Beata Beigman Klebanov is a Senior Research Scientist in the research and development division at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ. She received her Ph.D. in computer science in 2008 and her B.S. degree in computer science in 2000--both from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her M.S. degree (with distinction) in cognitive science from the University of Edinburgh in 2001. Before joining ETS, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Northwestern Institute for Complex Systems and Kellogg School of Management, where she researched computational approaches to political rhetoric. Her interests include discourse modeling, analyzing argumentative and figurative language, and automated semantic and pragmatic analysis of text. At ETS, her focus is on automatically scoring content in student writing. She researches methods to analyze cohesion in student essays, as well as metaphor, topicality, personalization, use of sourced content, and sentiment, among others.
