Sumali J Conlon

SUMALI J. CONLON

Associate Professor of Management Information Systems

School of Business Administration

University of Mississippi

University, MS 38677

Phone: 662-915-5470

E-mail: sconlon@bus.olemiss.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology , Chicago, Illinois, 1990, advisor: Martha Evens
B.A. in Statistics with Economics minor, Thammasat University , Bangkok, Thailand, 1980

AREAS OF INTEREST

Research:

Knowledge Management, Web Mining, Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture, Semantic Web, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Text Mining, Information Retrieval, Database Systems, Information Economics, and Software Engineering

Teaching:

Database Systems, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and Software Engineering

EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor of Management Information Systems, University of Mississippi (1996 - Present).
Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems, University of Mississippi (1990 - 1996).
Service Manager, Archo Company, Bangkok, Thailand (1980 – 1981)

PUBLICATIONS

Strong,, Jody, Kaushik Ghosh., Sumali Conlon (to appear). Identifying opportunities in multilingual business environments using environmental scanning and text mining techniques, Journal of Information Technology and Information Management.

Strong, Jody, Surma Mukhopadhyay, and Sumali Conlon (to appear). “Automatically Extracting Multilingual Information to Support International Business Decision Making.” International Journal of Intercultural Information Management.

Conlon, Sumali, Jason G. Hale, Susan Lukose, and Jody Strong (2008). "Information Extraction Agents For Service-Oriented Architecture Using Web Service Systems: A Framework." Journal of Computer Information Systems. Vol. XLVIII, No3: 74-83.

Conlon, Sumali, Susan Lukose, Jason Hale, and Anil Vinjamur (2007). "Automatically Extracting and Tagging Business Information for E-Business Systems Using Syntactic and Semantic Analysis," Semantic Web Technologies and eBusiness: Virtual Organization and Business Process Automation. A. F. Salam and Jason Steven edited. Idea Group Inc, pp. 101-126.

Grant, Gerry and Sumali Conlon (2006). "Edgar Extraction System: An Automated Approach To Analyze Employee Stock Option Disclosures." Journal of Information Systems. Fall 2006. Vol. 20, Iss. 2; p. 119-142.

Conlon, Sumali, John Conlon, and Tabitha James (2004). “The Economics of Natural Language Interfaces: Natural Language Processing Technology as a Scarce Resource.” Decision Support Systems, Vol 38: 141-159, Elsevier Science Publishers, The Netherlands.

Conlon, Sumali and Chi Hwang (1998). "Maintaining Computer-Based Information Systems Using Text-Based Intelligent Systems." the Journal of International Information Management. Vol. 7, No 2: 81-94.

Conlon, John and Sumali Conlon (1998). "Robustness of Retrieval Performance Measures Under Optimal User Behavior." Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Vol 49, No 4: 356-363.

Alidaee, Bahram and Sumali Conlon (1997). "A Note on the Bicriterion Scheduling Problem Involving Total Flowtime and Range of Lateness." the International Journal of Information and Management Science, Vol. 8 No. 2:1-7.

Aiken, Milam, Khalid Aljumaih, Brian Reithel, and Sumali Conlon (1997). "Group Support System Impacts Using Four Facilitating Techniques." The Journal of International Information Management, Vol. 6, No. 2, 19-29 Fall 1997.

Conlon, Sumali, Edward Gillenwater, and Chi Hwang (1996). "Enhancing Menu-Based Information Systems Using a Natural Language-Menu Guide." the Journal of International Information Management, Vol. 5, No. 1: 105-119.

Conlon, John, Sumali Conlon, and Chi Hwang (1996). "Nestedness, Separability, Information Systems, and the Role of the Manager." Decision Support Systems, Vol. 18: 167-179. Elsevier Science Publishers, The Netherlands.

Conlon, John and Sumali Conlon (1996). "The Optimal Use of an Information Retrieval System." Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 47, No.6: 449-457. John Wiley & Sons, New York, USA.

Govindarajulu, ChittiBabu and Sumali Conlon (1996). " Natural Language Interfaces for End-User Query Processing." International Business Schools Computing Quarterly, Vol. 7, No.3: 25-30.

Hwang, Chi and Sumali Conlon (1996). “An Application Framework for Text-Based Intelligent Systems in Organizational Text Processing.” The Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Vol. 9: 133-140, Fall 1996.

Conlon, Sumali and Martha Evens (1994). "An Adverbial Lexicon for Natural Language Processing Systems." International Journal of Lexicography, Vol. 7, No. 3: 197-221, Oxford University Press, U.K..

Conlon, Sumali, Joanne Daraine, Agnes D'Souza, Martha Evens, Sherwood Haynes, Jong-Sun Kim, and Robert Strutz (1994). "The IIT Lexical Database: Dream and Reality." Current Issues in Computational Linguistics: in honor of Don Walker. Linguistica Computazionale , Vol. 9-10: 201-226, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, USA.

Conlon, Sumali and Martha Evens (1994). "A Lexical Database for Nouns to Support Parsing, Text Generation, and Information Retrieval." Research in Humanities Computing, Vol. 3: 75-87, Oxford University Press. U.K..

Conlon, Sumali, Martha Evens, Thomas Ahlswede, and Robert Strutz (1993). "Developing a Large Lexical Database for Information Retrieval, Parsing, and Text Generation Systems." Information Processing and Management , Vol. 29, No. 4: 415- 431, Pergamon Press Ltd., U.K..

Pin-Ngern, Sumali, Robert Strutz, and Martha Evens (1991). "Lexical Acquisition for Lexical Databases." Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series of Springer-Verlag, Volume 507: 264-270.

PROCEEDINGS and PRESENTATIONS

Conlon, Sumali, Mahmudul I Sheikh, Jody Strong, Kaushik Ghosh, and Surma MukhoPadhyay (2008). “Automatically Extracting Knowledge from Text Documents.” Presented at the Decision Sciences Institute Conference, November 22-25, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

MukhoPadhyay, Surma and Sumali Conlon (2008). “Business Policy Prediction by the Technology of Information Extraction and Data Warehousing.” Presented at the Decision Sciences Institute Conference, November 22-25, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Mahmudul I Sheikh, Sumali J. Conlon, Jody Strong, and Surma MukhoPadhyay (2008). Analyzing Customer Comments from Product Reviews: A Text Based Business Intelligence Application.” Presented at the Decision Sciences Institute Conference, November 22-25, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Ghosh, Kaushik Jody Strong, Sumali J. Conlon (2008). Information extraction for decision making during business acquisitions.” Presented at the Decision Sciences Institute Conference, November 22-25, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Strong, Jody, Sumali J. Conlon, and Kaushik Ghosh (2008). “Identification of Potential Markets with Information Extraction.” Presented at the Decision Sciences Institute Conference, November 22-25, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Conlon, Sumali, Jody Strong, and Surma Mukhopadhyay (2007). "Mining Business Texts from Online Sources." Presented at the Decision Sciences Institute Conference, November 17-20. Phoenix, AZ, USA.

Mukhopadhyay, Surma, Jody Strong, and Sumali Conlon (2007). "Improving E-commerce Systems with Automatic Information Acquisition." Presented at the Decision Sciences Institute Conference, November 17-20. Phoenix, AZ, USA.

Strong, Jody, Sumali Conlon, and Surma Mukhopadhyay (2007). "Supporting International Business with Information Processing Tools." Presented at the Decision Sciences Institute Conference, November 17-20. Phoenix, AZ, USA.

Grant, Gerry and Sumali Conlon (2006). “EDGAR Extraction System: An Automated Approach to Analyze Employee Stock Option Disclosures.” Will be presented at American Accounting Association Information Systems Section Mid-Year Conference January 4-7, 2006, Scottsdale, Arizona.

Shiekh, Mahmudul and Sumali Conlon (2005). “Extracting Information from a Domain of Unstructured Data.” Proceedings of the Eleventh Americas Conference on Information Systems, Omaha, NE, USA August 11th-14th 2005. pp. 1348-1354.

Hale, Jason, Sumali Conlon, Tim McCready, Susan Lukose, and Anil Vinjamur (2005). "Building Discerning Knowledge Bases from Multiple Source Documents, with Novel Fact Filtering." Proceedings of the Eleventh Americas Conference on Information Systems, Omaha, NE, USA August 11th-14th 2005. pp. 1552-1558.

· Vinjamur, Anil, Sumali Conlon, Susan Lukose, Tim McCready, and Jason Hale (2005). "Automatic Extraction and Generation of XML Documents from Financial Reports." Proceedings of the Eleventh Americas Conference on Information Systems, Omaha, NE, USA August 11th-14th 2005. pp. 3398-3405.

Hwang, Drew and Sumali Conlon (2005). “A Web-based Expert indexing Service for Web Financial Pages.” Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Information Management and Business.” Taipei, Taiwan, March.

Lukose, Susan, Frank Mathew, Sumali Conlon, and Pamela Lawhead (2005). “Effectiveness Of Information Extraction Using Natural Language Processing Techniques.” Presented at The Mississippi Academy of Science conference (MAS), Oxford, MS – First prize award.

Conlon, Sumali, Andy Xu, Tobin Lindblom, Barbara Jo White, and Xiaobo Xu(2004). “Expanding Web Queries Using Semantic and Collocation Information.” Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute Conference (DSI-2004), Boston, MA, November. 7921-7926.

Conlon, Sumali, Gerry Grant, Susan Lukose, Frank Mathew, and Mahmudul Sheikh (2004). “The Role of Information Extraction Systems in Improving E-Business.” Presented at the Decision Sciences Institute Conference, November 20-23, 2004. Boston, MA, USA.

Xu, Yaquan, Bahram Alidaee, Sumali Conlon, Gary Kochenberger, and Haibo Wang (2004). “New Optimization Algorithm for Support Vector Machine in Text Categorization.” Presented at the INFORMS Annual Meeting 2004 – Denver.

Lukose, Susan, Frank Mathew, Sumali Conlon, and Pamela Lawhead (2004). "Extracting Financial Information from Text Documents." Proceedings of the Tenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, New York, New York, August 2004, 1933-1939.

White, Barbara, Jamison Posey, and Sumali Conlon (2004). "When Search Engines “Speak” Your Language: The Role of Communication Accommodation Theory in Personalized Systems." Proceedings of the Tenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, New York, New York, August 2004, 3385-3395.

White, Barbara,Tobin E Lindblom, Sumali Conlon, and Sang Hyun Kim (2003). "Decreasing Query Response Times For Web Auction Sites By Using Statistical And Syntactic Analysis To Reduce The Size Of The Inverted Index." Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute Conference (DSI-2003), Washington DC. November.

Sheikh, Mahmudul I, Mina Park, and Sumali J. Conlon (2003). "Optimal Decision Trees To Improve Text Categorization Accuracy." Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute Conference (DSI-2003), Washington DC. November.

Wang, Wendy, Sumali Conlon, and Brian Reithel (2003). “Optimal Components of Research Publication Abstracts: Producing Abstracts that Meet the American National Standards.” Proceedings of the 2003 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2003), Tampa, FL.

Zhang, Tao, Jian Li, and Sumali Conlon (2003). "A Neural Network Method to Predict Life Insurer Insolvency." Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (IC-AI'03), Las Vegas, NV, June 24-26, pp 168-174.

Conlon, Sumali, Wendy Wang, Jie Zhang, and Yuehua She (2002). “Improving Internet Search using Query Expansion and Focusing.” Presented at the Fifth International Military Applications Symposium Conference, Memphis, TN, June.

Conlon, Sumali, Barbara Jo White, and Wendy Wang (2002). “A Tool for Improving Knowledge Management.” Presented at the Decision Sciences Institute Conference (DSI-2002), San Diego, CA, November.

Conlon, Sumali, Barbara Jo White, and Wendy Wang (2002). “Finding Information on the Web using Linguistic Analysis.” Presented at the Decision Sciences Institute Conference (DSI-2002), San Diego, CA, November.

Wang, Wendy and Sumali Conlon (2002). “Reducing Information Overload using Automatic Text Summarization.” Presented at the Decision Sciences Institute Conference, San Diego, CA, November.

Conlon, Sumali, Jianfeng Wang, and Wendy Wang (2002). “Improving Internet Search using Query Expansion and Focusing.” Proceedings of the Western Decision Sciences Institute Conference (WDSI-2002), Las Vegas, NV, April.

Wang, Wendy and Sumali Conlon (2002). “Automatic Extraction of Research Publications.” Proceedings of the Western Decision Sciences Institute Conference (WDSI-2002), Las Vegas, NV, April.

Conlon, Sumali, Sonny Mounicou, Jie Xu, Bart L. Garner, and Wendy Wang (2000). “Improving Internet Search: A Prototype Using Natural Language Processing Techniques.” Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute Conference (DSI-2000), Orlando, FL, Nov.

Conlon, Sumali, Tabitha James, and Bart Garner (1999). "A Natural Language Interface-Based Internet Search System." presented at INFORMS'99. Philadelphia, Nov.

Conlon, Sumali and Bart Garner (1998). "Improving Internet Search Using Linguistic Analysis." Proceedings of the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute Conference (NEDSI-98), Boston, MA. March.

Aiken, Milam, Brian Reithel, Sumali Conlon, and Luvai Motiwalla (1995). "Intelligent Agents in a Group Decision Support System." Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute Conference (DSI-95).

Bsat, Mohammed, John Seydel, Edward Gillenwater and Sumali Conlon (1995). "A Knowledge Editor for Inventory Control." Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute Conference (DSI-95).

Hwang, Chi and Sumali Conlon (1995). "The Role of Text-Based Intelligent Systems in Organizational Text Processing." Proceedings of the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute Conference (NEDSI-95).

Hwang, Chi, Sumali Conlon, and Che-Peng Lin (1995). "An Intelligent DSS Design for Integrating Textual Information with Financial Ratio Analysis in Corporate Performance Appraisal." Proceedings of the Western Decision Sciences Institute Conference (WDSI- 95).
Conlon, Sumali, Edward Gillenwater, and Chi Hwang (1994). "Natural Language-Menu Based Executive Information Systems: A New Approach to Computer-Aided Executive Decision Making." Proceedings of the Southern Management Information Systems Association (SMISA-94).

· Conlon, Sumali, Edward Gillenwater, and Tsutomu Mishina (1993). "Improving System Flexibility in Executive information Systems Using a Natural a Lnguage Processing Interface." Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute Conference (DSI-93).

Gillenwater, Edward, Sumali Conlon, and Tsutomu Mishina (1993). "The Integration of Manufacturing Management Information Systems into Distributed Group Decision Support Systems." Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute Conference (DSI-93).

Conlon, Sumali and Martha Evens (1992). "Can Computers Handle Adverbs?" Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING-92. Nantes, France. July: 1192-1196.

Conlon, Sumali and Martha Evens (1991). "Building a Noun Lexical Database to Support Natural Language Processing Applications." Proceedings of the International Joint Conferences of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC). Tempe, Arizona. March: 69- 75.

Conlon, Sumali, Martha Evens, and Thomas Ahlswede (1990). "Generating a Lexical Database for Adverbs." Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference of the University of Waterloo Centre for the New Oxford English Dictionary: Electronic Text Research. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. October: 95-109.

Pin-Ngern, Sumali and Martha Evens (1990). "Collecting Noun Information for Natural Language Processing Systems." 35th International Linguistic Association Conference. New York. March.

Evens, Martha, Sumali Pin-Ngern, Thomas Ahlswede, Sun M. Li, and Judith Markowitz (1989). "Acquiring Information from Informants for a Lexical Database." Proceedings of the First International Lexical Acquisition Workshop, Detroit, Michigan. August.

Pin-Ngern, Sumali and Martha Evens (1989). "Developing a Computer-Based Adverbial Lexicon." Conference of the Dictionary Society of North America. Cleveland, Ohio. August.

Markowitz, Judith, Sumali Pin-Ngern, Martha Evens, Jeff Anderson, and Sun M. Li (1988). "Generating Lexical Database Entries for Phrases." Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference of the University of Waterloo Centre for the New Oxford English Dictionary: Information in Text. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. October: 115-127.
Ahlswede, Thomas E., Jeff Anderson, Martha Evens, Sun M. Li, Sumali Pin-Ngern, and Judith Markowitz (1988). "Automatic Construction of a Phrasal Thesaurus for an Information Retrieval System from a Machine Readable Dictionary." Proceedings of RIAO 1988 (Recherche d'Informmation Assistee par Ordinateur). Cambridge, MA. March: 597-608.

WORKING PAPERS

Query Expansion using Linguistic Analysis
Intelligent Model Base Systems: A Natural Language Processing Approach.
Improving Internet Search Using Linguistic Analysis.

MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD

International Journal of Services Sciences (IJSSci), Inderscience Publishers Ltd., ISSN (Online): 1753-1454 - ISSN (Print): 1753-1446.
International Journal of Intercultural Information Management (IJIIM), Inderscience Publishers Ltd., ISSN (Online): 1750-0036 - ISSN (Print): 1750-0028.
Sasin Journal of Management, ISSN 0859-2659

REFEREEING

Conferences:

Applied Natural Language Processing
Decision Science Institute
Mid-South College Computing Conference
Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science conference (MAICS)
Northeast Decision Science Institute
Southeastern Institute for Operations Research and Management Science
Southern Management Information Systems Association
Tools for Artificial Intelligence

Journals:

ACM SIGMIS Database
Decision Support Systems
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A
Information Systems Research
Omega, The International Journal of Management Science

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Program Committee Member: 18th Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science conference (MAICS-2007).
Program Committee Member: 17th Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science conference (MAICS-2006).
Program Committee Member: 3rd Mid-South College Computing Conference (2005).
Program Committee Member: 16th Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science conference (MAICS-2005).
Program Committee Member: 15th Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science conference (MAICS-2004).
Program Committee Member: 14th Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science conference (MAICS-2003).
Program Chair: 13th Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science conference (MAICS-2002), Chicago, Illinois.
Program Committee Member: The Fifth Symposium on Natural Language Processing 2002 and Oriental COCOSDA Workshop 2002
Program Committee Member: The Fifth Symposium on Natural Language Processing 2002 and Oriental COCOSDA Workshop 2002.
Program Committee Member: 12th Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science conference (MAICS-2001).
Program Committee Member: 11th Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science conference (MAICS-2000).

GRANTS - PI: Sumali Conlon

“Retrieving Correct Web Documents Using Syntactic and Semantic Analysis,” Faculty Research Program, University of Mississippi, 2003, $5000.00.
"Automatic web searching and categorizing using query expansion and focusing," Navy Personnel Research Studies and Technology Program (The Office of Naval Research), 2001, $68,000.
"Improving Internet/Intranet Search Using Linguistic Analysis," Navy Personnel Research Studies and Technology Program (The Office of Naval Research), 2000, $30,000.
Hearin Foundation, 2000, $15,500.
Summer Research Grant, University of Mississippi, 1990, $3000.
Partners' grant, University of Mississippi, 1992, $700.
Partners' grant, University of Mississippi, 1993, $990.
Summer Research Grant, University of Mississippi, 1994, $3000.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Association for Information Systems (AIS)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Decision Sciences Institute (DSI)