Jeff Dalton

2026

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Conversational Search: Foundations, Large Language Models, and Agents.
Chuan Meng|Fengran Mo|Mohammad Aliannejadi|Jeff Dalton|Jian-Yun Nie
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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TREC iKAT 2025: A Test Collection for the Offline and Interactive Evaluation of Conversational Search.
Xuanhui Wang|Nailia Mirzakhmedova|Zahra Abbasiantaeb|Anubhav Jangra|Simon Lupart|Adam Jatowt|Zahra Abbasiantaeb|Anubhav Jangra|Johannes Kiesel|Jian-Tao Sun|Zheng Chen|Jeffrey Dalton|Marcel Gohsen|Simon Lupart|Adam Jatowt|Xuanhui Wang|Nailia Mirzakhmedova|Johannes Kiesel|Jian-Tao Sun|Jeffrey Dalton|Zheng Chen|Mohammad Aliannejadi
Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026
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Sim.API: A Middleware to Simplify the Use of User Simulators for Shared Tasks in Conversational Search.
Marcel Gohsen|Kyle Williams|Zahra Abbasiantaeb|Seyyed Hadi Hashemi|Johannes Kiesel|Nailia Mirzakhmedova|Imed Zitouni|Jeffrey Dalton|Zahra Abbasiantaeb|Kyle Williams|Seyyed Hadi Hashemi|Johannes Kiesel|Simon Lupart|Imed Zitouni|Jeffrey Dalton|Benno Stein|Mohammad Aliannejadi
Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026
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Revisiting Text Ranking in Deep Research.
Yixing Fan|Chuan Meng|Litu Ou|Xueqi Cheng|Sean MacAvaney|Chuan Meng|Yixing Fan|Jeff Dalton|Xueqi Cheng|Litu Ou
Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026
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Conversational Search: From Fundamentals to Frontiers in the Age of Agents.
Chuan Meng|Fengran Mo|Mohammad Aliannejadi|Jeff Dalton|Jian-Yun Nie
Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW Companion 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 29 June 2026 - 3 July 2026

2025

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Report from the 4th Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval in Lorne (SWIRL 2025).
Johanne R. Trippas|J. Shane Culpepper|Mohammad Aliannejadi|James Allan|Enrique Amigó|Jaime Arguello|Leif Azzopardi|Peter Bailey|Jamie Callan|Rob Capra|Nick Craswell|W. Bruce Croft|Jeff Dalton|Gianluca Demartini|Laura Dietz|Zhicheng Dou|Carsten Eickhoff|Michael D. Ekstrand|Nicola Ferro|Norbert Fuhr|Dorota Glowacka|Faegheh Hasibi|Danula Hettiachchi|Rosie Jones|Jaap Kamps|Noriko Kando|Sarvnaz Karimi|Makoto P. Kato|Bevan Koopman|Yiqun Liu|Chenglong Ma|Joel Mackenzie|Maria Maistro|Jiaxin Mao|Dana McKay|Bhaskar Mitra|Stefano Mizzaro|Alistair Moffat|Josiane Mothe|Iadh Ounis|Lida Rashidi|Yongli Ren|Mark Sanderson|Rodrygo L. T. Santos|Falk Scholer|Chirag Shah|Laurianne Sitbon|Ian Soboroff|Damiano Spina|Paul Thomas|Julián Urbano|Arjen P. de Vries|Ryen White|Abby Yuan|Hamed Zamani|Oleg Zendel|Min Zhang|Shengyao Zhuang|Justin Zobel|Guido Zuccon
SIGIR Forum 2025 Volume 59 Issue 1
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User Simulation in Practice: Lessons Learned from Three Shared Tasks.
Marcel Gohsen|Zahra Abbasiantaeb|Mohammad Aliannejadi|Krisztian Balog|Timo Breuer|Jeffrey Dalton|Maik Fröbe|Christin Katharina Kreutz|Andreas Kruff|Simon Lupart|Nailia Mirzakhmedova|Harrisen Scells|Philipp Schaer|Benno Stein|Johannes Kiesel
SIGIR Forum 2025 Volume 59 Issue 2
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Principles and Guidelines for the Use of LLM Judges.
Laura Dietz|Oleg Zendel|Peter Bailey|Charles L. A. Clarke|Ellese Cotterill|Jeff Dalton|Faegheh Hasibi|Mark Sanderson|Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the 2025 International ACM SIGIR Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2025, Padua, Italy, 18 July 2025
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Conversational Gold: Evaluating Personalized Conversational Search System Using Gold Nuggets.
Zahra Abbasiantaeb|Simon Lupart|Leif Azzopardi|Jeffrey Dalton|Mohammad Aliannejadi
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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QDER: Query-Specific Document and Entity Representations for Multi-Vector Document Re-Ranking.
Shubham Chatterjee|Jeff Dalton
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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Cooking with Conversation: Enhancing User Engagement and Learning with a Knowledge-Enhancing Assistant.
Alexander Frummet|Alessandro Speggiorin|David Elsweiler|Anton Leuski|Jeff Dalton
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2024 Volume 42 Issue 5
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DREQ: Document Re-ranking Using Entity-Based Query Understanding.
Shubham Chatterjee|Iain Mackie|Jeff Dalton
Advances in Information Retrieval - 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24-28, 2024, Proceedings, Part I
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TREC iKAT 2023: A Test Collection for Evaluating Conversational and Interactive Knowledge Assistants.
Mohammad Aliannejadi|Zahra Abbasiantaeb|Shubham Chatterjee|Jeffrey Dalton|Leif Azzopardi
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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Doing Personal LAPS: LLM-Augmented Dialogue Construction for Personalized Multi-Session Conversational Search.
Hideaki Joko|Shubham Chatterjee|Andrew Ramsay|Arjen P. de Vries|Jeff Dalton|Faegheh Hasibi
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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TREC iKAT 2024: The Interactive Knowledge Assistance Track Overview.
Mohammad Aliannejadi|Zahra Abbasiantaeb|Simon Lupart|Shubham Chatterjee|Jeffrey Dalton|Leif Azzopardi
Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2024, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 18-22, 2024

2023

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Conversational Information Seeking.
Hamed Zamani|Johanne R. Trippas|Jeff Dalton|Filip Radlinski
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval 2023 Volume 17 Issue 3-4
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ECIR 23 Tutorial: Neuro-Symbolic Approaches for Information Retrieval.
Laura Dietz|Hannah Bast|Shubham Chatterjee|Jeff Dalton|Edgar Meij|Arjen P. de Vries
Advances in Information Retrieval - 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2023, Dublin, Ireland, April 2-6, 2023, Proceedings, Part III
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Neuro-Symbolic Representations for Information Retrieval.
Laura Dietz|Hannah Bast|Shubham Chatterjee|Jeffrey Dalton|Jian-Yun Nie|Rodrigo Nogueira
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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Generative Relevance Feedback with Large Language Models.
Iain Mackie|Shubham Chatterjee|Jeffrey Dalton
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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Exploiting Simulated User Feedback for Conversational Search: Ranking, Rewriting, and Beyond.
Paul Owoicho|Ivan Sekulic|Mohammad Aliannejadi|Jeffrey Dalton|Fabio Crestani
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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Tutorials at The Web Conference 2023.
Valeria Fionda|Yu Zhang|Quan Z. Sheng|Olaf Hartig|Reyhaneh Abdolazimi|Sihem Amer-Yahia|Hongzhi Chen|Xiao Chen|Peng Cui|Jeffrey Dalton|Xin Luna Dong|Lisette Espín-Noboa|Wenqi Fan|Manuela Fritz|Quan Gan|Jingtong Gao|Xiaojie Guo|Torsten Hahmann|Jiawei Han|Soyeon Caren Han|Estevam Hruschka|Liang Hu|Jiaxin Huang|Utkarshani Jaimini|Olivier Jeunen|Yushan Jiang|Fariba Karimi|George Karypis|Krishnaram Kenthapadi|Himabindu Lakkaraju|Hady W. Lauw|Thai Le|Trung-Hoang Le|Dongwon Lee|Geon Lee|Liat Levontin|Cheng-Te Li|Haoyang Li|Ying Li|Jay Chiehen Liao|Qidong Liu|Usha Lokala|Ben London|Siqu Long|Hande Küçük-McGinty|Yu Meng|Seungwhan Moon|Usman Naseem|Pradeep Natarajan|Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani|Zijie Pan|Devesh Parekh|Jian Pei|Tiago Peixoto|Steven Pemberton|Josiah Poon|Filip Radlinski|Federico Rossetto|Kaushik Roy|Aghiles Salah|Mehrnoosh Sameki|Amit P. Sheth|Cogan Shimizu|Kijung Shin|Dongjin Song|Julia Stoyanovich|Dacheng Tao|Johanne R. Trippas|Quoc Truong|Yu-Che Tsai|Adaku Uchendu|Bram van den Akker|Lin Wang|Minjie Wang|Shoujin Wang|Xin Wang|Ingmar Weber|Henry Weld|Lingfei Wu|Da Xu|Yifan Ethan Xu|Shuyuan Xu|Bo Yang|Ke Yang|Elad Yom-Tov|Jaemin Yoo|Zhou Yu|Reza Zafarani|Hamed Zamani|Meike Zehlike|Qi Zhang|Xikun Zhang|Yongfeng Zhang|Yu Zhang|Quan Z. Sheng|Zheng Zhang|Liang Zhao|Xiangyu Zhao|Wenwu Zhu
Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, WWW 2023, Austin, TX, USA, 30 April 2023 - 4 May 2023

2022

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CEQE to SQET: A study of contextualized embeddings for query expansion.
Shahrzad Naseri|Jeffrey Dalton|Andrew Yates|James Allan
Discover Computing 2022 Volume 25 Issue 2
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CMRE-UoG team at ImageCLEFmedical Caption 2022: Concept Detection and Image Captioning.
Francesco Dalla Serra|Fani Deligianni|Jeffrey Dalton|Alison Q. O'Neil
Proceedings of the Working Notes of CLEF 2022 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Bologna, Italy, September 5th - to - 8th, 2022.
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Conversational Information Seeking: Theory and Application.
Jeffrey Dalton|Sophie Fischer|Paul Owoicho|Filip Radlinski|Federico Rossetto|Johanne R. Trippas|Hamed Zamani
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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CODEC: Complex Document and Entity Collection.
Iain Mackie|Paul Owoicho|Carlos Gemmell|Sean MacAvaney|Lizhang Qin|Sophie Fischer|Lizhang Qin|Sean MacAvaney|Jeffrey Dalton
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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TaskMAD: A Platform for Multimodal Task-Centric Knowledge-Grounded Conversational Experimentation.
Alessandro Speggiorin|Jeffrey Dalton|Anton Leuski
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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TREC CAsT 2022: Going Beyond User Ask and System Retrieve with Initiative and Response Generation.
Paul Owoicho|Jeff Dalton|Mohammad Aliannejadi|Leif Azzopardi|Johanne R. Trippas|Svitlana Vakulenko
Proceedings of the Thirty-First Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2022, online, November 15-19, 2022
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Similarity-based Multi-Domain Dialogue State Tracking with Copy Mechanisms for Task-based Virtual Personal Assistants.
Jarana Manotumruksa|Jeffrey Dalton|Edgar Meij|Emine Yilmaz
WWW '22: The ACM Web Conference 2022, Virtual Event, Lyon, France, April 25 - 29, 2022

2021

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CEQE: Contextualized Embeddings for Query Expansion.
Shahrzad Naseri|Jeff Dalton|Andrew Yates|James Allan
Advances in Information Retrieval - 43rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2021, Virtual Event, March 28 - April 1, 2021, Proceedings, Part I
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DiffIR: Exploring Differences in Ranking Models' Behavior.
Kevin Martin Jose|Thong Nguyen|Sean MacAvaney|Jeffrey Dalton|Andrew Yates
SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11-15, 2021
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How Deep is your Learning: the DL-HARD Annotated Deep Learning Dataset.
Iain Mackie|Jeffrey Dalton|Andrew Yates
SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11-15, 2021
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TREC CAsT 2021: The Conversational Assistance Track Overview.
Jeffrey Dalton|Chenyan Xiong|Jamie Callan
Proceedings of the Thirtieth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2021, online, November 15-19, 2021

2020

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CAsT-19: A Dataset for Conversational Information Seeking.
Jeffrey Dalton|Chenyan Xiong|Vaibhav Kumar|Jamie Callan
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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Agent Dialogue: A Platform for Conversational Information Seeking Experimentation.
Adam Czyzewski|Jeffrey Dalton|Anton Leuski
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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Relevance Transformer: Generating Concise Code Snippets with Relevance Feedback.
Carlos Gemmell|Federico Rossetto|Jeffrey Dalton
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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CrossBERT: A Triplet Neural Architecture for Ranking Entity Properties.
Jarana Manotumruksa|Jeff Dalton|Edgar Meij|Emine Yilmaz
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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CAsT 2020: The Conversational Assistance Track Overview.
Jeffrey Dalton|Chenyan Xiong|Jamie Callan
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2020, Virtual Event [Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA], November 16-20, 2020.
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Glasgow Representation and Information Learning Lab (GRILL) at the Conversational Assistance Track 2020.
Carlos Gemmell|Jeffrey Dalton
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2020, Virtual Event [Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA], November 16-20, 2020.
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Glasgow Representation and Information Learning Lab (GRILL) at TREC 2020 Podcasts Track.
Paul Owoicho|Jeff Dalton
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2020, Virtual Event [Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA], November 16-20, 2020.

2019

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Report on the First HIPstIR Workshop on the Future of Information Retrieval.
Laura Dietz|Bhaskar Mitra|Jeremy Pickens|Hana Anber|Sandeep Avula|Asia Biega|Adrian Boteanu|Shubham Chatterjee|Jeff Dalton|Shiri Dori-Hacohen|John Foley|Henry Feild|Ben Gamari|Rosie Jones|Pallika Kanani|Sumanta Kashyapi|Widad Machmouchi|Matthew Mitsui|Steve Nole|Alexandre Tachard Passos|Jordan Ramsdell|Adam Roegiest|David Smith|Alessandro Sordoni
SIGIR Forum 2019 Volume 53 Issue 2
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Special issue on knowledge graphs and semantics in text analysis and retrieval.
Laura Dietz|Chenyan Xiong|Jeff Dalton|Edgar Meij
Discover Computing 2019 Volume 22 Issue 3-4
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Local and Global Query Expansion for Hierarchical Complex Topics.
Jeffrey Dalton|Shahrzad Naseri|Laura Dietz|James Allan
Advances in Information Retrieval - 41st European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2019, Cologne, Germany, April 14-18, 2019, Proceedings, Part I

2018

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Search Agent Model: A Conceptual Framework for Search by Algorithms and Agent Systems.
Jeffrey Dalton|John Foley
Proceedings of the First Biennial Conference on Design of Experimental Search & Information Retrieval Systems, Bertinoro, Italy, August 28-31, 2018.
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Vote Goat: Conversational Movie Recommendation.
Jeffrey Dalton|Victor Ajayi|Richard Main
The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, July 08-12, 2018
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The Second Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Semantics for Text Retrieval, Analysis, and Understanding (KG4IR).
Laura Dietz|Chenyan Xiong|Jeff Dalton|Edgar Meij
The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, July 08-12, 2018
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TREC Complex Answer Retrieval Overview.
Laura Dietz|Ben Gamari|Jeff Dalton|Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2018, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 14-16, 2018

2016

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Report on the Eighth Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval (ESAIR '15).
Krisztian Balog|Jeffrey Dalton|Antoine Doucet|Yusra Ibrahim
SIGIR Forum 2016 Volume 50 Issue 1

2015

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Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval, ESAIR 2015, Melbourne, Australia, October 23, 2015
Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval 2015
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Eighth Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval (ESAIR'15).
Krisztian Balog|Jeffrey Dalton|Antoine Doucet|Yusra Ibrahim
Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2015, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, October 19 - 23, 2015

2014

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Entity query feature expansion using knowledge base links.
Jeffrey Dalton|Laura Dietz|James Allan
The 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '14, Gold Coast , QLD, Australia - July 06 - 11, 2014

2013

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Zero-shot video retrieval using content and concepts.
Jeffrey Dalton|James Allan|Pranav Mirajkar
22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'13, San Francisco, CA, USA, October 27 - November 1, 2013
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Constructing query-specific knowledge bases.
Jeffrey Dalton|Laura Dietz
Proceedings of the 2013 workshop on Automated knowledge base construction, AKBC@CIKM 13, San Francisco, California, USA, October 27-28, 2013
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A neighborhood relevance model for entity linking.
Jeffrey Dalton|Laura Dietz
Open research Areas in Information Retrieval, OAIR 2013, Lisbon, Portugal, May 15-17, 2013
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UMass at TREC 2013 Knowledge Base Acceleration Track: Bi-directional Entity Linking and Time-aware Evaluation.
Laura Dietz|Jeffrey Dalton
Proceedings of The Twenty-Second Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2013, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 19-22, 2013

2012

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Search and exploration of scanned books.
Marc-Allen Cartright|Jeffrey Dalton|James Allan
Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories and Complementary Media, BooksOnline@CIKM '12, Maui, Hawaii, USA, October 29, 2012
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A framework for manipulating and searching multiple retrieval types.
Marc-Allen Cartright|Ethem F. Can|William Dabney|Jeff Dalton|Logan Giorda|Kriste Krstovski|Xiaoye Wu|Ismet Zeki Yalniz|James Allan|R. Manmatha|David A. Smith
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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Bi-directional Linkability From Wikipedia to Documents and Back Again: UMass at TREC 2012 Knowledge Base Acceleration Track.
Jeffrey Dalton|Laura Dietz
Proceedings of The Twenty-First Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2012, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 6-9, 2012

2011

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Passage retrieval for incorporating global evidence in sequence labeling.
Jeffrey Dalton|James Allan|David A. Smith
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2011, Glasgow, United Kingdom, October 24-28, 2011
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Coreference aware web object retrieval.
Jeffrey Dalton|Roi Blanco|Peter Mika
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2011, Glasgow, United Kingdom, October 24-28, 2011

2009

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Characterizing the subjectivity of topics.
Marc-Allen Cartright|Elif Aktolga|Jeffrey Dalton
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