Eduard H. Hovy
Also known as Eduard Hovy
Eduard H. Hovy researches language generation, summarization and computational semantics. He earned his Yale doctorate in 1987 and developed PAULINE as part of that work. He coauthored work on Penman, summarization and ROUGE evaluation with Chin-Yew Lin. He also contributed to the multilingual OntoNotes annotation project. He joined CMU in 2012 and worked on shared machine-reading projects, including RUBICON. AAAI elected him a Fellow in 2017.
- Works
- 698
- Citations
- 43,463
- h-index
- 93
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Timeline
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1987–1992
Generation shaped by communication
Hovy earned his Yale computer-science doctorate in May 1987. His doctoral work produced the PAULINE program, which considered audience and communication context in text generation. He also participated in the Penman sentence-generator project from 1987 to 1992.
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2003–2004
Summaries and their evaluation
At USC’s Information Sciences Institute, Lin developed summarization systems with Hovy and others. Lin developed ROUGE evaluation work with Hovy in 2003–2004.
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2008–2012
A shared semantic corpus
Hovy worked on the OntoNotes project from 2008 to 2012 with researchers at BBN, Penn and Colorado. The project annotated English, Chinese and Arabic text with semantic information, including word senses and coreference.
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2012–2017
Machine reading at Carnegie Mellon
Hovy joined CMU in September 2012. From 2014 to 2017, Hovy collaborated with CMU, USC/ISI and Elsevier on RUBICON, which read cancer research articles. AAAI elected him a Fellow in 2017.
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