Aaron Elkiss

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Michigan. Currently I am working in the DB group with H. V. Jagadish. I also work with David States' lab and Dragomir Radev's CLAIR group in conjunction with NCIBI.

My research interests are primarily in databases and related areas. My current work focuses on several problems in semistructured data; for example, allowing keyword search over structured data that takes advantage of the structure. I am especially interested semistructured data with poorly defined or highly recursive structure, as is the case with natural language parse trees.

Before that, I was an undergraduate in the Computer Science and Mathematics departments at Maryland. I worked at Instructional Technologies (now Engineering Information Technology) adminstering the now-defunct AJC Online and developing web-based applications.

Telephone

734-763-4433

Office

4957 CSE

E-mail

Mailing Address

4957 CSE
2260 Hayward
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2121

Current Projects

• Table Selection for Databases of Weakly Structured Information
• Biomedical Information Extraction (Protein Interactions)
• Ranked Relatedness Queries for XML Databases

Former Projects (UMich)

• EECS591 Course Project: Query Result Caching using Peer Networks. With Bin Liu and Arnab Nandi.
• With CLAIR: Citation-Based Summaries
• EECS584 Course Project: Extended MIMI Database (integrates MiMI, BLAST, and several protein sequence databases)

Former Projects (UMD)

• The Linguist's Search Engine
• ICDL Communities
• Preprocessing for Machine Translation
• University of Maryland Parallel Corpus Project

Journal Articles and Conference Papers

• Aaron Elkiss, Siwei Shen, Anthony Fader, Güneş Erkan, David States, and Dragomir Radev, Blind men and elephants: What do citation summaries tell us about a research article?, JASIST, 2007, to appear
• Anita Komlodi, Jade Alburo, Jenny Preece, Allison Druin, Weimin Hou, Sabrina Liao, Aaron Elkiss, and Philip Resnik, Evaluating a Cross-Cultural Children's Online Book Community: Lessons Learned for Sociability, Usability, and Cultural Exchange, Interacting with Computers, to appear.
• Philip Resnik and Aaron Elkiss, The Linguist's Search Engine: An Overview. Proceedings of ACL 2005 (Demonstration Section), 2005. (PDF)
• Philip Resnik, Aaron Elkiss, Ellen Lau and Heather Taylor. The Web in Theoretical Linguistics Research: Two Case Studies Using the Linguist's Search Engine. 31st Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 2005. (PDF)

Other Papers, Talks, Course Projects, Etc

• Aaron Elkiss, Bin Liu and Arnab Nandi. Query Result Caching Using Peer Networks (PS). EECS591 (Distributed Systems) Winter 2006 course project.
• Talk: Extensible Information Retrieval with Apache Nutch, NCIBI Tools and Technologies Series, 16-Feb-2006 (PPT) (example code)
• Aaron Elkiss. Biological Database Normalization by Sequence Alignment. EECS584 (Databases) Fall 2005 course project. (PDF)
• What you need to know about Perl and XML - A tutorial on using Unicode and XML with perl. Also available in Python and Java versions.
• Talk: Indexing Strategies for the Linguist's Search Engine (PPT)
• Aaron Elkiss. Linguist's Search Engine Developer's Manual (PDF)
• Aaron Elkiss and Philip Resnik. Linguist's Search Engine: User's Guide, Jan 2004 (HTML) (PDF)
• Philip Resnik and Aaron Elkiss. Linguist's Search Engine: Getting Started Guide
  Technical Report: LAMP-TR-108/CS-TR-4541/UMIACS-TR-2003-109, University of Maryland, College Park, November 2003. Update of 20 January 2004 (HTML)
• Aaron Elkiss. A Scalable Architecture for Linguistic Annotation. May 2003
  Computer Science Undergraduate Honors Thesis (HTML) (PS)
  

Education

Courses (Graduate Level)

• Basic Biology for Graduate Students with Quantitative Training (BIOINF800, Fall 2006) - Burmeister et al.
• Logic Circuit Synthesis & Optimization (EECS478, Fall 2006) - Markov
• Computational Complexity (EECS574, Fall 2006) - Shi
• Advanced Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval (EECS767, Winter 2006) - Radev
• Distributed Systems (EECS591, Winter 2006) - Jahanian
• Advanced Database Systems (EECS584, Fall 2005) - Jagadish
• Information Theory (EECS500, Fall 2005) - Momcilovic
• Seminar in Computational Linguistics (CMSC828R, Fall 2004) - Resnik
• Natural Language Processing (CMSC724, Fall 2002) - Resnik

Work Experience