Author: sumithra

The paper Improving Dictionary Construction by Automatic Identification of Parallel Text Pairs which I’ve written together with Martin Hassel and Hercules Dalianis has been accepted to the international symposium on Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCST) which will be held in Hangzhou, China, 25th–27th September 2008. The experiments described in the paper have…

The paper Revealing Relations between Open and Closed Answers in Questionnaires through Text Clustering Evaluation which I’ve written together with Magnus Rosell (PhD student at CSC, KTH) has been accepted to the 6th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) which will be held in Marrakech, Morocco 26th May – 1st June 2008.…

Last week I attended the 6th European Summer School in Information Retrieval hosted by the Information Retrieval group of the Department of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow.The school hit a record in the number of participants: over 200! I had the fantastic opportunity of meeting IR researchers and people working in the IR…

I’ve just started my PhD position at the Department of Computer and System Sciences. Hercules Dalianis is my supervisor during my PhD studies. I have a background in Computational Linguistics from Uppsala University. My main interests in this area is text mining, text clustering techniques, information retrieval and language specific applications. I completed my Master’s…