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Upcoming Seminar

Gary Marcus
July 22nd
1:00PM
CSEB Room B17
"Language as Kluge "

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CLSP Alumni

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 (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)
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 (Advisor: Dr. Jelinek)
Initial Job: SRI International

Chelba, Ciprian, Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1999
Exploiting Syntactic Structure for Natural Language Modeling (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