Title

Professor of Computer Science and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems

Computer Science

Expertise

Theoretical and computational modeling of language, specifically: computational linguistics; lexical semantics; knowledge representation; temporal reasoning and extraction.

Profile

I. INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITY
(Fall, 2006)
Course: COSCI 112
Title: Representation and Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence: Logics and Feature Structures
Contact hours Weekly: 3 hrs/wk + 3 hrs in office hrs
Enrollment: 19

Course: 200A
Title: Readings in Computational Linguistics
Contact hours Weekly: 6 hrs/wk
Number of Students: 2 (Stubbs, Littman)

Course: 210A
Title: Independent Study
Contact hours Weekly: 3 hrs/wk
Number of Students: 1 (Baron)

Course: 400D
Title: Dissertation Advising
Contact hours Weekly: 6 hrs/wk
Number of Students: 4 (Wellner, Rumshisky, Sauri, Morrell (on leave))

(Spring 2007)

Course: 216a
Title: Generative Lexicon Theory and Corpus Linguistics
Contact hours Weekly: 3 hrs/wk
Number of Students: (16)

Course: 400D
Title: Dissertation Advising
Contact hours Weekly: 6 hrs/wk
Number of Students: 5 (Havasi, Littman, Rumshisky, Sauri, Wellner)


b. Advising (total contact hours per week)

1) number of undergraduate departmental advisees: 2
2) number of graduate advisees: 10 and co-advising 2 others.

c. Please describe your involvement in the direction of senior theses, graduate dissertations and other student research projects.

1. Post-Doctoral: Jose Castano: continues as a post-doctoral fellow remotely, working from Argentina, finishing up work on the Medstract Project. His contract end June 1, 2007.

2. Research Scientist: Marc Verhagen continues in his capacity as project manager for the TARSQI project, and the NSF-funded Unified Linguistic Annotation Project.

3. Ph.D.: Roser Sauri: 6th year student, proposal has been defended, and she is writing up her thesis on factuality and modality in language.

4. Ph.D.: Anna Rumshisky: 6th year student, course work complete, writing her proposal for dissertation research on statistical techniques and machine learning in computational linguistics. She defends her proposal in June, 2007.

5. Ph.D.: Jessica Littman: 4th year student, settled on dissertation topic. Interests include linear logic, epistemic and temporal logics. She is pursuing dynamic logic models for language.

6. Ph.D.: Catherine Havasi: 3rd year student, independently funded by an NSF fellowship. She continues work on the Brandeis Semantic Ontology (BSO) and GUI design for lexical knowledge bases.
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8. Ph.D.: Seoyun Im: 3rd year student, working on TARSQI project. Interests include Generative Lexicon Theory and cross-linguistic semantic explanation.

9. Ph.D.: Ben Wellner: 3rd year student, working on TARSQI and BSO project. Interests include Machine Learning, Markov Logic Networks, and Constrained Learning Frameworks for temporal logic.

10. Ph.D.: Amber Stubbs: 2nd year student, currently working on TARSQI project. Interests include computational semantics and temporal logic.

11. Ph.D.: Alex Baron: 2nd year student, currently working on TARSQI project. Interests include graphical interfaces and temporal logic.

12. Ph.D.: Alex Plotnik: 1st year student, interests include computational models of semantics, particularly Generative Lexicon.

13. Ph.D.: Michael Morrell Norwood: 6th year student, has written his proposal for dissertation. He is changing topics and will work with Tim Hickey on his new topic.