Steve Lawrence
Dr. Lawrence received a B.Sc. (summa cum laude) and B.Eng. (summa cum laude) from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and a Ph.D. from the University of Queensland, Australia. His awards include NEC Research Institute Excellence and Research Impact awards, a QUT university medal and award for excellence, ATERB and APRA priority scholarships, a Technology NJ Internet Innovator award, QEC and Telecom Australia Engineering prizes, and three prizes in the Australian Mathematics Competition.
Dr. Lawrence has received widespread international press covering 12 different projects, including Google Desktop; the CiteSeer scientific literature service; context-based web search; analysis of the web, search engines, and the accessibility of information; artificial markets research; opinion mining; impact of online publishing; and predicting and analyzing competition on the web.
Dr. Lawrence's professional service includes being program committee co-chair for WWW 2003, program committee vice chair for WWW 2002, co-chair for workshops at AAAI and WWW, a program committee member for conferences including WWW, CIKM, and NIPS, and a reviewer for many journals including Science and Nature.
Dr. Lawrence's research interests include information retrieval, digital libraries, and machine learning. He has published over 50 papers in these areas, including articles in Science, Nature, CACM, and IEEE Computer. He has been interviewed by over 100 news organizations including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reuters, Associated Press, CNN, MSNBC, BBC, and NPR.
Google Publications
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eBizSearch: a niche search engine for e-business
C. Lee Giles, Yves Petinot, Pradeep B. Teregowda, Hui Han, Steve Lawrence, Arvind Rangaswamy, Nirmal Pal
SIGIR (2003), pp. 413-414
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eBizSearch: An OAI-Compliant Digital Library for eBusiness
Yves Petinot, Pradeep B. Teregowda, Hui Han, C. Lee Giles, Steve Lawrence, Arvind Rangaswamy, Nirmal Pal
JCDL (2003), pp. 199-209
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Extracting knowledge from the World Wide Web
Monika Henzinger, Steve Lawrence
Mapping Knowledge Domains, National Academy of Sciences, USA, Irvine, CA (2003)
Previous Publications
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Learning to find answers to questions on the Web
Eugene Agichtein, Steve Lawrence, Luis Gravano
ACM Trans. Internet Techn., vol. 4 (2004), pp. 129-162
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1 Billion Pages = 1 Million Dollars? Mining the Web to Play "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"
Shyong K. Lam, David M. Pennock, Dan Cosley, Steve Lawrence
UAI (2003), pp. 337-345
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Anchor Space for Classification and Similarity Measurement of Music
Adam Berenzweig, Daniel P. W. Ellis, Steve Lawrence
Proc. 2003 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), IEEE, Washington, DC, pp. 29-32
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Information incorporation in online in-Game sports betting markets
Sandip Debnath, David M. Pennock, C. Lee Giles, Steve Lawrence
ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (2003), pp. 258-259
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Mining the peanut gallery: opinion extraction and semantic classification of product reviews
Kushal Dave, Steve Lawrence, David M. Pennock
WWW (2003), pp. 519-528
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Static and Dynamic Analysis of the Internet's Susceptibility to Faults and Attacks
Seung-Taek Park, Alexy Khrabrov, David M. Pennock, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, Lyle H. Ungar
INFOCOM (2003)
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Statistical Relational Learning for Document Mining
Alexandrin Popescul, Lyle H. Ungar, Steve Lawrence, David M. Pennock
ICDM (2003), pp. 275-282
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Efficient SVM Regression Training with SMO
Gary William Flake, Steve Lawrence
Machine Learning, vol. 46 (2002), pp. 271-290
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Extracting query modifications from nonlinear SVMs
Gary William Flake, Eric J. Glover, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles
WWW (2002), pp. 317-324
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Improving access to scientific literature
WIDM (2002), pp. 55
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Inferring Descriptions and Similarity for Music from Community Metadata
Brian Whitman, Steve Lawrence
Voice of Nature, Proceedings of the 2002 International Computer Music Conference, Göteborg, Sweden, pp. 591-598
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Inferring hierarchical descriptions
Eric J. Glover, David M. Pennock, Steve Lawrence, Robert Krovetz
CIKM (2002), pp. 507-514
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REFEREE: An Open Framework for Practical Testing of Recommender Systems using ResearchIndex
Dan Cosley, Steve Lawrence, David M. Pennock
VLDB (2002), pp. 35-46
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Self-Organization and Identification of Web Communities
Gary William Flake, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, Frans Coetzee
IEEE Computer, vol. 35 (2002), pp. 66-71
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The Quest for Ground Truth in Musical Artist Similarity
Daniel P. W. Ellis, Brian Whitman, Adam Berenzweig, Steve Lawrence
ISMIR (2002)
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Towards Structural Logistic Regression: Combining Relational and Statistical Learning
Alexandrin Popescul, Lyle H. Hungar, Steve Lawrence, David M. Pennock
Workshop on Multi-Relational Data Mining, ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), ACM, Edmonton (2002)
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Using Voice Segments to Improve Artist Classification of Music
Adam Berenzweig, Daniel P. W. Ellis, Steve Lawrence
AES 22nd International Conference (2002)
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Using web structure for classifying and describing web pages
Eric J. Glover, Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis, Steve Lawrence, David M. Pennock, Gary William Flake
WWW (2002), pp. 562-569
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Winners don't take all: Characterizing the competition for links on the web
David M. Pennock, Gary William Flake, Steve Lawrence, Eric J. Glover, C. Lee Giles
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, vol. 99 (2002), pp. 5207-5211
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Access to Scientific Literature
The Nature Yearkbook of Science and Technology, Macmillan, London (2001), pp. 86-88
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Artist Detection in Music with Minnowmatch
Brian Whitman, Gary Flake, Steve Lawrence
Proc. 2001 IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing, IEEE, Falmouth, MA, pp. 559-568
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Extracting collective probabilistic forecasts from web games
David M. Pennock, Steve Lawrence, Finn Årup Nielsen, C. Lee Giles
KDD (2001), pp. 174-183
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Feature Selection in Web Applications by ROC Inflections and Powerset Pruning
Frans Coetzee, Eric J. Glover, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles
SAINT (2001), pp. 5-14
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Improving Category Specific Web Search by Learning Query Modifications
Eric J. Glover, Gary William Flake, Steve Lawrence, William P. Birmingham, Andries Kruger, C. Lee Giles, David M. Pennock
SAINT (2001), pp. 23-
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Learning search engine specific query transformations for question answering
Eugene Agichtein, Steve Lawrence, Luis Gravano
WWW (2001), pp. 169-178
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Methods for Sampling Pages Uniformly from the World Wide Web
Paat Rusmevichientong, David M. Pennock, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles
Proc. AAAI Fall Symposium on Using Uncertainty Within Computation, AAAI (2001), pp. 121-128
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Noisy Time Series Prediction using Recurrent Neural Networks and Grammatical Inference
C. Lee Giles, Steve Lawrence, Ah Chung Tsoi
Machine Learning, vol. 44 (2001), pp. 161-183
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Persistence of Web References in Scientific Research
Steve Lawrence, David M. Pennock, Gary William Flake, Robert Krovetz, Frans Coetzee, Eric J. Glover, Finn Nielsen, Andries Kruger, C. Lee Giles
IEEE Computer, vol. 34 (2001), pp. 26-31
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Probabilistic Models for Unified Collaborative and Content-Based Recommendation in Sparse-Data Environments
Alexandrin Popescul, Lyle H. Ungar, David M. Pennock, Steve Lawrence
UAI (2001), pp. 437-444
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ResearchIndex: inside the world's largest free full-text index of scientific literature
K-CAP (2001), pp. 3-3
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Scholarly publishing in the Internet age: a citation analysis of computer science literature
Abby Goodrum, Katherine W. McCain, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles
Inf. Process. Manage., vol. 37 (2001), pp. 661-675
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The Power of Play: Efficiency and Forecast Accuracy in Web Market Games
David M. Pennock, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, Finn Årup Nielsen
Science, vol. 291 (2001), pp. 987-988
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The Real Power of Artificial Markets
David M. Pennock, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, Finn Årup Nielsen
Science, vol. 291 (2001), pp. 987-988
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The Structure of the Web
Jon Kleinberg, Steve Lawrence
Science, vol. 294 (2001), pp. 1849-1850
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Web Search - Your Way
Eric J. Glover, Steve Lawrence, Michael D. Gordon, William P. Birmingham, C. Lee Giles
Commun. ACM, vol. 44 (2001), pp. 97-102
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Accessibility of information on the Web
Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles
Intelligence, vol. 11 (2000), pp. 32-39
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Bayesian Classification and Feature Selection from Finite Data Sets
Frans Coetzee, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles
UAI (2000), pp. 89-97
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Clustering and Identifying Temporal Trends in Document Databases
Alexandrin Popescul, Gary William Flake, Steve Lawrence, Lyle H. Ungar, C. Lee Giles
ADL (2000), pp. 173-182
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Collaborative Filtering by Personality Diagnosis: A Hybrid Memory and Model-Based Approach
David M. Pennock, Eric Horvitz, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles
UAI (2000), pp. 473-480
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Context in Web Search
IEEE Data Eng. Bull., vol. 23 (2000), pp. 25-32
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DEADLINER: Building a New Niche Search Engine
Andries Kruger, C. Lee Giles, Frans Coetzee, Eric J. Glover, Gary William Flake, Steve Lawrence, Christian W. Omlin
CIKM (2000), pp. 272-281
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Discovering Relevant Scientific Literature on the Web
Kurt D. Bollacker, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles
IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 15 (2000), pp. 42-47
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Efficient identification of Web communities
Gary William Flake, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles
KDD (2000), pp. 150-160
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Focused Crawling Using Context Graphs
Michelangelo Diligenti, Frans Coetzee, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, Marco Gori
VLDB (2000), pp. 527-534
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Inquirus Web Meta-Search Tool: A User Evlaution Study
Amanda Spink, C. Lee Giles, Steve Lawrence
WebNet (2000), pp. 819-820
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Natural Language Grammatical Inference with Recurrent Neural Networks
Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, Sandiway Fong
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., vol. 12 (2000), pp. 126-140
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Overfitting and Neural Networks: Conjugate Gradient and Backpropagation
Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles
IJCNN (1) (2000), pp. 114-119
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Overfitting in Neural Nets: Backpropagation, Conjugate Gradient, and Early Stopping
Rich Caruana, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles
NIPS (2000), pp. 402-408
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Persistence of information on the web: Analyzing citations contained in research articles
Steve Lawrence, Frans Coetzee, Gary William Flake, David M. Pennock, Robert Krovetz, Finn Nielsen, Andries Kruger, C. Lee Giles
CIKM (2000), pp. 235-242
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A System for Automatic Personalized Tracking of Scientific Literature on the Web
Kurt D. Bollacker, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles
ACM DL (1999), pp. 105-113
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Architecture of a Metasearch Engine That Supports User Information Needs
Eric J. Glover, Steve Lawrence, William P. Birmingham, C. Lee Giles
CIKM (1999), pp. 210-216
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Autonomous Citation Matching
Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, Kurt D. Bollacker
Agents (1999), pp. 392-393
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Digital Libraries and Autonomous Citation Indexing
Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, Kurt D. Bollacker
IEEE Computer, vol. 32 (1999), pp. 67-71
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Distributed Error Correction
Steve Lawrence, Kurt D. Bollacker, C. Lee Giles
ACM DL (1999), pp. 232
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Indexing and Retrieval of Scientific Literature
Steve Lawrence, Kurt D. Bollacker, C. Lee Giles
CIKM (1999), pp. 139-146
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Text and Image Metasearch on the Web
Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles
PDPTA (1999), pp. 829-835
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CiteSeer: An Automatic Citation Indexing System
C. Lee Giles, Kurt D. Bollacker, Steve Lawrence
ACM DL (1998), pp. 89-98
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CiteSeer: An Autonous Web Agent for Automatic Retrieval and Identification of Interesting Publications
Kurt D. Bollacker, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles
Agents (1998), pp. 116-123
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Context and Page Analysis for Improved Web Search
Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles
IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 2 (1998), pp. 38-46
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Inquirus, the NECI Meta Search Engine
Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles
Computer Networks, vol. 30 (1998), pp. 95-105
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Searching the World Wide Web
Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles
Science, vol. 280 (1998), pp. 98-100
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Lessons in Neural Network Training: Overfitting May be Harder than Expected
Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, Ah Chung Tsoi
AAAI/IAAI (1997), pp. 540-545
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Presenting and Analyzing the Results of AI Experiments: Data Averaging and Data Snooping
C. Lee Giles, Steve Lawrence
AAAI/IAAI (1997), pp. 362-367
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Convolutional Neural Networks for Face Recognition
Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, Ah Chung Tsoi
CVPR (1996), pp. 217-222
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Neural Network Classification and Prior Class Probabilities
Steve Lawrence, Ian Burns, Andrew D. Back, Ah Chung Tsoi, C. Lee Giles
Neural Networks: Tricks of the Trade (1996), pp. 299-313
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Natural language grammatical inference: a comparison of recurrent neural networks and machine learning methods
Steve Lawrence, Sandiway Fong, C. Lee Giles
Learning for Natural Language Processing (1995), pp. 33-47
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The Gamma MLP for Speech Phoneme Recognition
Steve Lawrence, Ah Chung Tsoi, Andrew D. Back
NIPS (1995), pp. 785-791
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Online or Invisible?
Nature, vol. 411 (200), pp. 521
