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Jian-Yun Nie
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Information Retrieval (IR)
Knowledge Graph Reasoning
Natural Language Dialogue Systems
User Intent Understanding
About
Dr. Jian-Yun Nie is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research (DIRO) at the Université de Montréal and a Core Academic Member of Mila (Quebec AI Institute). He holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Natural Language Information Processing and Applications and was elected to the prestigious SIGIR Academy in 2022. Dr. Nie is a world-renowned expert in Information Retrieval (IR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), with a career spanning over three decades. His research focuses on the "evolution of search"—moving from simple keyword matching to sophisticated systems that understand user intent, reason with knowledge graphs, and engage in natural language dialogue.
Research Performance Summary
1988-2026
Active Research Span
First Recorded Paper
An outline of a general model for information retrieval systems
Year:
1988
Citations:
99
Venue:
Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on
Latest Recorded Paper
Language-Coupled Reinforcement Learning for Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Year:
2026
Citations:
0
Venue:
arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.14896
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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Publication Venues and Collaboration
Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown
Top Coauthors
Nie
Zhang
Liu
Research Impact by Period
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31
Citations
459
Avg. Citations / Paper
14.8
H-Index
8
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108
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13689
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126.8
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33
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66
Citations
7666
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116.2
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28
Papers
58
Citations
1610
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27.8
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20
Papers
62
Citations
3017
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48.7
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25
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54
Citations
4113
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76.2
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23
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24
Citations
966
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40.2
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11
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9
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160
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17.8
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4
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3
Citations
289
Avg. Citations / Paper
96.3
H-Index
3
Contact and Professional Links
Detected Research Keywords
Cross Language Information
Language Information Retrieval
Model Information Retrieval
Natural Language Processing
La Recherche Information
Trained Language Models
Statistical Translation Models
Medical Information Retrieval
Conversational Information Retrieval
Probabilistic Translation Model