Steve Lawrence

Steve Lawrence is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google. Before joining Google, he was a Senior Research Scientist at NEC Research Institute in Princeton, NJ. Dr. Lawrence works in information retrieval and machine learning, and is the creator of Google Desktop.

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

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
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
Extracting knowledge from the World Wide Web

Monika Henzinger, Steve Lawrence

Mapping Knowledge Domains, National Academy of Sciences, USA, Irvine, CA (2003)

Previous Publications

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
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
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
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
Mining the peanut gallery: opinion extraction and semantic classification of product reviews

Kushal Dave, Steve Lawrence, David M. Pennock

WWW (2003), pp. 519-528
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)
Statistical Relational Learning for Document Mining

Alexandrin Popescul, Lyle H. Ungar, Steve Lawrence, David M. Pennock

ICDM (2003), pp. 275-282
Efficient SVM Regression Training with SMO

Gary William Flake, Steve Lawrence

Machine Learning, vol. 46 (2002), pp. 271-290
Extracting query modifications from nonlinear SVMs

Gary William Flake, Eric J. Glover, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles

WWW (2002), pp. 317-324
Improving access to scientific literature

Steve Lawrence

WIDM (2002), pp. 55
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
Inferring hierarchical descriptions

Eric J. Glover, David M. Pennock, Steve Lawrence, Robert Krovetz

CIKM (2002), pp. 507-514
REFEREE: An Open Framework for Practical Testing of Recommender Systems using ResearchIndex

Dan Cosley, Steve Lawrence, David M. Pennock

VLDB (2002), pp. 35-46
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
The Quest for Ground Truth in Musical Artist Similarity

Daniel P. W. Ellis, Brian Whitman, Adam Berenzweig, Steve Lawrence

ISMIR (2002)
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)
Using Voice Segments to Improve Artist Classification of Music

Adam Berenzweig, Daniel P. W. Ellis, Steve Lawrence

AES 22nd International Conference (2002)
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
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
Access to Scientific Literature

Steve Lawrence

The Nature Yearkbook of Science and Technology, Macmillan, London (2001), pp. 86-88
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
Extracting collective probabilistic forecasts from web games

David M. Pennock, Steve Lawrence, Finn Årup Nielsen, C. Lee Giles

KDD (2001), pp. 174-183
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
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-
Learning search engine specific query transformations for question answering

Eugene Agichtein, Steve Lawrence, Luis Gravano

WWW (2001), pp. 169-178
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
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
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
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
ResearchIndex: inside the world's largest free full-text index of scientific literature

Steve Lawrence

K-CAP (2001), pp. 3-3
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
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
The Real Power of Artificial Markets

David M. Pennock, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, Finn Årup Nielsen

Science, vol. 291 (2001), pp. 987-988
The Structure of the Web

Jon Kleinberg, Steve Lawrence

Science, vol. 294 (2001), pp. 1849-1850
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
Accessibility of information on the Web

Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles

Intelligence, vol. 11 (2000), pp. 32-39
Bayesian Classification and Feature Selection from Finite Data Sets

Frans Coetzee, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles

UAI (2000), pp. 89-97
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
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
Context in Web Search

Steve Lawrence

IEEE Data Eng. Bull., vol. 23 (2000), pp. 25-32
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
Discovering Relevant Scientific Literature on the Web

Kurt D. Bollacker, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles

IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 15 (2000), pp. 42-47
Efficient identification of Web communities

Gary William Flake, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles

KDD (2000), pp. 150-160
Focused Crawling Using Context Graphs

Michelangelo Diligenti, Frans Coetzee, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, Marco Gori

VLDB (2000), pp. 527-534
Inquirus Web Meta-Search Tool: A User Evlaution Study

Amanda Spink, C. Lee Giles, Steve Lawrence

WebNet (2000), pp. 819-820
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
Overfitting and Neural Networks: Conjugate Gradient and Backpropagation

Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles

IJCNN (1) (2000), pp. 114-119
Overfitting in Neural Nets: Backpropagation, Conjugate Gradient, and Early Stopping

Rich Caruana, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles

NIPS (2000), pp. 402-408
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
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
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
Autonomous Citation Matching

Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, Kurt D. Bollacker

Agents (1999), pp. 392-393
Digital Libraries and Autonomous Citation Indexing

Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, Kurt D. Bollacker

IEEE Computer, vol. 32 (1999), pp. 67-71
Distributed Error Correction

Steve Lawrence, Kurt D. Bollacker, C. Lee Giles

ACM DL (1999), pp. 232
Indexing and Retrieval of Scientific Literature

Steve Lawrence, Kurt D. Bollacker, C. Lee Giles

CIKM (1999), pp. 139-146
Text and Image Metasearch on the Web

Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles

PDPTA (1999), pp. 829-835
CiteSeer: An Automatic Citation Indexing System

C. Lee Giles, Kurt D. Bollacker, Steve Lawrence

ACM DL (1998), pp. 89-98
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
Context and Page Analysis for Improved Web Search

Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles

IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 2 (1998), pp. 38-46
Inquirus, the NECI Meta Search Engine

Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles

Computer Networks, vol. 30 (1998), pp. 95-105
Searching the World Wide Web

Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles

Science, vol. 280 (1998), pp. 98-100
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
Presenting and Analyzing the Results of AI Experiments: Data Averaging and Data Snooping

C. Lee Giles, Steve Lawrence

AAAI/IAAI (1997), pp. 362-367
Convolutional Neural Networks for Face Recognition

Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, Ah Chung Tsoi

CVPR (1996), pp. 217-222
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
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
The Gamma MLP for Speech Phoneme Recognition

Steve Lawrence, Ah Chung Tsoi, Andrew D. Back

NIPS (1995), pp. 785-791
Online or Invisible?

Steve Lawrence

Nature, vol. 411 (200), pp. 521