Raluca Budiu

Raluca Budiu

About me

I am a User Experience Researcher working as an Excell Data contractor in the MSN User Experience group at Microsoft. Previously I was a researcher at Palo Alto Research Center, working in the Augmented Social Cognition Group. I got my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.  Then I was a postdoc in the Department of Psychology at CMU, working with John Anderson in the ACT-R group. My home country is Romania.


Selected Publications

Raluca Budiu, Peter Pirolli, Lichan Hong (submitted).
Rememberance of things tagged: How tagging affects human information processing.
Lichan Hong, Ed Chi, Raluca Budiu, Peter Pirolli, Les Nelson (2008).
SparTag.us: A low cost tagging system for foraging of web content.
Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI'08), Naples, Italy, 2008.
Raluca Budiu, Peter Pirolli (2007),
Modeling navigation in degree-of-interest trees. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Conference, Nashville, TN, August 2007.
Raluca Budiu, Christiaan Royer, Peter Pirolli (2007),
Modeling information scent: A comparison of LSA, PMI and GLSA similarity measures on common tests and corpora. Proceedings of RIAO'07 Pittsburgh, PA, May 2007.
Raluca Budiu, Peter Pirolli, Michael Fleetwood, Julie Heiser (2006),
Navigation in degree-of-interest trees. Proceedings of the Advanced Visual Interfaces Conference (AVI), Venice, Italy, May 2006.
Raluca Budiu, John R. Anderson (2006).
Word learning in context --- Metaphors and neologisms. In M. A. Vanchevsky (ed.). Focus on cognitive psychology reseach. Nova Science Publishers, NY: Hauppage.
Raluca Budiu, John R. Anderson (2005).
Negation in non-literal sentences. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy, July 2005.
Raluca Budiu, John R. Anderson (2004).
Interpretation-based processing: A unified theory of semantic sentence comprehension. Cognitive Science, 28, pp. 1-44. [abstract] [pdf]
Raluca Budiu, John R. Anderson (2003).
Verification of Sentences Containing Anaphoric Metaphors. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Bamberg, Germany, April 2003. [abstract] [pdf]
Raluca Budiu, John R. Anderson (2002).
Comprehending Anaphoric Metaphors. Memory & Cognition, 30, pp. 158-165. [abstract] [pdf]
Raluca Budiu (2001).
The Role of Background Knowledge in Sentence Processing. Doctoral Dissertation, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. (Available as Technical Report No. CMU-CS-O1-148.) [abstract] [pdf] [defense slides]
John R. Anderson,  Raluca Budiu,  Lynne M. Reder (2001).
A Theory of Sentence Memory as Part of A General Theory of Memory, Journal of Memory and Language, 45, pp. 337-367. [abstract] [pdf]
Raluca Budiu,  John R. Anderson (2000).
Integration of Background Knowledge in Sentence Processing: A Unified Theory of Metaphor Understanding, Semantic Illusions and Text Memory. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Groningen, Netherlands, pp. 50-57. [abstract] [pdf] A more detailed variant of this paper is included in my thesis proposal. [pdf] [proposal slides]


Surveys

Some time ago I wrote two surveys about metaphor comprehension and about learning new words from context.


Personal

Matei Budiu

Mihai Budiu


Contact Information

Raluca Budiu
Email: raluca at alumni dot cmu dot edu


raluca at alumni dot cmu dot edu