information retrieval
My area of focus in my undergrad research was in Information Retrieval. My research was focused specifically on document normalization, which is used to automatically change the length of documents in a collection to improve retrieval performance.
Publications:
Wintrode, Jonathan and Scott Kulp.
2009. “Confidence-Based
Techniques for Rapid and Robust Topic Identification of
Conversational Telephone Speech.” Proceedings of the 2009
International Conference on Spoken Language Processing.
Brighton, UK. September 2009. To Appear.
Kontostathis, April and Scott Kulp.
2008. “The Effect of
Normalization When Recall Really Matters.” Proceedings of
the 2008 International Conference on Information and Knowledge
Engineering. Las Vegas, NV. July 2008.
