Research Interest and Reading

My research interest lies in the field of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. Most current information on my research can be found here.

I have worked in the field of Natural Language Processing at Symantec India, concentrating on the Instant Messenger Security using Natural Language Processing techniques. I hold to my credit a paper presented on this work at Symantec. Details of my previous work can be found here. Also, I designed and implemented the code for transliteration of Indian languages for the Sun Microsystems' Star Office during my internship with Modular Infotech, Pune, India.

My past readings include.

• Computational Approaches to Measuring the Similarity of Short Contexts: A Review of Applications and Methods. (Pedersen) To appear in the
• South Asian Language Review. (http://www.salr.net)
• The Design, Implementation, and Use of the Ngram Statistics Package (Banerjee and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, pp. 370-381, February 17-21, 2003, Mexico City.
• Measures of Semantic Similarity and Relatedness in the Biomedical Domain (Pedersen, Pakhomov, Patwardhan, and Chute), Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 40(3), 288-299, June 2007. [Journal Citation Reports Index Factor 2006: 2.346]  
• Unsupervised Corpus Based Methods for WSD (Pedersen), In Agirre, E. and Edmonds, P. (Editors), Word Sense Disambiguation : Algorithms and Applications, June 2006, pp. 133-166, Springer.
• Name Discrimination by Clustering Similar Contexts (Pedersen, Purandare, and Kulkarni)  - Appears in the Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, pp. 220-231, February 13-19, 2005, Mexico City. [acceptance rate 37%] Download the data used in this paper.
• Extended Gloss Overlaps as a Measure of Semantic Relatedness (Banerjee and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 805-810, August 9-15, 2003, Acapulco, Mexico.
• Writing About Research, Or The Art of WAR (Pedersen) - unpublished manuscript, September 2003.
• A Plagiarism Case Study (Pedersen) - unpublished manuscript, April 2001.