Publications

Papers

• J. W. Cooper, A. R. Coden, and E. W. Brown, "Detecting Similar Documents Using Salient Terms," Proc. of the 11th Inter. Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management, pp. 245-251, 2002.

• S. Srinivasan and E. Brown, "Is Speech Recognition Becoming Mainstream?," IEEE Computer, 35(4), pp. 38-41, 2002.

• A. Coden, E. Brown, and S. Srinivasan, "ACM SIGIR 2001 Workshop: Information Retrieval Techniques for Speech Applications," SIGIR Forum, 36(1), pp. 10-13, 2002.

• A. Coden and E. Brown, "Automatic Search from Streaming Data," IBM Technical Report RC22341, 2002.

• E. Brown and A. Coden, "Capitalization Recovery for Text," Information Retrieval Techniques for Speech Applications, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2273, 2002.

• E. W. Brown, S. Srinivasan, A. Coden, D. Ponceleon, J. W. Cooper, and A. Amir, "Toward speech as a knowledge resource," IBM Systems Journal, 40(4), 2001.

• E. Brown, S. Srinivasan, A. Coden, D. Ponceleon, J. Cooper, A. Amir, J. Pieper, "Towards speech as a knowledge resource," Proc. of the 10th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2001.

• A. Coden and E. Brown, "Speech Transcript Analysis for Automatic Search," Proceedings of HICSS'34, 2001.

• J. Prager, E. Brown, D.R. Radev, and K. Czuba, "One Search Engine or Two for Question-Answering," 9th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), NIST Special Publication 500-249, Gaithersburg, MD, November, 2000.

• J. Prager, E. Brown, A. Coden, and D. Radev, "Question-answering by predictive annotation," Proc. of the 23rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Athens, Greece, July 2000.

• J. Prager, D. Radev, E. Brown, A. Coden, and V. Samn, "The Use of Predictive Annotation for Question Answering in TREC8," 8th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), NIST Special Publication 500-246, Gaithersburg, MD, November, 1999.

• E. W. Brown, "Parallel and Distributed IR," Modern Information Retrieval, edited by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Addison Wesley, 1999.

• E. W. Brown and A. F. Smeaton, "Hypertext Information Retrieval for the Web," SIGIR Forum, 32(2), pp. 8-13, 1998.

• E. W. Brown and H. A. Chong, "The GURU System in TREC-6," 6th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), NIST Special Publication 500-240, Gaithersburg, MD, November, 1997.

• Brown et al., "Distributed Data-Gathering for Web Search," Proc. of the W3C Distributed Indexing/Searching Workshop, Cambridge, MA, May, 1996.

• E. W. Brown, "Execution Performance Issues in Full-text Information Retrieval," UMass Technical Report UM-CS-1995-081 (Ph.D. thesis), October, 1995.

• E. W. Brown, "Fast Evaluation of Structured Queries for Information Retrieval," Proc. of the 18th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 30-38, Seattle, WA, July 1995.

• E. W. Brown, J. P. Callan, and W. B. Croft, "Fast Incremental Indexing for Full-Text Infromation Retrieval," Proc. of the 20th Inter. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 1994.

• E. W. Brown, J. P. Callan, W. B. Croft, and J. E. B. Moss, "Supporting Full-Text Information Retrieval with a Persistent Object Store," Proc. of the 4th Inter. Conf. on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 1994.

• A. L. Hosking, E. W. Brown, and J. E. B. Moss, "Update Logging for Persistent Programming Languages: A Comparative Performance Evaluation," Proc. of the 19th Inter. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 1993.

Patents

• E. W. Brown and J. M. Prager, "Identifying duplicate documents from search results without comparing document content", US Patent 5913208.

• E. W. Brown et al., "System and method for hierarchically grouping and ranking a set of objects in a query context based on one or more relationships," US Patent 5875446.