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I am the Chief Scientist of
the Human Language Technology Center of
Excellence at the Johns Hopkins University. Service: · VP-elect of the Association
for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · President of SIGDAT (special
interest group that organizes EMNLP conferences) Before moving to Hopkins, I
was a researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, and before that I was the
head of a data mining department in AT&T
Labs-Research (formally AT&T Bell Labs). I received my BS, Masters and
PhD from MIT in computer science in 1978, 1980 and 1983, respectively. I
enjoy working with very large corpora such as the Associated Press newswire
(1 million words per week) and larger datasets such as telephone call detail
(1-10 billion records per month). I have worked on many topics in
computational linguistics including: web search, language modeling, text
analysis, spelling correction, word-sense disambiguation, terminology,
translation, lexicography, compression, speech (recognition and synthesis),
OCR, as well as applications that go well beyond computational linguistics
such as revenue assurance and virtual integration (using screen scraping and
web crawling to integrate systems that traditionally don't talk together as
well as they could such as billing and customer care). Teaching: 600.103 Fundamentals of Practical Computing (as well as backup) |
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