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Web Search, Information Retrieval, Text Analysis

Predicting Readability of Short Web Summaries
Proc. of ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Barcelona, Spain, 2009
by Tapas Kanungo and David Orr
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Machine Learned Sentence Selection Strategies for Query-Biased Summarization
Proc. of SIGIR Workshop on Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval, Singapore, 2008
by Don Metzler and Tapas Kanungo
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SemTag and SEEKER: Bootstrapping the Semantic Web via Automated Semantic Annotation
Proc. of the World Wide Web Conference, Budhapest, Hungary, 2003
by S. Dill, N. Eiron, D. Gibson, D. Gruhl, R. Guha, T. Kanungo, A. Jhingran, S. Rajagopalan, A. Tomkins, J. Tomlin, J. Zien
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A Case for Automated Large Scale Semantic Annotation
Journal of Web Semantics, Elsevier Press, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 115-132, 2003 (invited paper).
by S. Dill, N. Eiron, D. Gibson, D. Gruhl, R. Guha, A. Jhingran, T. Kanungo, K. S. McCurley, S. Rajagopalan, A. Tomkins, J. Tomlin, J. Zien
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Integrating Link Structure and Content Information for Ranking Web Documents
Proc. of the Text Retrieval Conference, Gaithersburg, MD, September, 2001.
by T. Kanungo and J. Y. Zien
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IBM Research Activities at TREC
in TREC: Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval, E. M. Voorhees and D. K. Harman (eds.), MIT Press, pp. 373-396, 2005
by E. Brown, D. Carmel, M. Franz, A. Ittycheriah, T. Kanungo, Y. Maarek, J. S. McCarley, R. L. Mack, J. M. Prager, J. R. Smith, A. Soffer, J. Y. Zien, A. D. Marwick
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Focused Sampling: Computing Topical Web Statistics
IBM Research Report RJ10339, February, 2005.
by Z. Bar-Yossef, T. Kanungo, R. Krauthgamer
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Thresholding strategies for text classifiers: TREC-2005 Biomedical Triage Task Experiments
Proc. of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), Gaithersburg, MD, 2005
by L. Si and T. Kanungo
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Boosting Performance of Bio-Entity Recognition by Combining Results from Multiple Systems
Proc. BioKDD Workshop, Chicago, IL, 2005.
by L. Si, T. Kanungo and X. Huang
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On the Use of Heirarchy Information in Mapping Patents to Biomedical Ontologies
IBM Technical Report RJ10365, October 2005.
by Luo Si and T. Kanungo
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Baseline Experiments for OCR-Based Arabic Named-Entity Extraction
Proc. of IAPR Int. Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 2000
T. Kanungo and O. Bulbul
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Bioinformatics, Healthcare Informatics
Boosting Performance of Bio-Entity Recognition by Combining Results from Multiple Systems
Proc. BioKDD Workshop, Chicago, IL, 2005.
by L. Si, T. Kanungo and X. Huang
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On the Use of Heirarchy Information in Mapping Patents to Biomedical Ontologies
IBM Technical Report RJ10365, October 2005.
by Luo Si and T. Kanungo
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Multi-Criteria Similarity Search for Molecules
IBM Technical Report, 2007 . (In process of being submitted to a journal)
by T. Kanungo, R. Krauthgamer, and J. Rhodes
Thresholding strategies for text classifiers: TREC-2005 Biomedical Triage Task Experiments
Proc. of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), Gaithersburg, MD, 2005
by L. Si and T. Kanungo
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System and method for using InChi codes to identify similar molecules,
IBM, patent pending, filed 2006
by S. Boyer, G. Breyta, T. Kanungo, J. Kreulen, J. Rhodes

Machine Learning
An Efficient k-Means Clustering Algorithm: Analysis and Implementation
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 881-892, 2002.
by T. Kanungo, D. M. Mount, N. S. Netanyahu, C. Piatko, R. Silverman and A. Y. Wu
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A Local Search Approximation Algorithm for k-Means Clustering
Computational Geometry: Theory and Aplications, vol. 28, pp. 89-112, 2004 (invited paper)
by T. Kanungo, D. M. Mount, N. S. Netanyahu, C. Piatko, R. Silverman and A. Y. Wu
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A Fast Algorithm for MDL-Based Multi-Band Image Segmentation
in Image Technology, Jorge Sanz (ed.) Springer-Verlag, 1996
by T. Kanungo, B. Dom, W. Niblack, and D. Steele
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Systems: Web Services, Databases, RAID Algorithms
Automated Provisioning of System Resources for Hosted Web Services
Submitted (invited) to Int. J. of Web Services Research 2006
by F. R. Reiss and T. Kanungo
Satisfying database service level agreements while minimizing cost through stroage QoS
Proc. of Int. Conf. on Services Computing, Orlando, FL, 2005.
by F. Reiss and T. Kanungo
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A Characterization of the Sensitivity of Query Optimization to Storage Cost Parameters
Proc. of the ACM SIGMOD Conference, San Diego, CA, 2003.
by F. R. Reiss and T. Kanungo
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R5X0: An Efficient High Distance Parity-Based Code with Optimal Update Complexity
IBM Research Report RJ 10322, August, 2004.
by J. R. Hartline, T. Kanungo and J. L. Hafner
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Performance Metrics for Erasure Codes in Storage Systems
IBM Research Report RJ10321, August, 2004.
by J. L. Hafner, V. Deenadayalan, T. Kanungo, KK Rao
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Digital Libraries, Optical Character Recognition, Document Analysis
Nonlinear Local and Global Document Degradation Models
Int. Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology Vol. 5, no. 4, John Wiley, pp. 220-30, Fall 1994
by T. Kanungo, R. M. Haralick, and I. Phillips
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Statistical, Nonparametric Methodology for Document Degradation Model Validation
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 22, no. 11, pp. 1209-1223, November 2000
by T. Kanungo, R. M. Haralick, H. S. Baird, W. Stuezle, and D. Madigan
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Estimating Degradation Model Parameters using Neighborhood Pattern Distributions: An Optimization Approach
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 520-524, 2004.
by T. Kanungo and Q. Zheng
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The Bible and Multilingual Optical Character Recognition
Communications of the ACM, vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 124-130, 2005.
by T. Kanungo, P. Resnik, S. Mao, D. Kim and Q. Zheng
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Stochastic Language Models for Style-Directed Physical Layout Analysis of Documents
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 583-596, 2003.
by T. Kanungo and S. Mao
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Empirical Performance Evaluation Methodology and its Application to Page Segmentation Algorithms
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 242-256, March 2001
by S. Mao and T. Kanungo
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The Architecture of TRUEVIZ: A GroundTRUth/Metadata Editing and VISualiZing Toolkit
Pattern Recognition, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 811-825, 2003.
by C. H. Lee and T. Kanungo
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Full-Text Access to Historical Newspapers
CS-TR-4014, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, April 1999.
by T. Kanungo and R. B. Allen
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All paper on Document Analysis
Computer Vision, Performance Evaluation
Object Recognition Using Appearance-Based Parts and Relations
Proc. of IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Puerto Rico, 1997
by Chien-Yuan Huang, O. I. Camps and T. Kanungo
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Attributed Point Matching for Automatic Groundtruth Registration
Int. Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 47-66, 2002.
by D. Kim and T. Kanungo
An Automatic Closed-Loop Methodology for Generating Character Groundtruth for Scanned Documents
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 179-183, February, 1999
by T. Kanungo and R. M. Haralick
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Hierarchical Organization of Appearance-Based Parts and Relations for Object Recognition
Proc. of IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Santa Barbara, June 1998
by O. I. Camps, C. Y. Huang and T. Kanungo
On the Use of Error Propagation for Statistical Validation of Computer Vision Software
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 27, no. 10, 2005.
by X. Liu, T. Kanungo, R. M. Haralick
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A Methodology for Quantitative Performance Evaluation of Detection Algorithms
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 4, no. 12, pp. 1667-1674, 1995
by T. Kanungo, M. Y. Jaisimha, J. Palmer, and R. M. Haralick
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Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Mathematical Morphology
Vector Space Solution of a Morphological Shape Decomposition Problem
Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 2, no. 1, pp.51-82, 1992
by T. Kanungo and R. M. Haralick
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Grayscale Structuring Element Decomposition
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 111-120, 1996
by O. I. Camps, T. Kanungo, and R. M. Haralick
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Approximating Large Convolutions in Digital Images
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 10, no. 12, pp. 1826-1835, 2001
by D. M. Mount, T. Kanungo, N. S. Netanyahu, C. Piatko, R. Silverman and A. Y. Wu
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Statistical Morphology
Journal of Applied Statistics Vol. 21(1/2), supppl. 2, pp. 341-354, 1994
by R. M. Haralick, E. Dougherty, J. Ha, T. Kanungo, S. Karasu, C. K. Lee, L. Rystrom, V. Ramesh, I. Phillips
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Reprinted in "Selected Papers on Morphological Image Processing," Tomasz Szoplik (ed).
Constrained Monotone Regression of Receiver Operating Curves and Histograms Using Splines and Polynomials
Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Washington, D.C., 1995, pp. 292-5, Vol. 2,
by T. Kanungo, D. M. Gay, and R. M. Haralick
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Receiver Operating Curves and Optimal Bayesian Operating Points
Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Washington, D.C., 1995, pp. 256-9, Vol. 3,
by T. Kanungo and R. M. Haralick
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