Whitney Gegg-Harrison

Education

The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH – Master of Arts in Linguistics (Computational Linguistics specialization)
Expected Graduation: June 2006 (GPA: Unknown)

The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH – Bachelor of Arts (Honors, Magna Cum Laude) in Linguistics with minors in Computer and Information Science and Cognitive Science
Graduated: June 2005 (GPA: 3.86/4.0)

CV

You can find a copy of my CV here (opens as PDF), and a copy of my resume here.

Research Interests

I like to think of it as the area where linguistics and artificial intelligence meet. Computational Pragmatics. Discourse. Rhetorical/Discourse/Information Structure. Anaphora, referring expressions, computational reference resolution, presupposition, implicature. Plus philosophy of language, psycholinguistics, and Germanic languages. Yes, I am painfully aware of the fact that I have too many interests.

Publications

• Donna K. Byron and Whitney Gegg-Harrison. Evaluating optimality theory for pronoun resolution algorithm specification. In Proceedings of the Discourse Anaphora and Anaphora Resolution Conference (DAARC2004), pages 27-32, São Miguel, Azores, Portugual, September 2004.


• Donna K. Byron and Whitney Gegg-Harrison. Eliminating non-referring noun phrases from coreference resolution. In Proceedings of the Discourse Anaphora and Anaphora Resolution Confenrence (DAARC2004), pages 21-26, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal, September 2004.


• Sun-Hee Lee, Donna Byron, and Whitney Gegg-Harrison. Annotations for zero pronoun resolution in Korean using the Penn Korean Treebank. In Sandra Kübler, Joakim Nivre, Erhard Hinrichs, and Holger Wunsche, editors, Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT'04), pages 75-88, Tübingen, Germany, 2004.


• Adriane Boyd, Whitney Gegg-Harrison, and Donna Byron. Identifying non-referential it: A machine learning approach incorporating linguistically motivated patterns. In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Feature Engineering for Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing, pages 40-47, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005. Association for Computational Linguistics.


• Adriane Boyd, Whitney Gegg-Harrison, and Donna Byron. Identifying non-referential it: A machine learning approach incorporating linguistically motivated patterns (expanded version). To appear in Special Issue of the Journal TAL: Models and Algorithms for Anaphora Resolution.


• Sun Hee Lee, Donna Byron, and Whitney Gegg-Harrison. Resolving zero anaphors and pronouns in Korean. To appear in Special Issue of the Journal TAL: Models and Algorithms for Anaphora Resolution.


• Whitney Gegg-Harrison and Donna Byron. PYCOT: An OT-Based Pronoun Resolution Toolkit. To appear in Proceedings of LREC 2006.

Advanced Coursework

• Computational Linguistics:
  • Ling 684.01 (Theory-Driven CL)
  • Ling 684.02 (Statistical CL)
  • CSE 732 (Dialog Systems)
  • Ling 795.10 (Generation)
  • Ling 884 (Generation)
  • Clippers (Comptutational Linguistics Discussion Group)
• Semantics/Pragmatics:
  • Ling 683.01 (Montague Grammar)
  • Ling 683.02 (Topics in Semantics/Pragmatics)
  • Ling 814 (Seminar on Definiteness, Specificity, and Anaphora)
  • Pragmatics Discussion Group
• Philosophy of Language:
  • Phil 473 (Intro)
• Syntax:
  • Ling 602.01 (Intro)
  • Ling 602.02 (HPSG)
  • Ling 795D (Categorial Grammar)
• Psycholinguistics:
  • Ling 615 (Intro)
  • Psych 695.04 SP '04 (Overview)
  • Psych 695.04 AU '05 (Research Methods)
• Artificial Intelligence:
  • CSE 630 (Intro to AI)
  • CSE 730 (Statistical Methods for AI)
• Cognitive Science:
  • Ling/CSE/Psych/etc 612 (Intro to Cog Sci)
  • Ling/CSE/Psych/etc 737 (Proseminar in Cog Sci)
• Other Linguistics Courses:
  • Ling 680 (Formal Foundations of Linguistics)
  • Ling 603.01 (Intro to Phonology)
  • Ling 611 (Intro to Historical)
• Other Computer Science Courses:
  • CSE 459.31 (Programming in Lisp)
  • CSE 560 (Systems Software Design, Development, and Implementation)
  • CSE 680 (Algorithms and Data Structures)

Contact Info

I have three different emails at OSU. Use whichever you like, I check them all regularly.

• gegg-harrison.1@osu.edu
• whitney@ling.ohio-state.edu
• geggharr@cse.ohio-state.edu

My Favorite Programming Language

Everyone should totally use Python, because it rocks.

About Me

Outside of school, I am a knitter, violinist, and (former, and hopefully soon-to-be once again) marathon runner. I love Lego, logic puzzles, and my husband. I am currently teaching myself Icelandic and am a bit of a Germanic-languages geek. I collect translated copies of "Le Petit Prince" and "Winnie the Pooh" in as many languages as I can get my hands on. I am most recently from a beautiful small town in SE Minnesota (want to see just how beautiful? Here's a picture) and miss living in a place so lovely.