Engineer Manager

G. Craig Murray

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Research Interests

Cognitive-semantics and human-information interaction during exploratory search.

Query modeling and interpreting implicit feedback from searching and browsing behavior.

Education

University of Maryland, College of Information Studies PhD candidate Expected completion 5/09

Key courses of study include: Classification Theory; Computational Linguistics;

Information Access, Use and Structure; Information

Retrieval Systems; Human Performance and HCI

Advanced to candidacy 8/07 Graduate GPA 4.0

University of Maryland, College of Information Studies MLS 8/00 to 5/02

New School University graduate studies in Cognition and Sociolinguistics 9/99 to 5/00

New York University, Tisch School of the Arts - BFA, Film & Television Production 8/86 to 12/88

Simon's Rock of Bard College - AA, Liberal Arts, early admissions program 8/83 to 5/85

Honors and Awards

AOL Student research fellowship 2005, 2006

NSF University of Maryland Graduate WebShop summer fellowship 2002

Inducted Phi Kappa Phi honor society 2002

Journal Publications

Lin, J., Murray, G. C., Dorr, B., Hajic, J., and Pecina, P. J. (In Press). A Cost-effective Lexical

Acquisition Process for Large-scale Thesaurus Translation. Language Resources and Evaluation

Murray, G. C., and Teevan, J. (2007).Query Log Analysis: Social and Technological Challenges,

Workshop Report. SIGIR Forum. 41(2). 112-120

Murray, G. C., and Green, R. (2004). Lexical knowledge and human disagreement on a WSD task.

Computer Speech and Language: Special Issue on Word Sense Disambiguation, 18(3). 209-222.

Conference Publications

Murray, G. C., Lin, J., and Chowdhury, A. (2006). Identification of User Sessions with Hierarchical

Agglomerative Clustering [Poster]. In Proceedings of Annual Meeting of the American Society for

Information Science and Technology, Austin, TX, August 2006.

Murray, G. C., Lin, J., and Chowdhury, A. (2006). Action modeling: Language models that predict

query behavior [Poster]. In Proceedings of SIGIR'06, Seattle, Washington, August 2006. ACM.

Murray, G. C., Dorr, B., Lin, J., Hajic, J., and Pecina, P. (2006). Leveraging reusability: Cost-effective

lexical acquisition for large-scale ontology translation. In Proceedings of ACL/COLING'06, Sydney,

July 2006.

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Conference Publications Continued

Murray, G. C., Dorr, B., Lin, J., Hajic, J., and Pecina, P. (2006). Leveraging recurrent phrase structure in

large-scale ontology translation. Proceedings of EAMT'06, Oslo, Norway, June 2006.

Murray, G. C., and Reuter, K. (2005). Children s acquisition of categories and the implications for

research in the development of classification schemes. SIGCR workshop, 2005 Annual Meeting of

the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Lin, J., and Murray, G. C. (2005). Assessing the term independence assumption in blind relevance

feedback [Poster]. In Proceedings of SIGIR'05, Salvador, Brazil, August 2005. ACM.

Oard, Soergel, Doermann, Huang, Murray, Wang, Ramabhadran, Franz, Gustman, Mayfield, Kharevych,

and Strassel. (2004). Building an information retrieval test collection for spontaneous conversational

speech. In Proceedings of SIGIR'04, Sheffield, U.K., July 2004. ACM.

Industry Research Experience

Microsoft Research Research Intern 9/07 to 12/07

Experimented with machine learning to model Live search users interests.

Investigated search behavior and patterns in browsing following search

America Online, Strategic Technologies Group Summer Research Intern 6/06 to 9/06

Conducted research experiments in query log analysis and user modeling

Implemented query recommendation system based on Bayesian query models

IBM Research, T. J. Watson Research Center Summer Co-Op 6/03 to 9/03

Conducted research experiments in automated text categorization

Evaluated alternate NLP techniques in poly-hierarchic classification tasks

Academic Research Experience

University of Maryland Student Research Fellow 9/05 to 9/07

Designed and implemented experiments in user behavior modeling

Adapted NLP tools for query log analysis and query prediction

University of Maryland Research Graduate Assistant 8/00 to 9/05

o Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

MALACH: Multilingual Access to Large Spoken Archives developed

resources for IR testing and evaluation, implemented categorization

experiments, developed and tested machine translation resources

TDT implemented language modeling system for multilingual topic

detection and tracking, part of a DARPA technology evaluation at NIST

The Linguist's Search Engine contributed interface designs for search tool

that retrieves Web pages based on user-specified linguistic features

o College of Information Studies

Human performance on WSD tasks designed and conducted empirical

study of factors affecting human judgments in word sense disambiguation

Teaching Assistant tutored, graded, and guest lectured graduate courses on

Information Technology, Digital Library Infrastructure, and Database Design

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Applied Technology Experience

Andromedia, Inc. Consulting Services Manager, Northeast region 1/99 to 6/99

Managed installations of web traffic analysis and collaborative filtering tools

Customized rule-based systems for mission-critical business objectives

@radical.media, inc.

Chief Technology Officer & Department Co-Director 12/96 to 7/98

Oversaw software development for all new-media projects

Supervised technical staff of 12

Head of Software Development 4/96 to 12/96

Architect and lead developer for interactive marketing projects

Assembled and managed project-based technical teams

Database Programmer 9/95 to 4/96

Designed and implemented database-driven CGI applications

Intelus Corporation Field Engineer/Database Programmer on Retainer 1/89 to 3/95

Installed and supported health care document tracking/process flow systems

Professional Activities

Journal Reviews for:

Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology.

Infant and Child Development

Conference Committees

Organizing co-chair for WWW 07 workshop on Query Log Analysis

Review committee for ECIR 2008 poster submissions

Technical Qualifications

Databases: Oracle, Informix, MS SQL Server, Object Store, Lotus Notes, PostgreSQL

Operating Systems: Linux, Solaris, SCO OpenServer, AIX, OS/2 Warp and WindowsXP

Languages: Perl, C#, C++, Java, PL/SQL, AWK, SED and shell scripting

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