Benjamin Snyder
Biography
Known colloquially as Ben Snyder, I am a PhD student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and a member of the
the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). I am advised by Regina Barzilay. My research interests include Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning, Semitic Languages, and Ancient Sacred Texts.
Publications
Unsupervised Multilingual Grammar Induction
Benjamin Snyder, Tahira Naseem, and Regina Barzilay. ACL 2009
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
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.
Database-Text Alignment via Structured Multilabel Classification
Benjamin Snyder and Regina Barzilay. IJCAI 2007
⇒ (Data) (Slides)
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