Steven Bethard
Associate Professor, College Of Information Science
Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Bethard is an associate professor and NLP researcher with 20 years of experience applying machine learning to real-world language problems, from modeling temporal language and extracting timelines to normalizing clinical and geospatial text to ontologies. Based in Tucson, he blends cognitive-science grounding (Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science) with a long academic track—faculty roles at the University of Arizona and UAB and postdoctoral work at Stanford and KU Leuven—to move research into clinical and educational applications. His work is notable for tackling practical normalization and information-extraction challenges in healthcare and for projects that extract narrative structure (timelines, plots) from stories and patient texts. A former Python Software Foundation member, he combines deep technical skill in ML/NLP with a commitment to reproducible software and interdisciplinary collaboration.
20 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaPh.D., Computer Science and Cognitive Science, Ph.D., Computer Science and Cognitive Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (123)
python10
expressions10
annotations10
converting10
datasets10
computational-linguistics10
phonetics10
computer-science10
acl10
latex10
nlp10
uima10
science10
semantic-segmentation10
linguistics10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bethard/anaforatools
Aug 2014 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 134 commits, 2 PRs in 8 years 2 months
bethard/literature-search
Apr 2012 - Nov 2021
Contributions:110 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 9 years 9 months
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