Benjamin Van Durme

<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <title>Benjamin Van Durme</title>  <link href="./dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"> <link href="assets/css/class.css" rel="stylesheet"> <link href="assets/css/syntax.css" rel="stylesheet"> <link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.0.3/css/font-awesome.css" rel="stylesheet">  <link href="assets/css/homepage.css" rel="stylesheet">   <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> function toggleDiv(divId) { $("#"+divId).toggle(); } </script>  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML"> </script> </head> <body> <a class="sr-only" href="#content">Skip to main content</a>  <header class="navbar navbar-fixed-top navbar-default" role="banner"> <div class="container"> <div class="navbar-header"> <button class="navbar-toggle" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".navbar-collapse"> <span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span> <span class="icon-bar"></span> <span class="icon-bar"></span> <span class="icon-bar"></span> </button> <a href="index.html" class="navbar-brand">Benjamin Van Durme</a> </div> <nav class="collapse navbar-collapse" role="navigation"> <ul class="nav navbar-nav"> <li><a href="publications.html">Publications</a></li> <li><a href="collaborators.html">Collaborators</a></li> <li><a href="research.html">Research</a></li> </ul> </nav> </div> </header> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-9"> <p>I am an Associate Professor in <a href="https://www.cs.jhu.edu">Computer Science</a> at <a href="https://www.jhu.edu">Johns Hopkins University</a>, and <a href="http://cogsci.jhu.edu">Cognitive Science</a>.</p> <p>I am a member of the <a href="https://www.clsp.jhu.edu">Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP)</a> and lead Natural Language Understanding research at the <a href="https://hltcoe.jhu.edu">Human Language Technology Center of Excellence (HLTCOE)</a>. My work focuses on helping people work with large amounts of information. This involves understanding what is in documents and images, helping people find that information, and being able help answer questions about that content.</p> <p>With my collaborators I publish on topics in natural language processing, data mining, social media analysis, machine learning, linguistic semantics, and generally most things Artificial Intelligence or Cognitive Science. See <a href="research.html">Research Areas</a> for details about our current interests.</p> <p>Our work with colleagues in <em>decompositional semantics</em> is organized at <a href="http://decomp.io">Decomp.io</a>.</p> <p>I am also the research lead at <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/semantic-machines/">Microsoft Semantic Machines</a>.</p> </div> <div class="col-sm-3"> <a href="assets/img/vandurme-profile.jpg"> <img src="assets/img/vandurme-profile-small.jpg" class="img-responsive img-rounded" alt=""/> </a> <span class="text-muted"><b>Office:</b> Hackerman 316C<br/> <b>Email:</b> vandurme@jhu.edu<br/> </span> </div> </div> <footer class="text-center text-muted"> <hr/> Last updated November 23, 2024. <br/> </footer> </div>     <script src="./dist/js/bootstrap.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function(){ $("#main_page").addClass("active"); }); </script> </body> </html>

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