David Hull is a Senior Research Scientist at Clairvoyance Corporation, where he is lead scientist on a research project in interactive information retrieval. The project aims to induce structure automatically from groups of related documents and develop new strategies for document display to aid with browsing and search.
Before coming to Clairvoyance in 2002, David held research positions at WhizBang Labs, in Pittsburgh PA and at the Xerox Research Centre in Grenoble, France. At WhizBang Labs he built basic entity extractors for the core extraction library using a mixture of rules-based and machine learning techniques. At Xerox Grenoble, he worked on research projects in the areas of cross-language text retrieval, text filtering, question answering, and statistical machine translation.
He has served on the program committee of the SIGIR and TREC conferences and is a member of the executive board of the journal Information Retrieval. He received his PhD in Statistics from Stanford University in 1994 for a dissertation on applying statistical learning algorithms to text routing and filtering.