Micha Elsner

I am now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh. I am working on Bayesian word segmentation with Sharon Goldwater, although I intend to keep working on discourse as well.

My thesis focused on discourse coherence-- the way a document or conversation is structured to provide context for new information. I constructed models looking at where and how entities (things in the world) are mentioned in a text. I also showed that these models can be used to disentangle the different threads of conversation going on in a crowded chat room.

I got my Phd. from Brown University in 2011, advised by Eugene Charniak, with Mark Johnson and Regina Barzilay as committee members. At Brown, I worked in the Brown Laboratory for Linguistic Information Processing (BLLIP).

I graduated from the University of Rochester in 2005 with degrees in Computer Science and Classics. I got my MS from Brown in 2007.

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