Shlomo Argamon (formerly Sean Engelson) Department of Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL 60616 Office: SB 237C Phone: (312) 567-5289 Fax: (312) 567-5067 Email: argamon@iit.edu

Research Interests

• Computational stylistics, including text categorization by writing style, gender issues in linguistic expression, and forensic linguistics.
• Learning from textual corpora, including intelligent text retrieval, categorization, and summarization.
• Utility and decision-theoretic methods in machine learning and exploration.
• Machine learning methods utilizing a priori knowledge.
• Models for structuring sequential data.

Conferences and Workshops

• First Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (2006)
• ACM SIGIR 2006 Workshop on Stylistic Analysis Of Text For Information Access
• ACM SIGIR 2005 Workshop on Stylistic Analysis Of Text For Information Access
• ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
• AAAI 2004 Fall Symposium on Style and Meaning in Language, Art, Music, and Design
• Doing It With Style: The IJCAI'03 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Style Analysis and Synthesis

Recent Courses

2007
• CS-480: Artificial Intelligence: Planning and Action
• CS-584: Machine Learning
  2006
• CS-481: Artificial Intelligence: Natural Language Processing
• CS-495-001: Information and Knowledge Management Systems
• CS-595-200: Topics in Computational Linguistics: Systemic Functional Linguistics
  2005
• CS-495-052: Intelligent Text Analysis
• CS-585: Natural Language Processing
  2004
• CS-584: Machine Learning
• CS-595-200: Topics in Computational Linguistics: Grammar Formalisms
• CS-585: Natural Language Processing
  2003
• CS-480: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
• CS-595-200: Topics in Computational Linguistics: Systemic Functional Linguistics
• CS-581: Advanced Artificial Intelligence