I am a fourth year Ph.D. student in
Computer Science
at
Stanford,
in the
Natural Language Processing Group.
My advisor is Prof.
Jurafsky.
Last year I TA-ed Google's Pandu Nayak's and Yahoo!'s Prabhakar Raghavan's graduate course,
Information Retrieval and Web Search (CS.276 / Ling.286).
The year before I TA-ed Prof.
Manning's
graduate course,
Natural Language Processing (CS.224N / Ling.284).
My Erdős number is 2.
Valentin I. Spitkovsky
and Angel X. Chang.
2011.
Strong Baselines for Cross-Lingual Entity Linking.
[pdf,
bib]
In Proceedings of the
Fourth Text Analysis Conference
(TAC 2011).
Angel X. Chang,
Valentin I. Spitkovsky,
Eneko Agirre,
and Christopher
D. Manning.
2011.
Stanford-UBC
Entity Linking at TAC-KBP, Again.
[pdf,
bib]
In Proceedings of the
Fourth Text Analysis Conference
(TAC 2011).
Valentin I. Spitkovsky,
Hiyan Alshawi,
Angel X. Chang,
and Daniel Jurafsky.
2011.
Unsupervised Dependency Parsing without Gold Part-of-Speech Tags.
[pdf,
bib;
poster,
data]
In Proceedings of the
2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
(EMNLP 2011).
Valentin I. Spitkovsky,
Hiyan Alshawi,
and Daniel Jurafsky.
2011.
Lateen EM: Unsupervised Training with Multiple Objectives, Applied to
Dependency Grammar Induction.
[pdf,
bib;
poster]
In Proceedings of the
2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
(EMNLP 2011).
Valentin I. Spitkovsky,
Hiyan Alshawi,
and Daniel Jurafsky.
2011.
Punctuation: Making a Point in Unsupervised Dependency Parsing.
[pdf,
bib;
slides]
In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
(CoNLL-2011).
Mihai Surdeanu,
David McClosky,
Julie Tibshirani,
John Bauer,
Angel X. Chang,
Valentin I. Spitkovsky,
and Christopher
D. Manning.
2010.
A Simple Distant Supervision Approach for the
TAC-KBP
Slot Filling Task.
[pdf,
bib;
,
data]
In Proceedings of the
Third Text Analysis Conference
(TAC 2010).
Angel X. Chang,
Valentin I. Spitkovsky,
Eric Yeh,
Eneko Agirre,
and Christopher
D. Manning.
2010.
Stanford-UBC
Entity Linking at TAC-KBP.
[pdf,
bib;
poster]
In Proceedings of the
Third Text Analysis Conference
(TAC 2010).
Valentin I. Spitkovsky,
Hiyan Alshawi,
Daniel Jurafsky,
and Christopher D. Manning.
2010.
Viterbi Training Improves Unsupervised Dependency Parsing.
[pdf,
bib;
slides]
In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
(CoNLL-2010).
Valentin I. Spitkovsky,
Daniel Jurafsky,
and Hiyan Alshawi.
2010.
Profiting from Mark-Up: Hyper-Text Annotations for Guided Parsing.
[pdf,
bib;
slides,
data]
In Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL 2010).
Valentin I. Spitkovsky,
Hiyan Alshawi,
and Daniel Jurafsky.
2010.
From Baby Steps to Leapfrog: How “Less is More” in Unsupervised
Dependency Parsing.
[pdf,
bib;
slides,
data]
In Proceedings of Human Language Technologies:
The 11th Annual Conference of the
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(NAACL HLT 2010).
Valentin I. Spitkovsky,
Hiyan Alshawi,
and Daniel Jurafsky.
2009.
Baby Steps: How “Less is More” in Unsupervised Dependency Parsing.
[pdf,
bib;
poster,
data]
In NIPS 2009 Workshop on Grammar Induction, Representation of Language and Language Learning.
Eneko Agirre,
Angel X. Chang,
Daniel S. Jurafsky,
Christopher D. Manning,
Valentin I. Spitkovsky,
and Eric Yeh.
2009.
Stanford-UBC at
TAC-KBP.
[pdf,
bib;
slides]
In Proceedings of the
Second Text Analysis Conference
(TAC 2009).
Valentin I. Spitkovsky.
G-Mail Ratings.
To be filed (GP-508-00-US).
Valentin I. Spitkovsky,
Sumit Agarwal,
Gokul Rajaram,
and Brian Axe.
Keywordless Advertising.
To be filed (GP-470-00-US).
Ross Koningstein,
Steve Lawrence,
and Valentin Spitkovsky.
Associating Features with Entities,
Such as Categories or Web Page Documents, and/or Weighing Such Features.
Filed on December 30, 2004; application serial no. 11/026,497 (GP-268-00-US).
Valentin Spitkovsky.
Determining Online Ad Targeting Information, Such as Keyword-Targeting Suggestions.
Filed on December 20, 2004; application serial no. 11/017,424 (GP-390-00-US).
Valentin Spitkovsky.
Mixing Items, Such as Ad Targeting Keyword Suggestions, from Heterogeneous Sources.
Filed on October 1, 2004; application serial no. 10/957,337 (GP-325-00-US).
Ross Koningstein,
Valentin Spitkovsky,
Georges Harik,
and Noam Shazeer.
Suggesting and/or Providing Targeting Criteria for Advertisements.
Filed on December 31st, 2003; application serial no. 10/750,451 (GP-???-??-US).
Ross Koningstein,
Valentin Spitkovsky,
Georges Harik,
and Noam Shazeer.
Using Concepts for Ad Targeting.
Filed on November 24th, 2003; application serial no. 10/721,010 (GP-083-00-US).
Rahul Simha,
Weidong Cai and Valentin Spitkovsky.
Simulated N-Body: New Particle Physics-Based Heuristics for a
Euclidean Location-Allocation Problem, [ps.gz]
Journal Heuristics, Vol. 7, No. 1, Jan 2001, pp. 23-36.
Valentin I. Spitkovsky.
A Fast Genomic Dictionary. [ps.gz]
M.Eng. Thesis, MIT
EECS, May 2000.
Lior Pachter,
Serafim Batzoglou,
Valentin I. Spitkovsky,
Eric Banks,
Eric S. Lander,
Daniel J. Kleitman,
and
Bonnie Berger.
A Dictionary Based Approach for Gene Annotation. [ps.gz]
Journal of Computational Biology 6:419 430, 1999.
Lior Pachter,
Serafim Batzoglou,
Valentin I. Spitkovsky,
William S. Beebee, Jr.,
Eric S. Lander,
Bonnie Berger,
and
Daniel J. Kleitman. 1999.
A Dictionary Based Approach for Gene Annotation. [ps.gz]
In Proceedings of the
Third International Conference on Computational Molecular Biology
(RECOMB'99).
Valentin I. Spitkovsky
CAPSULE.
Jefferson Laboratory Technical Notes.
CEBAF-TN-93-066, August 1993.
Valentin I. Spitkovsky
CAVGLE.
Jefferson Laboratory Technical Notes.
CEBAF-TN-93-065, August 1993.
Valentin I. Spitkovsky
CAVTEK.
Jefferson Laboratory Technical Notes.
CEBAF-TN-93-064, August 1993.