I am a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science department of Indiana University. My area of interest is the intersection of Natural Language Processing and Web Mining. My adviser is Mike Gasser. While an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh, I worked with Janyce Wiebe on classifying subjectivity. I am an Eagle Scout, a golfer, and I enjoy contemporary art.
Teaching:
Office Hours in LH 230: 4:00PM to 6:00PM Wednesdays
Peer-Reviewed Publications:
- Jason Kessler. Polling the Blogosphere: a rule-based approach to belief classification. International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2008), 2008. Seattle, Washington. (26% acceptance rate)
- Theresa Wilson, Paul Hoffmann, Swapna Somasundaran, Jason Kessler, Janyce Wiebe; Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie; Ellen Riloff and Siddharth Patwardhan. OpinionFinder: A System for Subjectivity Analysis. Human Language Technology Conference/Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT-EMNLP 2005), 2005. (demo)
Unpublished Papers:
- Ralf Frieser and Jason Kessler. HelpAHobo: Panhandling in the 21st century. 2008.
Contact:
E-mail: jaskessl CHR(64) cs CHR(46) indiana CHR(46) eduInteresting, Silly, and Subversive Links:
- My TravelBlog: a journal I kept while traveling in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia.
- The Dylan Pool: predict the songs Bob Dylan will play on his next tour and win a prize.
- A map of Rome showing the location of each Borromini building in the city.
- Richard Serra on Charlie Rose (14 December 2001)
- The Linguist's Search Engine.
- The Gallery of "Misused" Quotation Marks
- SIL's glossary of linguistic terms.
- A list of Wikipedia edits from notable organizations
- My Erdös number is less than or equal to 5 (via Claire Cardie ~ Raymond J. Mooney ~ Wolfgang Maass ~ Andras Hajnal)