Publications

Thesis Research

A. H. Schlaikjer, E. Nyberg, J. Carbonell, C. Faloutsos, C. L. Giles, Information Retrieval from Graphs of Typed Objects, Doctoral Thesis Proposal, Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. March 2010.

Book Chapters

S. Blair-Goldensohn, K. R. McKeown, A. H. Schlaikjer. "Answering Definitional Questions: A Hybrid Approach", (Chapter 5) In New Directions In Question Answering, Mark Maybury, ed. AAAI Press. October 2004. (AAAI)

Refereed Conference Publications

C. Welty, J. Fan, D. Gondek, A. Schlaikjer. Large Scale Relation Detection, In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Formalisms and Methodology for Learning by Reading (FAM-LbR) at NAACL-HLT 2010. June 6, 2010. (PDF)
E. Nyberg., T. Mitamura, B. Frederking, V. Pedro, M. Bilotti, A. H. Schlaikjer, K. Hannan. Extending the JAVELIN QA System with Domain Semantics, In Proceedings of the 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2005). Pittsburgh, PA, June 2005. (PDF)
L. V. Lita, A. H. Schlaikjer, W. Hong, E. Nyberg. Qualitative Dimensions in Question Answering: Extending the Definitional QA Task, (Poster) In Proceedings of the 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2005). Pittsburgh, PA, June 2005. (PDF)
S. Blair-Goldensohn, K. R. McKeown, A. H. Schlaikjer. DefScriber: A Hybrid System for Definitional QA, (Demo) In Proceedings of 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference. Toronto, Canada, July 2003. (PDF)

Unrefereed Conference Publications

T. Mitamura, F. Lin, H. Shima, M. Wang, J. Ko, J. Betteridge, M. Bilotti, A. H. Schlaikjer and E. Nyberg. JAVELIN III: Cross-Lingual Question Answering from Japanese and Chinese Documents, In Proceedings of NTCIR. 2007. (PDF)
E. Nyberg, R. Frederking, T. Mitamura, M. Bilotti, K. Hannan, L. Hiyakumoto, J. Ko, F. Lin, L. Lita, V. Pedro, A. H. Schlaikjer. JAVELIN I and II Systems at TREC 2005, In Proceedings of the 14th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). 2005. (PDF)
S. Blair-Goldenshohn, D. Evans, V. Hatzivassiloglou, K. McKeown, A. Nenkova, R. Passonneau, B. Schiffman, A. H. Schlaikjer, A. Siddharthan, S. Siegelman. Columbia University at DUC 2004, In Proceedings of the 4th Document Understanding Conference (DUC 2004). May, 2004. (PDF)
S. Blair-Goldensohn, K. R. McKeown, A. H. Schlaikjer. A Hybrid Approach for QA Track Definitional Questions. In Proceedings of the 12th Annual Text Retreival Conference (TREC 2003). NIST, Gaithersburg, MD. November, 2003. (PDF)
A. Nenkova, B. Schiffman, A. H. Schlaikjer, S. Blair-Goldensohn, R. Barzilay, S. Sigelman, V. Hatzivassiloglou, and K. McKeown. Columbia at the Document Understanding Conference, In Proceedings of the 3rd Document Understanding Conference (DUC 2003). June, 2003. (PDF)
S. S. Pradhan, G. Illouz, S. J. Blair-Goldensohn, A. H. Schlaikjer, V. Krugler, E. Filatova, P. A. Duboue, H. Yu, R. J. Passonneau, W. Ward, V. Hatzivassiloglou, D. Jurafsky, K. R. McKeown, J. H. Martin. Building a Foundation System for Producing Short Answers to Factual Questions, In Proceedings of the 11th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-11). NIST, Gathersberg, Maryland. November, 2002. (PDF)

Technical Reports

A. H. Schlaikjer. A Dual-Use Speech CAPTCHA: Aiding Visually Impaired Web Users while Providing Transcriptions of Audio Streams, Technical Report CMU-LTI-07-014, Carnegie Mellon University. November, 2007. (PDF)
S. Blair-Goldensohn, K. R. McKeown, A. H. Schlaikjer. A Hybrid Approach for Answering Definitional Questions, Technical Report CUCS-006-03. Columbia University. 2003. (PDF)