curriculum vitae
Gilad Mishne
Informatics Institute - University of Amsterdam
Kruislaan 403, Amsterdam 1098SJ, The Netherlands
gilad (AT) science.uva.nl
Education:
2004-- Ph.D candidate, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Dissertation: Applied Text Analytics for Blogs (submitted; public defense on April 2007).
2003 M.Sc. Computer Science (cum laude), ILLC, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Thesis: Source Code Retrieval using Conceptual Graphs.
2000 B.A. Computer Science (cum laude), Technion Institute of Technology, Israel.
Employment:
Summer 2005
Ph.D Intern, Blogpulse (was Intelliseek, now Nielsen BuzzMetrics).
Prototyped systems for advanced weblog analysis, as well as added new functionality to existing systems (details under NDA); some output is in the publications page (movie sales prediction and blog comment analysis papers). Development done in Java.
Summer 2004
Ph.D Intern, IBM Research, Information Retrieval Group.
Prototyped systems for text analytics and retrieval (details under NDA); some output is in the publications page (call-center analysis and blog spam detection papers). Development done mostly in Java.
2003--now
Research Assistant, ILPS Group, University of Amsterdam.
I'm investigating a range of topics in the areas of Information Retrieval (particularly web retrieval) and Natural Language Processing (particularly in the domain of blogs). As a part of my research, I designed and implemented large-scale text analysis tools, including an open domain Question Answering system for English and Dutch and extensions to an open-source IR engine. I also teach Information Retrieval courses and assist in supervising student projects in the areas of IR and NLP. Code development is done in a mix of Java, Perl, and C.
2000--2002
Software Engineer, Charlotte's Web Networks.
Design and implementation of network management tools and embedded software for terabit routers. Development was done in C++ on a FreeBSD platform (and in C for kernel changes).
1998--2000
Software Engineer, Intel Corp.
Design and implementation of CAD tools for VLSI circuit design and testing, including circuit functionality analysis, circuit traversal tools, and logic analysis tools. Development was done in C++ on Linux and Windows platforms.
1992--1996
Military service.
Selected Publications:
- Language Model Mixtures for Contextual Ad Placement in Personal Blogs, FinTAL 2006
- Capturing Global Mood Levels using Blog Posts, AAAI 2006 Spring Symposium. Part of MoodViews, featured on National Radio, The New Scientist, Information Week, Der Spiegel, and numerous websites and blogs.
- Experiments with Mood Classification in Blog Posts, Style2005 at SIGIR 2005
- Blocking Blog Spam with Language Model Disagreement, AIRWeb '05 at WWW 2005
- Using a Reference Corpus as a User Model for Focused Information Retrieval, JDIM 2005
- Boosting Web Retrieval through Query Operations (best student paper award), ECIR 2005
- Source Code Retrieval using Conceptual Similarity, RIAO 2004
Professional Activities:
PC member: EMNLP-CoNLL 2007; ICWSM 2007; AIRWeb 2007; SIGIR 2006 Workshop on Stylistics for Text Retrieval; WWW 2006 Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem; EACL 2006 Workshop on New Text.
Reviewer: SIGIR 2007; ICDT 2007; JCMC; ACM TOIS; WI-2004, WI-2005; CHI 2006; ECIR 2006; PODS 2006; ACL 2004 QA Workshop.
Co-organizer: TREC 2006 Blog Retrieval Track.
Teaching Experience:
Lecturer, Internet Information (graduate level), Spring 2005.
Teaching Assistant, Information Retrieval (graduate level), Winter 2004.
Teaching Assistant, Information Retrieval Project (undergraduate level), Winter 2006.
Selected talks:
Blog Retrieval and Mining (invited lecture), University of Twente, 2006.
Web Retrieval Challenges (invited lecture), Technical University Delft, 2005.
Beyond IR: Answering Natural Language Questions, IBM Research Haifa, 2004.
Linguistics and Ontologies in Question Answering Systems, CS Seminar Series, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, 2004.
Skills:
Programming languages: C, C++, Java, Perl, shell.
Languages: Hebrew (native), English (excellent), Dutch (conversational), Arabic (basic).
Other Interests:
Hiking, Guitar, History and Philosophy of Religion.