Sujith Ravi

Research Scientist
Yahoo! Research
4301 Great America Parkway,
Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA
 Email: sujithr AT yahoo DASH inc DOT com

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I recently completed my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. I worked in the Natural Language Group at the Information Sciences Institute (NLP@ISI) and was advised by Prof. Kevin Knight.

My main research interests span various problems and theory related to the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning. I am specifically interested in un-supervised and semi-supervised methods and their applications to NLP problems such as Machine Translation, Name Transliteration, Question Answering, Natural Language Parsing, Information Retrieval in Discourse, etc.

Our work on decipherment written up in the New Scientist magazine, ACM TechNews.

I am currently a Research Scientist at Yahoo! Labs, Santa Clara. Here is my CV.

Co-Organizing MM 2012 - First Workshop on Multilingual Modeling (ACL 2012). UPDATE: CFP is out.

NL Seminar

I was the organizer for the Natural Language Seminar series at ISI. Researchers, faculty, and students from ISI, as well as visiting researchers from other institutions, meet to present ideas, report on interesting experiments, and even give practice talks for upcoming conference meetings. If you are interested in giving a talk or want to check out upcoming talks, please visit the NL seminar website.


Honors and Awards

* Outstanding Research Assistant Award    (Fall 2008) 

    Computer Science Department, University of Southern California
* Best Paper Award    (Fall 2008) 
    Annual Information Sciences Institute (ISI) Graduate Research Symposium
* Best Presentation Award (Runner-up)    (Fall 2008) 
    Annual Information Sciences Institute (ISI) Graduate Research Symposium
* Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award    (Spring 2007) 
    Computer Science Department, University of Southern California


Recent Activities

* Co-Organizer: 

      MM - First Workshop on Multilingual Modeling (ACL 2012)
* Senior Program Committee Member: 
      IJCAI (2011)
* Program Committee Member: 
      ACL (2012)
      NAACL (2012)
      IJCNLP (2011)
      BUCC - Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (LREC 2012, ACL 2011, LREC 2010)
      IEKA - Workshop on Information Extraction and Knowledge Acquisition (RANLP 2011)
      NAACL/HLT Student Research Workshop (2010)
* Journal/Conference Reviewer: 
      IJCNLP (2011)
      AAAI (2011)
      IJCAI (2011)
      ACM TIST - Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (2011)
      AMTA (2010)
      NAACL (2010)
      LREC (2010)


Fun Fact

I have an Erdos number = 3:


** The easiest way to reach me is via email.