Susan Dumais

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Distinguished Scientist & Deputy Managing Director, Microsoft Research Lab, Redmond

Manager, Context, Learning and User Experience for Search (CLUES) Group, Microsoft Research

E-mail: sdumais@microsoft.com
HomePage: http://research.microsoft.com/~sdumais

Mail: One Microsoft Way, Redmond WA 98052-6399, USA

Research Activities:

I am interested in algorithms and interfaces for improved information retrieval, as well as general issues in human-computer interaction. I have been at Microsoft Research since July 1997. My current research focuses on gaze-enhanced interaction, the temporal dynamics of information systems, user modeling and personalization, novel interfaces for interactive retrieval, and search evaluation. Previous research studied a variety of information access and management challenges, including personal information management, desktop search, question answering, text categorization, collaborative filtering, interfaces for improving search and navigation, and user/task modeling. I have worked closely with several Microsoft groups (Bing, Windows Desktop Search, SharePoint Portal Server, and Office Online Help) on search-related innovations.

Prior to coming to Microsoft, I co-developed a statistical method for concept-based retrieval known as Latent Semantic Indexing. You can find pointers to this work on the Bellcore (now Telcordia) LSI page.

Workshops, Collaborations and Papers:

Co-Organizer: Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia: Drawing causal inference from big data. Washington DC, Mar 26-27, 2015.
Co-Chair (w/ O. Kurland). WSDM 2014 Doctoral Consortium. New York City, Feb 24, 2014.
Co-Organizer: Time-aware information access (#TAIA2013). Workshop at SIGIR 2013. Dublin, Aug 1, 2013.
Co-Organizer: NII Shonan Seminar on Whole-session evaluation of interactive retrieval systems. Shonan, Japan. Oct 9-13, 2012.
Co-Organizer: Time-aware information access (#TAIA2012). Workshop at SIGIR 2012. Portland, Aug 16, 2012.
Co-Chair (w/ B. Davison). WSDM 2012 Doctoral Consortium. Seattle, Feb 8, 2012.
Co-Chair (w/ A. Trotman). SIGIR 2008 Doctoral Consortium. Singapore, July 20, 2008.
Co-Organizer: NSF Workshop on Personal Information Management. Seattle WA, Jan 27-29, 2005.
Co-Organizer: SIGIR Workshop on Implicit Measures of User Interests and Preferences. Toronto CA, Aug 1, 2003.
Collaborator: "Collaborative Information Retrieval" , a multidisciplinary research project to understand the social aspects of information retrieval in a variety of workplace settings. In collaboration with Raya Fidel and Harry Bruce (U Washington iSchool), Steve Poltrock (Boeing), A.M. Petersen (Riso National Laboratory), and Jonathan Grudin (Microsoft Research).
Collaborator: "Keeping Found Things Found" , a research project to understand the ways in which people manage information for subsequent re-access. In collaboration with William Jones, Harry Bruce and Mike Eisenberg (U Washington iSchool).

S.T. Dumais (2016). Keynote at TREC 25^th Anniversary.
S.T. Dumais (2016). Personalized Search: Potential and pitfalls. Keynote at CIKM 2016.
G.W. Furnas, S. Deerwester, S.T. Dumais, T.K. Landauer, R.A. Harshman, L.S. Streeter and K.E. Lochbaum. Information retrieval using a singular value decomposition model of latent semantic structure. Original in Proceedings of SIGIR 1998. [SIGIR Test-of-Time Award]
A. Fourney and S.T. Dumais (2016). Automatic identification and contextual reformulation of implicit system-related queries. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2016.
T. Schnabel, P.N. Bennett, S.T. Dumais and T. Joachims. (2016). Using shortlists to support decision making and improve recommender system performance. In Proceedings of WWW 2016.
S.T. Dumais, E. Cutrell, E., J.J. Cadiz, G. Jancke, R. Sarin and D.C. Robbins (2003/2015). Stuff I've Seen: A system for personal information retrieval and re-use. Original in Proceedings of SIGIR 2003. Reprinted in SIGIR Forum, Dec 2015. [SIGIR Test-of-Time Award]
D. Odijk, R. White, A. Hassan and S.T. Dumais (2015). Struggling and success in Web search. In Proceedings of CIKM 2015. [Best Student Paper]
J. Turner, S. Iqbal and S.T. Dumais (2015). Understanding gaze and scrolling strategies in text consumption tasks. In Proceedings of PETMEI 2015.
H. Wang, A. Moshchuk, M. Gamon, S. Iqbal, E. Brown, A. Kapoor, C. Meek, E. Chen, Y. Tian, J. Teevan, M. Czerwinski and S.T. Dumais (2015). The activity platform. In Proceedings of HotOS 2015.
M. Wen, N. Baym, O. Tamuz, J.Teevan, S.T. Dumais and A. Kalai. OMG UR funny! Computer-aided humor with an application to chat. In Proceedings of ICCC 2015.
P. Organisciak, J. Teevan, S.T. Dumais, R. Miller and A. Kalai (2015). A crowd of your own: Crowdsourcing for on-demand personalization. In Proceedings of IJCAI 2015.
S.T. Dumais (2015). Large-scale behavioral data: Potential and pitfalls. Athena Lecture at CHI 2015.
S.T. Dumais (2015). New trends in Web search: Thinking outside the search box. Seattle Technology Alliance: Technology & Discovery Series. Apr 10, 2015.
S.T. Dumais (2014). Personalized search. Keynote at NTCIR 2014.
P. Organisciak, J. Teevan, S.T. Dumais, R. Miller and A. Kalai (2014). A crowd of your own: Crowdsourcing for on-demand personalization. In Proceedings of HCOMP 2014. [Notable paper]
A. Hassan Awadallah, R. White, P. Pantel, S.T. Dumais and Yi-Min Wang (2014). Supporting complex search tasks. In Proceedings of CIKM 2014.
S.T. Dumais (2014). Search and context. Keynote at CLEF 2014.
D. Liebling and S.T. Dumais (2014). Gaze and mouse coordination in everyday work. In Proceedings of PETMEI 2014.
J. Teevan, K. Collins-Thompson, R.W. White and S.T. Dumais (2014). Slow search. Communications of the ACM, CACM, 57(8):36-38, 2014.
S.T. Dumais (2014). Putting searchers back into search. (video) Athena Lecture at SIGIR 2014.
S.T. Dumais (2014). Searching: Fast and slow. Keynote at TAIA Workshop SIGIR 2014.
E. Adar, A. Ligne, V. Gokuladas, J. Teevan and S.T. Dumais (2014). CiteSight: Supporting contextual citation recommendation using differential search. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2014.
S. T. Dumais (2014). Understanding and improving web search using large-scale observations and experiments. APS (Association for Psychological Science) Invited Session on Big Data.
A. Hassan, R.W. White, S.T. Dumais and Y-M Wang (2014). Struggling or exploring? Disambiguating search sessions. In Proceedings of WSDM 2014.
C. Eickhoff, S.T. Dumais, J. Teevan and R.W. White (2014). Lessons from the journey: A query log analysis of within-session learning. In Proceedings of WSDM 2014.
E. Yom-Tov, S.T. Dumais and Q. Gao (2014). Promoting civil discourse through search engine diversity. Social Science Computer Review, Apr 2014, 32(2), 145-154.
S.T. Dumais, R. Jeffries, D. Russell, D. Tang and J. Teevan (2014). Understanding behavior through log data and analysis. In: J. Olson and W. Kellogg (Eds.), Ways of Knowing in HCI, Springer.
S.T. Dumais (2013). Personalized search: Potential and pitfalls. NIPS 2013 Workshop on Personalization, Keynote Talk.
D. Sontag, K. Collins-Thompson, P.N. Bennett, R.W. White, S.T. Dumais and B. Billerbeck, B. (2013). Personalization via probabilistic adaptation. In Proceedings of NIPS 2013 Workshop on Personalization.
P. Organisciak, J. Teevan, S.T. Dumais, R.C. Miller and A.T. Kalai (2013). Personalized human computation. In Proceedings of HComp 2013, Work in Progress.
J. Teevan, K. Collins-Thompson, R.W. White, S.T. Dumais and Y. Kim (2013). Slow search: Information retrieval without time constraints. In Proceedings of HCIR 2013.
S. Kairam, J. Teevan, M. Morris, D. Liebling and S.T. Dumais (2013). Towards supporting search over trending events with social media. In Proceedings of ICWSM 2013. [Best Paper Finalist]
K. Radinsky, K. Svore, S.T. Dumais, J. Teevan and E. Horvitz (2013). Behavioral dynamics on the web: Learning, modeling and predicting. ACM:TOIS, 31(3):16, 2013. [Best of 2013, ACM Computing Reviews]
Kato, M., J. Teevan, R.W. White and S.T. Dumais (2013). Clarifications and question specificity in synchronous social Q&A. In Proceedings of CHI 2013 (Work in Progress).
A. Ligne, E. Adar, J. Teevan and S.T. Dumais (2013). Predicting citation counts using text and graph mining. In Proceedings of iConference 2013, Workshop on Computational Scientometrics: Theory and Application.
C. Eickhoff, Collins-Thompson, K., Bennett, P.N. and Dumais, S.T. Designing human-readable user profiles for search evaluation. In Proceedings of ECIR 2013.
S.T. Dumais (2013). Task-based search: A search engine perspective. Invited Talk at NSF Task-Based Information Search Systems Workshop, March 14-15, 2013.
Y. Chang, F. Diaz, A. Dong, S.T. Dumais, K. Radinski and M. Shokouhi. (2013). Temporal web dynamics and its application to information retrieval. In Proceedings of WSDM 2013 (Tutorial).
C. Eickhoff, Collins-Thompson, K., Bennett, P.N. and Dumais, S.T. (2013). Personalizing atypical web search sessions. In Proceedings of WSDM 2013.
F. Diaz, S.T. Dumais, K. Radinsky, M. de Rijke, and M. Shokouhi (2012). #TAIA2012. In SIGIR Forum, 46(2), Dec 2012.
M. Dörk, N.H. Riche, G. Ramos and S.T. Dumais (2012). PivotPaths: Strolling through faceted information spaces. In Proceedings of InfoVis 2012.
A. Diriye, R.W. White, G. Buscher and S.T. Dumais (2012). Leaving so soon? Understanding and predicting web search abandonment rationales. In Proceedings of CIKM 2012.
S.T. Dumais (2012). Putting search into context and context into search. SIGIR 2012, Industry Keynote.
P.N. Bennett, R.W. White, W. Chu, S.T. Dumais, P. Bailey, F. Borisyuk and X. Cui (2012). Modeling the impact of short- and long-term behavior on search personalization. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2012.
K. Svore, J. Teevan, S.T. Dumais and A. Kulkarni (2012). Creating temporally dynamic web search snippets. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2012 (Poster).
E. Agichtein, R.W. White, S.T. Dumais and P.N. Bennett (2012). Search interrupted: Understanding and predicting search task continuation. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2012.
S.T. Dumais (2012). Data-driven approaches to improving information access. Festschrift for Richard M. Shiffrin.
S.T. Dumais (2012). Temporal dynamics and information retrieval. SIAM-SDM 2012, Keynote Talk.
M. Bernstein, J. Teevan and S.T. Dumais (2012). Direct answers for search queries in the long tail. In Proceedings of CHI 2012. [Best Paper, Honorable Mention]
K. Radinski, K. Svore, S.T. Dumais, J. Teevan, E. Horvitz and A. Bocharov (2012). Modeling and predicting behavioral dynamics on the Web. In Proceedings of WWW 2012.
J. Kim, K. Collins-Thompson, P. Bennett and S. T. Dumais (2012). Characterizing web content, user interests and searching behavior by reading level and topic. In Proceedings of WSDM 2012.
G. Buscher, R. White, S. T. Dumais and J. Huang (2012). Large-scale analysis of individual and task differences on search result page examination strategies. In Proceedings of WSDM 2012.
D. Sontag, K. Collins-Thompson, P. Bennett, R. White and S. T. Dumais (2012). Probabilistic models for personalizing web search. In Proceedings of WSDM 2012.
D. Ramage, C. Manning and S. T. Dumais (2011). Partially labeled topic models for interpretable text mining. In Proceedings of KDD 2011.
A. Kotov, P. Bennett, R. White, S. T. Dumais and J. Teevan (2011). Modeling and analyses of multi-session search tasks. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2011.
Q. Guo, R. White and S. T. Dumais (2011). Why users switch: Understanding and predicting search engine switching rationales. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2011.
S.T. Dumais (2011). Temporal dynamics and information systems. (Slides.) iConference 2011, Keynote Talk.
S.T. Dumais, Jeffries, R., Russell, D., Tang, D. and Teevan, J. (2011). Design of large scale log analysis studies. In Proceedings of CHI 2011 (Course).
Huang, J., White, R. and Dumais, S.T. (2011). No clicks no problems: Using cursor movements to understand and improve search. In Proceedings of CHI 2011. [Best Paper, Honorable Mention]
C. Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, M. Gamon and Dumais, S.T. (2011). Mark my words: Linguistic accommodation in social media. In Proceedings of WWW 2011.
A. Kulkarni, A., Teevan, J., Svore, K. and Dumais, S.T. (2011). Understanding temporal query dynamics. In Proceedings of WSDM 2011.
J. Teevan and S.T. Dumais (2011). Web retrieval, ranking and personalization. In Interactive Information Seeking and Retrieval, I. Ruthven and D. Kelly (Eds.).
S.T. Dumais (2010). Temporal dynamics and information retrieval. CIKM 2010, Keynote Talk.
R.W. White, P. Bennett and S.T. Dumais (2010). Predicting short-term interests using activity-based search context. In Proceedings of CIKM 2010.
S.T. Dumais (2010). Understanding and supporting people in dynamic information environments. (Slides.) ECDL 2010, Keynote Talk.
D. Liebling, D. Ramage, S. T. Dumais and S. Drucker (2010). Interactively exploring Twitter with topic models. In Proceedings of KDD 2010 (Demos).
S.T. Dumais, G. Buscher and E. Cutrell (2010). Individual differences in gaze patterns for Web search. In Proceedings of IIiX 2010.
S.T. Dumais (2010). Stuff I’ve Seen: Retrospective and prospective. SIGIR 2010 Desktop Search Workshop, Keynote Talk.
G. Buscher, S. Dumais and E. Cutrell (2010). The good, the bad, and the random: An eye-tracking study of ad quality in Web search. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2010.
C. Liu, R.W. White and S. Dumais (2010). Understanding Web browsing behavior through Weibull analysis of dwell time. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2010.
R. White, A. Kapor and S.T. Dumais (2010). Modeling long-term search engine use. In Proceedings of UMAP 2010, 28-39. [Best Paper Finalist]
D. Ramage, S.T. Dumais and D. Liebling (2010). Characterizing microblogging using latent topic models. In Proceedings of ICWSM 2010. Try the Twahpic demo: http://twahpic.cloudapp.net/S4.aspx
P. Bennett, K. Svore and S.T. Dumais (2010). Classification-enhanced ranking. In Proceedings of WWW 2010.
Q. Gao, R. White, S.T. Dumais, S. Wang and B. Anderson (2010). Predicting query performance using query, result and interaction features. In Proceedings of RIAO 2010.
J. Teevan, S.T. Dumais and D. Liebling (2010). A longitudinal study of how highlighting Web content change affects people’s Web interactions. In Proceedings of CHI 2010. [Best Paper Award] -- Try Diff-IE: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/diffie/default.aspx
S. Dumais, Jeffries, R., Russell, D., Tang, D. and Teevan, J. (2010). Design of large scale log analysis studies. Tutorial at HCIC 2010.
J. Elsas and S.T. Dumais (2010). Leveraging temporal dynamics of document content in relevance ranking. In Proceedings of WSDM 2010, 1-10.
J. Teevan, S.T. Dumais and E. Horvitz (2010). Potential for personalization. In ACM:Transaction on Computer Human Interaction. [Best Search Marketing paper 2009]
S.T. Dumais (2010). An interdisciplinary perspective on information retrieval. In SIGIR Forum.
P. Andre, mc schrafel, J. Teevan, S.T. Dumais (2009). Discovery is never by chance: Designing for (un)serendipity. In Proceedings of Creativity and Cognition 2009, 392-401.
R. White and S.T. Dumais (2009). Characterizing and predicting search engine switching behavior. In Proceedings of CIKM 2009, 1012-1021.
J. Teevan, S.T. Dumais, D. Liebling and R. Hughes (2009). Changing how people view change on the web. In Proceedings of UIST-09, 237-246.
S.T. Dumais (2009). An interdisciplinary perspective on information retrieval. (Slides.) SIGIR 2009, Salton Award Lecture.
S.T. Dumais (2009). Evaluating IR in situ. (Slides.) SIGIR 2009 Workshop on The Future of IR Evaluation, Invited Talk.
S.T. Dumais (2009). Thinking outside the (search) box. (Slides.) UMAP 2009, Keynote Talk.
M. Hearst and S. Dumais (2009). Blogging together: An examination of group blogs. In Proceedings of ICWSM-09.
E. Adar, J. Teevan and S. Dumais (2009). Resonance on the Web: Web dynamics and revisitation patterns. In Proceedings of CHI 2009.
P. Andre, J. Teevan and S. Dumais (2009). From x-rays to silly putty via Uranus: Serendipity and its role in Web search. In Proceedings of CHI 2009.
S. Knoll, A. Hoff, D. Fischer, S. Dumais and E. Cutrell (2009). Viewing personal data over time. In Proceedings of CHI 2009 Workshop on Interacting with Temporal Data.
D. Kelly, S. Dumais and J. Pedersen (2009). Evaluation challenges and directions for information seeking support systems. In IEEE Computer, March 2009, 60-66.
E. Adar, J. Teevan, S. Dumais and J. Elsas (2009). The Web changes everything: Understanding the dynamics of Web content. In Proceedings of WSDM 2009. [Best Student Paper Award]
R. White, S. Dumais and J. Teevan (2009). Characterizing the influence of domain expertise on Web search behavior. In Proceedings of WSDM 2009.
D. Downey, S. Dumais, D. Liebling and E. Horvitz (2008). Understanding the relationship between searchers' queries and information goals. In Proceedings of CIKM 2008, 449-458.
M. Hearst, M. Hurst and S. Dumais (2008). What should blog search look like? In Proceedings of SSM 2008.
J. Teevan, J., S. Dumais, and Z. Gutt (2008). Challenges for supporting faceted search in large, heterogeneous corpora like the Web. In Proceedings of HCIR 2008.
S. Dumais (2008). Thinking outside the (search) box. (Slides.) HCIR 2008 Keynote Talk.
J. Teevan, S. Dumais and D. Liebling (2008). To personalize or not to personalize: Modeling queries with variation in user intent. [Error in Fig 4]. Proceedings of SIGIR 2008, 163-170. [New version with Fig 4 fixed.]
R. White, S. Dumais and J. Teevan (2008). How medical expertise influence web search interaction. Proceedings of SIGIR 2008 (poster), 791-792.
S. Dumais (2008). Supporting searchers in searching. (Slides.) ACL Keynote Talk.
S. Dumais (2008). Faceted search. In Encyclopedia of Database Systems.
E. Adar, J. Teevan and S. Dumais (2008). Large scale analysis of Web revisitation patterns. In Proceedings of CHI'08, 1197-1206. [Best Paper Award]
B. Carterette, P. Bennett, D. M. Chickering and S. Dumais (2008). Here or There: Preference judgments for relevance. In Proceedings of ECIR 2008, 16-27.
J. Callan, J. Allan, C. Clarke, S. Dumais, D. Evans, M. Sanderson and C.X. Zhai (2007). Meeting of the MINDS: An information retrieval research agenda. In SIGIR Forum, 41(2), Dec. 2007, 25-34.
D. Downey, S. Dumais and E. Horvitz (2007). Heads and tails: Studies of web search with common and rare queries. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2007 (poster), 847-848.
J. Teevan, S. Dumais and E. Horvitz (2007). The potential value of personalizing search. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2007 (poster), 757-756.
C. Clarke, E. Agichtein, S. Dumais and R. White (2007). The influence of caption features on clickthrough patterns in web search. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2007, 135-142.
S. Dumais (2007). The Person in Personal. (Slides.) WWW2007 Panel: Searching Personal Content.
J. Leskovec, S. Dumais and E. Horvitz (2007). Web projections: Learning from contextual subgraphs of the web. In Proceedings of WWW 2007.
D. Metzler, S. Dumais and C. Meek (2007). Similarity measures for short segments of text. In Proceedings of ECIR 2007.
M. Sanderson and S. Dumais (2007). Examining repetition in user search behavior. In Proceedings of ECIR 2007.
D. Downey, S. Dumais and E. Horvitz (2007). Models of searching and browsing: Languages, studies and application. In Proceedings of IJCAI 2007, 2740-2747.
E. Agichtein, E. Brill, S. T. Dumais and R. Ragno (2006). Learning user interaction models for predicting web search preferences. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2006, 3-10.
E. Agichtein, E. Brill and S. T. Dumais (2006). Improving web search ranking by incorporating user behavior. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2006, 19-26.
F. Radlinksi and S. T. Dumais (2006). Improving personalized web search using results diversification. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2006, 691-692.
E. Cutrell, D. C. Robbins, S. T. Dumais and R. Sarin (2006). Fast, flexible filtering with Phlat - Personal search and organization made easy. In Proceedings of CHI'06. [Best Paper Finalist] -- Try Phlat: http://research.microsoft.com/adapt/phlat
E. Cutrell and S. T. Dumais (2006). Exploring personal information. Communications of the ACM (Special Issue: Supporting exploratory search), 49(4)50-51.
E. Cutrell, S. T. Dumais and J. Teevan (2006). Searching to reduce the need for personal information management. Communications of the ACM (Special Issue: Personal information management), 49(1) 58-64.
S. T. Dumais (2006). LSA and information retrieval: Getting back to basics. In T. K. Landauer, D. S. McNamara, S. Dennis and W. Kintsch (Eds.), LSA: A Road to Meaning. Lawrence Earlbaum, 293-321
J. Teevan, S. T. Dumais and E. Horvitz (2005). Personalizing search via automated analysis of interests and activities. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2005, 449-456.
J. Teevan, S. T. Dumais and E. Horvitz (2005). Beyond the commons: On the value of personalizing Web search. In Proceedings PIA 2005: Workshop on New Technologies for Personalized Information Access, 84-92.
S. T. Dumais (2005). The Interactive TREC Track: Putting the user into search. In E. Voorhees and D. Harman (Eds.), TREC: Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval. MIT Press.
S. Fox, K. Karnawat, M. Mydland, S. T. Dumais and T. White (2005). Evaluating implicit measures to improve the search experience. ACM:TOIS, 23(2), 147-168. Talk available on SIGIR Implicit Workshop Page.
X. Shen, S. T. Dumais and E. Horvitz (2005). Analysis of topic dynamics in web search. In Proceedings of WWW 2005.
X. Shen, S. T. Dumais and E. Horvitz (2005). Investigations of topic dynamics in web search. Microsoft Technical Report TR-2005-20.
L. Streeter, D. Laham, S. Dumais, E. Z. Rothkopf (2004). Cherches le quadrant Pasteur! A symposium in honor of Tom Landauer. In Experimental Cognitive Psychology and its Applications: Triple Festschrift in Honor of Lyle Bourne, Walter Kintsch, Thomas Landauer.
P. N. Bennett, S. T. Dumais and E. Horvitz (2005). The combination of text classifiers using reliability indicators. Information Retrieval, 8(1), 2005, 67-100.
D. Azari, E. Horvitz, S. T. Dumais and E. Brill (2004). Actions, answers and uncertainty: A decision making perspective on web question answering. Information Processing and Management, Special Issue on Bayesian Methods in Information Retrieval, 40(5), 2004, 849-868.
H. Bruce, W. Jones and S. Dumais (2004). Information behaviour that keeps found things found. Information Research, 10(1), October 2004.
H. Bruce, W. Jones and S. Dumais (2004). Keeping and re-finding information on the web: What do people do and what do they need to do? In Proceedings of ASIST 2004.
E. Horvitz, S. Dumais and P. Koch (2004). Learning predictive models of human memory landmarks. In Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, Aug 2004.
S. T. Dumais, E. Cutrell, R. Sarin and E. Horvitz (2004). Implicit queries (IQ) for contextualized search. In SIGIR 2004 Proceedings, 594.
N. Belkin, S. Dumais, J. Scholtz and R. Wilkinson (2004). Evaluating interactive information retrieval systems: Opportunities and challenges. In Proceedings of CHI'2004, 1594-1595.
E. Gabrilovich, S. Dumais and E. Horvitz (2004). NewsJunkie: Providing personalized newsfeeds via analysis of information novelty. In Proceedings of WWW'2004, 482-490.
T. Paek, S. Dumais and T. Logan (2004). WaveLens: A new view onto search results. In Proceedings of CHI'04, 727-734.
S. T. Dumais (2004). Latent semantic analysis. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), Volume 38, Chapter 4, 189-230.
S. T. Dumais, K. Bharat, T. Joachims and A. Weigend (2003). SIGIR 2003 workshop report: Implicit measure of user interests and preferences. SIGIR Forum, 37(2), Fall 2003.
J. Allan, J. Aslam, N. Belkin, J. Callan, B. Croft, S. Dumais et al. (2003). Challenges in information retrieval and language modeling. SIGIR Forum 37(1), Spring 2003.
S. Poltrock, J. Grudin, S. Dumais, R. Fidel, H. Bruce, A. Mark-Pejtersen. Information seeking and sharing in design teams. In Proceedings of the Conference on Supporting Group Work (Group 2003), 239-247.
P. N. Bennett, S. T. Dumais and E. Horvitz (2003). Inductive transfer using layered abstraction-based ensemble learning: Modeling text classifier reliability. In ICML Workshop on The Continuum from Labeled to Unlabeled Data in Machine Learning and Data Mining.
S. T. Dumais, E. Cutrell, E., J. J. Cadiz, G. Jancke, R. Sarin and D. C. Robbins (2003). Stuff I've Seen: A system for personal information retrieval and re-use. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2003. [SIGIR Test-of-Time Award]
M. Ringel, E. Cutrell, S. T. Dumais and E. Horvitz (2003). Milestones in time: The value of landmarks in retrieving information from personal stores. In Proceedings of Interact 2003.
W. Jones, H. Bruce and S. Dumais. How do people get back to information on the web? How can they do it better? In Proceedings of Interact'2003, 793-796.
D. Azari, E. Horvitz, S. T. Dumais and E. Brill (2003). Web-based question answering: A decision making perspective. In Proceedings of UAI'2003.
S. T. Dumais (2003). Data-driven approaches to information access. Cognitive Science, 27(3), May-June 2003, 491-524.
W. Jones, S. Dumais and H. Bruce (2002). Once found, what next?: A study of 'keeping' behaviors in the personal use of web information. In Proceedings of ASIST 2002.
H. Bruce, R. Fidel, A.M. Pejtersen, S. Dumais, J. Grudin and S. Poltrock (2002). A comparison of collaborative information retrieval (CIR) behaviors of two design teams. In Information Seeking in Context (ISIC'2002).
S. Dumais, M. Banko, E. Brill, J. Lin and A. Ng (2002). P. Bennett, S. Dumais and E. Horvitz (2002). Web question answering: Is more always better? In Proceedings of SIGIR'02, Aug 2002, pp. 291-298.
P. Bennett, S. Dumais and E. Horvitz (2002). Probabilistic combination of text classifiers using reliability indicators: Models and results. In Proceedings of SIGIR'02, Aug 2002, pp. 207-214.
E. Brill, S. Dumais and M. Banko (2002). An analysis of the AskMSR question-answering system. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2002.
S. Dumais (2002). Web experiments and test collections: Are they meaningful? WWW 2002 panel.
M. Banko, E. Brill, S. Dumais and J. Lin (2002). AskMSR: Question answering using the worldwide Web. In AAAI Spring Symposium on Mining Answers from Text and Knowledge Bases.
E. Brill, J. Lin, M. Banko, S. Dumais and A. Ng (2001). Data-intensive question answering. In TREC 2001 Proceedings. Nov. 2001.
W. P. Jones, H. Bruce and S. T. Dumais (2001). Keeping found things found on the web. In Proceedings of CIKM'01. Nov. 2001, pp.119-126.
K. Collins-Thompson, C. Schweizer and S. T. Dumais (2001). Improved string matching under noisy channel conditions. In Proceedings of CIKM'01. Nov. 2001, pp.357-364.
R. Jin and S. T. Dumais (2001). Probabilistic combination of content and links. In Proceedings of SIGIR'01, Sept. 2001, pp.402-403.
S. T. Dumais and M. P. Czerwinski (2001). Building bridges from theory to practice. In HCI International 2001, 9th Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Session on Contributions of Basic Research in Psychology to Human Factors and Human-Computer Interaction. August 2001.
L. Wenyin, S. T. Dumais, Y. F. Sun, H. J. Zhang, M. P. Czerwinski, B. Field (2001). Semi-automatic image annotation. In Proceedings of Interact 2001, Eighth IFIP TC.13 Conference on Human Computer Interaction. July 2001.
S. T. Dumais (2001). When do you want to go 'where everybody knows your name'?: A framework for personalization. Invited talk at DELOS/NSF Workshop on Personalization and Recommender Systems in Digital Libraries. June 18-20, 2001, Dublin. Powerpoint slides.
S. T. Dumais, E. Cutrell and H. Chen (2001). Bringing order to the web: Optimizing search by showing results in context. In Proceedings of CHI'01, Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 2001, pp. 277-283.
Information Week article by Stuart Johnson on our contributions to SharePoint Portal Server. Microsoft Research who benefits? Information Week, March 21, 2001, 69-74.
R. Fidel, H. Bruce, A. M. Pejtersen, S. T. Dumais, J. Grudin and S. Poltrock. Collaborative information retrieval (CIR). The New Review of Information Behaviour Research, 2000, Vol 1, 235-247.
S. T. Dumais, E. Cutrell and H. Chen (2000). Classified displays of web search results. Invited presentation at ASIS&T SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, Nov 12, 2000, pp.87-90.
S. T. Dumais and H. Chen (2000). Hierarchical classification of web content (pdf file). Proceedings of SIGIR'00, August 2000, pp. 256-263.
H. Chen and S. T. Dumais (2000). Bringing order to the web: Automatically categorizing search results. (pdf file) Proceedings of CHI'00, Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 145-152.
S. T. Dumais (1999). Beyond content-based retrieval: Modeling domains, users and interaction. Keynote address at IEEE: Advances in Digital Libraries'99, May 19-21, 1999. Powerpoint slides
M. P. Czerwinski, S. T. Dumais, G. G. Robertson, S. Dziadosz, S. Tiernan and M. van Dantzich (1999). Visualizing implicit queries for information management and retrieval. (Postscript file) In Proceedings of CHI'99, Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 560-567
S. T. Dumais (1999). Talk at Library of Congress, Feb 8 1999. LOC Talk. (Powerpoint slides).
S. T. Dumais (1999). Statistical challenges for information retrieval. Tutorial at Uncertainty'99, Jan 3-5, 1999.
S. T. Dumais (1998). Using SVMs for text categorization. In IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine, Trends and Controversies, Marti Hearst, ed., 13(4), July/August 1998. All articles on this topic available here.
Forbes article by William Baldwin on our anti-Spam work. Spam killers. Forbes, Sept 21, 1998, 254-255.
S. T. Dumais, J. Platt, D. Heckerman and M. Sahami (1998). Inductive learning algorithms and representations for text categorization. (PDF file) In Proceedings of ACM-CIKM98, Nov. 1998, pp. 148-155. For additional technical details about the Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithms we use, see John Platt's home page.
M. Sahami, S. Dumais, D. Heckerman, and E. Horvitz (1998). A Bayesian approach to filtering junk e-mail. (Postscript file) AAAI'98 Workshop on Learning for Text Categorization, July 27, 1998, Madison, Wisconsin.
S. T. Dumais (1997). Tightly coupling structure and search. (Powerpoint slides) SIGIR'97 Workshop on information reduction, July 27-31, 1997.
S. T. Dumais (1997). Data mining and the Web. (Powerpoint slides) Panel at Knowledge Discovery and Databases (KDD) , August 14-17, 1997.

Other Papers and Talks Online:

Many of my earlier papers can be found on the Bellcore/Telcordia LSI page.
S. Deerwester, S.T. Dumais, G.W. Furnas, T.K. Landauer and R. Harshman (1990). Indexing by Latent Semantic Analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 41(6), 391-407.
T.K. Landauer and S.T. Dumais (1997). A solution to Plato's problem: the Latent Semantic Analysis theory of acquisition, induction and representation of knowledge. (html) Psychological Review, 104(2), 211-240. This paper takes a somewhat broader cognitive science perspective on dimension reduction and inductive learning.

Awards and Activities:

ACM Council, 2016-2018.
Indiana University Department of Psychological and Brain Science, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2016.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2015.
ACM-W Athena Lecture Award, 2014-1015.
Tony Kent Strix Award, 2014.
Washington State Academy of Sciences, 2011.
National Academy of Engineering (NAE), 2011.
ACM SIGIR Salton Award (for lifetime achievement), 2009.
ACM Fellow, elected 2006.
CHI Academy, elected 2005.
Chair of ACM:SIGIR, 1999-2003.
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Science and Technology Advisory Board. 2009-2012.
National Research Council, Board on Assessment of NIST Programs. 2001-2005.
National Research Council, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board committee on Computing and Communications Research to Enable Better Use of Information Technology in Government. 1998-2000.
CHI Program Committee, 2000-2009; Area Chair 2002, 2003; Co-Chair 1994.
SIGIR Program Committee, 2000-2014; Area Chair 2001, 2005, 2009; Co-Chair 2006.
WWW Program Committee, 2002-20079.
CIKM Program Committee, 2000-2005, 2007-2008.
HLT/NAACL Program Committee, 2003-2005; Co-Chair 2004.
JCDL Program Committee, 2002, 2004.
KDD Program Committee, 2000, 2003, 2007.
RIAO Program Committee, 2000, 2003, 2009.
AAAI Program Committee, 2001, 2004.
ACL Program Committee, 2003.
NIPS Program Committee, 2002.
TREC Program Committee, 1992-2009.
Associate Editor Handbook of Applied Cognition, second edition (2007), Frank Durso, editor, John Wiley and Sons.
Associate Editor Handbook of Applied Cognition (1999), Frank Durso, editor, John Wiley and Sons.
Advisory Board Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), Blaise Cronin, editor.
Editorial Board Human Computer Interaction, Tom Moran, editor.
Editorial Board ACM: Transactions on Information Systems, Gary Marchionini, editor.
Editorial Board ACM: Transactions on Human Computer Interaction, Jack Carroll, editor.
Editorial Board Information Processing and Management, Tefko Saracevic, editor.
Editorial Board Information Retrieval, Paul Kantor, Josiane Mothe and Justin Zobel, editors.
Editorial Board Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval. Jamie Callan and Fabrizio Sebastiani, editors.
Editorial Board New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (NRHM), Douglas Tudhope, editor.

Family Pics:

Ice Bucket Challenge in Times Square
Tom and Sue: 1) Tom and Sue at home
The Boat: 1) The new boat; 2) Tom w/ boat; 3) Sue w/ boat
Tom's New Car: Tom and the red Cadillac;
Living in Washington: 1) Seattle; 2) Olympic Mtns; 3) Lake Washington and us; 4) Mt. Ranier from plane
Vacation in Australia, Sept 1998: 1) Boat ride in Melbourne; 2) Stanley St; 3) Koala and us; 4) Koala
Vacation in Greece, Aug 2000: 1) Olympic Stadium; 2) Erechtheion Porch of Maidens; 3) Plaka; 4) Sunset near Divani; 5) Santorini caldera; 6) Santorini houses; 6) Santorini houses; 7) wine break; 8) Chania port; 9) Chania lighthouse; 10) Knossos
Samantha's Shower, Sept 2000: 1) the spread; 2) closeup of the goodies; 3) tea from the hostess; 4) guests; 5) guests; 6) guests; 7) Samantha and Christine; 8) grand finale; 9) Samantha and Kevin
Samantha and Matt's Wedding, Oct 21, 2000: 1) fall leaves; 2) coast at boothbay harbor; 3) wedding ceremony; 4) the elliots; 5) jerry and date; 6) cake time; 7) dancing w/ dad; 8) the brothers stanley sing acappella
The Kitchen, Before ( fridge, side, more side ) and After ( fridge, side, tom's stove)

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