Ramakrishna Varadarajan

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Research Interests
  • Databases - Ranked Keyword Search in Graph Databases and various domains like biological and clinical databases.
  • Information Retrieval - Web Search, XML search, Text Summarization.

DBLP: Ramakrishna Varadarajan (publications from DBLP Computer Science Bibliography)

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Conference Papers

  1. Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Louiqa Raschid, Maria-Esther Vidal, Luis lbanez, Hector Rodriguez-Drumond: Flexible and Efficient Querying and Ranking on Hyperlinked Data Sources, EDBT 2009, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. [acceptance rate 32.50% - Number of Submissions - 283 ; Accepted Full papers - 92] [Estimated Impact factor of EDBT - 0.90].
  2. Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Louiqa Raschid: Explaining and Reformulating Authority Flow Queries, IEEE ICDE 2008, Cancun, Mexico. [IEEE Explore link] [Project homepage] [acceptance rate 19% - Number of Submissions - 617 ; Accepted Full papers - 118] [Estimated Impact factor of ICDE - 0.97].
  3. Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis: A System for Query-Specific Document Summarization, ACM CIKM 2006, Arlington, VA. [ACM Digital library Link] [Project home page] [Number of Submissions - 537 ; Accepted Full papers - 81] [Estimated Impact factor of CIKM - 0.90].

Journal Papers

4.      Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Tao Li: Beyond Single-Page Web Search Results, IEEE TKDE 2008 [IEEE Explore link].

Poster Papers

5.      Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Tao Li: Searching the Web using Composed Pages, ACM SIGIR 2006, Seattle, WA. [ACM Digital library Link] [Project homepage] [acceptance rate 37% - Number of Poster Submissions - 140 ; Accepted posters - 52] [Estimated Impact factor of SIGIR - 0.94].

6.      Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis: Structure-Based Query-Specific Document Summarization, ACM CIKM 2005, Bremen, Germany. [ACM Digital library Link] [Project homepage].

 

Book Chapters

  1. Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Fernando Farfan: Searching Electronic Health Records. Book Details: "Information Discovery on Electronic Health Records". To be published by Taylor & Francis group by 2009. Editor: Vagelis Hristidis.
  2. Fernando Farfan, Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis: Electronic Health Records. Book Details: "Information Discovery on Electronic Health Records". To be published by Taylor & Francis group by 2009. Editor: Vagelis Hristidis.

 

Current/Ongoing Work

  1. Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Fernando Farfan, Vagelis Hristidis: “Comparing Top-k XML Lists”.
  2. Vagelis Hristidis, Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Paul Biondich, Redmond Burke and Michael Weiner: “Information Discovery on Electronic Medical Records Using Authority-Flow Techniques”.
  3. Vagelis Hristidis, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Ramakrishna Varadarajan: “Using Proximity Search to Estimate Authority Flow".

 

Presentations

  1. Ranked Search on Data Graphs, PhD Dissertation Defense, Florida International University, School of Computing & Information Sciences, Miami.
  2. Explaining and Reformulating Authority Flow Queries, IEEE ICDE 2008 at Cancun, Mexico.
  3. Ranked Search on Data Graphs PhD Proposal, Florida International University, School of Computing & Information Sciences, Miami.
  4. A System for Query-Specific Document Summarization, ACM CIKM 2006 at Arlington, Virginia.

 

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