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==Philip Resnik==
==Philip Resnik==
   
   
  On sabbatical and lurking in coffee shops near campus pretending to be on sabbatical while really working.
Desperately trying to remember that he's on sabbatical.
 
=== Media ===
 
* An article in [http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/index.cfm HealthLeaders Media] entitled [http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/page-1/TEC-277956/Are-EMRs-Killing-the-Clinical-Narrative Are EMRs Killing the Clinical Narrative?] covered my SXSW 2012 talk ([http://umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik/resnik_sxsw2012.pdf slides], [http://sxsw.com/node/10949 audio]) and appears to have stirred up some [https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Are+EMRs+Killing+the+Clinical+Narrative%3F%22 interesting discussion]. Which is great, since that's exactly what the talk was designed for.
 
* Was really pleased to be included among those quoted in discussions by the Wall Street Journal's "Numbers Guy", Carl Bialik, about mining Twitter for public opinion, including both the [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203646004577213242703490740.html print column] and the accompanying [http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/mining-tweets-for-public-opinion-1118/ blog post].
 
* Had great fun guesting on [http://thekojonnamdishow.org/ the Kojo Nnamdi show] on WAMU 88.5 in Washington DC, talking about [http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2012-01-31/new-frontiers-political-polling-social-media-and-sentiment-analysis New Frontiers in Political Polling: Social Media and "Sentiment Analysis"].  We discussed computational analysis of social media in the context of political campaigns, which was also the topic of a recent posting I did on [http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll Language Log] called [http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3712 #CompuPolitics]; we also briefly discussed the [http://reactlabs.org React Labs] project, in which collaborators and I are developing a smartphone app for large scale, real-time collection of people's responses during live events like political debates.
 
* Quoted in the [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228365.300-how-innovative-is-apples-new-voice-assistant-siri.html <em>New Scientist</em> story on Siri].
 
* Collaborative work with Ben Bederson and students on [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/monotrans/ monolingual translation crowdsourcing] discussed in Jim Giles, [http://www.newscientist.com/ New Scientist], [http://www.newscientist.com/issue/2818 Issue 2818], [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028181.900-the-manmachine-harnessing-humans-in-a-hive-mind.html The man-machine: Harnessing humans in a hive mind].
 
=== Talks and Meetings ===
 
* Spoke on a panel at the National Institutes of Health Workshop on [http://www.tech-res.com/NLPCDS/ Natural Language Processing: State of the Art, Future Directions and Applications for Enhancing Clinical Decision-Making].  Slides [http://umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik/pubs/resnik_nih_nlp_workshop.pdf here] and there should be a full videocast of the workshop available at NIH soon.
 
* Participated as an invited delegate at [http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/scientists-become-superstars-as-tedmed-moves-to-washington/2012/04/14/gIQAnyaPHT_story.html TEDMED 2012].
 
* Gave an invited plenary lecture at the [http://aaal.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=64 2012 American Association for Applied Linguistics conference], entitled [http://aaal.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=67#Spin The Linguistics of Spin: A Computational Linguist's Forays into Social Science].  (During the talk I used myself as a guinea pig for the [http://reactlabs.org React Labs live polling app] that I'm developing; results can be found [http://results.reactlabs.org here].)
 
* Spoke at [http://sxsw.com/interactive South By Southwest Interactive] (SXSWi) on [http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/10361 Language Technology, Electronic Health Records, and the Clinical Narrative]; slides available [http://umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik/resnik_sxsw2012.pdf here], with audio [http://sxsw.com/node/10949 here].
 
* Spoke at Google Research on [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/monotrans/ crowdsourcing and translation], to kick off a new Google-funded collaboration involving me, [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~bederson/ Ben Bederson], and [http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~ccb/ Chris Callison-Burch] that we're calling "Translate the World".
 
* Gave the keynote talk at the [http://sentimentsymposium.com/ Sentiment Analysis Symposium], a technology/business event focused on, yes, sentiment analysis.
 
* Gave an invited keynote talk, "Computer Assisted Coding and Beyond: An Academic's Adventures with Clinical Natural Language Processing in the Real World", at the [http://compbio.ucdenver.edu/BioNLP2011/cfp.shtml ACL/HLT 2011 BioNLP Workshop]
 
* Spoke on [http://calendar.nih.gov/app/MCalInfoView.aspx?evtID=23633 "Computer Assisted Coding and Beyond: An Academic's Adventures with Clinical Natural Language Processing in the Real World"] at the [http://www.lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/lhc/servlet/Turbine/template/home%2CHome.vm National Library of Medicine].
 
 
=== Research Awards ===
 
* Awarded National Science Foundation funding for a new project in computational political science in collaboration with computer scientist Noah Smith (CMU) and political scientists Amber Boydstun (UC Davis) and Justin Gross (UNC Chapel Hill).  The project will develop new computational modeling methods, grounded in data-driven computational linguistics, aimed at improving the scientific understanding of how issues are framed by political elites, the media, and the public.
 
* Awarded DARPA funding for a pilot project on advanced analysis of social media in collaboration with BBN and Converseon, Inc.
 
* Received new Google Research Award funding for a collaboration involving me, [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~bederson/ Ben Bederson], and [http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~ccb/ Chris Callison-Burch] entitled "Translate the World".
 
* Student poster entitled <em>Using Monolingual Crowds to Improve Translation</em>, presented by Yakov Kronrod (Linguistics), featuring work by Yakov, Chang Hu (CS), Olivia Buzek (CS and Linguistics undergrad, now a PhD student at JHU), and Alexander J. Quinn (CS) on our [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/monotrans/ monolingual translation] project (collaboration with Ben Bederson) was named the winning poster in the Math, Technology, and Engineering category at the [http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2011/poster/cfp.cgi/ 2011 AAAS Student Poster Competition].

Revision as of 04:39, 2 May 2012

Recent Accomplishments in the last 12 months

Jordan Boyd-Graber

Wrote 300 papers and 300 programs.

Hal Daume III

Supervised an endless string of graduate students and made cupcakes.

David Doermann

Submitted gazillion proposals.

Bonnie Dorr

Funded ginormous numbers of proposals.

Naomi Feldman

Same as Jordan.

Jimmy Lin

What else ... tweeted and mapped and reduced.

Doug Oard

Something to do with being a fearless lab leader and deanish stuff.

Louiqa Raschid

PattArAn: NSF grant. Collaboration with plant biologists at the University of Maryland. 
  Potential contributions to the Arabidopsis community.
SM3: NSF grant. Social media modeling, prediction and recommendation. 
  Multiple papers in collaboration with Shanchan Wu and Hassan Sayyadi and 
  Smith colleague - Bill Rand and Yogesh Joshi and Liye Ma and Prem Swaroop .
PAnG: Tool for graph data mining of annotated graph datasets. 
  Collaboration with Samir Khuller and multiple papers. 
  Mentoring of several undergraduate students.
Next Generation Financial Cyberinfrastructure: Workshops in July 2010 and July 2012
  sponsored by the NSF and CRA/CCC.

Philip Resnik

Desperately trying to remember that he's on sabbatical.

Media

  • Was really pleased to be included among those quoted in discussions by the Wall Street Journal's "Numbers Guy", Carl Bialik, about mining Twitter for public opinion, including both the print column and the accompanying blog post.

Talks and Meetings

  • Gave an invited keynote talk, "Computer Assisted Coding and Beyond: An Academic's Adventures with Clinical Natural Language Processing in the Real World", at the ACL/HLT 2011 BioNLP Workshop


Research Awards

  • Awarded National Science Foundation funding for a new project in computational political science in collaboration with computer scientist Noah Smith (CMU) and political scientists Amber Boydstun (UC Davis) and Justin Gross (UNC Chapel Hill). The project will develop new computational modeling methods, grounded in data-driven computational linguistics, aimed at improving the scientific understanding of how issues are framed by political elites, the media, and the public.
  • Awarded DARPA funding for a pilot project on advanced analysis of social media in collaboration with BBN and Converseon, Inc.
  • Student poster entitled Using Monolingual Crowds to Improve Translation, presented by Yakov Kronrod (Linguistics), featuring work by Yakov, Chang Hu (CS), Olivia Buzek (CS and Linguistics undergrad, now a PhD student at JHU), and Alexander J. Quinn (CS) on our monolingual translation project (collaboration with Ben Bederson) was named the winning poster in the Math, Technology, and Engineering category at the 2011 AAAS Student Poster Competition.