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email: sdumais@microsoft.com

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Bell Laboratories, Member of Technical Staff
Human-Computer Interaction Research Group, (October 1979 - December 1983)

Stevens Institute of Technology, Adjunct Professor, (January - December, 1986)

University of Chicago, Visiting Professor, Psychology Department and Center for Language and Information Studies, (January - March, 1990)

Bell Communications Research, Research Scientist
Cognitive Sciences/Information Sciences Research Group, (January 1984 - May 1995)

Bell Communications Research, Director
Information Sciences Research Group, (June 1995 - July 1997)
Computer Graphics and Interactive Media Research Group, (June 1995 - July 1997)

New York University, Adjunct Professor, (January - May, 1995)

Microsoft, Technical Fellow

University of Washington, Adjunct Professor (March 2002 – present)

Bates College, B.A. 1975 (Magna Cum Laude)
Mathematics and Psychology

Indiana University, Ph.D. December 1979
Cognitive-Mathematical Psychology

ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award, awarded 2020

ACM SIGIR Academy, elected 2020 (inaugural class)

Bates College, Distinguished Alumni-in-Residence, Jan 2017

Lifetime Achievement Award, Indiana University Psychological and Brain Sciences, awarded 2016

American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), elected 2015

Tony Kent Strix Award for Lifetime Achievement in Information Science, awarded 2014

ACM Athena Lecture Award, awarded 2014

National Academy of Engineering (NAE), elected 2011

Washington State Academy of Sciences (WSAS), elected 2011

ACM SIGIR Gerard Salton Award for Lifetime Achievement, awarded 2009

ACM Fellow, elected 2006

ACM CHI Academy, elected 2005

NJ ASIST Distinguished Lectureship Award, selected 2005

National Science Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 1975-1979

Doctoral Student Grant-In-Aid, Indiana University, 1978-1979

Phi Beta Kappa, 1974-present

New England Psychological Association Undergraduate Fellow, 1974-1975

Charles A. Dana Scholar (Bates College), 1972-1975

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

National Academy of Engineering

Association for Computing Machinery

American Society for Information Science and Technology

Human Factors Society

American Psychological Society

Psychonomic Society

National Academy of Engineering Peer Committee (Section 5 CS), 2021-present

Advisory Board, MIT/EECS, Thriving Stars (to increase representation in CS), 2021-present

Advisory Committee, MIT IDSS, new program combating systemic racism, 2021-present

Advisory Board, Institute for Data-Driven Dynamical Design (ID4), Adji Dieng, Ryan P. Adams, Eric Toberer, (Princeton, PIs), 2021-present

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), TRUC Advisory Board, 2020-present.

National Science Foundation CISE External Committee of Visitors, 2019-2021.

CSTB Workshop on Measurement Sciences and Trustworthy AI. 2020-2021.

ACM Council, 2016-2020, 2020-present.

ACM Athena Lecturer Award Committee, 2009-2012, 2019-present.

Stanford HAI Distinguished Fellow, 2019-present.

American Academy of Arts and Sciences Class I, Section 6 (CS, AI, IT) Membership Panel, 2018-present.

National Academy of Engineering Peer Committee (Section 5 CS), 2012-2014, 2021-present

National Academy of Engineering Nominating Committee, 2017-2018.

National Academies Panel on Information Science at the Army Research Laboratory, 2017-2018.

ACM WSDM Steering Committee, 2017-present.

Indiana University Cognitive Science External Advisory Board, 2015-present.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) TREC Advisory Board, 1980-present.

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Science and Technology Advisory Board, 2009-2011.

Chair: ACM SIGIR (Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval), 1999-2003.

National Research Council (NRC) Board on Assessment of NIST Programs: Panel for Information Technology, Oct 2001 – Sept 2005.

National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Computing & Communications Research to Enable Better Use of Information Technology in Government “Digital Government”, Oct 1998 – May 2000.

DARPA/ISAT Committee, Total Recall: Combining Digital and Human Memory, Sept 1999 – Sept 2000.

Editorial boards: ACM: Transactions on Information Systems (1999-2011); ACM: Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (2001-2011); Information Processing and Management (2002-2014); Information Retrieval (1997-2007); Human Computer Interaction (1995-2007); New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (1997-present); Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval FnTIR (2005-2014); User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (2006-2014).

Associate Editor: Handbook of Applied Cognition (first edition 1999, second edition 2007); Encyclopedia of Information Retrieval; Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) (2001-present); Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (ELIS) (2005-present).

Technical Program Committees (recent): TREC 2000-2015; ACM CHI 2000-2015 (Area Chair 2002, 2003, Co-Chair 1994); ACM SIGIR 2000-2015 (Area Chair 2001, 2005, 2009, 2011-2013; Co-Chair 2006); WWW 2002-2011; WSDM 2008-2012 (Senior PC 2011); CIKM 2000-2008; HTL/NAACL 2003-2005 (Co-Chair 2004); SIGMOD/VLDB 2007-2008; ACM/IEEE JCDL 2002, 2004; KDD 2000, 2003; RIAO 2000, 2003; AAAI 2000, 2002, 2004; ACL 2003; ECIR 2003-2008; EMNLP 2004; ICML 2000, 2002, 2004; IRAL 2000; NIPS 2002.

Guest Editor: Memory and Cognition: Special Issue on Memory and Cognition Applied (1991-1992)

Ad hoc reviewer: Memory and Cognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology, NSF, NIH, Human Factors, Cognitive Science, Information Processing and Management, International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, JASIS, ACM:TOCHI, ACM:TOIS, ACM:TODS, ACM:TWeb, Data Mining, Communications of the ACM, MIT Press, SIAM, PNAS.

Research at the intersection of human-computer interaction, information retrieval, and ML/AI. A common theme that runs through my research is the importance of understanding and improving information systems from an interdisciplinary and user-centered perspective.  Recent research on personalization, email search, and large-scale behavioral log analysis. Previous research at Microsoft includes personalized search and user modeling; temporal dynamics of information and interaction; context-based models for information retrieval; information retrieval and filtering; web-scale text classification; novel user interfaces for interactive retrieval; and question answering. Many of these research directions have led to innovations in Bing, Windows Search, SharePoint, Outlook, and Office Help. At Bell Labs she co-developed Latent Semantic Analysis, an early word embedding technique which was designed to mitigate the disagreement between the words that authors use writing and those that searchers use to find information. Also studied the representation of spatial information; individual differences; and impacts of new technology on productivity and quality of work life. This research has been published widely in the fields of information retrieval, human-computer interaction, and cognitive science.

Bradley, D. R. and Dumais, S. T.  Ambiguous cognitive contours.  Nature, 1975, 257, 582-584.71

Bradley, D. R., Dumais, S. T. and Petry, H. M. Ambiguous cognitive contours: A reply to Cavonius.Nature, 1976, 261, 77-78.

Dumais, S. T. and Bradley, D. R. The effects of illumination level and retinal size on the apparent strength of subjective contours. Perception and Psychophysics, 1976, 19, 339-345.

Bradley, D. R., Hotchkiss, C. M., Dumais, S. T. and Shea, S. L. Computer assisted instruction in the small college. In Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference on Computers in Undergraduate Curricula, 1976, pp. 205- 214.

Moyer, R. S. and Dumais, S. T. Mental comparisons.  In G. H. Bower (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation (Vol. 12). New York: Academic Press, 1978, pp. 117-155.

Holyoak, K. J., Dumais, S. T. and Moyer, R. S.  Semantic association effects in a mental comparison task.Memory and Cognition, 1979, 7, 303-313.

Dumais. S. T. Perceptual learning in automatic detection: Processes and mechanisms.  Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, September, 1979.

Fox, R., Aslin, R. N., Shea, S. L. and Dumais, S. T. Stereopsis in human infants.  Science, 1980, 207, 323- 324.

Aslin, R. N. and Dumais, S. T. Binocular vision in human infants: A review and theoretical framework. In H. W. Reese and L. P. Lipsitt (Eds.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior (Vol. 15). New York: Academic Press, 1980, pp. 53-94.

Shea, S. L., Fox, R., Aslin, R. N. and Dumais, S. T. Assessment of stereopsis in human infants. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 1980, 19, 1400-1404.

Dumais, S. T. and Shiffrin, R. M. Automatic detection in visual search: Target accentuation or distractor inhibition?  Indiana University, Cognitive Institute Tech Report, 1979.

Shiffrin, R. M. and Dumais, S. T. The development of automatism. In J. R. Anderson (Ed.), Cognitive Skills and Their Acquisition: The 16th Annual Carnegie Symposium on Cognition. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1981, pp. 111-140.

Shiffrin, R. M., Dumais, S. T. and Schneider, W. Characteristics of automatism. In A. Baddeley and J. Long (Eds.), Attention and Performance IX. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1981, pp. 223-238.

Landauer, T. K., Furnas, G. W., Gomez, L. M. and Dumais, S. T.  Verbal disagreement: A problem for the information age.  Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 1981, 18(2), 65.

Landauer, T. K., Dumais, S. T., Gomez, L. M. and Furnas, G. W. Human factors in data access.  In The Bell System Technical Journal, 1982, 61, 2487-2509. [reprinted in: The Journal of Information and Image Management, 1983, 16, 18-29.]

Dumais, S. T. and Landauer, T. K. Psychological investigations of natural command and query terminology. In A. Badre and B. Shneiderman (Eds.), Directions in Human-Computer Interaction.  Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1982, pp. 95-109.

Dumais, S. T. and Landauer, T. K. Obtaining information from people and computers.  Bell Laboratories Memorandum for File, 1982.

Furnas, G. W., Gomez, L. M., Landauer, T. K. and Dumais, S. T.  Statistical semantics: How can a computer use what people name things to guess what people mean when they name things ?  In Proceedings of the 1982 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York: ACM, 1982, pp. 251-253.

Dumais, S. T. and Landauer, T. K. Naming categories: Describing objects for menu and keyword systems. Bell Laboratories TM 82-11221-27.

Schneider, W., Dumais, S. T. and Shiffrin, R. M. Automatic/control processing and attention. ONR Report, HARL-ONR-8104.

Dumais, S. T. and Landauer, T. K. Using examples to describe categories.  In Proceedings of CHI'83: Conference on Human Factors in Computing, New York: ACM, 1983, pp. 112-115.

Landauer, T. K., Dumais, S. T., Furnas, G. W., Gomez, L. M., Jones, W. P., Lochbaum, C. C., Nachbar, D. W., and Remde, J. R. Workstations for professionals and managers: Recommendations for interface and functional design. Bell Laboratories TM-11821-830718-01.

Dumais, S. T. and Landauer, T. K. Using examples to describe categories. Bell Laboratories TM-11821- 830911-3.

Furnas, G. W., Landauer, T. K., Gomez, L. M. and Dumais, S. T.  Statistical semantics: Analysis of the potential performance of keyword information systems.  The Bell System Technical Journal, 1983, 62, pp. 1753-1804. [reprinted in: J. C. Thomas and M. L. Schneider (Eds.), Human Factors in Computer Systems. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1984, pp. 187-242.]

Dumais, S. T. and Landauer, T. K. Describing categories of objects for menu retrieval systems. Behavioral Research Methods, Instrumentation, and Computers, 1984, 16(2), 242-248.

Dumais, S. T. and Jones, W. P. Symbolic and spatial filing. In Proceedings of the 1st Mid-Central Ergonomics/Human Factors Conference. Santa Monica: Human Factors Society, 1984, pp. 50-51.

Schneider, W., Dumais, S. T. and Shiffrin, R. M. Automatic and control processing and attention. In R. Parasuraman and D. R. Davies (Eds.), Varieties of Attention. New York: Academic Press, 1984, pp. 1-27.

Bradley, D. R. and Dumais, S. T. The effects of illumination level and retinal size on the apparent depth of subjective contour figures. Perception, 1984, 13, 155-164.

Dumais, S. T. and Jones, W. P. A comparison of symbolic and spatial filing.  In Proceedings of CHI'85: Conference on Human Factors in Computing, New York: ACM, 1985, pp. 127-130.

Gomez, L. M. and Dumais, S. T. Putting cognitive psychology to work: Examples from computer system design. In T. J. Knapp and L. C. Robertson (Eds.), Approaches to Cognition: Contrasts and Controversies. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1986, pp. 267-290.

Jones, W. P. and Dumais, S. T.  The spatial metaphor for user interfaces: Experimental tests of reference by location versus name.  ACM: Transactions on Office Information Systems, 1986, 4(1), 42-63.

Dumais, S. T. and Wright, A. L. Reference by name vs. location in a computer filing system.  Proceedings of the Human Factors 30th Annual Meeting, 1986, pp. 824- 828.

Furnas, G. W., Landauer, T. K., Gomez, L. M. and Dumais, S. T. The vocabulary problem in human-system communication. Communications of the ACM, 1987, 30(11), 964-971.

Warm, J. S., Dember, W. N., Dumais, S. T. Galinsky, T. L., Macomber, R. M., Michaelis, E. D.  The luminance function in the perception of subjective contours.  University of Cincinnati, Technical Report.

Warm, J. S., Dember, W. N., Dumais, S. T.  Galinsky, T. L., Perry, A. P., Gluckman, J. Target luminance and the visibility of subjective contours. University of Cincinnati, Technical Report.

Dumais, S. T., Textual information retrieval. In: M. Helander (Ed.), Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction, Elsevier Science Publishers (North-Holland), 1988, pp. 673-700.

Dumais, S. T., Furnas, G. W., Landauer, T. K. and Deerwester, S.  Using latent semantic analysis to improve information retrieval. In Proceedings of CHI'88: Conference on Human Factors in Computing, New York: ACM, 1988, 281-285.

Dumais, S. T., Kraut, R. and Koch, S. Computers' impact on productivity and quality of worklife.  In Proceedings of the Conference on Office Information Systems, 1988, pp. 88-95.

Feustel, T. C., Salasoo, A. and Dumais, S.T.. An informal look at the working environment of psychologists in the telecommunications industry. Bellcore Technical Memorandum, April 19, 1988.

Furnas, G. W., Deerwester, S., Dumais, S. T., Landauer, T. K., Harshman, R. A., Streeter, L. A., and Lochbaum, K. E.  Information retrieval using a singular value decomposition model of latent semantic structure. In Proceedings of SIGIR, 1988, 465-480.  [SIGIR Test-of-Time Award]

Deerwester, S., Dumais, S. T., Landauer, T. K., Furnas, G. W. and Beck, L. Improving information retrieval with latent semantic indexing. In Proceedings of American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, 1988, pp. 36-40.

Dumais, S. T.  Human performance considerations in information retrieval. In Proceedings of American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, 1988, p. 221.

Kraut, R., Dumais, S. T., and Koch, S. Computerization, productivity, and quality of work-life. Communication of the ACM, 1989, 32(2), 220-238.

Salasoo, A., Feustel, T. C. and Dumais, S.T.. Psychologists in the telecommunications industry.  Human Factors Bulletin, 1989, 32(5), 3-7.

Kane-Esrig, Y., Casella, G., Dumais, S. T. and Streeter, L. A. Ranking documents for retrieval by modeling of a relevance density. In Proceedings of the 12th IRIS (Information System Research Seminar In Scandinavia) Conference. (Skagen, Denmark, August 1989) DAIMIPB- 296-I, Dec 1989, Ed: Susan Boker, ISSN 0105817, pp.329-33? Arhus, Denmark: Arhus University.

Dumais, S. T., Littman, M. L., and Arrowsmith, E. InfoSearch: A program for interactive retrieval using Latent Semantic Indexing. Bellcore Technical Memorandum, Oct. 1989.

Deerwester, S., Dumais, S. T., Landauer, T. K., Furnas, G. W. and Harshman, R. A. Indexing by latent semantic analysis.  Journal of the Society for Information Science, 1990, 41(6), 391-407.

Dumais, S. T.  InfoSearch: An iterative approach to information retrieval.  CHI'90: Conference on Human Factors in Computing. Poster.  April 1990.

Kraut, R. E. and Dumais, S. T. Computerization and the quality of worklife: The role of control. In COIS'90: Proceedings of the Conference on Office Information Systems. May 1990, pp. 56-68.

Dumais, S. T. Enhancing Performance in Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) Retrieval. Bellcore Technical Memorandum, TM-ARH-017527, Sept, 1990.

Dumais, S. T. Beyond the keyword search: Using latent semantic indexing (LSI) to improve information retrieval. In Proceedings of Bellcore Conference on Electronic Document Delivery, March, 1990, pp.117-122.

Swanson, D. R. and Dumais, S. T. Comparison of Latent Semantic Indexing with interactive Boolean text searching in a small collection of medical abstracts. Technical report: Center for Language and Information Studies, TR 92-06, University of Chicago, Aug. 1990.

Dumais, S. T.  User modeling and user interfaces: The user knows best. In Proceedings of AAAI'90, pp.1135-1136.

Dumais, S. T.  Improving the retrieval of information from external sources. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments and Computers, 1991, 23(2), 229-236.

Lang, K. L., Graesser, A. C., Dumais S. T., and Killman, D.. Question asking in human-computer interfaces. In Questions and Information Systems, T. Lauer, E. Peacock, and A. C. Graesser (Eds.), 1992, pp. 131-165.

Dumais, S. T. and Littman, M. L.. Infosearch: A program for iterative retrieval using Latent Semantic Indexing. In Proceedings of Bellcore Conference on Electronic Document Delivery, 1991, 259-260.

Dumais, S. T. and Schmitt, D. G. If at first you don't succeed: An experiment in iterative retrieval.  In Proceedings of CHI'91: Conference on Human Factors in Computing, 1991, 497.

Dumais, S. T. and Schmitt, D. G.  Iterative searching in an online database.  In Proceedings of Human Factors Society 35th Annual Meeting, 1991, 398-402.

Dumais, S. T. Documentation panel: Matching search strategies to the technology.  In Proceedings of Human Factors Society 35th Annual Meeting, 1991, 250.

Dumais, S. T. and Schmitt, D. G. Iterative searching in an online database.  In Proceedings of the Bellcore/BCC Symposium on User-Centered Design, 1991, 104-110.

Foltz, P. W. and Dumais, S. T.  An analysis of information filtering methods for Bellcore technical memos. In Proceedings of the Bellcore/BCC Symposium on User- Centered Design, 1991, 80-82.

Kane-Esrig, Y., Streeter, L., Dumais, S. T., Keese, W. and Casella, G. The relevance density method for multi- topic queries in information retrieval. In E. Keramidas (Ed.), Proceedings of the 23rd Symposium on the Interface, 1991, 407-410.

Hebrail, G., Dumais, S. T. and Winkler, P. Improving retrieval time in LSI: A heuristic clustering method for finding nearest vectors in very high dimension. Bellcore TM-ARH-019902, 9/91.

Dumais, S. T. and Feustel, T. C. Using Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) in Data Evidence Analysis.  Bellcore TM-TSV-021517, June 1992.

Dumais, S. T. and Nielsen, J.  Automating the assignment of submitted manuscripts to reviewers. In N. Belkin, P. Ingwersen, and A. M. Pejtersen (Eds.), SIGIR'92: Proceedings of the 15th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. ACM Press, pp.233-244.

Foltz, P. W. and Dumais, S. T. Personalized information delivery: An analysis of information filtering methods. Communications of the ACM, 35(12), December 1992, 51- 60.

Foltz, P. W. and Dumais, S. T. Personalized information delivery: An analysis of filtering methods. CHI'92: Posters and Short Talks, 4, 1992.

Nielsen, J., Phillips, V. L., and Dumais, S. T. Retrieving imperfectly recognized handwritten notes. Bellcore TM- ARH-021781, August 1992.

Dumais, S. T. Editorial preface to the special issue on memory and cognition applied. Memory and Cognition, 1992, 20(4), 325-326.

Dumais, S. T.  LSI meets TREC: A status report. In: D. Harman (Ed.), The First Text REtrieval Conference (TREC1), National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 500-207, pp. 137-152.

Dumais, S. T.  Automatically generating adhoc and routing queries. In: D. Harman (Ed.), The First Text REtrieval Conference (TREC1), National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 500-207, 1993, pp. 367- 368.

Dumais, S. T. and Foltz, P. W. Modeling user interests for information filtering.  Human Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC) 1993 Winter Workshop.

Dumais, S. T.  Useful user models. INTERCHI'93 Workshop on: Computer-aided adaptation of user interfaces, 1993.

Dumais, S. T. and Feustel, T. C. Using Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) in Data Evidence Analysis. Proceedings of: Bellcore/NYNEX Computer and Network Security Symposium. Boston, May 17-19, 1993.

Dumais, S. T. Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) and TREC-2. In: D. Harman (Ed.), The Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC2), National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 500-215, 1994, pp. 105- 116.

Caid, W. R., Dumais, S. T. and Gallant, S. I. Learned vector space models for information retrieval. Information Processing and Management, 1995, 31(3), 419-429.

Dumais, S. T.  The importance of user interfaces. (Panel Session: Evaluation interactive retrieval systems). In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 1994.

Dumais, S. T.  Review of: Sparks of Information in Human- Computer Information. Information Processing and Management, 1994, 30(6), 897-898.

DeClaris, N. Harman, D. Faloutsos, C., Dumais, S., and Oard, D. Information filtering and retrieval: Overview, issues and directions. In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1994.

Landauer, T. K. and Dumais, S. T. Latent semantic analysis and the measurement of knowledge.  In: Proceedings of the First Educational Testing Service Conference on Applications of Natural Language Processing in Assessment and Education, 1994.

Dumais, S. T.  Retrieving information from external sources. (Panel on: Cognitive Science Meets Cognitive Engineering). In Proceedings of Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 1994.

Adelson, B., Dumais, S., and Olson, J. (Eds.) CHI'94 Conference Proceedings: Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 1994.

Berry, M. W., Dumais, S. T. and O'Brien, G. W. The computational complexity of alternative updating approaches for an SVD-encoded indexing scheme.  In Proceedings of the Seventh SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, 1995.

Berry, M. W., Dumais, S. T. and Shipley, A. T.  Interactive information retrieval: A Case Study of Latent Semantic Indexing.  University of Tennessee CS Technical Report, CS-95-271, Jan 1995.

Berry, M. W., Dumais, S. T. and O'Brien, G.W. Using Linear Algebra for Intelligent Information Retrieval. University of Tennessee CS Technical Report, CS-94-270, Dec. 1994.

Berry, M. W., Dumais, S. T. and O'Brien, G.W. Using linear algebra for intelligent information retrieval. SIAM: Review, 37(4), 1995, 573-595.

Dumais, S. T.  Using LSI for information filtering: TREC-3 experiments. In: D. Harman (Ed.), The Third Text REtrieval Conference (TREC3) National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication, 500-225, 1995, pp.219-230.

Dumais, S. T.  What you get is what you want: Combining evidence for effective information filtering. SIGIR'95 Poster, 1995.

Dumais, S. T. Finding what you want: New tools and tricks. IEEE: Software, Interfaces Column, September 1995.

Berry, M. W., Dumais, S. T. and Letsche, T. A. Computational methods for intelligent information access. In Proceedings of Supercomputing'95, San Diego, CA, December 1995.

Dumais, S. T. Agent architectures for electronic directories. Bellcore Internal Memorandum, Sept 1995. Dumais, S. T.  Information Retrieval: Finding needles in massive haystacks. In J. Kettenring and D. Pregibon (Eds.), Proceedings of the Massive Data Sets Workshop. National Academy Press, 1996, 23-31.

Gordon, M. D. and Dumais, S. T. Using Latent Semantic Indexing for literature-based discovery. University of Michigan School of Business Technical Report, Feb 1995. (Revised version in JASIS, 1998.)

Landauer, T. K. and Dumais, S. T.  How come you know so much?  From practical problem to new memory theory. In Herrmann, D., McEvoy, C., Hertzog, C., Hertel P. and Johnson, M. (Eds.), Basic and Applied Memory Research: Theory in Context. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996, chapter 7, pp.105-126.

Dumais, S. T. Combining evidence for effective information filtering.  In AAAI Spring Symposium on Machine Learning and Information Retrieval, Tech Report SS-96- 07, AAAI Press, March 1996.

Dumais, S. T.  Interface design for information retrieval. NSF/UCLA Workshop on Social Aspects of Digital Libraries, Feb 15-17, 1996.

Dumais, S. T.  Next-generation navigation and search tools. Bellcore Internal Memorandum, March 1996.

Dumais, S. T., Littman, M. L. and Rosenstein, M. B. Community-based recommending.  Bellcore Internal Memorandum, April 1996.

Dumais, S. T., Egan D. E., and Allen, R. B. Personalized information delivery and advertising. Bellcore Internal Memorandum, June 1996.

Dumais, S. T., Landauer, T. K., and Littman, M. L. Automatic cross-linguistic information retrieval using Latent Semantic Indexing. SIGIR'96 Workshop.  (Revised version in appear in G. Grefenstetted (Ed.) Cross Language Information Retrieval, 1998.)

Dumais, S. T.  The personalized net.  National Communications Forum, Oct 1996.

Landauer, T. K. and Dumais, S. T. A solution to Plato's problem: The Latent Semantic Analysis theory of acquisition, induction, and representation of knowledge.  Psychological Review, 1997, 104(2), 211-240.

Dumais, S. T., Letsche, T. A., Littman, M. L. and Landauer, T. K.  Automatic cross-language retrieval using Latent Semantic Indexing. In AAAI Spring Symposium on Cross- Language Text and Speech Retrieval Tech Report. AAAI Press, March 1997, pp. 18-24.

Dumais, S. T. Latent Semantic Analysis. In Proceedings for the 1997 Conference on Cognitive Technology, April 3-5, 1997, Terre Haute, IN.

Dumais, S. T. Tightly coupling structure and search. SIGIR'97 Workshop on Information Reduction.

Rehder,B., Littman, M. L., Dumais,S T., and Landauer, T.K. Automatic 3-Language Cross-Language Retrieval with Latent Semantic Indexing.  In Proceedings of the Sixth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC6), NIST Special Publication.  NIST Special Publication 500-240, August 1998, 233-240.

Littman, M.L., Dumais, S.T., and Landauer,T.K. Automatic Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using Latent Semantic Indexing. In G. Grefenstette (Ed.), Cross Language Information Retrieval, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998, 51-62.

Michael D. Gordon, Susan T. Dumais. Using Latent Semantic Indexing for Literature Based Discovery. JASIS, 49(8), 674-685, 1998.

Thomas K. Landauer, Susan T. Dumais, Darrell Laham, Peter Foltz. "Learning human-like knowledge by mathematical analysis of texts".  Submitted to Science.

Sahami, M., Dumais, S., Heckerman, D., Horvitz, E. A Bayesian approach to filtering junk e-mail.  AAAI 98 Workshop on Learning for Text Classification.

Dumais, S., Heckerman, D., Platt, J. and Sahami, M. Inductive learning algorithms and representations for text categorization. Proceedings of ACM-CIKM’98, Nov. 1998, 148-155.  [Test-of-Time Award, CIKM 2017 inaugural award]

Dumais (1998), S. T. Using SVMs for text categorization. Support Vector Learning, In: IEEE Intelligent Systems, July-August, 13(4), 1998.

Dumais, S.T. Beyond content: Domain and user models for improved IR. SIGIR'98 Workshop on Hypertext IR for the Web. August, 1998.

Dumais, S. T.  (1999). Statistical challenges for information retrieval. Tutorial at Uncertainty'99, Jan 3-5, 1999.

Czerwinski, M., Dumais, S., Robertson, G., Dziadosz, S., Tiernan, S., van Dantzich, M. Visualizing implict queries for information management and retrieval. Proceedings of CHI’99, 560-567. Handbook of Applied Cognition,  Edited by F. T. Durso, R. S. Nickerson, R. W. Schaneveldt, S. T. Dumais, D. S. Linsday and M. T. H. Chi. John Wiley and Sons, 1999.

Dumais, S. T.  (1999). Beyond content-based retrieval: Modeling domains, users and interaction. Keynote address at IEEE: Advances in Digital Libraries'99, May 19-21, 1999.

Chen, H. and Dumais, S. T. (2000) Bringing order to the web: Automatically categorizing search results. Proceedings of CHI’00, 145-152.

Dumais, S.T., Grudin, J., Bruce, H., Fidel, R., Poltrock, and Pejtersen, A. Collaborative information retrieval. Proceedings of CHI’2000 (SIG), 298.

Fidel, R., Bruce, H., Pejtersen, A.M., Dumais, S.T., Grudin, J. and Poltrock, S. Collaborative information retrieval (CIR). Conference on Information Seeking in Context, August 2000.

Fidel, R., Bruce, H., Pejtersen, A.M., Dumais, S.T., Grudin, J. and Poltrock, S. Collaborative information retrieval (CIR). The New Review of Information Behaviour Research, 2000, Vol 1, 235-247.

Dumais, S.T. and Chen, H. Hierarchical classification of web content.  Proceedings of SIGIR’2000, 256- 263.

Dumais, S.T., Cutrell, E. and Chen, H. Classified displays of web search results. Proc. 11th ASIS&T SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, Nov 12, 2000, pp.87-90. (Invited paper).

Dumais, S.T., Cutrell, E. and Chen, H. Optimizing search by showing results in context. Proceedings of CHI’01, Human Factors in Computing Systems, 277-283.

Wenyin, L. Dumais, S. T., Sun, Y. F., Zhang, H. J., Czerwinski, M. P., and Field, B. Semi-automatic image annotation. Proceedings of Interact 2001, Eighth IFIP TC.13 Conference on Human Computer Interaction. July 2001, 326-333.

Dumais, S. T. and Czerwinski, M. Building a bridge from theory to practice.   Proceedings of HCI International 2001, 9th Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Aug 2001, 1358-1362.

Jin, R. and Dumais, S. T. Probabilistic combination of content and links.   Proceedings of SIGIR’01, Sept 2001, 402-403.

Collins-Thompson, K., Schweizer, C., and Dumais, S. T.   Improved string matching under noisy channel conditions.  Proceedings of CIKM 2001, Nov 2001, 357-364.

Jones, W. P., Bruce, H., and Dumais, S. T.  Keeping found things found on the web.   Proceedings of CIKM 2001, Nov 2001, 119-126.

Brill, E., Lin, J., Banko, M., Dumais, S. and Ng, A. Data-intensive question answering.  Proceedings of the Tenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-2001), Feb 2002, 393-400.

Banko, M., Brill, E., Dumais, S. and Lin, J. AskMSR: Question answering using the worldwide Web.  In AAAI Spring Symposium on Mining Answers from Text and Knowledge Bases.

Brill, E., Dumais, S. and Banko, M. An analysis of the AskMSR question-answering system.  In Proceedings of EMNLP 2002.

Bennett, P., Dumais, S. and Horvitz, E. Probabilistic combination of text classifiers using reliability indicators: Models and results.  In Proceedings of SIGIR 2002, 207-214.

Dumais, S., Banko, M., Brill, E., Lin, J. and Ng, A. Web question answering: Is more always better? Proceedings of SIGIR 2002, 291-298.

Dumais, S., Lewis, D. and Sebastiani, F.  Report on the 2nd workshop on operational text classification system (OTC-02). SIGIR Forum, 36(2), 2002.

Bruce, H., Fidel, R., Pejtersen, A.M., Dumais, S., Grudin, J. and Poltrock, S. (2002).  A comparison of collaborative information retrieval (CIR) behaviors of two design teams. In ISIC'2002.

Jones, W., Dumais, S. and Bruce, H. (2002).  Once found, what next?: A study of 'keeping' behaviors in the personal use of web information. In Proceedings of ASIST 2002, 391-402.

Dumais, S. T., Geisler, W. S., Raaijmakers, J. and Steyvers, M. (2002). Rumelhart symposium: Honoring Richard Shiffrin.  In Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, 11-12.

Dumais, S. T., Lewis, D. D. and Sebastiani, F. (2002). Report on the ACM SIGIR Workshop on Operational Text Classification Systems (OTC-02). SIGIR Forum, 36(2), Fall 2002, 68-71.

Poltrock, S., Grudin, J., Dumais, S., Fidel, R., Bruce, H. and Pejtersen, A. M. (2003). Information seeking and sharing in design teams.  Submitted to ECSCW’2003.

Wenyin, L., Dumais, S., Sun, Y., Zhang, H., Czerwinski, M. and Field, B. Semi-automatic image annotation.  Submitted to ACM:MMSJ.

Dumais, S. T., Cutrell, E., Cadiz, J. J., Jancke, G., Sarin, R. and Robbins, D.  (2003). Stuff I’ve Seen: A system for personal information retrieval and re-use. In Proceedings of SIGIR’2003, 72-79.  [Test-of-time Award 2015]

Dumais, S. T. (2003). Data-driven approaches to information access.  Cognitive Science, 27(3), May-June 2003, 491-524.

Azari, D., Horvitz, E., Dumais, S. and Brill, E. A decision making perspective on Web question answering. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth Conference on Uncertainty and Artificial Intelligence (UAI'2003), 11-19.

Ringel, M., Cutrell, E., Dumais, S. T. and Horvitz, E. (2003). Milestones in time: The value of landmarks in information retrieval from personal stores.  In Proceedings of Interact’2003, 184-191.

Jones, W., Bruce, H. and Dumais, S. How do people get back to information on the web? How can they do it better? In Proceedings of Interact’2003. 793-796.

Bennett, P. N., Dumais, S. T. and Horvitz, E. 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, 2003.

Poltrock, S., Grudin, J., Dumais, S., Fidel, R., Bruce, H. and Mark-Pejtersen, A. Information seeking and sharing in design teams. In Proceedings of the Conference on Supporting Group Work (Group2003), 239- 247.

Allan, J., Aslam, J., Belkin, N., Buckley, N., Callan, J., Croft, B., Dumais, S. et al. Challenges in information retrieval and language modeling.   SIGIR Forum, 37(1), Spring 2003.

Dumais, S. T., Bharat, K., Joachims, T. and Weigend, A.  SIGIR 2003 Workshop Report: Implicit measures of user interests and preferences. SIGIR Forum, 37(2), Fall 2003.

Dumais, S. T. Latent semantic analysis.  Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), Volume 38, Chapter 4, 2004, 189-230.

Paek, T., Dumais, S. and Logan, R. WaveLens: A new view onto web search results.  In Proceedings of CHI’04, 727-734.

Gabrilovich, E., Dumais, S. and Horvitz, E. NewsJunkie: Providing personalized newsfeeds via analysis of information novelty.  In Proceedings of WWW’2004, 482-490.

Belkin, N., Dumais, S., Scholtz, J. and Wilkinson, R. Evaluating interactive information retrieval systems: Opportunities and challenges.  In Proceedings of CHI’2004, 1594-1595.

Dumais, S., Cutrell, E., Sarin, R. and Horvitz, E. Implicit Queries (IQ) for contextualized search.  In Proceedings of SIGIR’04, 594.

Horvitz, E., Dumais, S. and Koch, P. Learning predictive models of human memory landmarks. In Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, August 2004.

Azari, D., Horvitz, E., Dumais, S. and Brill, E. A.  Actions, answers and uncertainty: A decision making perspective on web question answering.  Information Processing and Management: Special Issue on Bayesian Networks and IR, 40(5), 2004, 849-868.

Dumais, S. T. Personal information management: Stuff I’ve Seen and beyond.  ADCS 2004, 1.

Bennett, P. N., Dumais, S. T. and Horvitz, E. The combination of text classifiers using reliability indicators.  Information Retrieval, 8(1), 2005, 67-100.

Goecks, J. Cutrell, E., Dumais, S. T. and Robertson, G. Visualizing collections of information by people, topic and time.  Submitted.

Bruce, H., Jones, W. and Dumais, S. Re-finding information on the Web: What do people do and what do they need? Proceedings of ASIST, 2004.

Bruce, H., Jones, W. and Dumais, S. Information behaviors that keep found things found.   Information Research, 10(1), October 2004. Electronic journal, http://www.informationr.net/ir/10-1/paper207.html

Streeter, L., Laham, D., Dumais, S. and Rothkopf, E. Z.. Cherchez le quadrant Pasteur! A symposium in honor of Tom Landauer.  In A. Healy (Ed.), Experimental Cognitive Psychology and its Applications: Triple Festschrift in Honor of Lyle Bourne, Walter Kintsch, Thomas Landauer.  American Psychological Association, Nov 30, 2004.  http://www.apa.org/books/4318016.html

Dumais, S. T., and Belkin, N. J. (2005). The Interactive TREC Tracks: Putting the user into search. In: E. Voorhees and D. Harman (Eds.), TREC: Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval, The MIT Press, pp. 123-152.

Dumais, S. T., Marcu, D. and Roukos, S. (Eds.)  Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2004.   ACM, 2004. Bruce, H., Jones, W. and Dumais, S.  The PAIN hypothesis.  Submitted.

Fox, S. Karnawat, K., Mydland, M., Dumais, S. and White, T.  (2005).  Evaluating implicit measures to improve the search experience!. ACM:TOIS, 23(2), 147-168.

Shen, X., Dumais, S. and Horvitz, E.  (2005).  Analysis of topic dynamics in Web search.   In Proceedings of WWW 2005.

Shen, X., Dumais, S. and Horvitz, E.  (2005). Investigations of topic dynamics in Web Search.  Microsoft Technical Report TR-2005-20.

Teevan, J., Dumais, S.T. and Horvitz, E.  (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.

Teevan, J., Dumais, S. T. and Horvitz, E.  (2005). Personalizing search via automated analysis of interests and activities.  In Proceedings of SIGIR 2005, 449-456. [SIGIR Test-of-Time Award 2017]

Cutrell, E., Dumais, S. T. and Teevan, J. (2006).  Searching to reduce the need for personal information management. Communications of the ACM, 49 (1), 58-64.

Cutrell, E., Robbins, D., Dumais, S. T. and Sarin, R. (2006).  Fast, flexible filtering with PHLAT – Personal search and organization made easy.   In Proceedings of CHI 2006, 261-270. [Best Paper honorable mention]

Cutrell, E. and Dumais, S. T.  (2006). Exploratory search for personal information. Communications of the ACM, 49(4), 50-51.

Radlinski, F. and Dumais, S. (2006). Improving personalized web search results using results diversification.  In Proceedings of SIGIR 2006, 691-692.

Agichtein, E., Brill, E., Dumais, S. T. and Ragno, R. (2006). Learning user interaction models for predicting web search preferences.  In Proceedings of SIGIR 2006, 3-10. [SIGIR Test-of-Time Award honorable mention 2018]

Agichtein, E., Brill, E., and Dumais, S. T. (2006). Improving web search ranking by incorporating user behavior. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2006, 19-26.  [SIGIR Test-of-Time Award 2018]

Dumais, S., Efthimiadis, E., Hawking, D. and Jarvelin, K. (Eds.)  SIGIR 2006 Conference Proceedings: The 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval. ACM, 2006.

Cutrell, E., Dumais, S. and Sarin, R. (2006). New directions in personal search UI.  SIGIR 2006: Personal Information Management Workshop.

Dumais, S. T., Interfaces for combining personal and general information (2006).  SIGIR 2006: Personal Information Management Workshop.

Dumais, S. T. (2007).  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, 2007, pp293- 322.

Durso, F. T., Dumais, S. T., Nickerson, R. S., Lewandowsky, S. and Perfect., T. (Eds.), Handbook of Applied Cognition (Second Edition). John Wiley and Sons, 2007.

Downey, D., Dumais, S. T. and Horvitz, E. (2007). Models of searching and browsing: Languages, studies and applications. In Proceedings IJCAI 2007, 2740-2747.

Dumais, S. T. (2007). Information retrieval in context.   In Proceedings of IUI 2007, 7.

Sanderson, M. and Dumais, S. T. (2007).  Examining repetition in user search behaviour.   In Proceedings of ECIR 2007, 597-604.

Metzler, D., Dumais, S. T. and Meek, C. (2007).  Similarity measures for short segments of text.  In Proceedings of ECIR 2007, 16-27. [ECIR Test-of-Time Award 2017]

Leskovec, J., Dumais, S. T. and Horvitz, E. (2007).  Web projections: Learning from contextual subgraphs of the web.                 In Proceedings of WWW 2007, 471-480.

Clarke, C., Dumais, S. T., White, R. and Agchtein, E. (2007). The influence of caption figures on clickthrough patterns in web search.  In Proceedings of SIGIR 2007, 230-237.

Downey, D., Dumais, S. T. and Horvitz, E. (2007). Heads and tails: Web search with common and rare queries.  In Proceedings of SIGIR 2007, 225-226.

Teevan, J., Dumais, S. T. and Horvitz, E. (2007).  Characterizing the value of personalizing search.  In Proceedings of SIGIR 2007, 86-87.

Callan, J., Allan, J., Clarke, C., Dumais, S., Evans, D., Sanderson, M. and Zhai, C. (2007). Meeting of the MINDS: An information retrieval agenda.  SIGIR Forum, 41(2), 25-34.

Barreau, D., Capra, R., Dumais, S., Jones, W., Perez-Quinones, M. (2008).  Introduction to keeping, refinding and sharing personal information.  ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 26(4).

Carterette, B., Bennett, P., Dumais, S. and Chickering M. (2008) Here or there: Preference judgments for relevance.  In Proceedings of ECIR 2008, 16-27.  [ECIR Test-of-Time Award honorable mention 2018]

Adar, E., Teevan, J. and Dumais, S. (2008). Large scale analysis of web revisitation patterns.  In Proceedings of CHI 2008, 1197-1206. [Best Paper Award]

Teevan, J., Dumais, S. and Liebling, D. (2008). To personalize or not to personalize: Modeling queries with variation in user intent.  In Proceedings of SIGIR 2008, 163-170.  [Best Search Engine Marketing paper, 2009]

White, R., Dumais, S. and Teevan, J. (2008).  How medical expertise influences web search interaction. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2008, 791-792.

Dumais, S. (2008).  Supporting searchers in searching. Keynote.  In Proceedings of ACL 2008.

Downey, D., Dumais, S. Liebling, D. and Horvitz, E. (2008). Understanding the relationship between searchers’ queries and information goals.  In Proceedings of CIKM 2008, 449-458.

Hearst, M., Hurst, M. and Dumais, S. (2008). What should blog search look like?  In Proceedings of SSM 2008: CIKM 2008 Workshop on Search in Social Media.

Dumais, S. (2008). Thinking outside the (search) box.  Keynote. In Proceedings of HCIR 2008.

Barreau, D., Capra, R., Dumais, S., Jones, W. and Perez-Quinines, M. (Eds.) Special issue of ACM:TOIS on: Keeping, Refinding and Sharing Personal Information. 26(4), 2008.

Teevan, J., Dumais, S. T. and Gutt, Z. (2008).  Challenges for supporting faceted search in large, heterogeneous corpora like the web. In Proceedings of HCIR 2008, Human Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval Workshop.

Culotta, A. and Dumais, S. (2008).  Schema-guided fact extraction for web search summarization. (Technical Report).

Landauer, T. K. and Dumais, S.  Latent semantic analysis. Scholarpedia, 3(11):4356. http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/C94f7ae39161e7f6202681b5fc9a8c02

Dumais, S. (2009).  Faceted Search.   In Ling Liu and Tamer Ozsu (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 1103-1109.

White, R., Dumais, S. and Teevan, J. (2009).  Characterizing the influence of domain expertise on web search behavior. In Proceedings of WSDM 2009, 132-141.

Adar, E., Teevan, J., Dumais, S. T. and Elsas, J. L. (2009). The Web changes everything: Understanding the dynamics of web content.  In Proceedings of WSDM 2009, 282-291.  [Best Student Paper Award]

Adar, E., Teevan, J. and Dumais, S. (2009). Resonance on the Web: Web dynamics and revisistation patterns.  In Proceedings of Proceedings of CHI 2009, 1381-1390.

Andre, P., Teevan, J. and Dumais, S. (2009). From X-rays to silly putty via uranus: Serendipity and its role in web search. In Proceedings of Proceedings of CHI 2009, 2033-2036.

Knoll, S., Hoff, A., Fischer, D., Dumais, S. and Cutrell E. (2009.) Viewing personal data over time. In Proceedings of CHI 2009 Workshop on Interacting with Temporal Data.

Kelly, D., Dumais, S. and Pedersen, J. (2009). Evaluation challenges and directions for information seeking support systems. IEEE Forum: Special Issue on Information Seeking Support Systems, 60-66.

Hearst, M. and Dumais, S. (2009).  Blogging together: An examination of group blogs.  In Proceedings of ICWSM 2009, 13-18.

Dumais, S. T. (2009). Thinking outside the (search) box. Keynote.  In Proceedings of UMAP 2009. Dumais, S. T. (2009). An interdisciplinary perspective on information retrieval.   Salton Award Lecture SIGIR 2009. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2009, 1-2.

Dumais, S. T. (2009). Evaluating IR in situ.  Invited talk.  In Proceedings of SIGIR 2009 Workshop on the Future of IR Evaluation.

Teevan, J., Dumais, S., Liebling, D. and Hughes, R.  (2009). Changing how people view changes on the Web.  UIST 2009, 237-246.

Andre, P., schrafel, mc, Teevan, J. and Dumais, S. (2009). Discovery is never by chance: Designing for (un)serendipity. Creativity and Cognition 2009, 392-401.

White, R. W. and Dumais, S. T. (2009). Characterizing and predicting search engine switching behavior. In Proceedings of CIKM 2009, 1012-1021.

Elsas, J. and Dumais, S. (2010) Leveraging temporal dynamics of document content in relevance ranking. In Proceedings of WSDM 2010, 1-10.

Teevan, J., Dumais, S. and Liebling, D. (2010). A longitudinal study of how highlighting Web content change affects people’s Web interactions. In Proceedings of CHI 2010, 1353-1356.  [Best Paper Award]

Teevan, J., Dumais, S. and Horvitz, E. (2010). Potential for personalization.  ACM:TOCHI 17(1), 2010. [Best Search Marketing paper 2009]

Gao, Q., White, R., Dumais, S., Wang, S. and Anderson, B. (2010). Predicting query performance using query, result and interaction features. In Proceedings of RIAO 2010, 198-201.

Bennett, P., Svore, K. and Dumais, S. (2010). Classification-enhanced ranking. In Proceedings of WWW 2010, 111-120.

White, R., Kapoor, A. and Dumais, S. (2010). Modeling long-term search engine use.  In Proceedings of UMAP 2010, 28-39.  [Best Paper Finalist]

Ramage, D., Dumais, S. and Liebling, D. (2010).  Characterizing microblogging using latent topic models. In Proceedings of ICWSM 2010, 130-137.

Buscher, G., Dumais, S. and Cutrell, E. (2010). An eye-tracking study of ad quality in Web search.   In Proceedings of SIGIR 2010, 42-47.

Liu, C., White, R. and Dumais, S. (2010).  Understanding Web browsing behavior through Weibull analysis of dwell time.  In Proceedings of SIGIR 2010, 379-386.

Dumais, S. T., Buscher, G. and Cutrell, E. (2010). Individual differences in gaze patterns for Web search. In Proceedings of IIiX 2010, 185-194.

Liebling, D., Ramage, D., Dumais, S. and Drucker, S. (2010). Interactively exploring Twitter with topic models.  In Proceedings of KDD 2010 (Demo).

Ramage, D., Manning, C. and Dumais, S. (submitted to NIPS 2010). Partially labeled topic models for text mining.

White, R. W., Dumais, S. T. and Bennett, P. (2010). Predicting short-term interests using activity-based search context.  In Proceedings of CIKM 2010, 1009-1018.

Dumais, S.T. Temporal dynamics and information retrieval.   CIKM 2011, Keynote talk.

Dumais, S. T. and Williams, S. (2010). (submitted to UIST 2010, Demo).  A scratch pad for saving and refinding information.

Dumais, S. T. (2010). Understanding and supporting people in interacting with dynamics information environments. Keynote.  In Proceedings of ECDL 2010, 1.

Kulkarni, A., Teevan, J., Svore, K. and Dumais, S. T. (2011).  Understanding temporal query dynamics. In Proceedings of WSDM 2011, 167-176.

Dumais, S.T. Temporal dynamics and information systems.  iConfernece 2011, Keynote talk.

Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, C., Gamon, M. and Dumais, S. T. (2011). Mark my words: Linguistic accommodation in social media.   In Proceedings of WWW 2011, 745-754.

Dumais, S. T., Jeffries, R., Russell, D. M., Tang, D. and Teevan, J. (2011). Designing and analyzing large- scale log studies.  In Proceedings of CHI 2011 (Course).

Huang, J., White, R. and Dumais, S. T. (2011). No clicks no problem: Using cursor movements to understand and improve search. In Proceedings of CHI 2011, 1225-1234. [Best Paper Honorable Mention]

Guo, Q., White, R., Zhang, Y., Anderson, B. and Dumais, S. (2011). Why users switch: Understanding and predicting search engine switching rationales.  In Proceedings of SIGIR 2011, 335-344.

Kotov, A., Bennett, P., White, R., Dumais, S.T. and Teevan, J. (2011). Modeling and analysis of cross- session search tasks.   In Proceedings of SIGIR 2011, 5-14.

Ramage, D., Manning, C. D. and Dumais, S. T. (2011). Partially labeled topic models for interpretable text mining. In Proceedings of KDD 2011, 457-465.

Teevan, J. and Dumais, S. T. (2011).  Web retrieval, ranking and personalization.   In Interactive Information Retrieval, Chapter 10, pp. 189-204. (Eds. D. Kelly and I. Ruthven).

Sontag, D., Collins-Thompson, K., Bennett, P.N., White, R. and Dumais, S.T. (2012). Probabilistic models for personalizing Web search. In Proceedings of WSDM 2012, 433-442.

Buscher, G., White, R., Dumais, S.T. and Huang, J. (2012). Effects of individual and task differences on search result page examination strategies.  In Proceedings of WSDM 2012, 373-382.

Kim, J., Collins-Thompson, K., Bennett, P. and Dumais, S.T. (2012). Characterizing web content, user interests and search behavior by reading level and topic.   In Proceedings of WSDM 2012, 213-222.

Radinski, K., Svore, K., Dumais, S.T., Teevan, J. and Horvitz, E. (WWW 2012). Predicting user web behavior over time.  In Proceedings of WWW 2012.

Bernstein, M., Teevan, J. and Dumais, S.T. Direct answers for search queries in the long tail.  In Proceedings of CHI 2012. [Best Paper, Honorable Mention]

Bennett, P.N., White, R.W., Chu, W., Dumais, S.T., Bailey, P., Borisyuk, F. and Cui, Xiaoyuan. (2012).

Modeling the impact of short- and long-term behavior on search personalization.  In Proceedings of SIGIR 2012. [SIGIR Test-of-Time Award]

Agichtein, E., White, R.W., Dumais, S.T. and Bennett, P.N. (2012). Search, interrupted: Understanding and predicting search task continuation. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2012.

Svore, K., Teevan, J., Dumais, S.T. and Kilkarni, A. (2012). Creating temporally dynamic Web search snippets. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2012 (poster).

Dumais, S.T. (2012). Putting context into search and search into context.  SIGIR 2012 Industry Day Keynote.

Dork, M., Riche, N., Ramos, G. and Dumais, S.T. (2012). PivotPaths: Strolling through federated workspaces. In Proceedings of InfoVis 2012.

Diriye, A., Buscher, G., White, R.W. and Dumais, S.T. (2012). Leaving so soon? Understanding and predicting web search abandonment rationales. In Proceedings of CIKM 2012.

Dumais, S.T., Jeffries, R., Russell, D.M., Tang, D. and Teevan, J. (2014). Designing and analyzing large scale log studies. In Ways of Knowing in HCI (Eds.  J. Olson, W. Kellogg).

Radinski, K., Svore, K., Dumais, S.T., Teevan, J. and Horvitz, E. (WSDM 2012 submission).  Time-aware ranking: Improving ranking by learning to weight user behavior.

Kato, M., White, R., Teevan, J. and Dumais, S. T. (CHI 2012 submission). I have a question: The effect of question specificity and clarifications in synchronous social Q&A.

Diaz, F., Dumais, S.T., Radinsky, K., de Rijke, M. and Shokouhi, M. (2012). #TAIA2012. In SIGIR Forum, 46(2), Dec 2012.

Eickhoff, C., Collins-Thompson, K., Bennett, P.N. and Dumais, S.T. (2013). Personalizing atypical web search sessions. In Proceedings of WSDM 2013.

Chang, Y., Diaz, F., Dong, A., Dumais, S.T., Radinski, K. and Shokouhi, M. (2013). Temporal web dynamics and its application to information retrieval. In Proceedings of WSDM 2013 (Tutorial).

Dumais, S.T. (2013). Task-based search: A search engine perspective. Talk at NSF Task-Based Information Search Systems Workshop, March 14-15, 2013.

Eickhoff, C., Collins-Thompson, K., Bennett, P.N. and Dumais, S.T. (2013).  Designing human-readable user profiles for search evaluation. In Proceedings of ECIR 2013.

Ligne, A., Adar, E., Teevan, J. and Dumais, S.T. (2013). Predicting citation counts using text and graph mining. In Proceedings of iConference 2013, Workshop on Computational Scientometrics: Theory and Application.

Kato, M., J. Teevan, R.W. White and Dumais, S.T. (2013). Clarifications and question specificity in synchronous social Q&A. In Proceedings of CHI 2013 (Work in Progress).

Radinsky, K., Svore, K. Dumais, S.T., Teevan, J. and Horvitz, E. (2013).  Behavioral dynamics on the web: Learning, modeling and predicting.  ACM:TOIS, 31(3):16, 2013.  [Best of 2013, ACM Computing Reviews]

Kairam, S., Teevan, J., Morris, M., Liebling, D. and Dumais, S.T. (2013). Towards supporting search over trending events with social media. In Proceedings of ICWSM 2013. [Best Paper Finalist].

Teevan, J., Collins-Thompson, K., White, R.W., Dumais, S.T. and Y. Kim (2013). Slow search: Information retrieval without time constraints.  In Proceedings of HCIR 2013.

Organisciak, P., Teevan, J., Dumais, S.T., Miller, R.C. and Kalai, A.T. (2013). Personalized human computation.  To appear in Proceedings of HComp 2013, Work in Progress.

Sontag, D., Collins-Thompson, K. Bennett, P.N. White, R.W., Dumais, S.T. and Billerbeck, B. (2013). Personalization via probabilistic adaptation.   In Proceedings of NIPS 2013 Workshop on Personalization.

Dumais, S.T., Jeffries, R., Russell, D., Tang, D. and Teevan, J. (2013). Understanding behavior through log data and analysis. In J. Olson and W. Kellogg (Eds), Ways of Knowing in HCI, Springer.

Yom-Tov, E. Dumais, S.T. and Gao, Q. (2014). Promoting civil discourse through search engine diversity. To appear in QPOL’13.

Hassan, A., White, R.W., Dumais, S.T. and Wang, Y-M.  (2014) Struggling or exploring? Disambiguating search sessions. In Proceedings of WSDM 2014.

Eickhoff, C., Dumais, S.T., Teevan, J. and White, R.W. (2014) Lessons from the journey: A query log analysis of within-session learning. In Proceedings of WSDM 2014.

Adar, E., Ligne, A., Gokuladas, V. Teevan, J. and Dumais, S.T. (2014). CiteSight: Supporting contextual citation recommendation using differential search.  In Proceedings of SIGIR 2014.

Teevan, J., Collins-Thompson, K., White, R. and Dumais, S.T. (2014). Slow search. Communications of the ACM (CACM, 57(8):36-38).

Dumais, S.T. (2014).  Understanding and improving web search using large-scale observations and experiments. APS Invited Session on Big Data, May 24 2014

Dumais, S.T. (2014). Putting the searcher back into search.  Athena Lecture at SIGIR 2014. Dumais, S.T. (2014).  Searching: Fast and slow. Keynote at TAIA Workshop, SIGIR 2014.

Liebling, D. and Dumais S.T. (2014). Gaze and mouse behavior in the open world. In Proceedings of PETMEI 2014.

Dumais, S.T. (2014). Search and context. Keynote at CLEF 2014.

Hassan, A., White, R.W., Pantel, P., Dumais, S.T. and Wang, Y-M. (2014). Supporting complex search tasks. In Proceedings of CIKM 2014.

Organisciak, P., Teevan, J., Dumais, S.T., Miller, R.M. and Kalai, A.T. (2014). A crowd of your own: Crowdsourcing for on-demand personalization. In Proceedings of HCOMP 2014.  [Notable paper]

Dumais, S.T. (2015). Personalized search: Potential and pitfalls.   Keynote at NTCIR 2015.

Dumais, S.T. (2015). New trends in Web search: Thinking outside the search box. Seattle Technology Alliance: Technology & Discovery Series, Apr 10 2015.

Dumais, S.T. (2015). Large-scale behavioral data: Potential and pitfalls. Athena Lecture at CHI 2015. Dumais, S.T. (2015). Shaping our information futures with purpose, passion and persistence. >Commencement address SILS UNC, May 10 2015.

Organisciak, P., Teevan, J., Dumais, S.T., Miller, R.M. and Kalai, A.T. (2015). A crowd of your own: Crowdsourcing for on-demand personalization. In Proceedings of IJCAI 2015.  [Sister Papers Session]

Wen, M., Baym, N., Tamuz, O., Teevan, J., Dumais, S.T. and Kalai, A.T. (2015). OMG you’re funny! Computer-aided humor with an application to chat.  In Proceedings of ICCC (International Conference on Computational Creativity) 2015.

Dumais, S.T. (2015). Information retrieval and social media. AMS-MSR Statistics and Data Science Workshop, Jun 12-13 2015.

Wang, H., Moshchuk, A., Gamon, M. et al. (2015). The activity platform. In Proceedings of HotOS 2015.

Turner, J., Dumais, S.T. and Iqbal, S. (2015). Gaze-enhanced scrolling: Supporting preferred regions and document structure. In Proceedings of PETMEI 2015.

Dumais, S.T. (2015). Personalized search. Keynote at HCI International 2015.

Odjik, D., White, R., Hassan, A. and Dumais, S.T. (2015). Struggling and success in web search.  In Proceedings of CIKM 2015. [Best Student Paper]

Dumais, S.T. (2015). Understanding and improving search using large-scale behavioral logs. Tony Kent Strix Lecture, Nov 4 2015.

Schnbel, T., Bennett, P.N., Dumais, S.T. and Joachims, T. (2016). Using shortlists to support decision making and improve recommender system performance. In Proceedings of WWW 2016.

Fourney, A. and Dumais, S.T. (2016). Automatic identification of contextual reformulation of implicit systems-related queries. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2016.

Dumais, S.T. (2016). Personalized search: Potential and pitfalls.  Keynote at CIKM 2016. Dumais, S.T. (2016). Reflections on TREC @ 25 and beyond.  Keynote at TREC 2016.

Balu, H., Bennett, P.N., Awadallah, A.H. and Dumais, S.T. (2017). Self-E’s: The role of emails-to-self in personal information management. Proceedings of CHIIR 2017.

Narang, K., Dumais, S.T., Craswell, N. and Liebling, D. (2017). Large-scale analysis of email search and organizational strategies. Proceedings of CHIIR 2017.

Ai, Q., Dumais, S.T., Craswell, N. and Liebling, D. (2017). Characterizing email search using large-scale behavioral logs and surveys.  Proceedings of WWW 2017.

Kim, J., Craswell, N., Dumais, S.T., Radlinski, F and Liu, F. (2017).  Understanding and Modeling Success and Effort in Email Search. Proceedings of SIGIR 2017.

Yang, L., Dumais, S.T., Bennett, P.N. and Awadallah, A.H. (2017). Characterizing and Predicting Enterprise Email Reply Behavior. Proceedings of SIGIR 2017.

Allan, J., Belkin, N.J., Bennett, P.N., Callan, J., Clarke, C., Diaz, F., Dumais, S.T., Ferro, N., Harman, D., Hiemstra, D., Ruthven, I., Sakai, T., Smucker, M., Zobel, J. (2017). Overview of Special Issue. SIGIR Forum 51(2): 1-25, 2017.

Schnabel, T., Bennett, P.N., Dumais, S.T. and Joachims, T. (2018). Short-term Satisfaction and Long-term Coverage: Understanding How Users Tolerate Algorithmic Exploration.  Proceedings of WSDM 2018.

Alrashed, T., Awadallah, A.H. and Dumais, S.T. (2018). The Lifetime of Email Messages: A Large-Scale Analysis of Email Revisitation. Proceedings of CHIIR 2018.

Balu, H., Fourney, A. and Dumais, S.T. (2018). Characterizing Search Behavior in Productivity Software. Proceedings of CHIIR 2018.

Dumais, S.T., (2018).  Better Together: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Information Retrieval. Keynote at CHIIR 2018.

Dumais, S.T., (2018). Large-Scale Behavioral Analysis.  Keynote at iConference 2018.

Zhao, Q., Bennett, P.N., Fourney, A., Loomis-Thompson, A., Williams, S., Troy, A. and Dumais. S.T. (2018). Calendar-Aware Proactive Email Recommendation. Proceedings of SIGIR 2018.

Allen, J., Arguello, J. Azzopardi, L., Bailey, P., ... Dumais, S.T. et al. (2018). Research Frontiers in Information Retrieval: Report from the Third Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval in Lorne (SWIRL 2018). SIGIR Forum 52(1), 34-90, 2018.

Sarrafzadeh, B., Awadallah, A.H. and, Dumais, S.T. (2019). Characterizing and Predicting Email Deferral Behavior. Proceedings of WSDM 2019.

Alrashid, T., Bailey, P., Lee, C.J., Shokouhi, M., Lin, C. and Dumais, S.T. (2019). Evaluating User Actions as a Proxy for Email Significance. Proceedings of The Web Conference 2019.

Jahanbakhsh, F., Awadallah, A.H., Dumais, S.T. and Xu, X. (2020). Effects of Past Interactions on User Experience with Recommended Documents. Proceedings of CHIIR 2020.

Xu, X., Awadallah, A.H., Dumais, S.T., Omar, F., Popp, B., Rounthwaite, R. and Jahanbakhsh, F. (2020). Understanding User Behavior for Document Understanding.  Proceedings of the Web Conference 2020.

Zamani, H., Dumais, S.T., Craswell, N., Bennett, P.N, Lueck, G. (2020). Generating Clarifying Questions for Information Retrieval. Proceedings of the Web Conference 2020.

Dumais, S.T. (2020). SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award Talk: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Search. CHI 2020 Extended Abstracts.

Li, X., Lee, C.J, Shokouhi, M. and Dumais, S.T. (2020). Characterizing Reading Time on Enterprise Emails. CoRR abs/2001.00802.

Shu, K., Mukherjee, S., Zheng, G., Awadallah, A.H., Shokouhi, M. and Dumais, S.T. (2020). Learning with Weak Supervision from User Interactions. Proceedings of SIGIR 2020.

Zamani, H., Bennett, P.N., Craswell, N., Diaz, F. and Dumais, S.T. (2020). Analyzing and Learning from User Interactions for Search Clarification. Proceedings of SIGIR 2020.

Zhang, J., Pennebaker, J.W., Dumais, S.T. and Horvitz, E.H. (2020). Configuring Audiences: A Case Study of Email Communication. Proceedings of CSCW 2020.

Shu, Kai, Awadallah, Dumais, S.T. and Liu, H. (2021). Detecting Fake News with Weak Social Supervision. IEEE Intelligent Systems Journal.

Dumais, S.T. (2021). Beyond Web Search: How Email Search is Different and Why it Matters. Proceedings of WSDM 2021.

Zheng, G., Awadallah, A.H. and Dumais, S.T. (2021). Meta Label Correction for Noisy Label Learning. Proceedings of AAAI 2021.

Yang, L., Schnabel, T., Bennett, P.N. and Dumais, S.T. (2021). Local Factor Models for Large-Scale Inductive Recommendation. Proceedings of RecSys 2021.

Dumais, S.T. (2022). The Importance of Context in Search. Proceedings ACM CODS-COMAD 2022.

 

Patents:

63 Granted

91 Pending