Nitin MadnaniNitin Madnani is a Distinguished Research Engineer in the AI Research Labs at the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton. His NLP adventures began with an elective course on computational linguistics he took while studying computer arcitecture at the University of Maryland, College Park. As a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), he worked on automated document summarization, statistical machine translation, and paraphrase generation. After earning his Ph.D. in 2010, he joined the NLP & Speech research group at ETS where he led--and continues to lead--a wide variety of projects that use NLP to build useful educational applications and technologies. Examples include mining Wikipedia revision history to correct grammatical errors, automatically detecting organizational elements in argumentative discourse, creating a service-based, polyglot framework for implementing robust, high-performance automated scoring & feedback systems, and building the first-ever, fully open-source, comprehensive evaluation toolkit for automated scoring. Read More Read Less