Luis Tari

PhD student (since Fall 2003),

Department of Computer Science and Engineering,

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA

Email: luis.tari aat asu.edu

Advisor: Dr. Chitta Baral

• Education

PhD in Computer Science (Aug 2003 - May 2009)

Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe, Arizona, USA

Dissertation title: “A framework for the integration of information retrieval and natural language processing with application in the genomics domain”

Master of Science in Computer Science (Aug 2001 - Aug 2003)

ASU, Tempe, Arizona, USA

Thesis title: "Learning AnsProlog Rules"  [webpage]

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (Aug 1997 - May 2001)

The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), El Paso, Texas, USA

• Research Interest

Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Natural Language Processing, Question and Answering, Bioinformatics, Machine Learning

• Projects

NetSynthesis - a prototype that demonstrates a new paradigm in synthesizing their own gene-drug, gene-disease and protein-protein interaction networks through queries to a specialized database of Medline abstracts

CBioC - a new approach to curation of biomedical articles through mass collaboration

BioQA - a biological question-answering system

GOBrowser, a software for the visualization and utilization of the Gene Ontology on the analysis of microarray data

Automatic text extraction from biomedical abstracts

• Publications

• Luis Tari, Jörg Hakenberg, Graciela Gonzalez, Chitta Baral. Querying Parse Tree Database of Medline Text to Synthesize User-specific Biomolecular networks. Pacific Symp. on Biocomputing (PSB’09), 2009 (accepted).
• Luis Tari, Chitta Baral, Seungchan Kim. Fuzzy c-means clustering with prior biological knowledge, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2008 (in press). [pdf]
• Graciela Gonzalez, Luis Tari, Anthony Gitter, Robert Leaman, Shawn Nikkila, Ryan Wendt, Amanda Zeigler, Chitta Baral. Integrating knowledge extracted from biomedical literature: normalization and evidence statements for interactions, Proceedings of the Second BioCreative Challenge Evaluation Workshop, 2007. [pdf]
• Luis Tari, Phan Huy Tu, Barry Lumpkin, Robert Leaman, Graciela Gonzalez and Chitta Baral. Passage relevancy through semantic similarity, Proceedings of the 2007 Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) Genomics track, NIST, 2007. [pdf]
• Chitta Baral, Juraj Dzifcak and Luis Tari. Towards overcoming the knowledge acquisition bottleneck in Answer Set Prolog applications: embracing natural language inputs, Invited paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Logic Programming, 2007. [pdf]
• Graciela Gonzalez, Juan C. Uribe, Luis Tari, Colleen Brophy, Chitta Baral. Mining Gene-Disease Relationships from Biomedical Literature: Weighting Protein-Protein Interactions and Connectivity, Pacific Symp. on Biocomputing (PSB’07), 12:28-39, 2007. [pdf]
• Chitta Baral, Luis Tari. Using AnsProlog with Link Grammar and WordNet for QA with deep reasoning, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference in Information Technology (ICIT 2006): 125-128, 2006. [pdf]
• Seungchan Kim, Younghee Tak, Luis Tari. Mining Gene Expression Profiles with Biological Prior Knowledge, Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop, IEEE/NLM. 2006. [pdf]
• Luis Tari, Graciela Gonzalez, Robert Leaman, Shawn Nikkila, Ryan Wendt, Chitta Baral. ASU at TREC 2006 Genomics Track, Proceedings of the 2006 Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) Genomics track, NIST, 2006. [pdf]
• Luis Tari, Chitta Baral, Saadat Anwar. A Language for Modular Answer Set Programming: Application to ACC Tournament Scheduling. Answer Set Programming Workshop, 2005. [pdf]
• Chitta Baral, Hasan Davulcu, Mutsumi Nakamura, Prabhdeep Singh, Luis Tari, Lian Yu. Collaborative Curation of Data from Bio-medical Texts and Abstracts and Its integration, Data Integration in Life Sciences (DILS 2005): 309-312. [pdf]
• Luis Tari, Chitta Baral, Partha Dasgupta. Understanding the Global Properties of Functionally-Related Gene Networks Using the Gene Ontology, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB’05), 2005. [pdf]
• Alberto Bertoni, Giuliano Grossi, Alessandro Provetti, Vladik Kreinovich, Luis Tari. The Prospect for Answer Sets Computation by a Genetic Model, Assoc. for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Workshop on Answer Set Programming, 2001.

• My CV [pdf]
• My research statement [pdf]

Updated on November 27, 2008