Publications

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Book:

Software Architecture: A Case Based Approach

Published by: Pearson Education India, 2009

ISBN 10: 8131707490, ISBN13: 9788131707494

Foreword by: Len Bass

 



Book Chapters

1. Use of ontologies for organizational knowledge management, Vasudeva Varma Ontologies, A Handbook of Principles, Concepts and Applications in Information Systems, Sharman, Raj; Kishore, Rajiv; Ramesh, Ram (Eds.) 2007, XXIV, 930 p. 245 illus., Hardcover, ISBN: 978-0-387-37019-4, Springer-Verlag.

2. Hindi, Telugu, Oromo, English CLIR Evaluation, Prasad Pingali, Kula Kekeba Tune, Vasudeva Varma, Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval Peters, C., Clough, P., Gey, F.C., Karlgren, J., Magnini, B., Oard, D.W., de Rijke, M., Stempfhuber, M. (Eds.), Vol. 4730, 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-74998-1, Springer-Verlag.

3. Improving Recall for Hindi, Telugu, Oromo to English CLIR, Prasad Pingali, Kula Kekeba Tune, Vasudeva Varma, Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 5152, Peters, C.; Jijkoun, V.; Mandl, Th.; Miller, H.; Oard, D.W.; Peas, A.; Petras, V.; Santos, D. (Eds.), 2008, XXI, 922 p ISBN: 978-3-540-85759-4, Springer-Verlag.

 

Summarization & QA

  1. 1.Sentence Extraction Based Single Document Summarization Jagadeesh J, Prasad Pingali, Vasudeva Varma, Workshop on Document Summarization, 19th and 20th March, 2005, IIIT - Allahabad

  2. 2.Single Document Summarization using language processing Jagadeesh J, Vasudeva Varma, IICAI-2005, 18-20 December 2005, Pune.

  3. 3.A Relevance-Based Language Modeling Approach to DUC 2005, Jagarlamudi Jagadeesh, Prasad Pingali, Vasudeva Varma. Document Understanding Conference, 9th October 2005 at Annual meeting of HLT/EMNLP, Vancouver, BC, Canada

  4. 4.Query Independent Sentence Scoring approach to DUC 2006, Jagarlamudi Jagadeesh, Prasad Pingali, Vasudeva Varma. Document Understanding Conference, 2006 at Annual meeting of HLT/EMNLP, New York, NY, USA

  5. 5.Experiments in Cross Language Query Focused Multi-Document Summarization, Prasad Pingali, Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi and Vasudeva Varma, Workshop on Cross Language Information Access CLIA-2007, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)-2007, January 12, 2007, Hyderabad, India

  6. 6.Query Independent Sentence Scoring approach to multi-document Summarization, Jagarlamudi Jagadeesh, Prasad Pingali, Vasudeva Varma. RIA-2007, Pittsburg, April 2007.

  7. 7.IIIT-Sum at DUC 2007, Prasad Pingali, Rahul K, Vasudeva Varma. Document Understanding Conference, 2007 at Annual meeting of HLT, Rochester, NY, USA.

  8. 8.IIIT Hyderabad at TAC 2008, Vasudeva Varma, Prasad Pingali, Rahul K, sai krishna, Surya Ganesh, Kiran Sarvabhotla, Harish Garapati, Hareen Gopisetty, Vijay Bharath Reddy, Kranthi Reddy, Rohit Bharadwaj and Praveen Bysani. In the Proceedings of Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 2008, at the Joint conference of TREC and TAC.

  9. 9.Generating Personalized Summaries Using Publicly Available Web Documents, Chandan Kumar, Prasad Pingali and Vasudeva Varma. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2008,WI-08, Sydney, Australia.

  10. 10.A Light-Weight Summarizer based on Language Model with Relative Entropy Chandan Kumar, Prasad Pingali, Vasudeva Varma. 24th ACM SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing 2009, Hawaii, USA

  11. 11.Estimating Risk of Picking a Sentence for Document Summarization, Chandan Kumar, Prasad Pingali and Vasudeva Varma. 10th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics 2009,CICLing-09, Mexico City, Mexico.

  12. 12.Sentence Position Revisited: A robust light-weight Update Summarization 'baseline' Algorithm. Rahul Katragadda and Vasudeva Varma, In the proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2009 Workshop on Cross Lingual Information Access (CLIAWS3)

  13. 13.Query-Focused Summaries or Query-Biased Summaries?, Rahul K and Vasudeva Varma. In the proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP). Aug 2-8 2009, Singapore.

  14. 14.Exploiting structure and content of Wikipedia for Query Expansion in the context of Question Answering Surya Ganesh and Vasudeva Varma, Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP-2009), Bulgaria, 2009

  15. 15.Exploiting the use of Prior Probabilities for Passage Retrieval in Question Answering Surya Ganesh and Vasudeva Varma, Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP-2009), Bulgaria, 2009

  16. 16.Classification based approach for Summarizing Opinions in Blog Posts Kiran S, Kranthi Reddy.B and Vasudeva Varma. 4th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-09) Special Session on Web 2.0 and Natural Language Engineering Tasks December 16-18, 2009, Bangalore, India

  17. 17.Prominence based scoring of speech segments for automatic speech-to-speech summarization, Y.Sree Harsha,Vasudeva Varma, Kishore S. Prahllad, Interspeech 2010 , September 2010, Makuhari, Japan. Report no: IIIT/TR/2010/91.

  18. 18.Detecting Novelty in the context of Progressive Summarization, Praveen Bysani,Vasudeva Varma, The 11th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2010 , Downtown Los Angeles, at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel. Report no: IIIT/TR/2010/23.

  19. 19.Summarization of Broadcast News Using Speaker Tracking, Y.Sree Harsha,Vasudeva Varma, Kishore Prahallad, 7th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, December 2009 , University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India. Report no: IIIT/TR/2009/281.

  20. 20.Passage Retrieval Using Answer Type Profiles in Question Answering, Surya Ganesh,Vasudeva Varma, The 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 2009) , December 2009 , City University of Hong Kong.  Report no: IIIT/TR/2009/221.

  21. 21.Modeling Novelty and Feature Combination using Support Vector Regression for Update Summarization, Praveen Bysani, Vijay Bharath Reddy,Vasudeva Varma, The 7th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2009),  December 2009 , University of Hyderabad. Report no: IIIT/TR/2009/220.

  22. 22.A Naive Approach for Monolingual Question Answering, Rohit Bharadwaj, Surya Ganesh,Vasudeva Varma, In proceedings of CLEF 2009, September 2009. Report no: IIIT/TR/2009/150.

  23. 23.Significance of Anchor Speaker Segments for Constructing Extractive Audio Summaries of Broadcast News, Sree Harsha Yella, Vasudeva Varma, and Kishore S.Prahallad., in IEEE Workshop on spoken Language Technologies, Berkely, California, USA., December, 2010. Report no: IIIT/TR/2010/82

  24. 24.Exploiting n-gram importance and wikipedia based additional knowledge for improvements in gaac based document clustering, Niraj Kumar, Vinay Babu, Kannan Srinathan and Vasudeva Varma in International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Informational Retrieval (KDIR-2010),.October 25-28. Valencia, Spain. Report no: IIIT/TR/2010/123

  25. 25.Evaluating Information Coverage in Machine Generated Summary and Variable Length Documents, Niraj Kumar, Kannan Srinathan and Vasudeva Varma, in 16th International Conference on Management of Data, December 8-10, 2010, Nagpur, India. Report no: IIIT/TR/2010/113

  26. 26.An Effective Approach for AESOP and Guided Summarization Task, Niraj Kumar, Kannan Srinathan and  Vasudeva Varma., in Text Analysis Conference(TAC-2010@Nist) November 15-16, 2010.at Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA. Report no:IIIT/TR/2010/121

  27. 27.Exploiting structure and content of Wikipedia for Query Expansion in the context of Question Answering Surya Ganesh and Vasudeva Varma, Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP-2009), Bulgaria, 2009

  28. 28.Exploiting the use of Prior Probabilities for Passage Retrieval in Question Answering Surya Ganesh and Vasudeva Varma, Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP-2009), Bulgaria, 2009

  29. 29.Vasudeva Varma, Sudheer Kovelamudi, Jayant Gupta, Nikhil Priyatam, Arpit Sood, Harshit Jain, Aditya Mogadala, Srikanth Reddy Vaddepally, “IIIT Hyderabad in Summa- rization and Knowledge Base Population at TAC 2011”, In proceedings of Text Analysis Conference (TAC), National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Mary- land USA, November, 2011.

 

CLIR, Indian Language IR

1. "Word normalization in Indian languages", Prasad Pingali, Vasudeva Varma in the proceeding of 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2005). December 2005.

2. WebKhoj: Indian language IR from multiple character encodings" Prasad Pingali, Jagadeesh J, Vasudeva Varma. WWW-2006 23-26 May 2006 to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

3. A Dictionary Based Approach with Query Expansion to Cross Language Query Based Multi-Document Summarization: Experiments in Telugu English Prasad Pingali, Jagarlamudi Jagadeesh, Vasudeva Varma, National Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, June 2006, Mumbai, India.

4. Telugu - English Dictionary Based Cross Language Query Focused Multi-Document summarization (Extended Abstract) Prasad Pingali, Jagarlamudi Jagadeesh, Vasudeva Varma, International Workshop on Intelligent Information Access (IWIIA-2006) July 2006, Helsinki, Finland

5. Hindi and Telugu to English Cross Language Information Retrieval at CLEF 2006 Prasad Pingali, Vasudeva Varma, Working Notes of Cross Language Evaluation Forum Workshop 2006, Spain.

6. Oromo-English Information Retrieval Experiments at CLEF 2006 Kula Kekeba Tune, Prasad Pingali, Vasudeva Varma, Working Notes of Cross Language Evaluation Forum Workshop 2006, Spain.

7. Evaluation of Oromo-English Cross-Language Information Retrieval Kula Kekeba Tune, Vasudeva Varma and Prasad Pingali, Workshop on Cross Language Information Access CLIA-2007, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)-2007, January 12, 2007, Hyderabad, India

8. Multilingual Indexing Support for CLIR using Language Modeling, Prasad Pingali, Vasudeva Varma, IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, March 2007

9. "IIIT Hyderabad at CLEF 2007 - Adhoc Indian Language CLIR task", Prasad Pingali, Vasudeva Varma, CLEF-2007, Cross Language Evaluation Forum 2007 Workshop at Budapest Hungary. 19-21 September 2007, At Eleventh European Conference on Digital Libraries.

10. "Approximate String Matching Techniques for Effective CLIR Among Indian Languages", Ranbeer Makin, Nikita Pandey, Prasad Pingali, and Vasudeva Varma, International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications, Ruta di Camogli, Genova, Italy - July 7-10, 2007, F. Masulli, S. Mitra, and G. Pasi (Eds.): WILF 2007, LNAI 4578, pp. 430-437, 2007. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

11. "Statistical Transliteration for Cross Language Information Retrieval using HMM alignment model and CRF", Suryaganesh Veeravalli, Sreeharsha Yella, Prasad Pingali and Vasudeva Varma, CLIA-2008, 2nd International workshop on Cross Language Information Access, 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2008), January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India.

12. "A Character n-gram Based Approach for Improved Recall in Indian Language NER", Praneeth M Shishtla, Prasad Pingali, Vasudeva Varma, Proceedings of IJCNLP-08 Workshop on Named Entity Recognition for South and South East Asian Languages (NERSSEAL-08), January 2008, Hyderabad, India, pp 67-74.

13. "Experiments in Telugu NER: A Conditional Random Field Approach", Praneeth M Shishtla, Prasad Pingali, Vasudeva Varma, Proceedings of IJCNLP-08 Workshop on Named Entity Recognition for South and South East Asian Languages, NERSSEAL-08, January 2008, Hyderabad, India, pp 105 110.

14. Design and Evaluation of Soft Keyboards for Telugu, V.B. Sowmya and Vasudeva Varma. "6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing" (ICON-2008), Pune, India. .

15. IIIT Hyderabad’s CLIR experiments for FIRE-2008, Sethuramalingam S and Vasudeva Varma. In the working notes of First Workshop of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) 2008 Kolkata.

16. Transliteration Based Text Input Methods for Telugu, V.B. Sowmya and Vasudeva Varma. "22and International Conference on Computer Processing for Oriental Languages" (ICCPOL-2009), Hong Kong.

17. Experiments in CLIR Using Fuzzy String Search Based on Surface Similarity. Sethuramalingam Subramaniam, Anil Kumar Singh, Pradeep Dasigi and Vasudeva Varma. In Proceedings of 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference. Boston, Massachusetts, USA. July 2009

  1. 18.A Language-Independent Transliteration Schema Using Character Aligned Models Praneeth Shishtla, Surya Ganesh V, Sethuramalingam Subramaniam and Vasudeva Varma. In the Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2009), Singapore, 2009

  2. 19.User Behavior in a Multilingual Information Access Task, Vundavalli Srinivas Rao, Vasudeva Varma, January 2010, Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad, India. Report no: IIIT/TR/2010/30.

  3. 20.An Information Retrieval Approach to Spelling Suggestion, Sai Krishna, Prasad Pingali, Vasudeva Varma, World Wide Web 2010, April 2010, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. Report no: IIIT/TR/2010/24.

  4. 21.IIIT Hyderabad at TAC 2009, Vasudeva Varma, Vijay Bharath Reddy,Sudheer K, Praveen Bysani,GSK Santosh,kiran kumar,kranthi Reddy,karuna Kumar,nithin M, Text Analysis Conference , November 2009 , National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Maryland USA. Report no: IIIT/TR/2009/222.

  5. 22.Ranking Multilingual documents using minimal language-dependent resources, Santosh GSK, Kiran Kumar N, Vasudeva Varma, 12th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational  Linguistics CICLING 2011. Tokyo,  Japan.

  6. 23.Finding influence by cross-lingual blog mining through multiple language lists, Aditya Mogadala and Vasudeva Varma, International Conference on Information Systems for Indian Languages (ICISIL2011), March 2011, Department of Computer Science, Punjabi University, Patiala, India. Report no: IIIT/TR/2011/8

  7. 24.Language-Independent Context Aware Query Translation using Wikipedia Rohit Bharadwaj G and Vasudeva Varma, in BUCC ’11: Proceedings of 4th International workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora, collocated with ACL-HLT 2011, Portland, Oregon, USA., from 19 – 24 June,  2011.

  8. 25.Language-independent identification of parallel sentences using Wikipedia, Rohit Bharadwaj G and Vasudeva Varma, in WWW ’11: Proceedings of the 20th International conference on World wide web, Hyderabad, India, 28th March to 1st April 2011.

  9. 26.An Iterative approach to extract dictionaries from Wikipedia for under-resourced languages,  Rohit Bharadwaj G and Vasudeva Varma, in Proceedings of the 8th International conference on Natural Language Processing, ICON 2010, Kharagpur, India, from 8 – 11 December 2010.

  10. 27.Multilingual Document Clustering using Wikipedia as External Knowledge, Kiran Kumar, N., Santosh, G.S.K., Vasudeva Varma, 2nd Information Retrieval Facility conference (IRFC - 2011), from 6 -7 June 2011. Vienna, Austria.

  11. 28.Effectively Mining Wikipedia for Clustering Multilingual Documents, Kiran Kumar, N., Santosh, G.S.K., Vasudeva Varma, 16th International Conference on Applications of natural language to Information Systems (NLDB - 2011), from 28 – 30 June,  Alicante, Spain.

  12. 29.A Language-Independent Approach to Identify the Named Entities in under-resourced languages and Clustering Multilingual Documents, Kiran Kumar, N., Santosh, G.S.K., Vasudeva Varma, International Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation (CLEF- 2011), 19 – 22 September, 2011 at Amesterdam.

  13. 30.HindiWeb Page Collection tagged with Tourism Health and Miscellaneous, Nikhil Priyatam,V.  Srikanth Reddy, Vasudeva Varma, The eighth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), May 2012 , ICEC Istanbul Lütfi Kırdar Convention & Exhibition Centre Harbiye 34267 Istanbul, Turkey. Report no: IIIT/TR/2012/34

  14. 31.CROSS LANGUAGE INFORMATION ACCESS IN TELUGU, Vasudeva Varma, Aditya Mogadala, V. Srikanth Reddy, Ram Bhupal Reddy, Siliconandhra Conference (Global Internet forum for Telugu), San Francisco, September 2011 . Report no: IIIT/TR/2011/110

  15. 32.TAC 2011 MultiLing Pilot Overview, George Giannakopoulos, Mahmoud El-Haj, Benoıt Favre, Marina Litvak,, Sami Shamoon , Josef Steinberger, Vasudeva Varma, In proceedings of Text Analysis Conference (TAC), National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Mary- land USA, November, 2011.

  16. 33. Wikipedia for Clustering Multilingual Documents, N kiran kumar,santosh GSK,Vasudeva Varma, 16th International Conference on Applications of natural language to Information Systems (NLDB - 2011) ,
    June 2011 , Universitad de Alacante, Alicante, Spain.
    Report no    : IIIT/TR/2011/18, (pdf)

  17. 34.   Ranking Multilingual Documents using Minimal Language Dependent Resources, GSK Santosh,kiran kumar,Vasudeva Varma, 12th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics , February 2011 , Tokyo, Japan. Report no: IIIT/TR/2011/2


Sentiment Analysis

  1. 1.Supervised Learning Approaches for Rating Customer Reviews, Kiran Sarvabhotla, Prasad Pingali,Vasudeva Varma, Published In the Journal of Intelligent Systems, Vol 19-(1), 2010., December 2009 :79-94.
    Report no: IIIT/TR/2009/250.

  2. 2.“A Lexical Similarity Based Approach for Extracting Subjectivity in Documents”, Kiran Sarvabhotla, Prasad Pingali and Vasudeva Varma, In the Journal of Information Retrieval, Special Issue on Web Mining for Search, Coverage: Volume 1 / 1999 - Volume 13 / 2010, ISSN: 1386-4564 (Print) 1573-7659 (Online), Springer Link Date: Wednesday, December 08, 2010. Report no: IIIT/TR/2010/105

  3. 3.Classification based approach for Summarizing Opinions in Blog Posts Kiran S, Kranthi Reddy.B and Vasudeva Varma. 4th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-09) Special Session on Web 2.0 and Natural Language Engineering Tasks December 16-18, 2009, Bangalore, India

  4. 4.Hindi Subjective Lexicon Generation using WordNet Graph Traversal, Piyush Arora, Akshat Bakliwal, Vasudeva Varma, 13th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing), March 2012, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi New Delhi, India. Report no: IIIT/TR/2012/10

  5. 5.Hindi Subjective Lexicon : A Lexical Resource for Hindi Polarity Classification, Akshat Bakliwal, Piyush Arora, Vasudeva Varma, The eighth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), May 2012 , Istanbul, Turkey.Report no: IIIT/TR/2012/14

  6. 6.Mining Sentiments from Tweets, Akshat Bakliwal, Piyush Arora, Senthil Madhappan, Nikhil Kapre, Mukesh Singh, Vasudeva Varma, 3rd Workshop on Sentiment and Subjectivity Analysis (WASSA) in Conjunction with 50th annual meeting of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2012. July 2012 , Jeju, Island, Republic of Korea. Report no: IIIT/TR/2012/33

  7. 7.Towards Enhanced Opinion Classification using NLP Techniques, Akshat Bakliwal, Piyush Arora, Ankit Patil, Vasudeva Varma, 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP) 2011, November 2011 , Chiang Mai, Thailand. Report no: IIIT/TR/2011/70

  8. 8.Identifying Influencers in Social Networks, Kushal Dave, Rushi Bhatt, Vasudeva Varma, The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media – 2011, July 2011 , Barcelona (Spain). Report no: IIIT/TR/2011/29




Information Extraction

1. An Unsupervised Approach to Product Attribute Extraction, Santosh Raju,, Prasad Pingali and Vasudeva Varma. European Conference on Information Retrieval 2009, Toulouse, France.

  1. 2.A Graph Clustering Approach to Product Attribute Extraction Santosh Raju, Praneeth Shishtla and Vasudeva Varma. 4th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-09) Special Session on Web 2.0 and Natural Language Engineering Tasks December 16-18, 2009, Bangalore, India

  2. 3.Key Fact Extraction from News wire Articles by Exploiting Local features based weighting and Interaction of sentences, Niraj, Kumar,  Kannan Srinathan and Vasudeva Varma, in 8th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2010), 8-11 December, 2010., at IIT Kharagpur, India. Report no: IIIT/TR/2010/118

  3. 4.Linking Named Entities to a Structured Knowledge Base, Kranthi Reddy. B, Karuna Kumar, Sai Krishna, Prasad Pingali, Vasudeva Varma, 11th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, CICLing-2010: March 21-27, 2010, Romania - jointly with PROMISE 2010. Report no: IIIT/TR/2010/137

  4. 5.Applying Key Phrase Extraction to Aid Invalidity Search, Manisha Verma and Vasudeva Varma, The Thirteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, : ICAIL 2011, from June 6, 2011 – June 10, 2011,  Pittsburgh.

  5. 6.Domain Independent Model for Product Attribute Extraction from User Reviews using Wikipedia, Sudheer Kovelamudi, Sethu Ramalingam, Arpit Sood, Vasudeva Varma, The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP2011) , November 2011 , Shangri-La Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Report no: IIIT/TR/2011/90

 

Personalization

1. Personalized web search engine for mobile devices, Vasudeva Varma, N Sriharsha, Prasad Pingali, Murali Krishna Punaganti Venkata, International Workshop on Intelligent Information Access (IWIIA-2006) July 2006, Helsinki, Finland

2. A Novel Approach for Re-Ranking of Search results using Collaborative Filtering Rohini U, Vasudeva Varma, International Conference on Computing: Theory and Applications, March 4-5 2007, Kolkata, India, IEEE Press.

  1. 3.Statistical Machine Translation Models for Personalized Search, Rohini U, Vamshi Ambati and Vasudeva Varma. In the Proceedings of 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2008), January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India.

  2. 4.Role Based Personalization in Enterprise Search, Vasudeva Varma, Prasad Pingali and Nihar Sharma. 4th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-09) Special Session on Web 2.0 and Natural Language Engineering Tasks December 16-18, 2009, Bangalore, India

  3. 5.Towards Simulated Relevance Feedback, Nithin M, Vasudeva Varma, In Proceedings of The 14th Pacific Asian conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data mining (PAKDD 2010), Hyderabad, India. Report no: IIIT/TR/2010/22

  4. 6. Location Based Web Search on GSM/GPRS Mobile Phones VVS Naresh, Prasad Pingali, Vasudeva Varma, Murali Krishna Punaganti Venkata WWW-2006 Developer Track, 23-26 May 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK



Misc: Taxonomies, Image Retrieval, Classification, ...

1. Building Large-scale ontology networks, Vasudeva Varma, Language Engineering Conference, December 13-15, 2002, University of Hyderabad, IEEE Computer Society Publications, Pages: 121-127, ISBN 0-7695-1885-0

2. Technology Enablers for building Content Management Systems Vasudeva Varma, Theme paper in Multi-lingual computing and information management in Networked Digital Environment, (Ed) TAV Murthy, SM Salgar, SK Sharma, K Prakash, Proceedings of Third International Convention on Automation of Libraries in Education and Research Institutions (CALIBER-2005), Cochin, 2-4 February 2005, pp 167-177, ISBN: 81-902079-0-3

3. "Applying Lexical Semantics to Improve Text Classification Diwakar Padmaraju, Vasudeva Varma, Proceedings of Second symposium on Indian Morphology, Phonology and Language Engineering, SIMPLE-05 IIT Kharagpur, February 05-07, 2005, pp 94-98 ISBN: 81-7342-137-4

4. Exploring Creative Concepts in the Nearest Neighborhood using Lexical Ontologies Prasad Pingali, Jagadeesh J, Vasudeva Varma, Bipin Indurkhya, IICAI-2005, 18-20 December 2005, Pune.

5. IIITH at TREC 2007 Spam Track Experimenting with Spam Bayes, Kiran S, Raja Sekhar K, Prasad Pingali, Vasudeva Varma, Working notes of TREC-2007, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

  1. 7.A Weighted Tag Similarity Measure Based on a Collaborative Weight Model, G.R.J.Srinivas, Niket Tandon, Vasudeva Varma, SMUC '10 Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Search and mining user-generated contents, October 30, 2010. Toronto, Canada. Report no: IIIT/TR/2010/122

  2. 8.SMEO: A platform for Smart Classrooms with Enhanced Information Access and Operations Automation, Akshey Jawa, Sudip Datta, Sujeeth Nanda, Vishal Garg, Vasudeva Varma, Suresh Chande, Murali Krishna Punaganti Venkata., 10th International Conference on Next Generation Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking,  August,   23 - 25, 2010., at St.Petersburg, Russia. Report no: IIIT/TR/2010/132

  3. 9.A Simple Unsupervised Query Categorizer for Web Search Engines, Prashant Ullegaddi, Vasudeva Varma The 8th International Conference on Natural Language Processing , ICON 2010, at IIT Kharagpur, India.

  4. 10. Web Image Annotation Using an Effective Term Weighting, Vundavalli Srinivasarao and Vasudeva Varma. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing’12), New Delhi, India, March 11-17, 2012

  5. 11. Effective term weighting in ALT text prediction for web image retrieval, Vundavalli Srinivasarao,Prasad Pingali, and Vasudeva Varma. In Proceedings of the 13th Asia-Pacific web conference on Web technologies and applications (APWeb’11), Beijing, China, April 18-20, 2011.


 


Computational Advertising

1. Learning the Click-Through Rate for Rare/New Ads from Similar Ads, Kushal Dave,Vasudeva Varma, 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, July 2010 , Geneva, Switzerland. Report no: IIIT/TR/2010/21.

  1. 2. Predicting the Click-Through Rate for Rare/New Ads, Kushal Dave,Vasudeva Varma, April 2010.
    Report no: IIIT/TR/2010/15.

  2. 3. Modeling Action Cascades in Social Networks, Kushal Dave, Rushi Bhatt and Vasudeva Varma, International Conference on Weblogs and Social (ICWSM 2011), Barcelona Spain, July 17-21, 2011.

  3. 4. Pattern based keyword extraction for contextual advertising, Kushal Dave, Vasudeva Varma, Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-2010), from 26 -30th October, 2010. Toronto, Canada.

  4. 5.  Identifying Influencers in Social Networks, Kushal Dave,Rushi Bhatt,Vasudeva Varma, The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media – 2011, July 2011 , Barcelona (Spain). Report no: IIIT/TR/2011/29



Cloud Computing

  1. 1.Learning Based Opportunistic Admission Control Algorithm for MapReduce as a Service, Jaideep Dhok, Nitesh Maheshwari,Vasudeva Varma, 3rd India Software Engineering Conference , February 2010, Infosys Mysore campus. Report no: IIIT/TR/2010/28.

  2. 2.Towards Analyzing Data Security Risks in Cloud Computing Environments, Amit Sangroya,Saurabh Kumar,Jaideep Dhok,Vasudeva Varma, International Conference on Information Systems, Technology, and Management (ICISTM 2010) , March 2010 , Bangkok, Thailand, Report no: IIIT/TR/2010/6

  3. 3.Dynamic energy efficient data placement and cluster reconfiguration algorithm for MapReduce framework, Nitesh Maheshwari, Radheshyam Nanduri and Vasudeva Varma, In Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) Journal, Volme 28, Issue 1, January 2012.

  4. 4.Job aware scheduling algorithm for MapReduce framework, Radheshyam Nanduri, Nitesh Maheshwari, Annareddy Reddyraja, Vasudeva Varma, In IEEE CloudCom 2011 - Workshop: NetCloud, Novmber 2011.



Software Engineering 

1. Managing Software Development in New-era Educational Institutions, Vasudeva Varma, Project Management Institute (PMI) Pearl City Chapter, Symposium 2003, April 25-25, 2003, Hyderabad, India

2. Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for Research in Software Engineering, Manish Kumar Anand, Vasudeva Varma, Accepted for presentation at IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA 2004), November 09-1, 2004, MIT Cambridge, USA.

3. "Demands on a Learning Organization: Creating Niche Markets, Reaching and Staying in Leadership Position" Vasudeva Varma, in the proceedings of Satyam Architecture Conference ArchConf-2004, Chennai, June 28-29, 2004

4. A Case Study Initiative for Software Engineering Education Vasudeva Varma, Kirti Garg, and STP Vamsi, The 2005 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'05) June 27-30, 2005, Las Vegas, USA

5. Case Studies: The Potential Teaching Instruments for Software Engineering Vasudeva Varma, Kirti Garg, 5th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 2005), Melbourne, Australia, September 19 -20, 2005 IEEE Press.

6. Security: Bridging the Academia-Industry Gap Using a Case Study Kirti garg, Vasudeva Varma, KN Giridhar, Abhishek Misra, Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC-2006), December 2006, Bangalore, India. IEEE Press.

7. A Study of the Effectiveness of Case Study approach in Software Engineering Education Kirti garg, Vasudeva Varma, Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEET-2007, July 3-5, 2007, Dublin, Ireland IEEE Press.

8. Individual and Organizational Learning Challenges in Software Service Industry: A Case for Solution Architects, Vasudeva Varma, to appear in Satyam Technology Review, Volume 5, Q2, April 2007

9. "Critical Software Architecture Elements for Service Orientation", Vasudeva Varma, Satyam Technology Review, Volume 5, Q3, August 2007.

10. "Software Engineering Education in India: Issues and Challenges" Kirti garg, Vasudeva Varma, 21st IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEET-2008, April 15-17, 2008, Charleston, SC, USA. IEEE Press.

11. "People Issues Relating to Software Engineering Education and Training in India", Kirti garg, Vasudeva Varma, ACM-SIGSOFT's 1st Indian Conference on Software Engineering (ISEC-2008), February 19-22, 2008. ACM Press.

12. "Enabling Reuse of Citizen Centric Government Processes through Service Oriented Architecture", Bhudeb Chakravarti, Vasudeva Varma, ACM-SIGSOFT's 1st Indian Conference on Software Engineering (ISEC-2008), February 19-22, 2008. ACM Press.

13. Case Studies as Assessment Tools in Software Engineering Classrooms, Kirti Garg and Vasudeva Varma. 22nd IEEE-CS International Conference of Software Engineering Education and Training(CSEET'09), Feb 2009, Hyderabad, India.

14. An Effective Learning Environment for Teaching Problem Solving in Software Architecture, Kirti Garg and Vasudeva Varma. Proceedings of 2nd India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC2009) by ACM, Pune, Feb 2009,pp. 139-140.

15. "Opportunities for Creativity in a Case Study Based Software Engineering Course", Kirti Garg, Vasudeva Varma, Bipin Indurkhya, Second International Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Software Engineering (CISE-2009), Ravda (Nessebar), Bulgaria, 10 - 12 June 2009

16. "Multilingual Web Usability Testing - A MUST Methodology", Ankur Gupta, Amit Sangroya, Vasudeva Varma, Second International Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Software Engineering (CISE-2009), Ravda (Nessebar), Bulgaria, 10 - 12 June 2009

  1. 17.Building a Semantic Virtual Museum: From Wiki to Semantic Wiki using Named Entity Recognition, Alain Plantec, Vincent Ribaud and Vasudeva Varma, ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), October 25 - 29, 2009, Orlando, FL, USA

  2. 18.SAGE: An Approach to Evaluate the Impact of SOA Governance Policies, Amit Sangroya, Kirti Garg,Vasudeva Varma, 5th IEEE International Workshop on Service Oriented Architectures in Converging Networked Environments (SOCNE 2010) , April 2010 , Perth, Australia, Report no: IIIT/TR/2010/3.

  3. 19.uPick: Crowdsourcing Based Approach to Extract Relations Among Named Entities, Deepti Aggarwal,Rohit Ashok Khot,Vasudeva Varma,Venkatesh Choppella, 4th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction , April 2012 , Hosted at Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune, India. Report no: IIIT/TR/2012/15

 

Case Studies

1. Assure-Health: Health Insurance application that got sick - A case study in software requirements Engineering, With Bhudeb Chakravarti, Bidhu Mahapatra and Jayanthi Vemulapati, Satyam Technology Review, Volume 2, Q3, July 2004. pp 74-84

2. Technical Architecture of McCombbs Call center software, with Kirti Garg, Muralimohan Nandipati and Prashanti Reddy, Satyam Technology Review, Volume 2, Q4, October 2004. pp 61-72

3. Search for Travel in 2010: architecting Open evaluation, With Kirti Garg, Dilip Bhonde, Shubhangi Bhagwat, Satyam Technology Review, Volume 3, Q1, January 2005. PP. 136-146.

4. Mobile Trading System A Case Study in Software Design, With Bhudeb Chakravarti, Vamsi STP, Satyam Technology Review, Volume 3, Q2, April 2005.

5. Managing Growth in a High Technology Venture - the Fact-Tree Way with Kirti Garg and STP Vamsi. This is award winning case study in “Case Chase” an international Entrepreneurship Case Writing Competition conducted by the Society for Entrepreneurship Educators, held in ISB, 14-15 April 2005. This publication is now available from ECCH (European Case Clearing House)

 

Other Publications (Before 2002)

1. "Knowledge Based Metaphor Interpretation," Knowledge Based Systems 9, 1996 339-342. Elsevier Science

2. "Tat Tvam: A Metaphor Interpretation Model based on Indian Theories of Meaning," Indian Congress on Knowledge and Language, January 11-17th, 1996, Mysore, India

3. "Metaphor Interpretation: Insights from Indian Theories," with A. Sivasankara Reddy, International Conference on "Cognitive Systems" December 15-16, 1995, New Delhi, India

4. "Concept Lexicon" with A. Sivasankara Reddy, presented at the National Workshop on Computational Lexicography and Text Processing, University of Hyderabad, 19-23 January 1995

5. "Object Oriented Multipurpose Lexicon" with A. Sivasankara Reddy and K. Narayana Murthy, International Journal of Communications, Bahri Publications, New Delhi, Vol., VI, No. 1&2, Jan-Dec 1996, Pages: 69-83

6. "Object Oriented Lexicon" with A. Sivasankara Reddy and K. Narayana Murthy. International Computing Congress (ICC-95), Hyderabad, January 1995

7. "Computation of Metaphorical Language," International Journal of Communications, Bahri Publications, New Delhi, Vol. VI, No. 1&2, Jan-Dec 1996, Pages: 9-20

8. "Electronic Dictionaries: A Model Architecture" with A. Sivasankara Reddy and K. Narayana Murthy, National workshop on "Electronic Dictionaries for Second Language Learners" 29th Sept. - 7th Oct. 1993 at Bharatiar University, Coimbatore, India

9. "Grammar Checker" with B.N. Patnaik and L. Sobha Gaveshana, September 1994. New Delhi

10. "Issues Involved in Developing Morphological Analyzer and Lexicon for a Machine Translation System'' International Journal of Translation, Bahri Publications, New Delhi. Vol:5, Nos. 1 & 2, 1993:1-18 pp

11. "Towards Metaphor Handling: A Computational Framework" workshop on Computer Applications for Indian Languages, 19-21 August 1992, CIIL, Mysore

12. "Review of Computational Linguistics and Formal Semantics," Vivek, a quarterly in Artificial Intelligence from NCST, Bombay Vol. 7.4 October 1994

13. "Review of A Computational Model of Metaphor Interpretation," Vivek, a quarterly in Artificial Intelligence from NCST, Bombay Vol. 5.2 January 1992