Publications

Suraj Nair, Eugene Yang, Dawn Lawrie, Kevin Duh, Paul McNamee, Kenton Murray, James Mayfield, Douglas W Oard (2022). Transfer Learning Approaches for Building Cross-Language Dense Retrieval Models. European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2022.

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Suraj Nair, Eugene Yang, Dawn Lawrie, James Mayfield, Douglas W Oard (2022). Learning a Sparse Representation Model for Neural CLIR. DESIRES 2022.

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Suraj Nair, Eugene Yang, Dawn Lawrie, James Mayfield, Douglas W Oard (2022). BLADE: Combining Vocabulary Pruning and Intermediate Pretraining for Scaleable Neural CLIR. To appear in ACM SIGIR 2023.

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Yanda Chen, Chris Kedzie, Suraj Nair, Petra Galuscakova, Rui Zhang, Douglas Oard, Kathleen McKeown (2021). Cross-language Sentence Selection via Data Augmentation and Rationale Training. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers).

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Petra Galuscakova, Douglas W Oard, Joe Barrow, Suraj Nair, Shing Han-Chin, Elena Zotkina, Ramy Eskander, Rui Zhang (2020). MATERIALizing Cross-Language Information Retrieval: A Snapshot. Proceedings of the workshop on Cross-Language Search and Summarization of Text and Speech (CLSSTS2020).

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Suraj Nair, Petra Galuscakova, Douglas W Oard (2020). Combining Contextualized and Non-contextualized Query Translations to Improve CLIR. Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

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Petra Galuscakova, Suraj Nair, Douglas W Oard (2020). Combine and Re-Rank: The University of Maryland at the TREC 2020 Podcasts Track. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2020).

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Suraj Nair, Kiran Javkar, Jiahui Wu, Vanessa Frias-Martinez (2019). Understanding cycling trip purpose and route choice using GPS traces and open data. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies.

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Douglas W Oard, Marine Carpuat, Petra Galuscakova, Joseph Barrow, Suraj Nair, Xing Niu, Han-Chin Shing, Weijia Xu, Elena Zotkina, Kathleen McKeown, others (2019). Surprise languages: rapid-response cross-language IR. Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2019).

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Suraj Nair, Anton Ragni, Ondrej Klejch, Petra Galuscakova, Douglas Oard (2019). Experiments with Cross-Language Speech Retrieval for Lower-Resource Languages. Asia Information Retrieval Symposium.

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Han-Chin Shing, Suraj Nair, Ayah Zirikly, Meir Friedenberg, Hal Daumé III, Philip Resnik (2018). Expert, crowdsourced, and machine assessment of suicide risk via online postings. Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Keyboard to Clinic.

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Saurabh Daptardar, Vignesh Lakshminarayanan, Sharath Reddy, Suraj Nair, Saswata Sahoo, Purnendu Sinha (2015). Hidden Markov Model based driving event detection and driver profiling from mobile inertial sensor data. 2015 IEEE SENSORS.

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