Miroslav Martinovic, Ph.D.

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Voice: (609) 771-2789

E-mail: mmmartin@tcnj.edu
Office: Holman Hall 207 / 230

Address: Department of Computer Science
The College of New Jersey

2000 Pennington Road

Ewing, NJ, 08628-0718

Research Interests

    The focus of my current efforts is on the theory and practice of design, development, testing and evaluation of hybrid Question Answering systems that combine statistical and linguistic techniques in order to optimize their performance. The system being envisaged and developed (QASTIIR) is an integrated, on-demand, dynamic, modular and flexible system with portable linguistic components that can be moved within the system dynamically. These components can be included ("plugged-in") or excluded ("pulled-out") from processing based on the query and user characterizations obtained during a preprocessing phase.
    In addition and as a continuation of my previous work, a significant time is dedicated to the analysis of algorithms for parsing and generation of text in Natural Language Processing. This work has been concentrated in the following areas: the comparison between various algorithms for parsing and generation analyzing how they traverse their respective derivation trees. The criteria considered are completeness, soundness, efficiency, optimality and reversibility. My past areas of research also include Compiler Design, as well as Logic Programming.  For more information, click on the title above or below to view abstracts of some of my published work.

Recent Publications
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"Transfer of Natural Language Processing Technology: Experiments, Possibilities and Limitations – Case Study: English to Serbian"

"Building an Information Retrieval System for a Less-resourced Language – Challenges and Solutions"

"AARLISS – an Algorithm for Anaphora Resolution in Long-distance Inter Sentential Scenarios"

"SteLemMin – a Generic Minimal Stem Algorithm for Word Conflation and Lemmatization"

"A Multilevel Text Processing Model of Newsgroup Dynamics Implementation and Results"

"A Multilevel Text Processing Model of Newsgroup Dynamics"

"Transforming A Word Conflation Algorithm into A Minimal Stem Algorithm"

"Integrating Statistical and Linguistic Approaches in Building Intelligent Question Answering Systems"

"Universal Guides and Finiteness and Symmetry of Grammar Processing Algorithms"

"STAS - A Relation for Comparing Tree Traversals of Grammar Processing Algorithms"

An Evaluation System for Parsing and Generation Algorithms

"Comparing Two Grammar-Based Generation Algorithms: A Case Study"

"An Evaluation of Two Grammar-Based Generation Algorithms: Essential Arguments vs. Semantic-Head Driven Algorithm"

"Semantic-Head-Driven Generation Algorithm and Essential Arguments Algorithm: A Broadened Comparison"

"Two Constructive Proofs of Equivalence of DCG's Formalism with the Formalism of Turing Machines and Type 0   Phrase-Structure Grammars"

Definite Clause Grammars and Language Processing in Prolog

A Programming System for Estimation and Selection of Empirical Formulae

Courses Teaching and Taught

Course Number / Section	Course Title	Day / Time	Room
CSC 220	Computer Problem Solving
CSC 410	Advanced Algorithms
CSC 380	Artificial Intelligence
CSC 230	Data Structures and Algorithms
CSC 485	Special Topics : Question Answering Systems
CSC 320 / IMM 320	Information Retrieval	Mon.,Thu. 10-11:20	HH 252

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Office Hours

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9-10:00			9-10:00
	12-2:30
11:30-1:30			11:30-1:30
				3:45-5:45 (appointment only)

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