Jody J. Daniels

Photo from 1996
Ph.D. Completed in September 97
(Picture from 1996)

Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts
Amherst MA 01003-4610

Lederle Graduate Research Center
Room A249
(413) 545-1985
(413) 545-1249 fax

daniels@cs.umass.edu

I'm now at Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Laboratories as a Manager, Artificial Intelligence Programs:

Lockheed Martin
Advanced Technology Laboratories
1 Federal Street, A&E-3W
Camden, NJ 08102

(856) 338-4242
(856) 338-4122 fax

jdaniels@atl.lmco.com

Current Vitae (as of May 97) Postscript , pdf version

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, September 1997, University of Massachusetts
M.S., Computer Science, May 1993, University of Massachusetts
B.S., Applied Mathematics (Computer Science), May 1983, Carnegie Mellon University

Research

Case-Based Reasoning Laboratory

Selection of Passages for Information Reduction

Information Retrieval (IR) typically retrieves entire documents in response to a user's information need. However, many times a user would prefer to examine smaller portions of a document. One example of this is when building a frame-based representation of a text. The user would like to read all and only those portions of the text that are about predefined important features.

This research addresses the problem of automatically locating text about these features, where the important features are those defined for use by a case-based reasoning (CBR) system in the form of features and values or slots and fillers.

To locate important text pieces we gathered a small set of ``excerpts'', textual segments, when creating the original case-base representations. Each segment contains the local context for a particular feature within a document. We used these excerpts to generate queries that retrieve relevant passages. By locating passages for display to the user, we winnow a text down to sets of several sentences, greatly reducing the time and effort expended searching through each text for important features.

For a one page abstract, see: Daniels, J.J. "Selection of Passages for Information Reduction." In Proceedings of the 13th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-96), 1360. Portland, OR.

Entire Thesis: Retrieval of Passages for Information Reduction. single-spaced or double-spaced.

This research was done in conjunction with The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval.

Selected Papers

  • Daniels, J.J. (2000), "Integrating a Spoken Language System with Agents for Operational Information Access."Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, (IAAI) 2000, August 1-3, 2000, Austin, TX.

  • Daniels, J.J. and McGrath, S. (2000), "A Spoken Language Interface for Tasking Agents."Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2000, September 14-16, 2000, Cape Cod, MA.

  • Daniels, J.J. and Risland, E.L. (1998), "Locating Passages Using a Case-Base of Excerpts." Seventh International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '98), November 3-7, 1998, Washington D.C.

  • Daniels, J.J. (1998), "From Cases to Documents to Passages."AAAI 98 Workshop on Textual Case-Based Reasoning (Technical Report: WS-98-12), July 16 1998, Madison, WI.

  • Daniels, J.J. and Rissland, E.L. (1997), "Finding legally relevant passages in case opinions." Sixth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL '97), June 30-July 3, 1997, Melbourne, Australia.

  • Daniels, J.J. and Rissland, E.L. (1997), "What you saw is what you want: Using Cases to Seed Information Retrieval." Second International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-97), Providence, RI, July 25-27, 1997.

  • Daniels, J.J. (1996), "Retrieval of Passages for Information Reduction," Ph.D. Proposal, April 1996. (Prof. Rissland advisor). Also UMass Technical Report 96-41, July 1996. Select here for an Abstract only.

  • Rissland, E.L. and Daniels, J.J. (1996)."The Synergistic Application of CBR to IR." In Artificial Intelligence Review: Special Issue on the Use of AI in Information Retrieval. 10:441-475.

  • Rissland, E.L. and Daniels, J.J. (1995). "Using CBR to Drive IR." In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-95), 400-407. Montreal, Canada.

  • Daniels, J.J. and Rissland, E.L. (1995). "A Case-Based Approach to Intelligent Information Retrieval." In Proceedings of the 18th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR-95), 238-245. Seattle, WA.

  • Rissland, E.L. and Daniels, J.J. (1995). "A Hybrid CBR-IR Approach to Legal Information Retrieval." In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL-95), 52-61. College Park, MD.

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