dennis nolan mehay
familyname [at] ling [dawt] ohio-state [dawt] edu
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NEW(-ish): Finley Nolan is out on the loose. Check out the pictures
section.
I'm a 4th-year PhD student in the Linguistics Department [please, don't mess with Flames] at THE Ohio State University specialising in Computational Linguistics.
My main research foci are in machine translation-related endeavors (translation models, evaluation, metrics and methods for tuning, etc.). I work in the following areas as well (in non-increasing order of the amount of guilty pleasure I derive from them): machine learning for NLP and language acquisition modelling, parsing, supertagging, using reeeeealy big corpora to induce semantactic systems (a phrase I coined, I think), realisation and generation. I also dabble in (Combinatory) Categorial Grammars, and other forms of formal semantax. (Semantax? Yeah, semantax.)
My advisor is Chris Brew who has one foot here in Linguistics and the other in Computer Science. I also work (or have worked) with Mike White (Linguistics), Detmar Meurers (Linguistics) and Simon Dennis (Psychology).Here's a picture of my wife, Melanie, and daughter, Chloé. Here's three of the four of us together. Which is to say: I also have a new youngin, Finley. Check out the pictures section for more.
