Expert profile: Dr Gregory Grefenstette

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Gregory GREFENSTETTE, PhD University of Pittsburgh (1993), was previously 
Principal Research Scientist at Clairvoyance Corp (Pittsburgh; 2001-2003) and 
Principal Scientist at the Xerox Research Centre Europe (Grenoble; 1993-2001), 
where he managed a team of researchers working on information extraction and 
information retrieval, and advanced natural language processing applications. 
He organised the first workshop on Cross Language Information Retrieval in 
1996. The proceedings from this workshop appeared as a book "Cross language 
Information Retrieval" (Kluwer, 1998). Grefenstette has also published two 
other books: "Explorations in Automatic Thesaurus Discovery" (Kluwer, 1994) and 
"Text and Speech-Triggered Information Access" (with Steve Renals, Springer, 
2003). He hold 7 patents on natural language processing applications, has 
published numerous scientific articles and served on more than 30 programme 
committees for conferences on information retrieval, natural language 
processing and computational linguistics. He is on the editorial board of the 
Journal of Natural Language Engineering. His current research interests involve 
mining the web for language modelling. With Adam Kilgarriff, he edited the 
Journal of Computational Linguistics' Special Issue on the Web as Corpus 
(Sept, 2003).