--- title: "James Allan — author profile and papers · Coreference resolution" description: "James Allan, University of Massachusetts Amherst: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2004–2023), h-index 62 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-allan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-allan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / James Allan # James Allan James Allan has 3 papers in our library, in 2004–2023, most of them on [Coreference resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Low-resource languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/); often with [Puxuan Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/puxuan-yu/), [Razieh Rahimi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/razieh-rahimi/), [Zhiqi Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiqi-huang/). 3 papers in our library · 2004–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5034070218) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0132-5694) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106519743) · [**h-index 62**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5034070218) · [354 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5034070218) · [15,526 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5034070218&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-allan/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 73 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-allan/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5722](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/58/#star-5722) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=James+Allan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=James+Allan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=James+Allan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=James+Allan) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Massachusetts Amherst** Amherst Center · United States 1994–2026 · 245 papersEmployment since 1994 · Professor, College of Information and Computer Sciences*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/) · [🎓**Cornell University** Ithaca · United States 1988–1996 · 9 papersEducation 1988–1995 · PhD, Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/cornell-university/) · [🎓**University of Massachusetts System** Boston · United States 2017 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/0260j1g46) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Coreference resolution · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Low-resource languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-allan/year/2023/) ### 2000s [**2004** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-allan/year/2004/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Cross-Document Coreference on a Large Scale Corpus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gooi-2004-cross-document-coreference-large-scale/)** *(2004 · 146 citations)* The paper addresses cross-document coreference: deciding whether identical person names in different documents refer to the same individual. 2. **[Improving Cross-lingual Information Retrieval on Low-Resource Languages via Optimal Transport Distillation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huang-2023-improving-cross-lingual-information-retrieval/)** *(2023 · 46 citations)* Cross-language retrieval for low-resource languages faces two problems. Multilingual encoders such as mBERT and XLM-R are pre-trained on unevenly distributed data, so they represent these languages poorly. Relevance-labelled CLIR training data for such languages also barely exists. The authors propose OPTICAL, which… 3. **[Conditional Natural Language Inference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kim-2023-conditional-natural-language-inference/)** *(2023 · 4 citations)* Some sentence pairs look contradictory but actually describe different situations. For example, two biomedical claims may give opposite answers about antihypertensive drugs because they concern different drugs or patient groups. Standard NLI labels such pairs neutral, which lumps them together with unrelated pairs.… ## All works 7 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[On-line new event detection and tracking ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290954) International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) · no summary yet**James Allan, Ron Papka, Victor P. Lavrenko*1998 · 557 citations* 2. **[Cross-Document Coreference on a Large Scale Corpus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gooi-2004-cross-document-coreference-large-scale/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Chung Heong Gooi, James Allan*2004 · 146 citations* 3. [**Improving Cross-lingual Information Retrieval on Low-Resource Languages via Optimal Transport Distillation arXiv:2301.12566**Zhiqi Huang, Puxuan Yu, James Allan*2023 · 46 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huang-2023-improving-cross-lingual-information-retrieval/) 4. **[SRI-Sarnoff AURORA System at TRECVID 2012 Multimedia Event Detection and Recounting. ↗](https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2010/5633) Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research · no summary yet**Hui Cheng et al.*2012 · 25 citations* 5. **[Team SRI-Sarnoff 's AURORA System @ TRECVID 2011 ↗](https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2010/3121) no summary yet**Hui Cheng et al.*2011 · 6 citations* 6. **[Conditional Natural Language Inference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kim-2023-conditional-natural-language-inference/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Youngwoo Kim, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan*2023 · 4 citations* 7. **[Future of Information Retrieval Research in the Age of Generative AI ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02043) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**James Allan et al.*2024 · 3 citations* ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Puxuan Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/puxuan-yu/) - [Razieh Rahimi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/razieh-rahimi/) - [Zhiqi Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiqi-huang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2023/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2004](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2004/) - International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) - Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 73 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [9 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-allan/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026