Education
- Harvard University,
Division of Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Sept 1991 - June 1995
Thesis: Interpreting Cohesive Forms in the Context of Discourse Inference - Harvard University,
Division of Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA
- S.M. in Computer Science (June 1994)
- University of Pennsylvania,
Moore School of Electrical
Engineering,
- Philadelphia, PA
- B.S.E. in Computer Science and Engineering, Sept 1984 - May 1988
Positions Held
- University of California, San Diego,
San Diego, CA, March 2000 -
- present.
- Chair, Department of Linguistics, July 2009 - present.
- Professor, Department of Linguistics, July 2008 - present.
- Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, July 2003 - June 2008.
- Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, March 2000 - June 2003.
- Chair, Department of Linguistics, July 2009 - present.
- SRI International,
Menlo Park, CA, July 1995 -
March 2000.
- Senior Computer Scientist, Artificial
Intelligence Center.
- Xerox Palo Alto Research Center,
Palo Alto, CA, June
1994 - July 1994.
- Consultant, Natural Language Theory and
Technology Group.
- Sun Microsystems Laboratories Inc.,
Chelmsford, MA, May
1993 -
- December 1993.
- Student Intern, Speech Applications Group.
- Student Intern, Speech Applications Group.
- IBM T. J. Watson Research Center,
Hawthorne, NY, May
1992 - August 1992.
- Summer Intern, Machine Translation Group.
- Harvard University,
Division of Applied Sciences,
Cambridge, MA,
- September 1991 - June 1995.
- Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science.
- Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science.
- Systems Research and Applications (SRA) Corp.,
Arlington, VA,
- June
1988 - July 1991.
- Manager, NLP Initiatives Department, Intelligent Information Systems Division.
- Manager, NLP Initiatives Department, Intelligent Information Systems Division.
- BDM Corporation,
Arlington, VA, May 1987 - August
1987.
- Research Assistant, Artificial Intelligence
Applications Group.
Grants
UC San Diego
- "Novel Information Gathering and Harvesting Techniques for Intelligence in Global Autonomous Language Environments (NIGHTINGALE)" Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 2005-2006 (UCSD PI).
- "Leveraging Minimal Training Data to Improve Information Extraction Performance", National Security Agency (NSA), 2000-2002, $120,689 (UCSD PI).
- "Multimodal Access to Spatial Data", National Science Foundation (NSF), 2000-2001, $28,999 (UCSD PI; continuation of SRI grant of same name).
SRI International
- "Multimodal Access to Spatial Data", National Science Foundation, 1997-2000, $748,423 (co-PI with Jerry Hobbs).
- ``Breaking the Information Extraction Barrier'', Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 1997-1999, $629,965 (co-PI with Jerry Hobbs).
Professional Service
- Editorial and Review Boards
Associate Editor, Research on Language and Computation (2007-present)
Editorial Board, Journal of Semantics (2009-present)
Editorial Board, Journal of Algorithms in Cognition, Informatics, and Logic (2008-present)
Editorial Board, Semantics and Pragmatics (2007-present)
Editorial Board, Computational Linguistics (1999-2001)
Guest Editorial Board, Computational Linguistics Special Issue on Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution
Review Board, International Journal of Applied Intelligence (1998-present)
- Conference and Workshop Organization
Tutorial Co-Chair, 2004 Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Human Technology Conference (HLT/NAACL-2004)
Organizing Committee, Twelfth Annual Semantics and Linguistic Theory conference (SALT-12)
Organizer (with Daniel Jurafsky), LSA-2000 workshop entitled ``Computational Linguistics in the Linguistics Curriculum''
Organizer (with Andreas Stolcke), ACL-99 workshop entitled ``Unsupervised Learning in Natural Language Processing''
- Program Committees
7th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC-2009)
20th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY-2007)
6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC-2007)
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2005)
ACL-2004 Workshop on Discourse Annotation
5th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC-2004)
5th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDial-2004)
40th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2002)
ACL-2002 Workshop on Effective Tools and Methodologies for Teaching NLP and CL
Second Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-2001, Senior Program Committee)
18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2000)
Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora (EMNLP/VLC-2000)
37th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-99), Thematic Sessions
Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98)
Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora (WVLC-98)
AAAI-98 Workshop on Representations for Multi-modal Human-Computer Interaction
31st Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-93), Student Session
- Committees
Executive Committee, Interdisciplinary Training Program in Language, Communication, and the Brain, Center for Research in Language, UCSD
Executive Board, North American Chapter of The Association for Computational Linguistics (2005-2006)
Nominating Committee, North American Chapter of The Association for Computational Linguistics (2000-2001; Chair, 2001; 2007-present)
Committee on Computing, Linguistic Society of America (1997-2000; 2004-2005)
- Journal Reviewing
Artificial Intelligence Journal
Canadian Journal of Philosophy
Cognitive Linguistics
Cognitive Psychology
Computational Linguistics
Discourse Processes
International Journal of Applied Intelligence
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Journal of Language, Logic, and Information
Journal of Pragmatics
Language
Language and Cognitive Processes
Language and Linguistics Compass
Linguistic Analysis
Linguistic Inquiry
Linguistics
Linguistics and Philosophy
Machine Learning
Memory and Cognition
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
Natural Language Engineering
Natural Language Semantics
Research on Computation and Language
Studia Linguistica
- Ad-Hoc Conference Reviewing
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP): 2007
Association for Computational Linguistics: 1997, 1997 (ANLP), 2003, 2005
CUNY Sentence Processing Conference: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP): 2008
Linguistic Society of America (LSA): 2008, 2009
Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT): 2003, 2004, 2005
Sinn und Bedeutung: 2006
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL): 2003, 2005, 2006
Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL): 2007
- Grant Reviewing
National Science Foundation
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada