Jimmy Lin Hornbake 4111J College of Information Studies University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-4345 jimmylin (at) umd . edu About Me I've been an assistant professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park since September, 2004. I'm a member of the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Lab (CLIP) and the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) at the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). In August 2004, I completed my Ph.D. at MIT. My current research lies at the intersection of information retrieval, information science, and computational linguistics, in an area called question answering (QA). The goal is to develop information access systems that return "answers", not merely "hits". Research Publications Downloads Other Activities The complex interactive Question Answering task (ciQA) at TREC 2006 The CLIP colloquium series Teaching LBSC 690: Information Technology (Spring, 2007) LBSC 690: Information Technology — Gallery of Final Projects LBSC 796/INFM 718R: Information Retrieval Systems (Spring, 2006) Current and Former Students Georg Apitz: Ph.D. student, Computer Science G. Craig Murray: Ph.D. student, Information Studies David Zajic: Ph.D. student, Computer Science (defended November, 2006) Dina Demner-Fushman: Ph.D. student, Computer Science (graduated Winter, 2006)