Information Extraction Engineer
Ottawa, Canada Area
Information Extraction Engineer
Ottawa, Canada Area
Researcher and developer in the field of information extraction and text mining using natural language processing and machine learning. Specifically interested in unsupervised and semi-supervised methods, i.e., algorithms solving complex problems with minimal human input. Recent interest in Hadoop/Hbase and solving problems with map/reduce jobs on very large collections of documents.
machine learning, natural language processing, named entity recognition, Java, Ruby
(Internet industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Integration of named-entity recognition technology (YooName) in semantic web application.
(Computer Software industry)
January 2004 — November 2007 (3 years 11 months)
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2004 (4 years)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 1997 — April 2000 (2 years 10 months)
PhD , Computer science , 2004 — 2007
Semi-Supervised Named Entity Recognition: Learning to Recognize 100 Entity Types with Little Supervision
Master , Computer science , 1999 — 2001