Publications
2008. Learning pairwise dissimilarity profiles for appearance recognition in visual surveillance. Advances in Visual Computing. :23-34.
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.
2000. Rotation, scale, and translation resilient public watermarking for images. PROC SPIE INT SOC OPT ENG. 3971:90-98.
2003. Question answering techniques for the World Wide Web. Tutorial presentation at The 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (EACL-2003).
2007. User simulations for evaluating answers to question series. Information Processing & Management. 43(3):717-729.
2009. A cost-effective lexical acquisition process for large-scale thesaurus translation. Language resources and evaluation. 43(1):27-40.
2007. Deconstructing nuggets: the stability and reliability of complex question answering evaluation. Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. :327-334.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2007. Hierarchical Part-Template Matching for Human Detection and Segmentation. Computer Vision, 2007. ICCV 2007. IEEE 11th International Conference on. :1-8.
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.
2009. Modeling actions of PubMed users with n-gram language models. Information retrieval. 12(4):487-503.
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.
2005. Evaluating Summaries and Answers: Two Sides of the Same Coin? Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Measures for Machine Translation and/or Summarization. :41-41.
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.
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.
2001. Rotation, scale, and translation resilient watermarking for images. Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on. 10(5):767-782.
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.