Jaime Carbonell
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Jaime G. Carbonell is Allen Newell
Professor of Computer Science
and the director of the Language Technologies Institute
at Carnegie Mellon University
.
He earned his B.S. degrees in Physics
and in Mathematics
from MIT in 1975 and his Ph.D.
under Dr. Roger Schank
at Yale University
in 1979.
His interests span several areas of Artificial Intelligence
, Language technologies and Machine Learning
. In particular, his research is focused on areas such as text mining
(extraction, categorization, novelty detection) and in new theoretical frameworks such as a unified utility-based theory bridging information retrieval
, summarization
, free-text question-answering
and related tasks. He also works on Machine Translation
, both high-accuracy knowledge-based MT and machine learning for corpus-based MT
(such as generalized example-based MT
).
Allen Newell
Allen Newell was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department of Psychology...
Professor of Computer Science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
and the director of the Language Technologies Institute
Language Technologies Institute
The Language Technologies Institute is a division of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, and focuses on the area of language technologies....
at Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
.
He earned his B.S. degrees in Physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
and in Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
from MIT in 1975 and his Ph.D.
Ph.D.
A Ph.D. is a Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree.Ph.D. may also refer to:* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip*PhD: Phantasy Degree, a Korean comic series* PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...
under Dr. Roger Schank
Roger Schank
Roger Schank is an American artificial intelligence theorist, cognitive psychologist, learning scientist, educational reformer, and entrepreneur.-Academic career:...
at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
in 1979.
His interests span several areas of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
, Language technologies and Machine Learning
Machine learning
Machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is a scientific discipline concerned with the design and development of algorithms that allow computers to evolve behaviors based on empirical data, such as from sensor data or databases...
. In particular, his research is focused on areas such as text mining
Text mining
Text mining, sometimes alternately referred to as text data mining, roughly equivalent to text analytics, refers to the process of deriving high-quality information from text. High-quality information is typically derived through the devising of patterns and trends through means such as...
(extraction, categorization, novelty detection) and in new theoretical frameworks such as a unified utility-based theory bridging information retrieval
Information retrieval
Information retrieval is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching structured storage, relational databases, and the World Wide Web...
, summarization
Automatic summarization
Automatic summarization is the creation of a shortened version of a text by a computer program. The product of this procedure still contains the most important points of the original text....
, free-text question-answering
Question answering
In information retrieval and natural language processing , question answering is the task of automatically answering a question posed in natural language...
and related tasks. He also works on Machine Translation
Machine translation
Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another.On a basic...
, both high-accuracy knowledge-based MT and machine learning for corpus-based MT
Statistical machine translation
Statistical machine translation is a machine translation paradigm where translations are generated on the basis of statistical models whose parameters are derived from the analysis of bilingual text corpora...
(such as generalized example-based MT
Example-based machine translation
The example-based machine translation approach to machine translation is often characterized by its use of a bilingual corpus with parallel texts as its main knowledge base, at run-time...
).