MA/PhD Committees

• PhD reading committees at UW:
1. Chad Mills (Linguistics)
2. Michael Goodman (Linguistics)
3. Amittai Axelrod (Electronic Engineering)
4. Sanghoun Song (Linguistics): fall 2013, "A Grammar Library for Information Structure"
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, winter 2014, "Automated Grammar Engineering for Verbal Morphology"
2. Todd Lingren, summer 2013, "Detecting Adverse Events in Clinical Trail Free Text"
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"
• MA/PhD Committees outside UW:
1. Rafiya Begum (International Institute of Information Technology, India)
2. Yan Song (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China): fall 2013, "Transductive learning, data refactoring, and model reweighting in domain adaptation for language processing"
3. Daniel Gar-Shon Tse (University of Sydney, Australia): summer 2013, "Chinese CCGBank: Deep derivations and dependencies for Chinese CCG parsing"
4. David Potter (Simon Fraser Univ, Canada): fall 2009, "A multiple dominance analysis of sharing coordination constructions using tree adjoining grammar"

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