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Received October 15, 2003; accepted for publication Januajy 6, 2004

Sougata Mukherjea IBM Research Division, IBM India Research Laboratory, Block I, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hanz Khas, New Delhi 110016 (smukherj@in.ibm.com). Dr. Mukherjca is a Research Staff Member in the IBM India Research Laboratory. He received his bachelor's degree from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, his M.S. degree from Northeastern University, Boston, and his Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (all in computer science). Before joining IBM, he held research and software architect positions in Silicon Valley companies including NEC USA, BEA Systems, and Verity. His research interests include information visualization and retrieval and applications of text mining in areas such as Web search and bioinformatics.

L. Venkata Subramaniam IBM Research Division, IBM India Research Laboratory, Block I, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 (lvsubram@in.ibm.com). Dr. Subramaniam has been a Research Staff Member in the IBM India Research Laboratory since 1998. He received his bachelor's degree in electronics and communication engineering from the P. E. S. College of Engineering, his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Washington University, St. Louis, and his Ph.D. degree in electronics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. His research interests include unstructured information management, statistical natural language processing, machine learning, text mining, and the application of these technologies.