I am an assistant professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah.
My research deals with Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing.
Currently Teaching
Recent news
- Apr 2, 2017: Join us at EACL 2017 for the tutorial on integer linear programs for inference in NLP
- Mar 31, 2017: Paper on formalizing feature extraction accepted to ACL 2017.
- Jan 1, 2017: Jeff Phillips and I are organizing the Utah Data Science Day 2017.
- Sep 20, 2016: We are organizing a workshop on structured prediction for NLP at EMNLP this year. If you are planning to be at EMNLP, check it out.
- Jul 29, 2016: Our paper on alignment for sentence similarities accepted at EMNLP 2016.
- Jun 20, 2016: Our paper on continuous kernel learning accepted at ECML 2016.
- Jun 3, 2016: Our paper describing the new corpus of preposition supersenses will be presented at the linguistics annotation workshop (LAW X) this year.
- Apr 24, 2016: Our paper on rectifier networks accepted at ICML 2016.
- Mar 23, 2016: Our work on sentiment in psychotherapy text will be presented at the workshop on clinical psychology and NLP at NAACL.
- Feb 13, 2016: Organizing the Workshop on Declarative Learning Based Programming at AAAI 2016.
Previous affiliations:
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I was a post-doc at Stanford University with Chris Manning and the Stanford NLP group.
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I obtained my Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I worked with Dan Roth and the Cognitive Computation group.
Contact
| svivek at cs dot utah dot edu | |
| Office | Room 3126 in Merrill Engineering Building |
| Mailing address | 50 S. Central Campus Drive, Room 3126 |
| Salt Lake City, UT 84112. |