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Research Areas

  1. Language technology

Past Projects

  1. ALDA: Automated Legal Document Analytics
  2. ArRf - Activity Recognition with RF
  3. Graph of Relations
  4. Online Health Information
  5. SemNews

Publications

2025

  1. O. Clark and K. P. Joshi, "Evaluating Causal AI Techniques for Health Misinformation Detection", InProceedings, Causal AI for Robust Decision Making (CARD 2025) Workshop, held in conjunction with 23rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2025), March 2025, 2141 downloads.

2023

  1. K. Echenim, L. Elluri, and K. P. Joshi, "Ensuring Privacy Policy Compliance of Wearables with IoT Regulations", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications (IEEE TPS 2023), November 2023, 913 downloads.
  2. K. Darvish, E. Raff, F. Ferraro, and C. Matuszek, "Multimodal Language Learning for Object Retrieval in Low Data Regimes in the Face of Missing Modalities", Article, Transactions on Machine Learning Research, October 2023, 531 downloads.
  3. K. Roy, M. Gaur, M. Soltani, V. Rawte, and A. Sheth, "ProKnow: Process knowledge for safety constrained and explainable question generation for mental health diagnostic assistance", Article, Frontiers in Big Data, January 2023, 397 downloads.

2022

  1. U. Lokala, F. Lamay, R. Daniulaityte, M. Gaur, A. Gyrard, K. Thirunarayan, U. Kursuncu, and A. Sheth, "Drug Abuse Ontology to Harness Web-Based Data for Substance Use Epidemiology Research: Ontology Development Study", Article, JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, December 2022, 720 downloads.
  2. P. Ranade, S. Dey, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Computational Understanding of Narratives: A Survey", Article, IEEE Access, September 2022, 3597 downloads.
  3. M. Gaur, K. Gunaratna, S. Bhatt, and A. Sheth, "Knowledge-Infused Learning: A Sweet Spot in Neuro-Symbolic AI", Article, IEEE Internet Computing, August 2022, 1977 downloads.
  4. G. Y. Kebe, L. E. Richards, E. Raff, F. Ferraro, and C. Matuszek, "Bridging the Gap: Using Deep Acoustic Representations to Learn Grounded Language from Percepts and Raw Speech", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-22), June 2022, 489 downloads.
  5. C. Hanks and M. Maiden, "CyberEnt: A Cybersecurity Domain Specific Dataset for Named Entity Recognition", Misc, UMBC Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day, April 2022, 970 downloads.

2021

  1. P. Ranade, A. Piplai, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "CyBERT: Contextualized Embeddings for the Cybersecurity Domain", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Big Data, December 2021, 3386 downloads.
  2. A. Ganesan, F. Ferraro, and T. Oates, "Locality Preserving Loss: Neighbors that Live together, Align together", InProceedings, AdaptNPT: The Second Workshop on Domain Adaptation for NLP at EACL, April 2021, 648 downloads.
  3. P. Higgins, G. Y. Kebe, K. Darvish, D. Engel, F. Ferraro, and C. Matuszek, "Towards Making Virtual Human-Robot Interaction a Reality", InProceedings, 3rd International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed-Reality for Human-Robot Interactions (VAM-HRI), March 2021, 988 downloads.

2020

  1. L. Elluri, K. P. Joshi, and A. Kotal, "Measuring Semantic Similarity across EU GDPR Regulation and Cloud Privacy Policies", InProceedings, 7th International Workshop on Privacy and Security of Big Data (PSBD 2020), in conjunction with 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2020), December 2020, 961 downloads.
  2. A. T. Nguyen, L. E. Richards, G. Y. Kebe, E. Raff, K. Darvish, F. Ferraro, and C. Matuszek, "Practical Cross-modal Manifold Alignment for Grounded Language", Article, arXiv:2009.05147 [cs.CV], September 2020, 833 downloads.
  3. A. Bandi, K. P. Joshi, and V. Mulwad, "Affinity Propagation Initialisation Based Proximity Clustering For Labeling in Natural Language Based Big Data Systems", InProceedings, 6th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2020), May 2020, 768 downloads.
  4. A. Ganesan, F. Ferraro, and T. Oates, "Locality Preserving Loss to Align Vector Spaces", Article, arXiv:2004.03734 [cs.LG], April 2020, 805 downloads.

2019

  1. R. Razavisousan and K. P. Joshi, "Two Tier Analysis of Social Media Collaboration for Student Migration", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (IEEE CIC), 2019, December 2019, 944 downloads.
  2. A. Padia, "Joint Models to Refine Knowledge Graphs", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, December 2019, 658 downloads.
  3. A. Padia, "Joint Models to Refine Knowledge Graphs", PhdThesis, October 2019, 1334 downloads.
  4. C. Kery, N. Pillai, C. Matuszek, and F. Ferraro, "Building Language-Agnostic Grounded Language Learning Systems", InProceedings, 28th International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man), October 2019, 775 downloads.
  5. K. Sane, K. P. Joshi, and S. Mittal, "A Semantic Approach for Automating Knowledge in Policies of Cyber Insurance Services", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS) 2019, July 2019, 2309 downloads.

2018

  1. A. Padia, A. Roy, T. W. Satyapanich, F. Ferraro, S. Pan, Y. Park, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "UMBC at SemEval-2018 Task 8: Understanding Text about Malware", InProceedings, Proceedings of International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2018), June 2018, 1333 downloads.
  2. A. Nagar and K. P. Joshi, "A Semantically Rich Knowledge Representation of PCI DSS for Cloud Services", InProceedings, 6th International IBM Cloud Academy Conference ICACON 2018, Japan, May 2018, 1930 downloads.
  3. R. Ayanzadeh, "Quantum Artificial Intelligence for Natural Language Processing Applications", InProceedings, SIGCSE '18: Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, February 2018.

2017

  1. S. Mittal, A. Gupta, K. P. Joshi, C. Pearce, and A. Joshi, "A Question and Answering System for Management of Cloud Service Level Agreements", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, June 2017, 1461 downloads.
  2. S. Saha, K. P. Joshi, and A. Gupta, "A Deep Learning Approach to Understanding Cloud Service Level Agreements ", InProceedings, Fifth International IBM Cloud Academy Conference, May 2017, 1686 downloads.
  3. C. Grasso, "A Semantically Rich Cognitive Search Assistant For Clinical Notes", PhdThesis, UMBC, April 2017, 1410 downloads.

2016

  1. P. K. Das, A. L. Kashyap, G. Singh, C. Matuszek, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Semantic knowledge and privacy in the physical web", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web - Policy and Technology (PrivOn2016) co-located with 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016), October 2016, 2655 downloads.
  2. S. Mittal, K. P. Joshi, C. Pearce, and A. Joshi, "Automatic Extraction of Metrics from SLAs for Cloud Service Management", InProceedings, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2016), April 2016, 1940 downloads.

2015

  1. S. Mittal, K. P. Joshi, C. Pearce, and A. Joshi, "Parallelizing Natural Language Techniques for Knowledge Extraction from Cloud Service Level Agreements", InProceedings, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, October 2015, 1795 downloads.
  2. Z. Syed, L. Han, M. M. Rahman, T. Finin, J. Kukla, and J. Yun, "Querying Large Linked Data Resources", InProceedings, 14th International Semantic Web Conference, October 2015, 1506 downloads.
  3. L. Han, T. Finin, A. Joshi, and D. Cheng, "Querying RDF Data with Text Annotated Graphs", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, June 2015, 3075 downloads.
  4. Z. Syed, L. Han, M. M. Rahman, T. Finin, J. Kukla, and J. Yun, "UMBC_Ebiquity-SFQ: Schema Free Querying System", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Semantic Web Evaluation Challenge, ESWC, June 2015, 1496 downloads.
  5. Z. Syed, T. Finin, M. M. Rahman, J. Kukla, and J. Yun, "Discovering and Querying Hybrid Linked Data", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Meets Linked Open Data co-located with 12th Extended Semantic Web Conference, May 2015, 1535 downloads.

2014

  1. J. Sleeman and T. Finin, "Taming Wild Big Data", InProceedings, AAAI Fall Symposium on Natural Language Access to Big Data, November 2014, 1691 downloads.
  2. L. Han, "Schema Free Querying of Semantic Data", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2014, 1890 downloads.

2013

  1. R. Lal, "Information Extraction of Security related entities and concepts from unstructured text.", MastersThesis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, May 2013, 2636 downloads.

2012

  1. L. Han, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Schema-Free Structured Querying of DBpedia Data", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), August 2012, 2041 downloads.
  2. L. Han, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "GoRelations: Towards an Intuitive Query System for RDF Data", TechReport, TR-CS-11-08, February 2012, 1726 downloads, 20 citations.

2011

  1. L. Han, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "GoRelations: An Intuitive Query System for DBpedia", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Joint International Semantic Technology Conference, December 2011, 2884 downloads.

2010

  1. W. Murnane, "Improving Accuracy of Named Entity Recognition on Social Media Data", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2010, 6199 downloads, 3 citations.
  2. A. Karandikar, "Clustering short status messages: A topic model based approach", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, July 2010, 11009 downloads.

2008

  1. C. Fink, T. Finin, J. Mayfield, and C. Piatko, "OWL as a Target for Information Extraction Systems", InProceedings, OWLED 2008 DC, OWL: Experiences and Directions, April 2008, 2494 downloads.

2007

  1. A. Java, S. Nirenburg, M. McShane, T. Finin, J. English, and A. Joshi, "Using a Natural Language Understanding System to Generate Semantic Web Content", Article, International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, November 2007, 4514 downloads, 89 citations.

2006

  1. A. Java, S. Nirenburg, M. McShane, T. Finin, J. English, and A. Joshi, "Using a Natural Language Understanding System to Generate Semantic Web Content", TechReport, October 2006, 3368 downloads.
  2. A. Java, J. English, and S. Nirenburg, "Automated Fact Repository Construction through Ontology Filtering and Natural Language Processing", TechReport, March 2006, 408 downloads.

2005

  1. A. Java, T. Finin, and S. Nirenburg, "Integrating Language Understanding Agents Into the Semantic Web", InProceedings, First International Symposium on Agents and the Semantic Web, November 2005, 6498 downloads, 10 citations.

1999

  1. T. Finin and B. Grosof, "Artificial Intelligence for Electronic Commerce", Proceedings, AAAI Press, July 1999.

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, 415 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, 401 downloads.

1990

  1. M. Palmer and T. Finin, "Workshop on the Evaluation of Natural Language Processing Systems", Article, Computational Linguistics, September 1990, 409 downloads.
  2. R. J. Passonneau, C. Weir, T. Finin, and M. Palmer, "Integrating Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Based Processing", InProceedings, Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 1990, 371 downloads.

1988

  1. M. Palmer, T. Finin, and S. M. Walter, "Workshop on the Evaluation of Natural Language Processing Systems", TechReport, RADC-TR-89-302, December 1988, 454 downloads.
  2. R. Kass and T. Finin, "Modeling the user in natural language systems", Article, Computational Linguistics, January 1988, 3444 downloads, 230 citations.

1987

  1. E. Schuster and T. Finin, "VP 2 : the role of user modelling in correcting errors in second language learning", InBook, Artificial Intelligence and its Applications, January 1987, 473 downloads.

1986

  1. T. Finin, A. K. Joshi, and B. Webber, "Natural language interactions with artificial experts", Article, Proceedings of the IEEE, July 1986, 3232 downloads, 30 citations.
  2. T. Finin, A. K. Joshi, and B. Webber, "Natural language interactions with artificial experts", Article, Proceedings of the IEEE, June 1986, 1290 downloads.

1984

  1. B. Webber and T. Finin, "In Response: Next Steps in Natural Language Interaction", InBook, Artificial Intelligence Applications for Business, May 1984, 504 downloads.

1980

  1. T. Finin, "The Semantic Interpretation of Compound Nominals", PhdThesis, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, February 1980, 2286 downloads, 85 citations.

1979

  1. T. Finin, B. Goodman, and H. Tennant, "JETS: Achieving Completeness through Coverage and Closure", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-79), August 1979, 1499 downloads.

1978

  1. T. Finin, "Casting the Rendezvous Analyzer Rules into Augmented Transition Network Form", TechReport, IBM Research Report RJ 2146, November 1978.

1977

  1. T. Finin and G. D. Hadden, "Augmenting ATNs", InProceedings, Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 1977, 1160 downloads.

1976

  1. D. L. Waltz, T. Finin, F. Green, F. Conrad, B. Goodman, and G. D. Hadden, "The Planes System: Natural Language Access to a Large Data Base", TechReport, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, November 1976, 475 downloads.

Presentation

  1. Coarse and Fine Grained Sentiment Analysis of Online Text
  2. Detecting Domain Shift
  3. From Strings to Things: Populating Knowledge Bases from Text
  4. GoRelations: an Intuitive Query System for DBPedia (and LOD)
  5. Schema Free Querying of Semantic Data
  6. Sixty years of knowledge graphs for language understanding
  7. Text Understanding Agents and the Semantic Web (HICSS06)

Dataset

  1. Structural Metadata from ArXiv Articles

Demonstration

  1. Word and phrase similarity

Old News

  1. SemNews: news text to Semantic Web
    January 12, 2006
  2. Finin co-chairs AI and the Web track at AAAI 2006
    July 1, 2005

Old Events

  1. Semantic knowledge and privacy in the physical web
    September 27, 2016
  2. From Strings to Things
    July 14, 2016
  3. Taming Wild Big Data
    November 12, 2014
  4. PhD defense: Lushan Han, Schema Free Querying of Semantic Data
    May 23, 2014
  5. Information Extraction of Security related entities and concepts from unstructured text
    April 1, 2013
  6. Classification of patients using novel multivariate time series representations of physiological data
    November 29, 2011
  7. Semantic Web Meetup
    November 15, 2011
  8. PowerRelations: A Question Answering System for DBPedia
    April 26, 2011
  9. Detecting Domain Shift
    September 3, 2010
  10. Clustering short status messages: a topic model based approach
    July 26, 2010