About the technology author(s):
Sriram Raghavan, of IBM's Almaden Research Center, develops powerful semantic search technology that exploits structured information extracted from text to enable high-precision keyword information retrieval.
Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Ph.D. (Almaden), focuses on scalability and quality in the context of large-scale information extraction systems and is building a declarative rule-based information extraction system.
Eser Kandogan, Ph.D. (Almaden), is interested in information interaction, user interfaces, semantic search, human interaction with complex systems, ethnographic studies, information visualization, and end user programming.
Yosi Mass (Haifa, Israel) leads several projects, is responsible for numerous patents and publications, and is the father of the "XML Fragments" query language for semantic search in XML and in Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA).
Nadav Har'El (Haifa) works on information retrieval in geographic data mining, desktop search, advanced faceted search, and social search. He created the popular Hspell, an open-source Hebrew spell-checker used by OpenOffice and Google's Gmail.
Michael Bluger (Haifa) works on textual search, including desktop search. His background is in natural language processing, artificial intelligence, machine translation, agent-based Web search, text analysis and classification, and information retrieval.
Huaiyu Zhu, Ph.D. (Almaden), focuses on infrastructure for text analytics and applications, and, in particular large-scale analytics for enterprise search applications.
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Ph.D. (India), focuses on information extraction, especially rule and feature induction using inductive logic programming, speeding up of rule-based information extraction techniques, and environments for developing and organizing rules.
Kyna Sah manages projects of IBM's Information Management (IM) Architecture Board, Advanced Technologies, for the IBM IM Chief Technology Office; her projects include launching new product initiatives at the Information On Demand Conference.
Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, Ph.D. (Almaden), manages the Unstructured Information Analysis group at Almaden and is the technical project leader for IBM OmniFind Personal E-mail Search. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining.
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