About Me

 I am a second year PhD student at the Language Techologies Institute. I am from Tegucigalpa, Honduras: a beautiful city, home to one of the world's shortest airport runways! Before coming to the LTI, I completed the Masters in Information Systems Management program, also at CMU. My undergraduate studies were in Electrical Engineering and Economics at Washington University in St. Louis.

Curriculum Vitae

Interests

 I am interested in Text Data Mining, Information Retrieval (IR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Research

 My advisor is Jamie Callan. My current research focuses on the eRuleMaking Project. My text mining research uses information extraction to recognize stakeholders and evidence citation in email sent by the public to US regulatory agencies. My research on RSS feed (blog) recommendation studies the use of Wikipedia-based query expansion to improve accuracy.

While in the MLT Program, I worked with Carolyn Rosé on building language technologies for supporting (1) behavioral research and (2) authoring of conversational interfaces. More specifically, I explored topic-segmentation of dialogue, semantic clustering techniques and visualizations, and building tools for corpus-driven rapid-prototying of dialogue systems.

Publications

2008

  • Jonathan Elsas, Jaime Arguello, Jamie Callan, and Jaime Carbonell. (To appear.) "Retrieval and Query Expansion Models for Blog Feed Search". In Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval.

  • Jaime Arguello and Jamie Callan. (To appear.) "Recognizing Citations in Public Comments." In John Wilkerson and Claire Cardie, editors, Special Issue on Text Annotation for Political Science of the Journal of Information Technology and Politics.

  • Jaime Arguello, Jonathan Elsas, Jamie Callan and Jaime Carbonell. "Retrieval and Feedback Models for Blog Recommendation." In Proceedings of the Second International Conference in Weblogs and Social Media. Best Paper Nomination (PDF)

  • Jonathan Elsas, Jaime Arguello, Jamie Callan, and Jaime Carbonell. "Retrieval and Feedback Models for Blog Distillation." In Proceedings of the 2007 TREC Conference (TREC 2007). National Institute of Standards and Technology, special publication. (PDF)

    • 2007

  • Jaime Arguello and Jamie Callan. (2007.) "Stakeholder Identification in Public Comment Corpora." In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference in Digital Government Research. Philadelpha, PA. (PDF)

    • 2006

  • Jaime Arguello and Carolyn Rosé. (2006.) "Museli: A Multi-source Evidence Integration Approach to Topic-Segmentation of Dialogue." In Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2006 Conference. New York, NY. (PDF)

  • Jaime Arguello and Carolyn Rosé. (2006.) "Topic Segmentation of Dialogue." In Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2006 Workshop on Analyzing Conversations in Text and Speech. New York, NY. (PDF)

  • Jaime Arguello and Carolyn Rosé. (2006.) "InfoMagnets: Making Sense of Corpus Data." In Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2006 Conference. New York, NY. (PDF)

  • Jaime Arguello, Brian Butler, Lisa Joyce, Robert Kraut, Kimberly Ling, Carolyn Rosé, and Xiaoqing Wang. (2006.) "Talk to Me: Foundations of Successful Individual-Group Interactions in Online Communities." In Proceedings of the Computer/Human CHI 2006 Conference. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (PDF)

    • 2005

  • Gahgene Gweon, Jaime Arguello, Carol Pai, Regan Carey, Zachary Zaiss, and Carolyn Rosé. (2005.) "Towards a Prototyping Tool for Behavior-Oriented Authoring of Conversational Agents for Educational Applications." In Proceedings of the ACL 2005 Second Workshop for Building Educational Application using NLP. Ann Arbor, MI. (PDF)

  • Carolyn Rosé, Carol Pai, and Jaime Carguello. (2005.) "Enabling Non-Linguists to Author Advanced Conversational Interfaces Easily." In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International FLAIRS Conference. Clear Water Beach, FL. (PDF)

    • Activities

     I help organize the LTI's IR-Series, along with Grace Hui Yang and Jon Elsas.

    I am the Student Session Chair for the 2008 Conference in Digital Government Research (dg.o 2008).

    I am also a member of the Pittsburgh Social Venture Partners (PSVP) through the Reckers Fellowship.

    Talks

  • Student Research Symposium, 2005. Language Technologies Institute, CarnegieMellon (PPT)

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