David Kirk Evans graduated in 1997 from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX with a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science and

a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering. In 2002 he received his Masters of Science in Computer Science, and in 2005 his Doctorate of Philosophy in Computer Science from Columbia University. At Columbia University he studied in the Natural Language Processing group advised by Professor Judith Klavans, and worked closely with Professor Kathy McKeown on multilingual, multidocument summarization. While an undergraduate he began studying the Japanese language, and continued study at Columbia University briefly, before focusing on Arabic and English summarization.

 

After completing his PhD in 2005, David began a post-doc position at the National Institute of Informatics, where he is able to continue interesting research in multilingual NLP, and improve his own sorely neglected Japanese language skills.

 

 

Research interests include, but are not limited to, multidocument

summarization with a focus on multilingual processing, multilingual opinion analysis, machine translation, and pedagogical applications of computational linguistics.