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Early Research Interest
- Luke Zettlemoyer became interested in research during his undergraduate years at North Carolina State University.
- He worked with Dr. James Lester on AI for education, sparking his passion for research.
PhD Journey
- Luke Zettlemoyer pursued a PhD at MIT, initially working with Leslie Kaelbling on statistical relational learning and robotics.
- He later shifted to NLP and semantic parsing, co-advised by Michael Collins.
Grounding in AI
- Grounding in AI involves connecting language to something beyond just text, such as databases, physical actions, or user intentions.
- This goes beyond text classification and focuses on language's practical use in interacting with the world.