Faculty
- Claire Cardie, computer science
- Morten Christiansen, psychology
- Shimon Edelman, psychology
- John Hale, linguistics
- Sue Hertz, linguistics
- Thorsten Joachims, computer science
- Lillian Lee, computer science
- Mats Rooth, linguistics
Some alums (!) (first position indicated)
- Rie Johnson
(Ando), PhD 2001 → IBM
Thesis: The Document Representation Problem: An Analysis of LSI and Iterative Residual Rescaling (pdf ) - Steve Baker, BA 2003 → UCBerkeley/Google
- Regina Barzilay, postdoc 2002-2003 → MIT
- John Blitzer, 2002 BA → UPenn
- Eric Breck, PhD 2008 → Rhodes College
Thesis: empirical methods for fine-grained opinion extraction from text - Tejaswini Deoskar, PhD 2008 → University of Amsterdam
Thesis: Acquisition of probabilistic lexicons for treebank PCFGs using inside-outside estimation and lexical transformations - Amanda
Holland-Minkley, PhD 2004→ Washington and Jefferson
Thesis: Restructuring Formal Mathematics for Natural Texts (pdf) - Dan Klein, AB 1998 → Stanford
- Oren Kurland,
PhD 2006 → the Technion
Thesis: Inter-document similarities, language models, and ad hoc information retrieval (pdf) - Scott Mardis (PhD 2000 → MITRE)
- Mandar Mitra, PhD 1999 → the Indian Statistical Institute
- Vincent Ng,
PhD 2004 → UTDallas
Thesis: Improving Machine Learning Approaches to Noun Phrase Coreference Resolution - Bo Pang,
PhD 2006 → Yahoo! Research
Thesis: Automatic analysis of document sentiment - David Pierce, PhD 2002 → SUNY Buffalo
- Amit Singhal, PhD → AT&T Research (→ Google ...)
- Matt Thomas, BS 2006 → Google
- Kiri Wagstaff, PhD
2002 → JHU
Thesis: Intelligent Clustering with Instance-Level Constraints - Yuping Zhou, PhD 2008 → TextWise
Thesis: Towards a dynamic, ambiguity-rich semantics - Inspired by a corpus study on the negation~quantifier scope ambiguity.
Other Cornell alums include Sandra Carberry, Barbara Grosz, Lillian Lee, and the many IR researchers who were students of Gerry Salton.
Students
- Marisa Boston, linguistics
- Zhong Chen, linguistics
- Yejin Choi, computer science
- Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, computer science
- Effi Georgala, linguistics
- Myle Ott, computer science
- Stephen Purpura, information science
- Ves Stoyanov, computer science
- Ainur Yessenalina, computer science
Visitors
- Mohit Bansal, IIT Kanpur (Summer 2007)
- Xiaoyan Zhu, Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University (Fall 2006)