joseph reisinger

Joseph Reisinger

I'm a PhD student in Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin. My advisor is Ray Mooney. I'm currently supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. I'm also co-mastermind of FAI.

This summer Google Research has graciously agreed to host my work on semi-supervised latent variable models.

Research Interests

I'm interested primarily in models of latent combinatorial structure in unlabeled data; particularly inferring semantic information automatically. My previous home was in theoretical evolutionary biology where I studied evolvability under randomized search schemes (here is a recent review).

Current projects include: Nonparametric Bayesian Approaches to Semantification/Information Extraction, Leveraging Evolvability in Search, and Evolutionary Games with Unknown Payoff Distributions.

Diversions

My hobby is taking photos; I vaguely co-author a blog on literary pleasures; I'm fluent in Japanese.

Natural Language Processing

Multi-Prototype Vector-Space Models of Word Meaning , with Ray Mooney. NAACL-2010.

Latent Variable Models of Concept-Attribute Attachment , with Marius Pasca. ACL-2009.
(supplemental material)

Bootstrapped Extraction of Class Attributes,
with Marius Pasca. WWW-2009.

Weakly-Supervised Acquisition of Labeled Class Instances using Graph Random Walks.
Partha Pratim Talukdar, Joseph Reisinger, Marius Pasca, Deepak Ravichandran, Rahul Bhagat and Fernando Pereira. EMNLP-2008.