My Ph.D. students and selected other Cornell advisees:

• Rie Kubota Ando (Ph.D. 2001; first position: IBM Watson; received the Best Paper Award at CoNLL-X in 2006)
• Regina Barzilay (postdoc 2002-2003; first position: assistant professor, MIT)
• Oren Kurland (Ph.D. 2006; first position: tenure-track Lecturer at the Technion)
• Bo Pang (Ph.D. 2006; first position: Yahoo! Research; featured scientist at Yahoo! Research)
• Matt Thomas (S.B. 2006; first position: Google)

During their time as students at Cornell, they gave invited talks at Bar-Ilan, Carnegie Mellon, the Technion, UMass Amherst, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Wisconsin among others, and worked on these papers:

• Towards robust query expansion: Model selection in the language modeling framework.
  Mattan Winaver, Oren Kurland and Carmel Domshlak.
  Proceedings of SIGIR, 2007 (poster).

• Respect my authority! HITS without hyperlinks, utilizing cluster-based language models.
  Oren Kurland and Lillian Lee.
  Proceedings of SIGIR, 2006.

• Get out the vote: Determining support or opposition from Congressional floor-debate transcripts.
  Matt Thomas, Bo Pang, and Lillian Lee.
  Proceedings of EMNLP, 2006.

• Inter-document similarities, language models, and ad hoc information retrieval.
  Oren Kurland.
  Ph.D. Thesis, 2006.
  

• PageRank without hyperlinks: Structural re-ranking using links induced by language models.
  Oren Kurland and Lillian Lee.
  Proceedings of SIGIR, 2005.

• Better than the real thing? Iterative pseudo-query processing using cluster-based language models.
  Oren Kurland, Lillian Lee, and Carmel Domshlak.
  Proceedings of SIGIR, 2005.

• Seeing stars: Exploiting class relationships for sentiment categorization with respect to rating scales.
  Bo Pang and Lillian Lee.
  Proceedings of the ACL, 2005.

• Corpus structure, language models, and ad hoc information retrieval.
  Oren Kurland and Lillian Lee.
  Proceedings of SIGIR 2004.

• A Sentimental Education: Sentiment Analysis Using Subjectivity Summarization Based on Minimum Cuts.
  Bo Pang and Lillian Lee.
  Proceedings of ACL 2004.

• Syntax-based Alignment of Multiple Translations: Extracting Paraphrases and Generating New Sentences.
  Bo Pang, Kevin Knight, and Daniel Marcu.
  HLT/NAACL 2003.

• Thumbs up? Sentiment Classification using Machine Learning Techniques.
  Bo Pang, Lillian Lee, and Shivakumar Vaithyanathan.
  2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

• The Document Representation Problem: An Analysis of LSI and Iterative Residual Rescaling. (ps, pdf)
  Rie Kubota Ando.
  Ph.D. Thesis, 2001.
  Cornell Computer Science Technical Report TR2001-1843

• Iterative Residual Rescaling: An Analysis and Generalization of LSI.
  Rie Kubota Ando and Lillian Lee.
  SIGIR 2001

• Latent semantic space: Iterative scaling improves precision of inter-document similarity measurement.
  Rie Kubota Ando.
  SIGIR 2000

• Mostly-unsupervised statistical segmentation of Japanese: Applications to kanji
  Rie Kubota Ando and Lillian Lee.
  First Conference of the NAACL, 2000
  

• Multi-document summarization by visualizing topical content.
  Rie Kubota Ando, Branimir Boguraev, Roy Byrd, and Mary Neff.
  ANLP/NAACL '00 Workshop on Automatic Summarization

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