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2002 - 2005 |
SRI International NLP/Group Discern,
Menlo Park, CA |
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Computational Linguist |
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information extraction, retrieval
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data oriented syntactic and
semantic analysis of synonym substitution |
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semi-automated creation of
large-scale English lexical databases |
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use of ontologies, domain-independent
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semantics-to-knowledge
representation mapping driven by domain-independent as well as
domain-specific ontologies and inferences |
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question-answering |
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dialogue modeling, intention
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shallow semantic parsing |
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1994 - 1995 |
ICSI Berkeley/AI Group, Berkeley, CA |
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Research Associate |
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BeRP
(Berkeley Restaurant Project): a medium vocabulary, speaker-independent,
spontaneous continuous speech understanding system natural language backend development transformation of word strings into database
queries by means of a template-filling dialog manager |
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June - August 1993 |
Berkeley Speech Technologies, Inc., Berkeley, CA |
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text-to-speech conversion system, synthetic speech
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Psycholinguistics |
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1997 -
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University
of Rochester, Department of
Linguistics, Department of Brain
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ambiguity resolution
determined by the interaction of syntactic and lexical semantic constraints (garden path sentences,
definite noun phrases and pronouns) |
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semantic-conceptual cues inherent
in adjectives and prepositions in limiting the domain of interpretation for a
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joined work with Michael K. Tanenhaus
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University
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Research Assistant to Stephen E. Palmer (Director) |
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University
of California at Berkeley, Department
of Philosophy |
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Research assistant to John R. Searle |
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University
of California at Berkeley, Institute
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Research assistant to Paul Kay |
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