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Biography

Mark Dredze is an Assistant Research Professor in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and a Research Scientist at the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence.  He is also affiliated with the Center for Language and Speech Processing and the Center for Population Health Information Technology.  His research in natural language processing and machine learning has focused on graphical models, semi-supervised learning, information extraction, large-scale learning, and speech processing.  He focuses on public health informatics applications, including information extraction from social media, biomedical and clinical texts.  He obtained his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009.