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David Smith All Experts

Assistant Professor of Computer & Information Science

Expertise
  • digital libraries
  • machine translation
  • natural language processing and computational linguistics with applications to information retrieval
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David Smith In the Media

  • The Washington Post

    Why bill success in a lousy way to keep score in Congress

  • The Washington Post

    Why bill success is a lousy way to keep score in Congress

  • Wired

    Here’s How Memes Went Viral — In the 1800s

David Smith for Northeastern

  • John Adams, a Founding Father and the second president of the United States, scrawled comments in the margins of several passages of Julie, ou La nouvelle Héloïse.

    The scribblings of John Adams might help build a better search engine


    David Smith, an assistant professor in the College of Computer and Information Science and a founding member of the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, received an $82,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to extract information about readers from scanned texts.

    • by Khalida Sarwari   December 20, 2018
  • Northeastern professor Tom Webster works in the lab. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

    How to get science research covered in the press


    Northeastern researchers used machine learning to uncover patterns in how the media covers science. Among their findings was that media coverage is often determined more by the subject matter of the research than by its scientific importance.

    • by Bill Ibelle   July 10, 2018
  • Professor mines for historical memes


    Ryan Cordell, an assistant professor of English and a digital humanities expert, is using a newly digitized corpora of historical texts, including newspapers, magazines, and novels, to identify the popular elements of 19th-century culture.

    • by Angela Herring   June 17, 2013

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