July
2016
Bruce Croft, James Allan and CIIR co-authors honored with 6 of their publications chosen for ACM SIGIR Test of Time Awards – presented at ACM SIGIR 2016. Their pre-2002 papers were chosen for the award which "recognizes research that has had long-lasting influence, including impact on a subarea of information retrieval research, across subareas of information retrieval research, and outside of the information retrieval research community (e.g. non-information retrieval research or industry)."
| 2001 | Relevance based Language Models | V. Lavrenko & W. B. Croft | |
| 1998 | A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval | J. M. Ponte & W. B. Croft | |
| 1998 | On-line New Event Detection and Tracking | J. Allan, R. Papka & V. Lavrenko | |
| 1996 | Query Expansion using Local and Global Document Analysis | J. Xu & W. B. Croft | |
| 1995 | Searching Distributed Collections with Inference Networks | J. Callan, Z. Lu & W. B. Croft | |
| 1990 | Inference Networks for Document Retrieval | H. Turtle & W. B. Croft |
In addition, two CIIR papers were chosen for SIGIR Test of Time Award Honorable Mention (for papers 10-12 years before):
| 2003 | Automatic image annotation and retrieval using cross-media relevance models (awarded at SIGIR 2015) | J. Jeon, V. Lavrenko, and R. Manmatha | |
| 2002 | Predicting query performance (awarded at SIGIR 2014) | Steve Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, and W. Bruce Croft |
