Research - Nicholas Kushmerick

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People

I've had a lot of great people in my research group over the years:

• Completed PhD/MSc students:
    · Brian McLernon (Transductive pattern learning for information extraction) [PhD Thesis; 2007] (Accenture)
    · Eddie Johnston (A reinforcement learning approach to selective sampling) [PhD Thesis, 2007] (Accenture)
    · Rory Parle (Filling structured forms from unstructured email) [MSc Thesis; 2006] (Google)
    · Greg Murdoch (Bridging the physical/digital divide with data retrieval and extraction) [MSc thesis, 2006]
    · Aidan Finn: A multi-level boundary classification approach to information extraction [PhD Thesis, 2006] (Postdoc at DERI Galway)
    · Andreas Heß: Supervised and unsupervised ensemble learning for the Semantic Web [PhD Thesis, 2006] (Lycos Europe; previously Postdoc at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
    · Rinat Khoussainov: Distributed heterogeneous Web search as a stochastic game [PhD Thesis, 2004] (Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth)
    · John-Paul McGowan: A Multiple Model Approach to Personalised Information Access [MSc Thesis, 2003]
    · Aidan Finn: Machine learning for automatic genre classifiction [MSc Thesis, 2002] (See PhD entry above)
    · Clodagh Moriarty: A collaborative approach to personalised tutoring for multiple-choice examinations [MSc Thesis, 2002]
    · Donnacha Phelan: Topology-based hypertext similarity [MSc Thesis, 2002] (Completing PhD at UCD)
    · Fergus Toolan: Personalized site maps from web server logs [MSc Thesis, 2002] (Completing PhD at UCD)
• Other people who've moved on...
    · Ashish Tiwari (Managing hybrid web/email activities) [Research Intern]
    · Luke O'Malley (EAA) [Research Programmer]
    · Alan Hannaway (Integrating adaptive information extraction into email) [4th year project]
    · Barry Calaghan (Learning to prioritize email) [4th year project]
    · Rachel Dooley (The intelligent "To:" field) [4th year project]
    · Eleni Henry (Data-gathering for web/email activity management and event detection experiments) [Transition Year Student]
    · Viktoria Krug (Data-gathering for web/email activity management and event detection experiments) [Transition Year Student]
    · James Kearney (Programming-by-demonstration for augmented-reality environments) [MSc Ubiquitous & Multimedia Systems Thesis]
    · Shuang Xu (Augmented-reality interface to an intelligent bookshelf) [MSc Ubiquitous & Multimedia Systems Thesis]
    · Ross Shannon (HTML Form to WSDL gateway) [4th year project]
    · Ross McQueirns (Intelligent "Send email" button) [4th year project]
    · Jonathan Hanley (Information extraction for FOAF) [4th year project]
    · Dave Masterson (Information extraction from workflow document streams) [PhD student]
    · Máirtín Keane (Parallel algorithms for record linkage) [MSc Computational Science Thesis]
    · Xin Zuo (Grid-Enabling Weka) [MSc Computational Science Thesis]
    · Gaëlle Hignette (Weakly supervised information extraction) [Research Intern]
    · Taurai Chinenyanga (XML information retrieval) [PhD student]
    · Eoghan Duffy (Finding inportant research conferences by mining the Web) [4th year project]
    · Stephen Robertson (Content-based retrieval of data plot images) [4th year project]
    · Dave O'Brien (A tool for topic-based visualization of academic publication lists) [4th year project]
    · Ciaran McNamara (Collaborative recommendation of software components) [4th year project]
    · Francisco José Pérez López [Software engineer and technical support]
    · John Phelan (Estimating traffic density from Web cameras) [4th year project]
    · Una O Murchu (Selection strategies for active adaptive information extraction) [4th year project]
    · Patricia Dancer (Mining the web for high-quality research conferences) [4th year project]
    · Ruicho Wang (intelligent HTML form management) [Research Intern]
    · Maya Dimitrova (Web genre visualization) [Postdoc]
    · Kapil Narula (intelligent email management) [Research Intern]
    · Martin Halvey (information extraction from email signatures) [4th year project]
    · Máirtín Keane (recommendation by inductive logic programming) [4th year project]
    · Kate Sheahan (XML schema mapping by mining the Web) [4th year project]
    · Frances Wright (learning to identify spam-bots) [4th year project]
    · John Shanahan (XML information extraction & retrieval) [4th year project]
    · Robert Kelly (learning automata for phonological parsing) [4th year project]
    · Robert Hayes [Technical support]
    · Matteo Morressi (boosting) [Research Intern]
    · Stephen McGuiness (information extraction) [4th year project]
    · Peter Gibson (learning XML Schema) [4th year project]
    · John Malone (learning to submit web forms) [4th year project]
    · Paul O'Neil (wrapper verification) [4th year project]
    · Gillian Doyle (personalized newspapers) [4th year project]
    · Kathryn Wilkinson (learning to submit web forms) [Research Intern]
    · Paul Heffernan (inductive logic programming) [4th year project]
    · James McKee (personalized hypermedia) [Research Intern]
    · Alan McClean (XML information retrieval)
    · Tom Kitt (Web yellow pages) [4th year project]
    · Anne O'Brien (information extraction) [4th year project]
    · [tell me if I forgot you!]

Research sponsors

My academic research was sponsored by:

Science Foundation Ireland	US Office of Naval Research	Enterprise Ireland

Miscellany

• I organized the 2005 Dagstuhl Seminar on Machine Learning for the Semantic Web.

• An early "claim to fame" is that I was one of the first people to investigate automated learning of Web information extraction patterns (a.k.a. "wrapper induction").

• POW is a Prolog-based programming language designed for information extraction and text classification.

• From 2004-2006, I was a Visiting Scientist with IBM's Dublin CAS.

• I wrote a series of "semi-technical" articles on information technology research for the Irish Times.
• Embodied/situated AI: a survey of work on situated intelligence; and an analysis of the relevance of philosophical ideas about embodiment to research on software agents.