G. Craig Murray College of Information Studies 4120J Hornbake University of Maryland College Park, MD 20740 gcraigm @ umd . edu

Research Interests: Linguistic issues in information storage and retrieval, information behaviors, and relevance assessment; Semantics and lexical acquisition; Structural linguistics and knowledge representation; Query modeling. Current & Recent Research Work: Query Log Analysis: Social and Technological Challenges workshop at WWW2007 Linguistically motivated query expansion and refinement Child acquisition of categorization strategies Multilingual Access to Large spoken ArCHives The Linguist's Search Engine Automated topic detection and tracking on international news wires Factors affecting inter-annotator agreement in corpus development Peer Reviewed Publications:   Murray, G. C., and Teevan, J. (2007). Query Log Analysis: Social and Technological Challenges, workshop Report. SIGIR Forum. 41(2). 112-120.   Murray, G. C., Lin, J., and Chowdhury, A. (2006). Identification of User Sessions with Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering. In Proceedings of ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, November 2006. [poster]   Murray, G. C., Lin, J., and Chowdhury, A. (2006). Action modeling: Language models that predict query behavior. In Proceedings of SIGIR'06, Seattle, Washington, August 2006. ACM. [poster]   Murray, G. C., Dorr, B., Lin, J., Hajic, J., and Pecina, P. (2006). Leveraging reusability: Cost-effective lexical acquisition for large-scale ontology translation. In Proceedings of ACL/COLING'06, Sydney, Australia, July 2006.   Murray, G. C., Dorr, B., Lin, J., Hajic, J., and Pecina, P. (2006). Leveraging recurrent phrase structure in large-scale ontology translation. In Proceedings of EAMT'06, Oslo, Norway, June 2006.   Murray, G. C., and Reuter, K. (2005). Children's acquisition of categories and the implications for research in the development of classification schemes. Presented at the SIGCR workshop at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology.   Lin, J., and Murray, G. C. (2005). Assessing the term independence assumption in blind relevance feedback. In Proceedings of SIGIR'05, Salvador, Brazil, August 2005. ACM.   Murray, G. C., and Green, R. (2004). Lexical knowledge and human disagreement on a WSD task. Computer Speech and Language: Special Issue on Word Sense Disambiguation, 18(3). 209-222.   Oard, Soergel, Doermann, Huang, Murray, Wang, Ramabhadran, Franz, Gustman, Mayfield, Kharevych, and Strassel. (2004). Building an information retrieval test collection for spontaneous conversational speech. In Proceedings of SIGIR'04, Sheffield, U.K., July 2004. ACM.