PEOPLE AND PLACES

The Language Technologies Institute has several information retrieval groups. The group of people who work with Jamie Callan is known as the Distributed IR group because that is one of its most visible research areas. However, the group has projects in several other areas, including information filtering, language modeling, question answering, and information systems tailored for children.

	Jamie Callan Professor NSH 3615 Jamie does a little bit of everything.	Dana Houston Administrative Assistant NSH 4502 Dana keeps the paperwork flowing.
Jaime Arguello Graduate Research Assistant NSH 4524 Jaime works on text mining in public comment databases.	Kevyn Collins-Thompson Graduate Research Assistant NSH 3612B Kevyn does research on statistical language modeling for tasks such as query expansion.	Mark Hoy Senior Research Programmer NSH 3612E Mark works on Lemur, a language modeling toolkit for IR.	Anagha Kulkarni Graduate Research Assistant Smith 224 Anagha works on word sense disambiguation for the Reap project.
Paul Ogilvie Graduate Research Assistant NSH 3612A Paul works on language modeling and retrieval of structured documents.	Nancy Steadle Senior Research Programmer NSH 4625 Nancy helps U.S. regulatory agencies analyze email sent by the public.	Grace Hui Yang Graduate Research Assistant NSH 4506 Grace works on text mining in public comment datasets.	Changkuk Yoo Visiting Research Staff NSH 2602D Changkuk is a visiting researcher from Daum Communications Corp.
Le Zhao Graduate Research Assistant NSH 3612 Le works on search engine support for HLT applications.	Yangbo Zhu Graduate Research Assistant NSH 3612 Yangbo works on personalized search. Co-advised with Jaime Carbonell.

FORMER STUDENTS

Yi Zhang Ph.D. 2005. Assistant Professor Univ. of California, Santa Cruz

Luo Si Ph.D. 2006. Assistant Professor Purdue University

Jie Lu Ph.D. 2007. Research Staff Member, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.

OTHER COLLABORATIONS

Jamie collaborates with Eric Nyberg (and many others) on the Javelin open-domain question answering project, with Maxine Eskenazi on reader-specific practice for reading comprehension, and with Jaime Carbonell on personalized search.