Sotabase

Career

· Director of Human Language Technology program, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)2005–2013
· Teacher, Boston University
· Founding Director of the Center for Research on Information Access, Columbia University
· Teacher, Columbia University
· Teacher, CUNY-Graduate Center
· Career Advisor / Consultant, Dr. Judith Klavans Consulting
· Teacher, Government training centers
· Research Scientist and Member of Technical Staff, IBM
· Post-doctoral study in Computer and Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
· Teacher, SUNY-Buffalo
· Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of London
· Teacher, University of London
· Director of Text, Tags and Trust group, University of Maryland
· Teacher, University of Maryland

Publications (150)

A Procedure for Quantitatively Comparing the Syntactic Coverage of English Grammars
Human Language Technology - The Baltic Perspectiv · 1991
573
cited
Tracking and summarizing news on a daily basis with Columbia's Newsblaster
2002
318
cited
THE INDEPENDENCE OF SYNTAX AND PHONOLOGY IN CLITICIZATION
1985
282
cited
Towards Multidocument Summarization by Reformulation: Progress and Prospects
AAAI/IAAI · 1999
246
cited
Detecting Text Similarity over Short Passages: Exploring Linguistic Feature Combinations via Machine Learning
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 1999
234
cited
SIMFINDER: A Flexible Clustering Tool for Summarization
2001
226
cited
Linear Segmentation and Segment Significance
VLC@COLING/ACL · 1998
130
cited
Rapid understanding of scientific paper collections: Integrating statistics, text analytics, and visualization
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. · 2012
128
cited
Tools and Methods for Computational Linguistics
International Conference on Computational Logic · 1987
123
cited
Expansion of Multi-Word Terms for Indexing and Retrieval Using Morphology and Syntax
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 1997
103
cited
The Balancing Act: Combining Symbolic and Statistical Approaches to Language
1996
101
cited
Role of Verbs in Document Analysis
International Conference on Computational Linguistics · 1998
95
cited
Some Problems In A Theory Of Clitics
1982
95
cited
Columbia Newsblaster: Multilingual News Summarization on the Web
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2004
88
cited
A Method for Automatically Building and Evaluating Dictionary Resources
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation · 2002
85
cited
Customization in a unified framework for summarizing medical literature
Artif. Intell. Medicine · 2005
84
cited
PERSIVAL, a system for personalized search and summarization over multimedia healthcare information
ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries · 2001
78
cited
Evaluation of the DEFINDER system for fully automatic glossary construction
American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium · 2001
74
cited
Combining linguistic and machine learning techniques for email summarization
Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning · 2001
70
cited
DEFINDER: Rule-based Methods for the Extraction of Medical Terminology and their Associated Definitions from On-line Text
American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium · 2000
65
cited
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