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I'm Jason Lewis McCants Taylor.

I am a Computer Science Ph. D. candidate at Northwestern University, in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department, Cognitive Systems Division. I am also a member of the Qualitative Reasoning Group, headed by Dr. Ken Forbus.

My research interests fall primarily within Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. I am specifically interested in qualitative reasoning, natural language understanding, learning by reading, and cognitive models of language learning.

I received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a B.S. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, in 2002 and 2008, respectively. Prior to my academic career in Computer Science, I worked as an Engineering Consultant.

Publications

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  • Jason L. M. Taylor, Scott E. Friedman, Kenneth D. Forbus, Micah Goldwater, Dedre Gentner. (2011). Modeling structural priming in sentence production via analogical processes. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci). Boston, MA. [pdf]
  • Scott E. Friedman, Jason Taylor, Kenneth D. Forbus. (2009). Learning Naive Physics Models by Analogical Generalization. Proceedings of the 2nd International Analogy Conference. Sofia, Bulgaria. [pdf]

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  • Scott E. Friedman, Kenneth D. Forbus, Jason Taylor. (2009). Learning and Reasoning with Qualitative Models of Physical Behavior. Proceedings of the 23rd International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning. Ljubljana, Slovenia. [pdf]

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  • Micah B. Goldwater, Scott E. Friedman, Jason Taylor, Dedre Gentner, Ken Forbus. (2011). An Analogical Learning Model of the Development of Thematic Roles & Structural Priming. Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD). Boston, MA.

Contact

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  • Ford Engineering Design Center, 3-210
  • Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Cognitive Systems Division

© 2011 Jason Lewis McCants Taylor