Eric Brill
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Eric Brill is a computer scientist specializing in natural language processing. He is famous for his Brill tagger, a supervised part of speech tagger.[1] Another widely cited research paper of Brill introduced a machine learning technique now known as transformation-based learning.[2] Formerly a researcher for Microsoft, he developed a system called "Ask MSR" that answered search engine queries written as questions in English,[3] and was quoted in 2004 as predicting only brief success for Google's search engine business.[4] In 2009 he moved to eBay to head their research laboratories.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ Brill, Eric (1992), "A simple rule-based part of speech tagger", HLT '91: Proceedings of the workshop on Speech and Natural Language, Morristown, NJ, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 112–116, doi:10.3115/1075527.1075553, ISBN 1-55860-272-0.
- ^ Brill, Eric (December 1995), "Transformation-based error-driven learning and natural language processing: a case study in part-of-speech tagging", Comput. Linguist. (Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press) 21 (4): 543–565, http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=218355.218367.
- ^ From factoids to facts, The Economist, August 28, 2004.
- ^ Microsoft Researcher Questions Search Engine Business Model, Paula Rooney, InformationWeek, September 29, 2004.
- ^ Microsoft’s adCenter GM & Search Researcher Eric Brill Moves To eBay, Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Land, September 24, 2009.
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