Publications and Contributions

• Journal Article, Academic Journal
  Towards More Personalized Recommendations by Modeling Users' Temporal Behaviors with Task-Based Graph Neural Network (TGNN) (2025)

  19(3), pp. 1-19 Authors: Maryam Amirizaniani, Shawon Sarkar, Chirag Shah
• Journal Article, Professional Journal
  Cultivating a space for intergenerational research mentorship through Knowledge Families (2024)

  Wicazo Sa Review, 37(1), pp. 1-28 Authors: Clarita Lefthand-Begay, Nicole Kuhn, Turam Purty, Tessa Rose Campbell, Shawon Sarkar, Jesse Brisbois, Robin Ruhm, Kunsang Choden Lama, Ana Rodriguez, Celina Ghost Dog, Jean M Dennison, Shayla Chatto, Ruonan Guo
• Conference Extended Abstract
  A Context-independent Representation of Task (2021)

  Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, pp. 359--362 Author: Shawon Sarkar
• Conference Paper
  An Integrated Model of Task, Information Needs, Sources and Uncertainty to Design Task-Aware Search Systems. (2021)

  Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR) Authors: Shawon Sarkar, Chirag Shah
• Journal Article, Academic Journal
  Decolonizing Risk Communication: Indigenous Responses to COVID-19 using Social Media (2020)

  Journal of Indigenous Social Development Authors: Nicole Kuhn, Shawon Sarkar, Lauren Alaine White, Josephine Hoy, Celena McCray, Clarita Lefthand-Begay
• Conference Paper
  Identifying and Predicting the States of Complex Search Tasks (2020)

  Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR '20) Authors: Jiqun Liu, Shawon Sarkar, Chirag Shah
• Journal Article, Professional Journal
  Implicit Information Need as Explicit Problems, Help, and Behavioral Signals. (2019)

  Information Processing and Management (IP&M), 57(2) Authors: Shawon Sarkar, Matthew Mitsui, Jiqun Liu, Chirag Shah
• Conference Paper
  Juggling with Information Sources, Task Type, and Information Quality: An Investigation (2018)

  Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval Authors: Y. Wang, Shawon Sarkar, Chirag Shah
• Conference Short Paper
  Investigating Information Seekers’ Selection of Interpersonal and Impersonal Sources (2017)

  Proceedings of ACM CHIIR 2017 Conference Authors: Y. Wang, Shawon Sarkar, Chirag Shah
• Conference Paper
  Investigating relations of information seeking outcomes to the selection and use of information sources (2017)

  Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 54(1), pp. 347-356 Authors: Shawon Sarkar, Y. Wang, Chirag Shah