Biography:Eric Brill
Eric Brill is a computer scientist specializing in natural language processing.[1] He created the Brill tagger, a supervised part of speech tagger.[2] Another research paper of Brill introduced a machine learning technique now known as transformation-based learning.[3]
Biography
Brill earned a BA in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1987 and a MS in Computer Science from UT Austin in 1989. In 1994, he completed his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania.[4] He was an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University from 1994 to 1999.[5] In 1999, he left JHU for Microsoft Research,[6] he developed a system called "Ask MSR" that answered search engine queries written as questions in English,[7] and was quoted in 2004 as predicting the shift of Google's web-page based search to information based search.[8] In 2009 he moved to eBay to head their research laboratories.[9]
References
- ↑ "Eric David Brill - Home" (in en). https://dl.acm.org/profile/81100272865.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Brill, Eric (1993-12-01). A Corpus-Based Approach to Language Learning. IRCS Technical Reports Series (Thesis).
- ↑ Eric Brill Profile
- ↑ Banko, Michele. "Scaling to Very Very Large Corpora for Natural Language Disambiguation". https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/acl2001.pdf.
- ↑ 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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