Research Interests
 
My primary research areas are NLP and AI. I am interested in many aspects of Natural Language Processing like subjectivity and sentiment analysis, discourse, dialogs and multi-perspective question answering. I work with my advisor Janyce Wiebe on some of these.
 
Publications

Swapna Somasundaran, Janyce Wiebe and Josef Ruppenhofer (2008) Discourse Level Opinion Interpretation,  Coling, Manchester, 18-22 August, 2008

Swapna Somasundaran, Josef Ruppenhofer and Janyce Wiebe (2008) Discourse Level Opinion Relations: An Annotation Study, SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Columbus, Ohio,  June 2008

Josef Ruppenhofer, Swapna Somasundaran and Janyce Wiebe (2008)  Finding the Sources and Targets of Subjective Expressions. LREC 2008, Marrakech, Morocco.  

Swapna Somasundaran, Josef Ruppenhofer and Janyce Wiebe (2007)  Detecting Arguing and Sentiment in Meetings, SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Antwerp, Belgium, September  2007.
 
Swapna Somasundaran, Theresa Wilson, Janyce Wiebe and Veselin Stoyanov (2007) QA with Attitude: Exploiting Opinion Type Analysis for Improving Question Answering in On-line Discussions and the News, International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media March 26-28, 2007, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
 
Swapna Somasundaran, Janyce Wiebe, Paul Hoffmann, Diane Litman  (2006). Manual Annotation of Opinion Categories in Meetings. ACL Workshop: Frontiers in Linguistically Annotated Corpora(Coling/ACL 2006) , Sydney, Australia
 
Theresa Wilson, Paul Hoffmann, Swapna Somasundaran, Jason Kessler, JanyceWiebe, Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie, Ellen Riloff, Siddharth Patwardhan (2005). OpinionFinder: A system for subjectivity analysis Demo in Human Language Technologies Conference/Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP 2005), Vancouver, Canada.


Courses

Teaching
 
Fall 2006
* Introduction to NLP (COURSE #2731 )
* Introduction to Artificial Intelligence ( COURSE #1571)
 
Fall 2005
* Introduction to NLP (COURSE #2731 )
* Discrete Structures for Computer Science (COURSE #0441 )

Coursework
   
Fall 07
Analysis of Social media (CMU)
 
Fall 06
Probabilistic Methods
 
Spring 06
Machine Learning
Advanced Topics in AI (Affective Spoken Dialogue Systems)
Research Experience In Computer Science

Fall 05
Computer Architecture
 
Spring 05
Design And Analysis of Algorithms
Computer Operating Systems
Advanced Topics in NLP (Discourse Processing and Pragmatics)
 
Fall 04
Research In Computer Science
Foundations of Artificial Intelligence

Summer 02 ( at JHU)
Computer Organization
 
Spring 02 ( at JHU)
Advanced Topics in Online algorithms
Information Retrieval and Web agents
Seminar in NLP
Computer Networks
Medical Informatics
Embedded systems and security

Fall 01 ( at JHU)
Database Systems
Introduction to NLP
Introduction to Algorithms




News
Research featured  in the DHS Network Newsletter as Department of Homeland Security featured student
 
Data, Lexicon and OpinionFinder system released by the group at Pitt can be obtained here


Misc
 
Swapna Somasundaran
Hi, I am a graduate student in the Computer Science department of the University of Pittsburgh.
 
 
 
I am a member of the Natural Language Processing Group here.
 
Tel : 412-624-8842
 
Department of Computer Science
Rm. 5422 Sennott Square Building
210 S. Bouquet St.
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260