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Derrick C Higgins

age ~51

from Chicago, IL

Also known as:
  • Derrick C Okrent
  • Derrick A Okrent
  • Derick Okrent
Phone and address:
5424 Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
773 643-7029

Derrick Higgins Phones & Addresses

  • 5424 Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615 • 773 643-7029
  • 325 School House Ln, Philadelphia, PA 19144 • 215 849-3589
  • 11 2Nd Ave, Highland Park, NJ 08904 • 732 729-0402
  • 57 Nashville Ferry Rd, Columbus, MS 39702 • 662 329-0023
  • N Little Rock, AR
  • North Little Rock, AR
  • Stanford, CA

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Adjunct Professor  Computer Science

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Location:
833 west Jackson Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Industry:
Information Technology And Services
Work:
Illinois Institute of Technology
Adjunct Professor  Computer Science

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma & Texas
Senior Director of Data Science  Enterprise Analytics Coe

American Family Insurance Aug 2016 - Mar 2019
Data Science Manager  Identification and Adoption of Machine Learning and Data Science Methods

Civis Analytics Apr 2014 - Jul 2016
Lead Data Scientist  Complete Ownership of Unstructured Data Strategy, Processes and Implementation

Educational Testing Service (Ets) Feb 2003 - Apr 2014
Director, Nlp and Speech Research  Group Leader  Research Scientist
Education:
University of Chicago 1996 - 2002
Doctorates, Doctor of Philosophy, Linguistics
University of Chicago 1992 - 1996
Bachelors, Bachelor of Arts, Linguistics
Freie Universität Berlin 1995 - 1995
Missouri State University
Skills:
Statistics
Computational Linguistics
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
Research
Data Mining
Artificial Intelligence
Text Mining
Linguistics
Information Retrieval
Computer Science
Python
Semantics
Analysis
Latex
Science
Educational Technology
Higher Education
Data Visualization
Data Analysis
Teaching
Languages:
German
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Us Patents

  • Method And System For Determining Text Coherence

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  • US Patent:
    7720675, May 18, 2010
  • Filed:
    Oct 26, 2004
  • Appl. No.:
    10/974133
  • Inventors:
    Jill Burstein - Princeton NJ, US
    Derrick Higgins - Highland Park NJ, US
    Claudia Gentile - Ewing NJ, US
    Daniel Marcu - Hermosa Beach CA, US
  • Assignee:
    Educational Testing Service - Princeton NJ
  • International Classification:
    G06F 17/27
  • US Classification:
    704 9, 704 1, 704 10
  • Abstract:
    A method and system for determining text coherence in an essay is disclosed. A method of evaluating the coherence of an essay includes receiving an essay having one or more discourse elements and text segments. The one or more discourse elements are annotated either manually or automatically. A text segment vector is generated for each text segment in a discourse element using sparse random indexing vectors. The method or system then identifies one or more essay dimensions and measures the semantic similarity of each text segment based on the essay dimensions. Finally, a coherence level is assigned to the essay based on the measured semantic similarities.
  • Method And System For Assessing Pronunciation Difficulties Of Non-Native Speakers By Entropy Calculation

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  • US Patent:
    7778834, Aug 17, 2010
  • Filed:
    Aug 11, 2008
  • Appl. No.:
    12/189506
  • Inventors:
    Derrick Higgins - Highland Park NJ, US
    Klaus Zechner - Princeton NJ, US
    Yoko Futagi - Lawrenceville NJ, US
    Rene Lawless - Pennington NJ, US
  • Assignee:
    Educational Testing Service - Princeton NJ
  • International Classification:
    G10L 11/00
    G10L 17/00
    G10L 15/04
    G10L 15/18
    G10L 13/00
    G10L 13/08
    G10L 21/06
    G10L 21/00
    G06F 17/27
    G09B 19/00
    G09B 19/04
    G09B 7/00
  • US Classification:
    704270, 434167, 434185, 434327, 434353, 704 9, 704246, 704251, 704257, 704260, 704271, 704272, 704254, 704258
  • Abstract:
    The present disclosure presents a useful metric for assessing the relative difficulty which non-native speakers face in pronouncing a given utterance and a method and systems for using such a metric in the evaluation and assessment of the utterances of non-native speakers. In an embodiment, the metric may be based on both known sources of difficulty for language learners and a corpus-based measure of cross-language sound differences. The method may be applied to speakers who primarily speak a first language speaking utterances in any non-native second language.
  • Method And System For Text Retrieval For Computer-Assisted Item Creation

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  • US Patent:
    7912722, Mar 22, 2011
  • Filed:
    Jan 10, 2006
  • Appl. No.:
    11/328962
  • Inventors:
    Derrick Higgins - Highland Park NJ, US
  • Assignee:
    Educational Testing Service - Princeton NJ
  • International Classification:
    G09B 3/00
    G06F 17/27
    G10L 15/06
    G10L 11/00
  • US Classification:
    704270, 434350, 704 9, 704243
  • Abstract:
    A tool, method, and system for use in the development of sentence-based test items are disclosed. The tool may include a user interface that may include a database selection field, a sentence pattern entry field, an option pane, and an output pane. The tool may search a database for one or more sentences and may generate one or more responses to the one or more sentences. The one or more sentences and one or more responses may be used to produce the sentence-based test items. The tool may allow test items to be developed more quickly and easily than manual test item authoring. Accordingly, test item development costs may be lowered and test security may be enhanced.
  • Method And System For Text Retrieval For Computer-Assisted Item Creation

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  • US Patent:
    8131554, Mar 6, 2012
  • Filed:
    Mar 11, 2011
  • Appl. No.:
    13/046302
  • Inventors:
    Derrick Higgins - Highland Park NJ, US
  • Assignee:
    Educational Testing Service - Princeton NJ
  • International Classification:
    G09B 3/00
    G06F 17/27
    G10L 15/08
    G10L 11/00
  • US Classification:
    704270, 434350, 704 9, 704243
  • Abstract:
    A tool, method, and system for use in the development of sentence-based test items are disclosed. The tool may include a user interface that may include a database selection field, a sentence pattern entry field, an option pane, and an output pane. The tool may search a database for one or more sentences and may generate one or more responses to the one or more sentences. The one or more sentences and one or more responses may be used to produce the sentence-based test items. The tool may allow test items to be developed more quickly and easily than manual test item authoring. Accordingly, test item development costs may be lowered and test security may be enhanced.
  • Method And System For Determining Text Coherence

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  • US Patent:
    8185378, May 22, 2012
  • Filed:
    May 10, 2010
  • Appl. No.:
    12/776827
  • Inventors:
    Jill Burstein - Princeton NJ, US
    Derrick Higgins - Highland Park NJ, US
    Claudia Gentile - Ewing NJ, US
    Daniel Marcu - Hermosa Beach CA, US
  • Assignee:
    Educational Testing Service - Princeton NJ
  • International Classification:
    G06F 17/27
  • US Classification:
    704 9, 704 1, 704 10
  • Abstract:
    A method and system for determining text coherence in an essay is disclosed. A method of evaluating the coherence of an essay includes receiving an essay having one or more discourse elements and text segments. The one or more discourse elements are annotated either manually or automatically. A text segment vector is generated for each text segment in a discourse element using sparse random indexing vectors. The method or system then identifies one or more essay dimensions and measures the semantic similarity of each text segment based on the essay dimensions. Finally, a coherence level is assigned to the essay based on the measured semantic similarities.
  • Method And System For Assessing Pronunciation Difficulties Of Non-Native Speakers

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  • US Patent:
    8478597, Jul 2, 2013
  • Filed:
    Jan 10, 2006
  • Appl. No.:
    11/328651
  • Inventors:
    Derrick Higgins - Highland Park NJ, US
    Klaus Zechner - Princeton NJ, US
    Yoko Futagi - Lawrenceville NJ, US
    Rene Lawless - Pennington NJ, US
  • Assignee:
    Educational Testing Service - Princeton NJ
  • International Classification:
    G06F 17/27
    G10L 17/00
    G10L 15/04
    G10L 15/18
    G10L 13/00
    G10L 13/08
    G10L 21/06
    G10L 21/00
  • US Classification:
    704270, 704 9, 704 2, 704246, 704251, 704260, 704271, 704272, 704254, 704258
  • Abstract:
    The present disclosure presents a useful metric for assessing the relative difficulty which non-native speakers face in pronouncing a given utterance and a method and systems for using such a metric in the evaluation and assessment of the utterances of non-native speakers. In an embodiment, the metric may be based on both known sources of difficulty for language learners and a corpus-based measure of cross-language sound differences. The method may be applied to speakers who primarily speak a first language speaking utterances in any non-native second language.
  • Automated Test Item Generation System And Method

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  • US Patent:
    20040253569, Dec 16, 2004
  • Filed:
    Apr 12, 2004
  • Appl. No.:
    10/822426
  • Inventors:
    Paul Deane - Lawrenceville NJ, US
    Derrick Higgins - Highland Park NJ, US
  • International Classification:
    G01S001/00
    G09B017/00
  • US Classification:
    434/178000, 434/322000, 434/004000
  • Abstract:
    A method and system for using a natural language generator for automatic assessment item generation is disclosed. The natural language generator includes a document structure generator that produces an abstract document specification defining a structure for an assessment item based on user input. The abstract document specification is input into a logical schema generator, which produces a logical schema specification that creates a more detailed specification for an assessment item. Finally, a sentence generator receives the logical schema specification and creates natural language for the assessment item based on the variables defined in the logical schema specification.
  • Method And System For Detecting Off-Topic Essays Without Topic-Specific Training

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  • US Patent:
    20060172276, Aug 3, 2006
  • Filed:
    Feb 3, 2006
  • Appl. No.:
    11/347060
  • Inventors:
    Derrick Higgins - Highland Park NJ, US
    Jill Burstein - Princeton NJ, US
  • International Classification:
    G09B 7/00
  • US Classification:
    434362000
  • Abstract:
    Methods and systems for detecting off-topic essays are described that do not require training using human-scored essays. The methods can detect different types of off-topic essays, such as unexpected topic essays and bad faith essays. Unexpected topic essays are essays that address an incorrect topic. Bad faith essays address no topic. The methods can use content vector analysis to determine the similarity between the essay and one or more prompts. If the essay prompt with which an essay is associated is among the most similar to the essay, the essay is on-topic. Otherwise, the essay is considered to be an unexpected topic essay. Similarly, if the essay is sufficiently dissimilar to all essay prompts, the essay is considered to be a bad faith essay.

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Locality:
SOUTH BEACH, MIAMI
Gender:
Male
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Locality:
BOTHELL, Washington
Gender:
Male
Birthday:
1941
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Locality:
Benson, North Carolina
Gender:
Male
Birthday:
1942
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Locality:
PIQUA, Ohio
Gender:
Male
Birthday:
1936
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Locality:
WICHITA, KANSAS
Gender:
Male
Birthday:
1941

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Education:
Bishop mcguinness - High school, Northwest classen - High school, Deer creek - High school, Osu ok - Business management
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Schools:
Crary Elementary School Detroit MI 1970-1972
Community:
Anthony Neal
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Crary Elementary School, ...

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Graduates:
Brandon Drumgoole (1986-1990),
Penny Taylor (1975-1981),
Donald Hobley (1956-1960),
Thomas Rotondi (1960-1962),
Derrick Higgins (1970-1972)

Youtube

Dereck Higgins on KETV Ch 7 (the complete fea...

Thanks to my friend Jeff Jansen here is the complete news clip.

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Dereck Higgins - Ramped (official music video)

First single from the upcoming album "Future Still" on FPE Records. In...

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    3m 48s

My Home Is Here: Nebraska | States Of America

... and electronic music, Dereck Higgins manages isolation and suspici...

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    5m 10s

Dereck Higgins + Aaron Gum, Omaha Under the R...

Videographer Joseph Carter.

  • Duration:
    24m 42s

"Hit" by Dereck Higgins from the FPE Compilat...

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    3m 13s

Interview with (musician ) Dereck Higgins

music career conversation.

  • Duration:
    47m 53s

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