Blake Howald

 BlakeS. Howald

Blake S. Howald

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May 2, 2018
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Professor Howald was really easy for intro Computer Science. He would respond to emails quickly and is just generally the man.

Biography

Carleton College - Computer Science



Experience

  • Thomson Reuters

    Director, Enterprise Content Platform Technical Consulting and User Experience

    I direct the central technology enterprise data consultancy and user experience (UX) teams for enterprise content management systems within Thomson Reuters. Current projects focus on the strategy, research and design of acquisition, ingestion, digital rights, provenance, metadata management, cataloging, governance and usage analytics in cloud, graph and distributed environments for users across several professional verticals (legal, financial, risk and tax).

  • Thomson Reuters

    Manager, Capability and User Experience

    I manage the central technology User Experience (UX) team and serve as a capability manager for content management systems within Thomson Reuters. Current projects focus on the strategy, UX research and design of the acquisition, ingestion, digital rights, provenance, cataloging, governance and analytics of enterprise level data across several professional verticals (legal, financial, tax and news).

  • Carleton College

    Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science

    Teaching NLP, AI and Introductory CS classes. Continuing research in computational semantics, pragmatics and discourse processing.

  • University of Minnesota

    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    Taught courses in linguistics, served on dissertation committees in computer science, and co-directed the Computational Linguistics Reading Group.

  • University of Minnesota

    POI Affiliate - Computer Science and Engineering Department

    Blake worked at University of Minnesota as a POI Affiliate - Computer Science and Engineering Department

  • Thomson Reuters Special Services

    Manager, Data Science

    Blake worked at Thomson Reuters Special Services as a Manager, Data Science

Education

  • Georgetown University

    Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Masters of Science (M.S.)

    Linguistics

  • University of Detroit Mercy School of Law

    Doctor of Law (J.D.)



  • University of Pittsburgh

    Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

    Linguistics

Publications

  • Linguistic Spatial Classifications of Event Domains in Narratives of Crime

    Journal of Spatial Information Science, 1.75-93

  • Linguistic Spatial Classifications of Event Domains in Narratives of Crime

    Journal of Spatial Information Science, 1.75-93

  • On the Explicit and Implicit Spatiotemporal Architecture of Narratives of Personal Experience

    Spatial Information Theory, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (6899)

    Proceedings of COSIT 2011

  • Linguistic Spatial Classifications of Event Domains in Narratives of Crime

    Journal of Spatial Information Science, 1.75-93

  • On the Explicit and Implicit Spatiotemporal Architecture of Narratives of Personal Experience

    Spatial Information Theory, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (6899)

    Proceedings of COSIT 2011

  • Modeling Company Risk & Importance in Supply Graphs

    The Semantic Web, 14th International Conference, ESWC 2017, Proceedings, Part II, LNCS 10250, pp. 18-32, 2017. Blomqvist, E.; Maynard, D.; Gangemi, A.; Howekstra, R.; Hitzler, P.; Hartic, O. (Eds.)

  • Linguistic Spatial Classifications of Event Domains in Narratives of Crime

    Journal of Spatial Information Science, 1.75-93

  • On the Explicit and Implicit Spatiotemporal Architecture of Narratives of Personal Experience

    Spatial Information Theory, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (6899)

    Proceedings of COSIT 2011

  • Modeling Company Risk & Importance in Supply Graphs

    The Semantic Web, 14th International Conference, ESWC 2017, Proceedings, Part II, LNCS 10250, pp. 18-32, 2017. Blomqvist, E.; Maynard, D.; Gangemi, A.; Howekstra, R.; Hitzler, P.; Hartic, O. (Eds.)

  • A Statistical NLG Framework for Aggregated Planning and Realization

    ACL

  • Linguistic Spatial Classifications of Event Domains in Narratives of Crime

    Journal of Spatial Information Science, 1.75-93

  • On the Explicit and Implicit Spatiotemporal Architecture of Narratives of Personal Experience

    Spatial Information Theory, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (6899)

    Proceedings of COSIT 2011

  • Modeling Company Risk & Importance in Supply Graphs

    The Semantic Web, 14th International Conference, ESWC 2017, Proceedings, Part II, LNCS 10250, pp. 18-32, 2017. Blomqvist, E.; Maynard, D.; Gangemi, A.; Howekstra, R.; Hitzler, P.; Hartic, O. (Eds.)

  • A Statistical NLG Framework for Aggregated Planning and Realization

    ACL

  • The Exploitation of Spatial Information in Narrative Discourse

    IWCS '11 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics

  • Linguistic Spatial Classifications of Event Domains in Narratives of Crime

    Journal of Spatial Information Science, 1.75-93

  • On the Explicit and Implicit Spatiotemporal Architecture of Narratives of Personal Experience

    Spatial Information Theory, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (6899)

    Proceedings of COSIT 2011

  • Modeling Company Risk & Importance in Supply Graphs

    The Semantic Web, 14th International Conference, ESWC 2017, Proceedings, Part II, LNCS 10250, pp. 18-32, 2017. Blomqvist, E.; Maynard, D.; Gangemi, A.; Howekstra, R.; Hitzler, P.; Hartic, O. (Eds.)

  • A Statistical NLG Framework for Aggregated Planning and Realization

    ACL

  • The Exploitation of Spatial Information in Narrative Discourse

    IWCS '11 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics

  • The Spatial Aspects of Victims in the Narratives of Serial Offenders: Linguistic Insights on Environmental Criminology and Geographical Profiling

    Journal of Crime Mapping Research 1.40-64

  • Linguistic Spatial Classifications of Event Domains in Narratives of Crime

    Journal of Spatial Information Science, 1.75-93

  • On the Explicit and Implicit Spatiotemporal Architecture of Narratives of Personal Experience

    Spatial Information Theory, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (6899)

    Proceedings of COSIT 2011

  • Modeling Company Risk & Importance in Supply Graphs

    The Semantic Web, 14th International Conference, ESWC 2017, Proceedings, Part II, LNCS 10250, pp. 18-32, 2017. Blomqvist, E.; Maynard, D.; Gangemi, A.; Howekstra, R.; Hitzler, P.; Hartic, O. (Eds.)

  • A Statistical NLG Framework for Aggregated Planning and Realization

    ACL

  • The Exploitation of Spatial Information in Narrative Discourse

    IWCS '11 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics

  • The Spatial Aspects of Victims in the Narratives of Serial Offenders: Linguistic Insights on Environmental Criminology and Geographical Profiling

    Journal of Crime Mapping Research 1.40-64

  • A Quantitative Perspective on the Minimal Definition of Narrative

    Text & Talk, 29(6).705-727

  • Linguistic Spatial Classifications of Event Domains in Narratives of Crime

    Journal of Spatial Information Science, 1.75-93

  • On the Explicit and Implicit Spatiotemporal Architecture of Narratives of Personal Experience

    Spatial Information Theory, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (6899)

    Proceedings of COSIT 2011

  • Modeling Company Risk & Importance in Supply Graphs

    The Semantic Web, 14th International Conference, ESWC 2017, Proceedings, Part II, LNCS 10250, pp. 18-32, 2017. Blomqvist, E.; Maynard, D.; Gangemi, A.; Howekstra, R.; Hitzler, P.; Hartic, O. (Eds.)

  • A Statistical NLG Framework for Aggregated Planning and Realization

    ACL

  • The Exploitation of Spatial Information in Narrative Discourse

    IWCS '11 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics

  • The Spatial Aspects of Victims in the Narratives of Serial Offenders: Linguistic Insights on Environmental Criminology and Geographical Profiling

    Journal of Crime Mapping Research 1.40-64

  • A Quantitative Perspective on the Minimal Definition of Narrative

    Text & Talk, 29(6).705-727

  • The Use of Granularity in Rhetorical Relation Prediction

    SemEval '12 Proceedings of the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics

    Best Short Paper Award

  • Linguistic Spatial Classifications of Event Domains in Narratives of Crime

    Journal of Spatial Information Science, 1.75-93

  • On the Explicit and Implicit Spatiotemporal Architecture of Narratives of Personal Experience

    Spatial Information Theory, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (6899)

    Proceedings of COSIT 2011

  • Modeling Company Risk & Importance in Supply Graphs

    The Semantic Web, 14th International Conference, ESWC 2017, Proceedings, Part II, LNCS 10250, pp. 18-32, 2017. Blomqvist, E.; Maynard, D.; Gangemi, A.; Howekstra, R.; Hitzler, P.; Hartic, O. (Eds.)

  • A Statistical NLG Framework for Aggregated Planning and Realization

    ACL

  • The Exploitation of Spatial Information in Narrative Discourse

    IWCS '11 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics

  • The Spatial Aspects of Victims in the Narratives of Serial Offenders: Linguistic Insights on Environmental Criminology and Geographical Profiling

    Journal of Crime Mapping Research 1.40-64

  • A Quantitative Perspective on the Minimal Definition of Narrative

    Text & Talk, 29(6).705-727

  • The Use of Granularity in Rhetorical Relation Prediction

    SemEval '12 Proceedings of the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics

    Best Short Paper Award

  • Domain Adaptable Semantic Clustering in Statistical NLG

    Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS)

  • Linguistic Spatial Classifications of Event Domains in Narratives of Crime

    Journal of Spatial Information Science, 1.75-93

  • On the Explicit and Implicit Spatiotemporal Architecture of Narratives of Personal Experience

    Spatial Information Theory, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (6899)

    Proceedings of COSIT 2011

  • Modeling Company Risk & Importance in Supply Graphs

    The Semantic Web, 14th International Conference, ESWC 2017, Proceedings, Part II, LNCS 10250, pp. 18-32, 2017. Blomqvist, E.; Maynard, D.; Gangemi, A.; Howekstra, R.; Hitzler, P.; Hartic, O. (Eds.)

  • A Statistical NLG Framework for Aggregated Planning and Realization

    ACL

  • The Exploitation of Spatial Information in Narrative Discourse

    IWCS '11 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics

  • The Spatial Aspects of Victims in the Narratives of Serial Offenders: Linguistic Insights on Environmental Criminology and Geographical Profiling

    Journal of Crime Mapping Research 1.40-64

  • A Quantitative Perspective on the Minimal Definition of Narrative

    Text & Talk, 29(6).705-727

  • The Use of Granularity in Rhetorical Relation Prediction

    SemEval '12 Proceedings of the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics

    Best Short Paper Award

  • Domain Adaptable Semantic Clustering in Statistical NLG

    Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS)

  • GenNext: A Consolidated Domain Adaptable NLG System

    Proceedings of the 14th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation