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Hello and Welcome

Hi! I am a second-year PhD student in the Computer Science Department at Cornell, working with Prof. Thorsten Joachims.

 

At SIGIR, 2010 Office:     4126 Upson Hall
                Cornell University
                Ithaca, NY, 14853-7501
                Phone:   (607)-254-8559


Contact At:     karthik[at]cs[dot]cornell[dot]edu

 

 

Research Interests

 
  • Web Search, Information Retrieval, Learning to Rank, Recommender Systems
  • Machine Learning, Structured Prediction, Online Learning
  • Natural Langauge Processing, Summarization, Text Classification

  • I am also interested in Information Networks, Game Theory and Data Mining

 

Latest News

 
  • Fall 2011: TAing for the CS 4780 course
  • April, 2011: Awarded the Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenge Award
  • Summer 2011: Intern at MSR, Redmond with Krsyta Svore , Ran Gilad-Bachrach and Chris Burges
  • April 2011: Created a page for the MLDG (Machine Learning Discussion Group) here since the current one is outdated.

 

Publications


2012:

  • Learning to Diversify from Implicit Feedback: Karthik Raman, Pannaga Shivaswamy and Thorsten Joachims, WSDM Workshop on Diversity in Document Retrieval, Seattle, USA, March 2012


2011:

  • Structured Learning of Two-Level Dynamic Rankings: Karthik Raman, Thorsten Joachims and Pannaga Shivaswamy, CIKM 2011, Glasgow, Scotland, October 2011


2010:

  • On Improving Pseudo-Relevance Feedback using Pseudo-Irrelevant Documents: Karthik Raman, Raghavendra Udupa, Abhijit Bhole and Pushpak Bhattacharyya, ECIR 2010, Milton Keynes, UK, March 2010
  • Multilingual PRF: English Lends a Helping Hand: Manoj Chinnakotla, Karthik Raman and Pushpak Bhattacharyya, SIGIR 2010, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2010
  • Multilingual Relevance Feedback: Performance Study of Assisting Languages: Manoj Chinnakotla, Karthik Raman and Pushpak Bhattacharyya, ACL 2010, Uppsala, Sweden, July 2010.

 

Professional and Teaching Experience


  • TA: CS4780/5780 (Machine Learning) Fall 2011
  • Reviewer: IJCNLP 2011
  • Talks: SIGIR 2010, CIKM 2011, WSDM 2012

 

Work Experience


  • Intern at MSR, Redmond: May-August 2011
  • Intern at MSR,Bangalore: May-July 2009
  • B.Tech at IIT Bombay (2006-2010)

 

Aug 30th, 2011