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April 2013: Many updates to BLLIP Parser including Java and Python SWIG bindings, build improvements, and tokenizer fixes.
April 26, 2013: Talk at CUNY Natural Language Processing Seminar.
April 15, 2013: Talk at Columnbia NLP (slides).
February 2013: The BLLIP Parser is now available under the Apache 2.0 license.
September 2012: Starting at IBM Research as a Research Staff Member.
July 2012: Attending ACL 2012 and presenting a paper at EMNLP 2012.
May 2012: Participated in the SANCL 2012 shared task. Our write-up is here. Consituency parser results are also available on MLComp (the link goes to one of several models we've uploaded).
December 2011: BMC Bioinformatics paper accepted. Email us for a draft.
August 2011: Released source code and materials for the Event Parser (our system in the BioNLP 2011 shared task).
August 2011: Added slides and posters from recent talks. Also dug up the poster from ACL 2008.
June 2011: Attending ACL 2011 and BioNLP 2011. Presenting full event extraction poster at ACL and its application to BioNLP 2011 (single system, combined system -- latter will be presented jointly with Sebastian Riedel). Mihai Surdeanu will present our RELMS paper.
April 20th-22nd, 2011: Visiting Jude Shavlik's lab at UWisc. Talk on Extraction as Dependency Parsing, tutorial on KBP slot filling and Stanford CoreNLP (slides).
April 5th-8th, 2011: At Machine Reading Phase 3 Kickoff meeting. Poster on Event Extraction as Dependency Parsing.
March 2011: Participated in the BioNLP 2011 shared task. FAUST, our joint system with Sebastian Riedel (UMass), got first place in three of the four evaluations, and second place in the fourth.
February 20th-26th, 2011: Visiting Andrew McCallum's lab at UMass Amherst. Gave a talk on Event Extraction As Dependency Parsing.
February 2011: The BLLIP parser is now on BitBucket. Download the bleeding-edge version here. I've also converted waterworks and hope to convert my other public software projects to BitBucket soon. Also available on GitHub.
November 2010: At the TAC-KBP 2010 workshop.
October 2010: Talk at Stanford NLP lunch on event extraction.
June 2010: At NAACL 2010.
May 2010: Thesis is now available.
April 14-16, 2010: At Machine Reading Phase 2 Kickoff meeting.
Ensemble dependency parser code and models now available.
April 2010: NAACL 2010 paper on Automatic Domain Adaptation for Parsing available
(yes, there's a theme here).
Februrary 2010: Talk at Stanford NLP lunch on Automatic Domain Adaptation for Parsing.
November 2009: Now a postdoc at Stanford NLP.
September 2009: Talk at UC Berkeley on Automatic Domain Adaptation for Parsing.
September 18th, 2009: Thesis defense.
July 2009: Released version 0.2 of my Python utility library waterworks.
June 2009: Released a vastly improved biomedical parsing model.
June 2009: Attended NAACL 2009 (paper) and spoke on panel at SSLNLP 2009.
May 2009: Attended MIT-Brown-Harvard NLP summit.
May 2009: Attended linguistics minicourse on computational phonology.
April 14, 2009: Thesis proposal
February 2009: Added my CV.
November 2008: Attended NECPhon 2008.
October 2008: Made a tech report of work done while studying at Charles University in Prague 2007.
August 2008: LDC releases our self-trained parses of the NANC corpus.
August 2008: Attended COLING 2008 for two papers.
June 2008: Attended ACL 2008, presented a poster.

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