Varada Kolhatkar I am a first year PhD student in Computational Linguistics at the University of Toronto. My advisor is Graeme Hirst. I have finished my Masters in Computer science at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. My advisor was Ted Pedersen and I worked on the problem of All Words Sense Disambiguation.
Publications
Varada
Kolhatkar. An Extended Analysis of a Method of All Words Sense
Disambiguation. Master’s thesis, University of Minnesota, Duluth,
August 2009. [ bib ] [ pdf ] [slides]
Ted
Pedersen and Varada Kolhatkar. WordNet::SenseRelate::AllWords - a broad
coverage word sense tagger that maximizes semantic relatedness. In
Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference
of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics, Companion Volume: Demonstration Session, pages 17–20,
Boulder, Colorado, June 2009. Association for Computational
Linguistics. [ bib ] [ pdf ]
TA
Fall 2009: This semester I am a teaching assistant for CSC 263 Data structures and Analysis
Project Links
Here are a few projects I worked on during my Masters.