2015-2016 Presentations

GRADUATE RESEARCH PRESENTATION DAYS (2015 – 2016)

Friday, April 1, 2016

Date and Time: Friday April 1, 2016

Presentations:

Presenter: Andrew Yates

Title: Effects of Sampling on Twitter Trend Detection

A.Yates, A. Kolcz, N. Goharian and O. Frieder, “Effects of Sampling on Twitter Trend Detection”, In Proceedings of the 11th  International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’16), May 2016. (to appear)

Presenter: Arman Cohan

Title: Revisiting Summarization Evaluation for Scientific Articles

A. Cohan and N. Goharian, “Revisiting Summarization Evaluation for Scientific Articles”, In Proceedings of the 11th  International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’16), May 2016. (to appear)

Presenter: Jiyun Luo

Title: Session Search by Direct Policy Learning

Jiyun Luo, Xuchu Dong, Hui Yang, “Session Search by Direct Policy Learning”, In the Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2015). Northampton, Massachusetts.

Presenter: Jiyun Luo

Title: Learning to Reinforce Search Effectiveness

Jiyun Luo, Xuchu Dong, Hui Yang. “Learning to Reinforce Search Effectiveness”, In the Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2015). Northampton, Massachusetts.

Presenter: Andrew Yates

Title: The news cycle’s influence on social media activity

A. Yates, J. Joselow, N. Goharian, “The news cycle’s influence on social media activity”, International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2016). (to appear).

Presenter: Arman Cohan

Title: Identifying Significance of Discrepancies in Radiology Reports

A. Cohan, L. Soldaini, N. Goharian, A. Fong, R. Filice, R. Ratwani, “Identifying Significance of Discrepancies in Radiology Reports”, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) Workshop on data Mining for Medicine and Healthcare, April 2016 (to appear). 

Presenter: Andrew Yates

Title: Learning the relationships between drug, symptom, and medical condition mentions in social media

A. Yates, N. Goharian, O. Frieder, “Learning the relationships between drug, symptom, and medical condition mentions in social media”, International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2016). (to appear).

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Presentations:

Presenter: Tavish Vaidya 

Title: Cocaine Noodles: Exploiting the Gap between Human and Machine Speech Recognition

            Yuankai Zhang, Micah Sherr and Clay Shields. Cocaine Noodles: Exploiting the Gap between Human
            and Machine Speech Recognition.In USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT),  
            August 2015.

Presenter: J. Soo  

Title: Revisiting Known-Item Retrieval in Degraded Document Collections

            O. Frieder, “Revisiting Known-Item Retrieval in Degraded Document Collections”,
            Document Retrieval and Recognition XXIII (DRR), 2016 (to appear).

Presenter: J. Soo 

Title: Searching Corrupted Document Collections

O. Frieder. “Searching Corrupted Document Collections”, International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS), 2016 (to appear). 

Presenter: Tonghe Wang 

Title: Bounds for Blind Rate Adaptation

Seth Gilbert, and Calvin Newport, ”Bounds for Blind Rate Adaptation” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Principles of Distributed System (OPODIS). December 2015 (to appear).

Friday September 4, 2015

Presentations:

Presenter: Jon Parker

Title: Using Linear Programming and Divide and Conquer to Solve Large Games of Imperfect Information Citation

J. Parker. “Using Linear Programming and Divide and Conquer to Solve Large Games of Imperfect Information.” InWorkshops at the Twenty-Ninth, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015.

Presenter: Arman Cohan

Title: Scientific Article Summarization Using Citation-Context and Article’s Discourse Structure

A. Cohan and N. Goharian, “Scientific Article Summarization Using Citation-Context and Article’s Discourse Structure,” Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2015. [to appear in September].

Presenter: Luca Soldaini

Title: Enhancing web search in the medical domain via query clarification

L. Soldaini, A. Yates, E. Yom-Tov, O. Frieder, and N. Goharian, “Enhancing web search in the medical domain via query clarification,” Information Retrieval Journal, July 2015, doi:10.1007/s10791-015-9258-y.