Teaching
In my teaching, I try to share my excitement with mathematics, languages, and computers at several different levels, from introductory programming classes, to advanced classes in artificial intelligence or programming language paradigms.
Research
My research lies at the intersection of computer science and linguistics, a field called natural language processing, or computational linguistics. Specifically I′ve studied the creation of programs that automatically answer questions, programs that automatically extract information about opinions expressed in text, and also methodological issues related to how we as scientists conduct research in natural language processing.
Outside the Classroom
I am an avid singer, having sung with award-winning a cappella groups as both a graduate and undergraduate student. I′ve also performed with large and small choirs of various sorts. I also enjoy running--I′ve been slothful lately, but I′ve run a couple of marathons as well as various shorter races.
More information about Dr. Breck can be found here.
M.S, Computer Science, Cornell University
Ph.D., Computer Science, Cornell University
Computer Science 103 - COMPUTER INFORMATION FLUENCY
Computer Science 142 - COMPUTER SCIENCE II: OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING
Computer Science 231 - INTRO SYS PROGRM & COMP ORG
Computer Science 465 - TOPICS: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
[2008] Breck, Eric. zymake: A Computational Workflow System for Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. In "Proceedings of the 2008 ACL workshop on Software Engineering, Testing, and Quality Assurance for Natural Language Processing."
[2007] Eric Breck and Yejin Choi and Claire Cardie. Identifying expressions of opinion in context. In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2007).
[2004] Eric Breck and Claire Cardie. Playing the Telephone Game: Determining the Hierarchical Structure of Perspective and Speech Expressions. In The 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2004).
[2001] Light, Marc and Mann, Gideon S. and Riloff, Ellen and Breck, Eric. Analyses for Elucidating Current Question Answering Technology. Journal for Natural Language Engineering, 7(4): 325--342, 2001.
[1999] Hirschman, Lynette and Light, Marc and Breck, Eric and Burger, John D. Deep Read: A Reading Comprehension System. In "Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL99)".