Speaker
Grant Ingersoll
Senior Software Engineer,
Grant Ingersoll is a senior software engineer at the Center for Natural Language Processing (CNLP). He has been developing commercial and research systems in Java for 10 years, many of which leverage open source projects. Since joining CNLP, Ingersoll has used Lucene for implementing cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) systems, as well as commercial question answering (QA) and collection analysis and customization applications. He is a Lucene committer and has contributed several patches to Lucene, including the integration of term vectors into the 1.4.Prior to CNLP, Ingersoll worked for several years on commercial information extraction and CLIR applications. He has a bachelor's in mathematics and computer science from Amherst College and a masters in computer science from Syracuse University.











































