Benjamin Snyder
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Biography
Known colloquially as Ben Snyder, I recently completed my PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT as a member of the
the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). I was advised by Regina Barzilay. My research interests include Statistical Natural Language Processing (NLP), Human Language Acquisition, Human Learning, Machine Learning, and Semitic Languages.
I will be joining the UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department as an Assistant Professor in January 2011.
Publications
Unsupervised Multilingual Learning. PhD Thesis.
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT. September 2010.
A Statistical Model for Lost Language Decipherment
Benjamin Snyder, Regina Barzilay, and Kevin Knight ACL 2010
⇒Write-up in National Geographic News
⇒Write-up in MIT news
⇒Interview on Swedish National Radio
Climbing the Tower of Babel: Unsupervised Multilingual Learning
Benjamin Snyder and Regina Barzilay. ICML 2010
Multilingual Part-of-Speech Tagging: Two Unsupervised Approaches
Tahira Naseem, Benjamin Snyder, Jacob Eisenstein, and Regina Barzilay. JAIR 36 (2009)
Unsupervised Multilingual Grammar Induction
Benjamin Snyder, Tahira Naseem, and Regina Barzilay. ACL 2009
⇒ Slides: (PDF) (Keynote)
Adding More Languages Improves Unsupervised Multilingual Part-of-Speech Tagging:
A Bayesian Non-Parametric Approach
Benjamin Snyder, Tahira Naseem, Jacob Eisenstein, and Regina Barzilay. NAACL 2009
⇒ Slides: (PDF) (Keynote)
Unsupervised Multilingual Learning for POS Tagging
Benjamin Snyder, Tahira Naseem, Jacob Eisenstein, and Regina Barzilay. EMNLP 2008
⇒ Code & Data Slides: (PDF) (Keynote)
Unsupervised Multilingual Learning for Morphological Segmentation
Benjamin Snyder and Regina Barzilay. ACL 2008
⇒ Slides: (PDF) (Keynote)
Cross-lingual Propagation for Morphological Analysis
Benjamin Snyder and Regina Barzilay. AAAI 2008
Multiple Aspect Ranking for Opinion Analysis
Benjamin Snyder. Master's Thesis, MIT 2007
Incremental Text Structuring with Online Hierarchical Ranking
Erdong Chen, Benjamin Snyder, and Regina Barzilay. EMNLP 2007
Multiple Aspect Ranking using the Good Grief Algorithm
Benjamin Snyder and Regina Barzilay. NAACL 2007
⇒ (Data and Code) (Slides)
See my Master's Thesis for improved results, generalizations, and theoretical analysis.
Restaurant Browser system
Database-Text Alignment via Structured Multilabel Classification
Benjamin Snyder and Regina Barzilay. IJCAI 2007
⇒ (Data) (Slides)
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