Domain experts
Philip Resnik, Ph.D.: Technological Founder and Strategic Technology Adviser
Philip Resnik, Ph.D. is one of the technological founders of CodeRyte and now serves as a strategic technology adviser. Dr. Resnik earned his degrees in computer science at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, where his doctoral dissertation was selected for the department’s Rubinoff Award, given once annually “for an advance in innovative application of computer technology.” He is an internationally recognized expert in natural language processing, with two patents and more than 80 publications in books, journals and conference proceedings; he has served on the editorial boards of Computational Linguistics, Cognition, Computers and the Humanities, and Cognitive Linguistics, and he is currently on the editorial boards of Linguistics in Language Technology and the Open Cybernetics and Systemics Journal. He was named as one of the top 100 healthcare innovators by Healthspottr.

Dr. Resnik has held industry R&D positions at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), Sun
Microsystems Laboratories and the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. As a leading specialist on the combination of rule-based and statistical methods in natural language processing, Dr. Resnik co-edited “The Balancing Act: Combining Symbolic and Statistical Approaches to Language (MIT Press, 1996),” and he is lead author of the chapter on language technology evaluation in the forthcoming Handbook of Natural Language Processing (Blackwell). He currently holds a tenured position as Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, with joint appointments in the Department of Linguistics and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, and an affiliate appointment in Computer Science.

A sampling of Dr. Resnik’s relevant publications on natural language processing include:

  • Philip Resnik and Jimmy Lin, Evaluation of NLP Systems, Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Blackwell, forthcoming.
  • Philip Resnik, “Word Sense Disambiguation in NLP Applications,” in Eneko Agirre and Philip Edmonds (eds.), Word Sense Disambiguation: Algorithms and Applications, Kluwer (2006).
  • Philip Resnik, “Word Sense Ambiguity.” International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd edition. William J. Frawley, editor. Oxford University Press: Oxford, England, 2003.
  • Judith Klavans and Philip Resnik, The Balancing Act: Combining Symbolic and Statistical Approaches to Language (MIT Press, 1996).

A more comprehensive list of publications can be found here.

A sampling of Dr. Resnik’s relevant publications in healthcare IT include:


Dr. Resnik is also an active participant as co-chair of AHIMA's steering committee to define standards and certifications for computer-assisted coding technologies.