Shay Cohen Graduate Student Language Technologies Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University

Contact Information scohen [strudel] cs.cmu.edu 5719 Gates Hillman Center About Me I am a graduate student interested in computational linguistics (and specifically, statistical parsing) and machine learning. My advisor is Noah Smith and our group's page can be found here. Before coming to CMU, I completed a bachelor's degree (mathematics and computer science) and a master's degree (computer science) in Tel-Aviv University. Publications Variational Inference for Grammar Induction with Prior Knowledge, Shay B. Cohen and Noah A. Smith, In ACL 2009 (short paper track)[pdf] Shared Logistic Normal Distributions for Soft Parameter Tying in Unsupervised Grammar Induction, Shay B. Cohen and Noah A. Smith, In NAACL 2009 [pdf] The Shared Logistic Normal Distribution for Grammar Induction, Shay B. Cohen and Noah A. Smith, In NIPS Workshop on Speech and Language: Unsupervised Latent-Variable Models, 2008 [pdf] Logistic Normal Priors for Unsupervised Probabilistic Grammar Induction, Shay B. Cohen, Kevin Gimpel and Noah A. Smith, In NIPS 2008 [pdf] [code] Dynamic Programming Algorithms as Products of Weighted Logic Programs, Shay B. Cohen, Robert J. Simmons and Noah A. Smith, In ICLP 2008 (best student paper award) [springer] [tech-report] Joint Morphological and Syntactic Disambiguation, Shay B. Cohen and Noah A. Smith, In EMNLP 2007 [pdf] Feature Selection Via Coalitional Game Theory, Shay B. Cohen, Gideon Dror and Eytan Ruppin, In Neural Computation 19:7, 2007 [pdf] Feature Selection Based on the Shapley Value, Shay B. Cohen, Gideon Dror and Eytan Ruppin, In IJCAI 2005 [pdf] Technical Reports and Others Products of Weighted Logic Programs, Shay B. Cohen, Robert J. Simmons and Noah A. Smith, Technical Report, CMU-LTI-08-009 [pdf] Teaching During Fall 2009, I am the teaching assistant for 10-701 - Machine Learning. During Spring 2009, I was the teaching assistant for 11-411 - Natural Language Processing. Software dageem - code for unsupervised grammar induction using logistic normal prior Last modified: January, 2009.