Personal Information
Steve Engels is a lecturer in computer science
at the University of Toronto. Steve came to
the department at the end of 2002, appointed
to both the St. George and Erindale
campuses. Steve currently resides in Room 4266
in the Bahen Centre, and always welcomes
visitors.
Education
Research
My research interests are in artificial
intelligence, with leanings towards natural
language processing. I did my master's degree
at the University of
Waterloo, under the supervision of Dale
Schuurmans.
During that time, I was exploring the areas of
machine learning, natural language and
information extraction. I took a term as a
graduate intern at Whizbang!
Labs and took another term to teach
The focus of my research was on the use of
human learning techniques to improve the
performance of language learning systems,
particularly through the use of developmental
learning heuristics. More information about my
research can be found in the documents
provided in the Resources section.
Interests
I am interested in many things. I like
photography, jazz music, birds, movies,
science fiction, swing dancing, volleyball,
psychology, cooking, poetry and cheese that is
good and stinky.
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