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Researcher in the field of computational linguistics
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Michael J. Collins
Born (1970-03-04) 4 March 1970 (age 54)
United Kingdom London
CitizenshipUK
Alma materCambridge University
University of Pennsylvania
Known forStatistical parsing, Structured perceptron
Scientific career
FieldsComputational linguistics, Machine learning
InstitutionsColumbia University
Doctoral advisorMitch Marcus

Michael J. Collins (born 4 March 1970) is a researcher in the field of computational linguistics. He is the Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University.

His research interests are in natural language processing as well as machine learning and he has made important contributions in statistical parsing and in statistical machine learning. In his studies Collins covers a wide range of topics such as parse re-ranking, tree kernels, semi-supervised learning, machine translation and exponentiated gradient algorithms with a general focus on discriminative models and structured prediction. One notable contribution is a state-of-the-art parser for the Penn Wall Street Journal corpus. As of 11 November 2015, his works have been cited 16,020 times, and he has an h-index of 47.

Collins worked as a researcher at AT&T Labs between January 1999 and November 2002, and later held the positions of assistant and associate professor at M.I.T. Since January 2011, he has been a professor at Columbia University. In 2011, he was named a fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

References

  1. "Michael Collins". www.cs.columbia.edu. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  2. "Michael Collins - Google Scholar Citations". Google Scholar. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
  3. Collins, Michael. Collins's Columbia website.
  4. "ACL Fellows". ACL Wiki. Retrieved 15 August 2017.

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