Ben Wellner

Ben Wellner is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Brandeis University and a Lead Scientist at The MITRE Corporation's Information Technology Center. His research spans Natural Language Processing, Discourse Analysis, Temporal Reasoning, and Biomedical Informatics.

• Current teaching: Statistical Natural Language Processing
• Key collaborations: Andrew McCallum, James Pustejovsky, Lynette Hirschman, and others
• Methodological focus: Sequence models, weakly supervised learning, and graph partitioning techniques

Research trends from his publications include:

• Developing machine learning approaches for discourse structure analysis
• Creating adaptive systems for information extraction and coreference resolution
• Applying NLP techniques to biomedical data normalization
• Building temporally-aware models for text analysis