I am a second year PhD student in the Center for Language and Speech Processing and the Computer Science Department at Johns Hopkins University. My advisor is Chris Callison-Burch. I am also a Graduate Fellow at the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence. My research interests span a wide range of Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics topics including Information Extraction, Machine Translation, and Computational Linguistic Typology.

I grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and received my undergraduate degree in 2006 from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. At Dartmouth I worked with Joel Levine and Robert Norman in the Math & Social Science Department. I also collaborated with faculty from the Linguistics Department to complete my senior honors thesis, which used data from the World Atlas of Language Structures to quantitatively measure the typological distance between pairs of languages. I earned a Masters in Information Science degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008. At UNC, I worked with my advisor, Stephanie Haas, on a medical informatics project. In particular, I developed ways to apply information extraction and text mining methods to Emergency Department triage notes.

• Ann K. Irvine, Stephanie W. Haas, and Tessa Sullivan. "TN-TIES: A System for Extracting Temporal Information from Emergency Department Triage Notes" In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association 2008.
• Tessa Sullivan, Ann K. Irvine, and Stephanie W. Haas. "It's All Relative: Usage of Relative Expressions in Triage Notes" In Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2008.
• Ann K. Irvine. "Natural Language Processing and Temporal Information Extraction in Emergency Department Triage Notes" University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Masters Paper, 2008
• Diane Kelly, Chirag Shah, Cassidy Sugimoto, Earl Bailey, Rachael Clemens, Ann K. Irvine, Nicholas A. Johnson, Weimao Ke, Shanghee Oh, Anezka Poljakova, Marcos A. Rodriguez, Megan G. van Noord, and Yan Zhang. "The Effects of Performance Feedback on Users' Evaluations of an Interactive IR System" in Proceedings of Information Interaction in Context 2008.
• Ann K. Irvine "Measuring Linguistic Similarity within Language Groups: Revisiting Traditional Typology in the Language Information Age" Dartmouth College Undergraduate Honors Thesis, 2006

I enjoy long-distance running. I especially like using race weekends as excuses for mini-reunions with old friends. I'm currently heading up the Baltimore Station chapter of Back On My Feet, a running community that supports Baltimore's homeless population.

My liberal arts undergraduate education was well-rounded and included lots of travel. I spent terms abroad in Puebla, Mexico, studying Mexican history and literature; Copenhagen, Denmark, studying European demography and the Danish language; and Carorita, Venezuela volunteering in the clinic and school in the small Andean village.

These days traveling for months at a time is more difficult to arrange, but I cherish every chance that I have to get away from my new life in the city and go back to the mountains to hike, fish, swim, and breathe.