Students

Current Students

• PhDs:
1. Prescott Klassen
2. Ryan Georgi
3. Michael Tepper
• Masters with the thesis option:
  1. Chase Hermsen

• Masters with the internship/project option:
  1. Kathryn Nichols

Past Students

• Masters with thesis option:
1. Prescott Klassen: winter 2012, "Calculating LLR Topic Signatures with Dependency Relations for Automatic Text Summarization"
2. Nicholas Flacco: spring 2011, "Using Semantic Information to Improve Protein Interaction Detection"
3. Eric Bell: summer 2010, "Event Detection and Classification by Sense Disambiguation"
4. Alex Cheng: winter 2010, "Survey of unsupervised methods for Chinese POS tagging with Hidden Markov Models"
5. Scott Russell Halgrim: fall 2009, "A Pipeline Machine Learning Approach to Biomedical Information Extraction"
6. Ryan Georgi: winter 2009, "PCFG Induction using Interlinear-derived Prototypes"
7. Ankit Srivastava, spring 2008, "Learning a Translation Lexicon from Non-parallel Corpora"
8. Michael Tepper, fall 2007, "Knowledge-Lite Induction of Underlying Morphology: Hybrid Approach to Learning Morphemes Using Context-Sensitive Rewrite Rules"
9. David Arthur Bullock, fall 2006, "TreeTran: A Tool for Visual Selection a Testing of Transfer Rules for Machine Translation"
10. Achim Ruopp, fall 2006, "Finding and Evaluating Structured Bilingual Corpora on the Web"
• MAs with internship/project option:
1. Edward Pham (fall 2012)
2. Greg Hullender (spring 2012)
3. Abdullah Alotayq (winter 2012)
4. Dong Wang (fall 2011)
5. Ryan Cross (fall 2011)
6. Jeffrey Shu (fall 2011)
7. Anthony Wong (fall 2011)
8. Kelly Peterson (fall 2011)
9. Imre Solti (spring 2011)
10. Matt Todd (winter 2011)
11. John Keesling (winter 2011)
12. Miles Pederson (winter 2011)
13. Parinta Parinta (fall 2010)
14. Ashley Gill (summer 2010)
15. Michelle Stephen (spring 2010)
16. Eduardo Alvarez-Godinez (winter 2010)
17. Geoff Thilo (summer 2009)
18. Eric Larsson (summer 2009)
19. David Landan (spring 2009)
20. Bob New (winter 2009)
21. Nolan Lawson (summer 2008)
22. Sinclaire Lindsey (summer 2008)
23. Dawei Hou (spring 2008)
24. Yohei Sakata (fall 2007)
25. Sabrina Burleigh (fall 2007)
26. Mike O'Leary (summer 2007)
27. Kathleen Sickles (summer 2007)
28. Jeffrey Karres (summer 2007)
29. Joshua Johanson (spring 2007)

MA/PhD Committees

• PhD reading committees at UW:
1. Sanghoun Song (Linguistics)
2. Michael Goodman (Linguistics)
3. Mei Yang (Electronic Engineering)
4. Amittai Axelrod (Electronic Engineering)
5. Jeremy Kahn (Linguistics): fall 2010, "Parse decoration of the word sequence in the speech-to-text machine-translation pipeline"
6. Dustin Hillard (Electronic Engineering): winter 2008, "Automatic Sentence Structure Annotation for Spoken Language Processing"
7. Meliha Yetisgen-Yildiz (Information School): fall 2007, "Using Statistical and Knowledge Based Approaches for Literature-Based Discovery"
• MA reading committees at UW:
1. David Wax
2. Todd Lingren
3. Sergei Lushtak: fall 2012, "Unsupervised Morphological Word Clustering"
4. Matt Hohensee: winter 2012, "It's Only Morpho-Logical: Modeling Agreement in Cross-linguistic Dependency Parsing"
5. Spencer Rarrick: fall 2011, "Machine Translation Detection and Automatic Filtering of Web-Extracted Parallel Corpora"
6. Jason Shaw: summer 2011, "Learning for Resource-Poor Languages: Building a Language-Independent Model for Frame-Semantic Annotation"
7. Liam McGrath: winter 2011, "Semantic Features for Semantic Role Labeling"
8. Safiyyah Saleem: spring 2010, "Augment Optionality: A New Library for the Grammar Matrix Customization System"
9. Eric Mead: spring 2010, "Associative Anaphora Resolution Using Word Sense Disambiguation and Spreading Activation in an Augmented Ontology"
10. Kelly O'Hara: fall 2008, "A Morphotactic Infrastructure for a Grammar Customization System"
11. Ping Yu: winter 2007. "GMM-based Automatic Identification between Mainland Mandarin and Taiwan Mandarin"
12. Albert A. Bertram: fall 2006. "An Application of a Connectionist Cognitive Model to Word Sense Disambiguation"
• Committees outside UW:
1. David Potter (Linguistics, Simon Fraser Univ): fall 2009, "A multiple dominance analysis of sharing coordination constructions using tree adjoining grammar"

Visiting scholars

• Yan Song: 9/2011-9/2012, City University of Hong Kong

Last modified on 01/23/2013