Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) is a research center at the Department of Computer Science,

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, ...

. It is a leading research center in the area of Information Retrieval and

Information Extraction Information extraction (IE) is the task of automatically extracting structured information from unstructured and/or semi-structured machine-readable documents and other electronically represented sources. In most of the cases this activity concer ...

. CIIR is led by Distinguished Professor W. Bruce Croft and Professor James Allan.{{cite web, url=http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval.html, title=Information Retrieval Resources, date=12 April 2009, work= Stanford University, accessdate=31 July 2016

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