Douglas Oard
Professor
Studies information retrieval, including cross-language search and e-discovery.
Douglas Oard's lab at UMD works on knowledge, QA & retrieval and recommendation, search & web. 23 papers since 2023, 7 at top venues, mostly SIGIR and EMNLP. 24 alumni, most often to Amazon and Microsoft.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 6/ year
- at T1 venues
- 30%
- PhD students
- 0
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 24
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 5 papers2025 · T1 1
- 7 papers2024 · T1 3
- 9 papers2023 · T1 3
T1 venuesOtherVenues: SIGIR, EMNLP
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- information5 papers
- Knowledge, QA & retrieval2 papers
- Recommendation, search & web2 papers
- search1 paper
- studies information0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20262 papers
- Edinburgh, UKArchives Search as a Complex Sensemaking Task, iConference
- —Searching Physical Archives, ICADL, Khon Kaen, Thailand, 8 pages
20255 papers
- —and Yoichi Tomiura, NTCIR-18 SUSHI Pilot Task Overview, NTCIR
- Historical Information (SUSHI) Taskfor Information Access Research (NTCIR) Searching Unseen Sources for
- PDFInference Risk: A Preliminary Study, ICTIR, Padua, Italy, 2025
- EMNLP (T1)interdisciplinary approach to human-centered machine translation
- PDFSUSHI: The University of Maryland at NTCIR-18, NTCIR, 2025
20247 papers
- PDFInformation Retrieval, Glasgow, UK, 17 pages, 2024
- South KoreaMission Control, ICASSP Fearless Steps Apollo Workshop, Seoul
- SIGIR (T1)On the Evaluation of Machine-Generated Reports, Proceedings of
- SIGIR (T1)Searching for Physical Documents in Archival Repositories
- TokyoSearching Unseen Sources for Historical Information: Evaluation
- PDFTREC 2024 NeuCLIR track, TREC, 2024
- SIGIR (T1)W. Oard, PLAID SHIRTTT for Large-Scale Streaming Dense Retrieval
20239 papers
- Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Assistance for Legal Professionals in the Digital Workplace (LegalAIIA), Braga, PortugalChatGPT for the FOIA Exemption 5 Deliberative Process Privilege
- SIGIR (T1)Eugene Yang, Neural Methods for Cross-Language Information
- PDFIndexing for Physical Content in Archival Repositories, TPDL, 14
- SIGIR (T1)Nair and Petra Galuščáková, HC3: A Suite of Test Collections for
- Conference on Infromation RetrievalNeural Approaches to Multilingual Information Retroeval, European
- SIGIR (T1)Pretraining for Scaleable Neural CLIR, Proceedings of the 46th
- at the TREC NeuCLIR Track, TRECSuraj Nair and Douglas W. Oard, BLADE: The University of Maryland
- Libraries, Taipeito Records in Archives, International Conference on Asian Digital
- PDFTREC 2023 NeuCLIR Track, TREC, 2023
Where alumni went24 listed, 86% to industry
Industry 6Academia 1
Most often to
- Amazon
- Microsoft
- Adobe
Also to
- USC
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