Keynote Speaker

Dragomir R. Radev, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Title: Natural Language Processing for Analyzing Collective Discourse

Dragomir R. Radev is an Associate Professor, School of Information, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

He joined U-M from IBM's TJ Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY. While at IBM, Dragomir was also an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University in New York City.

Dr. Radev has a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University.

Recent related publications:

• Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir R. Radev, Saif Mohammad, Bonnie Dorr, David Zajic, Michael Whidby, and Taesun Moon. Generating extractive summaries of scientific paradigms. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2013. 
• Amjad abu Jbara and Dragomir R. Radev. Coherent citation-based summarization of scientific papers. In Proceedings of ACL 2011, Portland, Oregon, 2011.
• Vahed Qazvinian and Dragomir R. Radev. Identifying non-explicit citing sentences for citation-based summarization. In Proceedings of ACL 2010, Uppsala, Sweden, 2010.
• Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir R. Radev, and Arzucan Özgür. Citation summarization through keyphrase extraction. In COLING 2010, Beijing, China, 2010. 
• Ahmed Hassan, Dragomir R. Radev, Junghoo Cho, and Amruta Joshi. Content based recommendation and summarization in the blogosphere. In Proceedings of ICWSM 2009, San Jose, CA, 2009. 

Sessions overview (Finalization Pending)

Summarization Session

Summary Evaluation Session

Data Gathering and Exploitation Session