Dominic Widdows is a software engineer at Google's CMU office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He works mainly on Google Product Search, and is also part of the team that built the popular Google SkyMap application. This even led to a brief TV appearance for KTLA! A mathematician by training, Dominic worked on differential and algebraic geometry at Oxford (1996-2000), natural language processing and search at Stanford (2001-2004), and distributed databases and collaboration at MAYA Design (2004-2007). His first book, Geometry and Meaning, attracted praise from other researchers, engineers, and members of the general public. He continues to contribute research papers in a range of areas including quantum informatics and concept learning, and works on several program committees and review panels. His main contributions to open source projects have been in the areas of semantic mapping and semantic search, including the SemanticVectors package, initially created in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh, and now maintained by a small group of researchers and developers internationally.
Empirical Distributional Semantics: Methods and Biomedical Applications, Trevor Cohen, Dominic Widdows, Journal of Biomedical Informatics (2009).
Reflective Random Indexing and Indirect Inference: A Scalable Method for Discovery of Implicit Connections, Trevor Cohen, Roger Schaneveldt, Dominic Widdows, Journal of Biomedical Informatics (2009) (to appear).
Scalable Attribute-Value Extraction from Semi-Structured Text, Yuk Wah Wong, Dominic Widdows, Tom Lokovic, Kamal Nigam, The 1st Workshop on Large-scale Data Mining: Theory and Applications (LDMTA 2009) (to appear).
Semantic Vector Combinations and the Synoptic Gospels, Dominic Widdows, Trevor Cohen, Third International Symposium on Quantum Interaction, 2009.
Semantic Vector Products: Some Initial Investigations, Dominic Widdows, Proceedings of the Second AAAI Symposium on Quantum Interaction, 2008.
Using Word Space Models for Enriching Multilingual Lexical Resources and Detecting the Relation Between Morphological and Semantic Composition, Adil Toumouh, Dominic Widdows, Ahmed Lehireche, International Conference on Web and Information Tecnologies (ICWIT '08), 2008, pp. 195-201.
Semantic Vectors: A Scalable Open Source Package and Online Technology Management Application, Dominic Widdows, Kathleen Ferraro, 2008.
A Quantum Logic of Down Below, Peter Bruza, Dominic Widdows, John Woods, Handbook of Quantum Logic, Quantum Structures and Quantum Computation, 2007.
Quantum Information Dynamics and Open World Science, Dominic Widdows, Peter Bruza, Quantum Interaction: Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium, 2007, pp. 126-133.
Adapting WordNet to the Medical Domain Using Lexicosyntactic Patterns in the Ohsumed Corpus, A. Toumouh, A. Lehireche, D. Widdows, M. Malki, Proceedings of the 4th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA-06), 2006.
Collaborative Annotation that Lasts Forever: Using Peer-to-Peer Technology for Disseminating Corpora and Language Resources, M. Balasubramanya, M. Higgins, P. Lucas, J. Senn, D. Widdows, Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006).
Managing Distributed Collaboration in a Peer-to-Peer Network, Michael Higgins, Stuart Roth, Jeff Senn, Peter Lucas, Dominic Widdows, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2006).
Ongoing Developments in Automatically Adapting Lexical Resources to the Biomedical Domain, Dominic Widdows, Adil Toumouh, Beate Dorow, Ahmed Lehireche, Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006).
Shepherdable Indexes and Persistent Search Services for Mobile Users, Michael Higgins, Dominic Widdows, Magesh Balasubramanya, Peter Lucas, David Holstius, Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA), 2006.
The Information Commons Gazetteer: A Public Resource of Populated Places and Worldwide Administrative Divisions, Peter Lucas, Magesh Balasubramanya, Dominic Widdows, Michael Higgins, Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006).
The Universal Genetics Database: Information Sharing in Genetics and Beyond, Dominic Widdows, Michael Barmada, BioTech International, vol. 18 (2006), pp. 11-13.
The National Infrastructure for Community Statistics: Liberating Public GIS and Statistical Data, Pari Sabety, Chris Sweeney, Dominic Widdows, Joshua Knauer, Maryl Curran Widdows, Peter Lucas, Proceedings of the 4th Annual Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) Conference, 2005.
Curvature and Markov Clustering in Graphs for Lexical Acquisition and Word Sense Discrimination, Beate Dorow, Dominic Widdows, Katarina Ling, Jean-Pierre Eckmann, Danilo Serge, Elisha Moses, In preparation, 2004.
Geometric ordering of concepts, logical disjunction, learning by induction, and spatial indexing, Dominic Widdows, Michael Higgins, Compositional Connectionism in Cognitive Science, 2004.
Geometry and Meaning, Dominic Widdows, 2004.
A Mathematical Model for Context and Word-Meaning, Dominic Widdows, Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, 2003.
An Empirical Model of Multiword Expression Decomposability, Timothy Baldwin, Colin Bannard, Takaaki Tanaka, Dominic Widdows, Proceedings of the ACL-2003 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Analysis, Acquisition and Treatment.
Discovering corpus-specific word-senses, Beate Dorow, Dominic Widdows, 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Conference Companion), 2003, pp. 79-82.
Methods for Word-Sense Disambiguation, Dominic Widdows, Diana Steffen, Scott Cederberg, Chiu-Ki Chan, Paul Buitelaar, Bogdan Sacaleanu, 2003.
Orthogonal negation in vector spaces for modelling word-meanings and document retrieval, Dominic Widdows, Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2003.
Quaternionic Algebra described by Sp(1) representations, Dominic Widdows, Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, vol. 54 (2003), pp. 463-481.
Unsupervised Monolingual and Bilingual Word-Sense Disambiguation of Medical Documents using UMLS, Dominic Widdows, Stanley Peters, Scott Cederberg, Chiu-Ki Chan, Diana Steffen, Paul Buitelaar, Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine (ACL workshop), 2003, pp. 9-16.
Unsupervised methods for developing taxonomies by combining syntactic and statistical information, Dominic Widdows, Proceedings of Human Langauge Technology / North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2003.
Using LSA and Noun Coordination Information to Improve the Precision and Recall of Automatic Hyponymy Extraction, Scott Cederberg, Dominic Widdows, Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNNL), 2003.
Word Vectors and Quantum Logic, Dominic Widdows, Stanley Peters, Proceedings of the Eighth Mathematics of Language Conference, 2003.
A Dolbeault-type double complex on quaternionic manifolds, Dominic Widdows, Asian journal of mathematics, vol. 6 (2002), pp. 253-275.
A Graph Model for Unsupervised Lexical Acquisition, Dominic Widdows, Beate Dorow, 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2002, pp. 1093-1099.
Using Parallel Corpora to enrich Multilingual Lexical Resources, Dominic Widdows, Beate Dorow, Chiu-Ki Chan, Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2002, pp. 240-245.
Visualisation Techniques for Analysing Meaning, Dominic Widdows, Scott Cederberg, Beate Dorow, Fifth International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, 2002, pp. 107-115.