W. BRUCE CROFT Distinguished University Professor, 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

• Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice, Addison Wesley, 2010.
• Xue, X., Huston, S. and Croft, W. B. , "Improving Verbose Queries using Subset Distribution," Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2010), pp. 1059-1068, 2010.
• Bendersky, M., Croft, W. B. and Diao, Y., "Quality-Biased Ranking of Web Documents," Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2011), pp. 95-104, 2011.
• Huston, S., Moffat, A. and Croft, W. B. , "Efficient Indexing of Repeated n-Grams," Proceedings of the Fourth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2011), pp.127-136, 2011.
• Kim, J. and Croft, W. B. , "Ranking using Multiple Document Types in Desktop Search," Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2010), pp. 50-57, 2010.
• Bendersky, M., Metzler, D. and Croft, W. B. , "Learning Concept Importance Using a Weighted Dependence Model," Proceedings of the Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2010), pp. 31-40, 2010.
• Dang, V. and Croft, W. B. , "Query Reformulation Using Anchor Text," Proceedings of the Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2010), pp. 41-50, 2010.
• Seo, J. and Croft, W. B. , "Geometric Representations for Multiple Documents," Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2010), pp. 251-258, 2010.
• Seo, J., Croft, W. B. and Smith, D., "Online Community Search Using Thread Structure," Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009), pp. 1907-1910, 2009.

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Awards, etc.:

• ACM SIGIR Salton Award, 2003
• ASIST Research Award, 2000
• ACM Fellow, 1996

• Jiwoon Jeon
• Victor Lavrenko
• Dawn Lawrie
• Xiaoyan Li
• Xiaoyong Liu
• Donald Metzler
• Vanessa Murdock
• Trevor Strohman
• Xing Wei
• Yun Zhou

Biography