Andrew Carlson

I am a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University in the Machine Learning Department, within the School of Computer Science. My advisor is Tom Mitchell. My research focuses on mining unstructured data (e.g. personal workstations, the Web) for information. I am particularly interested in building large-scale, minimally-supervised information extraction systems.

I am thankful for support from Yahoo! for my research in 2007-2009 through the PhD Student Fellowship Program. I will be interning with Yahoo! this coming summer.

I spent the summer of 2007 working at Google here in Pittsburgh. A publication from that work is in submission.

In the summer of 2006, I coordinated a reading group on semi-supervised natural language learning research.

Previously, I attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I received a B.S. in Computer Science. I researched machine learning applied to natural language under Professor Dan Roth, as part of the Cognitive Computation Group. I also released and maintained the SNoW software package.

Publications

• M. Palatucci and A. Carlson (2008). "On the Chance Accuracies of Large Collections of Classifiers," In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Jul 5-9, 2008, Helsinki, Finland.
• A. Carlson and I. Fette (2007). "Memory-Based Context-Sensitive Spelling Correction at Web Scale," In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), Dec 13-15, 2007, Cincinatti, OH.
• A. Carlson, J. Rosen, and D. Roth (2001). "Scaling Up Context Sensitive Text Correction," In Proceedings of the The Thirteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI), Aug 7-9, 2001, Seattle, WA.
• A. Carlson, C. Cumby, J. Rosen, and D. Roth (1999). "The SNoW Learning Architecture," Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-99-2101, UIUC Computer Science Department, May, 1999.

Contact Information

• office: Wean Hall 8201
  
• email: acarlson AT cs.cmu.edu
  
• CMU address:
  Andrew Carlson
  Machine Learning Department
  School of Computer Science
  Carnegie Mellon University
  5000 Forbes Avenue
  Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891