Publications
2009. Modeling actions of PubMed users with n-gram language models. Information retrieval. 12(4):487-503.
2005. Evaluating Summaries and Answers: Two Sides of the Same Coin? Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Measures for Machine Translation and/or Summarization. :41-41.
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. 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.
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.
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.
2001. Rotation, scale, and translation resilient watermarking for images. Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on. 10(5):767-782.
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.
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.
2010. Evolutionary dynamics of U12-type spliceosomal introns. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10(1):47-47.
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.
2010. Shape-based human detection and segmentation via hierarchical part-template matching. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on. 32(4):604-618.
2008. A pose-invariant descriptor for human detection and segmentation. Computer Vision–ECCV 2008. :423-436.
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. Recognizing actions by shape-motion prototype trees. Computer Vision, 2009 IEEE 12th International Conference on. :444-451.
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.
2003. What makes a good answer? The role of context in question answering Human-Computer Interaction, Interact '03. :25-25.
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.