Nasreen Abdul Jaleel Department of Computer Science 140 Governor's Drive University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003-4610, USA Phone: (413) 577-0405 Fax: (413) 545-1789 e-mail: nasreen [AT] cs.umass.edu

My research interests include passage retrieval, the application of pattern classification techniques to high accuracy retrieval and cross-language IR. I have been involved in the following projects:

• Passage retrieval using Support Vector Machines
• Language Models for passage retrieval as part of the TREC track, High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents (HARD)
• Hindi normalization, stemming and transliteration for the TIDES Surprise Language Project
• Transliteration of out-of-vocabulary words for cross language information retrieval

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