🧑‍🔬 James Allan

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓University of Massachusetts AmherstAmherst Center · United States1994–2026 · 245 papersEmployment since 1994 · Professor, College of Information and Computer Sciencescurrent🎓Cornell UniversityIthaca · United States1988–1996 · 9 papersEducation 1988–1995 · PhD, Computer Science🎓University of Massachusetts SystemBoston · United States2017 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📅 Works by year

2020s

2000s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. Cross-Document Coreference on a Large Scale Corpus (2004 · 146 citations)
   The paper addresses cross-document coreference: deciding whether identical person names in different documents refer to the same individual.
2. Improving Cross-lingual Information Retrieval on Low-Resource Languages via Optimal Transport Distillation (2023 · 46 citations)
   Cross-language retrieval for low-resource languages faces two problems. Multilingual encoders such as mBERT and XLM-R are pre-trained on unevenly distributed data, so they represent these languages poorly. Relevance-labelled CLIR training data for such languages also barely exists. The authors propose OPTICAL, which…
3. Conditional Natural Language Inference (2023 · 4 citations)
   Some sentence pairs look contradictory but actually describe different situations. For example, two biomedical claims may give opposite answers about antihypertensive drugs because they concern different drugs or patient groups. Standard NLI labels such pairs neutral, which lumps them together with unrelated pairs.…

All works

7 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. On-line new event detection and tracking ↗International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) · no summary yetJames Allan, Ron Papka, Victor P. Lavrenko1998 · 557 citations
2. Cross-Document Coreference on a Large Scale CorpusConference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)Chung Heong Gooi, James Allan2004 · 146 citations
3. Improving Cross-lingual Information Retrieval on Low-Resource Languages via Optimal Transport DistillationarXiv:2301.12566Zhiqi Huang, Puxuan Yu, James Allan2023 · 46 citations
4. SRI-Sarnoff AURORA System at TRECVID 2012 Multimedia Event Detection and Recounting. ↗Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research · no summary yetHui Cheng et al.2012 · 25 citations
5. Team SRI-Sarnoff 's AURORA System @ TRECVID 2011 ↗no summary yetHui Cheng et al.2011 · 6 citations
6. Conditional Natural Language InferenceFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsYoungwoo Kim, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan2023 · 4 citations
7. Future of Information Retrieval Research in the Age of Generative AI ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetJames Allan et al.2024 · 3 citations

🤝 Co-authors here

3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Puxuan Yu
• Razieh Rahimi
• Zhiqi Huang

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2023
• Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL): NAACL 2004
• International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)
• Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 73 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 9 citing papers with a page here →.

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