I/P Engine, Inc. v. AOL, Inc. et al

Filing 1057

NOTICE by I/P Engine, Inc. re 1044 Order on Motion for Order to Show Cause, in Response to the Court's November 7, 2013 Order (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A, # 2 Exhibit B)(Sherwood, Jeffrey)

Curriculum Vitae
James Allan
Department of Computer Science
140 Governors Drive
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-4610
Date of Birth:
Citizenship:

413/545-3240
413/545-1789
[e-mail]
http://www.cs.umass.edu/~allan

June 19, 1961
United States

Principal fields of interest
Information retrieval, organization, and visualization; Topic/event Detection and
Tracking; Evaluation of retrieval; Information access and capture

Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Cornell University, 1995. Department of Computer
Science. Thesis: Automatic Hypertext Construction, under Professor Gerard
Salton. Minor: Theatre Arts (directing).
M.S.

in Computer Science, Cornell University, 1991.

A.B.

in Mathematics, Grinnell College, 1983.

Employment
20082003-

Professor, Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Co-Director, Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, UMass Amherst

2003-08

Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst

1998-2003 Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
1996-2003 Assistant Director, Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, University of
Massachusetts at Amherst (Acting Director, 1999-2000).
1996-98
1994-96

1989-94

Research Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Massachusetts
Amherst.
Senior Post-doctoral Research Associate, Computer Science, University of
Massachusetts at Amherst. Working with the Center for Intelligent
Information Retrieval, under the direction of Professor Bruce Croft.
Research Assistant, Computer Science, Cornell University. Working with
Professor Gerard Salton on Information Retrieval research using the Smart
system. Part of the Information Access and Capture research group.

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Publications (in submission)
Publications (journals)
1. G. Kumaran and J. Allan, “Adapting Information Retrieval Systems to User
Queries.” Information Processing and Management, special issue on Adaptive
Information Retrieval, 44(6):1838-1862, 2008.
2. E.M. Kornfield, R. Manmatha, and J. Allan, “Further Explorations in Text
Alignment with Handwritten Documents.” International Journal of Document
Analysis and Recognition, Springer Berlin, Heidelberg, 10(1):39-52, June 2007.
3. J. Allan, V. Lavrenko, and M. Connell, “A Month to Topic Detection and Tracking
in Hindi.” ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing,
2(2):85-10, June 2003 (actually published early 2004).
4. A. Leuski and J. Allan, “Interactive information retrieval using clustering and
spatial proximity.” Journal of User Modeling and user-Adapted Interaction,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 14(2-3):259-288, June 2004.
5. A. Arnt, S. Zilberstein, J. Allan, and A-I Mouaddib, “Dynamic composition of
information retrieval techniques.” Journal of Intelligent Information Systems,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 23(1):67-97, 2004.
6. J. Allan, “Robust Techniques for Organizing and Retrieving Spoken Documents.”
Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing. Hindawi publishers, 2003(2):103114, February 2003.
7. J. Allan, “Knowledge Management and Speech Recognition” in IEEE
Computer. April 2002, pages 46-47.
8. J. Allan, “Detection as multi-topic tracking.” In Information Retrieval, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 5(2/3):139-157, 2002.
9. R.W.P. Luk, A.T.S. Chan, T.S. Dillon, H.V. Leong, W.B. Croft, and J. Allan, “A
Survey on Searching and Indexing of XML Documents”. Journal of the
American Society of Information Science and Technology, 53(6):415-437, 2002.
10. J. Allan, A. Leuski, R. Swan, and D. Byrd, “Evaluating combinations of ranked
lists and visualizations of inter-document similarity.” Information Processing and
Management, 37(3):435-458, 2001.
11. A. Leuski and J. Allan, “Strategy-based interactive cluster visualization for
information.” International Journal of Digital Libraries, 3(2): 170-184, 2000.
12. D. Rus, J. Allan. “Structural queries in electronic corpora”. Multimedia Tools and
Applications on Electronic Publishing, 6(2):153-170, March 1998.
13. J. Allan. “Building Hypertext Using Information Retrieval”. Information
Processing and Management , 33(2):145-159, 1997.
14. G. Salton, J. Allan, and A. Singhal. “Automatic Text Decomposition and
Structuring”. Information Processing and Management, 32(2):127-138, 1996.
15. G. Salton and J. Allan. “Selective Text Utilization and Text Traversal”.
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 43:483-497, 1995.
16. C. Buckley, J. Allan, and G. Salton. “Automatic Routing and Retrieval
using Smart: TREC-2”. Information Processing and Management, 31(3):313-324,
1995.

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17. G. Salton, J. Allan, C. Buckley, and A. Singhal. “Automatic Analysis, Theme
Generation, and Summarization of Machine-Readable Texts”. Science 264 (3 June
1994), pp. 1421-1426. Also in Information Retrieval and Hypertext, Agosti and
Smeaton (Kluwer: 1996), pp. 51-72. Also in Readings in Information
Visualization, S. Card, J. Mackinlay, and B. Schneiderman, eds., San Francisco:
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1999, pp. 413-418.
18. G. Salton, C. Buckley, and J. Allan. “Automatic Structuring and Retrieval
of Large Text Files”. Communications of the ACM, February, 1994.
19. G. Salton, J. Allan and C. Buckley. “Automatic Structuring of Text Files”.
Electronic Publishing, 5(1), March 1992, pp. 1-52.

Publications (refereed conferences)
20. X. Yi and J. Allan, “A Comparative Study of Utilizing Topic Models for
Information Retrieval.” To appear in Proceedings of ECIR 2009.
21. B. Carterette, V. Pavlu, E. Kanoulas, J. Aslam, and J. Allan, “If I had a Million
Queries”. To appear in Proceedings of ECIR 2009.
22. M. Lease, J. Allan, and W.B. Croft, “RegressionRank: Learning to Meet the
Opportunity of Descritive Queries.” To appear in Proceedings of ECIR 2009.
23. L. Friedland and J. Allan, “Joke Retrieval: Recognizing the same joke told
differently.” Proceedings of CIKM 2008, pp. 883-892.
24. K. Parton, K. McKeown, J. Allan, and E. Henestroza, “Simultaneous Multilingual
Search for Translingual Information Retrieval.” Proceedings of CIKM 2008, pp.
719-728.
25. K. Lee, W.B. Croft, and J. Allan, “A Cluster-Based Resampling Method for
Pseudo-Relevance Feedback.” Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2008, pp. 235-242.
26. B. Carterette, V. Pavlu, E. Kanoulas, J. Aslam, and J. Allan, “Evaluation over
Thousands of Queries.” Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2008, pp. 651-658.
27. G. Kumaran and J. Allan, “Effective and Efficient User Interaction for Long
Queries.” Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2008, pp. 11-18.
28. A. Feng and J. Allan, “Finding and Linking Incidents in News.” Proceedings of
CIKM 2007, pp. 821-829.
29. M. Smucker, J. Allan, and B. Carterette, “A Comparison of Statistical Significance
Tests for Information Retrieval Evaluation.” Proceedings of CIKM 2007, pp. 623632.
30. V. Lavrenko, X. Yi, and J. Allan, “Information Retrieval on Empty Fields.”
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT Conference, 2007, pp. 89-96.
31. G. Kumaran and J. Allan, “A Case for Shorter Queries, and Helping Users Create
Them.” Proceedings of the NAACL HLT Conference, 2007, pp. 220-227.
32. B. Schiffman, K. McKeown, R. Grishman, and J. Allan, “Question Answering
Using Integrated Information Retrieval and Information Extraction.” Proceedings
of the NAACL HLT Conference, 2007, pp. 532-539.
33. R. Bekkerman, H. Raghavan, J. Allan, and K.Eguchi, “Interactive Clustering of
Text Collections According to a User-Specified Criterion.” Proceedings of the
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pp. 684-689,
2007.

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34. R. Bekkerman, S. Zilberstein, and J. Allan, “Web Page Clustering using Heuristic
Search in the Web Graph.” Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pp. 2280-2285, 2007.
35. B. Carterette, J. Allan, and R. Sitaraman, “Minimal Test Collections for Retrieval
Evaluation.” Proceedings of ACM SIGIR, pp. 268-283, 2006. Best paper award
36. M. Smucker and J. Allan, “Find-Similar: Similarity Browsing as a Search Tool.”
Proceedings of ACM SIGIR, pp. 461-468, 2006.
37. B. Carterette and J. Allan, “Incremental Test Collections.” Proceedings of the
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp. 680-687,
2005.
38. J. Allan, B. Carterette, and J. Lewis, “When Will Information Retrieval Be Good
Enough?” Proceedings of SIGIR, pp. 433-440, 2005.
39. H. Raghavan and J. Allan, “Matching Inconsistently Spelled Names in Automatic
Speech Recognizer Output for Information Retrieval.” Proceedings of
HLT/EMNLP, pp. 251-458, 2005.
40. G. Kumaran and J. Allan, “Using Names and Topics for New Event Detection.”
Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP, pp. 121-128, 2005.
41. J. Allan, S. Harding, D. Fisher, A. Bolivar, S. Guzman-Lara, and P. Amstutz,
“Taking Topic Detection From Evaluation to Practice.” To appear in Proceedings
of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 2005.
42. R. Nallapati, A. Feng, F. Peng, and J. Allan, “Event Threading Within News
Topics.” Proceedings of CIKM, November 2004, pp. 446-453.
43. G. Kumaran and J. Allan, “Text Classification and Named Entities for New Event
Detection.” Proceedings of SIGIR, pp. 297-304, July 2004.
44. C.H. Gooi and J. Allan, “Cross-Document Coreference on a Large Scale Corpus.”
Proceedings of NAACL/HLT, pp. 9-16, 2004.
45. D. Kelly, F. Diaz, N. Belkin, and J. Allan, “A User-centered Approach to
Evaluating Topic Models.” Proceedings of the European Conference on
Information Retrieval, April 2004.
46. E.M. Kornfield, R. Manmatha, and J. Allan, “Text Alignment with Handwritten
Documents.” International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries
(DIAL 2004), January 2004.
47. J. Allan, A. Feng, and A. Bolivar, “Flexible Intrinsic Evaluation of Hierarchical
Clustering for TDT.” Proceedings of CIKM, pp. 263-270, 2003.
48. J. Allan, C. Wade, and A. Bolivar, “Retrieval and novelty detection at the sentence
level.” Proceedings of SIGIR, pp. 314-321, 2003.
49. R. Nallapati and J. Allan, “Capturing term dependencies using a sentence tree
based language model.” Proceedings of CIKM, pp. 383-390, November 2002.
50. A. Leuski and J. Allan, “Improving realism of topic tracking evaluation.”
Proceedings of SIGIR, pp. 89-96, 2002.
51. J. Allan and H. Raghavan, “Using part-of-speech patterns to reduce query
ambiguity.” Proceedings of SIGIR, pp. 307-314, 2002.
52. V. Lavrenko, J. Allan, E. DeGuzman, D. LaFlamme, V. Pollard, and S. Thomas,
“Relevance Models for Topic Detection and Tracking.” Proceedings of the
Human Language Technology Conference (HLT), pp. 104-110, 2002.

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53. J. Allan, V. Khandelwal, and R. Gupta, “Time-based Summarization of News”,
Proceedings of SIGIR, pp. 10-18, 2001. Best paper award.
54. J. Allan, V. Lavrenko, and H. Jin, “First story detection in TDT is hard”,
Proceedings of CIKM, pp. 374-181, 2000.
55. V. Lavrenko, M. Schmill, D. Lawrie, P. Ogilvie, D. Jensen, and J. Allan,
“Language models for financial news recommendation,” Proceedings of CIKM, pp.
389-396, 2000.
56. A. Leuski and J. Allan, “Lighthouse: Showing the Way to Relevant Information,”
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, IEEE Computer
Society, pp. 125-130, 2000.
57. R. Swan and J. Allan, “Automatic Generation of Overview Timelines,”
Proceedings of SIGIR, pp. 49-56, 2000.
58. A. Leuski and J. Allan, “Improving Interactive Retrieval by Combining Ranked
List and Clustering.” Proceedings of RIAO, College de France, pp. 665-681, 2000.
59. R. Swan and J. Allan, “Extracting Significant Time Varying Features from Text,”
Proceedings CIKM, ACM Press, pp. 38-45, 1999.
60. R. Papka and J. Allan, “Document Classification using Multiword Features,”
Proceedings of CIKM, 1998.
61. A. Leouski and J. Allan, “Evaluating a Visual Navigation System for a Digital
Library,” Proceedings of European Digital Libraries Conference, pp. 535-554,
1998.
62. J. Allan, R. Papka, and V. Lavrenko, “On-line New Event Detection and
Tracking.” Proceedings of SIGIR, pp. 37-45, 1998.
63. R. Swan and J. Allan, “Aspect Windows, 3-D Visualizations, and Indirect
Comparisons of Information Retrieval Systems.” Proceedings of SIGIR, pp. 173181, 1998.
64. M. Hirsch and J. Allan, “A Graphic Interface for User Directed Clustering of
Retrieved Documents.” Proceedings of the 1997 Spring Congress, American
Medical Informatics Association, p. 95, 1997.
65. J. Allan. “Incremental Relevance Feedback for Information Filtering”. Proceedings
of SIGIR, pp. 270-278, 1996.
66. J. Allan. “Automatic Hypertext Link Typing”. Proceedings of the ACM
Conference on Hypertext, pp. 42-52, 1996.
67. J. Allan. “Relevance Feedback with Too Much Data”. Proceedings of SIGIR, pp.
337-343, 1995.
68. J. Allan and D. Rus. “Structural Queries in Electronic Corpora”. Proceedings of
DAGS, 1995.
69. G. Salton and J. Allan. “Automatic Text Decomposition and Structuring”.
Proceedings of RIAO, 1994.
70. C. Buckley, G. Salton, and J. Allan. “The Effect of Adding Relevance Information
in a Relevance Feedback Environment”. Proceedings of SIGIR, 1994.
71.G. Salton and J. Allan. “Text Retrieval Using the Vector Processing Model.”
Proceedings of the Third Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and
Information Retrieval (SDAIR), 1994.
72. G. Salton and J. Allan. “Selective Text Utilization and Text Traversal”.
Proceedings of ACM Hypertext, pp. 131-144, 1993.

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73. J. Allan and G. Salton. “The Identification of Text Relations Using Automatic
Hypertext Linking.” Workshop on Intelligent Hypertext, in conjunction with the
Second International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management,
1993.
74. J. Allan, J. Davis, D. Krafft, D. Rus, and D. Subramanian. “Information Agents for
Building Hyperlinks.” Workshop on Intelligent Hypertext, in conjunction with the
Second International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management,
1993.
75. G. Salton, J. Allan, and C. Buckley. “Approaches to Passage Retrieval in Full
Text Information Systems”. Proceedings of SIGIR, pp. 49-58, 1993.
76. G. Salton, J. Allan, and C. Buckley. “Automatic Determination of Content
Relationships in Natural Language Texts”. EP-92 Proceedings, C. Vanoirbeek and
G. Coray, eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, England 1992, pp. 165-182.

Publications (book chapters)
77. J. Allan, W.B. Croft, and J. Callan, “The University of Massachusetts and a Dozen
TRECs.” In TREC: Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval, E.M.
Voorhees and D.K. Harman, eds. MIT Press, chapter 11, pp. 261-286, 2005.
78. J. Allan, “Modeling Topics for Detection and Tracking” in Pattern Recognition in
Speech and Language Processing, Wu Chou and Biing Hwang Juang, eds., pp.
353-376. CRC Press, 2003.
79. J. Allan, “Perspectives on Information Retrieval and Speech” in Information
Retrieval Techniques for Speech Applications, A.R. Coden, E.W. Brown, and S.
Srinivasan, eds. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume
2273, pp. 1-10, 2002.
80. J. Allan, “Introduction to Topic Detection and Tracking” in Topic Detection and
Tracking: Event-based Information Organization, J. Allan, ed., Kluwer Academic
Publishers, pp. 1-16, 2002.
81. J. Allan, V. Lavrenko, and R. Swan, “Explorations Within Topic Tracking and
Detection” in Topic Detection and Tracking: Event-based Information
Organization, J. Allan, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 197-224, 2002.
82. R. Papka and J. Allan, “Topic Detection and Tracking: Event Clustering as a Basis
for First Story Detection,” in Advances in Information Retrieval, W. B. Croft, ed.,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 97-126, 2000.

Publications (as editor of a volume)
83. K. Jarvelin, J. Allan, P. Bruza, and M. Sanderson, Proceedings of SIGIR 2004,
ACM Press, 2004.
84. J. Allan, ed., Topic Detection and Tracking: Event Based Information Retrieval,
Kluwer Academic Press, 2002.
85. J. Allan, ed., Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human
Language Technology Research (HLT 2001), Morgan Kauffman, 2001.

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Publications (workshops)
86. J. Allan, B. Carterette, J.A. Aslam, V. Pavlu, B. Dachev, and E. Kanoulas, “Million
Query Track 2007 Overview.” Proceedings of TREC. Notebook version, October
2007. Final version online February 2008, in print December 2008, pp. 85-104.
87. M.D. Smucker, J. Allan, and B. Dachev, “UMass Complex Interactive Question
Answering (ciQA) 2007: Human Performance as Question Answerers.”
Proceedings of TREC. (4 pages) Notebook version, October 2007. On-line
version, February 2008.
88. X.Yi and J. Allan, “Indri at TREC 2007: Million Query (1MQ) Track.”
Proceedings of TREC. (4 pages) Notebook version, October 2007. On-line
version, February 2008.
89. M. Smucker and J. Allan, “Measuring the Navigability of Document Networks.”
SIGIR 2007 workshop on Web Information Seeking and Interaction, 2007.
90. G. Kumaran and J. Allan, “UMass at TREC ciQA.” Proceedings of the 2006 Text
Retrieval Conference (TREC 2006). Available on-line at http://trec.nist.gov.
91. G. Kumaran and J. Allan, “Eliciting Information for Adaptive Retrieval.”
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Adaptive Information Retrieval
(AIR), pp. 18-19, October 2006.
92. A. Feng and J. Allan, “Combining Evidence from Homologous Datasets.”
Workshop on New Directions in Multilingual Information Access at SIGIR 2006,
August 2006.
93. J. Allan, “HARD Track Overview in TREC 2005: High Accuracy Retrieval From
Documents.” Proceedings of 2005 Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2005), NIST
special publication 500-266, November 2006.
94. F. Diaz and J. Allan, “When Less is More: Relevance Feedback Falls Short and
Term Expansion Succeeds at HARD 2005.” Proceedings of the 2005 Text
Retrieval Conference (TREC 2005), 2006. Available on-line at http://trec.nist.gov.
95. N. Abdul-Jaleel, J. Allan, W.B. Croft, F. Diaz, L. Larkey, X. Li, M.D. Smucker,
and C. Wade, “UMass at TREC 2004: Novelty and HARD.” Proceedings of 2004
Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2004), 2005.
96. J. Allan, “HARD Track Overview in TREC 2004: High Accuracy Retrieval from
Documents.” Proceedings of TREC 2004, NIST special publication 500-261, pp.
25-35, 2005.
97. H. Raghavan, J. Allan, and A. McCallum, “An Exploration of Entity Models,
Collective Classification and Relation Description.” Proceedings of the Second
International Workshop on Lnk Analysis and Group Detection (LinkKDD),at ACM
SIGKDD, pp. 1-10, August 2004.
98. H. Raghavan and J. Allan, “Using Soundex Codes for Indexing ASR Documents.”
Proceedings of the Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Speech Indexing
and Retrieval, at HLT-NAACL, pp. 22-26, 2004.
99. J. Allan, “HARD Track Overview in TREC 2003: High Accuracy Retrieval from
Documents.” Proceedings of TREC 2003, NIST special publication 500-255, pp.
24-37, 2004.
100. N. Abdul Jaleel, A. Corrada-Emmanuel, Q. Li, X. Liu, C. Wade, and J. Allan,
“UMass at TREC 2003: HARD and QA.” Proceedings of TREC 2003, NIST
special publication 500-255, pp. 715-725, 2004.

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101. R. Nallapati and J. Allan, “An Adaptive Local Dependency Language Model:
Relaxing the Naïve Bayes’ Assumption.” Workshop on Mathematical and Formal
Methods in Information Retrieval at SIGIR 2003.
102. L. Larkey, J. Allan, M. Connell, A. Bolivar, and C. Wade, “UMass and TREC
2002: Cross Language and Novelty Tracks” in Proceedings of TREC 2002, pp. 4355.
103. J. Allan, V. Lavrenko, and R. Nallapti, “UMass at TDT 2002” in Proceedings of
the Topic Detection and Tracking Workshop, 2002.
104. J. Allan, R. Gupta, and V. Khandelal, “Topic Models for Summarizing Novelty”
in Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Modeling in Information Retrieval,
Carnegie Mellon University, pp. 66-71, 2001.
105. J. Allan, M. Connell, W.B. Croft, F. Feng, D. Fisher, and X. Li, “INQUERY and
TREC-9”, Proceedings of TREC-9, NIST special publication, pp. 551-577, 2001.
106. J. Allan, V. Lavrenko, D. Frey, and V. Khandelwal, “UMass at TDT 2000”,
Proceedings of the Topic Detection and Tracking Workshop, 2000.
107. V. Lavrenko, M. Schmill, D. Lawrie, P. Ogilvie, D. Jensen, and J. Allan, “Mining
concurrent text and time series,” Proceedings of KDD conference workshop on text
mining, pp. 37-44, 2000.
108. J. Allan, V. Lavrenko, D. Malin, and R. Swan, “Detection, Bounds, and
Timelines: UMass and TDT- 3.” Proceedings of Topic Detection and Tracking
(TDT 1999), pp. 167-174, 2000.
109. J. Allan, J. Callan, F. Feng, and D. Malin, “INQUERY and TREC-8.”
Proceedings of TREC-8 (1999), NIST special publication, pp. 637-644, 2000.
110. R. Papka, J. Allan, and V. Lavrenko, “UMass Approaches to Detection and
Tracking at TDT-2.” Proceedings of the Broadcast News Transcription and
Understanding Workshop, San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann (DARPA), pp. 111116, 1999.
111. J. Allan, J. Callan, M. Sanderson, J. Xu, and S. Wegmann, “INQUERY at TREC7.” Proceedings of TREC-7 (1998), NIST special publication, pp. 201-216, 1999.
112. J. Allan, J. Carbonell, G. Doddington, J. Yamron, and Y. Yang, “Topic Detection
and Tracking Pilot Study: Final Report.” Proceedings of the Broadcast News
Transcription and Understanding Workshop, pp. 194-218, 1998.
113. J. Allan, J. Callan, W.B. Croft, L. Ballesteros, D. Byrd, R. Swan, and J. Xu,
“INQUERY Does Battle with TREC-6,” Proceedings of TREC-6 (1997), NIST
special publication, pp. 169-206, 1998.
114. J. Allan, J. Callan, B. Croft, L. Ballesteros, J. Broglio, J. Xu, and H. Shu.
“INQUERY at TREC-5”. Proceedings of TREC-5 (1996), NIST special
publication, pp. 119-132, 1998.
115. J. Allan, L. Ballesteros, J. Callan, W.B. Croft, and Z. Lu. “Recent Experiments
with INQUERY”. Proceedings of TREC-4 (1995), NIST special publication, pp.
49-64, 1996.
116. J. Allan and D. Rus. “Does Navigation Require More Than One Compass?”.
AAAI 1995 Fall Symposium workshop on “AI Applications in Knowledge
Navigation and Retrieval,” 1995.

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117. C. Buckley, G. Salton, J. Allan, and A. Singhal. “Automatic Query Expansion
Using SMART: TREC-3”. The Third Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-3);
November, 1994; published April, 1995, pp. 69-80.
118. C. Buckley, J. Allan, and G. Salton. “Automatic Routing and Ad-hoc Retrieval
Using SMART: TREC-2”. The Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-2),
August 1993; published March 1994, pp. 45-55.
119. C. Buckley, G. Salton, and J. Allan. “Automatic Retrieval With Locality
Information Using SMART”. The First Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-1),
November 1992, pp. 59-72; published March, 1993.

Publications (refereed posters)
120. E. Aktolga, M.A. Cartright, and J. Allan, “Cross-document Cross-lingual
Coreference Retrieval.” Poster published in Proceedings of CIKM 2008, pp. 13591360.
121. X. Yi and J. Allan, “Evaluating topic models for information retrieval.” Poster
published in Proceedings of CIKM 2008, pp. 1431-1432.
122. G. Kumaran and J. Allan, “Selective User Interaction.” Poster published in the
Proceedings of CIKM, pp. 923-926. 2007.
123. B. Carterette and J. Allan, “Semiautomatic Evaluation of Retrieval Systems Using
Document Similarities.” Poster published in the Proceedings of CIKM, pp. 873876. 2007.
124. N. Balasubramanian, J. Allan, and W.B. Croft, “A Comparison of Sentence
Retrieval Techniques.” Poster published in Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR, 2007,
pp. 813-4.
125. X. Yi, J. Allan, and W.B. Croft, “Matching Resumes and Jobs Based on
Relevance Models.” Poster published in Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR, 2007,
pp. 809-10.
126. M.D. Smucker and J. Allan, “Using Similarity Links as Shortcuts to Relevant
Web Pages.” Poster published in the Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2007, p. 863-4.
127. G. Kumaran and J. Allan, “Information Retrieval Techniques for Templated
Queries.” Poster published in the Proceedings of RIAO 2007, p. 104.
128. B. Carterette and J. Allan, “Research Methodologies in Studies of Information
Retrieval Evaluation.” Poster published in the Proceedings of RIAO 2007, p. 112.
129. X. Yi, J. Allan, and V. Lavrenko, “Discovering Missing Values in SemiStructured Databases.” Poster published in the Proceedings of RIAO 2007, poster
number 113, pages 1-15.
130. M. Smucker and J. Allan, “Lightening the Load of Document Smoothing for
Better Language Modeling Retrieval.” Poster published in the Proceedings of
ACM SIGIR 2006, pp. 699-700, 2006.
131. G. Kumaran and J. Allan, “Simple Questions to Improve Pseudo-Relevance
Feedback Results.” Poster published in the Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2006, pp.
661-662, 2006.
132. R. Nallapati, W.B. Croft, and J. Allan, “Relevant Query Feedback in Statistical
Language Modeling.” Poster in Proceedings of CIKM, pp.560-563, 2003.
133. J. Allan and G. Kumaran, “Stemming in the language modeling framework.”
Poster in Proceedings of SIGIR, pp. 455-456, 2003.

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134. R. Manmatha, A. Feng, and J. Allan, “A critical examination of TDT’s cost
function.” Poster in Proceedings of SIGIR, pp. 403-404, 2002.
135. V. Khandelwal, R. Gupta, and J. Allan, “An Evaluation Scheme for Summarizing
Topic Shifts in News Streams”, poster appearing in Proceedings of the Human
Language Technology Conference (HLT), 2001.
136. A. Leouski and J. Allan, “Visual Interactions with a Multidimensional Ranked
List.” Poster presentation in Proceedings of SIGIR, 1998.

Publications (not refereed)
137. G. Kumaran and J. Allan, “Simple Questions for Interactive Information
Retrieval.” CIIR Technical report IR-507, 2006.
138. Smucker, M.D., Kulp D., and Allan J., "Dirichlet Mixtures for Query Estimation
in Information Retrieval," University of Massachusetts, Amherst, CIIR Technical
Report IR-445, 2005.
139. G. Kumaran, J. Allan, and A. McCallum, “Classification Models for New Event
Detection.” CIIR technical report IR-362, 2004.
140. H. Raghavan and J. Allan, “Proper Names and Their Spelling Variations.” CIIR
technical report IR-361, 2004.
141. R. Nallapati, J. Allan, and S. Mahadavan, “Extraction of Key-Words from News
Stories.” CIIR technical report IR-345, 2004.
142. H. Raghavan and J. Allan, “Evaluating Entity Models on the TREC Question
Answering Task.” CIIR technical report IR-342, 2004.
143. B. Carterette, J. Allan, and W.B. Croft, “Ranking Document Retrieval Systems
with BLEU.” CIIR technical report IR-327, 2003.
144. H. Raghavan, A. McCallum, and J. Allan, “Using Markov Random Fields for
Relational Classification in Social Networks Mined from Text.” CIIR technical
report IR-300, 2003.
145. J. Allan and H. Raghavan, “A Probabilistic Model of Named Entities: You Are
What They Say You Are.” CIIR technical report IR-296, 2003.
146. J. Allan (editor), J. Aslam, N. Belkin, C. Buckley, J. Callan, B. Croft (editor), S.
Dumais, N. Fuhr, D. Harman, D.J. Harper, D. Hiemstra, T. Hofmann, E. Hovy, W.
Kraaij, J. Lafferty, V. Lavrenko, D. Lewis, L. Liddy, R. Manmatha, A. McCallum,
J. Ponte, J. Prager, D. Radev, P. Resnik, S. Robertson, R. Rosenfeld, S. Roukos, M.
Sanderson, R.Schwartz, A. Singhal, A. Smeaton, H. Turtle, E. Voorhees, R.
Weischedel, J. Xu, and C. Zhai, “Challenges in Information Retrieval Language
Modeling.” SIGIR Forum, 37:1, spring 2003.
147. J. Allan and G. Kumaran, “Details on Stemming in the Language Modeling
Framework.” CIIR technical report IR-284, 2003.
148. R. Nallapati and J. Allan, “Sentence-Forest Language Model: A Graph-theoretic
Framework to Capture Local Term Dependencies.” CIIR technical report IR-281,
2003.
149. F. Diaz and J. Allan, “Browsing-based User Language Models for Information
Retrieval.” CIIR technical report IR-279, 2003.
150. J. Allan and H. Reghavan, “Entity Models: Construction and Applications.” CIIR
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151. J. Allan, A. Bolivar, and C. Wade, “Using text categorization to measure the
impact of news on public opinion.” CIIR technical report IR-264, 2002.
152. J. Allan, V. Lavrenko, and H. Jin, “Comparing effectiveness in TDT and IR.”
CIIR Technical Report, 2000.
153. J. Allan, H. Jin, M. Rajman, C. Wayne, D. Gildea, V. Lavrenko, R.
Hoberman, and D. Caputo, “Topic-based Novelty Detection: 1999 Summer
workshop at CLSP, Final Report”, available on-line at http://www.clsp.jhu.edu.
154. A. Leuski and J. Allan, “The best of both worlds: Combining ranked list and
clustering”, CIIR technical report, 1999.
155. J. Allan, V. Lavrenko, and P. Mularski, “Measuring query-focused web crawlers”,
CIIR technical report, 1999.
156. R. Swan, J. Allan, and D. Byrd, “Evaluating a visual information retrieval
interface: AspInquery at TREC-6.” Position paper for CHI 1998 workshop on
information exploration. CIIR technical report,1998.
157. R. Swan, J. Allan, and D. Byrd, “Evaluating a task-specific information retrieval
interface”, CIIR technical report, 1998.
158. J. Allan, V. Lavrenko, and R. Papka, “Event Tracking,” CIIR technical report,
1998.
159. R. Papka and J. Allan, “On-Line New Event Detection using Single Pass
Clustering.” UMass Computer Science technical report 98-21 and CIIR technical
report, 1998.
160. D. Byrd, R. Swan, and J. Allan, “TREC-6 Interactive Track Report Part I:
Experimental Procedure and Initial Results,” CIIR technical report, 1997.
161. J. Allan, A. Leouski, R. Swan, “Interactive Cluster Visualization for Information
Retrieval.” CIIR technical report, 1997.
162. R. Papka and J. Allan, “Why Bigger Windows Are Better Than Smaller Ones.”
CIIR Technical Report, 1997.
163. R. Swan and J. Allan, “Improving Interactive Information Retrieval Effectiveness
with 3-D Graphics,” CIIR Technical Report, 1996.
164. J. Allan. “Automatic Hypertext Construction”. Ph.D. Thesis. January, 1995.
165. G. Salton, C. Buckley, and J. Allan. “Selective Use of Full-Text Databases”.
Cornell Computer Science Technical Report 92-1300.

Other publications
166. D. Frey, R. Gupta, V. Khandelwal, V. Lavrenko, A. Leuski, and J. Allan,
“Monitoring the News: a TDT demonstration system”, demonstration appearing in
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference (HLT), pp. 351-355,
2001.
167. R. Swan and J. Allan, “TimeMine: Visualizing automatically constructed
timelines,” Proceedings of SIGIR, ACM Press, 2000, p. 393. Description of a
demonstration system presented at the conference.
168. J. Allan “Readings in Information Retrieval by K. Sparck Jones and P. Willett
(eds).” Book review published in Information Processing and Management, 34):4,
1998, pp. 489-490.
169. J. Allan and A. Singhal. “Document Handling.” Article in Encyclopedia of
Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Forthcoming, 1998.

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170. M. Agosti and J. Allan. “Introduction to the special issue on methods and tools
for the automatic construction of hypertext.” Information Processing and
Management, 33:2, pp. 129-131, 1997.

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Grants
J. Allan (PI), W.B. Croft (co0-PI). Learning Word Relationships Using
TupleFlow, NSF CLUE program. $500,000 total ($331,434 direct; $168,566
indirect).
R. Manmatha (PI), J. Allan (co-PI), E. Berger (co-PI), D. Kulp (co-PI). Cluster
Acquisition for Computational Research into Large Scale Data Rich Problems,
NSF CISE MRI. $350,000 total (all direct).
J. Allan (PI ),W.B. Croft (Co-PI), A. McCallum (co-PI), Supporting Distillation
for GALE,, SRI International (from DARPA), 9/29/2005 to 12/31/2008,
$5,932,714 total ($3,912,917 direct; $2,019,797 indirect)
J. Allan (PI), R. Manmatha (co-PI), A. McCallum (co-PI), Shared Computing
Resource for Language and Multimedia Technologies, AFOSR, 05/01/05 to
04/30/06, $117,321 total ($117,321 direct; $0 indirect)
J. Allan (PI), W.B. Croft (co-PI), Collaborative Project: Core Integration –
Leading NSDL toward Long-Term Success, NSF (subcontract to UCAR),
10/1/2002 to 9/30/2006, $1,717,745 total ($1,128,294 direct; $589,451 indirect)
W.B. Croft (PI), J. Allan (co-PI), Formal Frameworks and Empirical Evaluations
for Information Organization, DARPA/SPAWARSYSCEN-SD, 4/10/2002 to
4/9/2006, $4,353,018 total ($2,855,980; $1,497,038 indirect)
J. Allan (PI), W.B. Croft (co-PI), Search and Browsing Support for NSDL, NSF
(subcontract to UCAR), 10/1/2001 to 9/30/2003, $437,500 total ($288,502 direct;
$148,998 indirect)
W.B. Croft (PI), J. Allan (co-PI), Relevance Models and Answer Granularity for
Question Answering, DoD, 9/29/2001 to 9/28/2003. $749,878 total ($550,772
direct; $199,106 indirect)
J. Allan (PI), Links between News Reporting and Opinion Polls, Historical
Research Foundation, 9/5/2001 to 7/1/2002, $19,865 total ($16,554 direct; $3,311
indirect)
W.B. Croft (PI), J. Allan (co-PI), Supporting Effective Access through User- and
Topic-based Language Models, NSF, 10/1/2000 to 9/30/2004. $351,964 total
($227,073 direct; $124,891 indirect)
D. Jensen (PI), J. Allan (co-PI), The Application of Information Mining
Technology to the Total Army Injury and Health Outcomes Database, 9/1/2000 to
2/28/2001. $75,000 total ($48,860 direct; $26,140 indirect)
J. Allan (PI), SNOMED Coding System, 9/1/2000 to 2/28/2001. $20,910 total
($13,622 direct; $7,288 indirect)
J. Allan (PI), Getting What You Want: Accurate Document Filtering in a W.B.
Croft (PI), J. Allan (co-PI) A Unified Framework for Information Retrieval and
Management Based on Statistical Language Models, Carnegie Mellon
University (prime contractor to DoD), 6/30/2000 to 6/29/2001. $405,958 total
($264,468 direct; $141,490 indirect)
J. Allan (PI), W.B. Croft (co-PI), D. Jensen (co-PI), Novelty Detection and the
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Initiative, Dragon Systems (DARPA subcontract), 6/26/2000 to 12/31/2003.
$150,000 total ($96,744 direct; $53,206 indirect)
J. Allan (PI), Scrollbar Visualization Research Project, 1/10/2000 to 2/9/2000.
$2,250 total ($1,452 direct; $798 indirect)
S. Zilberstein (PI), J. Allan (co-PI), Dynamic Composition of Information
Retrieval Techniques, NSF, 1/1/2000 to 12/31/2002. $437,184 total ($284,715
direct; $152,469 indirect)
W.B. Croft (PI), J. Allan (co-PI), Tools for Rapidly Adaptable Translingual
Information Retrieval and Organization, DARPA/SPAWARSYSCEN-SD,
7/1/1999 to 6/30/2003. $1,433,514 total ($947,058 direct; $486,456 indirect)
J. Allan (PI), W.B. Croft (co-PI), R. Manmatha (co-PI), Involving Undergraduates
in Research at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, NSF, 3/1/1999 to
1/28/2002. $193,728 total ($167,088 direct; $26,640 indirect)
Manmatha (PI), J. Allan (co-PI), Infrastructure for Large-Scale Multimedia
Information Indexing, Retrieval, and Organization, Air Force Office of Scientific
Research, 3/1/1999 to 2/29/2000 $247,600 total ($247,600 direct; $0 indirect)
Terabyte World, Air Force Research Laboratories, 6/24/1998 to 12/31/2001.
$275,690 total ($242,020 direct; $33,670 indirect) This work is subcontracted to
Carnegie Mellon University.
W.B. Croft (PI) J. Allan(co-PI), Topic Tracking in Broadcast Data Using Hidden
Markov Models, Dragon Systems (prime contractor to DARPA), 6/9/1997 to
12/31/1999. $288,147 total ($188,331 direct; $99,816 indirect)
J. Allan (PI), R. Manmatha (co-PI), Multimodal Indexing, Retrieval, and
Browsing, 3/1/97 to 2/28/02. $769,111 total ($527,826 direct; $241,275 indirect)

Recent professional activities
Editorships:
Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2002Associate Editor, Information Processing and Management (Elsevier), 2008Conference or workshop organization:
SIGIR
o 2009, general co-chair
o 2004, program co-chair
o 2002, poster chair
o 2000, panel and demonstration chair
o 1997, co-chaired Workshop on Info. Reduction (with A. Singhal)
o 1995, co-chaired Workshop on Automatic Hypertext Construction (with
M. Agosti)
ACL
o 2007, program co-chair for IR
o 1999, co-chair of thematic session
TREC
o Program Committee, 1999 to 2008
o 2007-2008, coordinator of Million Query Track

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o 2005-2006, coordinator of High Accuracy Retrieval track
NAACL HLT 2007, workshops and tutorials co-chair
HLT (Human Language Technologies): 2001, general and program chair
TDT 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, workshop chair all years
Program committees:
SIGIR senior program committee: 2007, 2006, 2005, 2003, 2001, 1998
SIGIR program committee: 2008, 2002, 2000, 1999
CIKM 1998 to 2007 (excepting 2005)
ECIR 2009
WSDM 2009, WSDM late breaking results 2009
NAACL/HLT 2006
NTCIR 2007
InfoScale 2007
ECIR 2007
HICSS 2006 (mini-track on IR and Digital Library Applications)
Document Recognition and Retrieval (DRR) 2005
Human Language Technologies (HLT) Conference 2002
Broadcast News Transcription and Understanding Workshop, 1999
KDD 2000 (industrial track)
ICML 2000
AAAI 2000
FQAS 2000
SPIRE 2007, 2000
ICTAI 1999

Awards and honors
Best paper award, SIGIR 2006.
Best paper award, SIGIR 2001.
Nominated for Distinguished Teaching Award, 2000
Lilly Teaching Fellow, 1999-2000

Teaching experience
Spring 2009, CMPSCI 791MT, Mining text and images in digital libraries using grid
computing (with R. Manmatha and D. Smith)
Fall 2008, CMPSCI 187, Data structures in Java
Spring 2008, CMPSCI 791U, Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval (seminar)
Fall 2007, CMPSCI 646, Information Retrieval (PhD-level)
Spring 2007, CMPSCI 187
Fall 2006, CMPSCI 646
Spring 2005, CMPSCI 646 and CMPSCI 546, Web Search Engines
Fall 2004, CMPSCI 646
Fall 2003, CMPSCI 646
Spring 2003, CMPSCI 791, Advanced topics in IR

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Fall 2002, CMPSCI 646 and CMPSCI 791, Advanced topics in IR (with W.B. Croft)
Spring 2002, CMPSCI 546, Web Search Engines
Fall 2000, CMPSCI 445, Information Systems (databases)
Spring 2000, CMPSCI 646
Fall 1999, CMPSCI 445 (plus an honors section on database construction) and CMPSCI
791M, Information Mining (with D. Jensen)
Fall 1998, CMPSCI 445 (plus an honors section on database construction)
Spring 1997, CMPSCI 646 (co-taught with J. Callan)
Summer 1993, CS 414, Operating System Principles (Cornell University)
Summer 1991, CS 414 (Cornell University)

Department and University service
Graduate Program Director, 2006Graduate Program Committee, 2004-5
Space Committee (chair), 2004-5
Computing Committee (chair), 2002-2004
Special events committee, 1998-2003 (chair, 2000-2003)
Personnel committee, 1999-2000
Admissions committee, 2000-2001
Executive committee, 2000-2001, ex officio 2006Ad-hoc campus-wide committee on Bioinformatics and Genomics
Panel presentation for Welcoming program for new faculty run by the Center for
Teaching, 2000.

Students supervised
Completed, PhD, chair or co-chair of committee
o Ben Carterette, 2008
o Mark Smucker, 2008
o Ao Feng, 2008
o Giridhar Kumaran, 2008
o Fernando Diaz, 2007
o Ron Bekkerman, 2007
o Hema Raghavan, 2007
o Ramesh Nallapati, 2006
o Victor Lavrenko, co-chair (with W.B. Croft), 2004
o Anton Leouski, chair, 2001.
o Russell Swan, chair. Died unexpectedly, 2000.
o Ron Papka, co-chair (with W.B. Croft), 1999.
Completed, PhD, member of committee
o Trevor Strohman, 2008
o Shaolei Feng, 2008
o Xiaoyong Liu, 2008
o Yun Zhou, 2008

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Jiwoon Jeon, 2007
Don Metzler, 2007
Vanessa Murdock, 2006
Xiayan Li, 2006
Tom Kalt, 2005
Jeremy Pickens, 2004
Dawn Lawrie, 2003
Jay Ponte, 1999.

Completed, terminal MS
o Courtney Wade, 2005
o Alvaro Bolivar, 2004
o Micah Kornfield, 2004
o Chooi Chung Geong, 2004
o Rahul Gupta, 2001.
o Vikash Khandelwal, 2001.
o Nitin Srimal, 1999.
o Sudheer Gaddam, 2000.

Current
o Niranjan Balasubramanian, research advisor
o Xing Yi, research advisor
o Elif Aktolga, research advisor
o Henry Field, research advisor
o Marc Cartright, research advisor
o Jeff Dalton, research advisor
o Evangelos Kanoulas, Northeastern University
o Matt Lease, Brown University
Non-UMass, completed
o Soyean Park, outside member of Ph.D. committee (Rutgers University).
Completed January 1999.
o Katya Pelekhov, outside member of Ph.D. committee (Dartmouth
College). Completed 2000.
o Mark Montague, outside member of Ph.D. committee (Dartmouth
College). Completed 2002.
Undergraduate research and honors projects
o Blagovest Dachev (honors project, 2007-8); Jennifer Neville (honors
thesis committee, 2000); Paul Ogilvie (chair of honors thesis committee,
2000; research, 1998-9); Peter Mularski (chair of honors thesis
committee, 1999); Lida Tang (honors thesis, 1999); Matthew Billmers
(honors course, 1998); Lida Tang (honors course, 1998)

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