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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:
Modeling of linguistic properties (e.g. word order, language errors)
Sentiment and subjectivity detection
Text classification based on stylistic properties
Text representations beyond ngrams
Publications:
Gamon, M., S. Basu, D. Belenko, D. Fisher, M. Hurst, and A. C. König 2008:
BLEWS: Using Blogs to Provide Context for News Articles. In Proceedings of ICWSM , Seattle.
Gamon, M., J. Gao, C. Brockett, A. Klementiev, W. B. Dolan, D. Belenko, and L. Vanderwende 2008:
Using Contextual Speller Techniques and Language Modeling for ESL Error Correction. In Proceedings of IJCNLP , Hyderabad, India.
Toutanova, K., C. Brockett, M. Gamon, J. Jagarlamudi, H. Suzuki and L. Vanderwende. 2007.
The PYTHY Summarization System: Microsoft Research at DUC2007.
Proceedings of the Document Understanding Conference, NAACL-HLT 2007 , Rochester, New York.
Brockett, C., W. B. Dolan and M. Gamon. 2006.
Correcting ESL Errors Using Phrasal SMT Techniques.
Proceedings of COLING-ACL 2006 , Sydney, Australia.
Gamon, Michael 2006.
Graph-Based Text Representation for Novelty Detection. In Proceedings
of the Workshop on TextGraphs at HLT-NAACL 2006 , pages 17-24.
Kacmarcik, G., M. Gamon 2006.
Obfuscating Document Stylometry to Preserve Author Anonymity.
Poster presented at ACL 2006, Sydney.
Gamon, M., A. Aue, S. Corston-Oliver, E. Ringger. 2005.
Pulse: Mining Customer Opinions from Free Text. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 3646. Springer Verlag. (IDA 2005). , pages 121-132.
Gamon, M., A. Aue. 2005.
Automatic identification of sentiment vocabulary: exploiting low association with known sentiment terms. In Proceedings
of the Workshop on Feature Engineering for Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing at ACL 2005. , pages 57-64.
Gamon, M., A. Aue and M. Smets. 2005.
Sentence-Level MT evaluation without reference translations: beyond language
modeling. In Proceedings of EAMT 2005 .
Gamon, Michael. 2004.
Linguistic correlates of style: authorship classification with deep linguistic analysis features.
In Proceedings of COLING 2004 , pages 611-617.
Gamon, Michael. 2004.
Sentiment classification on customer feedback data: noisy data, large feature vectors, and the role of linguistic analysis.
In Proceedings of COLING 2004 , pages 841-847.
Ringger, E., M. Gamon, R. C. Moore, D. Rojas, M. Smets, S. Corston-Oliver. 2004.
Linguistically Informed Statistical Models of Constituent Structure for Ordering in Sentence Realization.
In Proceedings of COLING 2004 , pages 673-679.
Corston-Oliver, S., M. Gamon. 2004.
Normalizing German and English Inflectional Morphology to Improve Statistical
Word Alignment. In In R. E. Frederking and K. B. Taylor (eds.) Machine Translation: From Real Users to Research. Springer Verlag.
, pages 48-57.
Corston-Oliver, S., E. Ringger, M. Gamon, R. Campbell. 2004.
Integration of Email and Task Lists. In CEAS 2004 .
S. Corston-Oliver, E. Ringger, M. Gamon, R. Campbell. 2004.
Task-focused summarization of email. In Proceedings of the Text Summarization Branches Out workshop, ACL 2004.
Corston-Oliver, S., M. Gamon. 2004.
Combining decision trees and transformation-based learning to correct transferred linguistic representations.
In Proceedings of MT Summit IX , pages 55-62.
Smets, M., M. Gamon, S. Corston-Oliver and E. Ringger. 2003.
French Amalgam: A machine-learned sentence realization system.
In Actes de la 10me Confrence Annuelle sur le Traitement Automatique des
Langues Naturelles, Batz-sur-Mer, France.
Smets, M., M. Gamon, J. Pinkham, T. Reutter, M. Pettenaro. 2003.
High quality machine translation using a machine-learned sentence realization component.
In Proceedings of AMTA 2003 .
Smets, M., M. Gamon, S. Corston-Oliver and E. Ringger. 2003.
The adaptation of a machine-learned sentence realization system to French.
In Proceedings of the 10th conference of the European Chapter of the Association
for Computational Linguistics, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 323-330.
Gamon, M., E. Ringger, and S. Corston-Oliver. 2002.
Amalgam: A machine-learned generation module. Microsoft Research
Technical Report: MSR-TR-2002-57 .
Gamon, M., E. Ringger, S. Corston-Oliver, and R. Moore. 2002.
Machine-learned contexts for linguistic operations in German sentence
realization. In Proceedings of ACL 2002, pp. 25-32.
Gamon M., E. Ringger, Z. Zhang, R. Moore, and S. Corston-Oliver. 2002.
Extraposition: A case study in German sentence realization. In Proceedings
of COLING 2002, pp. 301-307.
Zhang, Z., M. Gamon, S. Corston-Oliver and E. Ringger. 2002.
Intra-sentence Punctuation Insertion in Natural Language Generation .
Microsoft Research Technical Report: MSR-TR-2002-58 .
Gamon, M., H. Suzuki, and S. Corston-Oliver. 2001.
Using Machine Learning for System-Internal Evaluation of Transferred Linguistic
Representations. In Proceedings of the MT Summit VIII ,
Santiago De Compostela, Spain.
Corston-Oliver, Simon, Michael Gamon and Chris Brockett. 2001.
A Machine Learning Approach to the Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation .
In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Toulouse,
France, pp. 140-147.
Gamon, M., and T. Reutter. 1997.
The Analysis of German Separable Prefix Verbs in the Microsoft Natural Language Processing System.
Microsoft Technical Report 97-15.
Gamon, M., C. Lozano, J. Pinkham, and T. Reutter. 1996.
Practical Experience with Grammar Sharing in Multilingual NLP.
