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ACM names Dragomir Radev a distinguished scientist
(Jan 2009) The Association for Computing Machinery has named Associate Professor Dragomir Radev a distinguished scientist in recognition of his significant accomplishments and impact on the computing field. Radev is coordinator of the Information Analysis and Retrieval specialization within the Master of Science in Information program at the School of Information.
Radev is also an associate professor in the Division of Computer Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering and the Department of Linguistics in the College of Literature, Science & the Arts. In addition, he is an adjunct professor at Columbia University in the Department of Computer Science.
The professor's research interests are in information retrieval and natural language processing, and in general, database systems, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and biomedical language processing. Radev has published more than 50 papers in these areas. He heads the Computational Linguistics and Information Retrieval (CLAIR) group at the University of Michigan. CLAIR was established in January 2000 and currently includes approximately 10 student and faculty members.
Current projects include text summarization, Lexical models of the Web, robust question answering, sequence alignment techniques for text analysis, biomedical language processing, information extraction using weakly supervised methods, and graph-based methods for classification and natural language processing.
Radev came to the University of Michigan from IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, where he conducted research in the Human-Centric Applications and Solutions Department.
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