Gregory Grefenstette

Gregory Grefenstette is a French American computer scientist, researcher, professor, and author in the fields of artificial intelligence and natural language processing.

Biography

Grefenstette was born in Pittsburgh, PA in 1956. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an undergraduate student in mathematical science and completed his bachelor’s degree at Stanford University in 1978. Grefenstette graduated with a master's degree from Paris-Sud University in 1983 and received his PhD in computer science from University of Pittsburgh in 1993. From 1984 to 1989, he has also worked as an assistant professor at University of Tours, in France.

Grefenstette was named as an inventor in 20 US patents, a majority of which were filed during his years at Xerox.

Selected works

Books

• Grefenstette, Gregory; Wilber, Laura (2011). Search-based Applications: At the Confluence of Search and Database Technologies. Morgan & Claypool Publishers. ISBN 9781608455072.
• Renals, Steve; Grefenstette, Gregory (2003-09-09). Text- and Speech-Triggered Information Access: 8th ELSNET Summer School, Chios Island, Greece, July 15-30, 2000, Revised Lectures. Springer. ISBN 9783540451150.
• Grefenstette, Gregory (1998). Cross-language information retrieval. Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 9781461527107.
• Grefenstette, Gregory (2012-12-06). Explorations in Automatic Thesaurus Discovery. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9781461527107.

Major publications

• International Handbook of Modern Lexis and Lexicography | Patrick Hanks | Springer.
• Grefenstette, Gregory and Lawrence Muchemi. 2016. Determining the Characteristic Vocabulary for a Specialized Dictionary using Word2vec and a Directed Crawler, 10th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
• Grefenstette, Gregory. 2016. Extracting Weighted Language Lexicons from Wikipedia.
• Grefenstette, Gregory; Rafes, Karima (2015). "Transforming Wikipedia into an Ontology-based Information Retrieval Search Engine for Local Experts using a Third-Party Taxonomy". arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.01259.
• "Adam Kilgarriff's Legacy to Computational Linguistics and Beyond, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLING 2016)" (PDF). {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
• "Extracting Hierarchical Topic Models from the Web for Improving Digital Archive Access" (PDF). {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
• Grefenstette, Gregory. "Personal Information Systems and Personal Semantics". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• Grefenstette, Gregory (2015). Language Production, Cognition, and the Lexicon. Springer, Cham. pp. 203–219. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-08043-7_12.
• Grefenstette, Gregory. "INRIASAC: Simple Hypernym Extraction Methods". inria.fr.
• Law-To, Julien; Grefenstette, Gregory; Landais, Rémi (2013). "Semantic Dispatching of Multimedia News with MEWS". Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Multimedia. MM '13. New York, NY, USA: ACM: 427–428. doi:10.1145/2502081.2502253. ISBN 9781450324045.