University of Massachusetts Amherst

Graduate Student, Computer Science

Advisor: Andrew McCallum

About

PhD Candidate, Computer Science.

My research addresses the notoriously difficult learning and inference problems that arise from high-level specifications of factor graphs, especially procedurally-encoded conditional random fields. My approach is largely driven by real-world applications (coreference, information extraction, ontology mapping) that require scalability to both large amounts of data, and to statistical models with many dependencies among the hidden variables (factors with high arity in graphs with large cliques).



There will soon be a publicly available language/toolkit for specifying factor graphs (tentatively called FactorIE) taking full advantage of our research in learning and inference. In the mean time, please see: http://ciir-publications.cs.umass.edu/pdf/IR-697.pdf for more information.

Contact Information

Homepage: http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mwick

Address: Information Extraction and Synthesis Lab
Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts
140 Governor's Drive
Amherst, MA 01003