Sid, Its been a pleasure to have started grad studies and computational linguistics with you. I've already congratulated you on your successful defense and for bagging a great job. Heres wishing you the very best for this new position. It sounds like a lot of fun!
-Saif PS: Glad you are moving close to the northern border :) --- In [email protected], Siddharth Patwardhan <s...@...> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I haven't been active on this list for quite a while. I'd like to first > introduce myself to Ted's new students. Several years back, I was Ted's > student at UMD, working on my MS thesis research in NLP -- specifically, > word sense disambiguation and semantic relatedness of words and > concepts. Since graduating from UMD, I have been pursuing at PhD at the > University of Utah under the guidance of Dr. Ellen Riloff. I have > continued to lurk on this list over the years, and have followed > various discussions and achievements of students in this group. > Occasionally, I send updates to Ted, and I thought I'd share this latest > piece of news with the group as well: > > I am happy to report that I successfully defended my PhD dissertation > last week. I've been working on event-based information from text, and > for my dissertation research I devised an approach based on "event > recognition" for improving information extraction accuracy. I am still > in the process of finalizing my dissertation, and I will be sure to send > a link to the dissertation on this list once I have it done. > > I would like to express my gratitude to many of you in the NLP group at > UMD for your support through this process. I would like especially thank > Ted, Bano, Saif, Bridget and Amruta... you all have been extremely > supportive, and I am very grateful for your support! > > In other related news, I just accepted an offer of employment at the IBM > T. J. Watson Research Center as a post-doctoral research associate. I > will be working on the Jeopardy challenge: > > http://www.research.ibm.com/deepqa/index.shtml > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/technology/27jeopardy.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=ibm%20jeopardy%20challenge&st=cse > > I will be starting work at IBM in the first week of October, and I'm > looking forward to it. I remember there was some discussion about the > Jeopardy challenge on this list a few months back. I will keep you all > updated on the progress on this and on the DeepQA project. > > Hope to see you all soon. > > -- Sid. >
