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=== Superpowers ===
 
=== Superpowers ===
 
* Can function sanely in -40 Degree weather, and still keep continuing experimentation.
 
* Can function sanely in -40 Degree weather, and still keep continuing experimentation.
* Have crashed IBM Watson : [http://www.flickr.com/photos/anirudhkoul/5575901202/ Proof]  
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* '''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.
 
* 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.
 
* 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, Lifehacker, ReadWriteWeb, Ars Technica, etc. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/anirudhkoul/sets/72157614703171283/detail/ Photogallery]
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* 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 ==
  
== Brainstorming Idea ==
 
 
* Extracting Facts from Wikipedia Text to generate a Fact relation hierarchy
 
* Extracting Facts from Wikipedia Text to generate a Fact relation hierarchy
 
* Automatic extraction of answering patterns for Question Answering
 
* Automatic extraction of answering patterns for Question Answering
  * Corpus : Yahoo Research Webscope Dataset for Yahoo Answers
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== Project Proposal ==
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* [[Wikipedia Infobox Generator Using Cross Lingual Unstructured Text]]

Latest revision as of 13:51, 8 September 2011

Anirudh Koul

Akoul profile photo.jpg

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.

External Homepage

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

Project Proposal