Michael Collins (computational linguist)

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Michael J. Collins

Born March 4, 1971 (1971-03-04) (age 37)
Flag of the United Kingdom Sheffield
Residence Boston, MA
Citizenship UK
Fields Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning
Institutions MIT
Alma mater Cambridge University
University of Pennsylvania
Doctoral advisor Mitch Marcus
Doctoral students Brooke Cowan
Luke Zettlemoyer
Terry Koo
Ali Mohammad
Ariadna Quattoni
Natasha Singh
Known for Automatic Parsing, Voted Perceptron

Michael J. Collins (born March 4, 1971) is a researcher in the field of computational linguistics. His research interests are in natural language processing, and machine learning [1]. He has made several important contributions in statistical parsing (including a state-of-the-art parser of the Wall Street Journal corpus) and in statistical machine learning. He is recently became a tenured professor at MIT's CSAIL.