Valerie Krugler Nygaard

Current

• Senior Software Development Engineer Lead, Statistical Text Processing Group at Bing at Microsoft

Past

• Manager, Knowledge Resources Group at Powerset
• Computational Linguist at Powerset
• computational linguist at Spanlink Communications

• Research Scientist at Acuitus
• computational linguist at Discern Communications

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Education

• Stanford University
• University of Colorado at Boulder
• University of Iowa

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Industry

Computer Software

Valerie Krugler Nygaard’s Summary

Formerly Valerie Krugler

Valerie Krugler Nygaard’s Specialties:

natural language processing
search, information retrieval

Valerie Krugler Nygaard’s Experience

• Senior Software Development Engineer Lead, Statistical Text Processing Group at Bing

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  March 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)

• Manager, Knowledge Resources Group

  Powerset

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  February 2008 — August 2008 (7 months)

  Managed a small team of engineers and researchers to build lexical resources, including named entity classifiers and word sense induction models.

• Computational Linguist

  Powerset

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  March 2007 — February 2008 (1 year )

  Powerset is a search company that uses natural language techniques to enhance search results. As part of the Data Driven Development team I analyzed queries, contributed to metrics design, and led cross-group efforts for failure analysis & incidence analysis. After a year, I was promoted to manage another group.

• computational linguist

  Spanlink Communications

  (Computer Software industry)

  December 2005 — March 2007 (1 year 4 months)

• Research Scientist

  Acuitus

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  February 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 10 months)

• computational linguist

  Discern Communications

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  July 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 1 month)

Valerie Krugler Nygaard’s Education

• Stanford University

  Linguistics 2003 — 2004

• University of Colorado at Boulder

  2001 — 2003

• University of Iowa

  B.A. , Linguistics , 1996 — 1999

Additional Information

Valerie Krugler Nygaard’s Groups:

•    Text Analytics

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