Jason Baldridge

Jason Baldridge is a Research Scientist at Google, specializing in natural language processing and understanding.12 He has been working at Google since May 2017, focusing on Natural Language Processing R&D.1

Career Background

Before joining Google, Jason Baldridge had a diverse career in academia and industry:

• Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Austin (2011-2016)1
• Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin (2005-2011)1
• Co-founder & Chief Scientist at People Pattern (2013-2017)1
• Senior Data Scientist at Converseon (2012)1
• Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh (2002-2005)1

Education

Jason Baldridge holds a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, which he completed in 2002.2 His doctoral dissertation on Multimodal Combinatory Categorial Grammar was awarded the 2003 Beth Dissertation Prize from the European Association for Logic, Language and Information.2

Research Interests

His main research interests include:

• Categorial grammars
• Parsing
• Semi-supervised learning for NLP
• Reference resolution
• Text geolocation
• Vision-and-language navigation2

Contributions to Open Source

Jason has been actively involved in creating and promoting open source software for natural language processing. He co-created the Apache OpenNLP Toolkit and OpenCCG.2

Current Work

At Google, Jason works on natural language understanding and grounded language understanding.23 He is part of a team working on vision-and-language navigation, including the development of the multilingual Room-across-Room (RxR) dataset.2