1. Rutu Mulkar-Mehta – Curriculum Vitae
4676 Admiralty Way, Ste 1001, Marina Del Rey, 90292
(Phone) : 310-448-8432
(Email) : me@rutumulkar.com
(Web) : http://www.rutumulkar.com
EDUCATION
Doctorate of Philosophy Program 2006-Current
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
(GPA : 3.73/4.0)
Master of Science 2004-2006
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
(GPA : 3.68/4.0)
Bachelor of Engineering 2000-2004
Nirma Institute of Technology, India
(GPA : 3.77/4.0)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Natural Language Processing, Language Interpretation, Information Extraction,
Information Retrieval, Temporal relation extraction, Learning by Reading, Machine
Learning
EXPERIENCE
Graduate Research Assistant 2004-Current
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Graduate Teaching Assistant Spring 2007
Course: Natural Language Processing (CS 544 )
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Invited Lecturer Spring 2009
Course: Natural Language Processing (CS 544 )
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Research Intern Summer 2009
PricewaterhouseCoopers ,Center for Advanced Research
PUBLICATIONS
2009
Rutu Mulkar-Mehta, Jerry R. Hobbs, Chun-Chi Liu, Xianghong Jasmine Zhou,
Discovering Causal and Temporal Relations in Biomedical Texts. Proceedings of AAAI Spring
Symposium '09, Stanford, California
2008
Jerry R. Hobbs and Rutu Mulkar-Mehta, Using Abduction for Video-Text
Coreference Proceedings of BOEMIE 2008, Workshop on Ontology Evolution and
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2007
Ken Barker, Bruce Porter, Eduard Hovy, Jerry Hobbs, Rutu Mulkar-Mehta.
Learning by Reading: A Prototype System, Performance Baseline, and Lessons
Learned . In Proceedings of the AAAI conference. Vancouver, Canada
Feng Pan, Rutu Mulkar-Mehta, and Jerry R. Hobbs. Modeling and Learning Vague
Event Durations for Temporal Reasoning. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) , Vancouver, Canada.
Rutu Mulkar, Jerry R. Hobbs, Eduard Hovy, Hans Chalupsky, and Chin-Yew Lin,
Learning by reading: Two experiments . In Proceedings of IJCAI 2007 workshop on
Knowledge and Reasoning for Answering Questions .
Rutu Mulkar, Jerry R. Hobbs, Eduard Hovy, Learning from Reading Syntactically
Complex Biology Texts . In proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on
Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning, part of the AAAI Spring
Symposium Series 2007
2006
Feng Pan, Rutu Mulkar, and Jerry R. Hobbs. 2006. Learning Event Durations from
Event Descriptions . In Proceedings of the 44th Conference of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (COLING-ACL), Sydney, Australia.
Feng Pan, Rutu Mulkar, and Jerry R. Hobbs. 2006. An Annotated Corpus of
Typical Durations of Events . In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on
Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Genoa, Italy.
Feng Pan, Rutu Mulkar, and Jerry R. Hobbs. 2006. Extending TimeML with Typical
Durations of Events. In Proceedings of Annotating and Reasoning about Time and
Events workshop at the 44th Conference of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (COLING-ACL), Sydney, Australia.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Recipient of WiSE travel scholarship , 2009
Recipient of the Phi Beta Kappa scholarship for 2009-2010
Recipient of “Best Poster (Runner up)” at the 2nd Annual Graduate Student
Symposium at Information Sciences Institute. (2007) (Press coverage is provided
here )
Invited to attend “Symposium on Evolution of Semantic Systems ” (October 5-6th,
2007) Jena, Germany
Represented USC at the “Grace Murray Hopper Celebration of Women in
Computing ” (October 17 th to 20 th 2007, Orlando Florida) (Press coverage is provided
here )
Selected to attend “JHU Summer School on Human Language Technology ” , (June
27 - July 8, 2005 ) Hopkins University (CLSP – Center for Language and Speech
Processing)
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RESEARCH PROJECTS
• Machine Reading (2009-Current)
Research Project funded by DARPA
Advisor: Dr. Jerry Hobbs
Participants: USC-ISI, UTexas-Austin, IBM, University of Utah
This project aims at reading news texts , converting these texts into a machine
understandable format, and deriving inferences from the text.
• Sentiment Analysis from Twitter Data (Summer 2009)
Research Project at PwC
Advisor: Dr. Cynthia Thompson
This project aimed at extracting product sentiment from microblogs, where the length of
each message is 140 characters or less
• Discovering Granularities in Processes (2008-Current)
Research Project at ISI
Advisor: Dr. Jerry Hobbs
This project aims at discovering various granularities in process texts and displaying a
graphical representation of the same.
• Causal and Temporal relations in Biomedical Data (2008)
Research Project at ISI
Advisor: Dr. Jerry Hobbs
This project aimed at discovering time based interactions in Genetic data, and their possible
applications in Medical discoveries.
• Mobius Sapling II (2007 – 2008)
Research Project funded by DARPA
Advisors: Dr. Jerry Hobbs and Dr. Eduard Hovy
This project aimed at reading texts related to Engines, and converting these texts into
machine understandable format, and deriving inferences from the text.
• Mobius Seedling I (2006-2007)
Research Project funded by DARPA
Advisors: Dr. Jerry Hobbs and Dr. Eduard Hovy
This project aimed at reading texts related to the heart, and converting these texts into
machine understandable format, and deriving inferences from the text. Ddeveloped a system
for binarizing and enriching Penn Treebank style parse trees.
• Learning By Reading (2006)
Research Project funded by DARPA
Advisors: Dr. Jerry Hobbs and Dr. Eduard Hovy
This project aimed to develop a system that is capable of reading a high school chemistry
textbook and answering questions relevant to the text provided. Produced deep lexical
understanding of text based on shallow semantics. Produced semantically deep axioms for
textual understanding.
• MOVER (2005)
Research Project funded by ARDA
Advisor: Dr. Jerry Hobbs
This project aimed at finding multimodal co reference from audio and video data of a news
clip. Developed an Abductive inference system called Mini-TACITUS.
• TARSQI (2004 – 2006)
Research Project funded by ARDA
Advisor: Dr. Jerry Hobbs
1Extracting time relationships of events from annotated events of news paper articles.
Developed automated Web enabled GUI Annotation processing system using Perl,DHTML
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ACADEMIC PROJECTS
• Automatic Axiom Generation for repairing Logical Forms (2006)
Investigative Course Project @ USC – Empirical Methods in NLP
Advisor: Dr. Kevin Knight
Project to repair incomplete logical forms obtained from text. Incompleteness occurred due to
parse errors and limited syntax-to-semantics rules.
• Automatic Sentence Generation (2005)
Course Project @ USC – Natural Language Processing
Advisor: Dr. Eduard Hovy
Develop a rule based system, forward chaining on grammatical rules and Backtracking to auto-
generate syntactically correct and semantically meaningful sentences for semantic knowledge
specified in English. (Language Generation)
• Sentence type recognition and partition (2005)
Course Project @ USC – Natural Language Processing
Advisor: Dr. Daniel Marcu
To analyze and understand the underlying theme and meaning of different portions of a sentence
• Image recognizer (2005)
Course Project @ USC – Artificial Intelligence
Advisor: Dr. Sven Koenig
Enhance a Three-layer fully-connected feed forward Neural Network to learn and correctly classify
faces and poses of images given as an input.
• Thesaurus (2005)
Course Project @ USC – Lexical Semantics
Advisor: Dr. Patrick Pantel
Develop a Thesaurus using statistical correlation of information shared by words.
PUBLICALLY AVAILABLE SOFTWARE
Mini-TACITUS : The Abductive Commonsense Inference Text Understanding
System, software for abducing the most likely explanation for a text.
PROGRAMMING
Java, Perl
REFERENCES
Available upon request
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