dennis nolan mehay
familyname [at] ling [dawt] ohio-state [dawt] edu
(Replace 'familyname' with my family name to get my email address.)
I'm a 6th-year PhD student (ABD) in the
Linguistics Department at THE Ohio State University
specializing in
Computational Linguistics.
My dissertation research explores how the flexible, word-centered
lexicalist syntax of Combinatory Categorial
Grammar (CCG) enables a fuller use of syntax in the (linguistically agnostic and confusingly named)
phrase-based MT paradigm.
***NEW: I have just recently noticed a few very similar lines of research
coming out in the MT community, so I have decided to publicly document
my research proposal (in the form of a 5-page digest submitted to the
OSU Graduate School (.pdf) in Autumn 2010) and my written candidacy exam (.pdf) (passed April
2010).***
This is simply to guard against the inevitable claim that I will have
re-invented the wheel, when I finally get around to producing publishable results
(soon, soon...). My defense will be a variant on the "Woodward-Evans"
defense: it just wasn't commercially available yet. (I would also
appreciate any feedback you may have.)