Dr. Sean Szumlanski, , recently earned his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Central Florida, under the advisement of Dr. Fernando Gomez, . Sean is an alumnus of UCF's Artificial Intelligence Lab, with research interests in knowledge-based approaches to natural language understanding, computational aspects of (automated) acquisition of lexical semantic knowledge, semantic memory, and the function of human memory.

The subject of my doctoral dissertation was the automatic acquisition of a semantic network of related concepts. The semantic network produced by my research is publicly available.

Publications

[1]		S. Szumlanski and F. Gomez. 2011. Evaluating a Semantic Network Automatically Constructed from Lexical Co-occurrence on a Word Sense Disambiguation Task. CoNLL '11. pp. 190—199.  [Download: PDF]
[2]		S. Szumlanski and F. Gomez. 2010. Automatically Acquiring a Semantic Network of Related Concepts. CIKM '10. pp. 19—28.  [Download: PDF]
[3]		S. Szumlanski and F. Gomez. 2008 Adapting Decision Trees for Learning Selectional Restrictions. FLAIRS '08, pp. 231—232.
[4]		S. Szumlanski, A. S. Wu, and C. E. Hughes. Conflict Resolution and a Framework for Collaborative Interactive Evolution. AAAI '06, pp. 512—517. Boston, MA, 2006.
[5]		S. Szumlanski, A. S. Wu, and C. E. Hughes. Collaborative Interactive Evolution. GECCO '05, pp. 2199—2200. Washington, D.C., 2005.