Papers are presented in alphabitcal order according to the first author's last name

Papers

2002

- A Transformational-based Learner for Dependency Grammars in Discharge Summaries
     D. Campbell, S. Johnson
     Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Processing in the Biomedical Domain. ACL 2002.
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- Distributed Search over the Hidden-Web: Hierarchical Database Sampling and Selection
     P. Ipeirotis, L. Gravano
     Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2002.
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- Extending SDARTS: Extracting Metadata from Web Databases and Interfacing with the Open Archives Initiative
     P. Ipeirotis, T. Barry, L. Gravano
     Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2002. Portland, USA.
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- Query- vs. Crawling-based Classification of Searchable Web Databases
     L. Gravano, P. Ipeirotis, M. Sahami
     IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 25;1. March 2002.
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- Using Librarian Techniques in Automatic Text Summarization for Information Retrieval
     M.Y. Kan, J. Klavans
     Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2002. Portland, USA.
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- Corpus-trained text generation for summarization
     M.Y. Kan, K. McKeown
     Proceedings of the International Natural Language Generation Conference, INLG 2002. Harriman, USA.
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- Using the Annotated Bibliography as a Resource for Indicative Summarization
     M.Y. Kan, J. Klavans, K. McKeown
     Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2002. Canary Islands, Spain.
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- Evaluating the Content and Usability of an Experimental Text Summarization System and Three Web-Based Search Engines
     A. Kushniruk, M.Y. Kan, K. McKeown, J. Klavans, V. Patel
     Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Annual Meeting, HFES 2002. Baltimore, USA.

- Usability Evaluation of an Experimental Text Summarization System and Three Search Engines: Implications for the Reengineering of Health Care Interfaces
     A. Kushniruk, M.Y. Kan, K. McKeown, J. Klavans, D/. Jordan, M. LaFlamme, V. Patel
     Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, AMIA 2002. San Antonio, USA.

- The AIL Automated Interface Layout System
     S. Lok, S. Feiner
     Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2002. San Francisco, USA.
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- A graphical user interface toolkit approach to thin-client computing
     S. Lok, S. Feiner, W. Chiong, Y. Hirsch
     Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2002. Honolulu, USA.
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- Analyzing the Semantics of Patient Data to Rank Records of Literature Retrieval
     E. Mendoca, S. Johnson, Y. Seol, J. Cimino
     Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Processing in the Biomedical Domain. ACL 2002.
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- A Method for Automatically Building and Evaluating Dictionary Resources
     S. Muresan, J. Klavans
     Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2002. Canary Islands, Spain.
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- Collection and Linguistic Processing of a Large-scale Corpus of Medical Articles
     S. Teufel, N. Elhadad
     Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2002. Canary Islands, Spain.
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2001

- Learning Search Engine Specific Query Transformations for Question Answering
     E. Agichtein, S. Lawrence, L. Gravano
     Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference. WWW 2001.
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- Indexing and Summarization of Echocardiogram Videos
     S. Ebadollahi, S.-F. Chang, H. Wu, S. Takoma
     Scientific session of the American College of Cardiology, March 2001.

- Echocardiogram Video Summarization
     S. Ebadollahi, S.-F. Chang, H. Wu
     Proceedings of SPIE MI 2001. San Diego, USA.
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- Towards Generating Patient Specific Summaries of Medical Articles
     N. Elhadad, K. McKeown
     Proceedings of the Workshop on Automatic Summarization, NAACL 2001. Pittsburg, USA.
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- SDLIP + STARTS = SDARTS: A Protocol and Toolkit for Metasearching
     N. Green, P. Ipeirotis, and L. Gravano
     Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2001. Roanoke, USA.
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- Probe, Count, and Classify: Categorizing Hidden-Web Databases
     P. Ipeirotis, L. Gravano, M. Sahami
     Proceedings of the SIGMOD International Conference On Management of Data. 2001. Santa Barbara, USA.
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- Applying Natural Language Generation to Indicative Summarization
     M. Kan, K. McKeown, J. Klavans
     Proceedings of the Intl. Workshop on Natural Language Generation, ACL 2001. Toulouse, France.
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- Evaluation of the DEFINDER System for Fully Automatic Glossary Construction
     J. Klavans, S. Muresan
     Proceedings of the AMIA Symposium 2001. Washington DC, USA.
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- Evaluation of DEFINDER: A System to Mine Definitions from Consumer-oriented Medical Text
     J. Klavans, S. Muresan
     Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2001. Roanoke, USA.
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- Modeling Users' Questions: The Librarian's Experience and Perspectives
     E. LaRue
     Annual Conference of the Medical Library Association, May 2001. Orlando, FL.

- A Survey of Automated Layout Techniques for Information Presentations
     S. Lok, S. Feiner
     Proceedings of SmartGraphics, 2001. Hawthorne, USA.
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- PERSIVAL, a System for Personalized Search and Summarization over Multimedia Healtcare Information
     K. McKeown, S.-F. Chang, J. Cimino, S. Feiner, C. Friedman, L. Gravano, V. Hatzivassiloglou, S. Johnson, D. Jordan, J. Klavans, A. Kushniruk, V. Patel, S. Teufel
     Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2001. Roanoke, USA.
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- Using Narrative Reports to Support a Digital Library.
     E. Mendonça, J. Cimino, S. Johnson
     Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2001;8 (suppl.)
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- Content Evaluation of a Knowledge Base
     E. Mendonça, J. Cimino
     Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2001;8 (suppl.)
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- Building a Knowledge Base to Support a Digital Library
     E. Mendonça, J. Cimino
     Proceedings of the World Conference on Medical Informatics, MEDINFO, 2001.
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- Accessing Heterogeneous Sources of Evidence to Answer Clinical Questions
     E. Mendonça, J. Cimino, S. Johnson, Y. Seol
     Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2001;34.
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- Conceptual Guidance in Information Retrieval
     Y. Seol, S. Johnson, J. Cimino
     Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2001;8 (suppl.)
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2000

- Snowball: Extracting Relations from Large Plain-Text Collections
     E. Agichtein, L. Gravano
     Proceedings of the 5th ACM Intl. Conference on Digital Libraries (DL 2000).
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- Combining Strategies for Extracting Relations from Text Collections
     E. Agichtein, E. Eskin, L. Gravano
     Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD 2000). Dallas, USA.
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- From Data to Knowledge through Concept-Oriented Terminologies: Experience with the Medical Entities Dictionary
     J. Cimino
     Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2000;7(3)
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- An Investigation of Linguistic Features and Clustering Alogrithms for Topical Document Clustering
     V. Hatzivassiloglou, L. Gravano, A. Mangati
     Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International ACM Conf. on Research and Development in IR (SIGIR), 2000. Athens, Greece.
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- Automatic Classification of Text Databases through Query Probing
     P. Ipeirotis, L. Gravano, M. Sahami
     Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Web and Databases, WebDB 2000. Dallas, USA.
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- DEFINDER: Rule-based Methods for the Extraction of Medical Terminology and their Associated Definitions from On-line Text
     J. Klavans, S. Muresan
     Poster Session - AMIA 2000. Los Angeles, USA.
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- Automated Knowledge Extraction from MEDLINE Citations
     E. Mendonça, J. Cimino
     Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2000;7 (suppl.)
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1999

- Extracting Patient Profiles from Patient Records and Online Literature
     V. Hatzivassiloglou, O. Merport, K. McKeown, D. Jordan
     Proceedings of 1999 AMIA Spring Congress. 1999, Chicago, USA.
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1998

- Generating Patient-Specific Summaries of Online Literature
     K. McKeown, D. Jordan, V. Hatzivassiloglou
     1998.
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- Proposal - Technical Rationale
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