Dr Gregory Grefenstette is Principal Research Scientist in
Natural Language Processing at Clairvoyance Corporation, Pittsburgh.
Before joining Clairvoyance in May 2001, he held the same position
at the Xerox Research Centre Europe in Grenoble where he worked
from 1993 to 2001. He previously attended Stanford University,
the University of Paris at Orsay, and received his PhD in Computer
Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1993.
He organised the first workshop on Cross Language Information
Retrieval in 1996. The proceedings from this workshop appeared
as a book "Cross language Information Retrieval" (Kluwer,
1998). Grefenstette has also published two other books: "Explorations
in Automatic Thesaurus Discovery" (Kluwer, 1994) and "
Text and Speech-Triggered Information Access" (with Steve
Renals, Springer, 2003). He has published numerous scientific
articles and served on more than 28 programme committees for conferences
on information retrieval, natural language processing and computational
linguistics. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Natural
Language Engineering.
His current research interests involve mining the web for language
modelling. With Adam Kilgarriff, he edited the Journal of Computational
Linguistics' Special Issue on the Web as Corpus (Sept, 2003).
g.grefenstette @ Clairvoyancecorp.com