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Andrew McCallum
NationalityUnited States
Alma materDartmouth College
University of Rochester[2]
Known forConditional random field
AwardsICML Test of Time (2011)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science, Artificial Intelligence
InstitutionsWhizBang Labs
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Doctoral advisorDana H. Ballard[1]
Doctoral studentsWei Li, Charles Sutton, Xuerui Wang, Aron Culotta, David Mimno, Sameer Singh

Andrew McCallum is a professor and researcher in the computer science department at University of Massachusetts Amherst.[3] His primary specialties are in machine learning, natural language processing, information extraction, information integration, and social network analysis.[4]

McCallum graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1989. He completed his Ph.D. at University of Rochester in 1995 under the supervision of Dana H. Ballard. He was then a postdoctoral fellow, working with Sebastian Thrun and Tom M. Mitchell at Carnegie Mellon University. From 1998 to 2000 he was a Research Scientist and Research Coordinator at Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center. From 2000 to 2002 was Vice President of Research and Development at WhizBang Labs, and Director of its Pittsburgh office.[2]

In 2009 he was elected a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.[5]

He is now the president-elect of International Machine Learning Society (IMLS),[6] which supports the International Conference on Machine Learning.

Main contributions

In collaboration with John Lafferty and Fernando Pereira, McCallum developed conditional random fields, first described in a paper presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).[7] In 2011 this research paper won the ICML "Test of Time" (10 year best paper) award.[8]

McCallum has written several widely used[9] open-source software toolkits for machine learning, natural language processing and other text processing, including Rainbow,[10] Mallet (software project), and FACTORIE.[11] In addition, he was instrumental in publishing the Enron Corpus, a large collection of emails that has been used as a basis for a number of academic studies of social networking and language.

References

  1. ^ "The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Andrew McCallum". Archived from the original on 6 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-31. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ a b "Bio for Andrew McCallum". Archived from the original on 4 June 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-31. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ "http://www.cs.umass.edu/faculty/faculty-directory". Archived from the original on 4 June 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-31. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ "Elected AAAI Fellows". Retrieved 2010-05-31.
  5. ^ http://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows.php
  6. ^ "IMLS Board". machinelearning.org. Retrieved 19 March 2015. President-Elect Andrew McCallum
  7. ^ Lafferty, J.; McCallum, A.; Pereira, F.C.N. (2001). "Conditional Random Fields: Probabilistic Models for Segmenting and Labeling Sequence Data". International Conference on Machine Learning. pp. 79–87. {{cite conference}}: Unknown parameter |booktitle= ignored (|book-title= suggested) (help)
  8. ^ "Test-of-Time Award ICML'11". ICML. 2011. Retrieved 15 December 2014. John D. Lafferty, Andrew McCallum, Fernando C. N. Pereira. Conditional Random Fields: Probabilistic Models for Segmenting and Labeling Sequence Data.
  9. ^ "Google Scholar search for +mccallum +rainbow +software". Retrieved 2010-05-31.
  10. ^ "Rainbow". Archived from the original on 26 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-31. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  11. ^ "FACTORIE". Retrieved 2014-05-20.

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