Ron Bekkerman, PhD Candidate

Research interests

	Unsupervised and Semi-supervised Learning
	Graphical Models
	Web Mining
	Social Network Analysis

Research Projects

	Multi-way Distributional Clustering and Combinatorial Markov Random Fields
	Image Clustering with Comrafs
	Disambiguation of People’s Web Appearances
	Document Classification on Enron Email Dataset

Publications

	R. Bekkerman and J. Jeon. Multi-modal Clustering for Multimedia Collections. In Proceedings of CVPR 2007 bibtex ppt
	R. Bekkerman, H. Raghavan, J. Allan, and K. Eguchi. Interactive Clustering of Text Collections According to a User-Specified Criterion. In Proceedings of IJCAI 2007 bibtex ppt
	R. Bekkerman, S. Zilberstein, and J. Allan. Web Page Clustering Using Heuristic Search in the Web Graph. In Proceedings of IJCAI 2007 bibtex ppt
	R. Bekkerman, M.Sahami, and E. Learned-Miller. Combinatorial Markov Random Fields. In Proceedings of ECML 2006 bibtex ppt
	R. Bekkerman, K. Eguchi, and J. Allan. Unsupervised Non-topical Classification of Documents. CIIR Technical Report IR-472 2006 bibtex
	R. Bekkerman and M.Sahami. Semi-supervised Clustering using Combinatorial MRFs. In Proceedings of ICML 2006 Workshop on Learning in Structured Output Spaces bibtex ppt
	R. Bekkerman, R. El-Yaniv, and A. McCallum. Multi-way Distributional Clustering via Pairwise Interactions. In Proceedings of ICML 2005 bibtex ppt
	R. Bekkerman and A. McCallum. Disambiguating Web Appearances of People in a Social Network. In Proceedings of WWW 2005 bibtex ppt
	R. Bekkerman, A. McCallum, and G. Huang. Automatic Categorization of Email into Folders: Benchmark Experiments on Enron and SRI Corpora. CIIR Technical Report IR-418 2004 bibtex
	A. Culotta, R. Bekkerman, and A. McCallum. Extracting Social Networks and Contact Information from Email and the Web. In Proceedings of CEAS 2004 bibtex
	R. Bekkerman and J. Allan. Using Bigrams in Text Categorization. CIIR Technical Report IR-408 2004 bibtex
	R. Bekkerman. Word Distributional Clustering for Text Categorization. MSc Thesis 2003, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology bibtex ppt
	R. Bekkerman, R. El-Yaniv, N. Tishby, and Y. Winter. Distributional Word Clusters vs. Words for Text Categorization. In Special Issue on Variable and Feature Selection of JMLR 2003 bibtex
	R. Bekkerman, R. El-Yaniv, N. Tishby, and Y. Winter. On Feature Distributional Clustering for Text Categorization. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2001 bibtex ppt

Selected talks

	CIIR Lab Meeting, UMass October 2006 ppt
	ECML Conference September 2006 ppt
	ICML Workshop on Learning in Structured Output Spaces June 2006 ppt
	Machine Learning and Friends Lunch, UMass March 2006 ppt
	Research Group Meeting, Google November 2005 ppt
	Leslie Kaelbling's Group Meeting, MIT October 2005 ppt
	ICML Conference August 2005 ppt
	BISFAI Conference June 2005 ppt
	IBM Haifa Research Lab June 2005 ppt
	WWW Conference May 2005 ppt
	CIIR Lab Meeting, UMass May 2005 ppt
	Machine Learning and Friends Lunch, UMass April 2005 ppt
	Bar Ilan University March 2003 ppt
	The Technion August 2002 ppt
	SIGIR Conference September 2001 ppt
	BISFAI Conference June 2001 ppt

Other stuff

	My wife Anna's old homepage at the Technion.
	My old homepage.
	My Erdos number is 3. My wife's Erdos number is 2.