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Availability to Accept New PhD Students:
This faculty member is NOT currently accepting Ph.D. studentsDouglas W. Oard
Interim Deanoard@umd.edu
301-405-7590
HBK 2118F
https://terpconnect.umd.edu/~oard/
UMIACS Office:
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Office Room: IRB 4164
Research Interests:
Information technology, user modeling, information retrieval
In earlier times, we thought of our challenge as making good use of the vast trove of materials created by millions of authors. Today, we think of our challenge as harnessing the intellectual contributions of billions of people. As the proverb says, “may you live in interesting times.” We surely do!
Associated Research Centers
Research & Focus Areas
Research Projects
- Collaborative Research: Using Artificial Intelligence To Improve Administration of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
- Center For Excellence in Human Language Technology
- Center for Excellence in Human Language Technology (COE HLT) TTO8.16-21
- E-VERIFY: System for Cross-Language Information Processing, Translation, and Summarization (SCRIPTS)
- III: Small: Improving Technical Paper Database Search through Math-aware Search Engines
- III:Small:Safely Searching Among Sensitive Content