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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.
Extracting knowledge from the World Wide Web, Monika Henzinger, Steve Lawrence, Mapping Knowledge Domains, 2003.
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.
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.
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), 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, 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), 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, 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, 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, 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.
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