Faculty and Students in CLLT at OSU
There are currently four CLLT faculty in Linguistics, Computer Science
& Engineering and Psychology, as well as several other faculty
members in related fields and/or departments. CLLT faculty meet
often to work on joint projects, instruct and advise students, and
coordinate the overall CLLT research focus. Below is a somewhat
current listing of CLLT faculty, PhD students and recent graduates.
Current CL Faculty and Students
Former Graduate Students
Faculty in Related Fields
Current CL Faculty and Students
| Name |
Faculty/Grad |
Department |
Research Interests |
| Adriane Boyd |
PhD Student,
Advisor: Detmar Meurers |
Linguistics |
Syntax, morphology, Detection of Errors and Correction in Corpus Annotation |
| Jon Dehdari |
PhD Student,
Advisor: William Schuler |
Linguistics |
Syntax, morphology, MT, Persian, Arabic, unsupervised and semi-supervised learning |
| Simon
Dennis |
Faculty |
Psychology |
Human Memory, Language Processing, Episodic Recognition,
Serial Recall, Extraction of Propositional Information from Text |
| Eric Fosler-Lussier |
Faculty |
CSE |
Statistical NLP, Spoken Dialog Systems, Speech Recognition |
| Ilana Heintz |
PhD Student,
Advisor: Chris Brew |
Linguistics |
Arabic information retrieval,
Arabic speech recognition, machine learning |
| Arantxa Lozano |
PhD Student,
Advisor: Detmar Meurers |
Linguistics |
|
| Dennis Nolan Mehay |
PhD Student,
Advisor: Michael White |
Linguistics |
Syntactially-informed Machine Translation, Parsing, Supertagging,
Computaional Semantics |
| Vanessa Metcalf |
PhD Student,
Advisor: Detmar Meurers |
Linguistics |
iCall, HPSG grammar implementation |
| Jeremy Morris |
PhD Student,
Advisor: Eric Fosler-Lussier |
CSE |
Automatic Speech Recognition using Conditional Random Fields |
| Jihyun Park |
PhD Student,
Advisor: Chris Brew |
Linguistics |
semi-supervised clustering using Information Bottleneck method, computational modeling of human sentence processing |
| Rohit Prabhavalkar |
PhD Student,
Advisor: Eric Fosler-Lussier |
CSE |
Automatic Speech Recognition, Machine Learning, Statistical Natural Language Processing |
| William Schuler |
Faculty |
CSE |
Computational Psycholinguistics, Incremental Parsing and
Interpretation, Spoken Dialog Systems |
| Darla Shockley |
PhD Student,
Advisor: Donna Byron |
CSE |
Dialog systems, Information Retrieval |
| Na'im Tyson |
PhD Student,
Advisor: Chris Brew |
Linguistics |
Speech Processing, Speech Synthesis, Corpus Linguistics,
Information Retrieval |
| Tim Weale |
PhD Student |
CSE |
Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval |
| Michael White |
Faculty |
Linguistics |
Natural Language Generation, Spoken Language and Multimodal
Dialogue Systems, Speech Synthesis |
| Annatala Wolf |
Undergraduate,
Advisor: Eric Fosler-Lussier |
CSE |
|
| Tianfang Xu |
PhD Student,
Advisor: Donna Byron |
CSE |
|
Former Graduate Students
| Name |
Department |
Advisor |
Additional Information |
| Luiz Alexandre Amaral |
Linguistics and Spanish/Portuguese |
Detmar Meurers, John Grinstead |
Graduated 2007. Dissertation title: Designing Intelligent
Language Tutoring Systems: Integrating Natural Language Processing
technology into foreign language teaching. Currently at University of Victoria |
| Stacey Bailey |
Linguistics |
Detmar Meurers |
Graduated 2008. Dissertation title: Content Assessment in
Intelligent Computer-Aided Language Learning: Meaning Error Diagnosis
for English as a Second Language. |
| Kirk Baker |
Linguistics |
Chris Brew |
Graduated 2008. PhD. Dissertation title: Multilingual
Distributional Lexical Similarity. Currently Technology Director
at i3 Analytics. |
| Mike Calcagno |
Linguistics |
|
Currently at Microsoft Speech and Natural Language |
| Nick Cipollone |
Linguistics |
|
Currently at Microsoft |
| Mike Daniels |
Linguistics |
Detmar Meurers |
Graduated 2005. Thesis title: Generalized ID/LP Grammar: A
Formalism for Parsing Linearization-based HPSG Grammars. Currently
Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Speech and Language
Group |
| Paul Davis |
Linguistics |
Chris Brew |
Graduated 2002. Dissertation Title: Stone Soup Translation: The Linked Automata Model. Currently works for Motorola. |
| Markus Dickinson |
Linguistics |
Detmar Meurers |
Graduated 2005. Thesis title: Error detection and correction in
annotated corpora. Currently Assistant Professor at Indiana University. |
| Anna Feldman |
Linguistics |
Chris Brew |
Graduated 2006. Dissertation title: A cross-language approach to
rapid creation of new morpho-syntactically annotated
resources. Currently Associate Professor at Montclair State University. |
| Whitney Gegg-Harrison |
Linguistics |
Craige Roberts |
Graduated 2006 (MA). Currently a graduate student in
cognitive science at the University of Rochester |
| Jean Godby |
Linguistics |
Craige Roberts |
Graduated 2002. Thesis title: A computational study of lexicalized noun phrases in English.
Now works at Office of Research at OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc |
| Jirka Hana |
Linguistics |
Carl Pollard |
Graduated 2006. Dissertation title: Czech Clitics in
Higher Order Grammar. Currently a Senior Researcher at Charles University, Prague. |
| Martin Jansche |
Linguistics |
Chris Brew |
Graduated 2003. Thesis title: Inference of string mappings for
language technology. Currently works for Google Research, New York, NY. |
| Jianguo Li |
Linguistics |
Advisor: Chris Brew |
Graduated 2008. Dissertation title: Hybrid Methods for Acquisition
of Lexical Information: The Case for Verbs. Currently at the
Applied Research Center, Motorola. |
| Arantxa Lozano |
Linguistics |
Detmar Meurers |
Currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wittenberg University |
| Xiaofei Lu |
Linguistics |
Detmar Meurers |
Graduated 2006. Dissertation title: Hybrid Models for Unknown
Chinese Word Resolution. Currently Assistant Professor at Penn State University. |
| Monica Rajamanohar |
ECE |
Eric Fosler-Lussier |
Graduated 2005 (MS). Currently Technical Consultant at Heiler Software. |
|
| Anton Rytting |
Linguistics |
Chris Brew, Eric Fosler-Lussier |
Graduated 2007 (PhD). Dissertation Title: Preserving Subsegmental
Variation in Modeling Word Segmentation. Currently at the Center for
the Advanced Study of Language (CASL), Maryland. |
| Laura Stoia |
CSE |
Advisor: Donna Byron |
Graduated 2007. Dissertation title: Noun phrase generation for
situated dialogues. Currently a software engineer at Google. |
| Nathan Vaillette |
Linguistics |
Chris Brew |
Graduated 2004. |
| Yu Wang |
Masters Student,
Advisor: Eric Fosler-Lussier |
CSE |
Graduated 2007 |
| Andrew Watts |
Linguistics |
Detmar Meurers |
Graduated 2006 (MA). |
Faculty in Related Fields
Within Linguistics and CSE, as well as in other departments, there are several faculty members working on closely related topics:
Other faculty members in Psychology:
- Gail McKoon (psycholinguistics, reading, human memory, knowledge representation)
- Alexander Petrov (learning,
models of learning, symbolic cognitive architectures, neural networks)
Other faculty members in Linguistics working in related fields:
- Mary Beckman (phonetics, intonation, laboratory phonology, speech synthesis)
- David Dowty (semantic/syntactic theory, lexical semantics, categorial grammars)
- Bob Levine (constraint-based grammar/HPSG, syntax)
- Carl Pollard (mathematical foundations of linguistic theory, constraint-based grammar/HPSG, syntax, semantics)
- Craige Roberts (formal pragmatics, semantics)
- Shari R. Speer (psycholinguistics)
- Beth Hume (phonology)
- Erhard
Hinrichs (visiting CL faculty,
Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft of the Universität Tübingen, ASN/ISCL)
Other faculty members in Computer Science and Engineering working in related fields:
Former faculty at other institutions with whom we have a close
relationship:
- Chris Brew (robust
natural language processing using statistical and probabilistic
ideas), currently at ETS
- Detmar Meurers
(constraint-based processing, corpus annotation, iCALL, syntax,
HPSG), currently at Universität
Tübingen
- Donna
Byron (machine-human dialogue, discourse processing, anaphora
resolution, collaborative interaction), currently at Northeastern
University
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