Assistant Professor, School of Computing
Ph.D., University of
Texas, 1998
Professor Thompson joined the faculty in
2000. Her research interests are in machine learning, natural
language processing, and artificial intelligence. She is especially
interested in applying machine learning to complex, relational tasks
such as language processing and adaptive interfaces. After receiving
her Ph.D., she spent two years at the Center for the Study of Language
and Information at Stanford University, building and studying
conversational interfaces that adapt themselves over the course of
several interactions with a user.
- Mehmet Goker and Cynthia Thompson, ``The Adaptive Place Advisor:
A Conversational Recommendation System,'' Proceedings of the 8th
German Workshop on Case Based Reasoning, Lammerbuckel, Germany, March
2000.
- Cynthia A. Thompson, Mary Elaine Califf, and Raymond J. Mooney,
``Active Learning for Natural Language Parsing and Information
Extraction,'' Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Machine
Learning Conference, Bled, Slovenia, June 1999. (ICML-99)
- Cynthia A. Thompson and Raymond J. Mooney, ``Automatic Construction of
Semantic Lexicons for Learning Natural Language Interfaces,''
Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, Orlando, FL, July, 1999. (AAAI-99)
- Cynthia A. Thompson and Raymond J. Mooney, ``Inductive Learning
For Abductive Diagnosis,'' Proceedings of the Twelfth National
Conference on AI, Seattle, WA, July 1994. (AAAI-94)