Disclaimer:
This page is my current project, and as such, is very much under construction.



 
 

My Interests

I am beginning to believe that given enough time, my interests might entirely change, though for right now, here are some of the areas that I am interested in.
 


Computational Linguistics
Artificial Intelligence
Text Summarization Text Generation
Document Categorization Keyword Extraction
Artificial Life
Cognitive Science
Unix

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Computational Linguistics
Text Generation

    In short this is the process of automatically generating text documents of various types from some sort of knowledge.
    Often times this takes the form of giving a computer a knowledge base, containing knowledge about a specific type subject, and then the program is required to generate a natural language text from that knowledge.  My personal experience has been in genenerating web pages from a knowledge base containing knowledge and ways of putting together that knowledge to produce client pages with a minimal amount of human interaction.

Automatic Indexing

    The internet has brought about many things.  One of those things is the massive amount of data that many people now find themselves trying to sort through in order to find out about something very specific.  Unfortunately, sometimes the web search engines that are most often employed by these individuals become overrun by individuals trying to sell their products at any cost, and sometimes will even resort to tactics which will get them listed in completely irrelevant searches, just to try and make a buck.  This particular field looks at things from the pure direction of information.  We beileve that a person is looking for a certain piece of information and therefore wish to make it easier to get to that information.  This field's main relevance is to large collections of documents, such as one would find in a repository