Katie Fraser
About Me
I am a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, in the Computational Linguistics group. Before coming to Toronto, I did a Masters of Computer Science at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS, and before that a B.Sc. in Physics at St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, NS.
I'm interested in Artificial Intelligence, especially areas involving language and cognition. I'm fascinated by the question of how the brain works, and how (or if) it is possible to model brain function using computers.
Research
My current research is focused on the problem of automatic document classification. In general, documents can include anything from tweets to emails to full-length novels, and can be classified based on attributes such as author, subject, genre, sentiment, and so on. I'm particularly interested in the possibility of being able to discover traits about an author through the characteristics of his/her writing. Currently, I'm looking at whether it is possible to distinguish between two types of Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) based on computational analysis of the text transcriptions of spontaneous speech of PPA patients. My supervisor is Graeme Hirst.
Contact
The best way to reach me is by email: first initial followed by last name at cs.toronto.edu.
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