Joshua Goodman's Home Page
I have done work on stopping spam, improving email and other messaging systems, preventing click fraud, and improving machine learning algorithms for real world problems. I helped start the Conference on Email and Anti-Spam. Want to know more about spam? Geoff Hulten and I gave tutorials on spam at ICML and at KDD.
Here is a Bibliography of Spam.
Contact information:
Joshua Goodman Note: address correspondence to Joshua Goodman, not J. Goodman
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-6399
My email address: Joshuago@microsoft.com
On August 16, the third floor coffee maker celebrated its 20th birthday. Click for more pictures.
My PUBLICATIONS are all on their own page now.
Software
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JCLUSTER
Jcluster is the tool I wrote to get word clusters. It is a
particularly fast and efficient word clustering implementation, and
can produce hierarchical clusters. A few other people have used it
successfully although a few crashes have been reported and it is not
industrial strength code. It can also be used to cluster sentences or
even documents. Only the executable (and Microsoft Word
documentation) and only for Windows is available.
Favorite Web Sites
About Me
I lived in the Boston area from age 5 to age 28, including two stints
at Harvard, one for a combined Bachelor's and Master's in Computer
Science ending in 1992 (Summa cum Laude), and the other resulting in a
Ph.D. in Statistical Natural Language Processing in 1998. In between,
I worked at Dragon Systems, where my largest accomplishment was
designing and leading for a year the Modular Recognizer project, which
survived a bankruptcy and two acquisitions, and is still at the heart
of the Naturally
Speaking voice recognition product a decade later. I joined
Microsoft Research's Speech Recognition group in '98, and spent a
couple of years working on language modeling. I moved on to the Machine Learning and Applied
Statistics group, where I did more machine learning work, including
logistic regression/maximum entropy work. In 2002, I started working
on spam, and eventually helped Microsoft's spam product team get
started, working "on loan" to them until August 2004. My interests now extend beyond just spam, to other kinds of abuse, like click fraud, and to other aspects
of email and messaging. In 2004, I helped start the Conference on Email and
Anti-Spam (CEAS), and I was general chair in 2005.
Josh Goodman has his home page here too, though I prefer to be called Joshua.
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