On sabbatical (study leave) at the University of Edinburgh (Sept 2009 to May 2010)
Research
- Interests: computational linguistics, machine learning, probabilistic grammars and formal language theory
- Research Blurb & Bio
- Curriculum Vitae
- Publications by date
- For more info on my research visit the SFU
Natural Language Lab web page
- Seeking admission to our graduate program or research lab? Information for prospective students
Teaching
- Fall 2007 -- CMPT 379: Introduction to Compiler Design (undergraduate)
- Spring 2008 -- CMPT 413: Computational Linguistics (undergraduate)
- Spring 2008 -- CMPT 825: Natural Language Processing (graduate)
- Previous courses ...
- Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2007
- from the SFU Undergraduate Computing Science Student Society (CSSS)
Professional Activities
- Program co-chair, CoNLL 2010: Fourteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning.
- Co-located with ACL 2010 in Uppsala, Sweden; Call for Papers; Shared Task
- Reviewer, EMNLP 2009, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Aug 6-7 2009, Singapore.
- MITACS College of Reviewers for the ACCELERATE program: April 2009- April 2010
- Program Committee, MT Summit XII 2009. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, August 26-30, 2009.
- Program Committee, NAACL HLT 2009 Workshop on Semi-supervised Learning for Natural Language Processing
- Member of the organizing Committee for the 1st CAIAC/Precarn Canadian Intelligent Systems Challenge, 2008-2009. (an annual competition among Canadian university, college and high school students).
- Faculty Advisor for the NAACL HLT 2009 Student Research Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, June 1-3, 2009. list of accepted papers
- Program Co-Chair, TAG+9, Tübingen, Germany, June 7-8, 2008.
- All activities ...
Recently Graduated Students
- Dong Song, MSc. Thesis, Experimental Comparison of Discriminative Learning Approaches for Chinese Word Segmentation, August 2008.
- Akshay Gattani, MSc. Project, Automated Natural Language Headline Generation, January 2007.
- Julia Birke, MSc. Thesis, A Clustering Approach for the Unsupervised Recognition of Nonliteral Language, July 2005.
- All students ...
Funding
- IBM Faculty Award, 2008-2009.
- NSERC Discovery Grant, 2003-2007, 2007-2012.
- NSERC Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) Grant, 2008-2009.
- MITACS Internship Grant, 2004, 2008.
- President's Research Grant (SFU), 2002-2003.
Links
- Calendar: My schedule for the week; find time for a meeting
- Source Code: personal repository of useful hacks
Last modified: $Date: 2009/11/18 06:27:33 $