Dr. Mary Elaine Califf
Professor Emerita of Computer Science
Office
WIH Williams Hall 17a
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- About
- Education
- Selected Research
Teaching Interests & Areas
Artificial Intelligence
Algorithms and Data Structures
Programming
Programming Languages
Compilers
Database
Writing
Research Interests & Areas
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
Computer Science Education
Ph D Computer Sciences
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas
MS Computer Science
Baylor University
Waco, TX
MA English
Baylor University
Waco, TX
BA English
Baylor University
Waco, TX
Grants and Contracts
Collaborative Research: ITWF: Building Communities: Recruiting and Retention of Underrepresented Groups in Computer Science
Mary Elaine Califf
August 2004 - 2008
Cited Research
A Critical Survey of the Methodology for IE Evaluation
Alberto Lavelli, Mary Elaine Califf, Fabio Ciravegna, Dayne Freitag, Claudio Guiliano, Nick Kushmerick, & Lorenza Romano
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, (2004)
Conference Proceeding
Using Generative AI for Cybersecurity Awareness Training in Healthcare
Dmitri Zhdanov, Thomas M Caldera, & Mary Elaine Califf
Proceedings of the 19th Pre-ICIS Workshop on Information Security and Privacy, (2024)
Combining Rules and Naïve Bayes for Disease Classification
Mary Elaine Califf
Second i2b2 Workshop on Challenges in Natural Language Processing for Clinical Data - AMIA, (2008)
Helping him see: Guiding a visually impaired student through the computer science curriculum
Mary Elaine Califf, Mary Goodwin, & Jake Brownell
Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, (2008)
Effective incorporation of ethics into courses that focus on programming
Mary Elaine Califf & Mary Goodwin
Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, (2005)
Evaluating machine learning for information extraction
Neil Ireson, Fabio Ciravegna, Mary Elaine Califf, Dayne Freitag, Nick Kushmerick, & Alberto Lavelli
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2005), (2005)
IE evaluation: Criticisms and recommendations
Alberto Lavelli, Mary Elaine Califf, Fabio Ciravegna, Dayne Freitag, Claudio Guiliano, Nick Kushmerick, & Lorenza Romano
Proceedings of the AAAI-04 Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining (ATEM-2004), (2004)
Efficient and Effective Induction of First Order Decision Lists
Mary Elaine Califf
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, (2002)
Testing Skills and Knowledge: Introducing a Laboratory Exam in CS1
Mary Elaine Califf & Mary Goodwin
Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 217-221, (2002)
Active Learning for Natural Language Parsing and Information Extraction
Cynthia A. Thompson, Mary Elaine Califf, & Raymond J. Mooney
Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML99), 406-414, (1999)
Relational Learning of Pattern-Match Rules for Information Extraction
Mary Elaine Califf & Raymond J. Mooney
Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI99), 328-334, (1999)
Applying ILP-based Techniques to Natural Language Information Extraction: An Experiment in Relational Learning
Mary Elaine Califf & Raymond J. Mooney
Working Notes of the IJCAI-97 Workshop on Frontiers of Inductive Logic Programming, (1997)
Relational Learning of Pattern-Match Rules for Information Extraction
Mary Elaine Califf & Raymond J. Mooney
Working Papers of the ACL-97 Workshop in Natural Language Learning, (1997)
Inducing Logic Programs without Explicit Negative Examples
John M. Zelle, Cynthia A. Thompson, Mary Elaine Califf, & Raymond J. Mooney
Proceedings of the Fifth International Inductive Logic Programming Workshop, (1995)
Journal Article
Searching for synergy between research and teaching
Traci Carte & Mary Elaine Califf
Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research, 26 (3), 256-263, (2024)
Evaluation of Machine Learning-based Information Extraction Algorithms: Criticisms and recommendations
Alberto Lavelli, Mary Elaine Califf, Fabio Ciravegna, Dayne Freitag, Claudio Guiliano, Nicholas Kushmerick, Lorenza Romano, & Neil Ireson
Language Resources and Evaluation, 42 (4), (2009)
An assessment of the impact of time management training on success in a time-intensive course
Mary Goodwin & Mary Elaine Califf
Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 17 (2), (2007)
Bottom-Up Relational Learning of Pattern Matching Rules for Information Extraction
Mary Elaine Califf & Raymond J. Mooney
Journal of Machine Learning Research, 4, 177-210, (2003)
Improving Learning by Choosing Examples Intelligently in Two Natural Language Tasks
Mary Elaine Califf & Cynthia A. Thompson
Learning Language in Logic (J. Cussens and S. Džeroski Eds.), 279-299, (2000)
Advantages of Decision Lists and Implicit Negatives in Inductive Logic Programming
Mary Elaine Califf & Raymond J. Mooney
New Generation Computing, 16, 263-281, (1998)
Learning the Past Tense of English Verbs Using Inductive Logic Programming
Mary Elaine Califf & Raymond J. Mooney
Connectionist, Statistical, and Symbolic Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing (S. Wermter, E. Riloff, and G. Scheler Eds.), 370-384, (1996)
Induction of First-Order Decision Lists: Results on Learning the Past Tense of English Verbs
Raymond J. Mooney & Mary Elaine Califf
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 3, 1-23, (1995)
Presentations
Using Generative AI for Cybersecurity Awareness Training in Healthcare
Dmitri Zhdanov, Thomas M Caldera, Mary Elaine Califf
19th Workshop on Information Security and Privacy, Bangkok, Thailand, December 15, 2024
Feedback in Context: Using a Code Review Tool for Program Grading
Mary Elaine Califf, Nick Dunne
SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2022, Providence, RI, March 3, 2022
Preliminary findings on the significance of learning styles over time
Mary Goodwin, Mary Elaine Califf
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Inaugural Meeting, Bloomington, IN, October, 2004