Silviu Cucerzan
Sr. Principal Research Manager
Publications
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Jinheon Baek, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Silviu Cucerzan, Sung Ju Hwang
ResearchAgent: Iterative Research Idea Generation over Scientific Literature with Large Language Models
arxiv, 2024
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Isabel Cachola, Silviu Cucerzan, Allen Herring, Vuksan Mijovic, Erik Oveson, and Sujay Kumar Jauhar
Knowledge-Centric Templatic Views of Documents
EMNLP, Miami, 2024
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Jinheon Baek, Nirupama Chandrasekaran, Silviu Cucerzan, Allen Herring, and Sujay Kumar Jauhar
Knowledge-Augmented Large Language Models for Personalized Contextual Query Suggestion
The International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Singapore, 2024
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Radin Hamidi Rad, Silviu Cucerzan, Nirupama Chandrasekaran, and Michael Gamon
Interactive Topic Tagging in Community Question Answering Platforms
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Dublin, 2024
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Kuntal Kumar Pal, Michael Gamon, Nirupama Chandrasekaran, and Silviu Cucerzan
Modeling Tag Prediction based on Question Tagging Behavior Analysis of CommunityQA Platform Users
arxiv, 2023
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Chaitan Baru et al.
Open Knowledge Network Roadmap: Powering the Next Data Revolution
USGS Publications Warehouse, 2022
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Silviu Cucerzan
Entity Linking: A Symbiosis between Knowledge Graphs and News; Bringing the Knowledge Graph to Excel
The Knowledge Graph Conference, New York City (online), 2020
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Ning Gao, Nikos Karampatziakis, Rahul Potharaju, and Silviu Cucerzan
Active Entity Recognition in Low Resource Settings
CIKM 2019, Beijing, 2019
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Avirup Sil, Heng Ji, Dan Roth, and Silviu Cucerzan
Multi-lingual Entity Discovery and Linking
ACL 2018 Tutorials, Melbourne, 2018
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Sergio Jimenez Vargas, Silviu Cucerzan, Fabio González, and Alexander Gelbukh
BM25-CTF: Improving TF and IDF factors in BM25 by using collection term frequencies
Language & Knowledge Engineering, Puebla, 2017
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Ning Gao and Silviu Cucerzan
Entity Linking to One Thousand Knowledge Bases
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Aberdeen, 2017
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C.J.C. Burges, T. Hart, Z. Yang, S. Cucerzan, R.W. White, A. Pastusiak, and J. Lewis
A Base Camp for Scaling AI
arXiv, 2016
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Silviu Cucerzan
The MSR System for Entity Linking at TAC 2014
Text Analysis Conference, Gaithersburg, 2014
Best Accuracy and Best B-cubed+ F-measure for the EL task
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Silviu Cucerzan
Named Entities Made Obvious: The Participation in the ERD 2014 Evaluation
Entity Recognition and Disambiguation Challenge, Gold Coast, 2014
Best system in ERD 2014 Long Text Track
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Avirup Sil and Silviu Cucerzan
Temporal Scoping of Relational Facts based on Wikipedia Data
Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), Baltimore, 2014
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Silviu Cucerzan and Avirup Sil
The MSR Systems for Entity Linking and Temporal Slot Filling at TAC 2013
Text Analysis Conference, Gaithersburg, 2013
Entity Linking: Best Accuracy, Best B-cubed+ F-measure;
Temporal Scoping: Best Score
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Silviu Cucerzan
The MSR System for Entity Linking at TAC 2012
Text Analysis Conference, Gaithersburg, 2012
Best Accuracy, Best B-cubed+ F-measure
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Chee Wee Leong and Silviu Cucerzan
Supporting Factual Statements with Evidence from the Web
The ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Maui, 2012
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Silviu Cucerzan
TAC Entity Linking by Performing Full-document Entity Extraction and Disambiguation
Text Analysis Conference, Gaithersburg, 2011
Best Accuracy, 2nd Best B-cubed+ F-measure
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Niranjan Balasubramanian and Silviu Cucerzan
Beyond Ranked Lists in Web Search: Aggregating Web Content into Topic Pages
International Journal of Semantic Computing, 4 (4)
World Scientific Publishing Company, 2010
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Niranjan Balasubramanian and Silviu Cucerzan
Topic Pages: An Alternative to the Ten Blue Links
IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE-ICSC), Pittsburgh, 2010
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Silviu Cucerzan
Does Capitalization Matter in Web Search?
International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR), Valencia, 2010
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Silviu Cucerzan
A Case Study of Using Web Search Statistics: Case Restoration
CICLing, Iasi, 2010 Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6008 Springer, 2010
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Niranjan Balasubramanian and Silviu Cucerzan
Automatic Generation of Topic Pages using Query-based Aspect Models
The ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Hong Kong, 2009
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Mandar Rahurkar and Silviu Cucerzan
Using the Current Browsing Context to Improve Search Relevance
The ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Napa Valley, 2008
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Ryen W. White, Mikhail Bilenko, and Silviu Cucerzan
Leveraging Popular Destinations to Enhance Web Search Interaction
ACM Transactions on The Web, 2 (3) ACM, 2008
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Ziming Zhuang and Silviu Cucerzan
Exploiting Semantic Query Context to Improve Search Ranking
IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE-ICSC), Santa Clara, 2008
The Best Paper Award
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Mandar Rahurkar and Silviu Cucerzan
Predicting when Browsing Context Is Relevant to Search
The 31st ACM SIGIR Conference, Singapore, 2008
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Wisam Dakka and Silviu Cucerzan
Augmenting Wikipedia with Named Entity Tags
The Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), Hyderabad, 2008
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Alpa Jain, Silviu Cucerzan, and Saliha Azzam
Acronym-Expansion Recognition and Ranking on the Web
The IEEE Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE-IRI), Las Vegas, 2007
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Ryen W. White, Mikhail Bilenko, and Silviu Cucerzan
Studying the Use of Popular Destinations to Enhance Web Search Interaction
The 30th ACM SIGIR Conference, Amsterdam, 2007
The Best Paper Award
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Silviu Cucerzan and Ryen W. White
Query Suggestion Based on User Landing Pages
The 30th ACM SIGIR Conference, Amsterdam, 2007
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Ryen W. White, Charles L. A. Clarke, and Silviu Cucerzan
Comparing Query Logs and Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for Web-Search Query Refinement
The 30th ACM SIGIR Conference, Amsterdam, 2007
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Silviu Cucerzan
Large Scale Named Entity Disambiguation Based on Wikipedia Data
The EMNLP-CoNLL Joint Conference, Prague, 2007
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Ziming Zhuang and Silviu Cucerzan
Re-ranking Search Results Using Query Logs
The ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Washington, DC, 2006
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Ziming Zhuang, Silviu Cucerzan, and C. Lee Giles
Network Flow for Collaborative Ranking
ECML/PKDD, Berlin, 2006 Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4213 Springer, 2006
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Silviu Cucerzan and Eric Brill
Extracting Semantically Related Queries by Exploiting User Session Information
Unpublished Draft (submitted to WWW-2006, November 2005)
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Silviu Cucerzan and Eugene Agichtein
Factoid Question Answering over Unstructured and Structured Content on the Web
The Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), Washington, DC, 2005
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Eugene Agichtein and Silviu Cucerzan
Predicting Accuracy of Extracting Information from Unstructured Text Collections
The ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Bremen, 2005
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Eugene Agichtein, Silviu Cucerzan, and Eric Brill
Analysis of Factoid Questions for Effective Relation Extraction
The 28th ACM SIGIR Conference, Salvador, 2005
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Silviu Cucerzan and Eric Brill
Spelling Correction as an Iterative Process that Exploits the Collective Knowledge of Web Users
The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Barcelona, 2004
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Silviu Cucerzan and David Yarowsky
Minimally Supervised Induction of Grammatical Gender
The Human Language Technology Conference (HLT/NAACL), Edmonton, 2003
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Radu Florian, Silviu Cucerzan, Charles Schafer, and David Yarowsky
Combining Classifiers for Word Sense Disambiguation
Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 8 (4) Cambridge University Press, 2002
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Silviu Cucerzan and David Yarowsky
Bootstrapping a Multilingual Part-of-speech Tagger in One Person-day
The 6th Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), Taipei, 2002
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Silviu Cucerzan and David Yarowsky
Language Independent NER using a Unified Model of Internal and Contextual Evidence
The 6th Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), Taipei, 2002
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Silviu Cucerzan and David Yarowsky
Augmented Mixture Models for Lexical Disambiguation
The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Philadelphia, 2002
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David Yarowsky, Silviu Cucerzan, Radu Florian, Charles Schafer, and Rich Wicentowski
The Johns Hopkins Senseval2 System Descriptions
Senseval-2, Toulouse, 2001
Best Accuracy for English Lexical Choice (main task)
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Silviu Cucerzan and David Yarowsky
Language Independent Minimally Supervised Induction of Lexical Probabilities
The 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Hong Kong, 2000
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Silviu Cucerzan and David Yarowsky
Language Independent Named Entity Recognition Combining Morphological and Contextual Evidence
The 1999 Joint SIGDAT Conference on EMNLP and VLC, College Park, 1999
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