Roman Yangarber
Department of Computer Science
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
My work is in the field of Natural Language Processing,
focusing on the following areas:
-
-
Information Extraction
-
-
Machine Translation
This work is part of the
Proteus Project
at the Courant Institute, under the direction of
Ralph Grishman,
who is my thesis advisor.
Publications and Presentations
-
``Transforming Examples into Patterns for Information Extraction''
- Roman Yangarber and Ralph Grishman
- In Proceedings
of the TIPSTER Text Program Phase III
- (November 1998) to appear
-
``Japanese IE System and Customization Tool''
- Chikashi Nobata, Satoshi Sekine and Roman Yangarber
- In Proceedings
of the TIPSTER Text Program Phase III
- (November 1998) to appear
-
``Deriving Transfer Rules from Dominance-Preserving Alignments''
- Adam Meyers, Roman Yangarber, Ralph Grishman, Catherine
Macleod, Antonio Moreno-Sandoval
- In Proceedings
COLING-ACL '98
- (August 1998) Montreal, Canada
-
``Using NOMLEX to Produce Nominalization Patterns for
Information Extraction''
- Adam Meyers, Catherine Macleod, Roman Yangarber, Ralph Grishman,
Leslie Barrett, Ruth Reeves
- In Proceedings
COLING-ACL '98 Workshop on Computational Treatment of Nominals,
- (August 1998) Montreal, Canada
- ``NYU: Description of the Proteus/PET System as Used for
MUC-7 ST''
- Roman Yangarber and Ralph Grishman
- In Proceedings
MUC-7, the Seventh Message Understanding Conference
- (April 1998) Washington, DC
- ``Customization of Information Extraction Systems''
- Roman Yangarber and Ralph Grishman
- In Proceedings
International Workshop on Lexically-Driven Information
Extraction,
invited talk
- (July 1997) Frascati, Italy
- ``Rapid Customization of Information Extraction Systems''
- Roman Yangarber and Ralph Grishman
-
AIPA '97, Symposium on Advanced Information Processing and Analysis,
- (March 1997) Washington, D.C.
-
``Alignment of Shared Forests for Bilingual Corpora''
- Adam Meyers, Roman Yangarber, Ralph Grishman
- In Proceedings
COLING '96, the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics,
- (August 1996) Copenhagen, Denmark
- Previously published as
Proteus Project Technical Report #79
-
``ThinkSheet: A Tool for Tailoring Complex Documents''
- Peter Piatko, Roman Yangarber, Daoi Lin, Dennis Shasha
-
ACM SIGMOD '96, demonstration
- (June 1996) Montreal, Canada
Interests:
Especially the piano/keyboard repertoire of:
-
- J.S. Bach,
-
- J. Brahms,
-
- L. van Beethoven,
and some others, whose names begin with ``B''
-
- Joseph Brodsky
-
- Boris Pasternak
-
- ... and more.
Education:
- M.S.
- Computer Science,
New York University
- B.A.
- Mathematics and Computer Science
I came from Leningrad, U.S.S.R., neither of which exists any longer.
What remains of my birthplace is now called
St. Petersburg, Russia.
A Bit of Lore:
- ``I think it would be a good idea.''
- - Mahatma Gandhi,
- when asked what he thinks of Western civilization.
Contact Information:
E-mail:
first name at cs point nyu point edu
Address:
900 West 190th Street, New York, NY 10040
Office: (212) 998-3264
Home: (212) 568-5158
Fax: (212) 995-4123