My current research revolves around the detection of relations between various discourse segments of email conversations, and the use of such relations in generating a cohesive and cohenrent summaries of email conversations. In general, my research interests include machine learning/statistical approaches to natural language understanding.

Advisors:
Prof. Kathleen McKeown
Dr. Owen Rambow

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Publications:
Summarizing Email Threads
Owen Rambow, Lokesh Shrestha, John Chen, Christy Lauridsen
In Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2004
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Detection of Question-Answer Pairs in Email Conversations
Lokesh Shrestha, Kathleen McKeown
In Proceedings of COLING 2004
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