Curriculum Vitae Howard R. Turtle

Curriculum Vitae Howard R. Turtle Center for Natural Language Processing Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13244-6886 Research Interests Design and implementation of retrieval systems Natural Language Processing Formal models for retrieval of complex objects Text representation techniques Machine learning Text/data mining Automated inference techniques Text compression Education 1991 - Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Massachusetts. 1975 - M.S., Computer Science, University of Wisconsin 1971 - B.A.(High Distinction) English/Mathematics, University of Wisconsin. Journal Publications Xiaozhong Liu and Howard Turtle. Real-time User Interest for Real-time Ranking. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, to appear, 2013. Warren R. Greiff, W. Bruce Croft, and Howard R. Turtle. PIC Matices: a Computationally Tractable Class of Probabilistic Query Operators, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 17:4, pages 367-405, 1999. Howard Turtle and W. Bruce Croft, Evaluation of an Inference Network-based Retrieval Model, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 9:3, pages 187 222, July 1991. Reprinted in Readings in Information Retrieval, 1997. Howard R. Turtle. Text Retrieval in the Legal World, Artificial Intelligence and Law, 3:1, pages 5 54, 1995.

Howard Turtle and James Flood. Query Evaluation: Strategies and Optimizations, Information Processing and Management, 31:6, pages 831 850, 1995. W. Bruce Croft and Howard R. Turtle. Retrieval Strategies for Hypertext, Information Processing and Management, 29:3, pages 313 324, 1993. Howard R. Turtle and W. Bruce Croft, A Comparison of Text Retrieval Models, Computer Journal, 35:3, pages 279 290, 1992. W. Bruce Croft, Robert Krovetz, and Howard Turtle. Interactive Retrieval of Complex Documents. Information Processing and Management, 26:5, pages 593-613, 1990. Refereed Conference Publications Howard R Turtle, Yatsh Hegde, and Steven A. Rowe. Yet another comparison of Lucene and Indri performance. In Proceedings of the 2012 Workshop on Open Source Information Retrieval, pages 64-67, 2012. Jonathan W. Keeling, Eileen E. Allen, Steven A. Rowe, Anne M. Turner, Jacqueline A. Merrill, Elizabeth D. Liddy and Howard R. Turtle. Development and Evaluation of a Prototype Search Engine to Meet Public Health Needs. In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association, pages 693-700, 2011. Trevor Strohman, Howard Turtle and W. Bruce Croft. Optimization Strategies for Complex Queries. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 219-225, 2005. Trevor Strohman, Donald Metzler, Howard Turtle and W. Bruce Croft. Indri: a Language Model-based Search Engine for Complex Queries. In IA 2005: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intelligence Analysis, 2005. Warren Greiff, W. Bruce Croft and Howard Turtle. Computationally Tractable Probabilistic Modelling of Boolean Operators. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 119-128, 1997. Howard Turtle, Natural Language vs. Boolean Query Evaluation: A Comparison of Retrieval Performance, In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 212 221, 1994. W. Bruce Croft and Howard Turtle. Retrieval of Complex Objects. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Extending Database Technology, pages 217 229, 1992. W. Bruce Croft, Lisa A. Smith, and Howard R. Turtle. A Loosely-Coupled Integration of a Text Retrieval System and an Object-Oriented Database System. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 32 45, 1991.

W. Bruce Croft and Howard R. Turtle and David D. Lewis. The Use of Phrases and Structured Queries in Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 32 45, 1991. Howard Turtle and W. Bruce Croft. Efficient Probabilistic Inference for Text Retrieval. In RIAO91 Conference Proceedings, pages 644 661, 1991. Howard Turtle and W. Bruce Croft. Inference Networks for Document Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 13 th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 1 24, 1990. W. Bruce Croft and Howard Turtle. A Retrieval Model Incorporating Hypertext Links. In Proceedings of Hypertext 89, pages 213 224, 1989. Howard Turtle and Thomas Hickey. Document Retrieval and Printing Using CD- ROMs. In J. J. J. Miller, editor, PROTEXT II: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Text Processing Systems, pages 192 197, Dublin, Ireland, 1985. Boole Press. W. David Penniman, Thomas B. Hickey, and Howard Turtle. New Information Technologies and Opportunities Regarding Input/output Devices. In Linda C. Smith, editor, New Information Technologies New Opportunities, pages 60 73. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1982. Howard Turtle. Evaluating Human/computer Interaction in a Controlled Environment. In Proceedings of the 43rd American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, volume 17, pages 320 322, New York, NY, 1980. Knowledge Industry Publications. Other Publications Howard Turtle. High-fidelity Inverted Indexes. CNLP Technical Report 11-001. 2011. Available from the Center for Natural Language Processing, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244. Howard Turtle. Adaptive inverted list skipping. CNLP Technical Report 10-001. 2010. Available from the Center for Natural Language Processing, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244. Howard Turtle and Donald Metzler. CIIR Experiments for TREC Legal 2007. The Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2007) Proceedings, 2008. NIST Special Publication SP 500-274. Paul Thompson, Howard Turtle, Bokyung Yang and James Flood. TREC-3 Ad Hoc Retrieval and Routing Experiments Using the WIN System. The Third Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-3), pages 211 218, 1995.

Howard R. Turtle and W. Bruce Croft. Uncertainty in Information Retrieval Systems. In Amihai Motro and Phillipe Smets, editors, Uncertainty Management in Information Systems, pages 111-137, 1992. W. Bruce Croft and Howard Turtle. Text Retrieval and Inference. Chapter 7 in Paul S. Jacobs, editor, Text-Based Intelligent Systems, pages 127-155, 1992. W. Bruce Croft and Howard Turtle. Retrieval Models for Text. In Paul S. Jacobs, editor, Text-Based Intelligent Systems: Current Research in Text Analysis, Information Extraction, and Retrieval, pages 5 9, 1990. G.E. Technical Report 90CRD198. Howard Turtle. Inference Networks for Document Retrieval. Ph.D. dissertation, available as COINS Technical Report 90-92, Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, 1990. Howard Turtle. Attribute Recall in Known-item Searching. Technical Report IR 90-2, Information Retrieval Laboratory, Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, 1990. Howard Turtle and W. Bruce Croft. Inference Networks for Document Retrieval. COINS Technical Report 90-7, Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, 1990. Howard Turtle. Uncertain Inference in Document Databases. Technical Report IR 89-2, Information Retrieval Laboratory, Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, 1989. Bradley Watson, Terry Noreault, and Howard Turtle. Designing a CD-ROM Information Structure. In Chris Sherman, editor, The CD-ROM Handbook, Chapter 9, pages 243 267. McGraw Hill, 1988. Howard R. Turtle. The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model. In M. E. L. Jacob, editor, Telecommunications Networks: Issues and Trends, Chapter 3, pages 41 65. Knowledge Industry Publications, White Plains, NY, 1986. Howard Turtle. The Telephone System. In Charles E. Meadow and Alan Tedesco, editors, Telecommunication for Managers, Chapter 5, pages 91 123. McGraw Hill, 1985. Howard Turtle, W. David Penniman, and Thomas B. Hickey. Data Entry/display Devices for Interactive Information Retrieval. In Martha E. Williams, editor, Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, volume 16, Chapter 2, pages 55 83. Knowledge Industry Publications, White Plains, NY, 1981. Presentations Howard Turtle. Commercial Impact of Very Large Corpus Research. Invited talk presented at the Sixth Workshop of Very Large Corpus Research. Beijing and Hong Kong, China, August, 1997.

Howard Turtle. Optimizing Natural Language Query Evaluation. Invited talk presented at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, July, 1997. Howard Turtle and W. Bruce Croft. Introduction to Information Retrieval. One week course for Swiss Computer Science graduate students and faculty. Leysin, Switzerland, March 1997. Howard Turtle. Query Evaluation Techniques. Workshop on Text Processing, Thomson Technology Laboratories, Rockville, MD, October 1996. Howard Turtle. Optimizing Natural Language Query Evaluation. Invited talk at Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, July 1996. Howard Turtle. Text Retrieval in the Legal World. Half day tutorial presented at the Fifth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law. University of Maryland, June 1995. Howard Turtle. Statistical Retrieval for Large Databases. Invited talk presented at the 1994 ASIDIC Annual meeting. Albuquerque, NM. March, 1994. Howard Turtle. Text Retrieval in the Legal World. Half day tutorial presented at the Fourth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law. Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. June 1993. Howard Turtle. Inference and Retrieval. Invited talk presented at University of Minnesota Duluth, MN. March, 1992. Howard Turtle, Rik Krohn, and William Griffith. An analysis of a proposed packetswitched computer network. Prepared under contract to a private sponsor and presented in Tokyo, Japan, May 1977. Howard Turtle. The BASIS online information/data system. Invited paper presented at the Ohio State University, October 1977. Howard Turtle. Set-oriented sequential searches in an inverted file system. Presented at the ACM National Conference, Atlanta, GA., January 1977. Patents Howard R. Turtle. Method and Apparatus for Information Retrieval From a Database by Replacing Domain Specific Phrases in Natural Language to Create a Search Query. U.S. Patent Number 5,265,065. Howard R. Turtle. Concept Matching of Natural Language Queries with a Database of Document Concepts. U.S. Patent Number 5,418,948. Howard R. Turtle, Gerald J. Morton, and F. Kinley Larntz. System of Document Representation Retrieval by Successive Iterated Probability Sampling. U.S. Patent Number: 5,488,725.

Robert Haschart et al. System and Method for Processing Formatted Text Documents in a Database. U.S. Patent number: 7,529,756. Professional Service Program Committee, SIGIR95 98, 2001 2011. Program Committee, IRFC 2011 SIGIR Doctoral Consortium Mentor, 2010, 2011 SIGIR Best Paper Committee, 2010 Program Committee, IIiX 2010, 2012 Program Committee CIKM 2006 2012. Program Committee, SDAIR95. Program Committee, Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), 1995 1999. Organizing Committee, 17 th National Online Meeting, 1996. Vice chair, SIGIR, 1995 to 1997. Member of the Board of Directors, National Information Standards Organization, 1995 to 1998. Member of National Research Council study group advising on Information Technology Strategy for the Library of Congress, 1999 to 2001. Ph.D. Committees Veronica Maidel (Syracuse University, expected 2013) Keisuke Inoue (Syracuse University, 2013) Miao Chen (Syracuse University, 2013) Nathan Prestopnik (Syracuse University, 2013) Xiaozhong Liu (Syracuse University, 2011) Eric W. Brown (University of Massachusetts, 1996) David A. Gardiner (University of Minnesota, 1996)