John Pierre's Professional Work

In the news...

• "US government looks to mine social media to combat terrorist attacks, uprisings"
  
• "Following the swine flu conversation"
  
• "Linguastat Supplies the Technology Brains for CDC to Track Latest Media Messages Regarding Swine Flu"
  
• "Software sifts text to sort Web sites"

I am interested in how computers can represent, acquire, and act on basic knowledge.

• Mining from Noisy Learners [PDF preprint version]
• Mining Knowledge from Text Collections Using Automatically Generated Metadata,Fourth International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management 2002 [PDF preprint version]
• On the Automated Classification of Web Sites, Link