Jamie Callan
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Associate Professor of Computer Science |
Research
Professor Callan's principle areas of interest are information filtering, retrieval, analysis, organization, and management; machine learning; data mining in large document collections and high-volume document streams; and information literacy in K-12 educational environments.
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.
Education
Professor Callan received his bachelor's degree in applications of computer science from the University of Connecticut, and his master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts.
Related Web sites
Professor Callan's web site is at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~callan