Publications
2010. Evolutionary dynamics of U12-type spliceosomal introns. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10(1):47-47.
2001. Rotation, scale, and translation resilient watermarking for images. Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on. 10(5):767-782.
2010. Shape analysis and its applications in image understanding. IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. 32(4):604-618.
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. Learning pairwise dissimilarity profiles for appearance recognition in visual surveillance. Advances in Visual Computing. :23-34.
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.
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.
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.
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. Hierarchical Part-Template Matching for Human Detection and Segmentation. Computer Vision, 2007. ICCV 2007. IEEE 11th International Conference on. :1-8.
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.
2009. A cost-effective lexical acquisition process for large-scale thesaurus translation. Language resources and evaluation. 43(1):27-40.
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. 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.
2000. Rotation, scale, and translation resilient public watermarking for images. PROC SPIE INT SOC OPT ENG. 3971:90-98.
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.
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.