Students

Current Students

1. PhDs
   • Bill McNeill (co-directed with Emily Bender)
   • Michael Tepper
   • Ryan Georgi
   
   
2. MAs with thesis option
   • Dan Jinguji
   • Alex Cheng
   • Greg Hullender
   
   
3. MAs with internship option
   • Nat Byington
   • Scott Halgrim
   • Geoff Thilo
   • Eric Larsson
   • Eduardo Alvarez

Past students

1. MAs with thesis option
   • Ryan Georgi: winter 2009, "PCFG Induction using Interlinear-derived Prototypes"
   • Ankit Srivastava, spring 2008, "Learning a Translation Lexicon from Non-parallel Corpora"
   • Michael Tepper, fall 2007, "Knowledge-Lite Induction of Underlying Morphology: Hybrid Approach to Learning Morphemes Using Context-Sensitive Rewrite Rules"
   • David Arthur Bullock, fall 2006, "TreeTran: A Tool for Visual Selection a Testing of Transfer Rules for Machine Translation"
   • Achim Ruopp, fall 2006, "Finding and Evaluating Structured Bilingual Corpora on the Web"
   
   
2. MAs with internship option
   • David Landan (spring 2009)
   • Bob New (winter 2009)
   • Nolan Lawson (summer 2008)
   • Sinclaire Lindsey (summer 2008)
   • Dawei Hou (spring 2008)
   • Yohei Sakata (fall 2007)
   • Sabrina Burleigh (fall 2007)
   • Mike O'Leary (summer 2007)
   • Kathleen Sickles (summer 2007)
   • Jeffrey Karres (summer 2007)
   • Joshua Johanson (spring 2007)

I serve on various committees

1. PhD reading committee
   • Jeremy Kahn (Linguistics)
   • Mei Yang (Electronic Engineering)
   • Dustin Hillard (Electronic Engineering): Completed in winter 2008. Dissertation title: "Automatic Sentence Structure Annotation for Spoken Language Processing"
   • Meliha Yetisgen-Yildiz (Information School): Completed in fall 2007. Dissertation title: "Using Statistical and Knowledge Based Approaches for Literature-Based Discovery"
   
   
2. MA reading committee
   • Michael Goodman: Expected in fall 2009.
   • Kelly O'Hara: Completed in Fall 2008. Thesis title: "A Morphotactic Infrastructure for a Grammar Customization System"
   • Ping Yu: Completed in Winter 2007. Thesis title: "GMM-based Automatic Identification between Mainland Mandarin and Taiwan Mandarin"
   • Albert A. Bertram: Completed in Fall 2006. Thesis title: "An Application of a Connectionist Cognitive Model to Word Sense Disambiguation."