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 (check out our MSR ESL Assistant!)

Analysis of social media (see our BLEWS project)

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

Sentiment and subjectivity detection

Text classification based on stylistic properties

Text representations beyond ngrams

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Arnd Christian König, Michael Gamon, and Qiang Wu, Click-Through Prediction for News Queries , in SIGIR'09: the 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., July 2009
Claudia Leacock, Michael Gamon, and Chris Brockett, User Input and Interactions on Microsoft Research ESL Assistant, ACL/SIGPARSE, June 2009
Michael Gamon, Claudia Leacock, Chris Brockett, William B. Dolan, Jianfeng Gao, Dmitriy Belenko, and Alexandre Klementiev, Using Statistical Techniques and Web Search to Correct ESL Errors, in Calico Journal, Vol 26, No. 3, CALICO Journal, June 2009
Michael Gamon and Arnd Christian König, Navigation Patterns from and to Social Media, in 3rd AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, American Association for Artificial Intelligence , May 2009

Michael Gamon, Sumit Basu, Dmitriy Belenko, Danyel Fisher, Matthew Hurst, and Arnd Christian König, BLEWS: Using Blogs to Provide Context for News Articles, in 2nd AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, American Association for Artificial Intelligence , April 2008