• Kelly, Diane, Fu, Xin, and Shah, Chirag. Effects of Position and Number of Relevant Documents Retrieved on Users’ Evaluations of System Performance. To be published in IEEE Transactions on Information Science (TOIS).
• Shah, Chirag, Pickens, Jeremy, and Golovchinsky, Gene. Role-Based Results Redistribution for Collaborative Information Retrieval. To be published in the Journal of Information Processing and Management (IP&M).

• Shah, Chirag, Oh, Sanghee, and Oh, Jung Sun. Research agenda for Social Q&A. Library & Information Science Research (LISR), 31(4), 205-209. [DOI]
• Oh, Jung Sun, Shah, Chirag, and Oh, Sanghee. User Participation Patterns Over Time in Yahoo! Answers. Poster to appear at ASIST 2009. November 6-11, 2009. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• Radford, Marie L. , Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, Pomerantz, Jeffrey, Shah, Chirag, Oh, Jung Sun, Oh, Sanghee, and Gazan, Rich. Opportunities, Threats, & Theoretical Approaches: Research in Traditional and Social Virtual Reference Quality. Peer-reviewed panel at ASIST 2009. November 6-11, 2009. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• Shachaf, Pnina, Rosenbaum, Howard, Abels, Eileen, Radford, Marie, Connaway, Lynn, Gazan, Rich and Shah, Chirag. Social Reference and Digital Reference: Online question answering practices in two diverse communities. Peer-reviewed panel at ASIST 2009. November 6-11, 2009. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• Shah, Chirag and Marchionini, Gary. Query reuse in exploratory search tasks. Poster to appear at HCIR 2009 Workshop. October 23, 2009. Washington, DC.
• Shah, Chirag. ContextMiner: Supporting the Mining of Contextual Information for Ephemeral Digital Video Preservation. International Journal of Digital Curation (IJDC), Vol 4, No 2 (2009). [PDF]
• Lee, Christopher A., Marciano, Richard, Hou, Chien-yi, Shah, Chirag. Mainstreaming Preservation through Slicing and Dicing of Digital Repositories: Investigating Alternative Service and Resource Options for ContextMiner Using Data Grid Technology. To appear in iPRES 2009. October 5-6, 2009. San Francisco.
• Shah, Chirag. What Do You Look Like on YouTube? Politics Magazine. July 2009. [Online]
• Shah, Chirag. TubeKit - A Query-based YouTube Crawling Toolkit. In Bulletin of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries, 5(1), Spring 2009. [Online]
• Shah, Chirag. Mining Contextual Information for Ephemeral Digital Video Preservation. International Journal of Digital Curation (IJDC), Vol 4, No 1 (2009). [PDF]
• Marchionini, Gary, Shah, Chirag, Lee, Christopher A., Capra, Robert. Query Parameters for Harvesting Digital Video and Associated Contextual Information. In the Proceedings of JCDL 2009. June 15-19, 2009. Austin, Texas.
• Lee, Christopher A., Marciano, Richard, Hou, Chien-yi, and Shah, Chirag. From harvesting to cultivating: transformation of a Web collecting system into a robust curation environment. Poster in the Proceedings of JCDL 2009. June 15-19, 2009. Austin, Texas.
• Shah, Chirag. ContextMiner - explore globally, aggregate locally. Demo in the Proceedings of JCDL 2009. June 15-19, 2009. Austin, Texas.
• Marchionini, Gary, Tibbo, Helen, Lee, Cal A., Jones, Paul, Capra, Robert, Geisler, Gary, Russell, Terrell, Shah, Chirag, Sheble, Laura, Jorda, Sarah, Song, Yaxiao, Howard, Dawne E., Clemens, Rachael, and Hill, Brenn. VidArch: Preserving Video Objects and Context Final Report. SILS Technical Report TR-2009-01. June 2009. UNC Chapel Hill. [PDF]
• Shah, Chirag. Lessons and Challenges for Collaborative Information Seeking (CIS) Systems Developers. In the Proceedings of Collaborative Information Behavior Workshop at GROUP 2009. May 10, 2009. Sanibel Island, Florida. [PDF]
• Shah, Chirag. Supporting Research Data Collection from YouTube with TubeKit. In the Proceedings of YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States. April 16-17, 2009. Amherst, MA. (3rd prize) [PDF]
• Shah, Chirag, Marchionini, Gary, and Kelly, Diane. Learning Design Principles for a Collaborative Information Seeking System. In the Proceedings of CHI 2009. April 4-9, 2009. Boston, MA. [PDF]
• Shah, Chirag. ContextMiner - Collect Different. Demo at DigCCurr 2009. April 1-3, 2009. Chapel Hill, NC. [PDF]
• Shah, Chirag. ContextMiner: Explore Globally, Aggregate Locally. In IEEE Computer. March 2009.

• Shah, Chirag and Eguchi, Koji. Improving document representation for Story Link Detection by Modeling Term Topicality. IPSJ Transactions on Databases, Vol.1, No.3, pp.11-19 (Dec. 2008).
• Lee, Christopher A., Shah, Chirag, and Russell, Terrell. ContextMiner: A toolkit for creating, managing, and monitoring web collection camapaigns. Demo at the 4th International Digital Curation Conference. December 2008. Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Shah, Chirag. Understanding System Implementation and User Behavior in a Collaborative Information Seeking Environment. In Bulletin of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries, 4(2), Fall 2008. [Online]
• Marchionini, Gary, Capra, Robert, and Shah, Chirag. Focus on results: personal and group information seeking over time. Poster at HCIR 2008 Workshop.
• Shah, Chirag, Oh, Jung Sun, and Oh, Sanghee. Exploring characteristics and effects of user participation in online social Q&A sites. First Monday [Online], Volume 13 Number 9 (30 August 2008).
• Kelly, Diane, Shah, Chirag, Sugimoto, Cassidy R., Bailey, Earl W., Clemens, Rachel A., Irvine, Ann K., Johnson, Nicholas A., Ke, Weimao, Oh, Sanghee, Poljakova, Anezka, Rodriguez, Marcos A., van Noord, Megan G., and Zhang, Yan. The effects of performance feedback on users' evaluations of an interactive IR system. In Proceedings of Information Interaction in Context. Oct. 14-17, 2008. London, UK.
• Shah, Chirag, and Marchionini, Gary. Capturing Relevant Information for Digital Curation. In Bulletin of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries, 4(1), Spring 2008. [Online]
• Shah, Chirag, and Marchionini, Gary. ContextMiner: A Tool for Digital Library Curators. In Bulletin of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries, 4(1), Spring 2008. [Online]
• Shah, Chirag. Toward Collaborative Information Seeking (CIS). In Collaborative Exploratory Search Workshop at JCDL 2008. [PDF]
• Shah, Chirag, and Marchionini, Gary. Hunting for Hip, Hipsters, and Happenings on YouTube. In ASIST 2008. October 24-29, 2008. Columbus, OH.
• Oh, Sanghee, Oh, Jung Sun, and Shah, Chirag. The Use of Information Sources by the Internet Users in Answering Questions. In ASIST 2008. October 24-29, 2008. Columbus, OH.
• Pickens, Jeremy, Golovchinsky, Gene, Shah, Chirag, Qvarfordt, Pernilla, and Back, Maribeth. Algorithmic Mediation for Collaborative Exploratory Search. In Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2008. Singapore. July 20-24, 2008. (Best Paper Award)
• Shah, Chirag. Understanding System Implementation and User Behavior in a Collaborative Information Seeking Environment. In Doctoral Consortium at SIGIR 2008.
• Shah, Chirag. TubeKit - A Query-based YouTube Crawling Toolkit. Demo in JCDL 2008. [TubeKit Website]
• Capra, Robert, Lee, Christopher A., Marchionini, Gary, Russell, Terrell, Shah, Chirag, and Stutzman, Fred. Selection and Context Scoping for Digital Video Collections: An Investigation of YouTube and Blogs. In JCDL 2008.
• Shah, Chirag. Understanding System Implementation and User Behavior in a Collaborative Information Seeking Environment. In Doctoral Consortium at JCDL 2008.

• Marchionini, Gary, Tibbo, Helen, Shah, Chirag, and Lee, Christopher A. Telling the Whole Story: Selecting and Collecting Web-Based Videos for Archival Collections. Poster in Digital Curation Conference (DCC). Washington DC, USA. December 11-13, 2007.
• Chirag Shah and Gary Marchionini. Preserving 2008 US Presidential Election Videos. In the Proceedings of International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW) 2007.
• Chirag Shah, Diane Kelly, and Xin Fu. Making Mind and Machine Meet - A Study of Combining Cognitive and Algorithmic Relevance Feedback. Poster in SIGIR 2007.
• Xin Fu, Diane Kelly, and Chirag Shah. Using Collaborative Queries to Improve Retrieval for Difficult Topics. Poster in SIGIR 2007.
• Chirag Shah and Gary Marchionini. DiscoverInfo: A Tool for Discovering Information with Relevance and Novelty. Demo in SIGIR 2007.
• Chirag Shah and Gary Marchionini. Capturing Relevant Information for Digital Curation. Poster in IEEE ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2007).
• Chirag Shah and Gary Marchionini. ContextMiner: A Tool for Digital Curator. Demo in IEEE ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2007).
• Chirag Shah and Koji Eguchi. Use of Topicality and Information Measures to Improve Document Representation for Story Link Detection. In Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2007).

• Koji Eguchi and Chirag Shah. Opinion Retrieval Experiments using Generative Models (Notebook Version). TREC 2006. [PDF]
• Chirag Shah, W. Bruce Croft, and David Jensen. Representing Documents with Named Entities for Story Link Detection (SLD). Poster paper for CIKM 2006. [PDF]
• Nallapati, Ramesh and Shah, Chirag. Evaluating the Quality of Query Rẽnement Suggestions in Information Retrieval. CIIR Technical Report #663. Summer 2006. Dept. of Computer Science, UMass Amherst. [PDF]

• Chirag Shah and Rakesh Gupta. Building Plans for Household Tasks from Distributed Knowledge. IJCAI 2005 Workshop - Modeling Natural Action Selection (MNAS). [PostScript] [PDF]

• Margaret Connell, Ao Feng, Giridhar Kumaran, Hema Raghavan, Chirag Shah, and James Allan. UMass at TDT 2004. Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) 2004. December 2004. [PostScript] [PDF]
• Chirag Shah and W. Bruce Croft. Evaluating High Accuracy Retrieval Techniques. SIGIR 2004. Sheffield, UK. July 2004.[PostScript] [PDF]

• Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Kedar Bellare, Chirag Shah, and Deepa Paranjpe. Generic Text Summarization Using WordNet for Novelty and HARD. Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) 2003. Maryland, USA. November 2003. [PostScript] [PDF]
• Chirag Shah and Pushpak Bhattacharyya. Improving Document Vectors Representation using Semantic Links and Attributes. International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON) 2003. Mysore, India. December 2003. [PostScript] [PDF]

• Chirag Shah, Bhoopesh Chaudhary, and Pushpak Bhattacharyya. Constructing Better Document Vectors Using Universal Networking Language (UNL). International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems (KBCS) 2002. Mumbai, India. December 2002. [PostScript] [PDF]
• Chirag Shah and Pushpak Bhattacharyya. A Study for Evaluating the Importance of Various Parts of Speech (POS) for Information Retrieval (IR). International Conference on Universal Knowledge and Language (ICUKL) 2002. Goa, India. November 2002. [PostScript] [PDF]
• Chirag Shah. Automatic Organization of Text Documents in Categories Using Self-Organizing Map (SOM). IEEE Regional Student Paper Contest, 2002 (3rd prize). [PDF]

2001

• Chirag Shah and A. Nayeemulla Khan. Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) for Broadcast News in Indian Languages. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2001. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. May 2001. [PostScript] [PDF]