Picture of me in April 2008 at Pine Creek Minature Golf in NJ
Picture of me and my husband at our wedding, August 2nd, 2009
About Me
My name is Sara Rosenthal (My maiden name is Sara Stolbach). I am a first/second year PhD student in the NLP Group. My Advisor is Kathy McKeown. I got married on August 2, 2009 to David Rosenthal (See a picture of us from our wedding on the left). I completed my Masters in Computer Science at Columbia University on the Machine Learning Track in Spring 2008. I recieved my BS in Computer Science at Ramapo College of New Jersey. I received a minor in Math. I interned at Google on the Sentiment Analysis Team in New York City in Summer 2007. Prior to pursuing my Master's degree I worked at RustyBrick as a Web Programmer.
Research Interests
My main interests are in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. I am currently working on the IARPA SCIL project dealing with identifying age and gender of authors as well as identifying opinion and opinion spread in blogs. I previously worked on GALE, a Question/Answering System involving Machine Translation where I maintain the Pipeline and various services. I have previously done research in Rule Based Expert Systems for an Intelligent Tutor System at Ramapo College with Dr. Amruth Kumar