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About James Allan

Professor Allan's research focuses on the automatic organization of textual information. He is interested in statistical methods extracting "concepts" from text and finding relationships between those concepts that can be used to impose structure that is otherwise hidden. For example, in the Topic Detection and Tracking work, the effort is toward adding topic-based structure to broadcast news sources as it evolves over time. He is also interested in information visualization, or methods for showing people the relationships between text or concepts--often when those relationships are not easily described by rules.

Positions

Present Co-Director, Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Present Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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CS350 Computer Science Building
140 Governors Drive
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-9264
Tel: 413-545-3240
Fax: 413-545-1789

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