Kevyn Collins-Thompson

According to our database, Kevyn Collins-Thompson authored at least 67 papers between 2001 and 2022.

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2022

An Attention-Based Model for Predicting Contextual Informativeness and Curriculum Learning Applications.

SungJin Nam, David Jurgens, Kevyn Collins-Thompson

CoRR, 2022

2020

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

Proceedings of the WWW '20: The Web Conference 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, April 20-24, 2020, 2020

2018

Predicting Students' Disengaged Behaviors in an Online Meaning-Generation Task.

SungJin Nam, Gwen A. Frishkoff, Kevyn Collins-Thompson

IEEE Trans. Learn. Technol., 2018

Human Perception of Surprise: A User Study.

Nalin Chhibber, Rohail Syed, Mengqiu Teng, Joslin Goh, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Edith Law

CoRR, 2018

Demographic Inference Via Knowledge Transfer in Cross-Domain Recommender Systems.

Jin Shang, Mingxuan Sun, Kevyn Collins-Thompson

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 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, 2018

2017

Optimizing search results for human learning goals.

Rohail Syed, Kevyn Collins-Thompson

Inf. Retr. J., 2017

Search as Learning (Dagstuhl Seminar 17092).

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Preben Hansen, Claudia Hauff

Dagstuhl Reports, 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, 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, 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, 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, 2017

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

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

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

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, 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, 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, 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, 2016

2015

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

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, 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

Proceedings of the Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction, 2015

2014

Understanding Intrinsic Diversity in Web Search: Improving Whole-Session Relevance.

Karthik Raman, Paul N. Bennett, Kevyn Collins-Thompson

ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2014

Slow search.

Jaime Teevan, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais

Commun. ACM, 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, 2014

Searching as learning: Novel measures for information interaction research.

Soo Young Rieh, Jacek Gwizdka, Luanne Freund, Kevyn Collins-Thompson

Proceedings of the Connecting Collections, Cultures, and Communities, 2014

2013

Personalizing atypical web search sessions.

Carsten Eickhoff, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Susan T. Dumais

Proceedings of the Sixth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2013

Pairwise ranking aggregation in a crowdsourced setting.

Xi Chen, Paul N. Bennett, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Eric Horvitz

Proceedings of the Sixth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2013

Crowdsourcing for Robustness in Web Search.

Yubin Kim, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jaime Teevan

Proceedings of The Twenty-Second Text REtrieval Conference, 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, 2013

Toward whole-session relevance: exploring intrinsic diversity in web search.

Karthik Raman, Paul N. Bennett, Kevyn Collins-Thompson

Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

Shame to be sham: addressing content-based grey hat search engine optimization.

Fiana Raiber, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Oren Kurland

Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

Copulas for information retrieval.

Carsten Eickhoff, Arjen P. de Vries, Kevyn Collins-Thompson

Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

Robust Cost-Sensitive Confidence-Weighted Classification.

Alnur Ali, Kevyn Collins-Thompson

Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, 2013

Slow Search: Information Retrieval without Time Constraints.

Jaime Teevan, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, Yubin Kim

Proceedings of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, 2013

Designing Human-Readable User Profiles for Search Evaluation.

Carsten Eickhoff, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Susan T. Dumais

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2013

Enriching the web by modeling reading difficulty.

Kevyn Collins-Thompson

Proceedings of the ESAIR'13, 2013

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, 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, 2012

Robust ranking models via risk-sensitive optimization.

Lidan Wang, Paul N. Bennett, Kevyn Collins-Thompson

Proceedings of the 35th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2012

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, 2011

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, 2011

2010

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

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, 2010

Predicting Query Performance via Classification.

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 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, 2010

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, 2009

Robust Word Similarity Estimation Using Perturbation Kernels.

Kevyn Collins-Thompson

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval Theory, 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, 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, 2009

Reducing the risk of query expansion via robust constrained optimization.

Kevyn Collins-Thompson

Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2009

2008

Estimating Robust Query Models with Convex Optimization.

Kevyn Collins-Thompson

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21, 2008

2007

Estimation and use of uncertainty in pseudo-relevance feedback.

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan

Proceedings of the SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2007

Combining Lexical and Grammatical Features to Improve Readability Measures for First and Second Language Texts.

Michael Heilman, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan, Maxine Eskénazi

Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2007

Automatic and Human Scoring of Word Definition Responses.

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan

Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2007

2006

Classroom success of an intelligent tutoring system for lexical practice and reading comprehension.

Michael Heilman, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan, Maxine Eskénazi

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2006, 2006

2005

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, 2005

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, 2004

Prominence prediction for supersentential prosodic modeling based on a new database.

Jason Y. Zhang, Arthur R. Toth, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Alan W. Black

Proceedings of the Fifth ISCA ITRW on Speech Synthesis, 2004

The effect of document retrieval quality on factoid question answering performance.

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan, Egidio L. Terra, Charles L. A. Clarke

Proceedings of the SIGIR 2004: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2004

Information retrieval for language tutoring: an overview of the REAP project.

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan

Proceedings of the SIGIR 2004: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2004

A Language Modeling Approach to Predicting Reading Difficulty.

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, James P. Callan

Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2004

2003

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, Lucian Vlad Lita, Vasco Pedro, David Svoboda, Benjamin Van Durme

Proceedings of The Twelfth Text REtrieval Conference, 2003

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, S. Murtagh, Vasco Pedro, David Svoboda

Proceedings of The Eleventh Text REtrieval Conference, 2002

Information Filtering, Novelty Detection, and Named-Page Finding.

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul Ogilvie, Yi Zhang, Jamie Callan

Proceedings of The Eleventh Text REtrieval Conference, 2002

2001

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, 2001