Rada Mihalcea


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Research Interests

My research interests are in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Information Retrieval. Specifically, I work on the problems of Word Sense Disambiguation and Semantic Based Information Retrieval. I am also working on methods for building annotated corpora for (mono|multi)lingual NLP tasks.

Recent Program Committees

Recent Talks

Conferences and Workshops

  • Co-chair for the HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop on "Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data Driven Machine Translation and Beyond", Edomonton, May 2003.
  • Co-chair for the ACL 2002 Workshop on "Word Sense Disambiguation: Recent Advances and Future Directions", Philadelphia, July 2002.

Publications

Theses

Journals

  • Rada Mihalcea, Going Beyond Explicit Knowledge for Improved Semantic Based Information Retrieval, to appear in International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, December 2002.
  • Rada Mihalcea, Word Sense Disambiguation Using Pattern Learning and Automatic Feature Selection, to appear in Journal of Natural Language and Engineering, December 2002.
  • Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, A Highly Accurate Bootstrapping Algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation, in International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, vol.10, no.1-2, [pg.5-21], 2001.
  • Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, Document Indexing using Named Entities, in Studies in Informatics and Control, vol.10, no.1, [pg.21-27], 2001.
  • Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, AutoASC - A System for Automatic Acquisition of Sense tagged Corpora , in International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, [pg.3-17], vol.14, no.1, 2000.
  • Dan Moldovan and Rada Mihalcea Using WordNet and Lexical Operators to improve Internet Searches in IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 4 no. 1, [pg.34-43], 2000.

Magazines

Conference and Workshop Proceedings

2002

2001

2000

  • Sanda Harabagiu, Dan Moldovan, Marius Pasca, Rada Mihalcea, Mihai Surdeanu, Razvan Bunescu, Roxana Girju, Vasile Rus and Paul Morarescu, Falcon - Boosting Knowledge for Answer Engines in Proceedings of the 9th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-9), Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 2000.
  • Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan Semantic Indexing using WordNet Senses, in Proceedings of ACL Workshop on IR & NLP, Hong Kong, October, 2000.
  • Dan Moldovan, Sanda Harabagiu, Marius Pasca, Rada Mihalcea, Roxana Girju, Richard Goodrum and Vasile Rus The Structure and Performance of an Open-Domain Question Answering System, in Proceedings of ACL 2000, Hong Kong, October, 2000.
  • Rada Mihalcea, A Semi-Complete Disambiguation Algorithm for Open Text, in Proceedings of AAAI 2000, [pg.1085], Austin, TX, July 2000.
  • Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, An Iterative Approach to Word Sense Disambiguation, in Proceedings of Flairs 2000, [pg.219-223] Orlando, FL, May 2000. Best Paper Award

1999

  • Dan Moldovan, Sanda Harabagiu, Marius Pasca, Rada Mihalcea, Richard Goodrum, Roxana Girju and Vasile Rus, LASSO: A Tool for Surfing the Answer Net, in Proceedings of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-8), November, 1999.
  • Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, An Automatic Method for Generating Sense Tagged Corpora, in Proceedings of AAAI '99, [pg.461-466], Orlando, FL, July 1999.
  • Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, A Method for Word Sense Disambiguation of Unrestricted Text, in Proceedings of ACL '99, [pg.152-158], Maryland, NY, June 1999.
  • Rada Mihalcea and Dan Moldovan, Automatic Acquisition of Sense Tagged Corpora, in Proceedings of Flairs '99, Orlando, FL, May 1999. Best Paper Award

1998