Sub Navigation:
Secondary Navigation:
Breadcrumb Navigation:
Home>Faculty & Research>Faculty Profiles>Faculty Details
Main Content:
Jamie Callan
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Tenure Track
Voice: n/a
Email: callan@cs.cmu.edu
Personal Website
Biography
Recent Publications
J. Callan, M. Connell, and A. Du. "Automatic discovery of language models for text databases." In Proceedings of the ACM-SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, (pp 479-490), Philadelphia: ACM. 1999.
J. Allan, J. Callan., M. Sanderson, J. Xu, and S. Wegmann. "INQUERY and TREC-7." In Proceedings of the Seventh Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-7), (pp. 201-216). National Institute of Standards and Technology, special publication 500-242. 1999.
J. French, A. Powell, J. Callan, C. Viles, T. Emmitt, K. Prey, and Y. Mou. "Comparing the performance of database selection algorithms.'' In Proceedings of the Twenty Second Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Berkeley: ACM. 1999.
D. Raker and J. Callan. "K12-Search: An Internet search engine interface for teachers and students." In Proceedings of the 1999 National Educational Computing Conference. Atlantic City. 1999.
J. Callan. "Learning while filtering documents." In Proceedings of the Twenty First Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, (pp. 224-231). Melbourne: ACM. 1998.
J. Xu and J. Callan. "Effective retrieval with distributed collections." In Proceedings of the Twenty First Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, (112-120). Melbourne: ACM. 1998.
J. Allan, J. Callan, W.B. Croft, L. Ballesteros, D. Byrd, R. Swan, and J. Xu. "INQUERY does battle with TREC-6." In Proceedings of the Sixth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-6), (pp. 169-206). National Institute of Standards and Technology, special publication 500-240. 1998.
J. Allan, J. Callan, B. Croft, L. Ballesteros, J. Broglio, J. Xu, and H. Shu. "INQUERY at TREC-5." In Proceedings of the Fifth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-5), (pp. 119-132). National Institute of Standards and Technology, special publication 500-238. 1997.
A complete listing of Professor Callan's papers can be found here.
Community/Public Impact
Professor Callan is the chair of ACM SIGIR, 2003-2005. He is also on the Editorial Boards of ACM Transactions on Information Systems, International Journal of Electronic Government Research, and I/S: A
Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society.
Research Interest(s)
iInformation filtering, Retrieval, Analysis, Organization, and Management
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Massachusetts