Tim O'Gorman takes post-doctoral research position in IESL at UMass
2019 Linguistics PhD graduate , an expert in deep learning of semantic representations and corpus development, has taken a post-doctoral research position at the UMassÌý, working with Prof. Andrew McCallum. The aim ofÌýIESLÌýis to increase our ability to mine actionable knowledge from unstructured text, includingÌýinformation extraction from the Web, understanding the connections between people and between organizations, expert finding, social network analysis, and mining the scientific literature and community.ÌýDr. O'Gorman wroteÌýhis dissertation under the supervision of CSCI/LING professorÌýMartha PalmerÌýandÌýCU LING professorÌýLaura Michaelis, with the support ofÌýCU'sÌýCLEARÌý±ô²¹²ú.Ìý±á¾±²õÌý»å¾±²õ²õ±ð°ù³Ù²¹³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô, Bringing together computational and linguistic models of implicit role interpretation,Ìýfocused on implicit roles (unstated semantic roles like the inferredÌý'edible item' in the sentence I ate at noon today)Ìýfrom both a computational and theoretical perspective.ÌýDr. O'Gorman'sÌýwork in linguistics has focused on the design and construction of datasets of semantic annotations of text, expanding resources for cross-sentence (implicit) semantic role resolution, as well as more theoretical issues regarding semantic roles, reference, andÌý.