Finding Educationally Supportive Contexts for Vocabulary Learning with Attention-Based Models - Sungjin Nam; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; David Jurgens; Xin Tong (Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC/COLING 2024, 20-25 May, 2024, Torino, Italy, 2024)

Generation and Assessment of Multiple-Choice Questions from Video Transcripts using Large Language Models - Taimoor Arif; Sumit Asthana; Kevyn Collins-Thompson (Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, L@S 2024, Atlanta, GA, USA, July 18-20, 2024, 2024)

An Attention-Based Model for Predicting Contextual Informativeness and Curriculum Learning Applications - SungJin Nam; David Jurgens; Kevyn Collins-Thompson (CoRR, 2022)

Improving Learning Outcomes with Gaze Tracking and Automatic Question Generation - Rohail Syed; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Paul N. Bennett; Mengqiu Teng; Shane Williams; Wendy W. Tay; Shamsi T. Iqbal (WWW '20: The Web Conference 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, April 20-24, 2020, 2020)

Predicting Students' Disengaged Behaviors in an Online Meaning-Generation Task - SungJin Nam; Gwen A. Frishkoff; Kevyn Collins-Thompson (IEEE Trans. Learn. Technol., 2018)

Exploring Document Retrieval Features Associated with Improved Short- and Long-term Vocabulary Learning Outcomes - Rohail Syed; Kevyn Collins-Thompson (Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, CHIIR 2018, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, March 11-15, 2018, 2018)

Demographic Inference Via Knowledge Transfer in Cross-Domain Recommender Systems - Jin Shang; Mingxuan Sun; Kevyn Collins-Thompson (IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2018, Singapore, November 17-20, 2018, 2018)

The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, July 08-12, 2018 - Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Qiaozhu Mei; Brian D. Davison; Yiqun Liu; Emine Yilmaz (ACM, 2018)

Human Perception of Surprise: A User Study - Nalin Chhibber; Rohail Syed; Mengqiu Teng; Joslin Goh; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Edith Law (CoRR, 2018)

Optimizing search results for human learning goals - Rohail Syed; Kevyn Collins-Thompson (Inf. Retr. J., 2017)

Social work in the classroom? A tool to evaluate topical relevance in student writing - Heeryung Choi; Zijian Wang; Christopher Brooks; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Beth Glover Reed; Dale Fitch (Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM 2017, Wuhan, Hubei, China, June 25-28, 2017, 2017)

Predicting Short- and Long-Term Vocabulary Learning via Semantic Features of Partial Word Knowledge - SungJin Nam; Gwen A. Frishkoff; Kevyn Collins-Thompson (Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM 2017, Wuhan, Hubei, China, June 25-28, 2017, 2017)

What does student writing tell us about their thinking on social justice? - Heeryung Choi; Christopher Brooks; Kevyn Collins-Thompson (Proceedings of the Seventh International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 13-17, 2017, 2017)

Retrieval Algorithms Optimized for Human Learning - Rohail Syed; Kevyn Collins-Thompson (Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, August 7-11, 2017, 2017)

Search as Learning (Dagstuhl Seminar 17092) - Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Preben Hansen; Claudia Hauff (Dagstuhl Reports, 2017)

Assessing the readability of ClinicalTrials.gov - Danny T. Y. Wu; David A. Hanauer; Qiaozhu Mei; Patricia M. Clark; Lawrence C. An; Joshua Proulx; Qing T. Zeng; V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Kai Zheng (J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2016)

Towards searching as a learning process: A review of current perspectives and future directions - Soo Young Rieh; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Preben Hansen; Hye-Jung Lee (J. Inf. Sci., 2016)

Using the Crowd to Improve Search Result Ranking and the Search Experience - Yubin Kim; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Jaime Teevan (ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol., 2016)

Assessing Learning Outcomes in Web Search: A Comparison of Tasks and Query Strategies - Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Soo Young Rieh; Carl C. Haynes; Rohail Syed (Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, CHIIR 2016, Carrboro, North Carolina, USA, March 13-17, 2016, 2016)

Predicting the Relative Difficulty of Single Sentences With and Without Surrounding Context - Elliot Schumacher; Maxine Eskénazi; Gwen A. Frishkoff; Kevyn Collins-Thompson (Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2016, Austin, Texas, USA, November 1-4, 2016, 2016)

User Behavior in Asynchronous Slow Search - Ryan Burton; Kevyn Collins-Thompson (Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy, July 17-21, 2016, 2016)

Optimizing Search Results for Educational Goals: Incorporating Keyword Density as a Retrieval Objective - Rohail Syed; Kevyn Collins-Thompson (Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Search as Learning, SAL 2016, co-located with the 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy, July 21st, 2016, 2016)

Predicting the Relative Difficulty of Single Sentences With and Without Surrounding Context - Elliot Schumacher; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Gwen A. Frishkoff; Maxine Eskénazi (CoRR, 2016)

Overview of the Special Issue on Contextual Search and Recommendation - Paul N. Bennett; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Diane Kelly; Ryen W. White; Yi Zhang (ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2015)

Evaluating Learning Language Representations - Jussi Karlgren; Jimmy Callin; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Amaru Cuba Gyllensten; Ariel Ekgren; David Jurgens; Anna Korhonen; Fredrik Olsson; Magnus Sahlgren; Hinrich Schütze (Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction - 6th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2015, Toulouse, France, September 8-11, 2015, Proceedings, 2015)

Query Suggestion and Data Fusion in Contextual Disambiguation - Milad Shokouhi; Marc Sloan; Paul N. Bennett; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Siranush Sarkizova (Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2015, Florence, Italy, May 18-22, 2015, 2015)

Slow search - Jaime Teevan; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Ryen W. White; Susan T. Dumais (Commun. ACM, 2014)

Understanding Intrinsic Diversity in Web Search: Improving Whole-Session Relevance - Karthik Raman; Paul N. Bennett; Kevyn Collins-Thompson (ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2014)

Searching as learning: Novel measures for information interaction research - Soo Young Rieh; Jacek Gwizdka; Luanne Freund; Kevyn Collins-Thompson (Connecting Collections, Cultures, and Communities - Proceedings of the 77th ASIS&T Annual Meeting, ASIST 2014, Seattle, WA, USA, October 31 - November 5, 2014, 2014)

TREC 2014 Web Track Overview - Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Craig Macdonald; Paul N. Bennett; Fernando Diaz; Ellen M. Voorhees (Proceedings of The Twenty-Third Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2014, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 19-21, 2014, 2014)

Enriching the web by modeling reading difficulty - Kevyn Collins-Thompson (ESAIR'13, Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval, co-located with CIKM 2013, San Francisco, CA, USA, October 28, 2013, 2013)

Designing Human-Readable User Profiles for Search Evaluation - Carsten Eickhoff; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Paul N. Bennett; Susan T. Dumais (Advances in Information Retrieval - 35th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2013, Moscow, Russia, March 24-27, 2013. Proceedings, 2013)

Slow Search: Information Retrieval without Time Constraints - Jaime Teevan; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Ryen W. White; Susan T. Dumais; Yubin Kim (Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, HCIR '13, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 3-4, 2013, 2013)

Robust Cost-Sensitive Confidence-Weighted Classification - Alnur Ali; Kevyn Collins-Thompson (13th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, ICDM Workshops, TX, USA, December 7-10, 2013, 2013)

Toward whole-session relevance: exploring intrinsic diversity in web search - Karthik Raman; Paul N. Bennett; Kevyn Collins-Thompson (The 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '13, Dublin, Ireland - July 28 - August 01, 2013, 2013)

Copulas for information retrieval - Carsten Eickhoff; Arjen P. de Vries; Kevyn Collins-Thompson (The 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '13, Dublin, Ireland - July 28 - August 01, 2013, 2013)

Shame to be sham: addressing content-based grey hat search engine optimization - Fiana Raiber; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Oren Kurland (The 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '13, Dublin, Ireland - July 28 - August 01, 2013, 2013)

TREC 2013 Web Track Overview - Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Paul N. Bennett; Fernando Diaz; Charlie Clarke; Ellen M. Voorhees (Proceedings of The Twenty-Second Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2013, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 19-22, 2013, 2013)

Crowdsourcing for Robustness in Web Search - Yubin Kim; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Jaime Teevan (Proceedings of The Twenty-Second Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2013, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 19-22, 2013, 2013)

Pairwise ranking aggregation in a crowdsourced setting - Xi Chen; Paul N. Bennett; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Eric Horvitz (Sixth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2013, Rome, Italy, February 4-8, 2013, 2013)

Personalizing atypical web search sessions - Carsten Eickhoff; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Paul N. Bennett; Susan T. Dumais (Sixth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2013, Rome, Italy, February 4-8, 2013, 2013)

Definition Response Scoring with Probabilistic Ordinal Regression - Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Gwen A. Frishkoff; Scott A. Crossley (Proceeding of the 20th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2012, Singapore, November 26-30, 2012, 2012)

Robust ranking models via risk-sensitive optimization - Lidan Wang; Paul N. Bennett; Kevyn Collins-Thompson (The 35th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR '12, Portland, OR, USA, August 12-16, 2012, 2012)

Characterizing web content, user interests, and search behavior by reading level and topic - Jin Young Kim; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Paul N. Bennett; Susan T. Dumais (Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, WSDM 2012, Seattle, WA, USA, February 8-12, 2012, 2012)

Probabilistic models for personalizing web search - David A. Sontag; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Paul N. Bennett; Ryen W. White; Susan T. Dumais; Bodo Billerbeck (Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, WSDM 2012, Seattle, WA, USA, February 8-12, 2012, 2012)

Personalizing web search results by reading level - Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Paul N. Bennett; Ryen W. White; Sebastian de la Chica; David A. Sontag (Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2011, Glasgow, United Kingdom, October 24-28, 2011, 2011)

Statistical information retrieval modelling: from the probability ranking principle to recent advances in diversity, portfolio theory, and beyond - Jun Wang; Kevyn Collins-Thompson (Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2011, Glasgow, United Kingdom, October 24-28, 2011, 2011)

Personalization of Reading Passages Improves Vocabulary Acquisition - Michael Heilman; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Jamie Callan; Maxine Eskénazi; Alan Juffs; Lois Wilson (Int. J. Artif. Intell. Educ., 2010)

A unified optimization framework for robust pseudo-relevance feedback algorithms - Joshua V. Dillon; Kevyn Collins-Thompson (Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2010, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 26-30, 2010, 2010)

Predicting Query Performance via Classification - Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Paul N. Bennett (Advances in Information Retrieval, 32nd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2010, Milton Keynes, UK, March 28-31, 2010. Proceedings, 2010)

Visualizing differences in web search algorithms using the expected weighted hoeffding distance - Mingxuan Sun; Guy Lebanon; Kevyn Collins-Thompson (Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2010, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, April 26-30, 2010, 2010)

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

Reducing the risk of query expansion via robust constrained optimization - Kevyn Collins-Thompson (Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2009, Hong Kong, China, November 2-6, 2009, 2009)

Statistical Estimation of Word Acquisition with Application to Readability Prediction - Paul Kidwell; Guy Lebanon; Kevyn Collins-Thompson (Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2009, 6-7 August 2009, Singapore, A meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL, 2009)

Tutorial summary: Machine learning in IR: recent successes and new opportunities - Paul N. Bennett; Misha Bilenko; Kevyn Collins-Thompson (Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2009, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 14-18, 2009, 2009)

Robust Word Similarity Estimation Using Perturbation Kernels - Kevyn Collins-Thompson (Advances in Information Retrieval Theory, Second International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2009, Cambridge, UK, September 10-12, 2009, Proceedings, 2009)

Estimating query performance using class predictions - Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Paul N. Bennett (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, 2009)

Estimating Robust Query Models with Convex Optimization - Kevyn Collins-Thompson (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21, Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, December 8-11, 2008, 2008)

Combining Lexical and Grammatical Features to Improve Readability Measures for First and Second Language Texts - Michael Heilman; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Jamie Callan; Maxine Eskénazi (Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Proceedings, April 22-27, 2007, Rochester, New York, USA, 2007)

Automatic and Human Scoring of Word Definition Responses - Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Jamie Callan (Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Proceedings, April 22-27, 2007, Rochester, New York, USA, 2007)

Estimation and use of uncertainty in pseudo-relevance feedback - Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Jamie Callan (SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 23-27, 2007, 2007)

Classroom success of an intelligent tutoring system for lexical practice and reading comprehension - Michael Heilman; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Jamie Callan; Maxine Eskénazi (Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH-ICSLP 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 17-21, 2006, 2006)

Predicting reading difficulty with statistical language models - Kevyn Collins-Thompson; James P. Callan (J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2005)

Query expansion using random walk models - Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Jamie Callan (Proceedings of the 2005 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Bremen, Germany, October 31 - November 5, 2005, 2005)

A Language Modeling Approach to Predicting Reading Difficulty - Kevyn Collins-Thompson; James P. Callan (Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, HLT-NAACL 2004, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, May 2-7, 2004, 2004)

Information retrieval for language tutoring: an overview of the REAP project - Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Jamie Callan (SIGIR 2004: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Sheffield, UK, July 25-29, 2004, 2004)

The effect of document retrieval quality on factoid question answering performance - Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Jamie Callan; Egidio L. Terra; Charles L. A. Clarke (SIGIR 2004: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Sheffield, UK, July 25-29, 2004, 2004)

Prominence prediction for supersentential prosodic modeling based on a new database - Jason Y. Zhang; Arthur R. Toth; Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Alan W. Black (Fifth ISCA ITRW on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2004, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 14-16, 2004, 2004)

Initial Results with Structured Queries and Language Models on Half a Terabyte of Text - Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Paul Ogilvie; Jamie Callan (Proceedings of the Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2004, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 16-19, 2004, 2004)

The JAVELIN Question-Answering System at TREC 2003: A Multi-Strategh Approach with Dynamic Planning - 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; et al. (Proceedings of The Twelfth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2003, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 18-21, 2003, 2003)

Information Filtering, Novelty Detection, and Named-Page Finding - Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Paul Ogilvie; Yi Zhang; Jamie Callan (Proceedings of The Eleventh Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2002, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 19-22, 2002, 2002)

The JAVELIN Question-Answering System at 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; et al. (Proceedings of The Eleventh Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2002, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 19-22, 2002, 2002)

Improved String Matching Under Noisy Channel Conditions - Kevyn Collins-Thompson; Charles Schweizer; Susan T. Dumais (Proceedings of the 2001 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, November 5-10, 2001, 2001)