Dragomir R. Radev: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia


Article Images

Line 1:

{{Short description|American computer scientist (1968–2023)}}

'''Dragomir R. Radev''' is a [[University of Michigan]] computer science professor working on [[natural language processing]] and [[information retrieval]].

'''Dragomir R. Radev''' (August 7, 1968 – March 29, 2023) was an American computer scientist who was a professor at [[Yale University]], working on [[natural language processing]] and [[information retrieval]]. He also served as a [[University of Michigan]] computer science professor and [[Columbia University]] computer science adjunct professor, as well as a Member of the Advisory Board of [[Lawyaw]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Lawyaw, Intelligent Legal Drafting|url=https://www.lawyaw.com}}</ref>

He is currently working on the fields of open domain [[question answering]], [[multi-document summarization]], and the application of NLP in Bioinformatics and Political Science.

HeRadev isworked currently working onin the fields of open domain [[question answering]], [[multi-document summarization]], and the application of NLP in Bioinformatics, Social Network Analysis and Political Science.

Radev received his PhD in [[Computer Science]] from [[Columbia University]] in 1999. He is the secretary of [http://www.aclweb.org [[Association for Computational Linguistics|ACL]]] (2006–present) and associate editor of [http://www.jair.org JAIR].

Radev received his PhD in [[Computer Science]] from [[Columbia University]] in 1999. He had served on the executive committee of the [[Association for Computational Linguistics]],<ref>{{cite web |title=ACL Officers |url=https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Officers |access-date=1 April 2023}}</ref> and as survey editor and associate editor of the [[Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research]].

Radev died on March 29, 2023, at the age of 54.<ref>[https://seas.yale.edu/news-events/news/memoriam-dragomir-radev-professor-computer-science In Memoriam: Dragomir Radev, Professor of Computer Science]</ref>

== ILOIOL==

Radev has served as the coach and led the US national team in the [[International Linguistics Olympiad|International Linguistics Olympiad (ILOIOL)]] to several gold medals [httphttps://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112073][httphttps://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=109891].

== Awards ==

As [[NACLO]] founder, Radev shared the [[Linguistic Society of America]] 2011 [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20110519221302/http://lsadc.org/info/lsa-awards.cfm ''Linguistics, Language and the Public Award'']. He iswas the Coco-winner of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20100620171509/http://polmeth.wustl.edu/about.php?page=awards Gosnell Prize (2006)].

In 2015, he was named a [[fellow]] of the [[Association for Computing Machinery]] "for contributions to natural language processing and [[computational linguistics]]."<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2015/fellows-2015|title=ACM Fellows Named for Computing Innovations that Are Advancing Technology in the Digital Age|publisher=[[Association for Computing Machinery]]|year=2015|access-date=2015-12-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151209221613/http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2015/fellows-2015|archive-date=2015-12-09|url-status=dead}}.</ref> He was elected a Fellow of the [[Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence]] in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Elected AAAI Fellows |url=https://aaai.org/about-aaai/aaai-awards/the-aaai-fellows-program/elected-aaai-fellows/ |access-date=2023-12-31 |website=AAAI |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2022, Dragomir Radev received the 2022 ACL Distinguished Service Award.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dragomir Radev Receives the 2022 ACL Distinguished Service Award|url=https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/dragomir-radev-receives-2022-acl-distinguished-service-award}}</ref>

== ILO==

Radev has served as the coach and led the US national team in the [[International Linguistics Olympiad|International Linguistics Olympiad (ILO)]] to several gold medals [http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112073][http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=109891].

== Books ==

* Natural Language Interfaces to Databases (2023) <ref>{{Cite book|url = https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-45043-3|title = Natural Language Interfaces to Databases|date = |publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref>

<ref>{{Cite book|url = https://nlidb.github.io/book/|title = Natural Language Interfaces to Databases|date = |publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref>

* Puzzles in Logic, Languages and Computation (2013) <ref>{{Cite book|url = https://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/book/978-3-642-34371-1|title = Puzzles in Logic, Languages and Computation|date = |publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref>

* Mihalcea and Radev (2011) [http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item5980387/?site_locale=en_GB ''Graph-based methods for NLP and IR'']

Line 23 ⟶ 34:

* ACL 2003 Evaluation challenges in large-scale multi-document summarization: the Mead project

* Information Processing and Management 2004 Centroid-based summarization of multiple documents

* J.Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 2004 LexRank: Graph-based lexical centrality as salience in text summarization

* J.Journal of the American Association of Information Science and Technology 2005 Probabilistic question answering on the web

* Communications of the ACM 2005 NewsInEssence: summarizing online news topics

* EMNLP 2007 Semi-supervised classification for extracting protein interaction sentences using dependency parsing

Line 31 ⟶ 42:

* NAACL 2009 Generating surveys of scientific paradigms

* Nucleic Acids Research 2009 Michigan molecular interactions r2: from interacting proteins to pathways

* J.Journal of the American Association of Information Science and Technology 2009 Visual overviews for discovering key papers and influences across research fronts

* KDD 2010 Divrank: the interplay of prestige and diversity in information networks

* American J.Journal of Political Science 2010 How to Analyze Political Attention with Minimal Assumptions and Costs

* Arxiv 2011 The effect of linguistic constraints on the large scale organization of language

* J.Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2011 Mining of vaccine-associated ifn-gamma gene interaction networks using the vaccine ontology

==External links==

* [httphttps://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112073 Team USA Brings Home the Linguistics Gold]

* [http://www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/about/articles/2011/Radev-LSA11.html Dragomir Radev, Co-Founders Recognized as NACLO Receives Linguistics, Language and the Public Award]

* [http://www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/about/articles/2010/Radev-Linguistics.html Dragomir Radev Coaches US Linguistics Team to Multiple Wins]

Line 47 ⟶ 58:

{{reflist}}

<!--- After listing your sources please cite them using inline citations and place them after the information they cite. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:REFB for instructions on how to add citations. --->

*

*

*

*

{{Authority control}}

{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->

| NAME = Radev, Dragomir R.

| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =

| SHORT DESCRIPTION = American computer scientist

| DATE OF BIRTH =

| PLACE OF BIRTH =

| DATE OF DEATH =

| PLACE OF DEATH =

}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Radev, Dragomir R.}}

[[Category:Year1968 of birth missing (living people)births]]

[[Category:Living2023 peopledeaths]]

[[Category:Columbia UniversitySchool of Engineering and Applied Science alumni]]

[[Category:Columbia University alumni]]

[[Category:American computer scientists]]

[[Category:University of Michigan faculty]]

[[Category:NaturalInformation languageretrieval processingresearchers]]

[[Category:2015 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery]]

[[Category:Information retrieval]]

[[Category:Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence]]

[[Category:Natural language processing researchers]]

[[Category:InformationData retrievalminers]]