I am a Ph.D student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. My advisor is Luke Zettlemoyer. I am working on semantic Natural Language Processing and Grounded Language acquisition. I am supported by an Intel Science and Technology Center Fellowship.

Previously, I was an undergraduate at the University of British Columbia, where I received a Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Systems. During that time, I worked with Giuseppe Carenini and the Summarization Group on abstractive summarization techniques in a variety of domains, including conversations and blogs.

Publications

1. A Joint Model of Language and Perception for Grounded Attribute Learning

   Cynthia Matuszek, Nicholas FitzGerald, Liefeng Bo, Luke Zettlemoyer, Dieter Fox.

   Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Machine Learning. In Press.

2. Interactive Learning and its Role in Pervasive Robotics

   Cynthia Matuszek, Nicholas FitzGerald, Evan Herbst, Dieter Fox.

   ICRA 2012 Workshop on the Future of HRI.

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3. User-Adaptive Visualizations: Can Gaze Data Tell Us When a User Needs Them?

   Cristina Conati, Giuseppe Carenini, Mona Harati, Dereck Toker, Nicholas FitzGerald, Anna Flagg.

   AAAI-11 Workshop on Scalable Integration of Analytics and Visualization.

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4. Exploiting Conversational Features to Detect High-Quality Blog Comments

   Nicholas FitzGerald, Giuseppe Carenini, Gabriel Murray, Shafiq Joty.

   Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2011. St. Johns, Newfoundland.

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5. ASSESS: Abstractive Summarization System for Evaluative Statement Summarization

   Nicholas FitzGerald, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng.

   North-West Natural Language Processing Workshop 2010, Redmond, WA.

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Other Things

I have a blog.

I am an opera singer.

I (very) occasionally make mixtapes.