Kevyn Collins-Thompson

Carsten Eickhoff, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Susan T. Dumais: Designing Human-Readable User Profiles for Search Evaluation. ECIR 2013: 701-705

Xi Chen, Paul N. Bennett, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Eric Horvitz: Pairwise ranking aggregation in a crowdsourced setting. WSDM 2013: 193-202

Carsten Eickhoff, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Susan T. Dumais: Personalizing atypical web search sessions. WSDM 2013: 285-294

Lidan Wang, Paul N. Bennett, Kevyn Collins-Thompson: Robust ranking models via risk-sensitive optimization. SIGIR 2012: 761-770

Jin Young Kim, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Susan T. Dumais: Characterizing web content, user interests, and search behavior by reading level and topic. WSDM 2012: 213-222

David Sontag, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, Bodo Billerbeck: Probabilistic models for personalizing web search. WSDM 2012: 433-442

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. White, Sebastian de la Chica, David Sontag: Personalizing web search results by reading level. CIKM 2011: 403-412

Jun Wang, Kevyn Collins-Thompson: Statistical information retrieval modelling: from the probability ranking principle to recent advances in diversity, portfolio theory, and beyond. CIKM 2011: 2603-2604

Michael Heilman, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan, Maxine Eskenazi, Alan Juffs, Lois Wilson: Personalization of Reading Passages Improves Vocabulary Acquisition. I. J. Artificial Intelligence in Education 20(1): 73-98 (2010)

Joshua V. Dillon, Kevyn Collins-Thompson: A unified optimization framework for robust pseudo-relevance feedback algorithms. CIKM 2010: 1069-1078

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett: Predicting Query Performance via Classification. ECIR 2010: 140-152

Mingxuan Sun, Guy Lebanon, Kevyn Collins-Thompson: Visualizing differences in web search algorithms using the expected weighted hoeffding distance. WWW 2010: 931-940

Jimmy Huang, Nick Koudas, Gareth J. F. Jones, Xindong Wu, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Aijun An (Eds.): Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2010, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 26-30, 2010. ACM 2010, isbn 978-1-4503-0099-5

Kevyn Collins-Thompson: Reducing the risk of query expansion via robust constrained optimization. CIKM 2009: 837-846

Paul Kidwell, Guy Lebanon, Kevyn Collins-Thompson: Statistical Estimation of Word Acquisition with Application to Readability Prediction. EMNLP 2009: 900-909

Paul N. Bennett, Misha Bilenko, Kevyn Collins-Thompson: Tutorial summary: Machine learning in IR: recent successes and new opportunities. ICML 2009: 177

Kevyn Collins-Thompson: Robust Word Similarity Estimation Using Perturbation Kernels. ICTIR 2009: 265-272

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett: Estimating query performance using class predictions. SIGIR 2009: 672-673

Kevyn Collins-Thompson: Estimating Robust Query Models with Convex Optimization. NIPS 2008: 329-336

Michael Heilman, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan, Maxine Eskenazi: Combining Lexical and Grammatical Features to Improve Readability Measures for First and Second Language Texts. HLT-NAACL 2007: 460-467

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan: Automatic and Human Scoring of Word Definition Responses. HLT-NAACL 2007: 476-483

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan: Estimation and use of uncertainty in pseudo-relevance feedback. SIGIR 2007: 303-310

Michael Heilman, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan, Maxine Eskenazi: Classroom success of an intelligent tutoring system for lexical practice and reading comprehension. INTERSPEECH 2006

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, James P. Callan: Predicting reading difficulty with statistical language models. JASIST 56(13): 1448-1462 (2005)

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan: Query expansion using random walk models. CIKM 2005: 704-711

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, James P. Callan: A Language Modeling Approach to Predicting Reading Difficulty. HLT-NAACL 2004: 193-200

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan: Information retrieval for language tutoring: an overview of the REAP project. SIGIR 2004: 544-545

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan, Egidio L. Terra, Charles L. A. Clarke: The effect of document retrieval quality on factoid question answering performance. SIGIR 2004: 574-575

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul Ogilvie, Jamie Callan: Initial Results with Structured Queries and Language Models on Half a Terabyte of Text. TREC 2004

Eric Nyberg, Teruko Mitamura, James P. Callan, Jaime G. Carbonell, Robert E. Frederking, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Laurie Hiyakumoto, Yifen Huang, Curtis Huttenhower, Scott Judy, Jeongwoo Ko, Anna Kupsc, Lucian Vlad Lita, Vasco Pedro, David Svoboda, Benjamin Van Durme: The JAVELIN Question-Answering System at TREC 2003: A Multi-Strategh Approach with Dynamic Planning. TREC 2003

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul Ogilvie, Yi Zhang, Jamie Callan: Information Filtering, Novelty Detection, and Named-Page Finding. TREC 2002

Eric Nyberg, Teruko Mitamura, Jaime G. Carbonell, James P. Callan, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Krzysztof Czuba, Michael Duggan, Laurie Hiyakumoto, N. Hu, Yifen Huang, Jeongwoo Ko, Lucian Vlad Lita, S. Murtagh, Vasco Pedro, David Svoboda: The JAVELIN Question-Answering System at TREC 2002. TREC 2002

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Charles Schweizer, Susan T. Dumais: Improved String Matching Under Noisy Channel Conditions. CIKM 2001: 357-364