Prof. Riloff's Research Group

Current Graduate Student Researchers

• Yuan Zhuang, Ph.D. student

Former Graduate Student Researchers

• David Bean
  Ph.D. Dissertation: Acquisition and Application of Contextual Role Knowledge for Coreference Resolution

• Haibo Ding
  Ph.D. Dissertation: Affective Polarity Recognition and Human Needs Categorization for Affective Events

• Ruihong Huang
  Ph.D. Dissertation: Improving Event Extraction by Discourse-Guided and Multi-Faceted Event Recognition

• Sean Igo
  M.S. Thesis: Identifying Reduced Passive Voice Constructions in Shallow Parsing Environments

• Tianyu Jiang
  Ph.D. Dissertation: Commonsense Knowledge of Prototypical Functions for Natural Language Processing

• Youngjun Kim
  Ph.D. Dissertation: Improving Information Extraction from Clinical Notes with Multiple Domain Models and Clustering-based Instance Selection

• Jeffrey Lorenzen
  M.S. Thesis: Exploiting Redundancy to Improve Machine Learning

• Siddharth Patwardhan
  Ph.D. Dissertation: Widening the Field of View of Information Extraction through Sentential Event Recognition

• William Phillips
  M.S. Thesis: Exploiting Strong Syntactic Heuristics and Co-Training to Learn Semantic Lexicons

• David Price
  M.S. Thesis: Using a `Wizard of Oz' Study to Evaluate a Spoken Language Interface for Programming

• Ashequl Qadir
  Ph.D. Dissertation: Acquiring Knowledge For Affective State Recognition In Social Media

• Michael Thelen
  M.S. Thesis: Simultaneous Generation of Domain-Specific Lexicons for Multiple Semantic Categories

Former Undergraduate Student Researchers

• Adam Davies
• Christian Felt
• Brandon Harvey
• Carlos Jimenez
• Jessica Purcell
• Kiri Wagstaff
• Rich Warren