Publications
2008. A pose-invariant descriptor for human detection and segmentation. Computer Vision–ECCV 2008. :423-436.
2005. Evaluating Summaries and Answers: Two Sides of the Same Coin? Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Measures for Machine Translation and/or Summarization. :41-41.
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.
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.
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.
2001. Rotation, scale, and translation resilient watermarking for images. Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on. 10(5):767-782.
2009. Multiple instance Feature for robust part-based object detection. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009. CVPR 2009. IEEE Conference on. :405-412.
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).
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.
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.
2007. An exploration of the principles underlying redundancy-based factoid question answering. ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 25(2)
2009. A cost-effective lexical acquisition process for large-scale thesaurus translation. Language resources and evaluation. 43(1):27-40.
2008. Navigating information spaces: A case study of related article search in PubMed. Information Processing & Management. 44(5):1771-1783.
2010. Evolutionary dynamics of U12-type spliceosomal introns. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10(1):47-47.
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.
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.
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. Syntactic sentence compression in the biomedical domain: facilitating access to related articles. Information Retrieval. 10(4):393-414.
2007. Hierarchical Part-Template Matching for Human Detection and Segmentation. Computer Vision, 2007. ICCV 2007. IEEE 11th International Conference on. :1-8.