Nokia Research Center

Conference program committees:

the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval SIGIR–07
the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval SIGIR–08
the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics ACL-08
the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI-09
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing EMNLP-09
the 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems NIPS-09

Workshop program committees:

Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval–07
Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval–08
Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval–09

Journal reviewer:

ACM Transactions on the Web
Artificial Intelligence Journal
International Journal of AI Tools
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

I am interested in automatic processing of text, including information extraction, information retrieval, question answering and semantics. I am also interested in link analysis and graph mining, and in machine learning and its application to text processing problems.

- Extraction of events from semi-structured and unstructured text. I am interested in automatically processing event announcements (from sources like mailing lists) into database entries. This will allow location-based event recommendation to subscribers. This work is part of the organic indoor localization project led by Prof. Seth Teller at MIT. Unlike GPS localization, the goal of this project is to provide localization services and information about relevant activities indoors.

- Extraction of product features from textual reviews. In this work the goal is to process textual review of a product (e.g., cell phone reviews from online sources such as ZDNET) into a structured table of product attributes. In general, this research should allow better availability to the plethora of information available online, and support recommendation of products to users based on their preferences. This is a joint work with Prof. Regina Barzilay at MIT.

- I am involved in the 3CPO project. A target application is automatic processing of spoken notes to self into structured calendar entries, to-do items, and reminders. This application is aligned with OVI vision.

I speak English and Hebrew, and can understand Russian and Arabic to a limited degree.
I am a fan of contemporary dance.

I receieved a PhD from the language technologies institute at Carnegie Mellon University in December 2009.
My advisor there was Prof. William Cohen, who is a member of the Machine Learning department.

My B.Sc and M.Sc are both in industrial engineering, received in 2000 from Tel-Aviv University.

Einat Minkov, William W. Cohen
Learning Graph Walk Based Similarity Measures for Parsed Text
in EMNLP 2008

Einat Minkov, Ramnath Balasubramanyan, William W. Cohen
Activity-centric Search in Email
in CEAS 2008
also in Enhanced Messaging Workshop, AAAI 2008

Einat Minkov, William W. Cohen
Learning to Rank Typed Graph Walks: Local and Global Approaches
in WebKDD and SNA-KDD joint workshop 2007

Einat Minkov, Kristina Toutanova, Hisami Suzuki
Generating Complex Morphology for Machine Translation
in ACL 2007

William W. Cohen, Einat Minkov
A Graph-Search Framework for Associating Gene Identifiers with Documents
BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:440

Einat Minkov, William W. Cohen
An Email and Meeting Assistant using Graph Walks
in CEAS 2006

Einat Minkov, William W. Cohen, Andrew Y. Ng
Contextual Search and Name Disambiguation in Email using Graphs
in SIGIR 2006 
and in HLT/NAACL 2006, TextGraphs workshop

Einat Minkov, Richard C. Wang, Anthony Tomasic, William W. Cohen
NER Systems that Suit User's Preferences: Adjusting the Recall-Precision Trade-off for Entity Extraction ,
in HLT/NAACL 2006

Einat Minkov, Richard C. Wang, William W. Cohen
Extracting Personal Names from Emails: Applying Named Entity Recognition to Informal Text
in HLT/EMNLP 2005

William W. Cohen, Einat Minkov, Anthony Tomasic
Learning to Understand Web Site Update Requests
in IJCAI 2005

Anthony Tomasic, William W. Cohen, Susan Fussell, John Zimmerman, Marina Kobayashi, Einat Minkov, Nathan Halstead, Ravi Mosur, Jason Hum
Learning to Navigate Web Forms
in IIWEB 2004

Mark Last, Oded Maimon, Einat Minkov
Improving Stability of Decision Trees
International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI), Vol.16, No.2, 2002

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, October 2008
IBM Haifa Research Seminar, December 2007
Meeting of the ACM Workshop on Web Mining and Social Network Analysis at KDD, August 2007
Annual meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), June 2007
Annual meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) invited talk, November 2006
Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, August 2006
Annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, August 2006
Meeting of the 1stWorkshop on Graph-basedMethods for Natural Language Processing (TextGraphs) at HLT/NAACL, June 2006
Information retrieval discussion series, Carnegie Mellon University, April 2006
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 2005