Publications

The following illustrates a listing of works that my collaborators and I published. Where available, a bibliography entry (for bibtex) and a document (in pdf format) is provided.


Publications

  • Tsai, T., Kasch, N., Pfeifer C., Oates T. Text Mining for Hypotheses and Results in Translational Medicine Studies. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM 2014) Workshop on Biological Data Mining and its Applications in Healthcare (BioDM 2014), Shenzhen/China, December 2014.
  • Tsai, T., Kasch, N., Pfeifer C., Oates T. Text Mining for Hypotheses and Results in Translational Medicine Studies. In IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM 2014), Shenzhen/China, December 2014.
  • Niels Kasch and Tim Oates. Commonsense Knowledge in Weblogs: Mining Script-like Structures from the Web. In Proceedings of the Industrial Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2012) International Workshop Case-Based Reasoning (CBR-MD 2012), Berlin/Germany, July 2012
  • Niels Kasch. Mining Commonsense Knowledge from the Web: Towards Inducing Script-like Structures From Large-scale Text Sources. PhD thesis, UMBC, 2012
  • Edward Birrane, Scott Burleigh, and Niels Kasch. Analysis of the Contact Graph Routing Algorithm: Bounding Interplanetary Paths. Acta Astronautica, 75(0):108 – 119, 2012
  • Kevin Burton, Niels Kasch, and Ian Soboroff. The ICWSM 2011 Spinn3r Dataset. In Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2011), Barcelona, Spain, July 2011 bib link
  • Niels Kasch and Tim Oates. Mining script-like structures from the web. In Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 First International Workshop on Formalisms and Methodology for Learning by Reading, FAM-LbR ’10, pages 34–42, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, 2010. Association for Computational Linguistics bib pdf
  • Edward Birrane, Scott Burleigh, and Niels Kasch. Analysis of the Contact Graph Routing Algorithm: Bounding Interplanetary Paths. In 61st International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2010), Prague, Czech Republic, October 2010 bib
  • Niels Kasch. Grounding Domain Knowledge in Semantic Objects for Automatic Creation of Spoken Language Dialog Systems. Master’s thesis, East Carolina University, 2008 bib

Presentations and Posters

  • Niels Kasch. Analyzing Text and Building Predictive Models with the Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform. Hadoop DC User Group, Washington, D.C., November 2012
  • Niels Kasch and Tim Oates. Commonsense Knowledge in Weblogs: Mining Script-like Structures from the Web. In 12th Industrial Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2012), Berlin/Germany, July 2012
  • Niels Kasch. (2012) Mining Commonsense Knowledge from the Web: Towards Inducing Script-like Structures From Large-scale Text. Ph.D. Defense, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, March 9, 2012.
  • Terry Shen, Niels Kasch, Tom Armstrong, Harold Lehmann and Tim Oates. (2011) A Text Mining System using Statistical Machine Learning Approaches for Genetic Epidemiology Articles. NLM Informatics Training Conference, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Campus, Natcher Conference Center, Bethesda, MD, June 28 - 30, 2011.
  • Niels Kasch and Tim Oates. (2011) Concept Modeling for Scripts. 1st Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning, September 23, 2011. HLTCOE, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. pdf
  • Niels Kasch. (2009). Mining Scripts from the Web. Ph.D. Proposal Defense, December 10, 2009. University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD.
  • Niels Kasch. (2008). Grounding Domain Knowledge in Semantic Objects: An Approach to Create Flexible Spoken Language Dialog Systems Automatically. 2nd Annual Research & Creative Achievement Week, March 31-April 4, 2008. East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.

Technical Reports

  • Niels Kasch. A Guide to Testing ION through Simulations on Emulab. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 2010
  • Niels Kasch and Tim Oates. Feature Based Content Extraction From Web Pages. University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2010
  • Niels Kasch, Dave Feltenberger, and Fatih Senel. Fair Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks. University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2009 pdf ppt code
  • Don Miner and Niels Kasch. SwarmVis: a Tool for Visualizing Swarm Systems. University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2008 pdf code
  • Niels Kasch and Ronnie W. Smith. Semantic Objects for Automatic Creation of Spoken Language Dialog Systems. East Carolina University, 2008

Invited Talks

  • Niels Kasch and Edward Birrane. Developing and Testing the Interplanetary Overlay Network: Lessons Learned and Suggestions for GENI. In 9th GENI Engineering Conference (GEC9) Experimenter Workflow and Services Working Group, Washington, D.C., November 2010 bib pdf