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Amit Singhal's Home Page;Amit Singhal;Department of Computer Science,;Cornell University;singhal@cs.cornell.edu;Phone: 607/255-9211, Fax: 607/255-4428;My research interests are in the area of information retrieval and;text processing. My thesis advisor was (late) Prof. Gerard;Salton. My current thesis supervisors are Dr. Chris Buckley and Prof. Claire;Cardie;Here is a postscript copy of my resume.;The Smart group at Cornell CS department has been;one of the foremost research groups in the field of information;retrieval for last thirty years. Our current research involves:;Document Length Normalization in Information Retrieval; To fairly retrieve texts of varying sizes, document length;normalization is commonly used in term weighting. We show that;effective systems should retrieve documents of all sizes with chances;similar to their likelihood of relevance. We propose pivoting,;a new technique that can be used to modify existing normalization;functions to yield substantial improvements in retrieval;effectiveness. We also propose a new and effective normalization;technique.Some papers ...;Our TREC;Participation;Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) is a NIST and ARPA co-sponsored;effort to objectively evaluate various information retrieval;techniques on an independent testbed. The Smart system has;consistently been one of the best systems at TREC.Some;papers ...;Automatic Text Structuring and Summarization;Non expository texts are not usually read from cover to;cover. Readers are helped in such circumstances by providing selective;access to text excerpts as needed. We have developed techniques to;analyze the structure of a text and provide tools for selective text;traversal.Some papers ...;Papers;Normalization papers:;Pivoted Document Length Normalization. Amit Singhal, Chris Buckley, Mandar;Mitra, (Gerard Salton). (TR95-1560);Document;Length Normalization. Amit Singhal, Gerard Salton, Mandar Mitra;and Chris Buckley. (TR95-1529);Length;Normalization in Degraded Text Collections. Amit Singhal, Gerard;Salton and Chris Buckley. (TR95-1507);TREC papers:; Coming soon: New Retrieval Approaches Using;SMART: TREC 4. Chris Buckley, Amit Singhal, Mandar;Mitra, (Gerard Salton).;Automatic Query Expansion Using SMART: TREC 3. Chris Buckley,;Gerard Salton, James Allan, and Amit Singhal. In Proceedings;of the Third Text Retrieval Conference, NIST Special Publication;500-225, 69-80.;Text structuring papers:;;Automatic Text Decomposition Using Text Segments and Text;Themes. Gerard Salton, Amit Singhal, Chris Buckley, and Mandar Mitra,;Hypertext '96 (to appear). (TR95-1555); Automatic Text Decomposition and Structuring. Gerard Salton,;James Allan, and Amit Singhal, Information Processing and;Management (to appear).;Automatic Text Browsing Using Vector;Space Model. Amit Singhal and Gerard Salton. In Proceedings of;the Dual-Use Technologies and Applications Conference, May 1995,;318-324.;;Selective Text Traversal. Gerard Salton and Amit Singhal. (TR95-1549);;Automatic Text Theme Generation and the Analysis of Text Structure.;Gerard Salton and Amit Singhal. (TR94-1438);Automatic Analysis, Theme Generation, and Summarization of Machine;Readable Texts. Gerard Salton, James Allan, Chris Buckley, and Amit;Singhal, Science 264 (3 June, 1994), 1421-1426.;Smart Group;Members of the Smart group are:;Chris Buckley, senior research associate;;Amit Singhal, Ph.D. student;;Mandar Mitra, Ph.D. student;;David Fielding, Masters of Engineering student;;and others as the group slowly fluctuates.; Thanks for visiting my home page. You are visitor since Nov. 30, 1995 (that's when I;installed this counter :-).;