Nazli Goharian

Bio

Nazli Goharian is a Clinical Professor in the Computer Science Department at Georgetown University, and also the associate director of the Information Retrieval Lab (IRLab). She is currently doing research in the areas of information retrieval, natural language processing and text mining. She has over 60 refereed conference and journal publications. She has won several awards in research and teaching including the EMNLP 2017 “Best Long Paper Award”, “College of Science and Letters Dean’s Excellence Award in Teaching”, and “IIT Julia Beveridge Award for faculty” (female faculty of the year).

Research

My research spans the domains of information retrieval, text mining, and natural language processing. Some topics of interest to me are:

• Information retrieval models
• Social media mining and analysis
• Document summarization
• Scientific text understanding
• Health-related text understanding
• Medical information retrieval
• Information extraction
• Neural information retrieval

Please see the list of the IRLab’s publications and projects for more details.

Students

• Alumni
  • Andrew Yates, Ph.D. 2015 – Max Max Planck Institute for Informatics.
  • Saket Mengle, Ph.D. 2010 – DataXU.
• Ph.D. Students
  • Arman Cohan
  • Luca Soldaini
  • Sean MacAvaney