My research areas are artificial intelligence and natural language processing (NLP). My work with students and colleagues has been in discourse processing, pragmatics, word-sense disambiguation, and probabilistic classification in NLP. Our most recent work investigates automatically recognizing and interpretating expressions of opinions and sentiments in text, to support NLP applications such as question answering, information extraction, text categorization, and summarization.

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Bibliography of work in subjectivity and sentiment analysis: .bib file and .html table

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The MPQA opinion annotated corpus, OpinionFinder system and our subjectivity lexicon including prior polarity/sentiment annotations are available at http://www.cs.pitt.edu/mpqa

CS3730: Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing: Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis

Recent program committees : ACL-IJCNLP09 (Program Co-Chair); ACL08 (Area Chair); AAAI08; COLING08; EMNLP07 (Area Chair); ACL 2007 Workshop on Frontiers in Linguistically Annotated Corpora (Co-Chair); ACL07; IJCAI07; AAAI07; NAACL07; International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) 2007; ACL07 Student Research Workshop.

Events: Theresa Wilson graduated with her PhD, April 2008. Her dissertation is entitled Fine-Grained Subjectivity Analysis.

CERATOPS: Center for the Extraction and Summarization of Events and Opinions from Text. Department of Homeland Security.

Toward a Comprehensive Linguistic Annotation of Language. National Science Foundation.

NLP Foundational Studies & Ontologies for Syndromic Surveillance from Emergency Department Reports. National Library of Medicine.

Subjectivity and Word Sense. National Science Foundation.

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Richard A. Wiebe New York State Senate Public Service Fellowship

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