2009

(2009) Kumaran, G. and Carvalho, V., "Reducing Long Queries Using Query Quality Predictors," to appear in Proceedings of SIGIR 2009, Boston, USA [BibTeX]

2008

(2008) Kumaran, G. "Interactive Reformulation of Long Queries," PhD Thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst. [BibTeX]

(2008) Kumaran, G. and Allan, J., "Effective and Efficient User Interaction for Long Queries," in Proceedings of SIGIR 2008, pp. 11-18. [BibTeX]

Kumaran, G. and Allan, J., " Adapting Information Retrieval Systems to User Queries ," To appear in Information Processing & Management: Special Topic Issue on Adaptive Information Retrieval [BibTeX]

2007

Kumaran, G. and Allan, J., "A Case for Shorter Queries, and Helping Users Create Them," in Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics [BibTeX]

Kumaran, G. and Allan, J., "Selective User Interaction ," in Proceedings of CIKM '07 [BibTeX]

Kumaran, G. and Allan, J., "Information Retrieval Techniques for Templated Queries ," in Proceedings of RIAO '07. [BibTeX]

Kumaran, G. "Efficient User Interaction In Information Retrieval"

Bellare, K., Talukdar, P., Kumaran, G. et al., "Lightly-Supervised Attribute Extraction for Web Search," To Appear in Proceedings of Machine Learning for Web Search Workshop, NIPS 2007, December 2007, Whistler, Canada. [BibTeX]

Kumaran, G. and Xue, X., "Images as Supportive Elements for Search," Proceedings of Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR '07), Boston, MA. [BibTeX]

Feng, S. and Kumaran, G., "XML Data Stream Processing: Extensions to YFilter ," CIIR Technical Report. [BibTeX]

2006

Kumaran, G. and Allan, J., "Simple Questions to Improve Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Results," in Proceedings of SIGIR '06. [BibTeX]

Kumaran, G. and Allan, J., "Eliciting Information for Adaptive Retrieval," in the Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Adaptive Information Retrieval (AIR), Glasgow, UK.[BibTeX]

Kumaran, G. and Allan, J., "UMass at TREC ciQA," in Proceedings of TREC 2006, Gaithersburg, MD. [BibTeX]

Kumaran, G. and Allan, J. "Simple Questions for Interactive Information Retrieval ," CIIR Technical Report. [BibTeX]

2005

Kumaran, G. and Allan, J., "Using Names and Topics for New Event Detection," in Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference/Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pp. 121-128. [BibTeX]

Kumaran, G., Jones, R. and Madani, O., "Biasing Web Search Results for Topic Familiarity," in Proceedings of CIKM '05, pp. 271-272. A longer version is also available. [BibTeX]

2004

Kumaran, G. and Allan, J., "Text Classification and Named Entities for New Event Detection," in Proceedings of SIGIR '04, pp. 297-304. [BibTeX]

Connell, M., Feng, A., Kumaran, G., Raghavan, H., Shah, C. and Allan, J., "UMass at TDT 2004," in Proceedings of TDT 2004, Gaithersburg, MD. [BibTeX]

Kumaran, G., Allan, J. and McCallum, A., "Classification Models for New Event Detection ," CIIR Technical Report. [BibTeX]

2003

Allan, J. and Kumaran, G., "Stemming in the Language Modeling Framework,"in Proceedings of SIGIR '03, pp.455-456. [BibTeX]

Allan, J. and Kumaran, G., "Details on Stemming in the Language Modeling Framework," in CIIR Technical Report. [BibTeX]

Connell, M., Feng, A., Kumaran, G., Raghavan, H., Cronen-Townsend, S., Feng, F., "UMass at TDT 2003," in Proceedings of TDT 2003, Gaithersburg, MD. [BibTeX]

2002

Allen, M., Kumaran, G., and Liu, T.," A Combined Algorithm for Graph-coloring in Register Allocation" in the Graph Coloring and its Generalizations symposium - part of the Eighth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming Sept. 8 - 13, 2002, Cornell University.[BibTeX]

2001

Kumaran, G., and V.S.R.K, Mouly. "Using Evolutionary Computation to Solve the Economic Load Dispatch Problem," in Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Seoul, Korea, pp 296-301.[BibTeX]