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FACULTY NEWS

Fred Jelinek was honored by the Association for Computational Linguistics that presented him with the lifetime achievement award.

WELCOME NEW FACULTY

CLSP welcomes Prof. Aren Jansen as an Assistant Research Professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prof. Jansen joins CLSP after graduating from the University of Chicago. His research is in knowledge-based approaches to the speech recognition problem. Prof. Jansen is a Senior Research Scientist at the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence.

CLSP welcomes Prof. Ken Church as a Research Professor in the department of Computer Science. Prof. Church joins CLSP after many years at Microsoft Research and AT&T Bell Labs. His research in computational linguistics includes web search, language modeling, text analysis, spelling correction, word-sense disambiguation, terminology, translation, lexicography, compression, speech (recognition and synthesis) and OCR. Prof. Church is Chief Scientist of the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence.

CLSP welcomes Prof. Mark Dredze as an Assistant Research Professor in the department of Computer Science. Prof. Dredze joins CLSP after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania. His research is in applying machine learning to natural language processing problems, as well as applications to intelligent user interfaces. Prof. Dredze is a Senior Research Scientist at the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence.

STUDENT NEWS

Yi Su successfully defended his dissertation titled 'Knowledge Integration Into Language Models: A Random Forest Approach' on May 9th 2009. Yi is a student of Prof. Fred Jelinek.

Arnab Ghoshal successfully defended his dissertation titled 'Modeling Data-source Variability for Content-based Video Retrieval Using Hidden Markov Models' on Feb 23rd 2009. Arnab is a student of Prof. Sanjeev Khudanpur.

Erin Fitzgerald successfully defended her thesis titled 'Reconstructing Spontaneous Speech' on Jan 19th 2009. Erin is a student of Prof. Fred Jelinek.

Roy Tromble successfully defended his thesis "Search and Learning for the Linear Ordering Problem with an Application to Machine Translation" on Oct 8, 2008. Roy is a student of Prof. Eisner.

Jia Cui successfully defended her thesis "Integrating Linguistic and Statistical Knowledge in Language Modeling" on April 22, 2008. Jia is a student of Prof. Jelinek.