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Seeger Fisher, PhD Candidate

Center for Spoken Language Understanding (CSLU)
Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering (CSEE)
OGI School of Science & Engineering
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)

Contact

Center for Spoken Language Understanding
OGI School of Science & Engineering
Oregon Health & Science University
20000 NW Walker Road, Beaverton, Oregon 97006

phone: 503-969-3542
fax: 503-748-1306
e-mail:   f i s h e r s   at   c s l u   dot   o g i   dot   e d u

Research Interests

Key words: segmentation, discourse parsing, summarization

Advisor: Prof. Brian Roark

Publications

"The utility of parse-derived features for automatic discourse segmentation"
Seeger Fisher and Brian Roark.
In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Prague, June 2007.

"Feature expansion for query-focused supervised sentence ranking"
Seeger Fisher and Brian Roark.
Document Understanding Conference 2007, Rochester, NY.

"Combining lexicon expansion, information retrieval, and cluster-based ranking for biomedical question answering"
Cohen AM, Yang J, Fisher S, Roark B, Hersh WR.
The Fifteenth Text Retrieval Conference - TREC 2006.

"Query-Focused Summarization By Supervised Sentence Ranking and Skewed Word Distributions"
Seeger Fisher and Brian Roark.
Document Understanding Conference 2006, Brooklyn, NY.

"Comparing and Combining Finite-State and Context-Free Parsers"
Kristy Hollingshead, Seeger Fisher, and Brian Roark.
In Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP 2005, Vancouver BC.

"OGI/OHSU Basline Multilingual Multi-document Summarization System"
Seeger Fisher and Brian Roark.
Mutli-lingual Summarization Evaluation 2005, Ann Arbor, MI.

"OGI/OHSU Basline Query-directed Multi-document Summarization System for DUC-2005"
Seeger Fisher, Brian Roark, Jianji Yang and Bill Hersh.
Document Understanding Conference 2005, Vancouver, BC.

"Untangling Coordination: determining the grammatical role of 'and'."
Seeger Fisher.
Technical Report CSLU, OGI-OHSU. 2005.

Conferences/
Workshops Attended

HLT/NAACL 06 - Brooklyn, NY, June 2006
HLT/EMNLP 05 - Vancouver, BC, Canada, Oct 6-8 2005
ACL 05 - Ann Arbor, MI, USA, June 25-30 2005
HTL/NAACL 04 - Boston, MA, USA, May 2-7 2004

Learning

Classes I've taken at OGI.

Education

MS in Computer Science & Engineering * OGI - OHSU * 2003

BS in Cognitive Science * University of California - San Diego * 1991

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