Catherine Havasi
contemporaryComputational Linguistics / Cognitive Scienceb. 1981
Catherine Havasi is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur specializing in natural language processing and common-sense reasoning. She co-founded the Open Mind Common Sense project's ConceptNet and Luminoso, contributing to computational approaches to semantic understanding and text analytics.
Notable Achievements
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Co-founded Luminoso, a text analytics company spun out of MIT Media Lab
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Lead developer of ConceptNet, a large-scale semantic network for common-sense reasoning
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Advanced research on AnalogySpace and dimensionality reduction for semantic knowledge
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Contributed to the Open Mind Common Sense project at MIT
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Published widely on NLP, crowdsourced knowledge acquisition, and discourse coherence