Michael Collins (computational linguist)

{{Short description|Researcher in the field of computational linguistics}}

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| name = Michael J. Collins

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| field = Computational linguistics, Machine learning

| work_institution = Columbia University

| alma_mater = Cambridge University
University of Pennsylvania

| doctoral_advisor = Mitch Marcus

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| known_for = Statistical parsing, Structured perceptron

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Michael J. Collins (born 4 March 1970) is a researcher in the field of computational linguistics. He is the Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University.{{Cite web |title=Michael Collins |url=http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~mcollins/ |access-date=2022-06-06 |website=www.cs.columbia.edu}}

His research interests are in natural language processing as well as machine learning and he has made important contributions in statistical parsing and in statistical machine learning. In his studies Collins covers a wide range of topics such as parse re-ranking, tree kernels, semi-supervised learning, machine translation and exponentiated gradient algorithms with a general focus on discriminative models and structured prediction. One notable contribution is a state-of-the-art parser for the Penn Wall Street Journal corpus. As of 11 November 2015, his works have been cited 16,020 times, and he has an h-index of 47.{{Cite web|title = Michael Collins - Google Scholar Citations|url = https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DxoenfgAAAAJ&hl=en|website = Google Scholar|accessdate = 2015-11-11}}

Collins worked as a researcher at AT&T Labs between January 1999 and November 2002, and later held the positions of assistant and associate professor at M.I.T. Since January 2011, he has been a professor at Columbia University.Collins, Michael. [https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~mcollins/ Collins's Columbia website]. In 2011, he was named a fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics.{{cite web|title=ACL Fellows|url=https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/ACL_Fellows|website=ACL Wiki|accessdate=15 August 2017|language=en}}