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=== Who am I and Why I am here === | === Who am I and Why I am here === | ||
| − | Hello there, I am Koul (Pronounced 'Cool') from Canada. I am a Masters students in the Very Large Information Systems program. Before joining CMU, I worked 4 years with Yahoo as a | + | Hello there, I am Koul (Pronounced 'Cool') from Canada. I am a Masters students in the Very Large Information Systems program (between LTI & ISR). |
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| + | Before joining CMU, I worked 4 years with Yahoo as a Research Engineer. I am here to gauge what new technologies can be build by combining NLP and Machine Learning. | ||
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| + | [http://koul.us External Homepage] | ||
=== Superpowers === | === Superpowers === | ||
| + | * Can function sanely in -40 Degree weather, and still keep continuing experimentation. | ||
| + | * '''Have crashed IBM Watson''' : [http://www.flickr.com/photos/anirudhkoul/5575901202/ Proof] | ||
| + | * Have developed 3 Question Answering systems, once personally, then under Dr Eric Nyberg and later under Dr Noah Smith. | ||
=== Random Notes === | === Random Notes === | ||
| + | * Once ran a triathlon with a broken toe bone, just to look better than an MTV VJ right behind me, who was being captured on camera all along. | ||
| + | * Have a photo site with over a million visitors, 2000 sites currently using my Creative Commons licensed photos, including New York Times, Wikipedia, Yahoo Homepages, ABC News, ReadWriteWeb, etc. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/anirudhkoul/sets/72157614703171283/detail/ Photogallery] | ||
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| + | == Brainstorming Ideas == | ||
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| + | * Extracting Facts from Wikipedia Text to generate a Fact relation hierarchy | ||
| + | * Automatic extraction of answering patterns for Question Answering | ||
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| + | == Project Proposal == | ||
| + | * [[Wikipedia Infobox Generator Using Cross Lingual Unstructured Text]] | ||
Latest revision as of 12:51, 8 September 2011
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Anirudh Koul
Who am I and Why I am here
Hello there, I am Koul (Pronounced 'Cool') from Canada. I am a Masters students in the Very Large Information Systems program (between LTI & ISR).
Before joining CMU, I worked 4 years with Yahoo as a Research Engineer. I am here to gauge what new technologies can be build by combining NLP and Machine Learning.
Superpowers
- Can function sanely in -40 Degree weather, and still keep continuing experimentation.
- Have crashed IBM Watson : Proof
- Have developed 3 Question Answering systems, once personally, then under Dr Eric Nyberg and later under Dr Noah Smith.
Random Notes
- Once ran a triathlon with a broken toe bone, just to look better than an MTV VJ right behind me, who was being captured on camera all along.
- Have a photo site with over a million visitors, 2000 sites currently using my Creative Commons licensed photos, including New York Times, Wikipedia, Yahoo Homepages, ABC News, ReadWriteWeb, etc. Photogallery
Brainstorming Ideas
- Extracting Facts from Wikipedia Text to generate a Fact relation hierarchy
- Automatic extraction of answering patterns for Question Answering
