Short Bio:

born in Saarbruecken, Germany

grew up near Frankfurt, Germany

1990-91: Fulbright scholar at the University of Washington

1992: MA in linguistics, University of Washington

1996: PhD in linguistics, University of Washington

1996: internship in the NLP group at MSR

1996: joined MS as German grammarian in the NLP group, writing the German grammar for NLPWin, still used in the German grammar checker in Office

1997-1998: working from the German MS sub in Unterschleissheim

1998 - present: various projects in the NLP group

Current Research Interests:

Automatic detection of language errors

Analysis of social media (see our BLEWS project)

Modeling of linguistic properties (e.g. word order, language errors)

Text classification based on stylistic properties

Text representations beyond ngrams

Events

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Thomas Lin, Patrick Pantel, Michael Gamon, Anitha Kannan, and Ariel Fuxman, Active Objects: Actions for Entity-Centric Search, in World Wide Web, ACM, April 2012

Michael Gamon, High-Order Sequence Modeling for Language Learner Error Detection, Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2011
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Michael Gamon, and Susan Dumais, Mark My Words! Linguistic Style Accommodation in Social Media., in Proceedings of WWW 2011, Hyderabad, India., ACM, 1 April 2011
Chris Quirk, Pallavi Choudhury, Michael Gamon, and Lucy Vanderwende, MSR-NLP Entry in BioNLP Shared Task 2011, 2011