Dan Roth
Professor

Department of Computer Science
and
The Beckman Institute

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ph.D., Computer Science, Division of Applied Sciences , Harvard University, 1995.

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[Some Recent Activities: IJCAI 2009 (SPC)|AAAI 2008 (SPC)| COLING 2008 (Area Chair)| ICML 2006 (Area Chair)|ACL 2007(Area Chair)| SIGNLL| ACL 2003 (PC Chair)]
[Machine Learning Journal: Special Issue on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Technologies (9/05)| Guest Editors Introduction ]
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My research focuses on the computational foundations of intelligent behavior. We develop theories and systems pertaining to intelligent behavior using a unified methodology -- at the heart of which is the idea that learning has a central role in intelligence.

My work centers around the study of machine learning and inference methods to facilitate natural language understanding. In doing that I have pursued several interrelated lines of work that span multiple aspects of this problem - from fundamental questions in learning and inference and how they interact, to the study of a range of NLP problems, including shallow parsing, semantic role labeling, question answering and textual entailment, to large scale Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction system development - resulting in a number of software packages for NLP tools that are available from my web site and are widely used by the community.


Teaching

  1. CS446: Machine Learning  (Fall 2008)
  2. CS591: Seminar on Learning and Knowledge  (Fall 2008)
  3. CS546: Machine Learning and Natural Language  (Spring 2008)
  4. AIIS Seminar: Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems Seminar  (Fall 2008)

  5. CS598 DNR: Machine Learning and Natural Language  (Fall 2005)
  6. CS173: Discrete Mathematical Structures  (Fall 2003)
  7. CS497: Computational Theories of Learning and Reasoning  (Fall 2001)
  8. CS397: Computational Theories of Learning and Reasoning  (Fall 1999)


Tutorials


Some Talks


Contact Information:

Office Address
3322 Siebel Center
201 N. Goodwin Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217) 244-7068
Fax: (217) 244-5823
Also: 2047 Beckman, (217) 333-6071
Program Coordinator/Administrator
Robin B. King
3218 Siebel Center
201 N. Goodwin Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
Email: rbking@uiuc.edu
Phone: (217) 244-4789
Home Address
2700 Prairie Meadow Dr.
Champaign, IL 61822
Phone: (217) 352-5221

Dan Roth / danr at uiuc.edu