E-mail: mkegan at umd.edu
Current Position:
Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland
Academic Degrees:
M.S. Computer Science, Naval Postgraduate School (2006), with a specialization in Information Assurance.
B.A. Computer Science, Pomona College (2003), with a minor in Linguistics.
Research Interests: Computational Linguistics
Projects:
Publications:
Saif Mohammad, Bonnie Dorr, Dragomir Radev, Melissa Egan, Ahmed Hassan, Pradeep Muthukrishan, Vahed Qazvinian, and David Zajic, "Using Citations to Generate Surveys of Scientific Paradigms." Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT), 2009.
Saif Mohammad, Bonnie Dorr, Melissa Egan, Nitin Madnani, David Zajic, and Jimmy Lin, "Multiple Alternative Sentence Compressions and Word-Pair Antonymy for Automatic Text Summarization and Recognizing Textual Entailment." Text Analysis Conference (TAC), NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, 2008.
N. Rowe, D. Barnes, M. McVicker, M. Egan, R. Betancourt, R. Toledo, D. Horner, D. Davis, L. Guiterrez and C. Martell, “Do Word Clues Suffice in Detecting Spam and Phishing?” Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Workshop on Information Assurance, West Point, NY, June 2007.
Tzu-Yi Chen and Melissa Egan, “On the Existence of Nonsymmetric Matrices with Perfect Elimination Orderings.” Proceedings of the Fifth Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, 2004.
K. Kirchhoff, J. Bilmes, S. Das, N. Duta, M. Egan, G. Ji, F. He, J. Henderson, D. Liu, M. Noamany, P. Schone, R. Schwartz and D. Vergyri, “Novel Approaches to Arabic Speech Recognition: Report from the 2002 Johns-Hopkins Workshop.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Hong Kong, April 2003.