Graduate Student Research Supervision

Current Students

• John Miller, Research area: unsupervised learning of natural language parsing models.
• Michael Bloodgood, Research area: unsupervised and semi-supervised learning for relation extraction.
  
• Catalina Oana Tudor, Research area: text mining on biomedical literature. 
• Dan Blanchard (co-advising with Jeffery Heinz), Research area: learning to automatically segment speech.  
• Emily Gibson Hill (co-advising with Lori Pollock), Research area: integrating natural language and program analysis for software maintanence tasks. 
• Giridhara Sridhar (co-advising with Lori Pollock), Research area: software enginering: mapping comments to code. 
• Kishen Maloor (co-advising with Lori Pollock), Research area: investigation of latent semantic indexing of program code.

• David Shepherd (co-advised with Lori Pollock), Natural Language Program Analysis: Combining Natural Language Processing with Program Analysis to Improve Software Maintenance Tools, August 2007.

  Winner of CIS Department's Frank Pehrson Graduate Student Research award

  Currently a PostDoc at University of British Columbia.

• Manabu Torii, Type Classification and Applications to Information Extraction in the Biology Domain, December 2005.

  Currently Ressearch Assistant Professor, Imaging Science and Information Scystems, Georgetown University, USA.

• Raymond Kozlowski (co-advised with Kathleen McCoy), Uniform Multi-lingual Sentence Generation Using Flexible Lexico-Grammatical Resources, December 2005.

  Currently Lecturer, Tufts University, USA.

• John Chen, Efficient Statistical Parsing Using Lexicalized Grammatical Information, August 2001.Research Scientist, Janya Inc., USA.
• Ken Samuel (co-advised with Sandra Carberry), Discourse Learning: An Investigation of Dialogue Act Tagging Using Transformation-Based learning. Jan. 2001.

  Winner of CIS Department's Frank Pehrson Graduate Student Research award

  Currently Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer, Mitre.

• James Rogers, Studies in the Logic of Trees with Application to Grammar Formalisms, December 1995.

  Winner of CIS Department's Frank Pehrson Graduate Student Research award

  Currently Associate Professor, Earlham College.

• Gijoo Yang (co-advised with Kathleen McCoy), Prediction in Generation: Systemic Tree Adjoining Grammars, December 1992.

  Currently Associate Professor, Dongguk University, Korea.