Home Page of Ted Pedersen

I am a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota in Duluth . I am also a Principal Investigator at the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute.

Here's my Google Scholar profile and my full Curriculum Vitae (updated March 29, 2019)

Launching the Islamophobia and Natural Language Processing project (July 23, 2019)

August 19, 2019 update
December 13, 2019 update
I'd be happy to hear from students, faculty, or community members interested in colloborating on this project!

I'm on Twitter and (infrequently) YouTube.
Some of our research tools can be run interactively on this web server.

Please read this guide (Updated January 31, 2019) if you are a prospective MS student interested in working with me on a Master's thesis or project.

....... Research ....... Publications ....... Software ....... Teaching .......

See my current office hours and contact information.

Research Projects:

..... SenseClusters ..... Ngram Statistics Package ..... WordNet::Similarity ..... UMLS::Similarity ..... WordNet::SenseRelate ..... Supervised WSD .....

External Funding:

My research has been supported by a National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine RO1 grant 1R01LM009623-01A2 (September 2008 - September 2012). I was co-PI on this grant with Serguei Pakhomov (PI) ( RePORTER entry). This grant supported the development of UMLS::Similarity and UMLS::Interface and UMLS::SenseRelate and the enhancement of our server lab here at UMD. ( Project Site )
My research has previously been supported by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award #0092784 (March 2001 - February 2007). This grant fully supported the development of SenseClusters, and partially supported the development of WordNet::Similarity, the Ngram Statistics Package, and WordNet::SenseRelate. It also funded a server lab here at UMD.

What's New?

Interactive Workshop on What Makes Hate Speech at 2020 UMD Summit on Equity, Race, and Ethnicity (Wed Mar 4, 2020)
Invited Talk on Algorithmic Bias to Social Media Marketing class at York University, Schulich School of Business (Mon Mar 11, 2019)
Interactive Workshop on Algorithmic Bias at 2019 UMD Summit on Equity, Race, and Ethnicity: Justice and Equity for All (Wed Feb 27, 2019)
Get caught up on the Duluth NLP group via our mailing list!
I have had the good fortune to work with some great students. Ten of them have moved on to PhD programs.

By: Ted Pedersen - tpederse AT d umn edu