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Scholarly Activities

Papers:

Mlynarczyk, Lytinen (2005). FAQFinder Question Answering Improvements Using Question/Answer Matching . In Proceedings of L&T-2005 - Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics , Poznan Poland, April 2005.

Academic Presentations Given:

11-4-2000:FaqFinder Project

Conferences Attended:

11-6-99, First annual Ph.D. conference. I created a poster dealing with the topic "N-Dimensional Knowledge Base for Natural Language Processing"

Colloquia attended:

1-30-98, at DePaul, Larry Wheeler, "Genetic programming and feature discovery
5-14-99, at DePaul, Bamhud Mobasher, "Data Mining"
5-28-99, at DePaul, Sotiris Skevoulis, "Light-Weight Approach to Applying Formal Methods in Software Development - Dissertation Defense"
9-99, Annual Ph.D. Colloquium
9-17-99, at DePaul, Maria Klawe, "Effective Design & Use of Computer Games for Mathematics"
10-29-99, at DePaul, Sheldon Laube, "Freeing Small Business from the Tyranny of Desktop Computing"
11-15-99, at DePaul, Faculty Candidate Mukesh Rohatgi, "A Human Learning Approach for Designing Adaptive Knowledge-based Systems "
11-19-99, at DePaul, John Mallery, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Introspection and Computation"

Research

Thesis topic:

Investigation of Mechanisms to Improve Question Answering

I am currently (2005) working on my dissertation topic. My area of focus is semantic analysis of the answer component of FAQ files. Prior research into FAQFinder has focused on question/question match. My current research attempts to extend the SVO (Subject/Verb/Object) approach that had been applied to question/question match. The approach is to attempt to associate a question with a potential answer within the answer component of a FAQ file. My initial results have been quite encouraging.

Research Interests:

Knowledge Representation. Natural language processing.

I am currently at the proposal stage, where I anticipate defending the proposal in September of 2005.

Collaborations within CTI:

1999: I've repeated CSC-594 with Dr. Lytinen in the Spring of 1999. The focus of the research to investigate how parsing a user question and the comparing it against a "parsed" set of FAQ files might improve match accuracy. I focused on the noun (direct object) in the first attempt. This worked quite well and I found that there are other steps in the match process that might better the match accuracy. I am continuing with this effort and hope to add noun/verb/adjective capability to see how this improves the overall results.

1998: I've taken an independent research course with my advisor where I've have a chance to delve into knowledge representation and natural language processing. In conjunction with the course I worked on development of a knowledge base; an N dimensional semantic net. The purpose of the project was to create a natural language understanding engine. My approach was to merge a natual language parser (Dr. Lytinen's LINK) with a knowledge base and reasoning logic. I completed knowledge base but have yet to merge the other components. The project is still ongoing. In my object oriented database class, I migrated my knowledge base to an OODB (O2). My objective is to pursue research in knowledge representation as it specifically relates to natural language understanding

Spring 1997. Wrote Paper in Dr. Liu's CSC549 class regarding current approaches to massively parallel database systems

Collaborations outside of CTI:

Chair - DePaul IEEE 2001
Chair - DePaul IEEE 2002
Seminar Presentation, Spring 2002 "Firewalls and Network Security - Implementing a LINUX based Firewall"

Progress in the PhD program

Courses completed:

Status in the program:

Schedule:

June 14, 2009. Commencement Ceremony, 8am - 9am, Allstate Arena, Rosemont Ill. (((YAHOO!!!!!!!!!!)))

Thesis:

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