Workshop on Computer-Based Text Coding

Below is more information about each our our speakers attending the conference.

Eduard Hovy leads the Natural Language Research Group at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California. He is also Deputy Director of the Intelligent Systems Division, as well as a research associate professor of the Computer Science Department of USC and Advisory Professor of the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. His research focuses on information extraction, automated text summarization, the semi-automated construction of large lexicons and ontologies, machine translation, question answering, and digital government. Dr Hovy regularly serves in an advisory capacity to funders of Natural Language Processing research in the US and EU.

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Jamie Callan is a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon's Language Technologies Institute. Dr. Callan's research focuses on information retrieval, primarily algorithms for full-text search, federated search of independent search engines, information organization, text mining, and computer-assisted language learning. He is currently Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI on several National Science Foundation, industrial, and U.S. Department of Education (Institute of Education Sciences) grants, and author of over 100 scientific papers. Dr. Callan is also one of the creators of the Lemur Toolkit, an open-source software suite of search engines and related applications.

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Steve Purpura's recent academic research activities are related to creation of software tools which assist in identifying and understanding the use of language patterns within political communication and the subsequent impact on campaign strategies and elections. In addition to his work as a Visiting Fellow at the Program for Networked Governance at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, Stephen is a 15 year veteran of the software development industry. His past projects include Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, and TransPoint (now CheckFree Internet Bill Payment and Delivery). He now works with emerging technology companies in Seattle and Boston, and is scheduled to enroll in Cornell's Information Science PhD program in the fall of 2007.

Stuart Shulman is Director of the Sara Fine Institute in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also the founder and Director of the Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP) at University of Pittsburgh Center for Social and Urban Research, a fee-for-service coding lab working on projects funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, DARPA, and other funding agencies. Dr. Shulman has been Principal Investigator on related National Science Foundation-funded research projects focusing on electronic rulemaking, human language technologies, coding across the disciplines, digital citizenship, and service-learning efforts in the United States.

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Burt Monroe is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Quantitative Social Science Initiative at Penn State. His research focuses on comparative politics, with particular emphasis on the role of electoral and legislative institutions in democratic representation, and on political methodology, with particular emphasis on Bayesian analysis, statistical learning, and statistical graphics. He is currently Principal Investigator of the Dynamics of Political Rhetoric and Political Representation project funded by the National Science Foundation. This is a collaborative project among political scientists and computational linguists developing and analyzing new corpora based on records of parliamentary and similar political speech.