I'm an associate professor with research interests that span digital libraries, natural language processing and information retrieval. Specific interests include: scholarly digital libraries, definitional QA, statistical MT, text summarization, verb analysis, optimizing access to scientific literature, web crawling, and combining search and browsing user interfaces under human-computer interaction. I'm a senior member of the ACM, a member of the IEEE, ACL and PREMIA. I graduated with my Ph.D. from Columbia University.