Introduction

Welcome to the homepage of Bob Arens. I am a PhD student at the University of Iowa's Computer Science department. I hold an MS in Computer Science, a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics, and a BA in Linguistics. [CV]

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Research

New research blog! Check it out at http://bobsresearchblog.blogspot.com

My current research interests revolve around leaning document ranking functions from user feedback for use in retrieval systems for which traditional ranking methods are either inadequate or undesirable.

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Publications

• Conference Papers
  • Arens, R. 2008.
    Learning SVM Ranking Function from User Feedback Using Document Metadata and Active Learning in the Biomedical Domain. Proceedings of the ECML/PKDD-08 Workshop on Preference Learning (forthcoming).
  • Almquist, B., Ha-Thuc, V., Sehgal, A.K., Arens, R., Srinivasan, P. 2007.
    Exploring the Legal Discovery and Enterprise Tracks at the University of Iowa. TREC 2007 Notebook Paper.
  • Morgan, A., Wellner, B., Colombe, J., Arens, R. Colosimo, M., Hirschman, L. 2007.
    Evaluating the Automatic Mapping of Human Gene and Protein Mentions to Unique Identifiers. Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2007.
  • Light, M., Arens, R., Lu, X. 2005.
    Web-based Interfaces for Natural Language Processing Tools. Presented at the TNLP 2005 Workshop, at ACL-2005.
  • Arens, R. 2004.
    A Preliminary Look into the Use of Named Entity Information for Bioscience Text Tokenization. Proceedings of HLT/NAACL 2004: Companion Volume, 201-5.
• Book Chapters
  • Arens, R. To appear.
    Learning SVM Ranking Function from User Feedback Using Document Metadata and Active Learning in the Biomedical Domain. Eyke Hüllermeier, Johannes Fürnkranz (eds.). Preference Learning: Proceedings of the ECML/PKDD-08 Workshop. Antwerp, Belgium, 2008.
• Posters
  • Sehgal, A.K., Arens, R., Srinivasan, P. 2007.
    TREC 2007 Enterprise Track.
  • Arens, R., Light, M. 2005.
    Text Mining for Evolutionary Biologists: simple tools for finding information relevant to distinguishing orthologs from paralogs. Poster presented at the BioLink 2005 Workshop, at ISMB-2005. [abstract] [poster].
• Non-refereed
  • Arens, R. 2005.
    Domain Adaptive Information Extraction From Text. Prepared for completion of PhD comprehensive examination requirement at the University of Iowa.

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Teaching

• Privacy and Anonymity - Fall 2008
• Data Mining - Spring 2008
• Object-Oriented Software Development - Fall 2007
• Computer Literacy (22c:001) - Spring 2007
• Formal Methods in Software Engineering (22c:181) - Spring 2006
• Intro to Computational Linguistics - Spring 2005
• Foundations of Programming Languages (22c:185) - Fall 2004
• Computer Science 2 (22c:020) - Fall 2003 [Class notes]
• Systems Software (22c:050) - Spring 2003
• Systems Software (22c:050) - Fall 2002
• Programming Language Concepts (22C:054) - Summer 2002

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Contact Information

Office

101N MLH

Office Hours

3-4 pm, M-Th

Addresses

Email

robert-arens@uiowa.edu

Paper Mail

Robert Arens
Department of Computer Science
15 MLH
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1419
USA