Dagan

Ido Dagan - Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data

Date of birth: September 7, 1960
Place of birth: Israel
Military service: 1978-1983
Address: 26a Shivtei Israel St., Ramat Hasharon 47267, Israel.
Home phone: +972-(0)3-5472410
Cell phone: +972-(0)54-395336
Email: dagan@cs.biu.ac.il

Education

1992: Ph.D. Computer Science, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Thesis topic: Multilingual statistical methods for natural language disambiguation.
Supervisor: Prof. Alon Itai.

1986: B.Sc. Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude, Technion – Israel Institute of
Technology. On the Technion President’s List of Excellence 1984,1985,1986.

Employment

2002 – present: Vice President of Technology, LingoMotors (continued employment after
FocusEngine acquisition).

1998 - 2001: Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Director, FocusEngine (until acquired
by LingoMotors).

Comment: During my industrial employment I continued my academic activity with Bar Ilan
at lower profile, mostly supervising graduate students and publishing papers with them, while
conducting some international activity (details below).

1996 - 1998: Visiting Lecturer, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bar Ilan
University.

1994 - 1996: Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer
Science, Bar Ilan University.

1992 - 1994: Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Research Division.

1990 - 1991: Research Fellow, IBM Israel Scientific Center, Haifa.

1984 - 1986: CAD Software Engineer, INTEL Israel Ltd.

1978 - 1983: Israel Defense Forces. Software development and system analysis.

Teaching Experience

Teaching courses and seminars at Bar Ilan University: Algorithms 1, Natural Language
Processing (NLP), Empirical Methods for NLP, Information Retrieval.

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Research Interests

Natural Language Processing (NLP):

• Empirical Natural Language Processing
• Machine learning methods for NLP
• Robust corpus-based semantic-level processing
• Applications for textual information access and extraction (such as information
extraction, question answering, text categorization), and multi-lingual applications

Publications

Journal Articles

1. Dagan, Ido, Martin C. Golumbic and Ron Y. Pinter. Trapezoid graphs and their
coloring, Discrete Applied Mathematics, 1988, Vol. 21, pp. 35-46.

2. Dagan, Ido and Alon Itai. Set expression based inheritance system, Annals of
Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 1991, Vol. 4(3-4), pp. 269-280.

3. Dagan, Ido and Alon Itai. Word sense disambiguation using a second language
monolingual corpus, Computational Linguistics, 1994, Vol. 20(4), pp. 563-596.

4. Dagan, Ido, John Justeson, Shalom Lappin, Herbert Leass and Amnon Ribak. Syntax
and lexical statistics in anaphora resolution, Applied Artificial Intelligence, 1995, Vol.
9, pp. 633-644.

5. Dagan, Ido, Shaul Marcus and Shaul Markovitch. Contextual word similarity and
estimation from sparse data, Computer, Speech and Language, 1995, Vol. 9, pp.
123-152.

6. Dagan, Ido and Kenneth Church. Termight: Coordinating man and machine in
bilingual terminology acquisition, Machine Translation, 1997, Vol. 12(1-2), pp.
89-107.

7. Feldman, Ronen, Ido Dagan and Haym Hirsh. Mining text using keyword
distributions, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 1998, Vol. 10(3), pp.
281-300.

8. Dagan, Ido, Lillian Lee and Fernando Pereira. Similarity-based models of
cooccurrence probabilities, Machine Learning, 1999, Vol. 34(1-3) special issue on
Natural Language Learning, pp. 43-69.

9. Argamon, Shlomo, Ido Dagan and Yuval Krymolowski. A memory based approach
to learning shallow natural language patterns, Journal of Experimental and
Theoretical AI (JETAI), 1999, Vol. 11, pp. 369-390.

10.Argamon-Engleson, Shlomo and Ido Dagan. Committee-Based Sample Selection for
Probabilistic Classifiers, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 1999,
Vol. 11, pp. 335-360.

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11.Marx, Zvika and Ido Dagan. Conceptual mapping through keyword coupled
clustering. Mind and Society: a Special Issue on Commonsense and Scientific
Reasoning, 2002, forthcoming (27 pages).

12.Marx, Zvika, Ido Dagan, Joachim M. Buhmann and Eli Shamir. Coupled clustering:
a method for detecting structural correspondence, Journal of Machine Learning
Research, 2002, forthcoming (29 pages).

Refereed Articles in Books

Comment: Four of the articles below (Nos. 1,2,4,5) appear in refereed article collections
dedicated to original research results in specific areas, which were published as books
(similar to journal special issues). The fifth article (No. 3) is a refereed invited chapter in the
Handbook of Natural Language Processing.

1. Engelson, Sean and Ido Dagan. Sample selection in natural language learning, in S.
Wermter, E. Riloff and G. Scheler (Eds.), Connectionist, Statistical and Symbolic
Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing, Springer, 1996, pp.
230-245.

2. Dagan, Ido, Kenneth Church and William Gale. Robust bilingual word alignment for
machine aided translation, in S. Armstrong, K. Church, P. Isabelle, S. Manzi, E.
Tzoukermann and D. Yarowsky (Eds.), Natural Language Processing Using Very
Large Corpora, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, pp. 209-224.

3. Dagan, Ido. Contextual Word Similarity, in Rob Dale, Hermann Moisl and Harold
Somers (Eds.), Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Marcel Dekker Inc, 2000,
Chapter 19, pp. 459-476.

4. Choueka, Yaacov, Ehud S. Conley and Ido Dagan. A comprehensive bilingual word
alignment system: application to disparate languages - Hebrew and English, in J.
Veronis (Ed.), Parallel Text Processing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, pp. 69–
96.

5. Dagan, Ido and Yuval Krymolowski. Compositional memory-based partial parsing, in
R. Bod, R. Scha and K. Sima'an (Eds.), Data-Oriented Parsing, CSLI Publications,
2002, forthcoming (20 pages).

Papers at Refereed Conferences and Workshops

1. Dagan, Ido and Alon Itai. Automatic Acquisition of Constraints for the Resolution of
Anaphora References and Syntactic Ambiguities, in Proceedings of COLING, 1990,
pp. 330-332.

2. Dagan, Ido and Alon Itai. A Statistical Filter for Resolving Pronoun References, in Y.
A. Feldman and A. Bruckstein (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision,
Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., 1991, pp. 125-135 (Proceedings of the 7th Israeli
Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision, 1990).

3. Dagan, Ido, Alon Itai and Ulrike Schwall. Two languages are more informative than
one, in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL), 1991, pp. 130-137.

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(Extended version appears in journal article 3)

4. Dagan, Ido. Lexical disambiguation: Information sources and their statistical
realization, in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL) (Student Session), 1991, pp. 341-342.

5. Rackow, Ulrike, Ido Dagan and Ulrike Schwall. Automatic translation of noun
compounds, in Proceedings of COLING, 1992, pp. 1249-1253.

6. Dagan, Ido, Shaul Marcus and Shaul Markovitch. Contextual word similarity and
estimation from sparse data, in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association
for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 1993, pp. 164-171.

7. Dagan, Ido, Kenneth Church and William Gale. Robust bilingual word alignment for
machine aided translation, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Very Large Corpora
(WVLC), 1993, pp. 1-8.
(Extended version appears in book article 2)

8. Dagan, Ido, John Justeson, Shalom Lappin Herbert Leass and Amnon Ribak. Syntax
and lexical statistics in anaphora resolution, Bar-Ilan Symposium on Foundations of
AI, 1993.
(Extended version included in journal article 4)

9. Dagan, Ido, Fernando Pereira and Lillian Lee. Similarity-based estimation of word
cooccurrence probabilities, in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association
for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 1994, pp. 272-278.

10.Dagan, Ido and Kenneth Church. Termight: Identifying and translating technical
terminology, in Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Applied Natural Language
Processing (ANLP), 1994, pp. 34-40.

11.Dagan, Ido and Sean Engelson. Committee-based sampling for training probabilistic
classifiers, in Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Machine
Learning (ICML), 1995.

12.Dagan, Ido and Sean Engelson. Selective sampling in natural language learning, in
Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on New Approaches to Learning for Natural
Language Processing, 1995, pp. 41-48.

13.Feldman, Ronen and Ido Dagan. KDT - Knowledge Discovery in Texts, in
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Knowledge Discovery (KDD),
1995, pp. 112-117.

14.Feldman, Ronen and Ido Dagan. Knowledge Discovery in Textual Databases, in
Proceedings of the ECML Workshop in Knowledge Discovery, 1995.

15.Engelson, Sean and Ido Dagan. Minimizing Manual Annotation Cost in Supervised
Training from Corpora, in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for

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Computational Linguistics (ACL), 1996, pp. 319-326.

16.Dagan, Ido, Ronen Feldman and Haym Hirsh. Keyword-Based Browsing and
Analysis of Large Document Sets, in Proceedings of The Fifth Annual Symposium on
Document Analysis and Information Retrieval (SDAIR), 1996, pp. 191-208.

17.Feldman, Ronen, Ido Dagan and Willi Kloesgen. Efficient algorithms for mining and
manipulating associations in texts, in Proceedings of the Thirteenth European
Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR), 1996.

18.Dagan, Ido, Lillian Lee and Fernando Pereira. Similarity-based methods for word
sense disambiguation, in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL), 1997, pp 56-63.

19.Dagan, Ido, Yael Karov and Dan Roth. Mistake-driven learning in text categorization,
in Proceedings of Second Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing (EMNLP-2), 1997.

20.Yamazaki, Takefumi and Ido Dagan. Mistake-driven learning with thesaurus for text
categorization, in Proceedings of the Natural Language Pacific Rim Symposium
(NLPRS-97), 1997.

21.Argamon, Shlomo, Ido Dagan and Yuval Krymolowsky. Memory-based learning of
shallow natural language patterns, in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 1998.

22.Marx, Zvi, Ido Dagan and Eli Shamir. Detecting Sub-Topic Correspondence through
Bipartite Term Clustering, in Proceedings of the ACL-1999 Workshop on
Unsupervised Learning in Natural Language Processing, 1999, pp. 45-51.

23.Krymolowski, Yuval and Ido Dagan. Compositional Memory-Based Partial Parsing,
in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL), 2000, pp. 45-52.

24.Marx, Zvika, Ido Dagan, Joachim M. Buhmann. Coupled Clustering: a method for
detecting structural correspondence, in Proceedings of the Eighteenth International
Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2001, pp.353–360.

25.Marx, Zvika, Ido Dagan and Eli Shamir. Cross-component clustering for template
induction, in Proceedings of the ICML Workshop on Text Learning (TextML), 2002,
pp. 66-75.

26.Dagan, Ido, Zvika Marx and Eli Shamir. Cross-dataset clustering: revealing
corresponding Themes Across Multiple Corpora, in Proceedings of the Sixth
Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), 2002, pp. 15-21.

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Patents

1. Glossary construction tool, with co-inventor Kenneth Church, at AT&T. U.S. Patent
No. 5,850,561, filed September 23, 1994, issued December 15, 1998.

Co-inventor of the following three patent applications at FocusEngine, in the areas of text
categorization and its combination with other information access methods:

2. U.S. Patent Application No. 09/512,252, filed February 24, 2000

3. U.S. Patent Application No. 09/690,307, filed October 17, 2000

4. U.S. Patent Application No. 60/275,839, filed March 14,2001

International Professional Activities

Journal Editorial Boards

1. Editorial Board of the Computational Linguistics (CL) journal, 1995 – 1997.

2. Editorial Board of the Machine Translation (MT) journal, 1999 – present.

Program Chairing

• Program co-chair of the Fourth ACL SIGDAT International Workshop on Very Large
Corpora (WVLC-4), Copenhagen, 1996.

International Conference Program Committees

1. ANLP 1994, ACL Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing.
2. ACL 1995, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
3. BISFAI 1995, Fourth Bar-Ilan Symposium on Foundations of Artificial Intelligence.
4. TMI 1997, International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in
Machine Translation.
5. WVLC 1997, Fifth ACL SIGDAT International Workshop on Very Large Corpora.
6. BISFAI 1997, Fifth Bar-Ilan Symposium on Foundations of Artificial Intelligence.
7. AAAI 1998, The Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (NLP track).
8. COLING/ACL 1998, Joint conference for COLING and the Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics.
9. COLING/ACL 1998 Student Session.
10. Computerm 1998, International Workshop on Computational Terminology.
11.ANLP 1999, ACL Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing.
13.ANLP 2000, ACL Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing.
14. NAACL 2000, North-American Chapter of the ACL.
16. NAACL 2001, North-American Chapter of the ACL.
18. EMNLP 2002, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
19. COLING 2002.
20. Computerm 2002, International Workshop on Computational Terminology.
21. ACL 2003, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Area:
Machine Learning for Natural Language).

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Reviewing

• Reviewing empirical NLP article submissions for the following journals:
a. Computational Linguistics
b. Machine Translation
c. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
d. Machine Learning
e. Natural Language Engineering
f. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
g. Information Processing and Management.

• Reviewing research grant proposals in the NLP area for:
a. Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
b. US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF)
c. German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF)
d. Israel Ministry of Science.

Invited Summer School Courses

1. Statistical Methods for Natural Language Processing.
ESSLLI – European Summer School on Language, Logic and Information, Lisbon,
Portugal, 1993.

2. Statistical Machine Translation.
ELSNET European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication: Corpus-
Based Methods, Utrecht, Holland, 1994.

3. Multilingual Corpus Processing.
ELSNET European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication:
Multilinguality in Speech and Language Processing, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1995.

4. Lexical Statistical Methods for Natural Language Processing.
ESSLLI – European Summer School on Language, Logic and Information, Saarbrucken,
Germany, 1998.

5. Text Mining.
ELSNET European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication: Text and
Speech Triggered Information Access, Xios, Greece, 2000

Invited Talks and Panels

1. Panelist at the meeting of the European Expert Advisory Group on Language Engineering
Standards (EAGLES), Madrid, 1997. Topic: Bilingual alignment and lexicon acquisition.

2. Invited talk at the SPARKLE (Shallow PARsing and Knowledge Extraction for Language
Engineering) European project review, Pisa, 1998. Topic: Automatic thesaurus
construction.

3. Invited talk at the Bolzano (Italy) Workshop on Corpus-based Terminology, 1998. Topic:
Automated corpus-based acquisition of bilingual terminology.

4. Invited talk at TALN, Annual Meeting of the French Natural Language Processing
Association, 1999. Topic: Vector models in language processing.

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5. Invited talk at the TELRI European Seminar (Trans-European Language Resources
Infrastructure), 1999. Topic: Automatic acquisition of multi-lingual resources.

Conference Tutorials

1. Bilingual Word Alignment and Lexicon Construction.
At the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 1996.

2. Bilingual Word Alignment and Lexicon Construction.
At the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 1996.

3. Lexical Statistical Methods for Natural Language Processing.
At the joint COLING-ACL conference, 1998.

EACL Advisory Board

• Advisory Board of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (EACL), 2003-2004.
Advising the EACL president and other officers on various issues, such as events,
projects and academia-industry collaboration.

Research Grants

1. Ido Dagan and Alon Itai. Statistical Methods for Disambiguation in Natural
Languages. Grant number 120-741 of the Israel Council for Research and
Development, 1988-1992.

2. Ido Dagan, Yaacov Choueka and Sean Engleson. Alignment of parallel bilingual
texts: Handling disparate languages and rich morphology and applying local syntactic
constraints. Grant number 488/95-1 of the Israel Science Foundation (ISF),
1995-1998.

3. Yaacov Choueka, Ido Dagan, Tomi Klein, Ariel Frank and Michael Elhadad. Taming
the information highway: Infrastructures and prototypes for intelligent textual
information handling, with special attention to Hebrew. Grant of the Israeli Ministry
of Science and the Arts for Scientific and Technological Infrastructure, 1995-1998.

4. Ronen Feldman, Ido Dagan, Willy Kloewsgen and Stefan Wrobel. Generic
environment and high-level language for knowledge discovery in texts. Grant of the
German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF),
1996-1999.

5. Ido Dagan, Ronen Feldman, Beatrice Daille, Yves Kodratof. Term level text mining:
representations and algorithms. Grant of AFIRST – French-Israeli Scientific
Cooperation, 1996-1998.

6. Ido Dagan. Similarity and analogy in structured textual information processing. Grant
of the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), 1998-2001.

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Supervising Graduate Students

M.Sc. Thesis

1.Shlomit Hazan (with Dr. Ronen Feldman): Discovery and clustering of association rules
in large data bases. 1997.

2.Erez Lotan: Automatic construction of a statistical thesaurus. 1998.

3.Alex Avramovitch: An Internet Crawler for automatic corpus and thesaurus construction.
1998.

4.Shelly Katz (with Dr. Ariel Frank): Intelligent information filtering within information
harvesting in the Internet. 1998.

5.Roman Mitnitsky: A personal search agent for Internet users. 1998.

6.Michal Finkelstein-Landau: Term-based summarization and knowledge discovery in
texts. 1999.

7.Marina Risher: Automatic query generation. 2001.

8.Ehud Conley: Seq_align: A parsing-independent bilingual sequence alignment algorithm.
2002.

9.Odelia Dayan: Automatic classification of text entities by machine learning methods.
(Thesis submission expected at early 2003)

Ph.D. Thesis

10.Zvika Marx (with Prof. Eli Shamir): Structure Based Computational Aspects of
Similarity and Analogy in Natural Language. (Towards completion – thesis submission
expected at end of 2002)

11.Yuval Krymolowski (with Prof. Amihood Amir): Partial Parsing using Memory-Based
Sequence Learning. (Towards completion – thesis submission expected at early 2003)

12.Oren Glickman (with Prof. Moshe Koppel): Generic Shallow Semantic Inference based
on Automatic Knowledge Acquisition. (Ph.D. research proposal approved in 2002)

13.Maayan Gefet (with Dr. Dror Feitelson): Automatic construction of ontology from text.
(Ph.D. research proposal to be submitted by end of 2002)

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