Calvin: "I like to verb words."
Hobbes: "What?"
Calvin: "I take nouns and adjectives and
use them
as verbs.
Remember when `access' was a thing? Now it's
something you do . It got verbed."
Calvin: "Verbing weirds language."
Hobbes: "Maybe we can eventually make
language
a complete impediment to understanding."
- Calvin & Hobbes, by Bill Watterson
Faculty
Research Projects
- Natural Language Processing
- Machine Learning
- Autonomous Systems
Primary research interests include information extraction, subjectivity analysis, sentence processing,semantic lexicon construction, and bootstrapping methods for learning from unlabeled texts.
Our research develops algorithms that learn to predict the future based on the past; specifically: structured prediction algorithms, Bayesian statistics and semi-supervised learning.
The main goals are to contribute to the understanding of human intelligence and to participate in the development of intelligent machine systems, including autonomous bio-, software and hardware systems.