• Annotating Images and Image Objects using a Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Model. Oksana Yakhnenko and Vasant Honavar. SIGKDD 2008, The 9th International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining [PDF]
  
• Principled Generative-Discriminative Hybrid Hidden Markov Model. Oksana Yakhnenko, Lucian Vlad Lita, Romer Rosales, Stefan Niculescu. NIPS 2007, Workshop on Representations and Inference on Probability Distributions [extended abstract]
  
• Mining the Web for Relations between Digital Devices using a Probabilistic Maximum Margin Model. Oksana Yakhnenko, Barbara Rosario (Intel Research). International Joint Conferences in Natural Language Processing (IJC-NLP 2008)[PDF][data to be posted]
• Discriminatively Trained Markov Model for Sequence Classification. Oksana Yakhnenko, Adrian Silvescu, Vasant Honavar. International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2005)[PDF] [talk slides ppt]


• Visualizing effects from log-linear models. Oksana Yakhnenko, Heike Hofmann. Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM 2005).

Research Internships

• Siemens Medical Solutions (Computer-Aided Diagnostics and Therapy) May-September 2007. Worked on named entity recognition in medical domain with Romer Rosales, Lucian Lita and Stefan Niculescu

• Intel Research (Digital Home Group)
  May-September 2006. Worked with Barbara Rosario and Bill Schilit on relation extraction from text

Software

• AirlDM - a collection of data-source independent learning algorithms