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
- Secretary of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- 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
- Program Committee, ACL 2010 Workshop on Applications of Tree Automata in Natural Language Processing. July 16, 2010. Uppsala, Sweden.
- MITACS College of Reviewers for the ACCELERATE program: April 2009- April 2010
- All activities ...
Recently Graduated Students
- Yudong Liu, Ph.D. Thesis, Semantic Role Labeling using Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammars, November, 2009.
- Ajeet Grewal, M.Sc. Thesis, Model Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation, November, 2009.
- Gholamreza Haffari, Ph.D. Thesis, Machine Learning Approaches to Dealing with Limited Training Data in Statistical Machine Translation, August, 2009.
- Dong Song, M.Sc. Thesis, Experimental Comparison of Discriminative Learning Approaches for Chinese Word Segmentation, August 2008.
- All students ...
Funding
- 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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