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Overview

How do institutional initiatives and funding shape the work done by researchers? The Mimir Project is an interdisciplinary team comprised of sociologists, computational linguists and education researchers to answer this question. Our work focuses on the growth of interdisciplinary work surrounding biology and the growth of statistics in both social sciences and engineering.

People

• * Professors:
  • Daniel Jurafsky
  • Christopher Manning
  • Dan McFarland
  • Woody Powell
• * Post-Docs:
  • Linus Dahlander
  • Craig Rawlings
  • Steven Bethard
• Students:
  • Susan Biancani
  • Jason Chuang
  • Sasha Goodman
  • David Hall
  • Lindsay Owens
  • Daniel Ramage
  • Kaisa Snellman
  • Valentin Spitkovsky
  • Dan Wang

Upcoming Talks

• Feb 9 - Linus presents a paper on faculty network formation
• Feb 23 - Susan and Lindsay present on the comparison of Biox and Woods to salient departments
• March 2 - Kaisa and Woody present on funding sources and their effects
• March 9 - NLP group will present on either ISI topics or advances on entity resolution
• March 16 - Open (perhaps Brendan and/or Steven can present whatever they like)

Papers

• David LW Hall, Daniel Jurafsky, and Christopher D. Manning. "Using Topic Models to Study the History of Ideas". EMNLP 2008