Hi Sid, This is Ying. I started my postdoc with Ted and Serguei on Sept.1. Although it's just short 20 days, I have liked linguistics. Congratulations for your graduation and new job at IBM! Your 2003's mater thesis is in my bag :-)
-Ying uvgotsaif wrote: > > > > 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] <mailto:nlpatumd%40yahoogroups.com>, > 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.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 > > <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. > > > >
