I am the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. I lead the Natural Language Processing
(NLP) lab at Yale (https://lily.yale.edu).
My research focuses on artificial intelligence, computational models for natural language understanding and generation, as well as their
applications. More specifically, I have worked on text summarization, semantic parsing, natural language interfaces to
databases, sentiment analysis, crosslingual information retrieval, question answering, etc.
My long term goal is to build an infrastructure for computers and humans to interact in a fluent and natural way. I am
also strongly interested in using NLP to develop educational applications.
I am one of the co-founders of the North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition
(http://www.nacloweb.org). I have also had the honor to be selected as Fellow of ACM, AAAI, AAAS, and ACL.