Welcome To My Website
I am a third year Ph.D. student at Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University, since Fall 2009.
I am advised by Prof. William Cohen and Prof. Jamie Callan, in the area of Information Extraction and Information Retrieval.
I have completed my Masters in 2007 from IIT Bombay under the guidance of Prof. S. Sudarshan. I worked in Google India from 2007-2009 as a Software Engineer.
Research Interests
- Machine Learning
- Probabilistic Graphical Models
- Information Retrieval
Publications
- WebSets: Extracting Sets of Entities from the Web Using Unsupervised Information Extraction, Bhavana Dalvi, William W. Cohen and Jamie Callan, Proceedings of the The Fifth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2012 pdf
- Entity List Completion Using Set Expansion Techniques, Bhavana Dalvi, Jamie Callan and William Cohen, Proceedings of the The Nineteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2010 pdf
- Structure, Tie Persistence and Event Detection in Large Phone and SMS Networks, Leman Akoglu and Bhavana Dalvi, Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs, KDD 2010 pdf
- Keyword search on external memory data graphs, Bhavana Bharat Dalvi, Meghana Kshirsagar and S. Sudarshan, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, VLDB 2008 pdf
Recent Activities
- June 2011 : Reviewer for WWW Journal 2011
- Spring 2011 : Teaching assistant for Analysis of Social Media 10-802
Contact
Office: 5509, Gates Hillman Center, CMU.Email: bbd AT cs DOT cmu DOT edu
Resume
pdfHobbies
- Listening to music
- Reading motivational books
- Watching animation movies