Michael Collins (computational linguist)
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| Michael J. Collins | |
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| Born | March 4, 1971  Sheffield |
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| Residence | Boston, MA |
| Citizenship | UK |
| Fields | Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning |
| Institutions | MIT |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University University of Pennsylvania |
| Doctoral advisor | Mitch Marcus |
| Doctoral students | Brooke Cowan Luke Zettlemoyer Terry Koo Ali Mohammad Ariadna Quattoni Natasha Singh |
| Known for | Automatic Parsing, Voted Perceptron |
Michael J. Collins (born March 4, 1971) is a researcher in the field of computational linguistics. His research interests are in natural language processing, and machine learning [1]. He has made several important contributions in statistical parsing (including a state-of-the-art parser of the Wall Street Journal corpus) and in statistical machine learning. He is recently became a tenured professor at MIT's CSAIL.
