He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, USA. His research focuses on natural language processing and information retrieval. He has published papers in premier journals and conferences including Computational Linguistics, ACL, SIGIR, and AAAI. He is an editorial board member of Computational Linguistics journal, a conference organizer and program co-chair of CoNLL-2004 conference, and serves on the program committee of AAAI 2004, ACL 2004, SIGIR 2004, and ICML 2004 conferences.See other events that are part of See other events happening in April 2004