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

• Spring 2013 -- CMPT 413: Computational Linguistics (undergraduate)
• All courses ...

Professional Activities

• Secretary of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
• Reviewer, Transactions of the ACL journal
• Reviewer, Computational Linguistics journal

• Reviewer, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2012.
• Reviewer, Annual Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL HLT 2012.
• Reviewer, Annual Meeting of the European Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2012.
• All activities ...

Recently Graduated Students

• Ravikiran Vadlapudi, M.Sc. thesis, Verbose Labels for Semantic Roles, January 2013.
• Marzieh Razavi, M.Sc. Thesis, Ensembles of Diverse Clustering-based Discriminative Dependency Parsers, August 2012.
• Max Whitney, M.Sc. Thesis, Bootstrapping via Graph Propagation, August 2012.
• Young-chan Kim, M.Sc. Thesis, Bidirectional Segmentation for English-Korean Machine Translation, April 2012.
• Porus Patell, M.Sc. Project, Experiments on Phrasal Chunking in NLP using Exponentiated Gradient for Structured Prediction, April, 2011.
• Ann Clifton, M.Sc. Thesis, Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation for Statistical Machine Translation, July, 2010.
• All students ...

Funding

• NSERC Strategic Grant, co-investigator on the GreenPhones project with Sasha Fedorova and Arrvindh Shriraman, 2012-2016.
• NSERC Engage with McKesson Inc., 2012.
• NSERC Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) Grant, 2011-2012.
• Google Faculty Research Award, 2009-2010.
• 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

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