
John Conroy
Research Staff Member @ IDA Center for Computing Sciences
multi-domain
summarization human evaluation
robust models
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presentations
SHORT BIO
John M. Conroy graduated from St. Joseph's University of Philadelphia, receiving a BS in Mathematics. Conroy then studied Applied Mathematics with a concentration in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, where he received an MS and Ph.D. in Mathematics. He has been a research staff member at the IDA Center for Computing Sciences for over 35 years. Conroy is the co-developer of the CLASSY and the OCCAMS text summarization systems. He has published widely in text summarization and evaluation and serves on numerous program committees for summarization. He is also a co-inventor of patented summarization methods. Other publications by Conroy include high-performance matrix computations, graph matching, and anomaly detection, with application to neural science and network security. He is a member of the Association for Computational Linguistics, a life member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and a life member of the Institute for Electronics and Electrical Engineers.
Presentations

Multi-domain Summarization from Leaderboards to Practice: Re-examining Automatic and Human Evaluation
John Conroy