I am a second-year PhD student at Brown University. I work with the Brown Laboratory for Linguistic Information Processing and my advisor is Eugene Charniak.
My research interests are in the field of natural language processing, specifically in summarization, generation, and unsupervised models.
Rebecca Mason and Eugene Charniak. 2011. Extractive Multi-Document Summaries Should Explicitly Not Contain Document-Specific Content. Automatic Summarixation for Different Genres, Media, and Languages (workshop in conjunction with ACL 2011). (paper)
Rebecca Mason and Roberto Manduchi. 2010. Haptic Modeling for the Blind using the Novint Falcon. North East Student Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence (NESCAI). (paper, poster)
Caleb Butterfield, Rebecca Mason, and Scott Thede. 2007. Sentence Selection for Extractive Summaries in PARE. Midstates Conference for Undergraduate Research in Computer Science and Mathematics. (paper)
Lisa Ballesteros (Mount Holyoke), independent study on redundancy in multi-document summarization.
Roberto Manduchi (UC-Santa Cruz), REU in assistive technology for the visually impaired.
Scott Thede (DePauw University), REU in summarization.
In 2009, I graduated from Mount Holyoke College with an AB in Computer Science (magna cum laude). As an undergraduate, I also spent a semester as a visiting student at the University of Limerick in Ireland, and I have taken courses at Smith College and Rutgers.
I got my MS from Brown University in 2011.
I was a TA for Introduction to Compuational Linguistics at Brown in Spring 2011.
In 2009, I was the Lead Instructor for iD Tech Camp at Smith College, where I mainly taught Introductory Programming (in Java). Additionally, I provided online assistance to instructors at other iD Tech sites.
In January 2007, I taught a 10 hour non-credit course on programming for interactive fiction at Mount Holyoke College.
I have also completed the Teaching Certificate I at Brown's Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning.
I was on the committee for Brown Computer Science Graduate Orientation 2010.
I love to ski, I am a mediocre klezmer clarinetist, and I have a finite Erdos-Bacon number.
rebecca@cs.brown.edu
Box 1910, Computer Science Department
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
