Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Ph.D., University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, 1994
Professor Riloff
joined the department in 1994. Her research interests are in natural
language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
She is particularly interested in techniques for automatically
generating dictionaries and knowledge bases for natural language
processing. Most of her work revolves around the task of
information extraction, which involves extracting information from
text. The NLP research group at Utah has built its own NLP system
called Sundance, which is a partial parser that activates and
instantiates case frames for information extraction. Current research
projects include bootstrapping techniques for learning extraction
patterns, corpus-based techniques for learning semantic dictionaries,
and corpus-based methods for coreference resolution.
