Leah Larkey

email: larkey@cs.umass.edu
Phone: (413) 545-3147

Recent Publications and Papers

1. Larkey, Leah S., Feng, Fangfang, Connell, Margaret, Lavrenko, Victor (2004). Language-specific Models in Multilingual Topic Tracking. Submitted to SIGIR '04, Sheffield, England, July 25-29, 2004. CIIR Technical Report IR-343.

2. Larkey, Leah S., Connell, Margaret E., and AbdulJaleel, Nasreen (2003). Hindi CLIR in Thirty Days. To appear in ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing Issue editor Douglas W. Oard. June, 2003, 2(2), pp. 130-142.

3. AbdulJaleel, Nasreen and Larkey, Leah S. (2003). Statistical transliteration for English-Arabic Cross Language Information Retrieval. CIKM 2003: Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on information and knowledge management , New Orleans, LA, 139-146.

4. Larkey, Leah S. and Connell, Margaret E. (2003) Structured Queries, Language Modeling, and Relevance Modeling in Cross-Language Information Retrieval. 2003. To appear in Information Processing and Management Special Issue on Cross Language Information Retrieval.

5. Larkey, Leah. S., Nasreen AbdulJaleel, and Margaret E. Connell. 2003. What's in a Name? Proper Names in Arabic Cross-Language Information Retrieval. CIIR Technical Report, IR-278.

6. Larkey, Leah S., James Allan, Margaret E. Connell, Alvaro Bolivar, and Courtney Wade. (2003). UMass at TREC 2002: Cross Language and Novelty Tracks. Ellen M. Voorhees and Lori P. Buckland (Eds.) The Eleventh Text Retrieval Conference, TREC 2002, NIST Special Publication 500-251, pp 721-732.

7. Larkey, Leah S., and Croft, W. Bruce. 2003. A Text Categorization Approach to Automated Essay Grading. In Automated Essay Scoring: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective. Mark D. Shermis and Jill Burstein, Editors, Lawrence Erlbaum, pp 55-70.

8. Larkey, Leah S., Ballesteros, Lisa, and Connell, Margaret. (2002) Improving Stemming for Arabic Information Retrieval: Light Stemming and Co-occurrence Analysis In Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2002), Tampere, Finland, August 11-15, 2002, pp. 275-282.

9. Larkey, Leah S. and Connell, Margaret, (2002) Arabic Information Retrieval at UMass in TREC-10 In Voorhees, E.M. & Harman, D.K. (Eds.) The Tenth Text Retrieval Conference, TREC 2001 NIST Special Publication 500-250, pp. 562-570.

10. AbdulJaleel, Nasreen, and Larkey, Leah S. (2002) English to Arabic Transliteration for Information Retrieval: A Statistical Approach. CIIR Technical Report IR-261, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts.

11. Larkey, Leah S., Connell, Margaret, and Callan, Jamie, (2000) Collection Selection and Results Merging with Topically Organized U.S. Patents and TREC Data In Proceedings of Ninth International Conference on Information Knowledge and Management, (November 6-10, 2000. Washington D.C.) ACM Press, pp. 282-289.

12. Larkey, Leah S., Paul Ogilvie, M. Andrew Price, Brenden Tamilio (2000) Acrophile: An Automated Acronym Extractor and Server In Digital Libraries '00 - The Fifth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries (San Antonio, TX, June 2-7, 2000) ACM Press, pp. 205-214.

13. Larkey, Leah S. (1999) A Patent Search and Classification System In Digital Libraries 99 - The Fourth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries (Berkeley, CA, Aug. 11-14 1999) ACM Press, pp. 79-87.

14. Larkey, Leah S. (1998) Automatic Essay Grading Using Text Categorization Techniques. In Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 98), Melbourne, Australia, pp. 90-95.

15. Larkey, Leah S. (1998) Some Issues in the Automatic Classification of U.S. Patents In Learning for Text Categorization. Papers from the 1998 Workshop. AAAI Press, Technical Report WS-98-05, pp. 87-90.

16. Larkey, Leah S. and Croft, W. Bruce (1996) Combining Classifiers in Text Categorization In Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 96), Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 289-297.

17. Larkey, Leah S. and Croft, W. Bruce (1995) Automatic Assignment of ICD9 Codes to Discharge Summaries CIIR Technical Report, IR-64, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts.