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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).
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