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In Press

							110.	Judith L. Klavans, Carolyn Sheffield, Eileen Abels, Jimmy Lin, Rebecca Passonneau, Tandeep Sidhu, and Dagobert Soergel, Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building (CLiMB): Using Text Mining for the Automatic Identification, Categorization, and Disambiguation of Subject Terms for Image Metadata. Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2009, in press.
							109.	Jimmy Lin and W. John Wilbur. Modeling Actions of PubMed Users with N-Gram Language Models. Information Retrieval, 2008, in press. [DOI: 10.1007/s10791-008-9067-7]
							108.	Paul T. Jaeger, Jimmy Lin, and Justin Grimes. Cloud Computing and Information Policy: Computing in a Policy Cloud? Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 2008, in press.
							107.	Jimmy Lin, Philip Wu, and Eileen Abels. Towards Automatic Facet Analysis and Need Negotiation: Lessons from Mediated Search. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2008, in press.

2008

							106.	Jimmy Lin. Scalable Language Processing Algorithms for the Masses: A Case Study in Computing Word Co-occurrence Matrices with MapReduce. Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2008), pages 419-428, October 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii.
							105.	Jimmy Lin, Michael DiCuccio, Vahan Grigoryan, and W. John Wilbur. Navigating Information Spaces: A Case Study of Related Article Search in PubMed. Information Processing & Management, 44(5):1771-1783, 2008. [DOI: doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2008.04.002]
							104.	Jimmy Lin and Mark D. Smucker. How Do Users Find Things with PubMed? Towards Automatic Utility Evaluation with User Simulations. Proceedings of the 31th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2008),pages 19-26, July 2008, Singapore. [DOI: 10.1145/1390334.1390340]
							103.	Jimmy Lin. Scalable Language Processing Algorithms for the Masses: A Case Study in Computing Word Co-occurrence Matrices with MapReduce. Technical Report HCIL-2008-28, University of Maryland, College Park, June 2008.
							102.	David Zajic, Bonnie Dorr, and Jimmy Lin. Single-Document and Multi-Document Summarization Techniques for Email Threads Using Sentence Compression. Information Processing & Management, 44(4):1600-1610, 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2007.09.007]
							101.	Chris Dyer, Aaron Cordova, Alex Mont, and Jimmy Lin. Fast, Easy, and Cheap: Construction of Statistical Machine Translation Models with MapReduce. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation at ACL 2008, pages 199-207, June 2008, Columbus, Ohio.
							100.	Jimmy Lin. Exploring Large-Data Issues in the Curriculum: A Case Study with MapReduce. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics (TeachCL-08) at ACL 2008, pages 54-61, June 2008, Columbus, Ohio.
							99.	Tamer Elsayed, Jimmy Lin, and Douglas Oard. Pairwise Document Similarity in Large Collections with MapReduce. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2008), Companion Volume, pages 265-268, June 2008, Columbus, Ohio.
							98.	Judith L. Klavans, Carolyn Sheffield, Jimmy Lin, and Tandeep Sidhu. Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building. Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2008), page 427, June 2008, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [DOI: 10.1145/1378889.1378974]
							97.	Jimmy Lin. PageRank without Hyperlinks: Reranking with PubMed Related Article Networks for Biomedical Text Retrieval. BMC Bioinformatics, 9:270 (6 Jun 2008). [DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-270]
							96.	Judith Klavans, Carolyn Sheffield, Eileen Abels, Joan Beaudoin, Laura Jenemann, Jimmy Lin, Tom Lippincott, Rebecca Passonneau, Tandeep Sidhu, Dagobert Soergel, Tae Yano. Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building: Aggregating Text Processing Technologies for Enhanced Image Access. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Language Resources fo Content-Based Image Retrieval (OntoImage 2008) at LREC 2008, pages 42-47, May 2008, Marrakech, Morocco.
							95.	Jimmy Lin and Mark D. Smucker. How Do Users Find Things with PubMed? Towards Automatic Utility Evaluation with User Simulations. Technical Report LAMP-TR-148/HCIL-2008-07, University of Maryland, College Park, February 2008. (See revised version, published in SIGIR 2008)
							94.	Judith L. Klavans, Tandeep Sidhu, Carolyn Sheffield, Dagobert Soergel, Jimmy Lin, Eileen Abels, and Rebecca Passonneau. Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building (CLiMB) Text Mining for the Automatic Extraction of Subject Terms for Image Metadata. Proceedings of the VISAPP 2008 Workshop on Metadata Mining for Image Understanding, pages 3-12, January 2008, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.
							93.	Timothy Hawes, Jimmy Lin, and Philip Resnik. Elements of a Computational Model for Multi-Party Discourse: The Turn-Taking Behavior of Supreme Court Justices. Technical Report LAMP-TR-147/HCIL-2008-02, University of Maryland, College Park, January 2008.
							92.	Jimmy Lin. PageRank without Hyperlinks: Reranking with Related Document Networks. Technical Report LAMP-TR-146/HCIL-2008-01, University of Maryland, College Park, January 2008. (See revised version, published in BCM Bioinformatics)

2007

							91.	Hoa Trang Dang, Jimmy Lin, and Diane Kelly. Overview of the TREC 2007 Question Answering Track. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2007), November 2007, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
							90.	Nitin Madnani, Jimmy Lin, and Bonnie Dorr. TREC 2007 ciQA Task: University of Maryland. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2007), November 2007, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
							89.	Michael Evans, Wayne McIntosh, Jimmy Lin, and Cynthia Cates. Recounting the Courts? Applying Automated Content Analysis to Enhance Empirical Legal Research. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 4(4):1007-1039, 2007. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-1461.2007.00113.x]
							88.	Jimmy Lin and Dina Demner-Fushman. Semantic Clustering of Answers to Clinical Questions. Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2007), pages 458-462, November 2007, Chicago, Illinois.
							87.	Jimmy Lin and W. John Wilbur. PubMed Related Articles: A Probabilistic Topic-based Model for Content Similarity. BMC Bioinformatics, 8:423 (30 October 2007). [DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-8-423]
							86.	Jimmy Lin and W. John Wilbur. Syntactic Sentence Compression in the Biomedical Domain: Facilitating Access to Related Articles. Information Retrieval, 10(4-5):393-414, 2007. [DOI: 10.1007/s10791-007-9029-5]
							85.	David Zajic, Bonnie Dorr, Jimmy Lin, and Richard Schwartz. Multi-Candidate Reduction: Sentence Compression as a Tool for Document Summarization Tasks. Information Processing & Management, 43(6):1549-1570, 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2007.01.016]
							84.	Jimmy Lin, Michael DiCuccio, Vahan Grigoryan, and W. John Wilbur. Exploring the Effectiveness of Related Article Search in PubMed. Technical Report LAMP-TR-145/CS-TR-4877/UMIACS-TR-2007-36/HCIL-2007-10, University of Maryland, College Park, July 2007. (See revised version, published in Information Processing and Management)
							83.	Jimmy Lin and Pengyi Zhang. Deconstructing Nuggets: The Stability and Reliability of Complex Question Answering Evaluation. Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007), pages 327-334, July 2007, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. [DOI: 10.1145/1277741.1277799]
							82.	Hoa Trang Dang and Jimmy Lin. Different Structures for Evaluating Answers to Complex Questions: Pyramids Won't Topple, and Neither Will Human Assessors. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2007), pages 768-775, June 2007, Prague, Czech Republic.
							81.	Tandeep Sidhu, Judith Klavans, and Jimmy Lin. Concept Disambiguation for Improved Subject Access Using Multiple Knowledge Sources. Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data (LaTeCH 2007), pages 25-32, June 2007, Prague, Czech Republic.
							80.	Paul Kantor and Jimmy Lin. Presentation Schemes for Component Analysis in IR Experiments. SIGIR Forum, 41(1):34-39, 2007. [DOI: 10.1145/1273221.1273224]
							79.	Diane Kelly and Jimmy Lin. Overview of the TREC 2006 ciQA Task. SIGIR Forum, 41(1):107-116, 2007. [DOI: 10.1145/1273221.1273231]
							78.	Georg Apitz and Jimmy Lin. Interfaces to Support the Scholarly Exploration of Text Collections. Proceedings of the CHI 2007 Workshop for Exploratory Search and HCI, pages 60-63, April 2007, San Jose, CA.
							77.	Jimmy Lin. Is Question Answering Better Than Information Retrieval? Towards a Task-Based Evaluation Framework for Question Series. Proceedings of the 2007 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT/NAACL 2007), pages 212-219, April 2007, Rochester, New York.
							76.	Nitin Madnani, David Zajic, Bonnie Dorr, Necip Fazil Ayan, and Jimmy Lin. Multiple Alternative Sentence Compressions for Automatic Text Summarization. Proceedings of the 2007 Document Understanding Conference (DUC-2007) at NLT/NAACL 2007, April 2007, Rochester, New York.
							75.	Jimmy Lin. An Exploration of the Principles Underlying Redundancy-Based Factoid Question Answering. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 27(2):1-55, 2007. [DOI: 10.1145/1229179.1229180]
							74.	Dina Demner-Fushman and Jimmy Lin. Answering Clinical Questions with Knowledge-Based and Statistical Techniques. Computational Linguistics, 33(1):63-103, 2007. [DOI: 10.1162/coli.2007.33.1.63]
							73.	Jimmy Lin. User Simulations for Evaluating Answers to Question Series. Information Processing & Management, 43(3):717-729, 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2006.06.006]

2006

							72.	Jimmy Lin and Dina Demner-Fushman. Methods for Automatically Evaluating Answers to Complex Questions. Information Retrieval, 9(5):565-587, 2006. [DOI: 10.1007/s10791-006-9003-7]
							71.	Hoa Trang Dang, Jimmy Lin, and Diane Kelly. Overview of the TREC 2006 Question Answering Track. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006), pages 99-116, November 2006, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
							70.	Douglas Oard, Tamer Elsayed, Jianqiang Wang, Yejun Wu, Pengyi Zhang, Eileen Abels, Jimmy Lin, and Dagobert Soergel. TREC-2006 at Maryland: Blog, Enterprise, Legal and QA Tracks. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006), November 2006, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
							69.	Xiaoli Huang, Jimmy Lin, and Dina Demner-Fushman. Evaluation of PICO as a Knowledge Representation for Clinical Questions. Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2006), pages 359-363, November 2006, Washington, D.C.
							68.	G. Craig Murray, Jimmy Lin, and Abdur Chowdhury. Identification of User Sessions with Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering. Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST 2006), November 2006, Austin, Texas. (poster) [DOI: 10.1002/meet.14504301312]
							67.	Jimmy Lin and Dina Demner-Fushman. The Role of Knowledge in Conceptual Retrieval: A Study in the Domain of Clinical Medicine. Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), pages 99-106, August 2006, Seattle, Washington. [DOI: 10.1145/1148170.1148191]
							66.	Jimmy Lin, Philip Wu, Dina Demner-Fushman, and Eileen Abels. Exploring the Limits of Single-Iteration Clarification Dialogs. Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), pages 469-476, August 2006, Seattle, Washington. [DOI: 10.1145/1148170.1148251]
							65.	G. Craig Murray, Jimmy Lin, and Abdur Chowdhury. Action Modeling: Using Language Models to Predict Query Behavior. Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), pages 681-682, August 2006, Seattle, Washington. (poster) [DOI: 10.1145/1148170.1148315]
							64.	G. Craig Murray, Bonnie J. Dorr, Jimmy Lin, Jan Hajic, and Pavel Pecina. Leveraging Reusability: Cost-Effective Lexical Acquisition for Large-scale Ontology Translation. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING/ACL 2006), pages 945-952, July 2006, Sydney, Australia.
							63.	Dina Demner-Fushman and Jimmy Lin. Answer Extraction, Semantic Clustering, and Extractive Summarization for Clinical Question Answering. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING/ACL 2006), pages 841-848, July 2006, Sydney, Australia.
							62.	Jimmy Lin. The Role of Information Retrieval in Answering Complex Questions. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING/ACL 2006), Poster Sessions, pages 523-530, July 2006, Sydney, Australia.
							61.	Dina Demner-Fushman and Jimmy Lin. Situated Question Answering in the Clinical Domain: Selecting the Best Drug Treatment for Diseases. Proceedings of COLING/ACL 2006 Workshop on Task-Focused Summarization and Question Answering, pages 24-31, July 2006, Sydney, Australia.
							60.	G. Craig Murray, Bonnie J. Dorr, Jimmy Lin, Jan Hajic, and Pavel Pecina. Leveraging Recurrent Phrase Structure in Large-scale Ontology Translation. Proceedings of the 11th Annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT), June 2006, Oslo, Norway.
							59.	David Zajic, Bonnie Dorr, Jimmy Lin, Dianne O'Leary, John Conroy, Judith Schlesinger. Sentence Trimming and Selection: Mixing and Matching. Proceedings of the 2006 Document Understanding Conference (DUC-2006) at NLT/NAACL 2006, June 2006, New York, New York.
							58.	David Zajic, Bonnie Dorr, Jimmy Lin, and Richard Schwartz. Sentence Compression as a Component of a Multi-Document Summarization System. Proceedings of the 2006 Document Understanding Conference (DUC-2006) at NLT/NAACL 2006, June 2006, New York, New York.
							57.	Jimmy Lin and Dina Demner-Fushman. Will Pyramids Built of Nuggets Topple Over? Proceedings of the 2006 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT/NAACL 2006), pages 383-390, June 2006, New York City, New York.
							56.	Jimmy Lin, Damianos Karakos, Dina Demner-Fushman, and Sanjeev Khudanpur. Generative Content Models for Structural Analysis of Medical Abstracts. Proceedings of the HLT/NAACL 2006 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP'06), pages 65-72, June 2006, New York City, New York.
							55.	Jimmy Lin and Boris Katz. Building a Reusable Test Collection for Question Answering. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(7):851-861, 2006. [DOI: 10.1002/asi.20348]
							54.	Jimmy Lin. The Role of Information Retrieval in Answering Complex Questions. Technical Report LAMP-TR-130/CS-TR-4787/UMIACS-TR-2006-11, University of Maryland, College Park, February 2006. (See revised version, published in ACL 2006)

2005

							53.	Jimmy Lin and Dina Demner-Fushman. Will Pyramids Built of Nuggets Topple Over? Technical Report LAMP-TR-127/CS-TR-4771/UMIACS-TR-2005-71, University of Maryland, College Park, December 2005. (See revised version, published in HLT/NAACL 2006)
							52.	Jimmy Lin, Eileen Abels, Dina Demner-Fushman, Douglas W. Oard, Philip Wu, and Yejun Wu. A Menagerie of Tracks at Maryland: HARD, Enterprise, QA, and Genomics, Oh My! Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2005), November 2005, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
							51.	Alan R. Aronson, Dina Demner-Fushman, Susanne M. Humphrey, Jimmy Lin, Hongfang Liu, Patrick Ruch, Miguel E. Ruiz, Lawrence H. Smith, Lorraine K. Tanabe, and W. John Wilbur. Fusion of Knowledge-Intensive and Statistical Approaches for Retrieving and Annotating Textual Genomics Documents. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2005), November 2005, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
							50.	Jimmy Lin and Dina Demner-Fushman. "Bag of Words" is not enough for Strength of Evidence Classification. Proceeding of the 2005 Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2005), page 1031, October 2005, Washington, D.C. (poster)
							49.	David Zajic, Bonnie Dorr, Jimmy Lin, Christof Monz, and Richard Schwartz. A Sentence-Trimming Approach to Multi-Document Summarization. Proceedings of the 2005 Document Understanding Conference (DUC-2005) at NLT/EMNLP 2005, October 2005, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
							48.	Grazia Russo-Lassner, Jimmy Lin, and Philip Resnik. A Paraphrase-Based Approach to Machine Translation Evaluation. Technical Report LAMP-TR-125/CS-TR-4754/UMIACS-TR-2005-57, University of Maryland, College Park, August 2005.
							47.	Jimmy Lin and Dina Demner-Fushman. Automatically Evaluating Answers to Definition Questions. Proceedings of the 2005 Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP 2005), pages 931-938, October 2005, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
							46.	Jimmy Lin and Dina Demner-Fushman. Representation of Information Needs and the Elements of Context: A Case Study in the Domain of Clinical Medicine. Proceedings of the SIGIR 2005 Workshop on Information Retrieval in Context (IRiX 2005), pages 51-53, August 2005, Salvador, Brazil.
							45.	Jimmy Lin and G. Craig Murray. Assessing the Term Independence Assumption in Blind Relevance Feedback. Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2005), pages 635-636, August 2005, Salvador, Brazil. (poster) [DOI: 10.1145/1076034.1076165]
							44.	Jimmy Lin. Evaluation of Resources for Question Answering Evaluation. Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2005), pages 392-399, August 2005, Salvador, Brazil. [DOI: 10.1145/1076034.1076102]
							43.	Dina Demner-Fushman and Jimmy Lin. Knowledge Extraction for Clinical Question Answering: Preliminary Results. Proceedings of the AAAI-05 Workshop on Question Answering in Restricted Domains, July 2005, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
							42.	Jimmy Lin and Dina Demner-Fushman. Evaluating Summaries and Answers: Two Sides of the Same Coin? Proceedings of the ACL 2005 Workshop on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Measures for MT and/or Summarization, pages 41-48, June 2005, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
							41.	Michael Evans, Wayne McIntosh, Cynthia L. Cates, and Jimmy Lin. Recounting the Courts? Toward A Text-Centered Computational Approach to Understanding the Dynamics of the Judicial System. Proceedings of the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2005, Chicago, Illinois.
							40.	Jimmy Lin and Dina Demner-Fushman. Automatically Evaluating Answers to Definition Questions. Technical Report LAMP-TR-119/CS-TR-4695/UMIACS-TR-2005-04, University of Maryland, College Park, February 2005. (See revised version, published in HLT/EMNLP 2005)
							39.	Jimmy Lin. Evaluation of Resources for Question Answering Evaluation. Technical Report LAMP-TR-118/CS-TR-4693/UMIACS-TR-2005-03, University of Maryland, College Park, February 2005) (See revised version, published in SIGIR 2005)

2004

							38.	Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, Chris Stauffer and Eric Grimson. Answering Questions About Moving Objects in Videos. In Mark T. Maybury, editor, New Directions in Question Answering. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2004, pages 113-128.
							37.	Boris Katz, Sue Felshin, Jimmy Lin, and Gregory Marton. Viewing the Web as a Virtual Database for Question Answering. In Mark T. Maybury, editor, New Directions in Question Answering. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2004, pages 215-226.
							36.	Boris Katz, Matthew Bilotti, Sue Felshin, Aaron Fernandes, Wesley Hildebrandt, Roni Katzir, Jimmy Lin, Daniel Loreto, Gregory Marton, Federico Mora, Ozlem Uzuner. Answering Multiple Questions on a Topic From Heterogeneous Resources. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2004), November 2004, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
							35.	Jimmy Lin. Are Degree Achievements Really Achievements? Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-9), November 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.
							34.	Jimmy Lin. Event Structure and the Encoding of Arguments: The Syntax of the Mandarin and English Verb Phrase. Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. (a version that wastes less paper)
							33.	Matthew W. Bilotti, Boris Katz, and Jimmy Lin. What Works Better for Question Answering: Stemming or Morphological Query Expansion? Proceedings of the SIGIR 2004 Workshop on Information Retrieval for Question Answering (IR4QA), July 2004, Sheffield, England.
							32.	Jimmy Lin. A Computational Framework for Non-Lexicalist Semantics. Proceedings of the HLT/NAACL 2004 Student Research Workshop, May 2004, Boston, Massachusetts.
							31.	Jimmy Lin. Fine-Grained Lexical Semantic Representations and Compositionally-Derived Events in Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of the HLT/NAACL 2004 Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics, pages 100-107, May 2004, Boston, Massachusetts.
							30.	Wesley Hildebrandt, Boris Katz, and Jimmy Lin. Answering Definition Questions with Multiple Knowledge Sources. Proceedings of the 2004 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT/NAACL 2004), pages 49-56, May 2004, Boston, Massachusetts.

2003

							29.	Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, Daniel Loreto, Wesley Hildebrandt, Matthew Bilotti, Sue Felshin, Aaron Fernandes, Gregory Marton, and Federico Mora. Integrating Web-based and Corpus-based Techniques for Question Answering. Proceedings of the Twelfth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2003), pages 426-435, November 2003, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
							28.	Jimmy Lin and Boris Katz. Question Answering from the Web Using Knowledge Annotation and Knowledge Mining Techniques. Proceedings of Twelfth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2003), pages 116-123, November 2003, New Orleans, Louisiana. [DOI: 10.1145/956863.956886]
							27.	Jimmy Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bakshi, David Huynh, Boris Katz, and David R. Karger. What Makes a Good Answer? The Role of Context in Question Answering. Proceedings of the Ninth IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2003), pages 25-32, September 2003, Zurich, Switzerland.
							26.	Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, Gregory Marton, and Aaron Fernandes. Quantitative Evaluation of Passage Retrieval Algorithms for Question Answering. Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2003), pages 41-47, July 2003, Toronto, Canada. (Best Student Paper) [DOI: 10.1145/860435.860445]
							25.	Ali Ibrahim, Boris Katz, and Jimmy Lin. Extracting Structural Paraphrases from Aligned Monolingual Corpora. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Paraphrasing (IWP 2003) at ACL 2003, pages 57-64, July 2003, Sapporo, Japan.
							24.	Boris Katz, Roger Hurwitz, Jimmy Lin, Özlem Uzuner. Better Public Policy Through Natural Language Information Access. Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research (DG.O 2003), pages 73-78, May 2003, Boston, Massachusetts.
							23.	Boris Katz, Roger Hurwitz, Jimmy Lin, Özlem Uzuner. START: A Framework for Facilitating E-Rulemaking. Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research (DG.O 2003), page 285, May 2003, Boston, Massachusetts. (demo)
							22.	Jimmy Lin and Boris Katz. Question Answering Techniques for the World Wide Web. Tutorial Presentation at the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (EACL 2003), April 2003, Budapest, Hungary.
							21.	Boris Katz and Jimmy Lin. Selectively Using Relations to Improve Precision in Question Answering. Proceedings of the EACL 2003 Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Question Answering, pages 43-50, April 2003, Budapest, Hungary.
							20.	Jimmy Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bakshi, David Huynh, Boris Katz, David R. Karger. The Role of Context in Question Answering Systems. CHI '03: Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 1006-1007, April 2003, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (poster) [DOI: 10.1145/765891.766119]
							19.	Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, Chris Stauffer, and Eric Grimson. Answering Questions about Moving Objects in Surveillance Videos. Proceedings of the 2003 AAAI Spring Symposium on New Directions in Question Answering, pages 145-152, March 2003, Palo Alto, California.
							18.	David Karger, Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, and Dennis Quan. Sticky Notes for the Semantic Web. Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2003), pages 254-256, January 2003, Miami, Florida. (poster) [DOI: 10.1145/604045.604091]

2002

							17.	Jimmy Lin, Aaron Fernandes, Boris Katz, Gregory Marton, and Stefanie Tellex. Extracting Answers from the Web Using Knowledge Annotation and Knowledge Mining Techniques. Proceedings of the Eleventh Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2002), pages 447-456, November 2002, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
							16.	Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, Sue Felshin. The START Multimedia Information System: Current Technology and Future Directions. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems (MIS 2002), pages 117-123, October 2002, Tempe, Arizona.
							15.	Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, Dennis Quan. Natural Language Annotations for the Semantic Web. Proceedings of the International Conference on Ontologies, Databases, and Application of Semantics (ODBASE 2002), pages 1317-1331, October 2002, Irvine, California.
							14.	Boris Katz and Jimmy Lin. Annotating the Semantic Web Using Natural Language. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML 2002) at COLING 2002, September 2002, Taipei, Taiwan.
							13.	Susan Dumais, Michele Banko, Eric Brill, Jimmy Lin, and Andrew Ng. Web Question Answering: Is More Always Better? Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2002), pages 291-298, August 2002, Tampere, Finland. [DOI: 10.1145/564376.564428]
							12.	Boris Katz, Sue Felshin, Deniz Yuret, Ali Ibrahim, Jimmy Lin, Gregory Marton, Alton Jerome McFarland, and Baris Temelkuran. Omnibase: Uniform Access to Heterogeneous Data for Question Answering. Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2002), pages 230-234, June 2002, Stockholm, Sweden.
							11.	Jimmy Lin. The Web as a Resource for Question Answering: Perspective and Challenges. Proceedings of the third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002), May 2002, Canary Islands, Spain.
							10.	Michele Banko, Eric Brill, Susan Dumais, and Jimmy Lin. AskMSR: Question Answering Using the Worldwide Web. Proceedings of the 2002 AAAI Spring Symposium on Mining Answers from Texts and Knowledge Bases, March 2002, Palo Alto, California.

2001

							9.	Eric Brill, Jimmy Lin, Michele Banko, Susan Dumais, and Andrew Ng. Data-Intensive Question Answering. Proceedings of the Tenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2001), pages 393-400, November 2001, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
							8.	Joyce Chai, Jimmy Lin, Wlodek Zadrozny, Yiming Ye, Margo Stys-Budzikowska, Veronika Horvath, Nanda Kambhatla, and Catherine Wolf. The Role of a Natural Language Conversational Interface in Online Sales: A Case Study. International Journal of Speech Technology, 4:285-295, 2001. [DOI: 10.1023/A:1011316909641]
							7.	Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, and Sue Felshin. Gathering Knowledge for a Question Answering System from Heterogeneous Information Sources. Proceedings of the ACL 2001 Workshop on Human Language Technology and Knowledge Management, July 2001, Toulouse, France.
							6.	Jimmy Lin. Indexing and Retrieving Natural Language Using Ternary Expressions. Master's Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001.

2000

							5.	Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin. REXTOR: A System for Generating Relations from Natural Language. Proceedings of the ACL 2000 Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval (NLP&IR), pages 67-77, October 2000, Hong Kong, China.
							4.	Joyce Chai, Jimmy Lin, Wlodek Zadrozny, Yiming Ye, Margo Budzikowska, Veronika Horvath, Nanda Kambhatla, Catherine Wolf. Comparative Evaluation of a Natural Language Dialog Based System and a Menu Driven System for Information Access: A Case Study. Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (RIAO 2000), April 2000, Paris, France.
							3.	Joyce Chai and Jimmy Lin and Wlodek Zadrozny and Yiming Ye and Margo Budzikowska and Veronika Horvath and Nanda Kambhatla and Catherine Wolf. Evaluation of a Natural Language Dialog Based Web Nabigation System---A Case Study. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2000) Interactivity Workshop, May 2000, Athens, Greece.

Boris Katz, Deniz Yuret, Jimmy Lin, Sue Felshin, Rebecca Schulman, Adnan Ilik, Ali Ibrahim, Philip Osafo-Kwaako. Integrating Large Lexicons and Web Resources into a Natural Language Query System. Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS 1999), Volume 2, pages 255-261, June 1999, Florence, Italy. (poster)

1998

Boris Katz, Deniz Yuret, Jimmy Lin, Sue Felshin, Rebecca Schulman, Adnan Ilik. Blitz: A Preprocessor for Detecting Context-Independent Linguistic Structures. Proceedings of the 5th Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 1998), November 1998, Singapore. (poster)

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