Ellen Riloff
Ellen Riloff is an American computer scientist currently serving as a professor at the School of Computing at the University of Utah. Her research focuses on natural language processing and computational linguistics, specifically information extraction, sentiment analysis, semantic class induction, and bootstrapping methods that learn from unannotated texts.
Education
After receiving her bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University, Riloff completed both her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she defended her dissertation under the guidance of Wendy Lehnert.Career
Riloff is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah. She has served as the General Chair for the EMNLP 2018 conference, Program Co-Chair for the NAACL HLT 2012 and CoNLL 2004 conferences, on the NAACL Executive Board, the Computational Linguistics Editorial Board, and the Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics Editorial Board.Riloff has served as Faculty Advisor for the ACL 2007 Student Research Workshop, and in 2018, she was named a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Research
Riloff’s primary research areas include information extraction, sentiment & affective text analysis, semantic class induction, social media analysis, coreference resolution, and medical text processing. She is best known for her work on bootstrapping, which she and Rosie Jones received an AAAI Classic Paper Award for in 2017, and information extraction, which she received an AAAI Classic Paper Honorable Mention for in 2012. Riloff has also worked more broadly on coreference resolution, sentiment analysis, active learning, and even veterinary medicine.Awards and recognition
- ACL Fellow. "For significant contributions to information extraction, and the analysis of sentiment, subjectivity and affect.". Association for Computational Linguistics, 12/10/2018
- AAAI Classic Paper Award. . Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- AMIA 2017 Distinguished Paper Award Finalist. . AMIA 2017 Annual Symposium
- AAAI Classic Paper Honorable Mention. . Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Publications
Riloff has over 140 publications that predominantly cover topics in the natural language processing field. Some of her publication topics include frame semantics, sentiment, events, and information extraction.Selected publications
Source:- Jiang, T. and Riloff, E., to appear in Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- Zhuang, Y., Jiang, T. and Riloff, E., The 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Felt, C. and Riloff, E., The Second Workshop on Figurative Language Processing
- Zhuang, Y. and Riloff, E., The ACL 2020 Student Research Workshop
- Ding, H., Riloff, E., and Feng, Z. Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics
- Jiang, T. and Riloff, E., Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- Ding, H. and Riloff, E., Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies Riloff, E. and Jones, R., in, .
- Ding, H. and Riloff, E., Proceedings of the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence