Finlayson, Mark
- Eminent Scholar, School of Computing and Information Sciences , College of Engineering and Computing

Overview
overview
- Dr. Mark A. Finlayson is an Eminent Scholar Chaired Associate Professor of Computer Science in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University (FIU). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from MIT in 2012 under the supervision of Patrick H. Winston. He also received his M.S. from MIT in 2001 and his B.S. from the University of Michigan in 1998, both in Electrical Engineering. Before joining SCIS he was a Research Scientist in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) for 2½ years. His research focuses on representing, extracting, and using higher-order semantic patterns in natural language, especially focusing on narrative. His work intersects artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and cognitive science. He directs the Cognac Laboratory (The Cognition, Language, and Culture lab), whose members focus on investigating the science of narrative from a computational point of view. His research has been funded by the NSF, NIH, DARPA, OSD, ONR, DHS, and IBM. He was the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award in 2018 and an IBM Faculty Award in 2019. He was named Edison Fellow for Artificial Intelligence for 2019-2021 at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). He has received multiple teaching awards at FIU, plus an FIU faculty award for research and creative activities in 2019.
research interests
- Natural Language Processing; Artificial Intelligence; Cognitive Science; Computational Social Science; Digital Humanities; Cybersecurity
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected publications
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Article
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2018Linguistic analysis of the autobiographical memories of individuals with major depressive disorderFull Text via DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207814 Web of Science: 000451325700075
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2017Narrative Constructions for the Organization of Self Experience: Proof of Concept via Embodied RoboticsFull Text via DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01331 Web of Science: 000407680200001
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2017ProppLearner: Deeply annotating a corpus of Russian folktales to enable the machine learning of a Russian formalist theoryFull Text via DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqv067 Web of Science: 000406002800005
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2016Inferring Propp's Functions from Semantically Annotated TextFull Text via DOI: 10.5406/jamerfolk.129.511.0055 Web of Science: 000390753300005
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2013Inderjeet Mani. Computational Modeling of Narrative. Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies No. 18. Seattle, WA: Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2013. ISBN 978-1-60845-981-0 (paperback: $40); ISBN 978-1-60845-982-7 (e-book: $30). xvii + 124 pages (doi:10.2200/S00459ED1V01Y201212HLT018).Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/s135132491300017x
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2011Defining and Demonstrating Capabilities for Experience-Based Narrative MemoryFull Text via DOI: 10.21236/ada547226
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2000Two-dimensional spatial-phase-locked electron-beam lithography via sparse samplingFull Text via DOI: 10.1116/1.1314371
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Book Chapter
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2021The 4th International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts: Text2Story 2021. 701-704.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-72240-1_84
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2017Overview of Annotation Creation: Processes and Tools. 167-191.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-94-024-0881-2_5
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Conference
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2021Hell Hath No Fury? Correcting Bias in the NRC Emotion Lexicon. 102-113.Full Text via DOI: 10.34703/gzx1-9v95/PO3YGX Web of Science: 000694721300011
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2021
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2021The 4th International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts: Text2Story 2021. 701-704.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-72240-1_84
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2020Improving the Identification of the Discourse Function of News Article Paragraphs. 17-25.Web of Science: 000563438500003
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2020
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2020
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2020A Straightforward Approach to Narratologically Grounded Character Identification. 6089-6100.Full Text via DOI: 10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.536
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2020Distinguishing Between Foreground and Background Events in News. 5171-5180.Full Text via DOI: 10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.453
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2020
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2019Detecting Subevents using Discourse and Narrative Features. 4780-4790.Web of Science: 000493046107029
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2019A Challenging Dataset for Bias Detection: The Case of the Crisis in the Ukraine. 173-183.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21741-9_18 Web of Science: 000565080900018
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2019Analysis and Parsing of Unstructured Cyber-Security Incident Data. 345-346.Full Text via DOI: 10.1145/3317549.3326324 Web of Science: 000477981300059
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2018Ontology-Based Supervised Concept Learning for the Biogeochemical Literature. 402-410.Full Text via DOI: 10.1109/IRI.2018.00066 Web of Science: 000442457000058
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2018
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2017Toward Semantic Search for the Biogeochemical Literature. 517-525.Full Text via DOI: 10.1109/IRI.2017.49 Web of Science: 000426980200067
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2017A simpler and more generalizable story detector using verb and character features. 2708-2715.Full Text via DOI: 10.18653/v1/d17-1287
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2016Comparing extant story classifiers: Results & new directions. 6.1-6.10.Full Text via DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2016.6
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2016Learning a better motif index: Toward automated motif extraction. 7.1-7.10.Full Text via DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2016.7
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2016Preface. vii.
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2016ProppML: A complete annotation scheme for Proppian morphologies. 8.1-8.19.Full Text via DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2016.8
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2015Preface. VII.
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2015
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2014
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2013
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2012Sets of signals, information flow, and folktales. 228-236.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30870-3_23
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2011
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Editorial Material
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Other Scholarly Work
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2020Patrick Henry Winston - Two Reflections In Memorial. 106-108.Web of Science: 000528252200012
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Preprint
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Review
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2010Computational models of narrative: Review of the workshop. 97-100.Full Text via DOI: 10.1609/aimag.v31i2.2295
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Research
principal investigator on
- RADII: Reticular Analysis of Discourse for Influence Indicators awarded by U.S. DOD/Defense Advanced Research Proj 2021 - 2025
- Computational Narrative Representations for Information Operations awarded by U.S. DOD/Defense Advanced Research Proj 2021 - 2023
- CAREER: Learning Multi-Level Narrative Structure awarded by National Science Foundation 2018 - 2023
- ACUMEN: Analyzing Cultural Motif Effects in Networks awarded by U.S. DOD/Defense Advanced Research Proj 2019 - 2022
- Building a Casual and Influence Network for Risk Prediction (NLP AI) awarded by MITRE Corporation 2021
- Moving Out on Vaccines (MOoV) awarded by MITRE Corporation 2021
- Automated Timeline Summarization of Defendants FY21 awarded by MITRE Corporation 2021
- MITRE-FIU Strategic Collaboration Proposal for FY20 & FY21 awarded by MITRE Corporation 2020
- Detecting and Aligning Narrative Variants for Countering Disinformation awarded by Office of Naval Research 2017 - 2019
- Narratives in the Informational Patient Society and their Association with Health awarded by General Medical Sciences 2014 - 2019
- PERFECTA: Politeness-based Evaluation of Regard for Finding Efforts to Create Trust and Affiliation awarded by Army Research Office 2018
- CI-P: Toward Unified Tool Support for Linguistic Corpus Annotation awarded by National Science Foundation 2014 - 2015
co-principal investigator on
- Graduate Assistance in Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence at Florida International University awarded by U.S. Department of Education 2021 - 2024
- EAGER: SaTC-EDU: Designing and Evaluating Curriculum Modules for Inclusive Integration of AI into Cybersecurity awarded by National Science Foundation 2020 - 2022
- Center for Homeland Security Research and Education awarded by U.S. Department of Homeland Security 2017 - 2022
- Mis/Disinformation Framework Expansion - SPICE 2.0 awarded by MITRE Corporation 2021
- Social Integrity- GNOSIS awarded by MITRE Corporation 2020 - 2021
- BDD: Data-Driven Techniques to Address Critical Information Exchange Needs in Disaster Affected Public-Private Networks awarded by National Science Foundation 2015 - 2019
Contact
full name
- Mark Finlayson
Identifiers
ORCID iD
- https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5716-9526 (confirmed)
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publication subject areas
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