Research Interests and Recent Activities

Research Interests

My research interest lie in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval.
I am also interested in Parallel Computing and Analysis of Algorithms.

Work on my masters thesis is under the guidance of Dr. Ted Pedersen.
See my thesis proposal for details of my thesis.
A brief introduction to my thesis can be found here.

Recent Activities

I presented WordNet-SenseRelate-AllWords v0.19 demo at NAACL 09 at Colorado Boulder.
WordNet-SenseRelate-AllWords v0.19 released! (May 28, 2009). Try out the Web interface!
Samudra-Manthan v1.1 released (December 14, 2008).
I participated in the JHU Summer Workshop (June-August 2008)

Publications

WordNet::SenseRelate::AllWords - A Broad Coverage Word Sense Tagger that Maximimizes Semantic Relatedness (Pedersen and Kolhatkar) - Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies 2009 Conference, June 1-3, 2009, Boulder, CO. (Demonstration System)