Catherine Havasi (born 1981) is an American scientist who specialises in

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r ...

(AI) at

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. She is co-founder and CEO of AI company Luminoso. Havasi was a member of the MIT group engaged in the

Open Mind Common Sense Open Mind Common Sense (OMCS) is an artificial intelligence project based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab whose goal is to build and utilize a large commonsense knowledge base from the contributions of many thousands ...

(also known as OMCS) AI project and that created the natural language AI program

ConceptNet Open Mind Common Sense (OMCS) is an artificial intelligence project based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab whose goal is to build and utilize a large commonsense knowledge base from the contributions of many thousands ...

Early life and education

Havasi grew up in

Pittsburgh Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Western Pennsylvania, the second-most populous city in Pennsylva ...

and became interested in artificial intelligence from reading

Marvin Minsky Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American cognitive and computer scientist concerned largely with research of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, ...

's 1986 book '' The Society of Mind''. She attended the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

, where she became involved in the MIT Media Lab and studied under Minsky. She received a Ph.D in computer science from

Brandeis University , mottoeng = "Truth even unto its innermost parts" , established = , type = Private research university , accreditation = NECHE , president = Ronald D. Liebowitz , ...

Career

In 1999, she became involved in the MIT project Open Mind Common Sense with Minsky and Push Singh, and was part of a team that created ConceptNet, an open-source semantic network based on the information in the OMCS database. In 2010, Havasi was among the team that founded Luminoso, a text analytics software company building on the work of ConceptNet. Havasi was named among ''

Boston Business Journal The ''Boston Business Journal'' is a weekly, business-oriented newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts. It is published by the American City Business Journals. The newspaper was founded by Robert Bergenheim and launched its first issue on ...

s "40 Under 40", of business and civic leaders making a major impact in their respective fields in 2014. ''

Fast Company ''Fast Company'' is a monthly American business magazine published in print and online that focuses on technology, business, and design. It publishes six print issues per year. History ''Fast Company'' was launched in November 1995 by Alan Web ...

'' included her in its "100 Most Creative People in Business 2015" listing. She is co-author of 7 peer-reviewed journal articles on AI and language, and many per-reviewed major conference presentations,

Selected publications

Most cited publication

* Cambria, Erik, Bjorn Schuller, Yunqing Xia, and Catherine Havasi. "New avenues in opinion mining and sentiment analysis." ''IEEE Journal of Intelligent Systems'' 28, no. 2 (2013): 15-21. (cited 701 times according to Google Scholar as of 24 September 2018) *Havasi, Catherine, Robert Speer, and Jason Alonso. "ConceptNet 3: a flexible, multilingual semantic network for common sense knowledge." In ''Recent advances in natural language processing'', Borovets, Bulgaria, September 2007. pp. 27-29.Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins, 2007. (cited 341 times according to Google Scholar as of 24 September 2018) *Speer, Robert, and Catherine Havasi. "Representing General Relational Knowledge in ConceptNet 5."In ''LREC'', pp. 3679–3686. 2012. (cited 227 times according to Google Scholar as of 24 September 2018)

Other publications

*Catherine Havasi, Robert Speer, James Pustejovsky, and Henry Lieberman.'Digital Intuition: Applying Common Sense Using Dimensionality Reduction.'' IEEE Journal of Intelligent Systems, ''24(4) July 2009. (cited 97 times according to Google Scholar as of 24 September 2018) * Robert Speer, Catherine Havasi, and Henry Lieberman.''AnalogySpace: Reducing the dimensionality of common sense knowledge.'' Proceedings of AAAI vol. 8, pp. 548–553.2008, July 2008. (cited 193 times according to Google Scholar as of 24 September 2018)

References

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