Publications
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.
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.
2007. Hierarchical Part-Template Matching for Human Detection and Segmentation. Computer Vision, 2007. ICCV 2007. IEEE 11th International Conference on. :1-8.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
2009. A cost-effective lexical acquisition process for large-scale thesaurus translation. Language resources and evaluation. 43(1):27-40.
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.