Keywords

	Padmini Srinivasan Professor of Computer Science; complimentary appointment, Management Sciences
	Management Sciences 101F  Library The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1994	Ph: 319-335-0733 Fax: 319-335-0297 E-mail: padmini-srinivasan@uiowa.edu Website

Academic History

• PhD in Information Transfer, Syracuse University, 1985
• MSc in Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India, 1978

Expertise

• Text mining and knowledge discovery
• Text retrieval and categorization
• Web crawlers: algorithms and evaluation

Awards

• Editorial Board Member, Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology., 2011
• National Library of Medicine (NLM/NIH) Board (Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee), National Library of Medicine, 2011
• National Library of Medicine (NLM/NIH) Board (Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee), National Library of Medicine, 2010
• National Library of Medicine (NLM/NIH) Board (Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee), National Library of Medicine, July 2009
• UI Faculty Scholar Award, 2002

Selected Publications

• Analyzing stock chatter on the Yahoo Finance message boards: A case study of human behavior, M. Rechenthin, Nick Street, Padmini Srinivasan
• BioCreative III Interactive Task: an Overview., Padmini Srinivasan, Bioinformatics - Publication Details Forthcoming
• The Gene Normalization Task in BioCreative III., Padmini Srinivasan, BMC Bioinformatics, special issue on BioCreative III - Publication Details Forthcoming
• Status Locality on the Web: Implications for Building Focused Collections, Gautam Pant, Padmini Srinivasan, Information Systems Research, 2012 - Publication Details Forthcoming
• Predicting Web Page Status, Gautam Pant, Padmini Srinivasan, Information Systems Research, vol 21, 2010, 345-364
• Predicting Web Page Status., Gautam Pant, Padmini Srinivasan, Information Systems Research,, vol 21, 2010, 345-364
• On the Predictive Ability of Narrative Disclosures in Annual reports, Ramji Balakrishnan, Padmini Srinivasan, Xin Ying Qiu, European Journal of Operational Research, vol 202, 2010, 789-801
• Link Contexts in Classifier-Guided Topical Crawlers, Gautam Pant, Padmini Srinivasan, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol 18, 2006, 107-122
• Learning to Crawl: Comparing Classification Schemes, Gautam Pant, Padmini Srinivasan, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), vol 23, 2005
• A General Evaluation Framework for Topical Crawlers, Padmini Srinivasan, Filippo Menczer, Gautam Pant, Information Retrieval, vol 8, 2005, 417-447
• Topical web crawlers: Evaluating adaptive algorithms, Filippo Menczer, Gautam Pant, Padmini Srinivasan, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), vol 4, 2004

Conference Proceedings

• Utility-biased Web Crawler: Combining Topicality and Status, Gautam Pant, Padmini Srinivasan, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), 2008
• Web Crawling Agents for Retrieving Biomedical Information., Padmini Srinivasan, Joyce Mitchell, Olivier Bodenreider, Gautam Pant, Filippo Menczer, International Workshop on Agents in Bioinformatics (NETTAB), 2002
• Evaluating Topic-Driven Web Crawlers, Filippo Menczer, Gautam Pant, Padmini Srinivasan, Miguel E. Ruiz, 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, 2001, 241-249

Other Work

• Detecting Wikipedia Vandalism with Active Learning and Statistical Language Models, Si-Chi Chin, Nick Street, Padmini Srinivasan, David Eichmann
• Crawling the Web, Gautam Pant, Padmini Srinivasan, Filippo Menczer, Web Dynamics, Springer-Verlag, 2003