Pallika means "The Light Bearer". Someone who is supposed to spread the light of knowledge. I have been blessed with a wonderful family, great friends and a very satisfying workplace. All I want now is world peace !! And for now, I'm just happy being a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science at UMass, Amherst with Prof. Andrew McCallum.

I'm interested in Machine Learning, Data Mining and Natural Language Processing. Specifically, I'm interested in Resource-bounded Information Acquisition and Learning.

Kanani, P. and Melville, P., "Prediction-time Active Feature-value Acquisition for Customer Targeting", NIPS 2008 Workshop on Cost Sensitive Learning.   pdf   BibTex

Kanani, P. and McCallum, A., "Efficient Strategies for Improving Partitioning-Based Author Coreference by Incorporating Web Pages as Graph Nodes," Proceedings of the Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWEB 07), pp. 38-43. Also appeared as a poster in NESCAI 2007.   pdf   BibTex

Culotta, A., Kanani, P., Hall, R., Wick, M. and McCallum, A., "Author Disambiguation using Error-driven Machine Learning with a Ranking Loss Function," a workshop at the Sixth International Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb-07), Vancouver, Canada.   pdf   BibTex

Kanani, P. and McCallum, A., "Resource-bounded Information Gathering for Correlation Clustering," in the Proceedings of Computational Learning Theory 07, Open Problems Track, COLT 2007, LNAI 4539, pp. 625-627, 2007.   pdf   BibTex

Kanani, P., McCallum, A. and Pal, C., "Improving Author Coreference by Resource-bounded Information Gathering from the Web," in the Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 07), pp. 429-434, 2007.   pdf   BibTex

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