User:Akoul

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.

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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 Idea

Extracting Facts from Wikipedia Text to generate a Fact relation hierarchy

• Corpus : Wikipedia XML Dump

Automatic extraction of answering patterns for Question Answering

• Corpus : Yahoo Research Webscope Dataset for Yahoo Answers