Lisa
A. Ballesteros. Resolving Ambiguity for Cross-language Retrieval: A Dictionary
Approach.
Dissertation, Department of Computer Science,
Journal Publications
Lincoln T. Potter, Lisa A. Ballesteros, Lynn H. Bichajian, Cynthia A.
Ferrendelli, Abraham Fisher, Helene E. Hanchett, and Ren Zhang. Evidence
for Paired M2 Muscarinic Receptors. Molecular
Pharmacology, 39:211-221, 1990.
Refereed
Conference Publications
Lisa
Ballesteros and Mark Sanderson. Addressing
the Lack of Direct Translation Resources for Cross-language Retrieval. Proceedings of the
2003 ACM CIKM: 12th International Conference on Information and
Knowledge Management, November 2003. (Acceptance
rate: 15%)
Leah Larkey, Lisa
Ballesteros, and Margarett Connell. Improving Stemming
for Arabic Information Retrieval: Light Stemming and Co-occurrence Analysis. Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGIR Conference on
Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 269-274, August
2002. (Acceptance rate: 20%)
Lisa Ballesteros and
W. Bruce Croft. Resolving Ambiguity for Cross-Language Retrieval. Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGIR Conference on Research
and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 64-71, August 1998. (Acceptance rate: < 25%)
Lisa Ballesteros and Bruce W. Croft. Phrasal Translation and Query Expansion Techniques for
Cross-Language Information Retrieval.
Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in
Information Retrieval, pp. 84-91, July 1997. Awarded
Best Student Paper. (Acceptance rate: < 25%)
Lisa Ballesteros and W. Bruce Croft. Dictionary Methods for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on
Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA),pp.
791-801, August 1996.
Lisa A. Ballesteros. Regression-Based Causal Induction
with Latent Variable Models. Proceedings Twelfth
National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1994. AAAI Press/The MIT Press, p. 1426. Extended Abstract.
P.R.
Cohen, L. Ballesteros, A. Carlson, R. St. Amant.
Automating Path Analysis for Building Causal Models from Data: First Results
and Open Problems. In Working Notes of the Knowledge Discovery in Databases
Workshop, Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Washington
DC, pp. 153-161.
Paul R. Cohen, Adam Carlson, and Lisa Ballesteros. Automating Path Analysis for Building Causal Models from Data.
In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on
Machine Learning. pp. 57 - 64. Morgan Kaufmann, 1993. Technical Report 93-38, Dept. of
Computer Science, University of Massachusetts/Amherst.
Book
Chapters
Larkey, Leah S. , Ballesteros, Lisa, and Connell, Margaret
E., "Light
Stemming for Arabic Information Retrieval," to appear in Arabic Computational
Morphology: Knowledge-based and Empirical Methods, A.Soudi,
A. van den Bosch, and Neumann, G., Editors. Kluwer/Springer's series on Text,
Speech, and Language Technology. 2007
Ballesteros,
L. Cross-Language Retrieval via Transitive Translation. Advances in Information Retrieval: Recent Research
from the CIIR, pp. 203-234. W. Bruce Croft, Ed. Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 2000.
Lisa
Ballesteros and W. Bruce Croft. Statistical Methods for Cross-Language Information Retrieval. In Cross-Language Information Retrieval, Gregory Grefenstette, Ed. Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 1998. pp. 23-40.
Paul R. Cohen, Dawn E. Gregory, Lisa A. Ballesteros, and Rober St. Amant. Two Algorithms for Inducing Structural Equation Models from Data.
In Learning from Data: Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, D. Fisher and H.
Lenz(Eds.). Springer-Verlag, 1996. pp. 185-195
Paul R. Cohen, David M. Hart, Robert St. Amant,
Lisa A. Ballesteros, and Adam Carlson. Path Analysis Models of an
Autonomous Agent in a Complex Environment. In Selecting Models from
Data: AI and Statistics IV, Peter Cheeseman and R. W.
Oldford, Eds. Springer-Verlag,
1994. pp. 243-251. Technical Report
94-33,Dept. of Computer Science,
Workshops
and Symposia
Lisa Ballesteros and Xiaoyan Li. Heuristic and Syntactic Scoring for
Cross-language Question Answering. In Proceedings
of the 6th NTCIR Workshop on research in Information Retrieval, Automatic Text
Summarization and Question Answering, Tokyo, 2007.
Desislava Petkova and Lisa Ballesteros. Categorizing and Annotating Medical Images
by Retrieving Concepts Relevant to Visual Features. In Working Notes of the
CLEF workshop, 2005.
Lisa Ballesteros. Research in Cross-Language Information Retrieval at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of the State/Industry/University Cooperative
Research Centers Symposium, 1998.
Lisa
Ballesteros. Research in Cross-Language Information Retrieval
at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval.
In Proceedings of the State/Industry/University Cooperative
Research Centers Symposium, 1997. pp.
6-11-6-13.
Lisa Ballesteros and W. Bruce Croft. Phrasal
Translation and Query Expansion for Cross-Language Information Retrieval.
In Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Cross-language
Text and Speech Retrieval, 1997. Stanford, CA. pp. 1-8
J. Allan,
J. Callan, W. Bruce Croft, Lisa Ballesteros, Don
Byrd, Russell Swan, and Jinxi Xu.
INQUERY Does
Battle With TREC-6. Proceedings of the Sixth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-6), 1997.
J.
Allan, J. Callan, B. Croft, L. Ballesteros, J. Broglio, J. Xu, and H. Shu. INQUERY at TREC-5. Proceedings of the Fifth Text REtrieval
Conference (TREC-5), 1996.
J.
Allan, L. Ballesteros, J.P. Callan, W.B. Croft, and
Z. Lu. Recent
experiments with INQUERY. Proceedings of the Fourth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-4), 1995.
Paul R. Cohen, Dawn E. Gregory, Lisa A. Ballesteros, and Robert St. Amant.