Refereed Publications

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M. Rahurkar and S. Cucerzan
Using the Current Browsing Context to Improve Search Relevance
The ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Napa Valley, 2008
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R. W. White, M. Bilenko, and S. Cucerzan
Leveraging Popular Destinations to Enhance Web Search Interaction
To Appear in ACM Transactions on The Web
ACM, 2008
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Z. Zhuang and S. Cucerzan
Exploiting Semantic Query Context to Improve Search Ranking
The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE-ICSC), Santa Clara, 2008
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M. Rahurkar and S. Cucerzan
Predicting when Browsing Context Is Relevant to Search
The 31st ACM SIGIR Conference, Singapore, 2008
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W. Dakka and S. Cucerzan
Augmenting Wikipedia with Named Entity Tags
The Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), Hyderabad, 2008
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A. Jain, S. Cucerzan, and S. Azzam
Acronym-Expansion Recognition and Ranking on the Web
The IEEE Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE-IRI), Las Vegas, 2007
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S. Cucerzan
Large Scale Named Entity Disambiguation Based on Wikipedia Data
The EMNLP-CoNLL Joint Conference, Prague, 2007
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R. W. White, M. Bilenko, and S. Cucerzan
Studying the Use of Popular Destinations to Enhance Web Search Interaction
The 30th ACM SIGIR Conference, Amsterdam, 2007
Best Paper Award
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S. Cucerzan and R. W. White
Query Suggestion Based on User Landing Pages
The 30th ACM SIGIR Conference, Amsterdam, 2007
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R. W. White, C. Clarke, and S. Cucerzan
Comparing Query Logs and Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for Web-Search Query Refinement
The 30th ACM SIGIR Conference, Amsterdam, 2007
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Z. Zhuang and S. Cucerzan
Re-ranking Search Results Using Query Logs
The ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Washington, DC, 2006
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Z. Zhuang, S. Cucerzan, and C. Lee Giles
Network Flow for Collaborative Ranking
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4213
Springer, 2006
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S. Cucerzan and E. Agichtein
Factoid Question Answering over Unstructured and Structured Content on the Web
The Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), Washington, DC, 2005
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E. Agichtein and S. Cucerzan
Predicting Accuracy of Extracting Information from Unstructured Text Collections
The ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Bremen, 2005
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E. Agichtein, S. Cucerzan, and E. Brill
Analysis of Factoid Questions for Effective Relation Extraction
The 28th ACM SIGIR Conference, Salvador, 2005
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S. Cucerzan and E. Brill
Spelling Correction as an Iterative Process that Exploits the Collective Knowledge of Web Users
The 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Barcelona, 2004
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S. Cucerzan and D. Yarowsky
Minimally Supervised Induction of Grammatical Gender
The Human Language Technology Conference (HLT/NAACL), Edmonton, 2003
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R. Florian, S. Cucerzan, C. Schafer, and D. Yarowsky
Combining Classifiers for Word Sense Disambiguation
Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 8(4)
Cambridge University Press, 2002
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S. Cucerzan and D. Yarowsky
Bootstrapping a Multilingual Part-of-speech Tagger in One Person-day
The Sixth Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), Taipei, 2002
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S. Cucerzan and D. Yarowsky
Language Independent NER using a Unified Model of Internal and Contextual Evidence
The Sixth Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), Taipei, 2002
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S. Cucerzan and D. Yarowsky
Augmented Mixture Models for Lexical Disambiguation
The 2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Philadelphia, 2002
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D. Yarowsky, S. Cucerzan, R. Florian, C. Schafer, and R. Wicentowski
The Johns Hopkins SENSEVAL2 System Descriptions
SENSEVAL-2, Toulouse, 2001
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S. Cucerzan and D. Yarowsky
Language Independent Minimally Supervised Induction of Lexical Probabilities
The 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Hong Kong, 2000
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S. Cucerzan and D. Yarowsky
Language Independent Named Entity Recognition Combining Morphological and Contextual Evidence
The 1999 Joint SIGDAT Conference on EMNLP and VLC, College Park, 1999

Unpublished Drafts

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S. Cucerzan and E. Brill
Extracting Semantically Related Queries by Exploiting User Session Information
Unpublished Draft (submitted to WWW-2006, November 2005)