Steven Bethard
Center for Computational Language and Education Research, Room 171G
University of Colorado Boulder, Campus Box 594
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0594, USA
303-735-5383
steven.bethard@colorado.edu
I am a Research Associate at University of Colorado's Center for Language and Education Research and a Visiting Professor at KULeuven's Language Intelligence & Information Retrieval research group. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from the University of Colorado in 2007, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Colorado's Center for Language and Education Research, Stanford University's Natural Language Processing group, Johns Hopkins University's Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, and at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven's Language Intelligence & Information Retrieval group.
My research interests include topics in natural language processing, information retrieval and machine learning: extracting timelines from unstructured text, characterizing quality in educational webpages, identifying science misconceptions in student esssays, learning feature-based models for literature search and author name disambiguation, enhancing machine translation models with semantics, extracting opinions and the people to which they can be attributed, and learning information extraction models for clinical and biomedical texts. Detailed information about my research is available on my Publications and Research Interests pages.