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Separate and Attend in Personal Email Search.
Yu Meng|Maryam Karimzadehgan|Honglei Zhuang|Donald Metzler
WSDM '20: The Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Houston, TX, USA, February 3-7, 2020
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Stabilizing Neural Search Ranking Models.
Ruilin Li|Zhen Qin|Xuanhui Wang|Suming J. Chen|Donald Metzler
WWW '20: The Web Conference 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, April 20-24, 2020
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Matching Cross Network for Learning to Rank in Personal Search.
Zhen Qin|Zhongliang Li|Michael Bendersky|Donald Metzler
WWW '20: The Web Conference 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, April 20-24, 2020

2019

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Revisiting Online Personal Search Metrics with the User in Mind.
Azin Ashkan|Donald Metzler
Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2019, Paris, France, July 21-25, 2019.
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Multi-view Embedding-based Synonyms for Email Search.
Cheng Li|Mingyang Zhang|Michael Bendersky|Hongbo Deng|Donald Metzler|Marc Najork
Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2019, Paris, France, July 21-25, 2019.
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Domain Adaptation for Enterprise Email Search.
Brandon Tran|Maryam Karimzadehgan|Rama Kumar Pasumarthi|Michael Bendersky|Donald Metzler
Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2019, Paris, France, July 21-25, 2019.
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Personalized Online Spell Correction for Personal Search.
Jai Prakash Gupta|Zhen Qin|Michael Bendersky|Donald Metzler
The World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 13-17, 2019

2018

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Multi-Task Learning for Email Search Ranking with Auxiliary Query Clustering.
Jiaming Shen|Maryam Karimzadehgan|Michael Bendersky|Zhen Qin|Donald Metzler
Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2018, Torino, Italy, October 22-26, 2018
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Position Bias Estimation for Unbiased Learning to Rank in Personal Search.
Xuanhui Wang|Nadav Golbandi|Michael Bendersky|Donald Metzler|Marc Najork
Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2018, Marina Del Rey, CA, USA, February 5-9, 2018

2017

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Learning from User Interactions in Personal Search via Attribute Parameterization.
Michael Bendersky|Xuanhui Wang|Donald Metzler|Marc Najork
Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2017, Cambridge, United Kingdom, February 6-10, 2017

2016

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Learning to Rank with Selection Bias in Personal Search.
Xuanhui Wang|Michael Bendersky|Donald Metzler|Marc Najork
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy, July 17-21, 2016

2014

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Seventh ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2014, New York, NY, USA, February 24-28, 2014
Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2014
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Learning to efficiently rank on big data.
Lidan Wang|Jimmy Lin|Donald Metzler|Jiawei Han
23rd International World Wide Web Conference, WWW '14, Seoul, Republic of Korea, April 7-11, 2014, Companion Volume

2013

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International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR '13, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 29 - October 02, 2013
International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR) 2013

2012

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Experimental methods for information retrieval.
Donald Metzler|Oren Kurland
The 35th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '12, Portland, OR, USA, August 12-16, 2012
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Effective query formulation with multiple information sources.
Michael Bendersky|Donald Metzler|W. Bruce Croft
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, WSDM 2012, Seattle, WA, USA, February 8-12, 2012

2011

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When close enough is good enough: approximate positional indexes for efficient ranked retrieval.
Tamer Elsayed|Jimmy Lin|Donald Metzler
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2011, Glasgow, United Kingdom, October 24-28, 2011
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Pseudo test collections for learning web search ranking functions.
Sebastian Bruch|Donald Metzler|Tamer Elsayed|Jimmy Lin
Proceeding of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2011, Beijing, China, July 25-29, 2011
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Cross-corpus relevance projection.
Sebastian Bruch|Donald Metzler|Jimmy Lin
Proceeding of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2011, Beijing, China, July 25-29, 2011
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Parameterized concept weighting in verbose queries.
Michael Bendersky|Donald Metzler|W. Bruce Croft
Proceeding of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2011, Beijing, China, July 25-29, 2011
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A cascade ranking model for efficient ranked retrieval.
Lidan Wang|Jimmy Lin|Donald Metzler
Proceeding of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2011, Beijing, China, July 25-29, 2011
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USC/ISI at TREC 2011: Microblog Track.
Donald Metzler|Congxing Cai
Proceedings of The Twentieth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2011, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 15-18, 2011

2010

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Exploiting site-level information to improve web search.
Andrei Z. Broder|Evgeniy Gabrilovich|Vanja Josifovski|George Mavromatis|Donald Metzler|Jane Wang
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2010, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 26-30, 2010
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Improved latent concept expansion using hierarchical markov random fields.
Hao Lang|Donald Metzler|Bin Wang|Jin-Tao Li
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2010, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 26-30, 2010
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Ranking under temporal constraints.
Lidan Wang|Donald Metzler|Jimmy Lin
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2010, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 26-30, 2010
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Relevance and ranking in online dating systems.
Fernando Diaz|Donald Metzler|Sihem Amer-Yahia
Proceeding of the 33rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2010, Geneva, Switzerland, July 19-23, 2010
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Learning to efficiently rank.
Lidan Wang|Jimmy Lin|Donald Metzler
Proceeding of the 33rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2010, Geneva, Switzerland, July 19-23, 2010
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UMD and USC/ISI: TREC 2010 Web Track Experiments with Ivory.
Tamer Elsayed|Sebastian Bruch|Lidan Wang|Jimmy Lin|Donald Metzler
Proceedings of The Nineteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2010, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 16-19, 2010
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Learning concept importance using a weighted dependence model.
Michael Bendersky|Donald Metzler|W. Bruce Croft
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, WSDM 2010, New York, NY, USA, February 4-6, 2010
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Measuring the reusability of test collections.
Ben Carterette|Evgeniy Gabrilovich|Vanja Josifovski|Donald Metzler
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, WSDM 2010, New York, NY, USA, February 4-6, 2010
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The anatomy of an ad: structured indexing and retrieval for sponsored search.
Michael Bendersky|Evgeniy Gabrilovich|Vanja Josifovski|Donald Metzler
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2010, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, April 26-30, 2010

2009

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Semi-parametric and Non-parametric Term Weighting for Information Retrieval.
Donald Metzler|Hugo Zaragoza
Advances in Information Retrieval Theory, Second International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2009, Cambridge, UK, September 10-12, 2009, Proceedings
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Improving search relevance for implicitly temporal queries.
Donald Metzler|Rosie Jones|Fuchun Peng|Ruiqiang Zhang
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009, Boston, MA, USA, July 19-23, 2009
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Building enriched document representations using aggregated anchor text.
Donald Metzler|Jasmine Novak|Hang Cui|Srihari Reddy
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009, Boston, MA, USA, July 19-23, 2009
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Of Ivory and Smurfs: Loxodontan MapReduce Experiments for Web Search.
Jimmy Lin|Tamer Elsayed|Lidan Wang|Donald Metzler
Proceedings of The Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2009, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 17-20, 2009
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Online expansion of rare queries for sponsored search.
Andrei Z. Broder|Peter Ciccolo|Evgeniy Gabrilovich|Vanja Josifovski|Donald Metzler|Lance Riedel|Jeffrey Yuan
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2009, Madrid, Spain, April 20-24, 2009

2008

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Beyond bags of words: effectively modeling dependence and features in information retrieval.
Donald Metzler
SIGIR Forum 2008 Volume 42 Issue 1
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To swing or not to swing: learning when (not) to advertise.
Andrei Z. Broder|Massimiliano Ciaramita|Marcus Fontoura|Evgeniy Gabrilovich|Vanja Josifovski|Donald Metzler|Vanessa Murdock|Vassilis Plachouras
Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2008, Napa Valley, California, USA, October 26-30, 2008
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Generalized inverse document frequency.
Donald Metzler
Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2008, Napa Valley, California, USA, October 26-30, 2008
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A Statistical View of Binned Retrieval Models.
Donald Metzler|Trevor Strohman|W. Bruce Croft
Advances in Information Retrieval , 30th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2008, Glasgow, UK, March 30-April 3, 2008. Proceedings

2007

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Linear feature-based models for information retrieval.
Donald Metzler|W. Bruce Croft
Discover Computing 2007 Volume 10 Issue 3
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Automatic feature selection in the markov random field model for information retrieval.
Donald Metzler
Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, November 6-10, 2007
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Similarity Measures for Short Segments of Text.
Donald Metzler|Susan T. Dumais|Christopher Meek
Advances in Information Retrieval, 29th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2007, Rome, Italy, April 2-5, 2007, Proceedings
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Using gradient descent to optimize language modeling smoothing parameters.
Donald Metzler
SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 23-27, 2007
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Latent concept expansion using markov random fields.
Donald Metzler|W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 23-27, 2007
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CIIR Experiments for TREC Legal 2007.
Howard R. Turtle|Donald Metzler
Proceedings of The Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2007, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 5-9, 2007

2006

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Estimation, sensitivity, and generalization in parameterized retrieval models.
Donald Metzler
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 6-11, 2006
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Improving the estimation of relevance models using large external corpora.
Fernando Diaz|Donald Metzler
SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Seattle, Washington, USA, August 6-11, 2006
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Indri TREC Notebook 2006: Lessons Learned From Three Terabyte Tracks.
Donald Metzler|Trevor Strohman|W. Bruce Croft
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2006, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 14-17, 2006

2005

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Analysis of Statistical Question Classification for Fact-Based Questions.
Donald Metzler|W. Bruce Croft
Discover Computing 2005 Volume 8 Issue 3
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Similarity measures for tracking information flow.
Donald Metzler|Yaniv Bernstein|W. Bruce Croft|Alistair Moffat|Justin Zobel
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Bremen, Germany, October 31 - November 5, 2005
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The recap system for identifying information flow.
Donald Metzler|Yaniv Bernstein|W. Bruce Croft|Alistair Moffat|Justin Zobel
SIGIR 2005: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Salvador, Brazil, August 15-19, 2005
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A Markov random field model for term dependencies.
Donald Metzler|W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR 2005: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Salvador, Brazil, August 15-19, 2005
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UMass Robust 2005: Using Mixtures of Relevance Models for Query Expansion.
Donald Metzler|Fernando Diaz|Trevor Strohman|W. Bruce Croft
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2005, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 15-18, 2005
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Indri at TREC 2005: Terabyte Track.
Donald Metzler|Trevor Strohman|Yun Zhou|W. Bruce Croft
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2005, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 15-18, 2005

2004

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Combining the language model and inference network approaches to retrieval.
Donald Metzler|W. Bruce Croft
Information Processing and Management 2004 Volume 40 Issue 5
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An Inference Network Approach to Image Retrieval.
Donald Metzler|R. Manmatha
Image and Video Retrieval: Third International Conference, CIVR 2004, Dublin, Ireland, July 21-23, 2004. Proceedings
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Formal multiple-bernoulli models for language modeling.
Donald Metzler|Victor Lavrenko|W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR 2004: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Sheffield, UK, July 25-29, 2004
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Indri at TREC 2004: Terabyte Track.
Donald Metzler|Trevor Strohman|Howard R. Turtle|W. Bruce Croft
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2004, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 16-19, 2004