Publications
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.
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.
2009. Multiple instance Feature for robust part-based object detection. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009. CVPR 2009. IEEE Conference on. :405-412.
2008. How Do Users Find Things with PubMed? Towards Automatic Utility Evaluation with User Simulations
2000. Rotation, scale, and translation resilient public watermarking for images. PROC SPIE INT SOC OPT ENG. 3971:90-98.
2009. The Curse of Zipf and Limits to Parallelization: A Look at the Stragglers Problem in MapReduce. Proceedings of LSDS-IR workshop. :57-62.
2010. Shape analysis and its applications in image understanding. IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. 32(4):604-618.
2008. Learning pairwise dissimilarity profiles for appearance recognition in visual surveillance. Advances in Visual Computing. :23-34.
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).
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.
2009. A cost-effective lexical acquisition process for large-scale thesaurus translation. Language resources and evaluation. 43(1):27-40.
2007. An exploration of the principles underlying redundancy-based factoid question answering. ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 25(2)
2008. Navigating information spaces: A case study of related article search in PubMed. Information Processing & Management. 44(5):1771-1783.
2007. Poster Session 5: Matching and Registration-Simultaneous Appearance Modeling and Segmentation for Matching People Under Occlusion. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 4844:404-413.
2009. Brute force and indexed approaches to pairwise document similarity comparisons with MapReduce. Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. :155-162.
2003. What makes a good answer? The role of context in question answering Human-Computer Interaction, Interact '03. :25-25.
2003. Question answering from the web using knowledge annotation and knowledge mining techniques. Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on Information and knowledge management. :116-123.
2007. Hierarchical Part-Template Matching for Human Detection and Segmentation. Computer Vision, 2007. ICCV 2007. IEEE 11th International Conference on. :1-8.
2007. Syntactic sentence compression in the biomedical domain: facilitating access to related articles. Information Retrieval. 10(4):393-414.
2005. Evaluation of resources for question answering evaluation. Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. :392-399.
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.
2004. Fine-grained lexical semantic representations and compositionally-derived events in Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics. :100-107.
2007. User simulations for evaluating answers to question series. Information Processing & Management. 43(3):717-729.