Eric Nyberg is a professor in the
Language Technologies Institute
The Language Technologies Institute (LTI) is a research institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, and focuses on the area of language technologies. The institute is home to 33 faculty with the primary scho ...
of the
School of Computer Science at
Carnegie Mellon University. He is the director for the Master of Computational Data Science (formerly known as the M.S. in Very Large Information Systems).
Nyberg has made significant research contributions to the fields of
automatic text translation,
information retrieval, and automatic
question answering.
He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University (1992), and his B.A. from
Boston University
Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with ...
(1983).
He has pioneered the Open Advancement of Question Answering, an
architecture
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and methodology for accelerating collaborative research in automatic question answering.
In 2011, Nyberg received the Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence for his scientific contributions to the field of question answering and his work on the
Watson project.
He received the BU Computer Science Distinguished Alumna/Alumnus Award on September 27, 2013.
References
External links
Personal homepageOAQA Project Homepage
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Machine translation researchers