Elena Filatova

Fordham University

Computer and Information Science department

Elena Filatova

 


Education

  Ph.D. in Computer Science
Columbia University
2007
Doctoral Thesis: “Use of Domain Models Based on Atomic Events for Question Answering”
   
M.S. in Computational Linguistics
University of Southern California
2001
Master’s Thesis: Assigning Time-Stamps to Event-Clauses”
   
5-year degree (diploma) in Comparative
Linguistics of Germanic Languages,
Moscow State University
Department of Philology

1999
5-year degree (diploma) in Applied Mathematics,
Moscow State University
Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics
1998
 


Employment

  Assistant Professor
Fordham University
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
2008 - present
   
Solution Architect
InforSense
2007 - 2008

Summer Intern
IBM
summer 2004

Summer Intern
ISI/USC
summer 2000

 


Publications




 
Refereed Conference and Workshop Publications
  • E. Filatova and E.H. Hovy, 2001. Assigning Time-Stamps to Event-Clauses. In the Proceedings of ACL Workshop on Temporal and Spatial Reasoning, Toulouse, France. (Also in: Mani, I., Pustejovsky, J., and Gaizauskas, R (eds.) The Language of Time: A Reader. Oxford University Press, 2005)
Book Chapters
  • E. Filatova and V. Hatzivassiloglou, 2003. Marking Atomic Events in Sets of Related Texts. In Nicolov, N., Boncheva K, Angelova G. and Mitkov R. (Eds). 2003. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing Part III. John Benjamin Publishers CILT series (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)
  • E. Filatova and E.H. Hovy, 2005. Assigning Time-Stamps to Event-Clauses. Mani, I., Pustejovsky, J., and Gaizauskas, R (eds.). (2004) The Language of Time: A Reader. Oxford University Press. (Also in: in the Proceedings of ACL Workshop on Temporal and Spatial Reasoning, Toulouse, France)
Other
  • Roussinov D., Chau, M., Filatova, E., Robles, J., 2005. Building on Redundancy: Factoid Question Answering, Robust Retrieval and the "Other". In the Proceedings of Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), Gaithersburg, MD.
  • Pradhan, S., Illouz, G., Blair-Goldensohn, S., Schlaikjer, A., Krugler, V., Filatova, E., Duboue, P., Yu, H., Passonneau, R., Bethard, S., Hatzivassiloglou, V., Ward, W., Jurafsky, D., McKeown, K., Martin, J. 2002. Building a Foundation System for Producing Short Answers to Factual Questions. In the Proceedings of Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), Gaithersburg, MD.
  • Hovy, E.H., E. Filatova, M. King, and B. Maegaard. 2001. The ISLE Classification of Machine Translation Evaluations. See Technical report.


Professional Service

  Reviewer for

Journals:

  • Computational Linguistics
  • IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine
  • Information Processing and Management Journal
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
  • World Wide Web Journal
  • AIJ (Artificial Intelligence Journal)

  • Conferences and Workshops:

  • ACL-IJCNLP 2009
  • ACL 2006
  • ACL 2005 (Student Research Workshop)
  • NAACL/HLT 2003 (Student Research Workshop
  • ACL 2002 (Student Research Workshop

  • Teaching Experience

     

    Fordham University (instructor):

  • Machine Learning (F2009)
  • Computer Algorithms (F2008, F2009)
  • Theory of Computation (S2009)
  • Data Base Systems (F2008)

  • Columbia University (teaching assistant):

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Programming Languages and Translators
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