Andrew Hazen Schlaikjer
Contact Info
| Email Address | my middle name @cs.cmu.edu |
| Mailing Address |
Language Technologies Institute Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 |
| Office | Newell-Simon Hall 4533 |
| Work phone | (412) 268-9515 |
Synopsis
In the Fall of 2004 I became a Ph.D. student at the Language Technologies Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to this, I had been working at Columbia University with the NLP Group's AQUAINT project team, conducting research in Question Answering (QA) with emphasis on Definitional QA and Summarization.
Here at the LTI I've been involved with the JAVELIN Question Answering project and efforts to use shallow semantic representations of text to facilitate Relational QA. I have also contributed to some of the department's other large research projects.
These days, my interests revolve around Information Extraction tasks which benefit other technologies such as Information Retrieval and Question Answering. Specifically, I'm investigating various forms of Coreference (see also Anaphora), along with statistical modeling techniques to extract relationships between phrases in natural language text.