Background

I am a second year masters student in the Language Technologies Institute. In Spring 2006, I earned my B.S. in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina, where I also took classes towards a minor in Linguistics. In the past I have worked on Midlands Restaurants and FreeAlert.

Research

I am currently working on recommender systems under Anthony Tomasic. Up until late 2006 I was also working with Paul Bennett, who is now with Microsoft Research. Recommender systems predict which items a user will like based on the preferences they have expressed in the past. Currently I am working in the scope of movie recommendations (predicting a user's rating for movies they have not explicitly rated).

Beginning sometime this year I will be focusing more on word sense disambiguation and human computation. This work will still be under my current advisor but in collaboration with Luis von Ahn.

Tech Reports

Jason M. Adams, Paul N. Bennett, Anthony Tomasic. Combining Personalized Agents to Improve Content-Based Recommendations. Technical Report CMU-LTI-07-015, Carnegie Mellon University, December 2007. [pdf]

Class Projects

Jason M. Adams, Abhaya Agarwal. Cognate Identification and Phylogenetic Inference: Search for a Better Past. Literature Review for Language & Statistics II. November 2007. [pdf]
Jason M. Adams, Shay Cohen, Eric Davis. Classifying Articles as Real or Fake. Class Project: Language & Statistics. May 2007. [pdf]
Jason M. Adams. A Customizable MT Evaluation Metric for Assessing Adequacy. Final Project: Machine Translation. May 2007. [pdf]
- Advised by Alon Lavie.
Jason M. Adams. A Morphological Analyzer for Old English Verbs. Lab Project: Algorithms for Natural Language Processing. May 2007. [pdf]

Classes

Carnegie Mellon University:

Spring 2008

11-722: Grammar Formalisms
11-734: Advanced Machine Translation Seminar
11-741: Information Retrieval

Fall 2007

11-762: Language and Statistics II
11-791: Software Engineering I

Spring 2007

11-712: Lab for Algorithms for NLP
11-731: Machine Translation
11-761: Language and Statistics

Fall 2006

11-711: Algorithms for Natural Language Processing
11-721: Lexicons and Grammars

University of South Carolina:
- Selected Classes [2003-2006]:
  - Cryptography [taught by Duncan Buell]
  - Computer Graphics
  - Database Systems
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Bayesian Networks and Decision Graphs
  - Syntax I (Linguistics)
  - Development of the English Language (Linguistics)

Personal

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