Jason Kessler

  Biography:
Current:
I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. In May, 2010 I expect to graduate. My research involves studying the syntactic and semantic properties of subjective language. My adviser, Prof. Michael Gasser, heads the Grounding Lab where I frequently give talks. You can also find me at the Computational Linguistics Lunch.
Summer of 2009:
This summer I am interning at the Palo Alto Research Center (formally Xerox PARC.) I am working on a project in natural language processing. Although I am a member of the Computer Science Laboratory, I work with Natural Language Theory and Technology group.
Summer of 2008:
I interned at Umbria, J.D. Power and Associates, Boulder, CO. Working with Dr. Nicolas Nicolov, I helped to guide the construction of a corpus for structural sentiment analysis and researched ways of automatically annotating structural sentiment relations. Please see our ICWSM 2009 paper for details on part of this effort.
2001-2005:
In 2005, I received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh. While an undergrad, I worked with Prof. Janyce Wiebe on OpinionFinder, a publicly available system for sentence and expression-level subjectivity analysis.
Teaching:
Stay tuned for office hours.
Peer-Reviewed Publications:
Unpublished Papers:
  • Miriam Eckert, Lyndsie Clark and Jason Kessler. Structural Sentiment and Entity Annotation Guidelines Batch 1 Version. Guidelines for annotation project conducted at J.D. Power and Associates, Boulder CO. 2008.
  • Jason Kessler. A Corpus for Comparing Belief Classification Systems. Research conducted at Indiana University. 2008.
  • Ralf Frieser and Jason Kessler. HelpAHobo: Panhandling in the 21st century. 2008.
Service:
  • Reviewer, International Journal of Computers and Applications, 2009
  • Reviewer, RANLP 2009
  • Program committee member, ICWSM 2009
  • External reviewer, MICAI 2008
  • External reviewer, CITII 2008
Contact:
  • E-mail: here
  • Office: The CRANIUM: Lindley Hall 406
  • Mailing address:
    Computer Science Department
    Lindley Hall, Room 215
    Indiana University
    150 S. Woodlawn Ave.
    Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Distractions:
  • 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)
  • My research interests never included "the development and evaluation of tools for long-term digital preservation, including migration, file format identification, and facilitation of archival access." If you're interested in current related work in this area at IU, a good place to start is here.