Dragomir R. Radev (August 7, 1968 – March 29, 2023) was an American computer scientist who was a professor at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

, working on

natural language processing Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human language, in particular how to program computers to proc ...

and information retrieval. He also served as a

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

computer science professor and

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computer science adjunct professor, as well as a Member of the Advisory Board of Lawyaw. Radev worked in the fields of open domain

question answering Question answering (QA) is a computer science discipline within the fields of information retrieval and natural language processing (NLP), which is concerned with building systems that automatically answer questions posed by humans in a natural l ...

multi-document summarization Multi-document summarization is an automatic procedure aimed at information extraction, extraction of information from multiple texts written about the same topic. The resulting summary report allows individual users, such as professional informati ...

, and the application of NLP in Bioinformatics, Social Network Analysis and Political Science. Radev received his PhD in

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from

in 1999. He had served on the executive committee of the

Association for Computational Linguistics The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is a scientific and professional organization for people working on natural language processing. Its namesake conference is one of the primary high impact conferences for natural language proces ...

, and as survey editor and associate editor of the

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research The ''Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research'' (''JAIR'') is an open access peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in all areas of artificial intelligence. History It was established in 1993 as one of the first scientific journa ...

. Radev died on March 29, 2023, at the age of 54.

IOL

Radev served as the coach and led the US national team in the International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) to several gold medal

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Awards

NACLO The North American Computational Linguistics Open competition (NACLO), formerly called the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad before January 1, 2020, is a computational linguistics competition for high school students in the United ...

founder, Radev shared the

Linguistic Society of America The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) is a learned society for the field of linguistics. Founded in New York City in 1924, the LSA works to promote the scientific study of language. The society publishes three scholarly journals: ''Language'', ...

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''Linguistics, Language and the Public Award''
He was the co-winner of th
Gosnell Prize (2006)
In 2015, he was named a

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of the

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"for contributions to natural language processing and

computational linguistics Computational linguistics is an Interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate computational approaches to linguistic questions. In general, comput ...

." He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2020. In 2022, Dragomir Radev received the 2022 ACL Distinguished Service Award.

Books

* Natural Language Interfaces to Databases (2023) * Puzzles in Logic, Languages and Computation (2013) * Mihalcea and Radev (2011
''Graph-based methods for NLP and IR''

Selected Papers

* SIGIR 1995 Generating summaries of multiple news articles * ANLP 1997 Building a generation knowledge source using internet-accessible newswire * Computational Linguistics 1998 Generating natural language summaries from multiple on-line sources * ACL 1998 Learning correlations between linguistic indicators and semantic constraints: Reuse of context dependent descriptions of entities * ANLP 2000 Ranking suspected answers to natural language questions using predictive annotation * CIKM 2001 Mining the web for answers to natural language questions * AAAI 2002 Towards CST-enhanced summarization * ACL 2003 Evaluation challenges in large-scale multi-document summarization: the Mead project * Information Processing and Management 2004 Centroid-based summarization of multiple documents * Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 2004 LexRank: Graph-based lexical centrality as salience in text summarization * Journal of the American Association of Information Science and Technology 2005 Probabilistic question answering on the web * Communications of the ACM 2005 NewsInEssence: summarizing online news topics * EMNLP 2007 Semi-supervised classification for extracting protein interaction sentences using dependency parsing * Bioinformatics 2008 Identifying gene-disease associations using centrality on a literature mined gene-interaction network * IEEE Intelligent Systems 2008 natural language processing and the web * NAACL 2009 Generating surveys of scientific paradigms * Nucleic Acids Research 2009 Michigan molecular interactions r2: from interacting proteins to pathways * Journal of the American Association of Information Science and Technology 2009 Visual overviews for discovering key papers and influences across research fronts * KDD 2010 Divrank: the interplay of prestige and diversity in information networks * American Journal of Political Science 2010 How to Analyze Political Attention with Minimal Assumptions and Costs * Arxiv 2011 The effect of linguistic constraints on the large scale organization of language * Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2011 Mining of vaccine-associated ifn-gamma gene interaction networks using the vaccine ontology

External links

Team USA Brings Home the Linguistics Gold

* ttp://www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/about/articles/2010/Radev-Linguistics.html Dragomir Radev Coaches US Linguistics Team to Multiple Wins
Dragomir Radev Honored as ACM Distinguished Scientist

Prof. Dragomir Radev Receives Gosnell Prize

References

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