Papers
UIUC - Master Thesis (Spring 2005)
William Lee. Intelligent Access To Public Email Conversations [PDF - 1,523 KB]
A general framework and implementation of a system that can index, cluster, and visualize conversations within a newsgroup or mailing list.
UIUC - CS498AD (Spring 2005)
Machine Learning Approaches to Information Management Prof. Anhai Doan.
William Lee. Extracting Publication Entries from Homepages [PDF - 254 KB]
Evaluates the performance of using HMM and SNoW in the task of extracting publication entries from researchers’ personal homepages.
UIUC - CS598DNR (Fall 2005)
Natural Language Processing Prof. Dan Roth.
A story comprehension system using a linearly-weighted scoring function that combines TFIDF, question-specific rules, pronoun, name entity, and parse tree similarity in order to improve accuracy and recall.
UIUC - CS490 (Spring 2004)
Independent Study with Prof. ChengXiang Zhai.
William Lee. Author-Oriented Information Retrieval [PDF - 437 KB]
A method on retrieving message from newsgroup or mailing utilizing author information.
UIUC - CS427 (Fall 2003)
CS 427 is a graduate-level software engineering course at University of Illinois taught by Prof. Ralph Johnson.
William Lee. Evolving Software Architecture [PDF - 98 KB]
An essay on how software architecture evolves due to changes in requirements, knowledge, and technology
William Lee. Composite Call/Return Strategy [PDF - 133 KB]
A pattern that can be used to implement a generalized multiplex strategy for the Composite pattern