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CLSP Alumni
Roy Tromble, Ph.D. Computer Science, 2008
Search and Learning for the Linear Ordering Problem with an Application to Machine Translation (Advisor: Dr. Eisner)
Initial Job: Google
Erin Fitzgerald, Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2009
Reconstructing Spontaneous Speech (Advisor: Dr. Jelinek) [pdf]
Initial Job: The National Academies
Mathias, Lambert, Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2007
Statistical Machine Translation and Automatic Speech Recognition under Uncertainty (Advisor: Dr. Byrne) [pdf]
Initial Job: Nuance Communications
Mann, Gideon, Ph.D. Computer Science, 2006
Multi-Document Statistical Fact Extraction and Fusion (Advisor: Dr. Yarowsky)
Initial Job: Umass Amherst
Schafer, Charles, Ph.D. Computer Science, 2006
Translation Discovery Using Diverse Similarity Measures
(Advisor: Dr. Yarowsky)
Initial Job: Google
Smith, Noah, Ph.D. Computer Science, 2006
Novel Estimation Methods for Unsupervised Discovery of Latent Structure in Natural Language Text (Advisor: Dr. Eisner) [pdf]
Initial Job: Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Deng, Yonggang, Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2005
Bitext Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation
(Advisor: Dr. Byrne) [pdf]
Initial Job: IBM T.J. Watson Research
Emami, Ahmad, Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2005
A Neural Syntactic Language Model
(Advisor: Dr. Jelinek)
Initial Job: IBM T.J. Watson Research
Tsakalidid, Stavros, Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2005
Linear Transforms in Automatic Speech Recognition: Discriminative Estimation Procedures and Integration of Diverse Acoustic Data
(Advisor: Dr. Byrne) [pdf]
Initial Job: BBN Technologies
Venkataramani, Veera, Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2005
Support Vector Machines For Segmental Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding Of Continuous Speech
(Advisor: Dr. Byrne) [pdf]
Initial Job: Fair Isaac, Inc.
Peng, Xu, Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2005
Random Forests and the Data Sparseness Problem in Language Modeling[pdf]
(Advisor: Dr. Jelinek)
Initial Job: Google
Doumptiotis, Vlasios, Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2004
Discriminative Training for Speaker Adaptation and Minimum Risk Estimation in Large Vocabulary Conversational Speech Recognition
(Advisor: Dr. Byrne) [pdf]
Initial Job: eScription, Inc.
Kamm, Terri, Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2004
Active Learning for Acoustic Speech Recognition Modeling
(Advisor: Dr. Byrne)
Initial Job: Department of Defense
Kim, Woosung, Ph.D. Computer Science, 2004
Language Model Adaptation for Automatic Speech Recognition and Statistical Machine Translation
(Advisor: Dr. Khudanpur) [pdf]
Initial Job: Convergys, Inc.
Kumar, Shankar, Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2004
Minimum Bayes-Risk Techniques in Automatic Speech Recognition and Machine Translation
(Advisor: Dr. Byrne) [pdf]
Initial Job: Google
Silviu, Cucerzan, Ph.D. Computer Science, 2003
Language Independent, Minimally Supervised Methods in NL Ambiguity Resolution
(Advisor: Dr. Yarowsky)
Initial Job: Microsoft Research
Hale, John, Ph.D. Cognitive Science, 2003
Grammar, Uncertainty and Sentence Processing
(Advisor: Dr. Smolensky) [pdf]
Initial Job: Michigan State University
Odrawski, Mark, Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2003
Geometric Linear Discriminant Analysis for pattern Recognition Systems
(Advisor: Dr. Meyer)
Initial Job: Department of Defense
Florian, Radu, Ph.D. Computer Science, 2002
Transformation based learning and data driven leixal disambiguation syntactic and semantic ambiguity resolution
(Advisor: Dr. Brill) [pdf]
Initial Job: IBM T.J. Watsoon Research
Wicentowski, Richard, Ph.D. Computer Science, 2002
http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~richardw/pubs/thesis.pdf
(Advisor: Dr. Yarowsky) [pdf]
Initial Job: Swarthmore College
Wu, Jun, Ph.D. Computer Science, 2002
Maximum Entropy Language Modeling with Non-local Dependencies
(Advisor: Dr. Khudanpur) [pdf]
Initial Job: Google
Gunarwardana, Asela, Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2001
The Information Geometry of EM Variants for Speech and Image Processing
(Advisor: Dr. Byrne) [pdf]
Initial Job: Microsoft Research
Goel, Vaibhava, Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, 2000
Minimum Bayes-Risk Automatic Speech Recognition
(Advisor: Dr. Byrne)
Initial Job: IBM T.J. Watson Research
Mangu, Lidia, Ph.D. Computer Science, 2000
Finding Consensus in Speech Recognition
(Advisor: Dr. Brill) [pdf]
Initial Job: IBM T.J. Watson Research
McDonough, John, Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2000
Speaker Compensation with All-Pass Transforms
(Advisor: Dr. Byrne) [pdf]
Initial Job: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Ngai, Grace, Ph.D. Computer Science, 2000
Maximizing Resources for Corpus-Based Natural Language Processing
(Advisor: Dr. Yarowsky)
Initial Job: HK Poly U
Saraclar, Murat, Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2000
Pronunciation Modeling for Conversational Speech Recognition
(Advisor: Dr. Jelinek)
Initial Job: Bogazici U
Vergyri, Dimitra, Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2000
Integration of Multiple Knowledge Sources in Speech Recognition using Minimum Error Training[pdf]
(Advisor: Dr. Jelinek)
Initial Job: SRI International
Chelba, Ciprian, Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1999
Exploiting Syntactic Structure for Natural Language Modeling [pdf]
(Advisor: Dr. Jelinek)
Initial Job: Google
Edwards, R. Timothy, Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1999
Time-Frequency Acoustic Processing and Recognition: Analysis and Analog VLSI Implmentations.
(Advisor: Dr. Cauwenburghs) [pdf]
Henderson, John, Ph.D. Computer Science, 1999
Exploiting Diversity for Natural Language Parsing
(Advisor: Dr. Brill) [pdf]
Initial Job: MITRE
Luo, Xiaoqiang, Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1999
Model Resolution and Generalizability in Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition
(Advisor: Dr. Jelinek)
Initial Job: IBM T.J. Watson Research
Kumar, Nagendra, Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1997
Investigation of Silicon Auditory Models and Generalization of Linear Discriminant Analysis for Improved Speech Recognition
(Advisor: Dr. Andreou) [pdf]
Initial Job: Telogy Networks
Pouliquen, Philippe, Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1996
Low Power Architecture for Associative Processing in Analog VLSI
(Advisor: Dr. Andreou)
Initial Job: Iguana Robotics, Inc.
Furth, Paul, Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1995
On the Design of Optimal Continuous-Time Filter Banks in Subthreshold CMOS
(Advisor: Dr. Andreou)
Initial Job: Nuance Communications