I am an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Harvey Mudd College. I am currently serving as Associate Chair of the Computer Science Department.
In Fall 2024 I am teaching:
I am interested in building and using low-cost air quality sensors for community-engaged research. I currently have available positions for independent study students; please reach out if you're interested!
This project explored ways to apply machine learning and natural language processing technologies to automatically create visualizations of text for language learners.
This project explored ways to apply signal processing and machine learning to understand which words and sentences are difficult for readers.
This project applied computing to encourage more school-aged children to walk and bike to school. Students worked on walking school bus routing, and on low-cost air quality sensors.
From 2003 to 2007, I worked as a programmer for the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC). I worked on the following data sets that are available through the LDC:
While at the LDC, I worked on the ACE Annotation Tool for annotating entities, relations and events in English, Chinese and Arabic texts.
"Harvey Mudd College at SemEval-2019 Task 4: The D.X. Beaumont Hyperpartisan News Detector," Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2019), Evan Amason*, Jake Palanker*, Mary Clare Shen* and Julie Medero, 2019.
"Harvey Mudd College at SemEval-2019 Task 4: The Carl Kolchak Hyperpartisan News Detector," Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2019), Celena Chen*, Celine Park*, Jason Dwyer* and Julie Medero, 2019.
"Harvey Mudd College at SemEval-2019 Task 4: The Clint Buchanan Hyperpartisan News Detector," Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2019), Mehdi Drissi*, Pedro Sandoval Segura*, Vivaswat Ojha* and Julie Medero, 2019.
"Insecure and Out of Sync? Attachment Predicts Variability in Texting Behavior Synchrony between Romantic Partners," Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention, Asal Yunusova, Nicole M. Froidevaux, Xiaolin Peng, Julie Medero, Debra Mashek, Jessica L. Borelli, 2018.
"Community Engaged Research Projects for Undergraduates," ACM Inroads, Julie Medero, 2018.
"Automated Feature Extraction for Kinetic Typography Analysis,", CUR REU Symposium, Celine Park* and Julie Medero, 2017.
"Generating Memorable Mnemonic Encodings of Numbers," arXiv:1705.02700 [cs.CL], Vincent Fiorentini, Megan Shao, and Julie Medero, 2017. pdf
"HMC at SemEval-2016 Task 11: Identifying Complex Words Using Depth-limited Decision Trees," Proc. SemEval, June 2016, Maury Quijada* and Julie Medero. pdf
"Automatic Characterization of Text Difficulty," Ph.D. Thesis, University of Washington, August 2014, Julie Medero. pdf
"Atypical Prosodic Structure as an Indicator of Reading Level and Text Difficulty," Proc. NAACL HLT, June 2013, Julie Medero, Mari Ostendorf. pdf
"Identifying Targets for Syntactic Simplification," Proc. SLaTE Workshop, September 2011, Julie Medero, Mari Ostendorf. pdf
"Analysis of Vocabulary Difficulty Using Wiktionary", Proc. SLaTE Workshop, September 2009, Julie Medero, Mari Ostendorf. pdf
"Classifying factored genres with part-of-speech histograms", Proc. NAACL HLT, pp 173-176, Sergey Feldman, Marius Marin, Julie Medero, Mari Ostendorf, 2009. pdf
"Annotation Tool Development for Large-Scale Corpus Creation Projects at the Linguistic Data Consortium", LREC 2008: Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2008, Kazuaki Maeda, Haejoong Lee, Shawn Medero, Julie Medero, Robert Parker, Stephanie Strassel.pdf
"An Efficient Approach for Gold-Standard Annotation: Decision Points for Complex Tasks", LREC 2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2006, Julie Medero, Kazuaki Maeda, Stephanie Strassel, Christopher Walker .pdf
"A New Phase in Annotation Tool Development at the Linguistic Data Consortium: The Evolution of the Annotation Graph Toolkit", LREC 2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2006, Kazuaki Maeda, Haejoong Lee, Julie Medero, Stephanie Strassel. pdf
"A Modular Software Architecture for Heterogeneous Robot Tasks", AAAI Mobile Robot Competition 2002: 18-23, Julie Corder, Oliver Hsu, Andrew Stout, Bruce A. Maxwell. pdf
