Congratulations Jason :) On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, ted pedersen wrote:
> > I am pleased to report that Jason has submitted the final version > of his thesis, entitled "Semantic Relatedness Applied to All Words > Sense Disambiguation". You can find that online here: > > http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/Pubs/jason-thesis.pdf > > Jason is now officially graduated (yippee!). Before he moves on it > seems appropriate to mention his very significant accomplishments, > most of which involved WordNet-Similarity, which as you may know > may be our most widely used tool in the NLP community. Jason spent > much of 2003-2004 engaged in an overhaul of the internals of > WordNet-Similarity, which I know was very taxing work at times, > and certainly a bit tedious as well (especially when I got into > one of my "why is the semi-colon here and not there" moods, which > happens more often than I'll care to admit). > > In addition to re-engineering the package, he also arrived at a very > principled way of handling strange situations like multiple inheritance, > which have largely been ignored in previous discussion of the measures we > support. > > In 2004-2005 the mission was to use WordNet-Similarity, and Jason > arrived at a method of all words disambiguation which includes > a number of very nice features. This was always the missing link in our > tool set here - we have many many methods for lexical sample > disambiguation, but until this work we had nothing for all words. > That hole has been plugged now, and I am getting reports from the field > that this method is catching on and attracting users. > > In short, Jason accomplished a lot in two years, and his work here has > clearly had an impact on users around the world. That's a rather good > legacy I think. :) > > Congratulations! > Ted > > -- > Ted Pedersen > http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nlpatumd/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
