Richard Socher

Third year Ph.D student, Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Advisors: Chris Manning and Andrew Ng

MSc in Computer Science, Saarland University (with honors, top 3)
BSc in Computer Science with Minor in Linguistics, Leipzig University (top of class)

Contact:

I enjoy research in machine learning, natural language processing and computer vision.
Here's a video from ICML describing one of our recent projects.
Starting fall 2012, I will be supported by the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship.

Publications

2012

Improving Word Representations via Global Context and Multiple Word Prototypes
Eric H. Huang, Richard Socher, Christopher D. Manning and Andrew Y. Ng
Association for Computational Linguistics 2012 Conference (ACL 2012)
[ paper, project page: code, word vectors, dataset, etc. ]

2011

Dynamic Pooling and Unfolding Recursive Autoencoders for Paraphrase Detection
Richard Socher, Eric H. Huang, Jeffrey Pennington, Andrew Y. Ng, and Christopher D. Manning
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2011)
[ paper, project page: test code, data, etc. ]

Semi-Supervised Recursive Autoencoders for Predicting Sentiment Distributions
Richard Socher, Jeffrey Pennington, Eric Huang, Andrew Y. Ng, and Christopher D. Manning
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2011, Oral)
[ paper, project page: train+test code, EP dataset, etc. ]

Parsing Natural Scenes and Natural Language with Recursive Neural Networks
Richard Socher, Cliff Lin, Andrew Y. Ng, and Christopher D. Manning
The 28th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2011)
Distinguished Application Paper Award
[ paper, project page: train+test code, data, etc., video ]

Spectral Chinese Restaurant Processes: Nonparametric Clustering Based on Similarities
Richard Socher, Andrew Maas, Christopher D. Manning
Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2011)
[ paper, project page ]

2010

Connecting Modalities: Semi-supervised Segmentation and Annotation of Images Using Unaligned Text Corpora
Richard Socher and Li Fei-Fei
IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2010)
[ paper, code+data, project page ]

2009

A Bayesian analysis of dynamics in free recall
Richard Socher, Sam J. Gershman, Adler Perotte, Per Sederberg, Ken A. Norman, and David M. Blei
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22 (NIPS 2009)
[ paper, code+data, poster, project page ]

Towards Total Scene Understanding: Classification, Annotation and Segmentation in an Automatic Framework
Li-Jia Li, Richard Socher, and Li Fei-Fei
IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2009, Oral)
[ paper, code+data, slides, project page ]

ImageNet: A Large-Scale Hierarchical Image Database
Jia Deng, Wei Dong, Richard Socher, Li-Jia Li, Kai Li, and Li Fei-Fei
IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2009)
[ paper, project page ]

Before

A Learning Based Hierarchical Model for Vessel Segmentation
Richard Socher, Adrian Barbu, and Dorin Comaniciu
In 5th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI 2008, Oral)
[ paper, slides, project page ]

Combining Contexts in Lexicon Learning for Semantic Parsing
Richard Socher, Chris Biemann, and Rainer Osswald
Proceedings of NODALIDA 2007, Tartu, Estonia
[ paper, slides, bibtex ]

Theses

Masters Thesis: A Learning-Based Hierarchical Model for Vessel Segmentation, Saarland University, 2008, grade 1.0 A+

Bachelor Thesis: Automatic Extension of Semantic Lexicons with a Bootstrapping Algorithm, Leipzig University, 2006, grade 1.0 A+

Old CS Projects

Ray Tracing Image

Old CS Projects from Undergrad

Photography and Travels

Bozeman, MT, USA