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Rada Mihalcea is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Her research interests are in computational linguistics, with a focus on lexical semantics, graph-based algorithms for natural language processing, and multilingual natural language processing. She is currently involved in a number of research projects, including knowledge-based and minimally supervised word sense disambiguation, monolingual and cross-lingual semantic similarity, subjectivity and sentiment analysis, automatic keyword extraction and text summarization. She published more than 100 articles in international journals and conferences, in these and related areas. During 2004-2007, she acted as the president of the Association of Computational Linguistics Special Group on the Lexicon, and she serves or has served on the editorial boards of the Journals of Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluations, Natural Language Engineering, and Research in Language in Computation. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Google, and the State of Texas. She is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award (2008) and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE, 2009).