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- 1. Curriculum Vitae-Ratinov Lev (Arye) Last updated: 31 July 2009 Name: Ratinov Lev Date of Birth: 28/05/1980 Citizenship: Israel. E-Mail: ratinov2@uiuc.edu Web: http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/homes/ratinov2 Phone: 217-377-3547 Address: 709 W Nevada St, Apt 5, Urbana, Illinois , 61801. Publications: • Lev Ratinov, Dan Roth(*). Design Challenges and Misconceptions in Named Entity Recognition. CoNLL-2009. • Ming-Wei Chang, Lev Ratinov, Dan Roth(*). Structured Learning with Constrained Conditional Models, in review for Machine Learning Journal. • Ming-Wei Chang, Lev Ratinov, Dan Roth (*), Constraints as Prior Knowledge. ICML Workshop on Prior Knowledge for Text and Language Processing, 2008 • Ming-Wei Chang, Lev Ratinov, Dan Roth and Vivek Srikumar(*). Importance of Semantic Representation: Dataless Classification, AAAI-08. • Rakesh Gupta and Lev Ratinov(*). Text Categorization with Knowledge Transfer from Heterogeneous Data Sources, AAAI-08. • Ming-Wei Chang, Lev Ratinov, Nicholas Rizzolo, and D. Roth(*), Learning and Inference with Constraints, AAAI 2008 (Nectar track) • Daisuke Ikeda, Hiroya Takamura, Lev Ratinov and Manabu Okumura. Learning to Shift the Polarity of Words for Sentiment Classification, IJCNLP-08 • Rakesh Gupta, Lev Ratinov(*). Topic Spotting in Dialogues using Knowledge Transfer, NIPS Workshop on Learning Problem Design, 2007. • M. C. Chang, L. Ratinov, D. Roth(*). Guiding Semi-Supervision with Constraint- Driven Learning. ACL 2007. • L. Ratinov, E. Gudes. Abbreviation Expansion in Schema Matching and Web Integration. In Proc. of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, 2004.
- 2. • L. Ratinov, E. Gudes. Abbreviation Disambiguation in Schema Matching and Web Integration. Workshop Notes of the First International Workshop on Semantic Web Mining and Reasoning, SWMR 2004. • L. Ratinov, S. E. Shimony, E. Gudes. Probabilistic Semantics for Schema Matching. In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, SMC 2004. (*) The authors are listed in alphabetical order. Tutorials: • Ming-Wei Chang, Lev Ratinov, Dan Roth(*). Constrained Conditional Models for NLP. EACL 2009. (*) The authors are listed in alphabetical order. Patents: • 20090076794 Adding prototype information into probabilistic models (03-19-2009) • 20090171956 Text categorization with knowledge transfer from heterogeneous datasets (07-02-2009) Internships: • Summer 2009 – Internship at Google. The project was on using language models for data quality assurance in Google Local Business Center. • Summer 2008 – Research internship at Honda Research Institute. The project was on measuring coherence in spoken dialog. • Summer 2007 – Research internship at Honda Research Institute. The project was on using encyclopedic knowledge for understanding spoken utterances. • Fall 2006 - Consultant for Microsoft. Extension of summer 2006 internship (identifying sentiment in customer reviews). • Summer 2006 – Research internship at Microsoft. The project was on identifying the sentiment of product reviews. Other Projects/Employment: • Spring 2005 : Scientific programmer at Software Quality Engineering / Data Mining Lab, Ben-Gurion University (BGU), partially supported by USA Space and
- 3. Naval Warfare Systems Command Grant No. N00039-01-1-2248. The project was on generating ’good’ test cases using Gentetic Algorithms. • 2003 - 2004 : Research Assistant for BGU and ‘CVidya Networks’ joint research in Data Mining, funded by the Israeli Ministry of Industry and Trade. (The project was on transferring association rules across databases. This is an adaptation problem, where we are given a classifier that performs well on domain A, and we want to apply it to domain B, which is similar, but has somewhat different properties). • 2002 - 2003 : Research Assistant for BGU and ‘SAP-Portals’ joint research on schema matching, funded by the Israeli Ministry of Industry and Trade. (This project has originated my M.Sc. thesis. The task was discovering synonyms across database schemas). Teaching experience: • Fall 2005-Spring 2007: Teaching Assistant at University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (Discrete Math.) • 2002 - 2005 : Teaching Assistant at Ben-Gurion University (BGU). Professional Activities: • Reviewer for CoNLL-2009 • Reviewer for AAAI 2008 • Reviewer for COLING 2008 • Reviewer for ACL 2007 Education: • Fall 2005 - Current : Phd candidate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Thesis advisor: Prof. Dan Roth. Areas: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing. • Spring 2004 - Fall 2005 : Phd candidate, Ben-Gurion University, Israel. • 2002 - 2004 : M.Sc. at Ben-Gurion University (Cum Laude). Thesis title: “Schema Matching through Schema Understanding.” (Thesis advisor: Prof. Solomon Eyal Shimony. Thesis description: automatic discovery of synonyms in Web interfaces and in database schemas. For example, when booking airplane tickets, ‘Cabin Preference’ can be used instead of ‘Class’.) • 1996 - 2002 : B.Sc. at Ben-Gurion University (Cum Laude)
- 4. References: Prof. Dan Roth, danr@cs.uiuc.edu (Phd thesis advisor). Dr. Rakesh Gupta, rgupta@hra.com (Mentor at Honda Research). Prof. Ehud Gudes, ehud@cs.bgu.ac.il (Supervisor for Data Mining and Schema Matching Projects at BGU.) Dr Mark Last, mlast@bgumail.bgu.ac.il (Supervisor for Quality Engineering project at BGU). Languages: Russian, Hebrew, English (fluent).