James Mayfield

2026

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FACTUM: Mechanistic Detection of Citation Hallucination in Long-Form RAG.
Maxime Dassen|Rebecca Kotula|Kenton Murray|Andrew Yates|Dawn J. Lawrie|Efsun Selin Kayi|James Mayfield|Kevin Duh
Advances in Information Retrieval - 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 - April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part I
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Insider Knowledge: How Much Can RAG Systems Gain from Evaluation Secrets?
Laura Dietz|Bryan Li|Eugene Yang|Dawn J. Lawrie|William Gantt Walden|James Mayfield
Advances in Information Retrieval - 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 - April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part I
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Incorporating Q&A Nuggets Into Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
Laura Dietz|Bryan Li|Gabrielle K. Liu|Jia-Huei Ju|Eugene Yang|Dawn J. Lawrie|William Gantt Walden|James Mayfield
Advances in Information Retrieval - 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 - April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part II
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RoutIR: Fast Serving of Retrieval Pipelines for Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
Eugene Yang|Andrew Yates|Dawn J. Lawrie|James Mayfield|Trevor Adriaanse
Advances in Information Retrieval - 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 - April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part IV
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WSDM CUP 2026: Multilingual Retrieval.
Dawn J. Lawrie|Sean MacAvaney|James Mayfield|Luca Soldaini|Eugene Yang|Andrew Yates
Proceedings of the Nineteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2026, Boise, ID, USA, February 22-26, 2026

2025

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MURR: Model Updating with Regularized Replay for Searching a Document Stream.
Eugene Yang|Nicola Tonellotto|Dawn J. Lawrie|Sean MacAvaney|James Mayfield|Douglas W. Oard|Scott Miller
Advances in Information Retrieval - 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2025, Lucca, Italy, April 6-10, 2025, Proceedings, Part I
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A Reproducibility Study of LLM Setwise Reranker with Heapsort.
Dawn J. Lawrie|Efsun Selin Kayi|James Mayfield|Eugene Yang|Andrew Yates|Douglas W. Oard
Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025
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Generate-Distill: Training Cross-Language IR Models with Synthetically-Generated Data.
Dawn J. Lawrie|Efsun Selin Kayi|Eugene Yang|James Mayfield|Douglas W. Oard|Scott Miller
Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025
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System Comparison Using Automated Generation of Relevance Judgements in Multiple Languages.
Paul Thomas|Douglas W. Oard|Eugene Yang|Dawn J. Lawrie|James Mayfield
Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025
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Nugget-based Annotation Protocol and Tool For Evaluating Long-form Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
Eugene Yang|Dawn J. Lawrie|Hoa Dang|Ian Soboroff|James Mayfield
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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Translate-Distill: Learning Cross-Language Dense Retrieval by Translation and Distillation.
Eugene Yang|Dawn J. Lawrie|James Mayfield|Douglas W. Oard|Scott Miller
Advances in Information Retrieval - 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24-28, 2024, Proceedings, Part II
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PLAID SHIRTTT for Large-Scale Streaming Dense Retrieval.
Dawn J. Lawrie|Efsun Selin Kayi|Eugene Yang|James Mayfield|Douglas W. Oard
Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2024, Washington DC, USA, July 14-18, 2024
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On the Evaluation of Machine-Generated Reports.
James Mayfield|Eugene Yang|Dawn J. Lawrie|Sean MacAvaney|Paul McNamee|Douglas W. Oard|Luca Soldaini|Ian Soboroff|Orion Weller|Efsun Selin Kayi|Kate Sanders|Marc Mason|Noah Hibbler
Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2024, Washington DC, USA, July 14-18, 2024
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Language Fairness in Multilingual Information Retrieval.
Eugene Yang|Thomas Jänich|James Mayfield|Dawn J. Lawrie
Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2024, Washington DC, USA, July 14-18, 2024
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Distillation for Multilingual Information Retrieval.
Eugene Yang|Dawn J. Lawrie|James Mayfield
Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2024, Washington DC, USA, July 14-18, 2024
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Overview of the TREC 2024 NeuCLIR Track.
Dawn J. Lawrie|Sean MacAvaney|James Mayfield|Paul McNamee|Douglas W. Oard|Luca Soldaini|Eugene Yang
Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2024, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 18-22, 2024
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HLTCOE at TREC 2024 NeuCLIR Track.
Eugene Yang|Dawn J. Lawrie|Orion Weller|James Mayfield
Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2024, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 18-22, 2024

2023

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Neural Approaches to Multilingual Information Retrieval.
Dawn J. Lawrie|Eugene Yang|Douglas W. Oard|James Mayfield
Advances in Information Retrieval - 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2023, Dublin, Ireland, April 2-6, 2023, Proceedings, Part I
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Extending Translate-Train for ColBERT-X to African Language CLIR.
Eugene Yang|Dawn J. Lawrie|Paul McNamee|James Mayfield
Working Notes of FIRE 2023 - Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE-WN 2023), Goa, India, December 15-18, 2023.
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HC3: A Suite of Test Collections for CLIR Evaluation over Informal Text.
Dawn J. Lawrie|James Mayfield|Douglas W. Oard|Eugene Yang|Suraj Nair|Petra Galuscáková
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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BLADE: Combining Vocabulary Pruning and Intermediate Pretraining for Scaleable Neural CLIR.
Suraj Nair|Eugene Yang|Dawn J. Lawrie|James Mayfield|Douglas W. Oard
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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Neural Methods for Cross-Language Information Retrieval.
Eugene Yang|Dawn J. Lawrie|James Mayfield|Suraj Nair|Douglas W. Oard
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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Overview of the TREC 2023 NeuCLIR Track.
Dawn J. Lawrie|Sean MacAvaney|James Mayfield|Paul McNamee|Douglas W. Oard|Luca Soldaini|Eugene Yang
The Thirty-Second Text REtrieval Conference Proceedings (TREC 2023), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 14-17, 2023
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HLTCOE at TREC 2023 NeuCLIR Track.
Eugene Yang|Dawn J. Lawrie|James Mayfield
The Thirty-Second Text REtrieval Conference Proceedings (TREC 2023), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 14-17, 2023

2022

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Learning a Sparse Representation Model for Neural CLIR.
Suraj Nair|Eugene Yang|Dawn J. Lawrie|James Mayfield|Douglas W. Oard
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems, San Jose, CA, USA, August 30-31, 2022.
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HC4: A New Suite of Test Collections for Ad Hoc CLIR.
Dawn J. Lawrie|James Mayfield|Douglas W. Oard|Eugene Yang
Advances in Information Retrieval - 44th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2022, Stavanger, Norway, April 10-14, 2022, Proceedings, Part I
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Transfer Learning Approaches for Building Cross-Language Dense Retrieval Models.
Suraj Nair|Eugene Yang|Dawn J. Lawrie|Kevin Duh|Paul McNamee|Kenton Murray|James Mayfield|Douglas W. Oard
Advances in Information Retrieval - 44th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2022, Stavanger, Norway, April 10-14, 2022, Proceedings, Part I
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Patapasco: A Python Framework for Cross-Language Information Retrieval Experiments.
Cash Costello|Eugene Yang|Dawn J. Lawrie|James Mayfield
Advances in Information Retrieval - 44th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2022, Stavanger, Norway, April 10-14, 2022, Proceedings, Part II
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Overview of the TREC 2022 NeuCLIR Track.
Dawn J. Lawrie|Sean MacAvaney|James Mayfield|Paul McNamee|Douglas W. Oard|Luca Soldaini|Eugene Yang
Proceedings of the Thirty-First Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2022, online, November 15-19, 2022
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HLTCOE at TREC 2022 NeuCLIR Track.
Eugene Yang|Dawn J. Lawrie|James Mayfield
Proceedings of the Thirty-First Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2022, online, November 15-19, 2022

2020

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Two Test Collections for Retrieval Using Named Entity Markup.
Woochang Hwang|Dawn J. Lawrie|Jacob Bremerman|Jaejoon Choi|James Mayfield|Woochang Hwang|Dawn J. Lawrie|Mijin Kwon|Douglas W. Oard|James Mayfield|Jaejoon Choi|Douglas W. Oard|Mijin Kwon
CIKM '20: The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Ireland, October 19-23, 2020

2015

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Cross-language person-entity linking from 20 languages.
Dawn J. Lawrie|James Mayfield|Paul McNamee|Douglas W. Oard
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) 2015 Volume 66 Issue 6

2012

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Evaluating the Quality of a Knowledge Base Populated from Text.
James Mayfield|Tim Finin
Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Automatic Knowledge Base Construction and Web-scale Knowledge Extraction, AKBC-WEKEX@NAACL-HLT 2012, Montrèal, Canada, June 7-8, 2012
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A Context-Aware Approach to Entity Linking.
Veselin Stoyanov|James Mayfield|Tan Xu|Douglas W. Oard|Dawn J. Lawrie|Tim Oates|Tim Finin
Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Automatic Knowledge Base Construction and Web-scale Knowledge Extraction, AKBC-WEKEX@NAACL-HLT 2012, Montrèal, Canada, June 7-8, 2012

2011

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Building a Cross-Language Entity Linking Collection in Twenty-One Languages.
James Mayfield|Dawn J. Lawrie|Paul McNamee|Douglas W. Oard
Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation - Second International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 19-22, 2011. Proceedings

2009

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Addressing morphological variation in alphabetic languages.
Paul McNamee|Charles K. Nicholas|James Mayfield
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

2008

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Don't have a stemmer?: be un+concern+ed.
Paul McNamee|Charles K. Nicholas|James Mayfield
Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2008, Singapore, July 20-24, 2008

2007

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N-Gram Morphemes for Retrieval.
Paul McNamee|James Mayfield
Working Notes for CLEF 2007 Workshop co-located with the 11th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2007), Budapest, Hungary, September 19-21, 2007.

2006

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Improving QA retrieval using document priors.
James Mayfield|Paul McNamee
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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QACTIS Enhancements in TREC QA 2006.
Patrick Schone|Gary M. Ciany|R. Cutts|Paul McNamee|James Mayfield|Tom Smith
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2006, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 14-17, 2006

2005

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Translating pieces of words.
Paul McNamee|James Mayfield
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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JHU/APL at TREC 2005: QA Retrieval and Robust Tracks.
James Mayfield|Paul McNamee
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2005, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 15-18, 2005
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QACTIS-based Question Answering at TREC 2005.
Patrick Schone|Gary M. Ciany|R. Cutts|Paul McNamee|James Mayfield|Thomas Smith
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2005, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 15-18, 2005

2004

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Character N-Gram Tokenization for European Language Text Retrieval.
Paul McNamee|James Mayfield
Discover Computing 2004 Volume 7 Issue 1-2
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Cross-Language Retrieval Using HAIRCUT at CLEF 2004.
Paul McNamee|James Mayfield
Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images, 5th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2004, Bath, UK, September 15-17, 2004, Revised Selected Papers
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Cross-Language Retrieval Using HAIRCUT for CLEF 2004.
Paul McNamee|James Mayfield
Working Notes for CLEF 2004 Workshop co-located with the 8th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2004), Bath, UK, September 15-17, 2004.
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Triangulation without translation.
James Mayfield|Paul McNamee
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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Building an information retrieval test collection for spontaneous conversational speech.
Douglas W. Oard|Dagobert Soergel|David S. Doermann|Xiaoli Huang|G. Craig Murray|Jianqiang Wang|Bhuvana Ramabhadran|Martin Franz|Samuel Gustman|James Mayfield|Liliya Kharevych|Stephanie M. Strassel
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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JHU/APL at TREC 2004: Robust and Terabyte Tracks.
Christine D. Piatko|James Mayfield|Paul McNamee|R. Scott Cost
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2004, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 16-19, 2004
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Question Answering with QACTIS at TREC 2004.
Patrick Schone|T. Bassi|A. Kulman|Gary M. Ciany|Paul McNamee|James Mayfield
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2004, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 16-19, 2004

2003

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Lattice-based tagging using support vector machines.
James Mayfield|Paul McNamee|Christine D. Piatko|Claudia Pearce
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November 2-8, 2003
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JHU/APL Experiments in Tokenization and Non-word Translation.
Paul McNamee|James Mayfield
Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems, 4th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2003, Trondheim, Norway, August 21-22, 2003, Revised Selected Papers
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N-Grams for Translation and Retrieval in CL-SDR.
Paul McNamee|James Mayfield
Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems, 4th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2003, Trondheim, Norway, August 21-22, 2003, Revised Selected Papers
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JHU/APL Experiments in Tokenization and Non-Word Translation.
Paul McNamee|James Mayfield
Working Notes for CLEF 2003 Workshop co-located with the 7th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2003), Trondheim, Norway, August 21-22, 2003.
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Single n-gram stemming.
James Mayfield|Paul McNamee
SIGIR 2003: Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 28 - August 1, 2003, Toronto, Canada
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Combining Methods for the TREC 2003 Robust Track.
James Mayfield|Paul McNamee
Proceedings of The Twelfth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2003, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 18-21, 2003

2002

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Scalable Multilingual Information Access.
Paul McNamee|James Mayfield
Advances in Cross-Language Information Retrieval, Third Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2002. Rome, Italy, September 19-20, 2002. Revised Papers
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Scalable Multilingual Information Access.
Paul McNamee|James Mayfield
Working Notes for CLEF 2002 Workshop co-located with the 6th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2002), Rome, Italy, September 19-20, 2002.
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Converting on-line bilingual dictionaries from human-readable to machine-readable form.
James Mayfield|Paul McNamee
SIGIR 2002: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, August 11-15, 2002, Tampere, Finland
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Comparing cross-language query expansion techniques by degrading translation resources.
Paul McNamee|James Mayfield
SIGIR 2002: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, August 11-15, 2002, Tampere, Finland
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JHU/APL at TREC 2002: Experiments in Filtering and Arabic Retrieval.
Paul McNamee|Christine D. Piatko|James Mayfield
Proceedings of The Eleventh Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2002, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 19-22, 2002

2001

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JHU/APL Experiments at CLEF: Translation Resources and Score Normalization.
Paul McNamee|James Mayfield
Evaluation of Cross-Language Information Retrieval Systems, Second Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2001, Darmstadt, Germany, September 3-4, 2001, Revised Papers
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JHU/APL Experiments at CLEF: Translation Resources and Score Normalization.
Paul McNamee|James Mayfield
Working Notes for CLEF 2001 Workshop co-located with the 5th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2001), Darmstadt, Germany, September 3-4, 2001.
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JHU/APL at TREC 2001: Experiments in Filtering and in Arabic, Video, and Web Retrieval.
James Mayfield|Paul McNamee|Cash Costello|Christine D. Piatko|Amit Banerjee
Proceedings of The Tenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2001, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 13-16, 2001

2000

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A Language-Independent Approach to European Text Retrieval.
Paul McNamee|James Mayfield|Christine D. Piatko
Cross-Language Information Retrieval and Evaluation, Workshop of Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2000, Lisbon, Portugal, September 21-22, 2000, Revised Papers
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A Language-Independent Approach to European Text Retrieval.
Paul McNamee|James Mayfield
Working Notes for CLEF 2000 Workshop co-located with the 4th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2000), Lisbon, Portugal, September 21-22, 2000.
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The HAIRCUT System at TREC-9.
Paul McNamee|James Mayfield|Christine D. Piatko
Proceedings of The Ninth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2000, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 13-16, 2000

1999

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The JHU/APL HAIRCUT System at TREC-8.
James Mayfield|Paul McNamee|Christine D. Piatko
Proceedings of The Eighth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 1999, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 17-19, 1999

1998

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Indexing Using Both N-Grams and Words.
James Mayfield|Paul McNamee
Proceedings of The Seventh Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 1998, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 9-11, 1998

1997

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Intelligent Hypertext: Advanced Techniques for the World Wide Web
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 1997
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Two-Level Models of Hypertext.
James Mayfield
Intelligent Hypertext: Advanced Techniques for the World Wide Web

1995

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CIKM 1995 Intelligent Information Agents Workshop, Omni Inner Harbor Hotel, Baltimore, MD, USA, December 1-2, 1995.
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 1995
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The Cycic Friends Network: Getting Cyc agents to reason together.
James Mayfield|Tim Finin|Rajkumar Narayanaswamy|Chetan Shah|William MacCartney|Keith Goolsbey
CIKM 1995 Intelligent Information Agents Workshop, Omni Inner Harbor Hotel, Baltimore, MD, USA, December 1-2, 1995.
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Secret Agents: A Security Architecture for KQML.
Chelliah Thirunavukkarasu|Tim Finin|James Mayfield
CIKM 1995 Intelligent Information Agents Workshop, Omni Inner Harbor Hotel, Baltimore, MD, USA, December 1-2, 1995.