REU Site: Undergraduate Research on Artificial Intelligence and Text Analysis

锡耶纳大学本科生研究经历(REU)网站为本科生提供了发展人工智能(AI)领域研究专长的独特机会。锡耶纳学院REU的网站环境通过教员顾问和同行导师的方式促进通过研究进行学习。学生们分组研究信息提取中的实际问题，这些领域包括军事和安全需求的信息收集，以及产品的有针对性的营销。尤其是由于大数据的新兴领域，这一REU计划正在对解决国家和全球社会问题的应用程序产生影响，例如识别临床试验对象的医疗信息检索系统，以及通过自动文本分析预测有不良意图的群体的焦点的系统。在这些领域工作的团队需要具有技能、知识和文化视角的多样性，锡耶纳REU项目正在招收广泛的学生，包括重点关注女性和其他代表性不足的群体，以便学生能够获得解决当今社会重大问题所需的广泛经验。REU的学生与锡耶纳学院的教职员工和学生导师一起参与了锡耶纳学院人工智能研究所(SCIAI)计算语言学(CL)信息提取项目的研究团队。这些项目正在改进CL的最新技术，以及调查有趣的真实世界应用程序。学生们正在学习科学研究的本质，以及如何在学生撰写的出版物中和通过在研究会议上的演讲来交流他们的工作。学生们的工作结果，包括报告的文字记录和海报的副本，通过锡耶纳学院REU网站(http://www.siena.edu/reu).)传播

The Siena College Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site provides unique opportunities for undergraduates to develop research expertise in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Siena College REU Site environment fosters learning through research by means of faculty advisors and peer mentors. The students work in teams on real problems in information extraction in areas such as information gathering for military and security needs to targeted marketing of products. Especially due to the emerging area of Big Data, this REU program is having an impact on applications that address national and global societal problems, such as medical information retrieval systems that identify people for clinical trials and systems to predict the focus of a groups with adverse intentions from automated text analysis. Teams working in these areas need to have diversity in skills, knowledge, and cultural perspectives, and the Siena REU program is recruiting a wide range of students, including a focus on women and other under-represented groups, so that the students can gain the broad experience needed to address the big problems in today's society. The REU students are involved in research teams with Siena College faculty and student mentors working on projects that are conducted at the Siena College Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SCIAI) in computational linguistics (CL) for information extraction. The projects are improving the state of the art in CL, as well as investigating interesting real-world applications. Students are learning about the nature of scientific research and how to communicate their work in student-authored publications and through presentations at research conferences. The results of the students' work, including transcripts of presentations and copies of posters, are disseminated via the Siena College REU Site website (http://www.siena.edu/reu).