Bibtex entries
Book Chapters and Tutorials
- Book chapter on Recognizing Textual Entailment
Mark Sammons, V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, and Dan Roth.
"Multilingual Natural Language Applications: From Theory to Practice.",
Daniel M. Bikel and Imed Zitouni (Eds.), IBM Press, Pearson plc. May 2012.
@incollection{SaVyRoBook11,
author = {Mark Sammons and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran and Dan Roth},
title = {{Recognizing Textual Entailment}},
booktitle = {Multilingual Natural Language Applications: From Theory to Practice},
editor = {Daniel M. Bikel and Imed Zitouni},
publisher = {IBM Press, Pearson plc},
pages = {209--258},
chapter = {6},
month = {May},
year = {2012}
}
Tutorial on Information trustworthiness
Jeffrey Pasternack, Dan Roth, and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran.
The 27th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2013. Accepted.
@inproceedings{PaRoVyAAAITut13,
author = {Jeffrey Pasternack and Dan Roth and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran},
title = {{Tutorial on Information Trustworthiness}},
booktitle = {The 27th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Accepted.},
year = {2013}
}
Tutorial on Recognizing Textual Entailment
Mark Sammons, Idan Szpektor, and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran.
Human Language Technologies: The 11th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), 2010.
@inproceedings{SaSzVyNAACLTut10,
author = {Mark Sammons and Idan Szpektor and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran},
title = {{Tutorial on Recognizing Textual Entailment}},
booktitle = {Human Language Technologies: The $11^{th}$ Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT)},
year = {2010}
}
Journal articles
- Overcoming bias to learn about controversial topics
V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, ChengXiang Zhai, Dan Roth, and Peter Pirolli.
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 2014. In press.
@article{VZRPJASIST14,
author = {V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran and ChengXiang Zhai and Dan Roth and Peter Pirolli},
title = {Overcoming bias to learn about controversial topics},
journal = {Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)},
pages = {},
year = {2014}
}
Conference and Workshop papers
- Mining consumer health vocabulary from community-generated text.
V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, Qiaozhu Mei, David A. Hanauer, and Kai Zheng.
In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium (AMIA), 2014.
To appear
@inproceedings{VMHZ14,
author = {V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran and Qiaozhu Mei and David A. Hanauer and Kai Zheng} },
title = {Mining consumer health vocabulary from community-generated text},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium (AMIA)},
pages = {},
year = {2014}
}
User-created groups in health forums: What makes them special?
V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, Yang Liu, Kai Zheng, David A. Hanauer, and Qiaozhu Mei.
In Proceedings of the 8th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 2014.
@inproceedings{VLZHMICWSM14,
author = {V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran and Yang Liu and Kai Zheng and David A. Hanauer and Qiaozhu Mei},
title = {{User-created groups in health forums: What makes them special?}},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the 8th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)},
pages = {},
year = {2014}
}
BiasTrust: Teaching biased users about controversial topics
V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, ChengXiang Zhai, Dan Roth, and Peter Pirolli.
The 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2012.
@inproceedings{VZRPCIKM12,
author = {V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran and ChengXiang Zhai and Dan Roth and Peter Pirolli},
title = {{BiasTrust: Teaching biased users about controversial topics}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)},
pages = {1205--1209},
year = {2012}
}
Unbiased Learning of Controversial Topics
V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, ChengXiang Zhai, Dan Roth, and Peter Pirolli.
The 75th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS\&T), 2012.
@inproceedings{VZRPASIST12,
author = {V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran and ChengXiang Zhai and Dan Roth and Peter Pirolli},
title = {Unbiased learning of controversial topics},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 75th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS\&T)},
pages = {291.1--291.4},
year = {2012}
}
Reliability Prediction of Webpages in the Medical Domain
Parikshit Sondhi, V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, and ChengXiang Zhai.
The 34th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2012.
@inproceedings{SoVyZhECIR12,
author = {Parikshit Sondhi and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran and ChengXiang Zhai},
title = {Reliability prediction of webpages in the medical domain},
booktitle = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Proceedings of the 34th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR)},
pages = {219--231},
volume = {7224},
year = {2012}
}
Content-driven Trust Propagation Framework
V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, ChengXiang Zhai, and Dan Roth.
The 17th SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2011.
@inproceedings{VyZhRoKDD11,
author = {V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran and ChengXiang Zhai and Dan Roth},
title = {Content-driven trust propagation framework},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the $17^{th}$ SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)},
pages = {974--982},
year = {2011}
}
Gauging the Internet Doctor: Ranking Medical Claims based on Community Knowledge
V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, ChengXiang Zhai, and Dan Roth.
KDD Workshop on Data Mining for Medicine and Healthcare (DMMH), 2011
@inproceedings{VyZhRoKDD11ws,
author = {V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran and ChengXiang Zhai and Dan Roth},
title = {{Gauging the Internet doctor: Ranking medical claims based on community knowledge}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the KDD Workshop on Data Mining for Medicine and Healthcare (DMMH)},
pages = {42--51},
year = {2011}
}
News Sync: An Analysis of Scenario-based News Exploration
V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, Jeroen van den Eijkhof, Raman Chandrasekar, Ann Paradiso, and Jim St. George.
The 74th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS\&T), 2011.
@inproceedings{VvCPSASIST11,
author = {V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran and Jeroen van den Eijkhof and Raman Chandrasekar and Ann Paradiso
and Jim St.George},
title = {{News Sync: An analysis of scenario-based news exploration}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS\&T)},
pages = {78.1--78.10},
year = {2011}
}
Improving the Online News Experience
V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran and Raman Chandrasekar.
The Fourth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR), 2010.
@inproceedings{VyChHCIR10,
author = {V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran and Raman Chandrasekar},
title = {Improving the online news experience},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR)},
pages = {122--125},
year = {2010}
}
News Sync: Three Reasons to Visualize News Better
V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, Jeroen van den Eijkhof, Raman Chandrasekar, Ann Paradiso, and Jim St. George.
The Fourth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR), 2010.
@inproceedings{VvCPSHCIR10,
author = {V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran and Jeroen van den Eijkhof and Raman Chandrasekar and Ann Paradiso
and Jim St.George},
title = {{News Sync: Three reasons to visualize news better}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR)},
pages = {45--48},
year = {2010}
}
"Ask not what Textual Entailment can do for You..."
Mark Sammons, V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, and Dan Roth.
The 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2010.
@inproceedings{SaVyRoACL10,
author = {Mark Sammons and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran and Dan Roth},
title = {{``Ask not what Textual Entailment can do for You $\ldots$''}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the $48^{th}$ Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
pages = {1199--1208},
year = {2010}
}
A Framework for Entailed Relation Recognition
Dan Roth, Mark Sammons, and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran.
The 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2009.
@inproceedings{RoSaVyACL09,
author = {Dan Roth and Mark Sammons and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran},
title = {A framework for entailed relation recognition},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the $47^{th}$ Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
pages = {57--60},
year = {2009}
}
Finding Related Entities by Retrieving Relations: UIUC at TREC 2009 Entity Track
V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, Kavita Ganesan, Yuanhua Lv, Jing He, and ChengXiang Zhai.
Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), 2009.
@inproceedings{VGLHZTREC09,
author = {V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran and Kavita Ganesan and Yuanhua Lv and Jing He and ChengXiang Zhai},
title = {{Finding related entities by retrieving relations: UIUC at TREC $2009$ Entity Track}},
booktitle = {Text Retrieval Conference (TREC)},
year = {2009}
}
A Study of Term Proximity and Document Weighting Normalization in Pseudo Relevance Feedback -- UIUC at TREC 2009 Million Query Track
Yuanhua Lv, Jing He, V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, Kavita Ganesan, and ChengXiang Zhai.
Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), 2009.
@inproceedings{LHVGZTREC09,
author = {Yuanhua Lv and Jing He and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran and Kavita Ganesan and ChengXiang Zhai},
title = {{A study of term proximity and document weighting normalization in pseudo relevance feedback
-- UIUC at TREC $2009$ Million Query Track}},
booktitle = {Text Retrieval Conference (TREC)},
year = {2009}
}
Relation Alignment for Textual Entailment Recognition
Mark Sammons, V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, Tim Vieira, Nikhil Johri, Ming-Wei Chang, Dan Goldwasser, Vivek Srikumar, Gourab Kundu, Yuancheng Tu, Kevin Small, Joshua Rule, Quang Do, and Dan Roth.
Text Analysis Conference (TAC), 2009.
@inproceedings{SVVJCGSKTSRDRTAC09,
author = {Mark Sammons and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran and Tim Vieira and Nikhil Johri
and Ming-Wei Chang and Dan Goldwasser and Vivek Srikumar and Gourab Kundu
and Yuancheng Tu and Kevin Small and Joshua Rule and Quang Do and Dan Roth},
title = {Relation alignment for textual entailment recognition},
booktitle = {Text Analysis Conference (TAC)},
year = {2009}
}
Opinion Summarization using Entity Features and Probabilistic Sentence Coherence Optimization: UIUC at TAC 2008 Opinion Summarization Pilot
Hyun Duk Kim, Dae Hoon Park, V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, and ChengXiang Zhai.
Text Analysis Conference (TAC), 2008.
@inproceedings{KPVZTAC08,
author = {Hyun Duk Kim and Dae Hoon Park and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran and ChengXiang Zhai},
title = {{Opinion summarization using entity features and probabilistic sentence coherence optimization:
UIUC at TAC $2008$ Opinion Summarization Pilot}},
booktitle = {Text Analysis Conference (TAC)},
year = {2008}
}
Learning to extract information from large websites using sequential models
V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran and Sunita Sarawagi.
The Eleventh International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD), 2005.
Best Paper Award.
@inproceedings{VySaCOMAD05,
author = {V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran and Sunita Sarawagi},
title = {Learning to extract information from large websites using sequential models},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD)},
pages = {3--14},
year = {2005},
note = {Best paper award}
}
Posters, Articles, and Invited Talks
- Robust, Light-weight Approaches to compute Lexical Similarity
Quang Do, Dan Roth, Mark Sammons, Yuancheng Tu, and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran.
Computer Science Research and Technical Reports, University of Illinois, 2009.
@techreport{DRSTVTechRep09,
author = {Quang Do and Dan Roth and Mark Sammons and Yuancheng Tu and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran},
title = {Robust, light-weight approaches to compute lexical similarity},
type = {{Computer Science Research and Technical Reports}},
institution = {University of Illinois},
url = {http://cogcomp.cs.illinois.edu/papers/DRSTV09.pdf},
year = {2009}
}
New Search Paradigms for Meaning-based Information Retrieval
Quang Xuan Do, V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, and Dan Roth.
Poster, selected at the Second Annual DHS University Network Summit, Washington D.C., 2008.
@article{DoVyRoDHS08,
author = {Quang Do and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran and Dan Roth},
title = {New search paradigms for meaning-based information retrieval},
journal = {The Second Annual DHS University Network Summit},
year = {2008}
}
Learning to extract information from large domain-specific websites using sequential models
Sunita Sarawagi and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran.
The special issue of ACM SIGKDD Explorations on Web content mining, Dec 2004, Volume 6, Issue 2.
@article{SaVyExpl04,
author = {Sunita Sarawagi and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran},
title = {Learning to extract information from large domain-specific websites using sequential models},
journal = {The Special issue of ACM SIGKDD Explorations on Web content mining},
volume = {6},
number = {2},
pages = {61--66},
month = {Dec},
year = {2004}
}
Resolving Citations in a Paper Repository
Sunita Sarawagi, Sumana Srinivasan, V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, and Kapil Bhudhia.
ACM SIGKDD Explorations, December 2003, Volume 5, Issue 2.
Second Prize and Best Technique, Data Cleaning Task (Task 2), KDD Cup 2003.
@article{SSVBExpl03,
author = {Sunita Sarawagi and Sumana Srinivasan and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran and Kapil Bhudhia},
title = {Resolving citations in a paper repository},
journal = {ACM SIGKDD Explorations},
volume = {5},
number = {2},
pages = {91--92},
month = {Dec},
year = {2003},
note = {Second Prize and Best Technique, Data Cleaning Task (Task $2$), KDD Cup $2003$}
}
Last Updated: March 28th, 2014