I am a graduate student in the Computer Science Department at the University of Washington. I received a BSc. in Cognitive Systems (Computational Intelligence and Design Stream) at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada in May 2011.
I am a grad student at University of Washington. My advisor is Luke Zettlemoyer. I am working on Grounded Language acquisition.
From 2009-2011, I worked with the UBC Summarization Group. We worked on abstractive summarization techniques in a variety of domains, including conversations and blogs.
In the summer of 2008 I worked as a software assistant in the lab of Dr. Michael Tyers in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh. I developed a prototype web-based interface for molecular data-mining.
Conati C., Carenini G., Harati M., Toker D., FitzGerald N., Flagg A. (2011). User-Adaptive Visualizations: Can Gaze Data Tell Us When a User Needs Them? AAAI-11 Workshop on Scalable Integration of Analytics and Visualization.
FitzGerald N., Carenini G., Murray G. and Joty S. (2011) "Exploiting Conversational Features to Detect High-Quality Blog Comments". Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2011. St. Johns, Newfoundland.(unpublished longer version)
FitzGerald, N., Carenini, G. and Ng, R. (2010). “ASSESS: Abstractive Summarization System for Evaluative Statement Summarization”. North-West Natural Language Processing Workshop 2010, Redmond, WA.
I currently write for two blogs.
a personal blog which I co-author with my good friend Ben Keller from the University of Calgary.
the blog of the Terry Project, an initiative dedicated to the discussion of interdisciplinary approaches to solving the world's problems.
Here is a collection of random projects I have worked on:
Some videos of the robots my group built for COGS 300:
Proprietary Probiotic Culture Generator
Accidental Pilish: Unintentionally Constrained Writing in English Literature
I am an opera singer (baritone). I was a member of the UBC Gilbert and Sullivan Society from 2007-2009. Currently I am singing with the Opera Program at the Vancouver Academy of Music. Here are some roles I have performed:
I played rugby for the UBC thirds team 2007-2009.
