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 | Hillman 6411 |
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.
In Spring and Fall of 2007 I looked at ways in which an open-domain speech transcription task might support an audio-based CAPTCHA or reCAPTCHA. To facilitate this work I conducted a user study to develop a corpus of human transcriptions of short audio clips containing speech. See the tech report for details.
My research interests revolve around the fields of Information Extraction and Information Retrieval. Take a look at my CiteULike library for a list of publications I'm interested in.