Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois
405 North Mathews Avenue Urbana, IL 61801 USA
Telephone: (217) 244-1176 Fax: (217) 333-2922
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Part-time Faculty Artificial Intelligence
2043 Beckman Institute 405 N Mathews Ave Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 244-3104
Roxana Girju is a U of I assistant professor of Linguistics holding affiliate appointments in the Departments of Computer Science and Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. She is also a part-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute Artificial Intelligence group. Dr. Girju earned a B.Sc. from "Politehnica" University of Bucharest (1995) and a PhD degree in Computer Science from University of Texas at Dallas (2002). Her research interests are in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing / Computational Linguistics with emphasis on computational semantics and its applications to question answering and textual inference.
Honors: Center for Advanced Study Award (2006).