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Research Areas

  1. Information retrieval
  2. Language technology

Past Projects

  1. Cross language Information Retrieval
  2. Disconnected Web Browsing
  3. Feeds that matter
  4. OWLIR: Information Retrieval On The Semantic Web
  5. Semantic Discovery: Discovering Complex Relationships in Semantic Web
  6. Vox Blogguli
  7. Wikitology

Publications

2025

  1. M. Islam, L. Elluri, and K. P. Joshi, "Integrating Knowledge Graphs with Retrieval-Augmented Generation to Automate IoT Device Security Compliance", InProceedings, 2025 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), July 2025, 1489 downloads.

2022

  1. R. Razavisousan and K. P. Joshi, "Building Textual Fuzzy Interpretive Structural Modeling to Analyze Factors of Student Mobility Based on User Generated Content", Article, International Journal of Information Management Data Insights, November 2022, 1097 downloads.

2021

  1. K. Sane, K. P. Joshi, and S. Mittal, "Semantically Rich Framework to Automate Cyber Insurance Services", Article, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, November 2021, 942 downloads.

2020

  1. M. Sills, P. Ranade, and S. Mittal, "Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence Augmentation and Embedding Improvement - A Healthcare Usecase", InProceedings, International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), November 2020, 350 downloads.

2018

  1. A. Padia, F. Ferraro, and T. Finin, "Team UMBC-FEVER: Claim verification using Semantic Lexical Resources", InProceedings, Proceedings of the First Workshop on Fact Extraction and Verification, November 2018, 1255 downloads.

2017

  1. M. M. Rahman and T. Finin, "Deep Understanding of a Document's Structure", InProceedings, 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies, December 2017, 1657 downloads.
  2. M. M. Rahman and T. Finin, "Understanding the Logical and Semantic Structure of Large Documents", Article, arXiv e-print, September 2017, 1243 downloads.
  3. A. L. Kashyap, "Deep Representation of Lyrical Style and Semantics for Music Recommendation", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, May 2017, 613 downloads.

2011

  1. J. Martineau, "Identifying and Isolating Text Classification Signals from Domain and Genre Noise for Sentiment Analysis", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, December 2011, 2885 downloads.
  2. Z. Syed and T. Finin, "Creating and Exploiting a Hybrid Knowledge Base for Linked Data", InBook, Agents and Artificial Intelligence, April 2011, 2556 downloads.

2010

  1. K. Viswanathan and T. Finin, "Text Based Similarity and Delta for Semantic Web Graphs", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2010, 2809 downloads.
  2. V. Mulwad, "T2LD - An automatic framework for extracting, interpreting and representing tables as Linked Data", MastersThesis, UMBC, August 2010, 4009 downloads.
  3. K. Viswanathan, "Text Based Similarity Metrics and Delta for Semantic Web Graphs", MastersThesis, UMBC, June 2010, 1909 downloads.
  4. Z. Syed, T. Finin, V. Mulwad, and A. Joshi, "Exploiting a Web of Semantic Data for Interpreting Tables", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Second Web Science Conference, April 2010, 6048 downloads, 6 citations.
  5. Z. Syed, , and T. Finin, "Creating and Exploiting a Web of Semantic Data", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, January 2010, 6258 downloads, 9 citations.

2009

  1. J. Martineau and T. Finin, "Delta TFIDF: An Improved Feature Space for Sentiment Analysis", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Third International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, May 2009, 7862 downloads, 5 citations.

2008

  1. Z. Syed, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Wikitology: Wikipedia as an ontology", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference, October 2008, 57 downloads.
  2. Z. Syed, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Wikipedia as an Ontology for Describing Documents", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), March 2008, 10339 downloads, 199 citations.

2007

  1. J. Martineau, A. Java, P. Kolari, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and J. Mayfield, "BlogVox: Learning Sentiment Classifiers", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Twenty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2007, 2218 downloads, 2 citations.
  2. S. Balijepalli, "Blogvox2: A Modular Domain Independent Sentiment Analysis System", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, June 2007, 8580 downloads, 1 citation.
  3. A. Java, P. Kolari, T. Finin, A. Joshi, J. Martineau, and J. Mayfield, "The BlogVox Opinion Retrieval System", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006), February 2007, 4644 downloads, 7 citations.
  4. T. Finin, J. Mayfield, and B. Grosof, "DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) Tools for Supporting Intelligent Annotation, Sharing and Retrieval", TechReport, umbc, January 2007, 87 downloads.

2006

  1. L. Ding and T. Finin, "Characterizing the Semantic Web on the Web", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 5th International Semantic Web Conference, November 2006, 7242 downloads, 82 citations.
  2. L. Han, L. Ding, R. Pan, and T. Finin, "Swoogle's Metadata about the Semantic Web", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, May 2006, 2723 downloads.
  3. L. Ding, "Enhancing Semantic Web Data Access", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, April 2006, 7295 downloads, 8 citations.

2005

  1. L. Ding, R. Pan, T. Finin, A. Joshi, Y. Peng, and P. Kolari, "Finding and Ranking Knowledge on the Semantic Web", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 4th International Semantic Web Conference, November 2005, 13924 downloads, 130 citations.
  2. L. Ding, T. Finin, A. Joshi, Y. Peng, R. Pan, and P. Reddivari, "Search on the Semantic Web", Article, IEEE Computer, October 2005, 4202 downloads, 66 citations.
  3. L. Ding, A. Joshi, Y. Peng, R. Pan, P. Reddivari, and T. Finin, "Search on the Semantic Web", TechReport, TR-CS-05-09, September 2005, 11147 downloads.
  4. T. Finin, J. Mayfield, C. Fink, A. Joshi, and R. S. Cost, "Information Retrieval and the Semantic Web", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on System Sciences, January 2005, 17599 downloads, 51 citations.

2004

  1. L. Ding, T. Finin, A. Joshi, R. Pan, R. S. Cost, Y. Peng, P. Reddivari, V. C. Doshi, and J. Sachs, "Swoogle: A Search and Metadata Engine for the Semantic Web", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management , November 2004, 30746 downloads, 467 citations.
  2. P. Kolari and A. Joshi, "Web Mining - Research and Practice", Article, IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering - Web Engineering Special Issue, August 2004, 4899 downloads, 25 citations.

2003

  1. S. Kallurkar, Y. Shi, R. S. Cost, C. Nicholas, A. Java, and e., "UMBC at TREC 12", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Twelfth Text Retrieval Conference, November 2003, 5100 downloads, 8 citations.
  2. J. Mayfield and T. Finin, "Information retrieval on the Semantic Web: Integrating inference and retrieval", InProceedings, Proceedings of the SIGIR Workshop on the Semantic Web, August 2003, 6444 downloads, 76 citations.

2002

  1. U. Shah, T. Finin, A. Joshi, J. Mayfield, and R. S. Cost, "Information retrieval on the semantic web", InProceedings, The ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, November 2002, 3771 downloads, 147 citations.
  2. S. Prasad, Y. Peng, and T. Finin, "Using Explicit Information To Map Between Two Ontologies", InProceedings, AAMAS 2002 Workshop on Ontologies and Agent Systems, July 2002, 3684 downloads, 100 citations.
  3. S. Prasad, Y. Peng, and T. Finin, "A Tool for Mapping Between Two Ontologies Using Explicit Information", InProceedings, AAAI-02 Workshop on Meaning Negotiation, July 2002, 361 downloads.

2001

  1. R. S. Cost, T. Finin, S. Kallurkar, H. Majithia, C. Nicholas, Y. Shi, and I. Soboroff, "CARROT II: Collaborative Agent-based Routing and Retrieval of Text", TechReport, UMBC, September 2001, 340 downloads.

1999

  1. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "Yahoo! as an Ontology - using Yahoo! categories to describe documents", InProceedings, ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'99), November 1999, 4839 downloads, 152 citations.

1997

  1. R. S. Cost, I. Soboroff, J. Lakhani, T. Finin, and E. Miller, "TKQML: A Scripting Tool for Building Agents", InProceedings, 4th International conference on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, July 1997, 1248 downloads.

1993

  1. T. Finin, C. Nicholas, and Y. Yesha, "Information and Knowledge Management, Expanding the Definition of "Database"", Book, Springer, January 1993, 326 downloads.

1991

  1. C. Weir, T. Finin, R. McEntire, and B. SIlk, "A Three-Tiered Approach to Integrating Inforrnation Retrieval and Natural Language Processing", InProceedings, Workshop on Language and Information Processing, October 1991, 350 downloads.
  2. T. Finin, R. McEntire, C. Weir, and B. SIlk, "A Three-Tiered Approach to Natural Language Text Retrieval", InProceedings, AAAI-91 Workshop on Natural Language Text Retrieval, August 1991, 341 downloads.
  3. C. Weir, T. Finin, R. McEntire, and B. SIlk, "Unisys: description of the Unisys system used for MUC-3", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Message understanding (MUC3 '91), May 1991, 559 downloads, 30 citations.
  4. C. Weir, R. McEntire, B. SIlk, and T. Finin, "Unisys: MUC-3 test results and analysis", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Third Message Understanding Conference, May 1991, 290 downloads.

Presentation

  1. AAAI 06 FTM Poster
  2. Creating and exploiting a web of (semantic) data
  3. Creating and Exploiting a Web of Semantic Data
  4. From Strings to Things: Populating Knowledge Bases from Text
  5. Information extraction from social media
  6. Personalized Information Retrieval in Context
  7. Swoogle presentation (April 04)
  8. Text Based Similarity Metrics and Delta for Semantic Web Graphs
  9. Wikitology: A Wikipedia Derived Knowledge Base
  10. Wikitology: Wikipedia as an ontology
  11. Wikitology: Wikipedia as an ontology

Poster

  1. BlogVox2: Sentiment Detection in Political Blogs
  2. BlogVox2: Sentiment Detection in Political Blogs

Demonstration

  1. Word and phrase similarity

Old News

  1. Finin to serve as editor-in-chief of Journal of Web Semantics
    September 1, 2005
  2. ebiquity paper selected as best paper
    January 3, 2005

Old Events

  1. From Strings to Things
    July 14, 2016
  2. Masters Thesis Research Update: Sandhya Krishnan
    October 8, 2012
  3. Visiting students' presentations - Social Media Analytics
    February 16, 2012
  4. Dynamic Domain Specific Sentimental Word Identification
    November 9, 2010
  5. Text Based Similarity Metrics and Deltas for Semantic Web Graphs
    October 5, 2010
  6. Wikitology: A Novel Hybrid Knowledge Base Derived from Wikipedia
    July 19, 2010
  7. Creating and exploiting a web of (semantic) data
    May 1, 2009
  8. Semantic Web Search Engines: Research problems
    April 15, 2009
  9. Textual Representations for Corpus-Based Bilingual Retrieval
    November 24, 2008
  10. Wikitology: Wikipedia as an ontology
    August 28, 2008