Kriste Krstovski

Associate Research Scientist - Data Science Institute

Adjunct Assistant Professor - Columbia Business School


Columbia University

kriste.krstovski@columbia.edu

Data Science Institute

475 Riverside Dr. Office 320-M

Mail Code: 4720

New York, NY 

10115

PHD THESIS

“Efficient Inference, Search and Evaluation for Latent Variable Models of Text with Applications to Machine Translation and Information Retrieval”, February, 2016. 



PUBLICATIONS

  • ▪ P. Glasserman, K. Krstovski, P. Laliberte, H. Mamaysky, “Choosing News Topics to Explain Stock Market Returns”. In Proceedings of ICAIF 2020.

  • ▪ C. Hidey, T. Chakrabarty, T. Alhindi, S. Varia, K. Krstovski, M. Diab, and S. Muresan. “DeSePtion: Dual Sequence Prediction and Adversarial Examples for Improved Fact-Checking”. In Proceedings of ACL 2020

  • ▪ K. Krstovski and D. M. Blei, “Equation Embeddings”, arXiv:1803.09123, 2018.
                      
  • ▪ K. Krstovski, M. J. Kurtz, D. A. Smith and A. Accomazzi, “Multilingual Topic Models for Indexing Scientific Articles,” arXiv:1712.06704, 2017.

  • ▪ K. Krstovski and D. A. Smith, “Bootstrapping Translation Detection and Sentence Extraction from Comparable Corpora,” In proceedings of NAACL 2016

  • ▪ K. Krstovski, D. A. Smith, and M. J. Kurtz, “Online Multilingual Topic Models with Multi-Level Hyperpriors,” In Proceedings of NAACL 2016

  • ▪ K. Krstovski, D. A. Smith, and M. J. Kurtz, “Automatic Construction of Evaluation Sets and Evaluation of Document Similarity Models in Large Scholarly Retrieval Systems,” in Proceedings of The 30th AAAI Conference (AAAI-16), Workshop on Scholarly Big Data: AI Perspectives 2016.

  • ▪ K. Krstovski, D. A. Smith and M.J. Kurtz. “Evaluating Retrieval Models through Histogram Analysis”, In Proceedings of SIGIR 2015.

  • ▪ K. Krstovski, D. A. Smith, H. M. Wallach, and A. McGregor. “Efficient Nearest-Neighbor Search in the Probability Simplex”, In Proceedings of ICTIR 2013.

  • ▪ K. Krstovski and D.A. Smith. “Online Polylingual Topic Models for Fast Document Translation Detection”, In Proceedings of WMT 2013.

  • ▪ R. Prasad, P. Natarajan, D. Stallard, S. Saleem, S. Ananthakrishnan, S. Tsakalidis, C.-L. Kao, F. Choi, R. Meermeier, M. Rawls, J. Devlin, K. Krstovski and A. Challenner. “BBN TransTalk: Robust Multilingual Two-Way Speech-To-Speech Translation for Mobile Platforms”, In Computer Speech & Language, Vol.27 No.2, 2013.                                

  • ▪ M. Cartright, E. Can, W. Dabney, J. Dalton, K. Krstovski, X. Wu, I. Yalniz, J. Allan, R. Manmatha and D. Smith. "A Framework for Manipulating and Searching Multiple Retrieval Types", In Proceedings of SIGIR 2012.

  • ▪ K. Krstovski and D. A. Smith. “A Minimally Supervised Approach for Detecting and Ranking Document Translation Pairs”, In Proceedings of WMT 2011.

  • ▪ F. Choi, S. Tsakalidis, S. Saleem, C.-L. Kao, R. Meermeier, K. Krstovski, C. Moran, K. Subramanian, D. Stallard, R. Prasad and P. Natarajan. “Recent Improvements in BBN’s English/Iraqi Speech-to-Speech Translation System”, In Proceedings of SLT 2008.

  • ▪ C.-L. Kao, S. Saleem, R. Prasad, F. Choi, P. Natarajan, D. Stallard, K. Krstovski and M. Kamali. ”Rapid Development of an English/Farsi Speech-To-Speech Translation System”, In Proceedings of IWSLT 2008.

  • ▪ K. Krstovski, E. Macrostie, R. Prasad and P. Natarajan. “End-to-End Trainable Thai OCR System Using Hidden Markov Models”, In Proceedings of DAS 2008.

  • ▪ K. Krstovski, M. Decerbo, R. Prasad, D. Stallard, S. Saleem and P. Natarajan. “A Wearable Headset Speech-to-Speech Translation System”, In Proceedings of ACL 2008 Workshop on Mobile Language Processing.

  • ▪ D. Stallard, C.-L. Kao, K. Krstovski, D. Liu, P. Natarajan, R. Prasad, S. Saleem and K. Subramanian. “Recent Improvements and Performance Analysis of ASR and MT in a Speech-To-Speech Translation System”, In Proceedings of ICASSP 2008.

  • ▪ D. Stallard, F. Choi, C.-L. Kao, K. Krstovski, P. Natarajan, R. Prasad, S. Saleem and K. Subramanian. “The BBN 2007 Displayless English/Iraqi Speech-to-Speech Translation System”, In Proceedings of Interspeech-ICSLP 2007.

  • ▪ R. Prasad, K. Krstovski, F. Choi, S. Saleem, P. Natarajan, M. Decerbo and D. Stallard. “Real-Time Speech-to-Speech Translation for PDAs”, In Proceedings of IEEE Portable 2007.

  • ▪ D. Stallard, F. Choi, K. Krstovski, P. Natarajan, R. Prasad, S. Saleem and R. Suleiman. “Design and Evaluation of the 2006 BBN English/Iraqi Two-Way Speech Translation System”, In Proceedings of IEEE/ACL Workshop on Spoken Language Technology 2006.

  • ▪ D. Stallard, F. Choi, K. Krstovski, P. Natarajan, R. Prasad and S. Saleem. “A Hybrid Phrase-based/Statistical Speech Translation System”, In Proceedings of Interspeech-ICSLP 2006.

  • ▪ D. Vidacic, P. Melnyk, K. Krstovski, R.A. Messner, F.C. Hludik and A.L. Kun. “Consolidated Data Acquisition and Management for First Responders”, Sensor Review Journal, Vol.26 No.2, 2006.

  • ▪ K. Krstovski “Handheld Project54 Speech User Interface”, Master’s Thesis, University of New Hampshire, 2005.

  • ▪ K. Krstovski, A. L. Kun and W.T. Miller III. "Speech Interaction with Handheld Computers in the Project54 System", In Proceedings of UbiComp 2004.

  • ▪ K. Krstovski, A.L. Kun and W.T. Miller III. "Distributed Components for Retrieval of Driver's License Data using a Handheld Computer", In Proceedings of SEA 2004.



BOOK CHAPTERS

  • ▪ D. Stallard, R. Prasad, P. Natarajan, F. Choi, S. Saleem, R. Meermeir, K. Krstovski, S. Ananthakrishnan and J. Devlin. “The BBN TransTalk Speech-to-Speech Translation System”, Book Chapter in “Speech and Language Technologies”, InTech Publishing, 2011.



TECHNICAL AND PROJECT REPORTS

  • ▪ K. Krstovski et. al. “Parameter Estimation for Log Linear POS Tagger”, Project Report, MIT 2007.


  • ▪ K. Krstovski. “Exploring SVM for Arabic Text Type Classification”, Project Report, MIT 2006.


  • ▪ K. Krstovski. "Speech User Interfaces with Variable Sound Source Locations", Technical Report, UNH 2005.


  • ▪ K. Krstovski. "Handheld Project54 Button Control Application", Technical Report, UNH 2005.


  • ▪ K. Krstovski. "Handheld Project54 Radar Application", Technical Report, UNH 2005.


  • ▪ K. Krstovski. "Scanner Application for the Mobile Project54 Software System", Technical Report, UNH 2004.


  • ▪ K. Krstovski. "Driver's License Scanner Pocket PC Application", Technical Report, UNH 2004.



POSTERS

  • ▪ K. Krstovski and D. M. Blei “Equation Embeddings”, NYAS 2018.


  • ▪ K. Krstovski and D. A. Smith “Extracting Parallel Sentences from Comparable Corpora without Prior Translation Information”, NYAS 2018.


  • ▪ K. Krstovski and M. J. Kurtz. “Multi-Level Dirichlet Priors for Modeling Topical Variations across Textual Regions”, NEML 2015.


  • ▪ K. Krstovski and M. J. Kurtz. “Automatic Keyword Assignment using Multilingual Topic Models”, FORCE 2015.


  • ▪ K. Krstovski, D. A. Smith and M. J. Kurtz. “Evaluating Topic Models through Histogram Analysis”, NEML 2014.


  • ▪ K. Krstovski, D. A. Smith, H. M. Wallach, A. McGregor, and M. J. Kurtz. “Efficient Nearest-Neighbor Search in the Probability Simplex”, NEML 2013.


  • ▪ K. Krstovski, E. Macrostie, R. Prasad and P. Natarajan. “End-to-End Trainable Thai OCR System Using Hidden Markov Models”, DAS 2008.


  • ▪ K. Krstovski, A. L. Kun and W.T. Miller III. "Speech Interaction with Handheld Computers in the Project54 System", Ubicomp 2004.

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