CIIR
CIIR, the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, is a research center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst dedicated to information retrieval, natural language processing, and related machine learning methods. Located within the College of Information and Computer Sciences, CIIR brings together faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and students to investigate how people search for and interact with information across text, web, and multimedia sources.
Research programs span retrieval models and ranking, learning-based approaches to IR, interactive search and user modeling,
CIIR collaborates with other academic departments, national labs, and industry partners to contextualize research questions and
Graduates and researchers affiliated with CIIR contribute to academia and industry, and the center maintains a