Dragomir R. Radev
Encyclopedia
Dragomir R. Radev is a University of Michigan
computer science professor working on natural language processing
and information retrieval
.
He is currently working on the fields of open domain question answering
, multi-document summarization
, and the application of NLP in Bioinformatics and Political Science.
Radev received his PhD in Computer Science
from Columbia University
in 1999. He is the secretary of http://www.aclweb.orgACL
] (2006–present) and associate editor of JAIR.
2011 Linguistics, Language and the Public Award. He is the Co-winner of the Gosnell Prize (2006).
to several gold medals http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112073http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=109891.
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
computer science professor working on 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 information retrieval
Information retrieval
Information retrieval is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching structured storage, relational databases, and the World Wide Web...
.
He is currently working on the fields of open domain question answering
Question answering
In information retrieval and natural language processing , question answering is the task of automatically answering a question posed in natural language...
, multi-document summarization
Multi-document summarization
Multi-document summarization is an automatic procedure aimed at extraction of information from multiple texts written about the same topic. Resulting summary report allows individual users, so as professional information consumers, to quickly familiarize themselves with information contained in a...
, and the application of NLP in Bioinformatics and Political Science.
Radev received his PhD in Computer Science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
in 1999. He is the secretary of http://www.aclweb.orgACL
Association for Computational Linguistics
The Association for Computational Linguistics is the international scientific and professional society for people working on problems involving natural language and computation. An annual meeting is held each summer in locations where significant computational linguistics research is carried out...
] (2006–present) and associate editor of JAIR.
Awards
As NACLO founder, Radev shared the Linguistic Society of AmericaLinguistic Society of America
The Linguistic Society of America is a professional society for linguists. It was founded in 1924 to advance linguistics, the scientific study of human language. The LSA has over 5,000 individual members and welcomes linguists of all kinds. It works to advance the discipline and to communicate...
2011 Linguistics, Language and the Public Award. He is the Co-winner of the Gosnell Prize (2006).
ILO
Radev has served as the coach and led the US national team in the International Linguistics Olympiad (ILO)International Linguistics Olympiad
The International Linguistics Olympiad is one of the newest in a group of twelve International Science Olympiads. The setup differs from other science olympiads, in that the program contains both individual and team contests...
to several gold medals http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112073http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=109891.
Books
- Mihalcea and Radev (2011) Graph-based methods for NLP and IR
Selected Papers
- SIGIR 1995 Generating summaries of multiple news articles
- ANLP 1997 Building a generation knowledge source using internet-accessible newswire
- Computational Linguistics 1998 Generating natural language summaries from multiple on-line sources
- ACL 1998 Learning correlations between linguistic indicators and semantic constraints: Reuse of context dependent descriptions of entities
- ANLP 2000 Ranking suspected answers to natural language questions using predictive annotation
- CIKM 2001 Mining the web for answers to natural language questions
- AAAI 2002 Towards CST-enhanced summarization
- ACL 2003 Evaluation challenges in large-scale multi-document summarization: the Mead project
- Information Processing and Management 2004 Centroid-based summarization of multiple documents
- J. of Artificial Intelligence Research 2004 LexRank: Graph-based lexical centrality as salience in text summarization
- J. of the American Association of Information Science and Technology 2005 Probabilistic question answering on the web
- Communications of the ACM 2005 NewsInEssence: summarizing online news topics
- EMNLP 2007 Semi-supervised classification for extracting protein interaction sentences using dependency parsing
- Bioinformatics 2008 Identifying gene-disease associations using centrality on a literature mined gene-interaction network
- IEEE Intelligent Systems 2008 natural language processing and the web
- NAACL 2009 Generating surveys of scientific paradigms
- Nucleic Acids Research 2009 Michigan molecular interactions r2: from interacting proteins to pathways
- J. of the American Association of Information Science and Technology 2009 Visual overviews for discovering key papers and influences across research fronts
- KDD 2010 Divrank: the interplay of prestige and diversity in information networks
- American J. of Political Science 2010 How to Analyze Political Attention with Minimal Assumptions and Costs
- Arxiv 2011 The effect of linguistic constraints on the large scale organization of language
- J. of Biomedical Semantics 2011 Mining of vaccine-associated ifn-gamma gene interaction networks using the vaccine ontology