Jim's Group

Current

Rehan Ahmed (PhD Student, Computer Science)

Jon Cai (PhD Student, Computer Science)

Jie Cao (Postdoctoral Researcher with iSAT)

Marie Grace (PhD Student, Computer Science, co-advised with Alexis Palmer)

Maggie Perkoff (PhD Student, Computer Science, co-advised with Clayton Lewis)

Elizabeth Spaulding (PhD Student, Computer Science)

Alumni

Chelsea Chandler, Methods for Multimodal Assessment of Cognitive and Mental State, PhD, Computer Science, co-advised with Peter Foltz, 2022.

Abhijit Suresh , Automating Feedback to Improve Teachers Effective Use of Instructional Discourse in K- 12 Mathematics Classrooms, PhD, Computer Science, co-advised with Tammy Sumner, 2022.

Vivian Lai, Empowering Humans in Human-AI Decision Making, PhD, Computer Science, co-advised with Chenhao Tan, 2022.

Zijiao Yang, Multimodal Semantic Understanding: Semantic Role Labeling with Vision and Language, MS, Computer Science, 2020.

Maxwell Wenzel, Named Entity Recognition and Normalization in the Biological Domain, BS, Senior Thesis, Computer Science, 2020.

Ian Wilkins, Adaptive Image Transformation for Improved Optical Character Recognition, BS, Senior Thesis, Computer Science, 2020.

Shubha Swamy, Using Language Models to Quantify Gender Bias in Recent American Election Journalism, BS, Senior Thesis, Computer Science, 2020.

William Foland, Natural Language Understanding: Deep Learning for Abstract Meaning Representation, PhD, Computer Science, 2017.

Nicholas Dronen, Correcting Writing Errors with Convolutional Neural Networks, PhD, Computer Science, co-advised with Peter Foltz, 2016.

Adeeb Noor, Characterization of Drug-Drug Interactions through Statistical Inference and Semantic Web Technologies, PhD, Computer Science, 2015.

Ifeyinwa Okoye, Building an Educational Recommender System based on Conceptual Change Learning Theory to Improve Students’ Understanding of Science Concepts, PhD, Computer Science, co-advised with Tammy Sumner, 2013.

Franco Salvetti, Detecting Deception In Text: A Corpus-Driven Approach, PhD, Computer Science, 2012.

Greg Brown, Relation Extraction on the J.D. Power and Associates Sentiment Corpus, MS, Computer Science, 2011.

Chih How Bong, Exploring the Semantic Meaning of Constructs that Lead to Human Decisions, PhD, Computer Science, co-advised with Kai Larsen, 2011.

Philipp Wetzler, Computational Models of Quality for Educational Digital Resource Assessment, PhD, Computer Science, 2010.

Praful Mangalath, The Construction of Meaning - The Role of Context in Corpus-based Approaches to Language Modeling, PhD, Computer Science, co-advised with Walter Kintsch, 2010.

Kirill Kireyev, Application of Distributional Vector Space Models to Modeling Psycholinguistic Phenomena, PhD, Computer Science, 2010.

Brian Locke, Named Entity Recognition: Adapting to Microblogging, BS, Senior Thesis, Computer Science, 2009.

Donghun Shin, Maximum Entropy-Based Korean Word Sense Disambiguation, MS, Computer Science, 2009.

Rodney Nielsen , Learner Answer Assessment in Intelligent Tutoring Systems. PhD, Computer Science, co-advised with Wayne Ward, 2008.

Ying Chen, Robust Unsupervised Named-Entity Disambiguation, PhD, Computer Science, 2008.

Steven Bethard, Finding event, temporal and causal structure in text: A machine learning approach, PhD, Computer Science, 2007.

Ken Griest, An analysis of features used to train entity mention detection and coreference resolution classifiers, MS, Computer Science, 2007.

Scott Williams, Summaries of Wikipedia deletion discussions: a shallow semantic approach, BS, Senior Thesis, Computer Science, 2006.

Sameer Pradhan Automatic Semantic Role Labeling, PhD, Computer Science, co-advised with Wayne Ward, 2005.

Noah Coccaro, Latent Semantic Analysis as a Tool to Improve Automatic Speech Recognition Performance, PhD, Computer Science, co-advised with Dan Jurafsky, 2005

Ben Douglas, Using semantic role labeling to improve automatic question answering, MS, Computer Science, 2005.

Patrick Schone, Toward Knowledge-Free Induction of Machine-Readable Dictionaries, PhD, Computer Science, co-advised with Dan Jurafsky, 2001.

Laura Mather, Enhancing Cluster-based retrieval through linear algebra, PhD, Computer Science, 1998.

Michael Jones, Spoken Language Help for High Functionality Computer Systems, PhD, Computer Science, 1997.

Jeanine Ponzini Cook, Augmentative and Alternative Communications: A Solution to the Rate-Enhancement Problem, MS, Computer Science, 1996.

Patrick Juola, METLA: Example-Based Induction of Transfer Functions for Machine Translation, PhD, Computer Science, 1995.

Sergei Rodionov, Postdoctoral Research Associate, 1994-2000.

Keith Vander Linden Speaking of Actions: Choosing Rhetorical Status and Grammatical Form in Instructional Text Generation, PhD, Computer Science, 1993.

Jairo Munoz, Analysis of Process Variation in the Presence of Uncertainty, PhD, Mechanical Engineering, co-advised with P. Ostwald, 1993.

Jeffrey Hampton, Question-Answering in Library Information Systems, MS, Computer Science, 1993.