Interests

Larry Birnbaum received his PhD in computer science from Yale University in 1986, and joined the Northwestern faculty in 1989. His research in artificial intelligence and computer science has encompassed natural language processing, case-based reasoning, machine learning, human-computer interaction, educational software, and computer vision. Birnbaum has authored or coauthored more than eighty articles. He was the program cochair of the 1991 International Machine Learning Workshop and has been a member of the program committee for numerous other conferences and workshops.

Projects

Papers

Beyond Similarity


Information access in context


XLibris: An Automated Library Research Assistant


Beyond Broadcast


Beyond Broadcast: a demo


Low-Fidelity Location Based Information Systems


Analogy, Intelligent IR, and Knowledge Integration for Intelligence Analysis


Using Explicit Semantic Models to Track Situations across News Articles


Context Transformations for Just-in-time Retrieval: Adapting the Watson System to User Needs


TagAssist: Automatic Tag Suggestion for Blog Posts


Learning to Gesture: Applying animations To Spoken Text


Measuring Semantic Similarity between Named Entities by Searching the Web Directory


Compare&Contrast: Using the Web to Discover Comparable Cases for News Stories


What Do They Think? Aggregating Local Views about News Events and Topics


LocalSavvy: Aggregating Local Points of View about News Issues


Pivot: Automatically Offering Information and Services to Real-World Shoppers


Categorizing Blogger’s Interests Based on Short Snippets of Blog Posts


Rich Interfaces for Reading News on the Web


MakeMyPage: Social Media Meets Automatic Content Generation