Computer Science University
Resume:
Amherst, MA *****, USA
Sebastian Riedel
B aborer@r.postjobfree.com
Curriculum Vitae http://riedelcastro.github.com
Education
2004 2009 Ph.D.inInformatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.20032004 M.Sc. inInformatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Learning From Data, awarded with distinction.
1997 2003 Dipl. Ing. ComputerScienceandEngineering, Technical University
Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg, Germany.
Information Systems, Grade: 1.5 (equivalent to first class honors).
1987 1996 Abitur, Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium, Hamburg, Germany.
Grade: 1.7.
Doctoral Thesis
Title Efficient Prediction of Relational Structure in Natural Language Processing
Supervisors Ewan Klein, Miles Osborne.
Committee Pedro Domingos, Mirella Lapata, Ewan Klein.
Description Used Cutting Plane methods and first-order query processing to improve
memory and CPU efficiency of MAP Inference for Markov Logic by several
orders of magnitude.
Experience
June 2011 ResearchScientist, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, USA.
current
Continuation of my work on information extraction and inference; co-lecturing a
class with Andrew McCallum.
20092011 PostdoctoralResearchAssociate, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
Amherst, USA.
Supervised students in Andrew McCallum s absence; work on weakly-supervised
information extraction and efficient inference; lead team to rank first in BioNLP
Shared Task 2011. Lead UMass Machine Reading team in DARPA project.
20082009Researcher, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Event Extraction from biomedical literature; lead a team to create an event ex-
traction system based on Markov Logic. This system achieved the best results in
the BioNLP Shared Task 2009 (Track 2).
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2006VisitingScholar, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA.
Studied Natural Language Processing in Chris Manning s NLP group.
2001 2002 ResearchIntern, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, USA.
"Towards marker-less tracking", developed camera pose estimation algorithms in
an Augmented Reality scenario.
20002001SoftwareEngineer, infoAsset AG, Hamburg, Germany.
Design and implementation of a Java web-based assessment software providing
support for online design and evaluation of recruitment tests.
1999 2000 ProjectLeader, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg, Ger-
many.
Design and implementation of the university s online lecture evaluation system.
1999 ResearchIntern, Germanischer Lloyd, Hamburg, Germany.
Developed an object-oriented "pipes and filter" framework and basic components
for processing GPS data using Java.
1998 ResearchAssistant, STS / Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Ham-
burg, Germany.
Developed the graphical user interface of a multimedia information system for Po-
litical Iconography in an interdisciplinary project with the Art History department.
Achievements
Fellowships
2008 Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence 2008 Student Grant.
2004-2007Edinburgh-Stanford-Link Studentship
.
2004-2007 ESRC PhD. +3 Competition Studentship.
2003-2004EPSRC MSc. Studentship.
Competitions and Awards
2011 1st place in three BioNLP 2011 shared tasks: Genia Event Extraction Task
1, Genia Event Extraction Task 2 and Infectious Diseases Task.
2010 EMNLP 2010 Best Reviewer Award.
2009 1st place in the BioNLP shared task 2009 (Track 2), and 4th place (Track 1).
2008 2nd place in CoNLL Semantic Role Labeling and Dependency Parsing task
2008, Open Track (Selected for Oral Presentation).
2006 4th place in CoNLL Multilingual Parsing shared task 2006.
2005 1st place in the Learning Language in Logic Competition at ICML 2005,
Relation Extraction.
2004 IGK Summer School Best Student Project.
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Service
Area Chair
2012 EACL 2012.
Senior Program Committee
2011 ?CAI 2011, AAAI 2011.
Program Committee
2011 ACL, CoNLL, ICML, EMNLP, RELMS, NIPS.
2010 ICML, ACL, CoNLL, Coling, AAAI, EMNLP.
2009 EACL, ICML, EMNLP, CoNLL.
2008 EACL.
2007 EMNLP.
2006 NAACL.
Guest Editor
2012 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
2011 Special Issue on Statistical Learning of Natural Language Structured Input
and Output at Natural Language Engineering journal (2010-2011).
2011 ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing.
Workshop Organizer
2012 Co-organizer of the NAACL/HLT 2012 Automated Knowledgebase Construc-
tion (AKBC) workshop.
2011 Co-organizer of the Shonan Computational Thinking workshop.
2009 Co-organizer of the NAACL/HLT 2009 ILP for NLP workshop.
2007 Co-organizer of the CoNLL Shared Task 2007.
Other
2011 Panelist for the Relational Models of Semantics Workshop 2011 at ACL.
2008 Google Summer of Code mentor for the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK)
project.
20062008 Organizer for Machine Learning reading group at ICCS, University of Edin-
burgh.
2006Student Representative in the Computing Committee of the School of Infor-
matics.
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Talks
2011 EntityandRelationDiscovery, Google, New York, USA.
Invited talk at the Knowledge Discovery Workshop.
2011 FastandRobustBiomedicalEventExtraction, University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Invited talk at the Computer Science department.
2011 FastandRobustBiomedicalEventExtraction, Nara Institute of Sci-
ence and Technology, Nara, Japan.
Invited talk at the Computer Science department.
2011FastandRobustBiomedicalEventExtraction, Wake Forrest Univer-
sity, Winston-Salem, USA.
Invited talk at the Computer Science department.
2010 Modeling Relations and their Mentions without annotated Text,
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Invited talk at the Tsujii-Lab.
2010 Ignorant Inference, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto,
Japan.
Invited talk at the Linguistic Intelligence Research Group.
2010Ignorant Inference, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara,
Japan.
Invited talk at the annual Japanese NLP joint meeting.
2010IgnorantInference, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
Invited talk at the Machine Learning Lunch.
2010 Factorie, SRI International, Menlo Park, USA.
Invited talk at DARPA ISAT workshop.
2009CuttingPlaneInferenceandFactorie, University of Wisconsin, Madi-
son, Madison, USA.
Invited talks at the Machine Learning group.
2009 MarkovLogicforNaturalLanguageProcessing, Gakushuin Univer-
sity, Tokyo, Japan.
Invited talk at the Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing workshop
of the SIG Fundamental Problems in AI.
2007 TheCuttingPlaneMethodforInferenceinNLP, University of Edin-
burgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Invited talk at the Edinburgh Research Group for Optimization (ERGO) at the
School of Mathematics.
2006 ScalingUpInferenceinNLP:JustRelax, Stanford University, Palo
Alto, USA.
Invited talk at the NLPLunch at Computer Science department.
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Teaching
2011 Co-lecturer,
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, USA
.
Automated Knowledge Base Construction.
2011 Guest-lecturer,
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, USA.
Graphical Models.
2006TeachingAssistant, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
.
Data Intensive Linguistics.
2005 TeachingAssistant, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Introduction to Computational Linguistics.
2003Teaching Assistant, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg,
Germany.
Foundations and technologies of ECommerce.
2000Teaching Assistant, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg,
Germany.
Computer Science for Engineers; voted best TA in the department.
Languages
German Native
English Fluent
Japanese Intermediate
Open Source Software
markov a Markov Logic interpreter tailored to NLP applications. The software has
thebeast
over 1400 downloads on googlecode, and several exciting research projects
rely on it (such as work on temporal reasoning at the University of Rochester,
or work on ontology alignment at the University of Mannheim).
What s Wrong an extensive visualizer for various NLP problems. Used in several university
with My NLP?
courses on NLP (such as Current Approaches to Dependency Parsing at the
University of Tuebingen, and Language Technology at Lund University).
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References
Professor Ewan Klein
School of Informatics Phone:+44-131-***-****
University of Edinburgh Fax: +44-131-***-****
10 Crichton St., Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK Email: aborer@r.postjobfree.com
Professor Andrew McCallum
Dept. of Computer Science Phone:+1-413-***-****
University of Massachusetts Amherst Fax: +1-413-***-****
140 Governors Drive, MA 01003, USA Email: aborer@r.postjobfree.com
Professor Michael Collins
Dept. of Computer Science Phone:+1-212-***-****
Columbia University Fax: +1-212-***-****
1214 Amsterdam Av., NY 10027, USA Email: aborer@r.postjobfree.com
Professor Dan Roth
Dept. of Computer Science Phone:+1-217-***-****
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Fax: +1-217-***-****
201 N. Goodwin Av., IL 61801, USA Email: aborer@r.postjobfree.com
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Publications
[1] Sebastian Riedel, Rune Saetre, Hong-Woo Chun, Toshihisa Takagi, and Jun ichi
Tsujii. Bio-molecular event extraction with markov logic. Computational Intelli-
gence, 27(4), November 2011.
[2] Roman Klinger, Sebastian Riedel, and Andrew McCallum. Inter-event depen-
dencies support event extraction from biomedical literature. In Mining Complex
Entities from Network and Biomedical Data (MIND), Proceedings of the European
Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML
PKDD 11), September 2011.
[3] Sebastian Riedel and Andrew McCallum. Fast and robust joint models for biomed-
ical event extraction. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical methods in
natural language processing (EMNLP 11), July 2011.
[4] Sebastian Riedel and Andrew McCallum. Robust biomedical event extraction with
dual decomposition and minimal domain adaptation. In Proceedings of the Natural
Language Processing in Biomedicine NAACL 2011 Workshop (BioNLP 11), June
2011.
[5] Sebastian Riedel, David McClosky, Mihai Surdeanu, Christopher D. Manning, and
Andrew McCallum. Model combination for event extraction in BioNLP 2011.
In Proceedings of the Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine NAACL 2011
Workshop (BioNLP 11), June 2011.
[6] Limin Yao, Aria Haghighi, Sebastian Riedel, and Andrew McCallum. Structured
relation discovery using generative models. In Proceedings of the Conference on
Empirical methods in natural language processing (EMNLP 11), 7 2011.
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