Steven Bethard
Harvill 445C
Research Areas
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Natural language processing
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Machine learning
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Information extraction
Dr. Steven Bethard is an Associate Professor at the College of Information Science at the University of Arizona with courtesy appointments in Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, and Applied Mathematics. Dr. Bethard is part of a large community of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing researchers at the University of Arizona. His research interests include modeling the language of time and timelines, normalizing text to medical and geospatial ontologies, and information extraction models for clinical applications.
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Dr. Bethard previously worked as an assistant professor in Computer and Information Science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University’s Natural Language Processing group, Johns Hopkins University’s Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, KULeuven’s Language Intelligence and Information Retrieval group in Belgium, and the University of Colorado’s Center for Language and Education Research. Dr. Bethard got his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from the University of Colorado Boulder.
Degrees
- PhD in Computer Science and Cognitive Science, University of Colorado Boulder
- BS in Computer Science and Mathematics, The University of Arizona
- BA in Linguistics, The University of Arizona