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Career

· Google Maps Disability Inclusion Lead, Google2014–
· Maps Accessibility and Disability Inclusion Features Lead, Google2014–
· Software Engineer, Google2007–2014
· PhD in Computer Science, Columbia University2002–2006
· MS in Computer Science, University of Michigan2000–2001
· Bachelor of Arts - BA, Amherst College1994–1998

Publications (28)

Building a Sentiment Summarizer for Local Service Reviews
2008
451
cited
MEAD - A Platform for Multidocument Multilingual Text Summarization
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation · 2004
405
cited
The viability of web-derived polarity lexicons
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2010
242
cited
Experiments in Single and Multi-Document Summarization Using MEAD
2001
179
cited
Sentiment Summarization: Evaluating and Learning User Preferences
Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2009
154
cited
NewsInEssence
Communications of the ACM · 2005
127
cited
Mining the web for answers to natural language questions
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management · 2001
99
cited
NewsInEssence: A System For Domain-Independent, Real-Time News Clustering and Multi-Document Summarization
Human Language Technology - The Baltic Perspectiv · 2001
99
cited
Towards CST-enhanced summarization
AAAI/IAAI · 2002
82
cited
Answering Definitional Questions: A Hybrid Approach
New Directions in Question Answering · 2004
62
cited
A Hybrid Approach for QA Track Definitional Questions
Text Retrieval Conference · 2003
47
cited
Columbia University at DUC 2004
2004
44
cited
IBM's PIQUANT II in TREC 2004
Text Retrieval Conference · 2004
41
cited
Building and Refining Rhetorical-Semantic Relation Models
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2007
38
cited
Interactive, Domain-Independent Identification and Summarization of Topically Related News Articles
European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries · 2001
30
cited
A Hybrid Approach for Answering Definitional Questions
2003
28
cited
Integrating Rhetorical-Semantic Relation Models for Query-Focused Summarization
2006
27
cited
The Columbia Multi-Document Summarizer for DUC 2002
2002
19
cited
DefScriber: a hybrid system for definitional QA
Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval · 2003
12
cited
Long-answer question answering and rhetorical-semantic relations
2007
12
cited
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