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'''Shlomo Engelson Argamon''' is an American/Israeli [[computer scientist]] and [[forensic linguist]]. He is currently a tenured professor of computer science and director of the Master of Data Science program at [[Illinois Institute of Technology]] in [[Chicago, IL]].
'''Shlomo Argamon''' (born 1967) is an American/Israeli [[computer scientist]] and [[forensic linguist]]. He is the associate provost for [[artificial intelligence]] and professor of computer science at [[Touro University System|Touro University]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Touro University Announces New Associate Provost for AI
|url=https://www.touro.edu/news--events/stories/touro-university-announces-new-associate-provost-for-ai.php |access-date=2024-01-06 |website=www.touro.edu}}</ref>


== Education ==
== Education ==
Shlomo Argamon received his B.S. in [[applied mathematics]] from [[Carnegie-Mellon University]] and his M.Phil and Ph.D. in [[computer science]] from [[Yale University]], supervised by [[Drew McDermott]].<ref>http://webmail.cs.yale.edu/publications/techreports/tr1032.ps.gz</ref> He spent two years doing postdoctoral research under a [[Fulbright Foundation]] fellowship with [[Sarit Kraus]] at [[Bar-Ilan University]] in [[Ramat Gan, Israel]].
Shlomo Argamon received his B.S. in [[applied mathematics]] from [[Carnegie-Mellon University]] and his [[MPhil]] and [[Ph.D.]] in [[computer science]] from [[Yale University]], supervised by [[Drew McDermott]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tech Reports |url=http://cs.yale.edu/publications/techreports/tr1032.ps.gz |website=cs.yale.edu}}</ref> He spent two years doing postdoctoral research under a [[Fulbright Foundation]] fellowship with [[Sarit Kraus]] at [[Bar-Ilan University]] in [[Ramat Gan]], [[Israel]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Shlomo Engelson Argamon {{!}} The Linguistic Summer Institute 2015 |url=https://lsa2015.uchicago.edu/instructors/shlomo-engelson-argamon.html |access-date=2023-02-06 |website=lsa2015.uchicago.edu}}</ref>


== Research ==
== Research ==
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Since the late 1990s, Argamon has worked primarily on [[computational linguistics]] and [[machine learning]], focusing on the analysis of non-denotational meaning, including computational analysis of language [[stylistics]], [[sentiment analysis]],<ref>Kenneth Bloom, Navendu Garg, and Shlomo Argamon. Extracting appraisal expressions. In Proc. Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), Rochester, New York, April, 2007.</ref><ref>Casey Whitelaw, Navendu Garg, and Shlomo Argamon. Using appraisal groups for sentiment analysis. In Proc. Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Bremen, Germany, November 2005.</ref><ref>Shlomo Argamon, Ken Bloom, Andrea Esuli, and Fabrizio Sebastiani. Automatically Determining Attitude Type and Force for Sentiment Analysis. 3rd Language and Technology Conference, Poznan, Poland, October 2007.</ref> and [[metaphor analysis]].<ref>Lisa Gandy, Nadji Allan, Mark Atallah, Ophir Frieder, Newton Howard, Sergey Kanareykin, Moshe Koppel, Mark Last, Yair Neuman, Shlomo Argamon. Automatic identification of conceptual metaphors with limited knowledge. In Proc. Twenty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-13), Bellevue, WA, July 2013.</ref> He has also published well-cited research on [[active learning (machine learning)]],<ref>Shlomo Argamon-Engelson and Ido Dagan. Committee-based sample selection for probabilistic classifiers. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 11:335-360, 1999.</ref> [[Meta-learning (computer science)|metalearning]],<ref>Julio Ortega, Moshe Koppel, and Shlomo Argamon-Engelson. Arbitrating among competing classifiers using learned referees. Knowledge and Information Systems, 3(4):470–490, 2001.</ref> and [[robotic mapping]].


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=== Computational stylistics ===
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Since the late 1990s, Argamon has worked primarily on [[computational linguistic]] analysis of non-denotational meaning, including computational analysis of language [[stylistics]], [[sentiment analysis]],<ref>Kenneth Bloom, Navendu Garg, and Shlomo Argamon. Extracting appraisal expressions. In Proc. Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), Rochester, New York, April, 2007.</ref><ref>Casey Whitelaw, Navendu Garg, and Shlomo Argamon. Using appraisal groups for sentiment analysis. In Proc. Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Bremen, Germany, November 2005.</ref><ref>Shlomo Argamon, Ken Bloom, Andrea Esuli, and Fabrizio Sebastiani. Automatically Determining Attitude Type and Force for Sentiment Analysis. 3rd Language and Technology Conference, Poznan, Poland, October 2007.</ref> and [[metaphor analysis]].<ref>Lisa Gandy, Nadji Allan, Mark Atallah, Ophir Frieder, Newton Howard, Sergey Kanareykin, Moshe Koppel, Mark Last, Yair Neuman, Shlomo Argamon. Automatic identification of conceptual metaphors with limited knowledge. In Proc. Twenty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-13), Bellevue, WA, July 2013.</ref> He has also published well-cited research on [[active learning (machine learning)]],<ref>Shlomo Argamon-Engelson and Ido Dagan. Committee-based sample selection for probabilistic classifiers. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 11:335-360, 1999.</ref> [[Meta learning (computer science)|metalearning]],<ref>Julio Ortega, Moshe Koppel, and Shlomo Argamon-Engelson. Arbitrating among competing classifiers using learned referees. Knowledge and Information Systems, 3(4):470–490, 2001.</ref> and [[robotic mapping]].
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Argamon is best known for his work on [[computational stylistics]], particularly [[author profiling]]. Together with [[Moshe Koppel]] and others, he has shown how statistical analysis of word usage can determine an author's age, sex, native language, and personality type with high accuracy in English-language texts.<ref>Argamon, Shlomo, Moshe Koppel, Jonathan Fine, and Anat Rachel Shimoni. "Gender, genre, and writing style in formal written texts." ''Text'' 23, no. 3 (2003): 321-346.</ref><ref>Argamon, Shlomo, Moshe Koppel, James W. Pennebaker, and Jonathan Schler. "Automatically profiling the author of an anonymous text." Communications of the ACM 52, no. 2 (2009): 119-123.</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Argamon |first1=Shlomo |last2=Koppel |first2=Moshe |last3=Pennebaker |first3=James W. |last4=Schler |first4=Jonathan |date=2007-09-03 |title=Mining the Blogosphere: Age, gender and the varieties of self-expression |url=https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2003 |journal=First Monday |language=en |doi=10.5210/fm.v12i9.2003 |doi-access=free |issn=1396-0466}}</ref> His work also has shown how textual features indicating differences between male and female authorship are consistent between languages and across time.<ref>Argamon, Shlomo, Jean-Baptiste Goulain, Russell Horton, and Mark Olsen. "Vive la Différence! Text mining gender difference in French literature." Digital Humanities Quarterly 3, no. 2 (2009).</ref><ref>Argamon, Shlomo, Russell Horton, Mark Olsen, and Sterling Stuart Stein. "Gender, Race, and Nationality in BlackDrama, 1850-2000: Mining Differences in Language Use in Authors and their Characters." Proceedings of Digital Humanities (2007).</ref><ref>Hota, Sobhan R., Shlomo Argamon, and Rebecca Chung. "Gender in Shakespeare: Automatic stylistics gender character classification using syntactic, lexical and lemma features." Proc. Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) (2006).</ref>


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Argamon also developed computational stylistic methods that provide insights into the meaning of stylistic differences. One of his key innovations for this purpose is the development of computational stylistic analysis using [[systemic functional linguistics]].<ref>Argamon, Shlomo, Casey Whitelaw, Paul Chase, Sobhan Raj Hota, Navendu Garg, and Shlomo Levitan. "Stylistic text classification using functional lexical features." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58, no. 6 (2007): 802-822.</ref><ref>Argamon, Shlomo, and Moshe Koppel. "The rest of the story: Finding meaning in stylistic variation." In ''The Structure of Style'', pp. 79-112. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.</ref> For example, together with Jeff Dodick and Paul Chase, he examined whether there are clear and consistent differences between [[scientific method]] in experimental sciences and historical sciences. Their work showed how using systemic functional features in computational stylistic analysis provides evidence for multiple scientific methodologies of the sorts posited previously by [[philosophers of science]].<ref>Argamon, Shlomo, Jeff Dodick, and Paul Chase. "Language use reflects scientific methodology: A corpus-based study of peer-reviewed journal articles." Scientometrics 75, no. 2 (2008): 203-238.</ref>
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=== Computational Stylistics ===
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Argamon is best known for his work on [[computational stylistics]], particularly [[author profiling]]. Together with [[Moshe Koppel]] and others, he has shown how statistical analysis of word usage can determine an author's age, sex, native language, and personality type with high accuracy in English-language texts.<ref>Argamon, Shlomo, Moshe Koppel, Jonathan Fine, and Anat Rachel Shimoni. "Gender, genre, and writing style in formal written texts." ''Text'' 23, no. 3 (2003): 321-346.</ref><ref>Argamon, Shlomo, Moshe Koppel, James W. Pennebaker, and Jonathan Schler. "Automatically profiling the author of an anonymous text." Communications of the ACM 52, no. 2 (2009): 119-123.</ref><ref>Argamon, Shlomo, Moshe Koppel, James W. Pennebaker, and Jonathan Schler. "Mining the Blogosphere: Age, gender and the varieties of self-expression." First Monday 12, no. 9 (2007). http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2003</ref> His work has also shown how textual features indicating differences between male and female authorship are consistent between languages and across time.<ref>Argamon, Shlomo, Jean-Baptiste Goulain, Russell Horton, and Mark Olsen. "Vive la Différence! Text mining gender difference in French literature." Digital Humanities Quarterly 3, no. 2 (2009).</ref><ref>Argamon, Shlomo, Russell Horton, Mark Olsen, and Sterling Stuart Stein. "Gender, Race, and Nationality in BlackDrama, 1850-2000: Mining Differences in Language Use in Authors and their Characters." Proceedings of Digital Humanities (2007).</ref><ref>Hota, Sobhan R., Shlomo Argamon, and Rebecca Chung. "Gender in Shakespeare: Automatic stylistics gender character classification using syntactic, lexical and lemma features." Proc. Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) (2006).</ref>


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=== Linguistics for cybersecurity ===
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He has also developed computational stylistic methods that provide insights into the meaning of stylistic differences. One of Argamon's key innovations for this purpose is the development of computational stylistic analysis using [[systemic functional linguistics]].<ref>Argamon, Shlomo, Casey Whitelaw, Paul Chase, Sobhan Raj Hota, Navendu Garg, and Shlomo Levitan. "Stylistic text classification using functional lexical features." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58, no. 6 (2007): 802-822.</ref><ref>Argamon, Shlomo, and Moshe Koppel. "The rest of the story: Finding meaning in stylistic variation." In ''The Structure of Style'', pp. 79-112. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.</ref> For example, together with Jeff Dodick and Paul Chase, he examined whether there are clear and consistent differences between [[scientific method]] in experimental sciences and historical sciences. Their work showed how using systemic functional features in computational stylistic analysis provides evidence for multiple scientific methodologies of the sorts posited previously by [[philosophers of science]].<ref>Argamon, Shlomo, Jeff Dodick, and Paul Chase. "Language use reflects scientific methodology: A corpus-based study of peer-reviewed journal articles." Scientometrics 75, no. 2 (2008): 203-238.</ref>
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Argamon has pushed for the increased use of linguistic analysis for attribution of cybersecurity attacks. He has pointed out how linguistic attribution techniques can be used to good effect on natural language texts that arise in different attack scenarios, and has provided analyses for high-profile cases such as the [[Sony Pictures hack]],<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/12/26/373303733/doubts-persist-on-u-s-claims-on-north-korean-role-in-sony-hack | title=Doubts Persist on U.S. Claims of North Korean Role in Sony Hack| newspaper=NPR.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/24/new-study-adds-to-skepticism-among-security-experts-that-north-korea-was-behind-sony-hack/?smid=pl-share | title=New Study May Add to Skepticism Among Security Experts That North Korea Was Behind Sony Hack| date=2014-12-24}}</ref> the [[Democratic National Committee cyber attacks]],<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/us/politics/is-dnc-email-hacker-a-person-or-a-russian-front-experts-arent-sure.html?ref=topics | title=Is D.N.C. Email Hacker a Person or a Russian Front? Experts Aren't Sure| journal=The New York Times| date=2016-07-27| last1=Savage| first1=Charlie| last2=Perlroth| first2=Nicole}}</ref> and the [[Shadow Brokers]] [[NSA]] leak.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-shadow-brokers-nsa-leakers-linguistic-analysis | title=The NSA Data Leakers Might be Faking Their Awful English to Deceive Us| date=2016-08-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23130883-300-second-snowden-could-be-behind-sale-of-nsa-hacking-tools/#.V74LEIbruD4.twitter | title=Second Snowden could be behind sale of NSA hacking tools}}</ref>


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== Data science ==
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=== Linguistics for Cybersecurity ===
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Recently, Argamon has pushed for the increased use of linguistic analysis for attribution of cybersecurity attacks. He has pointed out how linguistic attribution techniques can often be used to good effect on natural language texts that arise in different attack scenarios, and has provided analyses for high-profile cases such as the [[Sony Pictures hack]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/12/26/373303733/doubts-persist-on-u-s-claims-on-north-korean-role-in-sony-hack | title=Doubts Persist on U.S. Claims of North Korean Role in Sony Hack}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/24/new-study-adds-to-skepticism-among-security-experts-that-north-korea-was-behind-sony-hack/?smid=pl-share | title=New Study May Add to Skepticism Among Security Experts That North Korea Was Behind Sony Hack| date=2014-12-24}}</ref> the [[Democratic National Committee cyber attacks]],<ref>{{Cite newspaper | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/us/politics/is-dnc-email-hacker-a-person-or-a-russian-front-experts-arent-sure.html?ref=topics | title=Is D.N.C. Email Hacker a Person or a Russian Front? Experts Aren't Sure| journal=The New York Times| date=2016-07-27| last1=Savage| first1=Charlie| last2=Perlroth| first2=Nicole}}</ref> and the [[Shadow Brokers]] [[NSA]] leak.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-shadow-brokers-nsa-leakers-linguistic-analysis | title=The NSA Data Leakers Might be Faking Their Awful English to Deceive Us| date=2016-08-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23130883-300-second-snowden-could-be-behind-sale-of-nsa-hacking-tools/#.V74LEIbruD4.twitter | title=Second Snowden could be behind sale of NSA hacking tools}}</ref>


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In 2013, Argamon founded the [[Illinois Institute of Technology]] Master of [[Data Science]] program,<ref name=MasterDataScience>{{cite web | url=http://datascience.iit.edu | title=Data Science Master's—Master of Applied Science (M.A.S.) | date=2023-01-08 }}</ref> which he directed until 2019. The program seeks to teach students "to think about the real problems that need to be solved, not to simply find technical solutions." Argamon views [[data scientists]] as "sensemakers", whose job is not merely to produce analytic results, but to help their clients make sense of a complex, uncertain, and fast-changing world through rigorous analysis and explanation of the data.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.information-management.com/news/the-well-rounded-data-scientist | title=The Well-Rounded Data Scientist| date=16 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.becomingadatascientist.com/2016/01/18/becoming-a-data-scientist-podcast-episode-03-shlomo-argamon/ | title=Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 03: Shlomo Argamon &#124; Becoming a Data Scientist}}</ref>
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== Data Science ==

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In 2013, Argamon founded the [[Illinois Institute of Technology]] Master of [[Data Science]] program,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://iit.edu/data-science | title=Master of Data Science &#124; IIT College of Science}}</ref> which he currently directs. The program seeks to teach students "to think about the real problems that need to be solved, not to simply find technical solutions." Argamon views [[data scientists]] as "sensemakers", whose job is not merely to produce analytic results, but to help their clients make sense of a complex, uncertain, and fast-changing world through rigorous analysis and explanation of the data.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.information-management.com/news/the-well-rounded-data-scientist | title=The Well-Rounded Data Scientist}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.becomingadatascientist.com/2016/01/18/becoming-a-data-scientist-podcast-episode-03-shlomo-argamon/ | title=Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 03: Shlomo Argamon &#124; Becoming a Data Scientist}}</ref>


== Honors ==
== Honors ==
* Fellow of the [[British Computer Society]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wam.bcs.org/wam/MemberDirectory.aspx?grade=FBCS|title=BCS Register of Members|website=wam.bcs.org|access-date=2018-10-05}}</ref>
* Fellow of the [[British Computer Society]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wam.bcs.org/wam/MemberDirectory.aspx?grade=FBCS|title=BCS Register of Members|website=wam.bcs.org|access-date=2018-10-05}}</ref>
* Distinguished Lecturer in Forensic Linguistics, Centre for Forensic Linguistics, [[Aston University]], 2014<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.forensiclinguistics.net/shlomo_argamon_abstract.pdf|title=Sixth Annual Forensic Linguistics Distinguished Visitor Lecture|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>
* Distinguished Lecturer in Forensic Linguistics, Centre for Forensic Linguistics, [[Aston University]], 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.forensiclinguistics.net/shlomo_argamon_abstract.pdf|title=Sixth Annual Forensic Linguistics Distinguished Visitor Lecture}}</ref>
* [[Fulbright Foundation]] Postdoctoral Fellow, 1994-1996.
* [[Fulbright Foundation]] Postdoctoral Fellow, 1994–1996.
* [[Hertz Foundation]] Doctoral Fellow, 1990-1994.
* [[Hertz Foundation]] Doctoral Fellow, 1990–1994.


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Shlomo Argamon
Born1967 (age 56–57)
EducationB.S. applied mathematics, MPhil, Ph.D. computer science
Alma materCarnegie-Mellon University, Yale University
Occupation(s)Artificial Intelligence, Computational linguistics
EmployerTouro University System
Known forComputational stylistics
TitleAssociate Provost for Artificial Intelligence, Professor of Computer Science
Websitelingcog.blogspot.com

Shlomo Argamon (born 1967) is an American/Israeli computer scientist and forensic linguist. He is the associate provost for artificial intelligence and professor of computer science at Touro University.[1]

Education

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Shlomo Argamon received his B.S. in applied mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University and his MPhil and Ph.D. in computer science from Yale University, supervised by Drew McDermott.[2] He spent two years doing postdoctoral research under a Fulbright Foundation fellowship with Sarit Kraus at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel.[3]

Research

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Since the late 1990s, Argamon has worked primarily on computational linguistics and machine learning, focusing on the analysis of non-denotational meaning, including computational analysis of language stylistics, sentiment analysis,[4][5][6] and metaphor analysis.[7] He has also published well-cited research on active learning (machine learning),[8] metalearning,[9] and robotic mapping.

Computational stylistics

[edit]

Argamon is best known for his work on computational stylistics, particularly author profiling. Together with Moshe Koppel and others, he has shown how statistical analysis of word usage can determine an author's age, sex, native language, and personality type with high accuracy in English-language texts.[10][11][12] His work also has shown how textual features indicating differences between male and female authorship are consistent between languages and across time.[13][14][15]

Argamon also developed computational stylistic methods that provide insights into the meaning of stylistic differences. One of his key innovations for this purpose is the development of computational stylistic analysis using systemic functional linguistics.[16][17] For example, together with Jeff Dodick and Paul Chase, he examined whether there are clear and consistent differences between scientific method in experimental sciences and historical sciences. Their work showed how using systemic functional features in computational stylistic analysis provides evidence for multiple scientific methodologies of the sorts posited previously by philosophers of science.[18]

Linguistics for cybersecurity

[edit]

Argamon has pushed for the increased use of linguistic analysis for attribution of cybersecurity attacks. He has pointed out how linguistic attribution techniques can be used to good effect on natural language texts that arise in different attack scenarios, and has provided analyses for high-profile cases such as the Sony Pictures hack,[19][20] the Democratic National Committee cyber attacks,[21] and the Shadow Brokers NSA leak.[22][23]

Data science

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In 2013, Argamon founded the Illinois Institute of Technology Master of Data Science program,[24] which he directed until 2019. The program seeks to teach students "to think about the real problems that need to be solved, not to simply find technical solutions." Argamon views data scientists as "sensemakers", whose job is not merely to produce analytic results, but to help their clients make sense of a complex, uncertain, and fast-changing world through rigorous analysis and explanation of the data.[25][26]

Honors

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References

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  1. ^ "Touro University Announces New Associate Provost for AI". www.touro.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-06.
  2. ^ "Tech Reports". cs.yale.edu.
  3. ^ "Shlomo Engelson Argamon | The Linguistic Summer Institute 2015". lsa2015.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-06.
  4. ^ Kenneth Bloom, Navendu Garg, and Shlomo Argamon. Extracting appraisal expressions. In Proc. Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), Rochester, New York, April, 2007.
  5. ^ Casey Whitelaw, Navendu Garg, and Shlomo Argamon. Using appraisal groups for sentiment analysis. In Proc. Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Bremen, Germany, November 2005.
  6. ^ Shlomo Argamon, Ken Bloom, Andrea Esuli, and Fabrizio Sebastiani. Automatically Determining Attitude Type and Force for Sentiment Analysis. 3rd Language and Technology Conference, Poznan, Poland, October 2007.
  7. ^ Lisa Gandy, Nadji Allan, Mark Atallah, Ophir Frieder, Newton Howard, Sergey Kanareykin, Moshe Koppel, Mark Last, Yair Neuman, Shlomo Argamon. Automatic identification of conceptual metaphors with limited knowledge. In Proc. Twenty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-13), Bellevue, WA, July 2013.
  8. ^ Shlomo Argamon-Engelson and Ido Dagan. Committee-based sample selection for probabilistic classifiers. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 11:335-360, 1999.
  9. ^ Julio Ortega, Moshe Koppel, and Shlomo Argamon-Engelson. Arbitrating among competing classifiers using learned referees. Knowledge and Information Systems, 3(4):470–490, 2001.
  10. ^ Argamon, Shlomo, Moshe Koppel, Jonathan Fine, and Anat Rachel Shimoni. "Gender, genre, and writing style in formal written texts." Text 23, no. 3 (2003): 321-346.
  11. ^ Argamon, Shlomo, Moshe Koppel, James W. Pennebaker, and Jonathan Schler. "Automatically profiling the author of an anonymous text." Communications of the ACM 52, no. 2 (2009): 119-123.
  12. ^ Argamon, Shlomo; Koppel, Moshe; Pennebaker, James W.; Schler, Jonathan (2007-09-03). "Mining the Blogosphere: Age, gender and the varieties of self-expression". First Monday. doi:10.5210/fm.v12i9.2003. ISSN 1396-0466.
  13. ^ Argamon, Shlomo, Jean-Baptiste Goulain, Russell Horton, and Mark Olsen. "Vive la Différence! Text mining gender difference in French literature." Digital Humanities Quarterly 3, no. 2 (2009).
  14. ^ Argamon, Shlomo, Russell Horton, Mark Olsen, and Sterling Stuart Stein. "Gender, Race, and Nationality in BlackDrama, 1850-2000: Mining Differences in Language Use in Authors and their Characters." Proceedings of Digital Humanities (2007).
  15. ^ Hota, Sobhan R., Shlomo Argamon, and Rebecca Chung. "Gender in Shakespeare: Automatic stylistics gender character classification using syntactic, lexical and lemma features." Proc. Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) (2006).
  16. ^ Argamon, Shlomo, Casey Whitelaw, Paul Chase, Sobhan Raj Hota, Navendu Garg, and Shlomo Levitan. "Stylistic text classification using functional lexical features." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58, no. 6 (2007): 802-822.
  17. ^ Argamon, Shlomo, and Moshe Koppel. "The rest of the story: Finding meaning in stylistic variation." In The Structure of Style, pp. 79-112. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.
  18. ^ Argamon, Shlomo, Jeff Dodick, and Paul Chase. "Language use reflects scientific methodology: A corpus-based study of peer-reviewed journal articles." Scientometrics 75, no. 2 (2008): 203-238.
  19. ^ "Doubts Persist on U.S. Claims of North Korean Role in Sony Hack". NPR.org.
  20. ^ "New Study May Add to Skepticism Among Security Experts That North Korea Was Behind Sony Hack". 2014-12-24.
  21. ^ Savage, Charlie; Perlroth, Nicole (2016-07-27). "Is D.N.C. Email Hacker a Person or a Russian Front? Experts Aren't Sure". The New York Times.
  22. ^ "The NSA Data Leakers Might be Faking Their Awful English to Deceive Us". 2016-08-18.
  23. ^ "Second Snowden could be behind sale of NSA hacking tools".
  24. ^ "Data Science Master's—Master of Applied Science (M.A.S.)". 2023-01-08.
  25. ^ "The Well-Rounded Data Scientist". 16 April 2014.
  26. ^ "Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 03: Shlomo Argamon | Becoming a Data Scientist".
  27. ^ "BCS Register of Members". wam.bcs.org. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
  28. ^ "Sixth Annual Forensic Linguistics Distinguished Visitor Lecture" (PDF).
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