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W. BRUCE CROFT

Distinguished Professor and Chair,
Department of Computer Science
and Director, Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval

Department of Computer Science
140 Governors Drive, Box 9264
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003-9264

Office: 202 Computer Science Research Center
Phone:(413) 545-0463
Fax: (413) 545-1789
Email: croft@cs.umass.edu

Department Chair and Faculty member in the Department of Computer Science
(http://cs.umass.edu/)

Director of the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/) .

Research interests: Information retrieval and digital libraries.

Some Recent Publications:
W.B. Croft and J. Lafferty (eds), Language Models for Information Retrieval, Kluwer International Series on Information Retrieval, Volume 13, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
X. Li, and W.B. Croft, "Time-Based Language Models", Proceedings of CIKM'03, 2003.
D. Lawrie and W.B. Croft, "Generating Hierarchical Summaries for Web Searches," (http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/pubfiles/ir-271.pdf) in the Proceedings of SIGIR '03 Conference, pp. 457-458, 2003.
V. Lavrenko, M. Choquette and W.B. Croft, "Cross-Lingual Relevance Models", (http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/pubfiles/ir-251.pdf) Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 02, 175-182, 2002
S. Cronen-Townsend, Y. Zhou, and W.B. Croft, "Predicting Query Performance", (http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/pubfiles/ir-250.pdf) in the Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2002, 299-306, 2002.
D. Pinto, A. McCallum, X. Wei and W.B. Croft, "Table Extraction using Conditional Random Fields", (http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/pubfiles/ir-276.pdf) in the Proceedings of SIGIR 2003, pp. 235-242, 2003.
X. Liu and W.B. Croft, "Passage Retrieval Based on Language Models", (http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/pubfiles/ir-268.pdf) in the Proceedings of CIKM '02 conference, pp. 375-382, 2002.
 

Selected Publications ( http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/publications
 

Awards, etc.:
ACM SIGIR Salton Award, 2003
ASIST Research Award, 2000
ACM Fellow, 1996

Biography (http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/personnel/croftbio.html)