Boris Katz
Encyclopedia
Boris Katz is a Principal Research Scientist (computer scientist
) at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
and head of the Laboratory's InfoLab Group. His research interests include natural language processing
and understanding, machine learning
and intelligent information access. His brother Victor Kac
is a mathematician at MIT.
He was able to get out of USSR
with the help of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy
, before the end of the cold war
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2006/10/04/clara_katz_soviet_migr_saved_ailing_granddaughter/.
Over the last several years Boris Katz has been developing the START natural language system that allows the user to access various types of information
using English
.
The goal of SHAKEN project is to enable subject matter experts, without any assistance from AI technologists, to assemble the models of processes and mechanisms so that questions about them can be answered by declarative inference and simulation.
Computer scientist
A computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application in computer systems....
) at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology formed by the 2003 merger of the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory...
and head of the Laboratory's InfoLab Group. His research interests include natural language processing
Natural language processing
Natural language processing is a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human languages; it began as a branch of artificial intelligence....
and understanding, machine learning
Machine learning
Machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is a scientific discipline concerned with the design and development of algorithms that allow computers to evolve behaviors based on empirical data, such as from sensor data or databases...
and intelligent information access. His brother Victor Kac
Victor Kac
Victor G. Kac is a Soviet and American mathematician at MIT, known for his work in representation theory. He discovered Kac–Moody algebras, and used the Weyl–Kac character formula for them to reprove the Macdonald identities...
is a mathematician at MIT.
He was able to get out of USSR
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
with the help of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy
Ted Kennedy
Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. Serving almost 47 years, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and is the fourth-longest-serving senator in United States history...
, before the end of the cold war
Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2006/10/04/clara_katz_soviet_migr_saved_ailing_granddaughter/.
Over the last several years Boris Katz has been developing the START natural language system that allows the user to access various types of information
Information
Information in its most restricted technical sense is a message or collection of messages that consists of an ordered sequence of symbols, or it is the meaning that can be interpreted from such a message or collection of messages. Information can be recorded or transmitted. It can be recorded as...
using English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
.
Past works
The goal of SHAKEN project is to enable subject matter experts, without any assistance from AI technologists, to assemble the models of processes and mechanisms so that questions about them can be answered by declarative inference and simulation.
- Exploiting lexical regularities in designing natural language systems
- Word sense disambiguation for information retrieval
- HIKE (HPKB integrated knowledge environment)- a query interface and integrated knowledge environment for HPKB
- Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering
- Sticky notes for the semantic web
- Question answering from the web using knowledge annotation and knowledge mining techniques
- The role of context in question answering systems
External links
- Boris Katz Web Page
- Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...