Steven Bethard
School of Information
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Research interests: modeling the language of time and timelines, normalizing text to medical and geospatial ontologies, information extraction models for clinical applications

Eduardo Blanco
Computer Science
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Research interests: computational semantics; relation extraction and inference; intricate linguistic phenomena such as negation, modality and uncertainty

Sandiway Fong
Linguistics
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Research interests: minimalist parsing

Gus Hahn-Powell
Linguistics
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Research interests: literature-based discovery, machine reading, information extraction, rule learning, knowledge assembly

Mike Hammond
Linguistics
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Research interests: computational modeling of phonology, morphology, poetic meter, speech processing; automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech

Eric jackson
Linguistics
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Research interests: NLP tools, especially ASR, for low-resource language communities; language documentation; community partnership

Peter Jansen
School of Information
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Research interests: question answering, explainable inference, graph-based inference, learning from little data, science and health applications, nursing/health care team communication

Gondy Leroy
Management Information Systems
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Research interests: text mining, information retrieval and extraction, text and communication difficulty, design science for medical and biomedical informatics

Jialu Li
School of Information
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Research interests: multimodal (speech/audio) LLM, speech and audio processing, and LLM/AI for societal applications (healthcare and education)

Xuan Lu
School of Information
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Research interests: data mining, social media analysis, human-AI collaboration, emoji

Clayton T. Morrison
School of Information
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Research interests: machine learning, Bayesian modeling, information extraction, question answering, causal inference, knowledge representation

Liangming Pan
School of Information
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Sudha Ram
Management Information Systems
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Research interests: enterprise data management, business intelligence, large scale networks, and big data analytics

Ellen Riloff
Computer Science
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Research interests: affective text analysis, commonsense knowledge acquisition, information extraction, semantics, discourse and pragmatics

Mihai Surdeanu
Computer Science
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Research interests: explainable AI, machine reasoning, question answering, information extraction, semantic role labeling, and other computational linguistics problems