Classes
I came to Mount Holyoke from the Computer Science
Department at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst. My dissertation work was done with Bruce Croft at the Center
for Intelligent Information Retrieval
Research
My research is in the area of Cross-language
Information Retrieval. These are systems that allow a person to query in one
language (e.g. English) and retrieve relevant documents in other languages
(e.g. Spanish). In my thesis research I developed very effective approach to
cross-language retrieval based on translation via machine
readable dictionary, augmented with statistical techniques for reducing
the effects of translation ambiguity. The statistical techniques are based on
analysis of word co-occurrence in text.
Other
Research Interests
Much of my research experience has been
in information retrieval, but I have a diverse research background. I have also
worked with Paul Cohen on applying AI techniques to exploratory data analysis
and causal induction. In addition, I spent a few years doing basic research in
Molecular and Cellular Biology. My
research interests span a broad spectrum of information access and knowledge
management issues. As the amount of on-line information continues to explode,
there is an increasing need for systems that facilitate the manipulation and
analysis of information. I am particularly interested in developing techniques
for text analysis and in exploring the ways in which these techniques can be
used for other data types. Areas of interest include the following:
question answering
extraction
geographic information retrieval
Automatic Image
Annotation
Publications
