Eric Nyberg
Professor

Language Technologies Institute
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Office: NSH 4627
Phone: (412) 268-7281
ehn AT cs DOT cmu DOT edu
 

Roles

Fall Courses

Spring Courses

Current Projects
  • OAQA: The Open Advancement of Question Answering

    OAQA is primarily a software engineering approach to building QA systems. It combines an object-oriented software architecture with comprehensive metrics, measurement and error analysis at the system and module levels, thus facilitating rapid development of effective applications for new QA tasks. OAQA also defines challenge problems which require different levels of performance along dimensions such as real-time speed, answer accuracy, answer confidence, etc. [ more info ]

    CMU has been collaborating with the DeepQA Group     at IBM to develop an open-source framework for OAQA, implemented in Java. To date, that framework has been used to build systems for the TREC challenge problem and the Jeopardy! challenge problem.

    Details of the challenge problems can be found in the OAQA white paper; more information about the Jeopardy! challenge can be found in IBM's press release and a related New York Times article.

Past/Ongoing Projects

  • JAVELIN: Open-domain Question Answering
  • UCR: The UIMA Component Repository
  • RADAR: Reflective Agent with Distributed Adaptive Reasoning
  • CAMMIA: Dialog Management for Mobile Information Access
  • HALO: Building a Digital Aristotle
  • KANT: Knowledge-based Machine Translation
  • IIM: Visual Programming for Information Management
  • U.S. Patents issued for past work on Controlled Language,
    Machine Translation, and Assistive Technology

Fun Stuff

Last Updated 28-Apr-09