Publications
2007. Simultaneous appearance modeling and segmentation for matching people under occlusion. Proceedings of the 8th Asian conference on Computer vision - Volume Part II. :404-413.
2006. Methods for automatically evaluating answers to complex questions. Information Retrieval. 9(5):565-587.
1998. Extension of Spherical Harmonic Method to RF Transient Regime. Simulation of semiconductor processes and devices 1998: SISPAD 98. :42-42.
2007. An Interactive Approach to Pose-Assisted and Appearance-based Segmentation of Humans. Computer Vision, 2007. ICCV 2007. IEEE 11th International Conference on. :1-8.
1999. Advances in spherical harmonic device modeling: calibration and nanoscale electron dynamics. Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices, 1999. SISPAD '99. 1999 International Conference on. :167-170.
2008. Scalable language processing algorithms for the masses: a case study in computing word co-occurrence matrices with MapReduce. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. :419-428.
2009. A cost-effective lexical acquisition process for large-scale thesaurus translation. Language resources and evaluation. 43(1):27-40.
2010. Putting the user in the loop: interactive Maximal Marginal Relevance for query-focused summarization. Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. :305-308.
2010. Evolutionary dynamics of U12-type spliceosomal introns. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10(1):47-47.
2009. Modeling actions of PubMed users with n-gram language models. Information retrieval. 12(4):487-503.
2010. Shape-based human detection and segmentation via hierarchical part-template matching. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on. 32(4):604-618.
2005. Evaluating Summaries and Answers: Two Sides of the Same Coin? Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Measures for Machine Translation and/or Summarization. :41-41.
2008. A pose-invariant descriptor for human detection and segmentation. Computer Vision–ECCV 2008. :423-436.
2009. Recognizing actions by shape-motion prototype trees. Computer Vision, 2009 IEEE 12th International Conference on. :444-451.
2006. Exploring the limits of single-iteration clarification dialogs. Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. :469-476.
2000. Rotation, scale, and translation resilient public watermarking for images. PROC SPIE INT SOC OPT ENG. 3971:90-98.
2006. Will pyramids built of nuggets topple over? Proceedings of the main conference on Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics. :383-390.
2008. Toward automatic facet analysis and need negotiation: Lessons from mediated search. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS). 27(1):6:1–6:42-6:1–6:42.
2008. How Do Users Find Things with PubMed? Towards Automatic Utility Evaluation with User Simulations
2009. The Curse of Zipf and Limits to Parallelization: A Look at the Stragglers Problem in MapReduce. Proceedings of LSDS-IR workshop. :57-62.
2009. Multiple instance Feature for robust part-based object detection. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009. CVPR 2009. IEEE Conference on. :405-412.
2010. Shape analysis and its applications in image understanding. IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. 32(4):604-618.
2005. Representation of information needs and the elements of context: A case study in the domain of clinical medicine. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR 2005 Workshop on Information Retrieval in Context (IRiX 2005).
2008. Learning pairwise dissimilarity profiles for appearance recognition in visual surveillance. Advances in Visual Computing. :23-34.
2006. The role of knowledge in conceptual retrieval: a study in the domain of clinical medicine. Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. :99-106.