2013-2014 Presentations
Graduate Research Presentation Day
Date and Time: Friday April 25, 2014
Location: STM 404/414
Presentations:
Presenter: Henry Tan
Title: Censorship Resistance as a Side-Effect
H. Tan and M. Sherr, “Censorship Resistance as a Side-Effect.” 22nd International Workshop on Security Protocols, 2014. (short)[pdf]
Presenter: Andrew Yates
Title: Relevance-Ranked Domain-Specific Synonym Discovery
A. Yates, N. Goharian, O. Frieder, “Relevance-Ranked Domain-Specific Synonym Discovery.” In Proceedings of the 36th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ’14), April 2014. [pdf]
Presenter: Sicong Zhang
Title: Utilizing Query Change for Session Search
D. Guan, S. Zhang, and H. Yang, “Utilizing Query Change for Session Search.” In Proceeding of the 36th Annual ACM SIGIR conference, 2013. [pdf]
Presenter: Jiyun Luo
Title: The water filling model and the cube test: multi-dimensional evaluation for professional search
L. Jiyun, C. Wing, H. Yang, and M. Hearst, ”The water filling model and the cube test: multi-dimensional evaluation for professional search.” In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management, 2013. (short) [pdf]
Presenter: Andrew Yates
Title: A Framework for Public Health Surveillance
A. Yates, J. Parker, N. Goharian, and O. Frieder, “A Framework for Public Health Surveillance.” In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), May 2014.
Presenter: Yifang Wei
Title: Understanding evolving group structures in time-varying networks
P. Caravelli, Y. Wei, D. Subak, L. Singh, and J. Mann, “Understanding evolving group structures in time-varying networks.” ASONAM, 2013. (short) [pdf]
Graduate Research Presentation Day
Date and Time: Friday November 22, 2013
Location: STM 414
Presentations:
Presenter: Chris Wacek
Title: Users Get Routed: Traffic Correlation in Tor by Realistic Adversaries
A. Johnson, C. Wacek, R. Jansen, M. Sherr, and P. Syverson, ”Users Get Routed: Traffic Correlation in Tor by Realistic Adversaries.” In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2013. [pdf]
Presenter: Tonghe Wang
Title: Brief Announcement: Fair Maximal Independent Sets in Trees
J. Fineman, C. Newport, and T. Wang, ”Brief Announcement: Fair Maximal Independent Sets in Trees.” In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on the Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), 2013. (short) [pdf]
Presenter: Andrew Yates
Title: Semi-supervised Sentiment Analysis: Merging Labeled Sentences with Unlabeled Reviews to Identify Sentiment
A. Yates, N. Goharian, W. Yee, “Semi-supervised Sentiment Analysis: Merging Labeled Sentences with Unlabeled Reviews to Identify Sentiment”, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), Nov 2013. [pdf]
Presenter: Jason Soo
Title: A non-learning approach to spelling correction in web queries
J. Soo, ”A non-learning approach to spelling correction in web queries.” Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion, 2013. (short) [pdf]
Presenter: Yanan Zhu
Title: To Follow or Not to Follow: A Feature Evaluation
Y. Zhu and N. Goharian, “To Follow or Not to Follow: A Feature Evaluation”, Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web (WWW’13), 2013. (short) [pdf]
Presenter: Yifang Wei
Title: Understanding Site-Based Inference Potential for Identifying Hidden Attributes
W. B. Moore, Y. Wei, A. Orshefsky, M. Sherr, L. Singh, and H. Yang., “Understanding Site-Based Inference Potential for Identifying Hidden Attributes.” PASSAT, 2013. [pdf]
Presenter: Andrew Yates
Title: Validating Web Content with Senser
J. Wilberding, A. Yates, M. Sherr, W. Zhou, “Validating Web Content with Senser”, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Dec 2013. [pdf]
Presenter: Jon Parker
Title: Automatic Enhancement and Binarization of Degraded Document Images
J. Parker, O. Frieder, and G. Frieder, ”Automatic Enhancement and Binarization of Degraded Document Images.” In Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2013, International Conference on IEEE, 2013. [pdf]
Presenter: Andrew Yates
Title: Graded Relevance Ranking for Synonym Discovery
A. Yates, N. Goharian and O. Frieder, “Graded Relevance Ranking for Synonym Discovery.” Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web (WWW’13), 2013. (short) [pdf]
Presenter: Jon Parker
Title: A Framework for Detecting Public Health Trends with Twitter
J. Parker, Y. Wei, A. Yates, N. Goharian, O. Frieder, “A Framework for Detecting Public Health Trends with Twitter.” The 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining, Aug. 2013. [pdf]
Presenter: Andrew Yates
Title: Extracting Adverse Drug Reactions from Forum Posts and Linking them to Drugs
A. Yates, N. Goharian, O. Frieder, “Extracting Adverse Drug Reactions from Forum Posts and Linking them to Drugs.” SIGIR Workshop on Health Search and Discovery, July-Aug 2013. (short) [pdf]