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Career

· Founding Director, Data Science Institute, Columbia University2012–2017
· Vice Dean for Research, Columbia University2010–2012
· Department Chair, Computer Science, Columbia University1998–2003
· Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University1982–
· Ph.D. in Computer Science and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania1979–1982
· MS in Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania1977–1979
· AB in Comparative Literature, Brown University1972–1976

Publications (407)

Predicting the Semantic Orientation of Adjectives
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 1997
2,114
cited
Text generation: using discourse strategies and focus constraints to generate natural language text
1985
787
cited
Benchmarking Large Language Models for News Summarization
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2023
685
cited
A Survey of Text Summarization Techniques
Mining Text Data · 2012
607
cited
Introduction to the Special Issue on Summarization
International Conference on Computational Logic · 2002
592
cited
Translating Collocations for Bilingual Lexicons: A Statistical Approach
International Conference on Computational Logic · 1996
581
cited
Extracting Paraphrases from a Parallel Corpus
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2001
554
cited
Information Fusion in the Context of Multi-Document Summarization
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 1999
487
cited
Generating Natural Language Summaries from Multiple On-Line Sources
International Conference on Computational Logic · 1998
485
cited
Sentence Fusion for Multidocument News Summarization
International Conference on Computational Logic · 2005
475
cited
Generating summaries of multiple news articles
Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval · 1995
416
cited
Discourse Segmentation of Multi-Party Conversation
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2003
415
cited
Inferring Strategies for Sentence Ordering in Multidocument News Summarization
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research · 2002
380
cited
Extracting Social Networks from Literary Fiction
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2010
367
cited
Tracking and summarizing news on a daily basis with Columbia's Newsblaster
2002
318
cited
The Pyramid Method: Incorporating human content selection variation in summarization evaluation
TSLP · 2007
301
cited
Discourse Strategies for Generating Natural-Language Text
Artificial Intelligence · 1985
288
cited
Cut and Paste Based Text Summarization
Applied Natural Language Processing Conference · 2000
271
cited
Automating the generation of coordinated multimedia explanations
Computer · 1991
262
cited
A compositional context sensitive multi-document summarizer: exploring the factors that influence summarization
Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval · 2006
261
cited
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