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Prof. Dagan Ido
Office: Building 216 room 118
Ido Dagan

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Telephone: (+ 972 3) 531 7620
Email: dagan @ cs.biu.ac.il
Personal web page: www.cs.biu.ac.il/~dagan
Mailing address: Department of Computer Science
Bar Ilan University,
Ramat Gan, 52900, Israel

Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval - Search Engines, Text Categorization, Information Extraction

Research Description:

Natural Language Processing (NLP, Computational Linguistics) and textual information access:
 
  • Applied semantic inference and textual entailment
  • Empirical Natural Language Processing and Machine learning methods
  • Applications for textual information access and extraction (such as information retrieval, information extraction, question answering, text categorization)

Graduate Students:

Present Past
Eyal Shnarch
Libby Berkovitch
Lili Kotlerman
Ephi Sachs
Moshe Friedman
Chen Erez
Chaya Lebeskind
Tal Perzon
Meidan Alon
Idan Szpektor
Shachar Mirkin
Roy Bar-Haim
Shlomit Hazan
Erez Lotan
Alex Avramovitch
Shelly Katz
Roman Mitnitsky
Michal Finkelstein-Landau:
Marina Risher
Ehud Conley
Idan Szpektor
Shachar Mirkin
Tal Itzhak Ron
Efrat Hershkovitz
Zvika Marx
Yuval Krymolowski
Oren Glickman
Maayan Gefet

Selected Publications:

  1. Koppel, Moshe, Akiva, Navot, Dagan, Ido. "Feature Instability As a Criterion For Selecting Potential Style Markers" JASIST (in press).

  2. Dagan, I.; Church, K. and Gale, W. "Robust Bilingual Word Alignment for Machine Aided Translation" In: Armstrong, S.; Church, K.; Isabelle, P.; Tzoukermann, E. and Yarowsky, D. (eds.) Studies in Very Large Corpora, p. 15., Kluwer Academic Publishers (in press).

  3. Dagan, I. "Contextual Word Similarity" In: Dale, R.; Moisl, H. and Somers, H. (eds.) Handbook of Natural Language ProcessingNew York, Marcel Dekker (in press).

  4. Marx, Z., Dagan, Ido, Buhmann, J.M., Shamir, E.. "Coupled Clustering: A Method For Detecting Structural Correspondence" J. Mach. Learn. Res., vol. 3, 2003, p. 747-780.

  5. Marx, Zvika, Dagan, Ido, Buhmann, Joachim M.. "Coupled Clustering: A Method For Detecting Structural Correspondence" ICML, 2001, p. 353-360.

  6. Krymolowski, Yuval, Dagan, Ido. "Incorporating Compositional Evidence in Memory-Based Partial Parsing" ACL, 2000.

  7. Choueka, Y.; Conley, E.S. and Dagan, I. "A Comprehensive Bilingual Word Alignment System - Application to Disparate Languages" In: Veronis, J. (eds.) Parallel Text Processing: Alignment and Use of Translation Corpora, p. 69-96., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.

  8. Dagan, I.; Lee, L. and Pereira, F. "Similarity-Based Models of Concurrence Probabilities" Mach Learn, vol. 34, 1999, p. 43-69.

  9. Argamon, S. and Dagan, I. "Committee-Based Sample Selection for Probiblistic Classifiers" J. Artif. Intell. Res., vol. 11, 1999, p. 335-360.

  10. Argamon, Shlomo, Dagan, Ido. "Committee-Based Sample Selection For Probablistic Classifiers" JAIR, vol. 11, 1999, p. 335-360.

  11. Argamon, Shlomo, Dagan, Ido, Krymolowski, Yuval. "A Memory Based Approach To Learning Shallow Natural Language Patterns" JETAI, vol. 11, 1999, p. 369-390.

  12. Feldman, R.; Dagan, I. and Hirsh, H. "Mining Text Using Keyword Distributions" J. Intelligent Information Systems, vol. 10, 1998, p. 281-300.

  13. Feldman, R.; Dagan, I. and Hirsch, H. "Mining Text Using Keyword Distributions" JIIS, vol. 10, 1998, p. 35-36.

  14. Argamon, S.; Dagan, I. and Krymolowski, Y. "A Memory-Based Approach to Learning Shallow Natural Language Patterns" J. Exp. Theor. Artif. In., vol. 11, 1998, p. 369-390.

  15. Dagan, I. and Church, K. "Termight: Coordinating Man and Machine in Bilingual Terminology Acquisition" Machine Translation, vol. 12, 1997, p. 89-107.

  16. Dagan, Ido, Lee, Lillian, Pereira, Fernando C.N.. "Similarity-Based Methods For Word Sense Disambiguation" ACL, 1997, p. 56-63.

  17. Dagan, I.; Lee, L. and Pereira, F. "Similarity-Based Methods for Word Sense Disambiguation" (ed.) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 56-63., 1997.

  18. Dagan, I.; Karov, Y. and Roth, D. "Mistake-Driven Learning in Text Categorization" (ed.) Proceedings of Second Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2)Providence, 1997.

  19. Takefumi, Y. and Dagan, I. "Mistake-Driven Learning with Thesaurus for Text Categorization" (ed.) Proceedings of the Natural Language Pacific Rim Symposium (NLPRS-97), 1997.

  20. Argamon, Shlomo, Dagan, Ido. "Minimizing Manual Annotation Cost in Supervised Training from Corpora" ACL, 1996, p. 379-326.

  21. Argamon, S. and Dagan, I. "Sample Selection in Natural Language Learning" In: Wermter, S.; Riloff, E. and Scheler, G. (eds.) Connectionist, Statistical and Symbolic Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing, p. 230-245., Springer Verlag, 1996.

  22. Dagan, I.; Feldman, R. and Hirsch, H. "Keyword-Based Browsing and Analysis of Large Document Sets" (ed.) Proc. Of the Fifth Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval (SDAIR96)Las Vegas, 1996.

  23. Feldman, R.; Dagan, I. and Kloesgen, W. "Efficient Algorithms for Mining and Manipulating Associations in Texts" (ed.) Proc. Of EMCSR-96 - Thirteenth European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems ResearchVienna, 1996.

  24. Feldman, R.; Dagan, I. and Kloesgen, W. "KDD Tools for Mining Associations in Textual Databases" (ed.) 9th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, 1996.

  25. Argamon, S. and Dagan, I. "Minimizing Manual Annotation Cost in Supervised Training from Corpora" (ed.) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Liguistics (ACL), p. 319-326., 1996.

  26. Dagan, I. and Argamon, S. "Sample Selection in Natural Language Learning" In: Wermter, S.; Riloff, E. and Scheler, G. (eds.) Symbolic, Connectionist, and Statistical Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing, Springer-Verlag, 1996.

  27. Dagan, I.; Justeson, J.; Lappin, S.; Leass, H. and Ribak, A. "Syntax and Lexical Statistics in Anaphora Resolution" Appl Artif Intell, vol. 9, 1995, p. 633-644.

  28. Dagan, I.; Marcus, S. and Markovitch, S. "Contextual Word Similarity and Estimation from Sparse Data" Comput Speech Lang, vol. 9, 1995, p. 123-152.

  29. Argamon, Shlomo, Dagan, Ido. "Committee Based Sampling For Training Probablistic Classifiers" ICML, 1995, p. 150-157.

  30. Argamon, Shlomo, Dagan, Ido. "Sample Selection in Natural Language Learning" Learning For Natural Language Processing, 1995, p. 230-245.

  31. Feldman, Ronen, Dagan, Ido. "Knowledge Discovery in Textual Databases (KDT)" KDD, 1995, p. 112-117.

  32. Feldman, R. and Dagan, I. "KDT - Knowledge Discovery in Textual Databases" (ed.) Proc. Of the 1st International Conference on Knowledge Discovery KDD-95, p. 112-117.Montreal, 1995.

  33. Dagan, I. and Argamon, S. "Selective Sampling in Natural Language Learning" (ed.) Proceedings of IJCAI-95 Workshop on New Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing, p. 41-48., 1995.

  34. Dagan, I. and Argamon, S. "Committee-Based Sampling for Training Probabalistic Classifiers" (ed.) Proceedings of ML-95, the Twelfth International Conference on Machine Learning, 1995.

  35. Dagan, I. and Itai, A. "Word Sense Disambiguation Using a Second Language Monolingual Corpus" Computational Linguistics, vol. 20, 1994, p. 563-596.

  36. Dagan, I. and Church, K. "Termight: Identifying and Translating Technical Terminology" (ed.) Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, p. 34-40., 1994.

  37. Dagan, I.; Pereira, F. and Lee, L. "Similarity-Based Estimation of Word Cooccurrence Probabilities" (ed.) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 272-278., 1994.

  38. Dagan, Ido, Marcus, Shaul, Markovitch, Shaul. "Contextual Word Similarity And Estimation from Sparse Data" ACL, 1993, p. 164-171.

  39. Dagan, Ido, Pereira, Fernando C.N., Lee, Lillian. "Similarity-Based Estimation of Word Concurrence Probabilities" ACL, 1993, p. 164-171.

  40. Dagan, I.; Marcus, S. and Markovitch, S. "Contextual Word Similarity and Estimation from Sparse Data" (ed.) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 164-171., 1993.

  41. Dagan, I.; Church, K. and Gale, W. "Robust Bilingual Word Alignment for Machine Aided Translation" (ed.) Proceedings of the Workshop on Very Large Corporations, p. 1-8., 1993.

  42. Dagan, I.; Justeson, J.; Lappin, S.; Leass, H. and Ribak, A. "Syntax and Lexical Statistics in Anaphora Resolution" (ed.) Bar-Ilan Symposium on Foundations of AI, 1993.

  43. Rackow, Ulrike, Dagan, Ido, Schwall, Ulrike. "A Combined Symbolic-Empirical Approach For the Automatic Translation of Compounds" IWBS Report, vol. 225, 1992.

  44. Rackow, U.; Dagan, I. and Schwall, U. "Automatic Translation of Noun Compounds" (ed.) Proceedings of COLING, p. 1249-1253., 1992.

  45. Dagan, Ido, Itai, Alon. "A Set Expression Based Inheritance System" Annals of Methematics And Artificial Intelligence, vol. 4, 1991, p. 269-280.

  46. Dagan, Ido. "Lexical Disambiguation: Sources of Information And Their Statistical Realization" ACL, 1991, p. 341-342.

  47. Dagan, Ido, Itai, Alon, Schwall, Ulrike. "Two Languages Are More Informative Than One" ACL, 1991, p. 130-137.

  48. Dagan, I.; Itai, A. and Schwall, U. "Two Languages Are More Informative Than One" (ed.) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 130-137., 1991.

  49. Dagan, I. "Lexical Disambiguation: Information Sources and Their Statistical Realization" (ed.) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 341-342., 1991.

  50. Dagan, I. and Itai, A. "Automatic Acquisition of Constraints for the Resolution of Anaphora References and Syntactic Ambiguities" (ed.) Proceedings of COLING, p. 330-332., 1990.

  51. Golumbic, M.C.; Dagan, I. and Pinter, R. "Trapezoid Graphs and Their Coloring" Discrete Applied Math., vol. 21, 1988, p. 35-46.