Who I am
I am an assistant professor in the iSchool at the University of Maryland, College Park.
I joined the faculty in August 2004, shortly after completing my
Ph.D. in Computer Science at MIT. I'm affiliated with a number
of other organizations:
What I work on
- I primarily work at the intersection of natural language
processing and information retrieval. A lot of my research focuses
on question answering (QA), where the goal is to develop systems
that return "answers", not merely "hits".
- A lot of my research is in the clinical and biomedical domain,
given my affiliation with the National Library of Medicine.
- I'm also interested in issues related to information-seeking
behavior and interactive retrieval systems.
- My Ph.D. thesis
was in theoretical linguistics (minimalist syntax).
My research
My teaching
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