Sachin Agarwal
Graduate Research Assistant
Language Technologies Institute
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA-15213 United States
Email: sachina [at] cs [dot] cmu [dot] edu

I am a Masters student at Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.
My adviser: Dr Alexander I. Rudnicky
 
I graduated from Indian Institute of Information Technology - Allahabad (IIITA), with (Hons.) Bachelors in Information Technology.
My Research Interests are Information Retrieval, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing

New: Literature Review: Active Learning for Natural Language Processing
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The projects I have been working on during the first year of my graduate studies at CMU:
RADAR- The focus of the RADAR project is to build a cognitive assistant that embodies machine learning technology that is able to function "in the wild" The technology need not be tuned by experts, and the person using the system that embodies the technology need not be trained in any special way. Using the RADAR system itself, in the task for which it is designed, should be enough to allow RADAR to learn to improve performance. RADAR is a joint project between SRI International and Carnegie Mellon University, and is funded by DARPA. -- Radar Website

Boeing's F/A-18 (used in US navy) Automatic Maintenance System -  The goal of our current F/A-18 project is to help user fill out a complex form in order to increase their productivity. We are building a recommendation system that would help the military personal reduce their monetary expenditures and efforts in F/A-18 aircraft maintenance tasks. Potentially we can also help troubleshoot hard problems, or solve simple problems without seeking engineers for help. We have done some work using Logistic regression to predict some fields in the form based on user's problem description. In the current stage we are developing EVSM model to solve the problem more flexibly with given information of any type (for example the author's name only), give suggestion to any other types (for example a title text in the past cases, or priority).

Yiming's research group: Classification, Language Analysis and Information Retrieval (CLAIR)