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Alan RitterAssistant ProfessorComputer Science and Engineering The Ohio State University Office: 595 Dreese Lab Email: ritter.1492@osu.edu Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=unXtH3IAAAAJ Semantic Scholar: https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Alan-Ritter/4655992 Follow @alan_ritter Much of human knowledge is encoded in text. Broadly I am interested in getting computers to better understand natural language. My research uses machine learning to extract knowledge from large heterogeneous corpora, for example, Twitter and the Web. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon. Prospective Students: I am looking to hire one or two PhD students per year. I am also happy to work with masters or undergraduate students who are intersted in research opportunities in natural language processing and machine learning. To learn more about how to join my group, please read this note to prospective students. |
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Teaching:
- CSE 5525: Speech and Language Processing (8172/8182) (Spring 2018)
- CSE 5523: Machine Learning and Statistical Pattern Recognition (Fall 2018)
- CSE 5539: Social Media and Text Analytics (Spring 2018)
- CSE 5522: Survey of Artificial Intelligence II: Advanced Techniques (Fall 2017)
- CSE 5523: Machine Learning and Statistical Pattern Recognition (Spring 2017)
- CSE 5525: Speech and Language Processing (Spring 2016)
- CSE 5539: Web Information Extraction (Fall 2015)
- CSE 5522: Survey of Artificial Intelligence II: Advanced Techniques (Spring 2015)
- CSE 5539: NLP and IE for the Social Web (Fall 2014)
Students:
- Ashutosh Baheti
- Fan Bai
- Chaitanya Kulkarni (co-advised with Raghu Machiraju)
- Jeniya Tabassum
- Shi Zong
Alumni:
- Sandesh Swamy (MS, Research Engineer, Amazon Alexa)
Recent Activities:
- Paper on Incorporating Distributional Constraints in Neural Conversation Models accepted to EMNLP 2018. Congrats to Ashutosh!
- 4th Workshop on NLP in noisy user-generated text (W-NUT) at EMNLP 2018. Consider submitting an abstract or paper!
- Area chair, EMNLP 2018, Text Mining and Information Retrieval
- 6/2018 Assistant and Dialogue Workshop, Google
- 5/2018 Speaking at the Stanford NLP Seminar
- 12/2017, Talk at NIPS workshop on Learning with Limited Labeled Data
- Area chair, NAACL 2018, Social Media Analysis and Computational Social Science
- 7/2017 Interview on Data-Driven Conversational Agents
- 7/2017 Talk at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit
- 7/2017 Talk at Google Natural Language Understanding Workshop
- 6/2017 Speaking at the Midwest ML Symposium
- NLP Speaker Series at OSU.
- Area chair, EMNLP 2016, Information Extraction, Information Retrieval and Question Answering.
- Visiting researcher, Microsoft Research NLP Group August 2015.
- Talk at CMU.
- Area chair, NAACL 2015, Information Extraction and Question Answering.
- Area chair, ACL 2014, NLP for the Web and Social Media.