About CLAIR

Introduction

Computational Linguistics And Information Retrieval (CLAIR) group at the University of Michigan. CLAIR was established in January 2000. It currently includes about 7 members: faculty and students. The main areas of the research are:

• Natural Language Processing
• Information Retrieval
• Network Analysis

People

• Faculty
  • Dragomir R. Radev

• PhD Students
  • Ahmed Hassan
  • Pradeep Muthukrishnan
  • Arzucan Özgür
  • Vahed Qazvinian
  • Amjad Abu Jbara

• MS Students, undergraduates, programmers, and visitors
  • Yang Liu

Projects

• Clairlib
• Tracking the Dynamic Evolution of Participant Salience in a Discussion
• Detecting multiple facets of an event using graph-based unsupervised methods
• Improved Nearest Neighbor Methods For Text Classification With Language Modeling and Harmonic Functions
• Extracting Protein Interactions from Biomedical Text
• Gene Interaction Network (GIN)
• Identifying Gene-Disease Associations from Biomedical Text
• Graph-based semi-supervised learning
• Lexical networks and lexical centrality
• Text summarization MEAD
• Analyzing political speech
• Analysis of the Blogosphere
• Citation network analysis
• Summarizing scientific papers
• Question answering

Contact

For research-related questions, contact Dragomir Radev at r_a_d_e_v@umich.edu (remove the underlines).

Web Site

http://tangra.si.umich.edu/clair/